eurekapd Chapter 793: Hypocritical Crown Princess 1
Chapter 793: Hypocritical Crown Princess 1
"You cheap maid."
When Jiang Chunxi first came to this world, she was slapped hard in the face.
Without caring about being angry, Jiang Chunxi quickly took over the original owner's memories.
The original owner was a personal maid of the prime minister's daughter. She followed her mistress into the Eastern Palace after marriage and her status changed to that of the crown princess's maid.
Shen Qinglan, the daughter of the prime minister, is a weak and jealous woman. She loves the prince madly, but because of her weak nature, she dare not put on airs in front of the prince's favorite concubines. She is just a weak and vulnerable princess consort. Even though the prince's concubines are not very favored, they do not take the princess consort seriously.
The original owner was always disappointed with her master's weakness, and she advised the Crown Princess countless times to stand up for herself and not to always feel sorry for herself and focus all her attention on the Crown Prince's favor. After all, as the Crown Princess, favor was not a big deal.
As long as she gives birth to a legitimate son as soon as possible, helps the prince manage the Eastern Palace, and gains his respect, that will be enough.
But a love-brained person like Shen Qinglan would not listen to any advice. All her attention every day was focused on where the prince would stay at night. If the prince came to the main courtyard at night, Shen Qinglan would be extremely happy and excited.
But if the prince favors someone else, she will cry until dawn. Not only will she have to endure the hardship herself, but her confidants who serve her will also suffer with her.
After all, if the master doesn't sleep, how dare the servants sleep? Not only can they not sleep, but they also have to rack their brains to comfort Shen Qinglan. This is simply physical and mental torture. In short, after entering the East Palace for just half a year, the original owner, who was originally in her prime, suddenly became like a withered flower.
His mental state was so haggard.
But even so, the original owner's beautiful appearance was not diminished at all, but instead gave her a morbid beauty like Lin Daiyu.
The reason why the original owner was beaten today was entirely because when the prince got up, he said to Shen Qinglan, "Are you, the maid, feeling unwell? If you are, let her rest for two days and recover before serving you closely."
This made Shen Qinglan believe that the prince had taken a fancy to the original owner, and that the original owner had seduced the prince behind her, his master's back, otherwise how could the prince care so much about her, a servant.
Therefore, when sending the prince to the morning court, Shen Qinglan slapped the original owner hard.
However, Shen Qinglan did not take the original owner's life directly, for fear of displeasing the prince. After all, the prince had taken a fancy to the palace maid beside her. If she dealt with her, wouldn't that be clearly going against the prince?
So Shen Qinglan could only torture the original owner in private. Every time the prince came to her, she had to suppress her anger and let the original owner serve her.
This kind of life lasted for almost a year. The original owner lived a life worse than death every day. Naturally, her appearance deteriorated rapidly. Her original appearance of 10 points was only 5 points left. This made Shen Qinglan torture the original owner even more severely, especially when she saw that the prince had no intention of favoring the original owner, she felt more and more that what she did was right.
As long as the slave girl is tortured to the point that she loses her beauty, the prince's thoughts on her will naturally disappear.
The original owner committed suicide by hanging himself. After all, not everyone can be like the indestructible cockroach, and can persevere in the face of daily torture that is worse than death.
After her death, the original owner was naturally full of resentment. The original owner was the daughter of Shen Qinglan's wet nurse. When Shen Qinglan was seven years old and had smallpox, her mother took care of Shen Qinglan at the risk of her life. In the end, Shen Qinglan recovered from the smallpox, but the original owner's mother was infected with smallpox and died.
Before the original owner's mother died, she sent a message to her daughter, asking her to swear allegiance to the young lady after her death.
The original owner's mother was a personal maid of Shen Qinglan's mother. She died of complications during childbirth of Shen Qinglan. This caused Shen Qinglan's elder brother, who was born of the same mother, to dislike his younger sister very much, thinking that she had killed their mother.
It was also because of this that Shen Qinglan's elder brother never paid attention to his younger sister, which gave Shen Qinglan's stepmother an opportunity to spoil Shen Qinglan. Otherwise, how could the daughter of a prime minister become a fool who only knew about love?
Originally, according to Shen Qinglan's stepmother's plan, she was going to arrange a marriage for her with a poor scholar. In that case, as the step-wife, she would have a lot of room to maneuver with the dowry left by Shen Qinglan's mother.
After all, if Shen Qinglan were to lower herself to marry a poor scholar and lose her innocence, Prime Minister Shen, the head of the family, would definitely give up on her as the legitimate daughter and naturally would not pay attention to Shen Qinglan's dowry. By then, the dowry left by Shen Qinglan's mother would be up to her stepmother to do whatever she wanted with.
You know, Shen Qinglan has been completely spoiled by her. Apart from love, his mind is obsessed with money.
But what Shen Qinglan's stepmother didn't expect was that just when she was preparing to arrange a marriage for Shen Qinglan with a handsome poor scholar, the emperor's decree of marriage suddenly came down, and Shen Qinglan was married to the prince as the crown princess.
Shen Qinglan was granted marriage to the crown prince as his princess, partly because of Prime Minister Shen, and partly because she survived smallpox.
In ancient times, people who could survive smallpox were regarded as blessed people, so the emperor appointed Shen Qinglan as the Crown Princess.
After the imperial decree of marriage came down, Shen Qinglan's stepmother, no matter how unwilling she was, did not dare to make any trouble. She did not dare to have any thoughts about the dowry left by Shen Qinglan's mother. After all, Shen Qinglan's stepmother was just greedy, not a fool.
She still knew what could be done and what could not be done, so Shen Qinglan married into the Eastern Palace with a grand ceremony.
The moment she saw the prince on the wedding night, Shen Qinglan's heart sank. Her mind was filled with jealousies among the concubines and she had no intention of helping the prince manage the Eastern Palace.
Of course, even if Shen Qinglan wanted to manage the Eastern Palace, she didn't have the ability to do so, because she had only learned poems and songs, and was particularly obsessed with those about love. She didn't learn anything that a lady should learn, and she was even more disdainful of learning.
After seeing Shen Qinglan's incompetence, the prince was dissatisfied, but he still found someone to teach her.
But Shen Qinglan just didn't want to learn, which made the prince extremely disappointed in her as the crown princess, so he had to hand over the power of the Eastern Palace to his wet nurse.
After all, Shen Qinglan represents the entire Shen family. If the prince hands over the palace power to a concubine, wouldn't that be a slap in the face of the Shen family? As long as he doesn't sit on the throne, the prince will never do anything stupid. You know, Prime Minister Shen's support is very important to him.
So even though the prince extremely disliked Shen Qinglan, he still stayed with Shen Qinglan for four or five days every month to give her enough favor as the crown princess.