Chapter 95: Princess, The Lord Consort Invites You
“On what grounds?”
Li Qingheās mouth questioned faster than her brain could process. Even if she had been demoted to a commoner by Li Phoenix, that was no reason for this slut Li Xuanyue to bully her.
Looking at Li Qingheās unconvinced and furious face, Li Xuanyue raised her noble head. She gazed down at Li Qinghe, speaking with arrogance and rampant disdain.
“On the grounds that this Princess is now the First Princess of the Phoenix Clan, and you are nothing. Do you understand?”
Everyone shuddered at these words.
It was true!
Li Xuanyue was the Princess most favored by the Phoenix Sovereign, born from her own belly. She would surely be the next ruler of the Phoenix Clan. She had the capital to be rampant and arrogant.
And Li Qinghe? She was merely a child born of a Noble Consort. From the moment she was born, she was destined never to surpass Li Xuanyueās noble status. She had no capital to be willful. Naturally, she couldn’t live as recklessly as Li Xuanyue.
Even if Li Xuanyue wanted to do something to her now, she could only take it.
Although Li Qinghe realized the disparity in status, when Li Xuanyue said it out loud in front of so many people, her originally bright features twisted into something hideous and terrifying.
“You cannot!”
Li Qinghe met Li Xuanyueās gaze, making a final struggle.
Li Xuanyue didn’t want to hear her nonsense. In her view, if she wished, Li Qinghe was no different from an ant she could crush.
“Second Prince, if you don’t wish to apologize, that is fine too.”
Li Xuanyue signaled to Junmo. “Let her slap her mouth twenty more times. Consider it your apology to this Princessās Consort.”
Things had developed to this point. Who couldn’t see that Li Xuanyue was deliberately targeting Li Qinghe?
If she truly had an issue with the Snake Prince, that slap upon arrival would have landed on his face instead. She wouldn’t be standing here calmly negotiating Li Qingheās punishment with him.
Li Qinghe never dreamed that after attacking Langhua together with Junmo, Li Xuanyue would pin everything on her head. How was this different from taking her life? Her heart felt like it was about to explode.
“Just you wait, Li Xuanyue! I will sue you! I will let Mother Empress know your true face!”
To Li Xuanyue, the final struggles of a grasshopper were useless. If she were truly afraid of Li Qinghe exposing her true face to Li Phoenix, she wouldn’t have targeted her again and again.
“This Princess will wait.”
She spoke to Li Qinghe in a tone that could anger the dead. “I only hope you can make good on your word.”
Li Xuanyueās expression of utter disregard completely detonated Li Qinghe. Finally, Li Qingheās shouting was entirely replaced by the sound of slaps.
Even without looking, Li Xuanyue could feel the venomous gaze directed at her.
Junmoās expression was extremely complex.
Li Xuanyue ignored his face. “If the Second Prince has no other business, this Princess will take them back now.”
Her voice was faint. Without giving him a chance to reply, she led Junhe, Langhua, and the others away from Minghua Palace.
Although the matter was resolved quickly and neatly, Langhua still felt dissatisfied and stifled as they walked out. He didn’t understand why Li Xuanyue gave up the chance to make Junmo apologize, choosing instead to dump everything on that wretched woman, Li Qinghe.
Did she feel that what he suffered just now wasn’t important?
“What is Consort Lang thinking about?”
Li Xuanyue naturally sensed the person beside her was distracted. She tilted her head to look at him, asking knowingly, “Do you feel this Princess’s punishment was unfair?”
Since Li Xuanyue asked, Langhua couldn’t play dumb. He stopped walking and looked at her with a suddenly serious expression.
“Did the Princess never intend to do anything to the Second Prince from the very beginning?”
Otherwise, having had the chance to make him apologize, why give it up? Did she care so little for him, her Consort?
“Consort Langās question confuses this Princess.”
Li Xuanyue said seriously, “Do you think punishing the Snake Prince would prove I value you? Have you considered that he is pregnant with a child?”
What did the Phoenix Clan value most? Heirs.
She could deal with Li Qinghe because Li Qinghe had no capital to fight her. But Junmo was different. Putting aside his identity as the Snake Prince, he carried Li Qingheās child in his belly.
If she made trouble for him and something happened to the child, she, the Grand Princess, would be drowned in the clan’s spit before tomorrow morning.
“Moreover, you acted too rashly today.”
Li Xuanyue didn’t forget to reprimand Langhua for his carelessness. “Did you really think that just because you made a scene at Minghua Palace, they wouldn’t dare touch you?”
“Do you know how many shadow guards surrounded the Minghua Palace, hiding in the dark from top to bottom?”
Fengyi also felt Li Xuanyue was wronged in this matter and stepped forward to speak for her. “Young Master, you truly wronged the Princess on this.”
“When we arrived just now, we found many shadow guards in the dark. If the Princess hadn’t been quick-witted, you… might have already been schemed against by them!”
Hearing Fengyiās words, the unwillingness and unhappiness in Langhuaās heart vanished, replaced by a complex expression.
He hadn’t expected the Snake Prince to actually want to join hands with that wretched woman Li Qinghe to kill him. If Li Xuanyue hadn’t arrived, wouldn’t he have been in grave danger?
For a moment, Langhuaās gaze toward Li Xuanyue turned somewhat sheepish.
“I’m sorry, Princess. This subject was wrong in this matter.”
Although saying sorry felt awkward, thinking of his embarrassing scene today, Langhua felt it wasn’t a big deal. He was saying it to the Princess, not anyone else. Just consider it coaxing his own wife to be happy.
Li Xuanyue hadn’t expected Langhua to accept the situation so quickly. Her eyes smiled with relief.
Just as they were about to return to their respective palaces to attend to other matters, a maid suddenly walked up to them and bowed.
“Princess, the Father Monarch invites you!”
The maidās voice was soft and weak, like an oriole, crisp and bright as it reached their ears.
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