Chapter 224 Divorce
"You really are!" Chen Chen sneered, retracted the sword, and turned away.
Bai Ye didn't expect that the princess would expose her private relationship with him in order to save him. There was a trace of surprise on Bai Ye's face that he couldn't hide in time.
“Pah.”
He was slapped in the face.
"It's all your fault!" the princess cursed painfully, with hatred in her eyes.
"Princess, you're right. It's all my fault. If you think it's my fault, you should have let your husband kill me with a sword."
"You!" The princess was so angry that she was shaking all over. "Do you think you can escape me just because you want to die? You can't die without my order in this life."
On the second day, the prince consort went directly to the court to ask the emperor to allow him to divorce, because the princess had an affair with an actor behind his back.
He saw it with his own eyes.
The princess was speechless when she heard the news. She had seen too many people yesterday, and even if she denied it now, it would be the end of her.
But she still thought in her heart that she was a princess after all, and the emperor should be more considerate of the royal family's reputation.
Unexpectedly, before noon, the eunuch beside the emperor came to convey the imperial decree. The emperor agreed to the son-in-law's request and allowed the two to divorce.
"Princess, please accept the order." The eunuch reminded.
The confusion on the princess's face had not yet dissipated. She was still in a daze after receiving the order. She couldn't figure out how it turned out like this.
"Mother!" Shen Qingman ran all the way here, and seeing her mother's distraught look, tears welled up in her eyes.
"Why are you here......"
"There are rumors out there that my mother was caught having an affair with an actor by my father, and he went to ask the emperor for a divorce. That's not true, is it?"
The princess opened her mouth but didn't speak. Seeing her expression, what else did Shen Qingman not understand?
She could already foresee how people outside would laugh at her, the once arrogant and high-handed princess.
"Mother, are you crazy?"
She couldn't understand why her mother would leave someone like her father behind and go be with a lowly actor. How despicable!
After calming down, the princess saw the disgust and hatred in Shen Qingman's eyes, and suddenly sneered, "Your father has never cared about me, let alone you. Otherwise, he wouldn't have come back to visit so often. I've had enough of such days." She gathered the messy hair by her ears, with some ruthlessness and unwillingness in her eyes.
What she was unwilling to accept was that the power of the Shen family, the son-in-law, would have nothing to do with her in the future.
As agreed, Shen Chen handed the medicine to Song Ci.
He drummed his fingers on the table, his face full of scrutiny. "Is this the end of our agreement?"
Of course she knew that Shen Chen was afraid that she would continue to use this matter to threaten him. The reason why he was able to divorce the princess was because he had an affair with the actor. Now that it was rumored that he had a concubine, people's pity and compassion would probably disappear, and the emperor might even be angry with him.
"Don't worry. Once you get the medicine, what happens next has nothing to do with me."
Chen Chen nodded, "You'd better say it's the best, otherwise...I will not let you have a good ending no matter what."
"Then we will...never see each other again."
After leaving the restaurant with the medicinal herbs, Shen Chen looked at the tea in front of him and drank it all in one gulp, his eyes full of joy.
This deal was not a loss, and he was able to divorce the princess at the same time. This was a great thing. God knows how long he had been looking forward to the divorce with the princess.
Now, he can live happily with Yu Mei'er forever. He wants to take Mei'er back home and pamper her.
As a result, when he returned home.
Looking at the mess in the house, he immediately became furious: "Where are the people?"
The servants knelt, not daring to look up. It was the servant who spoke up, "Master, you allowed the young lady to walk freely, and she lied and said she was going out to buy something... Who knew she would never come back?"
"Waste!" Chen Chen was furious. He had done so much for Yu Meir, how could she just disappear like that?
"No, no, General."
Shen Chen was angry when a servant stumbled in to report.
"What's the matter? Stop talking nonsense and tell me."
"General, this Miss Yu...Miss Yu ran to the palace gate and said she wanted to sue you and the Shen family..."
“What!” Shen Chen stood up, his vision almost went dark, and he almost fainted.
For several days in a row, there was a bloody storm in the capital.
The Shen family, the princess, and several other families were involved.
Yu Mei'er and the Yu family were brought to the public eye again. Someone spread the news that the reason why the Yu family was secretly reported and the entire family was exterminated was because of the Shen family and Shen Chen. The Shen family was after the wealth in the hands of the Yu family, and Shen Chen was after Yu Mei'er, the most beautiful woman in Beijing.
Yu Meir found a lot of letters in the study that were unfavorable to the Shen family and Shen Chen.
The emperor was furious and ordered the Shen family to come to the palace to meet him and await his fate.
Chen Chen suffered a series of blows within a few days. He looked so haggard that he seemed to have aged more than five years. When he entered the palace, he saw Yu Meir, who was in high spirits.
Yu Meir sneered, "Do you think I don't know that the reason why our Yu family was convicted was because of you and the Shen family? Do you think that since I was sent to the Ministry of Punishment and you came to save me, I will regard you as my savior and rely on you wholeheartedly from now on? You are wrong! My father, mother and grandmother told me everything before they died. If it weren't for you, our whole family would not have died tragically!
Now, it's your turn and the Shen family's turn to taste the bitterness my Yu family once went through."
The princess knew it at first and was a little lost, but she soon recovered.
Shen Qingman stumbled into the house and knelt in front of her mother, "Mother, you can't ignore Daddy and the Shen family."
"Care? Why should I care?"
Shen Qingman's eyes were full of surprise. "He is your husband, my father, and the Shen family also has my grandparents."
The princess was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"He never loved me. You are my child, and he never loved you either. Whether the Shen family is here or not, we can't benefit from it. Do you think that if the Shen family doesn't fall, you can maintain the glory of your princess and use the Shen family to marry Pei Ji? You are really wishful thinking. The Shen family and Shen Chen will not help you."
Having her thoughts revealed, Shen Qingman was filled with anger and pointed at the princess, "You are my mother. You know that I like Chen Chen, so why don't you help me? Are you still my mother?"
As he said this, he stumbled and ran away with a feeling of disappointment.
"Princess, do you want to go and call the princess back?" The nanny tried to persuade her.
"No need." The princess was disappointed. "If she can't figure it out, let her figure it out on her own. Her current situation is not caused by me."
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