Shen Yunya waited for an hour. Her legs were trembling and her face turned pale. Her forehead was covered in sweat. If it wasn’t for her strong determination, she would have fainted or left long ago.
However, when she thought about the reason why she was there today, she forced herself to hang on.
“Common Consort Ya, why are you here at Zhaoyang Palace today?” Xi Lin walked out gracefully. She then leaned back in her chair in a laid-back manner and yawned, showing that she had just woken up from a nap.
Upon seeing Xi Lin’s behavior, Shen Yunya gritted her teeth in anger. If it was Shen Qingdai who wanted to meet her, she would have come out long ago, right?
Why did Xi Lin treat Shen Qingdai exceptionally well but always put on airs in front of her?
Shen Yunya held back her discontentment and gave Xi Lin a slight bow. “I…”
Xi Lin interrupted her in a harsh tone, saying, “Pay attention to what you call yourself. You can’t use ‘I.’ You must call yourself a concubine or a slave. You are so ignorant towards the rules. You will head back to serve my brother after learning the rules here.”
After hearing what Xi Lin said, Shen Yunya’s face turned red from anger. Calling herself a concubine or a slave was too embarrassing for her. However, since she was just a common consort, she must call herself that. Even though she was a common consort, to them, she was like a servant. She was only slightly better than the servants.
Shen Yunya raised her head and looked at Xi Lin, who was wearing a mocking smile on her face. She then gritted her teeth and said, “Concubine has something to tell the Princess. Concubine hopes that Princess can ask the imperial maids to retreat.”
Concubine sounded better than slave. As for the humiliation she had suffered today, she would return it to Xi Lin sooner or later.
“What kind of dirty secret does Common Consort Ya have that couldn’t be heard by others?” What she was trying to tell Shen Yunya was that if she had anything she wanted to say, just say it. Xi Lin would never hide anything for her.
Shen Yunya had already hated Xi Lin. After hearing Xi Lin’s mockery, she sneered in her heart as she shook her head and said, “It’s about the night of the twelfth. The Xi Yuan Emperor was at the West Partial Palace…”
“Wait!” Xi Lin’s expression changed. Her laid back manner disappeared instantly as she said in a cold voice, “All of you retreat.”
The imperial maids retreated in succession, leaving Shen Yunya and Xi Lin alone.
Xi Lin didn’t say a word. She simply stared at Shen Yunya coldly. Did she know about what happened that night? How did she know?
Shen Yunya did not beat around the bush. She put all the cynicism aside and put on an expression that looked as if she was doing this for Xi Lin’s own good. “Princess probably knows that Concubine experienced such an embarrassing event because Concubine was set up. However, Concubine accidentally found out about what happened between you and He Lian in the West Partial Palace while Concubine was looking into it.”
How could Shen Yunya have looked into what happened that night? Feng Tianlan must have found out about what Shen Yunya’s mother had done and turned her tricks against her.
However, when she finally had some free time, she wondered how exactly Feng Tianlan had found out about the plan. What careless mistake had they made for her to find out? How did they end up being the ones to be set up instead? She realized that some of what had happened didn’t match up.
She had asked her mother to tell her the details of what happened after she left and thought carefully about what her mother had said. After that, she realized that Feng Tianlan had not received the imperial maid’s message at all. The only person who received the message was Princess Zhaoyang.
That meant that their plan that night had clashed with Feng Tianlan’s plan only coincidentally. However, the person who fell into their trap was Princess Zhaoyang instead of Feng Tianlan.
Since what happened with Shen Yunya took place slightly earlier, everyone went to where Brother Jin was to catch them red-handed. Princess Zhaoyang, on the other hand, returned to the palace right after finishing her business. Therefore, until today, no one had known about it.
