"Your Majesty, why would I provoke Princess Jiaoyang? It was Princess Jiaoyang who broke into my Qingque Palace and then whipped me with the whip bestowed by the late emperor. Your Majesty, look at the wounds on my body... I can't even find an imperial physician now. There is no place for me to recover."
Concubine Zhu was filled with grievances, and her tears fell like beads from a broken string as she spoke. However, there was blood on her face, which mixed with her tears, making her originally delicate face look dirty.
"Where is the imperial physician? Who has occupied your bedroom? The Canyang Palace is much bigger than your Qingque Palace."
Su Jing usually doesn't bother to care about the jealousy between women. She doesn't want to talk nicely, but has to beat around the bush, saying that there is no place to recuperate and that there is no imperial physician. She just said that A'man occupied her Qingque Palace and also took over the imperial physician.
"The imperial physician treated a maidservant in my own bedroom. How could I be the imperial concubine appointed by you personally? Princess, you are ignoring me like this. This is a slap in your face."
"The Queen has always spoiled the princess. Now that she is gone, it is time for the Emperor to discipline the princess."
Concubine Zhu spoke softly, as if she was thinking about the Emperor and Princess Jiaoyang.
Concubine Zhu didn't know that when she was applying eye drops to Princess Jiaoyang, Su Jing was looking at her with a secretive look in his eyes.
"You, a concubine, have no say in the Queen's affairs." Su Jing's voice carried the authority of an emperor, which made Concubine Zhu tremble.
"But it is true that the Queen dotes on Princess Jiaoyang. She loves Princess Jiaoyang so much because of the person she loves..."
Concubine Zhu naturally knew the reason why the emperor and the empress had become estranged, and she also knew that the emperor was unwilling to even look at the prince. She felt that she only needed to instigate a few more times, and Ah Man would surely suffer the same fate as the prince.
Without the emperor's favor, she no longer had the confidence to be so arrogant.
This is also the reason why she dared to come to the emperor after being injured. She didn't believe that the emperor didn't care. If he really didn't care, the queen would not have died.
Concubine Zhu didn't finish her words, but both she and the emperor knew what she meant.
After Concubine Zhu finished speaking, she lowered her head and knelt on the ground. She was waiting for the emperor's wrath and for him to punish Princess Jiaoyang.
She did wait for the emperor's rage, but this rage was not directed at Ah Man, but at her.
Su Jing kicked her bloody shoulder hard, causing her to fall to the ground. She looked at the emperor in disbelief, with confusion in her eyes.
She had instigated this much, but the emperor still wanted to protect Princess Jiaoyang. He actually...
"Your Majesty, please calm down. I am just stating a fact. I..."
"I once said that whoever criticizes the queen will die." Su Jing's words, filled with anger, rang like thunder in Concubine Zhu's ears.
"Your Majesty, I..."
Only then did Concubine Zhu understand that the Emperor's anger was all because of the Queen, because of the dead Queen.
"Go back now while I don't want your life anymore." Su Jing didn't even bother to look at Concubine Zhu, he just shouted irritably.
Naturally, Concubine Zhu did not dare to offend the emperor again at this time. She quickly stood up and stumbled out with unsteady steps.
Behind Concubine Zhu, the emperor, dressed in bright yellow pajamas, sat down on the couch with fatigue in his eyes, as if the kick he had just given Concubine Zhu had drained all his strength.
The favorite concubine Xu, who has been in the limelight recently, also recovered from the shock. She slowly walked behind Su Jing and gently patted his back, but unexpectedly, Su Jing raised his hand and pushed her away.
"Don't touch me." Su Jing's words were without any affection, cold and indifferent.
Xu could only kneel on the ground in fear and apologize, but Su Jing seemed not to hear her and just let her kneel on the ground.
(End of this chapter)