Chapter 213 - The Harem Line, the Empress Dowager’s Decreed (1/2)

Chapter 213 The Harem Line, the Empress Dowager’s Decreed

Fifth Princess lay in her palace and had already thrown pieces of antique porcelain decorations. Several maids kelt by her, unable to say a word. Seeing them shivering, Fifth Princess felt angrier and picked up another long-neck white jade bottle to toss it away.

“Yu’er, behave.” A solomen voice rang by the door. The Empress, who was dressed up, looked unpleasant surrounded by her servants.

“Mother, mother, you must help me. It must be that nasty girl. I just made her kneel, and she dared to cause such trouble for me. She should twist my ankle. How did a daughter of a third-grade official dare to challenge the royal family? Mother has to summon her into the palace to beat her to death.”

Teeth gritted, Fifth Princess arrogantly said. How could things be so coincidental? In the morning, she made that wicked girl kneel, and in the afternoon, she fell from the horse. “She must have done this to me.”

The Empress waved to let the servants withdraw. She sat by Fifth Princess. “Yu’er, the third miss from Mo Family has stayed in a bookstore all afternoon. She hasn’t done anything to you. Plus, how can an official’s daughter get to your horse? It’s the royal family’s horse and special servants serve it.”

Mo Xuetong’s whereabouts were not secret. In the afternoon, she was transcribing in a bookstore but bumped into the capricious King Xuan. It was said that the moment King Xuan saw her, he got unreasonable. He not only stopped the miss from returning home, but also had guards line up, forming a wall to tease the miss.

The Empress also heard that Third Miss Mo rushed out and even knocked down a beggar on the street in a hurry.

After hearing the news, the Empress felt really helpless. Could the willful kid act more rakish?

Thus, the Empress somewhat sympathized with Third Miss Mo. At such a young age, she met this little monster. Even the Empress failed to foresee what would happen. That little monster was really stubborn. Recently, he even injured Minister Li’s son while fighting him over a courtisan.

Minister Li’s son was also one of the playboys in the capital. However, after knowing his opponent was King Xuan, he didn’t dare to say anything. It could be seen that how caprious the prince was.

Nevertheless, the Empress secretly felt lucky that King Xuan didn’t see Fengyan’s portrait. Otherwise, one of her delicate girls would go to waste.

Recalling Lingyue’s words, Fifth Princess couldn’t let it go like this. Thus she tugged at the Empress’s sleeves and cried coyly. “Mother, Lingyue said it must’ve been that woman, and she also let my cousin treat me like this. It’s just like that. I made her kneel and cousin went over. Before, my cousin never minded me messing up with those women who fell for him. When did he do such things to me?

“Mother has to help me revenge myself. I don’t care. My cousin treats that woman differently.”

“OK, I’ll help you. Now, don’t cry. On the way here, I heard His Highness was visiting your grandmother. He’ll probably see you later. If he sees you crying like this, he won’t like it.” The Empress was annoyed by this tugging so she hurriedly comforted her daughter.

Fifth Princess’s eyes lit up and she sat bolt upright. Nevertheless, because of the jerk, she hurt the would on her feet again so she gasped. “My cousin will come over later?”

The Empress smilingly said, “You’re injured. His Highness has such good manners. He’ll definitely visit you. You two have been close since young. How come he won’t come to see you?”

Her daughter’s affection for Bai Yihao was not a secret in the palace. Even though other princesses also had a thing for Bai Yihao, they were not as noble as her daughter. In fact, the Empress didn’t want Fifth Princess to marry to somewhere so far. However, her daughter was willing to and she couldn’t persuaded her. Therefore, she decided to just let it be.

Gently massaging the muscle around her daughter’s injury, the Empress thought like this. If Bai Yihao didn’t want to marry Yu’er, that would also be fine. Marrying to another place and helping to establish good relationships with the Yan Kingdom was indeed very honorable, but it still couldn’t compare with staying by her side. As for the status, she was the honorable Empress and would be Empress Dowager, if Yu’er stayed by her side, who dared to make trouble for her?

Rubbing her wound, Fifth Princess sat straight and suddenly rolled her eyes. Thinking of something, she tugged at the Empress’s sleeve again, saying, “Mother, isn’t Yan Kingdom’s first prince’s coming? I heard he wanted to marry one of the princesses. Mo Xuetong has a pretty face, I say, why don’t we give her to the first prince? We’ll toss her away and I won’t be upset again since I will never see her.”

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Recently, the Yan Kingdom started to mention the first prince’s marriage. Not only Yan Kingdom’s emperor and empress, but also Princess Royal Yunruo also wrote. She hinted in the letter that they would like to marry the first prince to one of Great Qin’s princess to reestablish their good relationshops. In the letter, Princess Royal Yunruo directly wrote Fifth Princess would be the best candidate.

The Empress was very dissatisfied. First, she didn’t want her daughter to marry into the Yan Kingdom; second, even if Yu’er would marry to that faraway land, with Yu’er’s noble status, Yu’er could only marry the next empror. Why would she choose Yan Kingdom’s first prince over Bai Yihao? That being said, she couldn’t ignore Princess Royal Yunruo, who was Empress Dowager’s biological daughter. If she should upset Empress Dowager becasue of this, she couldn’t afford the consequence.

Therefore, for the past days, she had been selecting the candidate for this marriage. She wouldn’t send a princess. She could promote a duke’s daughter to be a princess and marry her to that first princess, which was also of custom. Since her daughter wouldn’t want to see that Mo Xuetong again, then she would do what her daughter wanted. It was not a big deal. She could just toss that miss away as her daughter had wished.