Gan Qiongying had planned to forge a friendly alliance tonight, but things turned out this way.
Soon, Manyue came in with her maids. Gan Qiongying watched as the prince consort returned to bed wrapped in a quilt, crawled back behind the curtain, and covered his head completely.
He clearly misunderstood that Gan Qiongying did it on purpose, with the aim of humiliating him.
After all, the several burly men in black who suddenly rushed out to take the prince consort's head were clearly Gan Qiongying's subordinates...
The problem is that even Gan Qiongying herself didn't know that he was her subordinate!
Where did it come from? It's like a ghost!
Not knowing how to ask, Gan Qiongying went to the outer room and pondered for a long time. After returning to her own room, she suddenly swept the teapot and teacups off the table and onto the floor.
The sound of the teapot and teacups shattering caused Gan Qiongying's maids, led by Manyue, to kneel in fear.
Gan Qiongying slammed her hand on the table and said, "Didn't I give the order that no one is allowed to enter?"
Gan Qiongying's phoenix eyes were icy, and her willow eyebrows were raised in anger; this was the "uncontrollable rage" she had practiced in front of the mirror for a long time.
Asking directly who broke into the house is tantamount to telling others that she's crazy.
After thinking it over, Gan Qiongying decided that getting angry was the best solution. She had to thank Princess Duanrong from the original story for this, who was a really crazy character who was unpredictable and would go crazy at the drop of a hat. She could solve anything by going crazy.
Sure enough, she launched an indiscriminate attack, and the maids trembled like leaves. Manyue, being Gan Qiongying's head maid, fared slightly better, at least managing to straighten her back and defend herself.
But they were also terrified by Gan Qiongying, their voices trembling, "Princess... the Eighteen Shadow Guards are under His Majesty's command, responsible for protecting your safety. Apart from His Majesty and the Princess, we servants have no authority over them..."
Upon hearing this, Gan Qiongying's eyebrows twitched violently, and then the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. Cold sweat instantly broke out on her back, and she was so afraid that her fingers trembled inside her wide sleeves.
It turned out to be the emperor's shadow guard...
Gan Qiongying had only ever seen shadow guards in TV dramas and novels. Considering that this world is essentially a fictional world, it wasn't so strange.
Gan Qiongying was so frightened that her legs went weak.
She was too careless and too presumptuous.
She thought that since there were no surveillance cameras or recordings in the world, as long as she sent her servants far away, she could negotiate a mutually beneficial partnership with the prince consort, Li Hua.
But she never expected that there really were shadow guards in this world who could silently infiltrate people's lives, and that they were even the emperor's men!
If she says something to the prince consort tonight as she plans, those words will likely reach the emperor's ears that very night.
It probably won't be long before the emperor finds a reason to burn her alive as a demon.
After all, a princess who openly colluded with ministers to accept bribes and showed contempt for imperial power was an eyesore to the emperor.
Gan Qiongying stood by the table for a long time without saying a word. Her face showed no abnormality, just her usual coldness and anger, but in reality, she was panicking inside.
Fortunately... fortunately, the prince consort had shown her the razor blade to threaten her from the beginning, so she didn't say those nonsense words.
Gan Qiongying leaned on the table for support, and after a moment slowly sat down.
The room was filled with kneeling servants and maids, as well as eighteen shadow guards who were nowhere to be seen. Despite the room being full of people, Gan Qiongying felt an indescribable loneliness.
In this unfamiliar world, a tragic ending was destined, and she was surrounded by enemies on all sides... She had to be even more careful with her words and actions, as the eighteen shadow guards were like 24-hour surveillance cameras above her head.
She must not let anyone notice that something is wrong with her.
This is a play that must be performed until the very end once it begins.
She and Li Hua... they were destined not to be partners in escaping the plot.
A brief moment of despair washed over Gan Qiongying. She rarely even watched palace dramas before. She wondered if she, with her clever and shrewd mind, could really survive to the end of this world.
As she sat there in silence, the maids kneeling below her prostrated themselves, not daring to move, and the room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Even Manyue, who usually delighted Gan Qiongying the most, dared not utter a single word at this moment.
She's been feeling lately that the princess isn't the same as before.
Although princesses in the past were also capricious, their likes and dislikes were written on their faces and on their lips. As long as they avoided taboos, they were not difficult to coax.
However, since her fall from her horse, the princess has become taciturn. Although she remains unpredictable, she is often as distant and indifferent as she is now, making it impossible for anyone to guess her thoughts or preferences, which inexplicably chills people to the bone.
Fortunately, Gan Qiongying remained silent for only about half a cup of tea's time.
That melancholy feeling faded from her heart.
She's worrying unnecessarily; why is she thinking so much?
Is life really about taking things one step at a time?
She had at least read the book and knew part of the plot beforehand, so she might have been able to avoid it.
Besides, she is a princess after all, and she has a lot of screen time in the story. Such a hateful character always has to survive until the later stages.
Even if nothing changes, she can still be arrogant for a long time. Although she is surrounded by enemies, on the other hand, the fact that she doesn't even put the emperor in her eyes is already a relatively good situation.
Even if we take a step back and say that this is a second life given to her by God, and that she is only required to be careful with her words and actions, what is there for her to complain about?
Therefore, Gan Qiongying slowly exhaled.
He tapped his fingers on the table and said in a deep voice to Manyue, "Have someone carry the prince consort to my bed. He's shy, so wrap him in a blanket. Make sure to search him thoroughly and tie him up properly, so he doesn't brandish a knife at me again. I'm not having enough fun, and I'm going to be interrupted by the shadow guards."
Upon hearing this, Manyue kowtowed and replied in a trembling voice, "Yes."
The fact that the prince consort was hiding razor blades was indeed something that Manyue and the others failed to check properly.
Gan Qiongying didn't stand on ceremony with them and said directly, "You can go and accept your punishment for the razor blade incident. I'm in a good mood this time, so I'll spare your lives. If you continue to be so unreliable, I'll bury you all in the peach grove in the backyard to be used as fertilizer!"
Upon hearing this, Manyue and the other maids in the room were overjoyed and wept, repeatedly kowtowing to thank the princess for sparing their lives.
Seeing that they had all left to do their work, Gan Qiongying leaned back in her chair, picked up her teacup, and began to think.
Since they couldn't open up and reach a cooperation agreement with the prince consort Li Ye, they had no choice but to make their lustful desires a reality.
This way, she would have a reason to treat the prince consort well and could reasonably avoid the plot of abusing him to death.
Fortunately, she had a notorious reputation for womanizing, with countless male lovers in her harem, each of whom she doted on. In the story, she was even truly infatuated with the male lead, Zhong Li, and used every means to torment him.
It is perfectly reasonable to have another son-in-law of one's own.
Gan Qiongying took a sip of water and saw the door to the room open, and several servants quietly carried in a quilt.
Gan Qiongying almost choked on the water.
She remembered a rather "fatal" problem.
She couldn't fake it... after all, she was under surveillance by eighteen cameras 24 hours a day.
So... is she really going to sleep with the prince consort tonight?
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