amaotonovel Chapter 1053 Princess Kang has been pretending to be stupid.
Chapter 1053 Princess Kang has been pretending to be stupid.
Although Chang Mingxiu loved her daughter dearly, she was not entirely brainless, having lived in the palace for so many years and witnessed all sorts of intrigue and backstabbing.
She asked, "What exactly does the Ninth Princess want from us?"
Xie Ling'er said, "I'll get straight to the point. I invited the Dowager Consort here because I want her and Sister Yan'er to help me with a small favor."
Chang Mingxiu instinctively refused, "I already said we've left the palace and can't help the princess."
Xie Ling'er said, "I know the Dowager Consort won't help me, because my fourth brother is still a prince in Shengjing City. His life or death depends entirely on the Dowager Consort's word."
Chang Mingxiu certainly didn't want to harm her own son. "He's also the Ninth Princess's older brother. Would the princess really want to harm him?"
"I have no family anymore, he's not my fourth brother anymore." Xie Ling'er completely disregarded them. "Jiang Fenghua let you leave, there must have been some kind of deal between you! Your brother also let you leave, and you're grateful to them."
I thought you wouldn't be so foolish as to make enemies of them, but I have a blood feud with Jiang Fenghua. You think I can't avenge her alone, so I've asked you all for help."
Chang Mingxiu was stunned. How could she know what she was thinking? "No matter who is helping you, Princess, I don't want to get involved in your feud."
She added, “Actually, Princess, you can let go of your hatred and start a new life. When will this cycle of revenge end? If you go back to Shengjing, the Emperor will definitely treat you well. After all, the Emperor is your own brother, which is better than you being stranded outside with outsiders.”
Upon hearing the words "strayed from home," Xie Ling'er's anger flared instantly. "Everything my mother and I have suffered is because of them. You tell me to let go of my hatred? You make it sound so easy. Why did you run away? You are now the Dowager Consort. You could have stayed by Fourth Brother's side and lived a peaceful old age. Why are you here? It's because Xie Shang kicked you out."
Chang Mingxiu didn't want to stay in Shengjing and live a secretive life. Another reason was that the Yuezhi kept causing her trouble, and she could only avoid them if she couldn't afford to offend them.
Seeing the two arguing so fiercely, Shu Yan quickly spoke up for Xie Shang, saying, "I remember that the Emperor did not expel the Ninth Princess from the palace. It was the princess who secretly pledged her life to that prince and insisted on going to the border for a political marriage."
She didn't mention a word about Xie Ling'er being placed under house arrest in the palace. Her marriage to Xie Ling'er was arranged by her mother, and she wanted to take her away.
Her situation back then was exactly the same as Shu Yan's now, but after she met her mother, her brother used her to attack the Hu people and wipe out the Huyan clan, leaving her mother without any protection.
Her elder brother had no real affection for her; he was merely using a scheme to send her to a marriage alliance with the army.
She couldn't understand how her beloved fifth brother could take advantage of her.
Ever since Fifth Brother betrayed Sister Wan and was bewitched by Jiang Fenghua, he has become a completely different person.
He seemed to have been bewitched by a vixen, transforming into someone she didn't recognize.
Xie Ling'er, furious, slapped Shu Yan across the face. "What do you know? Do I need to tell you how good he is to me? I've known all along that it was that vixen Jiang Fenghua who bewitched my brother. It's all Jiang Fenghua's fault."
Shu Yan was completely dumbfounded. She instinctively curled up and quickly apologized, "Ninth Princess, please calm down. I didn't mean anything by it. I just wanted to make the princess happy."
She actually wanted to speak up for the Emperor: "Yes, it's because the Empress has monopolized the Emperor's attention. He doesn't listen to anyone else but the Empress."
"What kind of empress is she? Her empressship was snatched from Sister Wan. She is not an empress at all. Sister Wan is the empress." Xie Ling'er doesn't care about anything now. Whether Jiang Fenghua's secret is true or false, she will spread it. With her around, the Great Zhou will perish sooner or later.
Chang Mingxiu was furious to see her daughter being beaten, but Shu Yan was indeed brainless and deserved a beating, preferably to wake her up.
She must have really gone mad. No matter what, she was still a princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and her surname was Xie. How could she curse the Great Zhou Dynasty to perish? Xie Ling'er was stupid too.
Xie Ling'er was too emotional, and the woman hiding in the darkroom could no longer listen.
A woman emerged from the dark room behind the door and said in a deep voice, "I don't know how many times I've taught you, but you still can't remember. How can you avenge your mother like this?"
The woman who came out stunned Chang Mingxiu, and she lost all her composure.
The Yuezhi wanted to laugh at her silly appearance. They really didn't know what Xie Kang saw in her. Was it just because she was pretty?
Even the most beautiful woman will one day grow old.
The maid helped Yuezhi to the main seat and sat down steadily before saying, "I know you're not completely dead. If I couldn't see through Xie Kang's little schemes, I would have raised him for nothing for over thirty years. When he was in the Northwest, he lived in my house, used my house's things, ate my house's food, and even the servants who served him were all carefully selected by me, just in case he was uncomfortable. Yet he raised a bastard in the capital."
With a sharp look in her eyes, she pointed at Shu Yan and started cursing, completely unlike the old woman who had been wronged by Jiang Fenghua in Shengjing.
Shu Yan was called a bastard again, and she was very indignant. "Who are you calling a bastard? I don't acknowledge that I am their daughter, so you have no right to call me a bastard."
She then mocked Chang Mingxiu, "You're the one who caused all of this. If you hadn't seduced other women's husbands, would I have been implicated?"
Chang Mingxiu had long been hurt by Shu Yan's words, and at this moment she was too lazy to argue with her in front of outsiders and lose face. No matter how much she said, she would only be laughed at.
She was thinking: Xie Kang was a down-on-his-luck prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Yuezhi were just a small tribe in the northwest. No matter what, Xie Kang was still the husband of a Yuezhi. So what gave her the right to be so arrogant and humiliating to her husband?
She recalled Xie Shang's assessment of Yuezhi: she was a domineering shrew, which was why he had never truly loved her.
However, what Chang Mingxiu didn't know was that Yue Shi didn't care to let Xie Kang belong to her completely. In fact, Xie Kang had always lived according to Yue Shi's wishes.
He was talented and handsome when he was young, which attracted women, but now that he's old, he's no longer useful.
As expected, Xie Ling'er's attitude towards Yuezhi underwent a complete reversal, and she almost fawned over her, asking, "When did Aunt Kang arrive?"
"We've been here for a while now," Yuezhi said again. "Why are you telling them all this, Ling'er? If your brother truly loved and cared for you, would you have ended up like this?"
She sighed and said, "Shu Yan wasn't wrong. No matter what the fault is, it can't be blamed on the Emperor. Blame it on that vixen, the Empress."
The Yuezhi were essentially using a veiled insult, and Jiang Fenghua was once again being gossiped about behind her back as a vixen.