Chapter 104 : She Misses Me

How can he make her regret it?

He plans to go to the Ministry of Revenue and firmly take control of Xue Qingyin’s father!

He knows that she and her father are not on good terms. But the Xue family will blame her for this.

“You want to go to the Ministry of Revenue?” Emperor Liang De smiled, put down his chopsticks, and, after rewarding King Wei  and his wife, didn’t say anything further.

King Wei  couldn’t understand what his father was thinking.

“You haven’t gone to greet the Crown Prince since your wedding. As a younger brother, you should still maintain proper respect,” Emperor Liang De sent him off.

King Wei  didn’t want to see the Crown Prince, but he had no choice.

His maternal family had a long history of being scholars, so how could he not follow the proper customs?

From the moment King Wei  entered the Crown Prince’s domain, he furrowed his brows. The place was suffocating, like a den of demons.

Only the Xuan King could endure the Crown Prince.

“Your Majesty, I bring my wife to greet His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince,” despite his reluctance, King Wei  had to speak respectfully outside the door.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen King Wei . I thought you were like me, unable to rise from your sickbed,” the Crown Prince said with a sarcastic tone, having just been humiliated by Xue Qingyin the other day.

Liu Yuerong’s heart was focused on King Wei . Hearing the Crown Prince speak this way, she was naturally displeased and responded, “King Wei is in good health, thanks for your concern, Your Highness.”

The Crown Prince ordered the door to be opened.

His cold, piercing eyes fixed on her, making Liu Yuerong shiver, but the Crown Prince remarked, “Who is this woman? No charm, no presence.”

Liu Yuerong’s face turned pale.

The Crown Prince continued to provoke, “Wei King, is this…?”

“Your Highness, this is my wife,” King Wei said with obvious discomfort.

The Crown Prince said, “Oh? The other day, the Xuan King brought his concubine to greet me. But this…” He glanced at Liu Yuerong and deliberately left his sentence unfinished.

Liu Yuerong’s eyes flashed with contempt.

King Wei replied, “What the Crown Prince doesn’t know is that this Xue woman was supposed to be my concubine.”

Hearing this, Liu Yuerong trembled with anger, but dared not speak a word.

The Crown Prince was visibly surprised and almost burst out laughing. “So, she managed to make the Xuan King and King Wei enemies?”

He pretended to be sincere, saying, “As a younger brother, I should respect my elder brother.”

King Wei sneered inwardly but said nothing.

“I have no reward to offer,” the Crown Prince said after a moment’s thought, then ordered a gift to be brought.

“Take this,” he said.

This gift had originally been prepared for the Xuan King and Xue Qingyin, but since he was so enraged the other day, he had forgotten about it.

King Wei  accepted the gift without paying much attention to it.

The Crown Prince then ordered a chair to be brought for King Wei , as if he intended to chat with him for a while.

This made King Wei  uncomfortable.

But the Crown Prince felt that the discomfort he had experienced with the Xuan King and others was finally being avenged.

Liu Yuerong couldn’t sit still either.

She felt like the Crown Prince was a demon, and after being nervous in front of the Emperor, now she had to endure this torment.

Liu Yuerong suggested going to greet the Crown Prince’s wife.

The Crown Prince’s expression shifted, and he waved his hand, calling over an older palace maid, saying, “Since King Wei might be bored sitting here, please take her to talk to the Crown Prince’s wife.”

The older palace maid nodded in response.

Liu Yuerong breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly stood up to leave.

The Crown Prince’s wife resided in a grand palace not far away.

The large palace, yet it was only occupied by her.

Liu Yuerong looked at it from a distance and thought it was even bigger than her residence in King Wei ’s manor.

But that was to be expected; after all, she was the Crown Prince’s wife.

“King Wei, please.” The palace maid smiled and opened the door.

Liu Yuerong walked to the door but couldn’t help but pinch her nose. “What is that smell?” she couldn’t bear the stench.

The palace maid raised her voice, as if to make sure Liu Yuerong heard: “What you don’t know, Wangfei, is that the Crown Prince’s wife is not in good health. She has been taking a lot of medicine to help her condition, so there is a certain smell.”

This remark was actually quite humiliating.

The Crown Prince’s wife gripped the bedspread tightly but made no sound.

The maid standing beside her was suddenly alert, her eyes brightening.

One could not always rely on the Xuan King’s wife.

The Xuan King was aligned with the Crown Prince. But King Wei was different—he was the Crown Prince’s competitor. If she could talk to King Wei ’s wife, it would be a great opportunity.

Without hesitation, the small maid quickly ran out.

Meanwhile, Liu Yuerong frowned, unable to shake off the chill she felt.

She thought about how the old nurse at her house always urged her to take care of her health. If it led to such a state, it would be terrifying.

Liu Yuerong felt she could no longer stay and said, “Since the Crown Prince’s wife is weak, I won’t disturb her.”

The maid quickly heard her and was even more anxious. She rushed to kneel at Liu Yuerong’s feet.

She repeated her trick, imitating a dog’s bark.

This time, she barked even more desperately, her small face flushed, eyes reddened.

She hoped to make King Wei notice her pitifulness.

In the East Palace, the only way to send a message was to pretend to be crazy.

By doing so, she could gauge whether the person she approached was kind-hearted and trustworthy…

At that moment, Liu Yuerong screamed, kicking the maid in the head: “What is this? What is this? Someone, help!”

The older maid laughed. “Don’t be frightened, King Wei. This is just a little fool raised by the Crown Prince’s wife.”

Liu Yuerong had already been irritated by the Crown Prince’s sarcasm and now faced this absurd scene. She was in no mood to tolerate it.

She stepped back several times and said unhappily, “She got my shoes and skirt dirty.”

The older maid looked and indeed saw the mess.

She frowned and asked, “What does King Wei want?”

Liu Yuerong coldly responded, “People in the Crown Prince’s palace should be dealt with by the East Palace.”

The older maid agreed, ordered the maid to be dragged away, and slapped her several times until her cheeks were swollen.

“Is King Wei feeling better now?” she asked.

Liu Yuerong’s mood eased. Although the Crown Prince was strange, the palace attendants were still respectful.

“Fine, she’s just a little palace maid. I won’t hold it against her,” Liu Yuerong waved her hand and walked off.

The older maid bowed and sent her off.

The little maid was left there, still foolishly barking like a dog.

After all, she still had to keep up the act until they were completely gone.

Her face hurt terribly, but she couldn’t even shed a tear. Because a madwoman doesn’t know how to cry.

She wasn’t sure how much time had passed.

A voice called for her to come in.

The little maid didn’t move.

She didn’t want the Crown Princess to see her in her current state. She just sat there, looking up at the sky, thinking that after today, the last bit of hope in the Crown Princess’s heart would surely be gone… What should she do?

The Crown Prince hadn’t sent people over because he had any compassion.

He had done it deliberately, so they could see.

Deliberately letting them know that even if someone came, those people wouldn’t save them.

They could only submit to the Crown Prince and confess to him.

But it wouldn’t work.

The little maid didn’t know what pride was, whether it could be cooked and eaten, or cooked and drunk. But it was something the Crown Princess would grit her teeth to hold onto, and she would hold onto it just as firmly.

“Jia Yu.”

“Jia Yu, come in!”

“Jia Yu… Come in, I want to see you!!”

The last cry from the Crown Princess nearly exploded from her throat.

The little maid trembled and had to lower her head to go in.

But she crawled in, like a dog.

She had to learn to be like that.

When she got close, thinking no one was watching, she spoke softly before the Crown Princess could say anything: “There’s also King Xuan, we can still wait for her.”

The Crown Princess, seeing the swelling on her face, swallowed the words she had prepared.

She softly replied, “Mm.”

They all knew that King Xuan would probably, like the Princess of Wei, never come to save them.

But none of them pointed it out.

The little maid thought that her words had comforted the Crown Princess, so she smiled happily.

She thought that if there was a way to escape the Eastern Palace, and if she could run into His Majesty while he was on an inspection tour, and die in front of him, it would definitely cause a commotion. Once it caused a commotion, someone would definitely intervene…

The little maid was secretly planning, and this time she didn’t tell the Crown Princess.

Elsewhere.

The Fourth Princess received a letter.

She swallowed nervously and asked in a trembling voice, “Is this from my second brother?”

The cold-faced palace servant in front of her nodded.

The Fourth Princess opened the letter with a grim face, afraid it was a scolding from King Xuan.

But when she opened it, she found the handwriting inside… well, it was even worse than hers! This couldn’t possibly be her second brother’s writing!

Who else could it be?

The Fourth Princess looked closer, and was shocked.

The signature was actually from Xue Qingyin!

Xue Qingyin was actually sending her a message under her second brother’s name!

And her second brother had allowed it!

In the letter, Xue Qingyin mentioned the deep friendship of their companionship…

The Fourth Princess’s mouth twitched as she thought of how, back then, Concubine Wan had appointed Xue Qingyin to be her companion. But Xue Qingyin hadn’t even served as her companion for two days before she became her sister-in-law.

The Fourth Princess composed herself and continued reading.

It was mostly about how Xue Qingyin was coming to the palace to see her.

After all, Xue Qingyin was just a secondary consort, and the birth mother of the Prince of Xuan had passed away early. She didn’t have a mother-in-law to serve in the palace, so it was not as easy or frequent for her to enter the palace as it was for the Princess of Wei.

The Fourth Princess looked at what was written in the letter…

“I miss you, Princess.”

The Fourth Princess gasped.

No one had ever said such words to her.

After all, everyone saw her as a rebellious troublemaker, and Xue Qingyin had always been indifferent toward her. When she asked Xue Qingyin to be her teacher, Xue Qingyin had refused.

Now she said she missed her.

She missed her.

The Fourth Princess thought, blushing, could it be that my sincerity has moved her?