Chapter 742 Plot (Part Two)

Qin Yi looked up at Cai Yi with a smile and said, "Yes, I'm honored to be serving Her Highness."

After saying that, Qin Yi lowered her head and embroidered a few more stitches. Then she asked casually, "Cai Yi, where do you come from? Have you been into the Palace since you were a child?"

Hearing Qin Yi's question, she took a glance at Yun Shang who was asleep and said softly, "I'm from the Jin City and I didn't come to the Palace until I was seventeen years old. I was eliminated at the second round of the selection, so I stayed in the Palace as a maid."

"Ah... So you are a candidate of the beauty selection? But how could you be eliminated? I think you are even better in appearance and personality than some of the concubines I have seen." Qin Yi looked at Cai Yi with a bit of pity on her face.

Cai Yi smiled with self mockery and said, "I'm not as good as you said. I was not being chosen probably because of my humble background. My father is just a county magistrate, and I'm the daughter of his concubine. When I took part in the selection, I was already seventeen years old, a little older than the other candidates. So, being eliminated was within my expectation."

Qin Yi nodded and continued to embroider.

Cai Yi was also curious about Qin Yi, so she asked, "How did you become Her Highness' maid?"

Qin Yi smiled and said, "Well, when Her Highness, the little princess of the State of Ning, was only eight years old, she was framed by a traitor and her palace caught on f

Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.

To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.

"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."

She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.

Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.

e. Yun Shang sneered in her heart and walked out of the bedroom with Qin Yi without waiting for her reply.

After walking out of Linglong Palace, Qin Yi said softly, "Your Highness, are you afraid that Cai Yi will follow us secretly?"

Yun Shang nodded slightly, "If I'm not wrong, Cai Yi wasn't well prepared when she murdered Lady Liu. She must have panicked when I said a maid from Mingcui Palace noticed something that day. As the saying goes, a cornered beast will do something desperate. I want to see what she will do with it."

In fact, Yun Shang was not familiar with Lady Xi. She just pretended to pass by Mingcui Palace and went in to talk about clothes and jewelry with Lady Xi, but stayed for half an hour before leaving the palace.

When they returned to Zhaoxia Palace, Cai Yi hadn't come back yet. Yun Shang and Qin Yi entered the inner hall together. Qin Yi frowned when she looked at a vase by the window. She walked to the vase and moved it away. There was a letter under it.