After this day, Ye Xia beca a frequent visitor to Prince Wang Mansion, and each ti she ca, she mostly encountered Duan Huaijin, who changed his way of addressing her from initially ’cousin’ to the now ’Qiu.’
Although this wasn’t Ye Xia’s real na, it marked a shift in his feelings towards her, intending soday to turn the appellation of Qiu into Xiaxia.
"Sister, see you don’t like , but I can still co to the Prince Wang Mansion every day!" Ye Xia blatantly said to Ye Qiu.
"You seem quite pleased with yourself." Ye Qiuqing glanced at her lightly and then turned her head away as if she were so untouchable plague.
Ye Xia was not at all offended, instead, she beca more boastful: "Of course, I’m pleased. Guess what I found out? Your husband does not seem to like you much!"
"What does it have to do with you?"
"Of course, it’s my business, sister. Do you know? Next month at the West Mountain hunting trip, your husband even agreed to take along!"
Ye Qiu didn’t respond to her, and thinking she was jealous, Ye Xia was even happier: "See, even without your help, I can still get what I want. I’m really looking forward to the day you die or get disposed of!"
"Then you just wait and see," Ye Qiu said coldly.
"Hmph!" Ye Xia stord off with a flick of her sleeve.
Ye Qiu watched her leaving back and then smiled, while the wet nurse beside her was anxious and puzzled: "Princess Consort, the Eldest Lady is so arrogant, yet you laugh."
"Wet nurse, you don’t understand."
At the Ye Residence, Ye Wangshi was busily preparing for Ye Xia’s trip to West Mountain: "Xiaxia, the embroidery woman from Gold Embroidery Pavilion has arrived, quickly go get your asurents taken. This ti, you must absolutely astonish Prince Li."
Ye Xia stood tall and proud: "Mother, don’t worry. Prince Li is very kind to now, he even designated a courtyard specifically for . Soon, I will be able to move into the mansion."
Ye Wangshi hesitated: "Is this appropriate? After all, you are not yet married."
"What about propriety? I am moving in under the guise of taking care of ’sister’, no one will think badly of for being profoundly righteous."
Hearing Ye Xia put it this way, Ye Wangshi indeed stopped worrying: "As long as you know what you’re doing."
The Holy Emperor’s health is increasingly failing, so he did not attend the West Mountain hunting trip this ti, instead delegating the task to the Crown Prince and Prince Li.
The Crown Prince, just twelve years old, looked rather timid. Standing beside the handso and imposing Prince Li made him even less noticeable, causing the ministers to make their calculations.
"Beloved subjects, rise, go forth on your own. He who brings back the most ga will receive a great reward from ," the little Crown Prince thus declared.
The crowd below was excited, eager to prove theirselves, knowing whoever might sit in that position in the future would still need outstanding talents, and today might just be the chance.
And among the group of ladies, they were also calculating, internally regretting, if they had known Prince Li would rise to this stature, they wouldn’t have scorned him like a snake before. It turned out to be the fortune of a rchant’s daughter who luckily landed the position of a Princess Consort. However, it is said that her health has always not been very good, should they wait a bit?
They all shyly blushed as they admired Prince Li’s handso visage.
In Ye Xia’s eyes, watching them, she silently cursed them for being shaless, still calling themselves ladies while their gazes were like starving wolves, too unreserved!
Prince Li was hers, and she would absolutely not give them any chance.
"Is Princess Li going to ride a horse?" after the Crown Prince spoke, one woman eagerly waited, casting a provocative look at Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu’s gaze dimd, then she lightly coughed: "I, the Princess Consort, am not feeling well today, so I’ll not join you sisters in play. However, my sister is quite skilled at riding, I hope everyone will take good care of her."
All eyes turned to Ye Xia again, and seeing her vibrant and brilliantly flamboyant deanor, everyone saw through her intentions.
The crowd silently cursed, the Ye Family is truly a rchant family, such cunning tactics, sending the sister when the elder sister is unwell, do they intend for two won to serve one husband?
They wish for a pretty scenario, but do they really have the capability?
Actually, Ye Xia usually loved socializing, and she was also worried about being recognized, but before she ca, she happened to see the list of officials, and besides Wang Yanran, there wasn’t anyone who knew her.
That’s to be expected, after all, the Ye Family is an Imperial rchant, she couldn’t climb the social ladder with those prestigious families, and luckily she hadn’t, none of the people she knew had the ability to enter today’s gathering.
As for Wang Yanran, if she dared to speak out, wasn’t she afraid that sothing would happen to Ye Qiu?
Wang Yanran was indeed very surprised, she hadn’t ceased visiting the Ye Residence this past year, but each ti her uncle and aunt said that Ye Qiu was seriously ill and had gone to the villa for recuperation, and since she was pregnant herself, it really wasn’t convenient to go out, so she hadn’t seen Ye Qiu for a whole year.
Who knew that when they finally t, it would be under such circumstances?
Why was it Ye Qiu who married Prince Li instead of Ye Xia? What exactly happened in the past?
Wang Yanran was eager to find Ye Qiu to understand clearly, then she caught her look.
In the anti, Ye Xia was surrounded and walked away by several concubines, and only then did Ye Qiu invite Wang Yanran into her own tent.
"It really is you, I really didn’t recognize you wrongly, but why?" she asked in shock.
"It can’t be explained in a word or two, and knowing it wouldn’t benefit you anyway, Cousin Yanran, just consider as Ye Xia," said Ye Qiu indifferently.
"But you clearly are..." Afraid that soone nearby might hear, she spoke halfway and then clamd up, "Were you forced by them? Do you not know how dangerous it was going to the Northwest? Weren’t you afraid of death?"
"I’m fine, aren’t I? Everything is in the past." Ye Qiu said lightly.
But Wang Yanran was still furious: "What do you an by past, since it has beco like this, what did Ye Xia’s behavior today an?"
"What else could it an, she regrets it," Ye Qiu remarked as if it had nothing to do with her.
Wang Yanran was infuriated, tapping her forehead, "You, I really don’t know what to say about you."
"It’s okay, cousin, you know my condition, there’s no point in fighting too much, better to just live well through the last days," said Ye Qiu.
"How is your health? What do you an by your last days? We can definitely find a way to treat it."
"It’s useless, I know my own body well, and cousin, even if I’m cured, apart from you, who else really cares about ?" Ye Qiu said nonchalantly.
"What about Prince Li? Don’t you know?"
"What does he know? Moreover, it seems he has taken quite a liking to my sister recently."
"Aren’t you going to stop it?"
"What’s the use? With the state of my health, who can I stop?" Ye Qiu smiled bitterly, "My cousin, I’m really fine, let them do whatever they want, I’ll just turn a blind eye."
"Really, how could they do this?" Wang Yanran was infuriated but impotent, should she go confront Ye Xia and Prince Li?
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