Fu Yuheng had just finished dealing with his matters and was about to get up to rest when he heard a woman crying outside. The loud noise gave him a headache. "What's going on outside?"
He looked at the head eunuch unhappily, waiting for him to give a perfect explanation.
"Reporting to the emperor, she's one of the princess's servants. We have to see you after all the ruckus. We really can't stop her!" The head eunuch sobbed as he carefully replied, afraid that his careless words would cause the emperor to be unhappy.
"Never mind, I'll go out and ask." Fu Yuheng looked at the tear-stained palace maids outside and felt slightly annoyed. These ladies would always be crying. None of them were useful, just that woman Shen Qingwan …
Fu Yuheng sighed. Why would he think of her?
"Speak, what happened?"
"May Your Majesty follow this servant to the princess' quarters. Concubine Xian, she, she …" The maidservant knelt in front of Fu Yuheng, weeping until she was choked with sobs, unable to speak clearly.
After patiently waiting for a while, he realized that he could not hear anything useful, so he could only turn around and head towards the princess with a calm expression. Along the way, Fu Yuheng had been thinking about what the palace maids had said. Did something happen to Consort Xian?
However, Fu Yuheng had never expected that what he was looking at was such a scene. Consort Xian's hands were covered in blood while the princess was lying in a pool of blood.
He frowned as he studied her, the coldness and determination in her eyes, the hesitation and helplessness in her face.
Looking at this bloody scene, his head started to hurt more. "Men, bring Consort Xian back to her chamber. Without my order, no one is allowed to enter or leave."
Shen Qingwan did not say a word when she was taken down, nor did she start to plead for mercy like those people. Fu Yuheng looked at her calm and resolute demeanor and found it strange that she did not kill the princess.
Fu Yuheng returned to his study room and sat on the Dragon Throne, reading a table full of reports. His thoughts had drifted off into the distance long ago, and one incident after another occurred in the imperial harem, affecting her. He only felt a headache and was not in the mood to flip through the reports.
"Yes." The eunuch trembled as he walked down, his heart filled with fear.
Looking at the candlelight on the table in front of him, Fu Yuheng recalled how he had summoned Shen Qingwan to his study several times. This woman always gave him a shock.
"Chenqie pays her respects to Your Imperial Majesty." Shen Qingwan's clear and cold voice interrupted Fu Yuheng's thoughts.
Seeing her approach, he coughed lightly, lowered his voice, and slowly opened his mouth. Consort Xian doesn't have anything you want to explain to us? "
Fu Yuheng looked at the emaciated woman kneeling in front of him. She almost never cried or acted like a girl. She always knelt straight in front of him and endured everything.
He raised his hand slightly, gesturing for her to stand up.
"Would Your Majesty believe my concubine's explanation?" Shen Qingwan met his gaze. There was resolution and mockery in her eyes, but she did not retreat or avoid his gaze.
This gaze, in his eyes, made him a little dazed. He almost said the letter before changing his words, "Do you believe that I have to listen to your explanation, anyway?"
Shen Qingwan tried her best to recall fragments from her memories. She had no recollection of the princess lying in a pool of blood or why she was covered in blood.
However, he still managed to sort out some clues and slowly told her about the situation at that time.
"Is there anything abnormal in the middle?" Fu Yuheng knitted his brows. His words made him feel mistrust. Did he not know anything? Or was it really her doing?
"Ever since the princess woke up, she wasn't willing to come into contact with me anymore. The porridge I sent over to her all fell to the ground." Shen Qingwan kept her eyes closed as she recalled the events from before. She then told Fu Yuheng everything that had happened.
"What else?" Fu Yuheng did not feel that anything was amiss. Even the way he looked at Shen Qingwan now was filled with suspicion. From his point of view, the princess had an unruly personality, and these things were understandable.
"Since chenqie fell into the lake, we have never come into contact with each other. So the princess sent someone to invite me. I have some doubts in my heart, but I still went."
"When chenqie came to the princess' chamber, the door was locked. chenqie knocked for a very long time before she found a chenqie who seemed to be the princess' new palace maid. That palace maid's behavior seemed to be a little inappropriate, but I'm not sure if it was an illusion, but chenqie felt that there was a big problem with this palace maid."
Fu Yuheng looked at Shen Qingwan who was trying very hard to remember. The clarity in her eyes made him very conflicted. He also felt that she was a person, but he had seen it with his own eyes …
"You can go first. Don't come out during this period of time. After all, this matter involves too much. However, what happened today is truly not your doing. We will naturally give you justice." Even though it was said so, the truth was that it was most likely a disguised form of house arrest.
"I ask Your Majesty to believe that chenqie is not a vicious and venomous person. Chenqie will take her leave if the princess matter isn't her doing." Shen Qingwan suddenly knelt on the ground and looked at Fu Yuheng resolutely, his words sonorous and forceful.
Watching Shen Qingwan leave, he fell into deep thought.
"Empress, the Consort Xian has been placed under the emperor's house." It was already late, but the servants had come to report at this time.
The Gui mama looked at the flower pot in Xiao Shushen's hands, his tone lighthearted and filled with satisfaction. "The Empress has unparalleled shrewdness, that slut, Madam Shen, will definitely not be able to turn the tables this time!"
Xiao Shushen did not raise her head, but only looked at the flower pot in her hand. "The women of the harem are like this flower pot, no matter how much they compete, as long as that day gets in my way, I can easily exterminate her. Shen Qing Wan was the one who brought this upon herself. She was the one who brought this upon herself, who asked her to be so eye-catching! "
Suddenly, Xiao Shushen's eyes lit up as she stared at the biggest and best flower that bloomed, and cut it down with her scissors.
"The women of the harem are much calmer. They shouldn't rely on their own talent to act unbridled and lead by force. If you want to live longer in this harem that eats people without spitting out their bones, you need to be mediocre and learn to act dumb. Therefore, the phrase 'a woman without talent is virtue' was not wrong. Hui Ji must be injured! "Haha."
Xiao Shushen laughed openly, laughed sinisterly, laughed while letting out a tear from the corner of her eyes. Who in the harem wouldn't be cautious and cautious?
"Gui mama, I'm tired. Please help me rest."