The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"Since he is unwilling to speak, I will do it!" Lu Xianqiong glanced at the eldest princess with a slightly apologetic look, "Big sister, do you know that this thief..."

"Second sister." The Grand Princess interrupted Lu Xianqiong's words, "The Crown Prince has always been gentle to others. I think there may be some misunderstanding between you two."

"Big sister?" Lu Xianqiong looked at her sister in disbelief.

Lu Yanzhen gave her a pleading smile, which made Lu Xianqiong's heart drop to the bottom - did her elder sister really not know that Ruan He had an affair with other women?

"Second sister, Empress Zhao, since the prince has already admitted his mistake, why bother to get to the bottom of it..." She was a princess, but she was so submissive that she even took the initiative to interrupt her sister who was wholeheartedly loyal to her.

Lu Xianqiong was surprised by Lu Yanzhen's attitude, and she became even more angry. She pointed at Ruan He, who looked relieved, and stood up to question Lu Yanzhen: "Did you know that he was cheating on you?!"

Before Lu Yanzhen could speak again, Lu Xianqiong spoke quickly and urgently: "Not only did he have an affair with another woman before marriage, he also caused her to become pregnant!"

"If he had any sense of responsibility, how could he act so vilely?!"

"If he loved someone else, why did he accept the marriage? Oh, if you say that he was too young to understand that love should not be blamed, he is now almost a grown-up. At such a grown-up, doesn't he know what responsibility is, what avoiding suspicion is, and what keeping oneself clean is?"

"You are clearly eating from the bowl while looking at the pot, you want both!" Lu Xianqiong glared at Ruan He fiercely, "You are greedy for the benefits of the Shangzhu, but you can't give up your man's fickleness!"

"Big sister, please think carefully about whether such a disgusting man is worth marrying!" Lu Xianqiong was already angry at the brother and sister, and now she saw that her sister was still defending these two people with ulterior motives, which made her even more angry.

After saying this, he no longer cared about other people's reactions and sat back angrily.

There was silence in the small pavilion for a moment.

Xie Yuzhen looked at Ruan He and the others with some amusement and said, "Prince Ruan, is what the Second Princess said true?"

"You...really had another woman before you married the princess, and made her pregnant?"

The smiling expression and brisk tone made Ruan He unsure of what the Concubine Zhao was thinking. He lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, I was drunk at the time and made such a big mistake. I hope that Your Majesty and the Princess will punish me."

"Brother!" Ruan Xiang'e was unwilling to plead guilty.

She glanced at her brother lying on the ground, then raised her head and turned to Xie Yuzhen: "Madam Concubine Zhao, please allow me to report that my cousin lost her mother at birth, and my father later married a stepmother who was also mean. My mother felt sorry for her and took her to the mansion to raise her since she was a child."

"My cousin and my brother are childhood sweethearts. They have been together since they were young. But my cousin is getting older. Although my mother can take care of her temporarily, her parents still have to decide her marriage." Ruan Xiang'e became more and more angry as she spoke. "But my ex-uncle is not a good person. He wants to send my cousin to the Prince of Chun'an's palace as a concubine!"

"The Prince of Chun'an is already over sixty years old!" Ruan Xiang'e cried out heartbreakingly, her eyes gradually becoming wet.

She looked at the eldest princess again and pleaded, "If my cousin cannot marry my brother, she will have no choice but to go to the Prince's Mansion. She is still so young, she... Your Highness, I beg you on my behalf. My brother was afraid that you would be sad, so he refused to tell you. It was my fault that I sent someone to send you a letter to ask you to talk, but I didn't want the second princess to know. That's why... Today's incident happened. It's all my fault. Please don't take your anger out on my cousin and brother."

The way she rushed for her gentle, refined and taciturn brother reminded Xie Yuzhen of many old friends. She straightened up slightly and asked, "So, the Anguo Marquisate wants to request the cancellation of the engagement with the eldest princess?"

As soon as these words came out, Ruan He, who had been as quiet as if he didn't exist, suddenly came to life: "Empress Zhao, you must not... If you rashly cancel the engagement, wouldn't it damage the reputation of the eldest princess?"

"It's you who did the shameful thing. If there's any damage to be done, it's to your family's reputation!" Lu Xianqiong cursed angrily.

Ruan He's expression suddenly became even uglier.

His cowardly look made Lu Yan secretly shake her head in her heart, but... such a man is easier to control, and the current development is just in line with her wishes: "Empress Zhao, this engagement was made when mother was alive, and I don't want to betray it easily."

She stood up and bowed, saying, "Since Master Ruan said it was just a moment of drunkenness, and he has always been a gentle gentleman, I am willing to believe him. As for that girl... although losing one's virginity before marriage is indeed shameful, since she is pregnant, it is also a little life, so let her enter the Anguo Marquis's mansion."

"Your Highness." Ruan He looked at Lu Yanzhen with emotion.

Ruan Xiang'e also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that what Zeng Fu said really made sense. Women in this world don't have to fight to death for a man: "Your Highness is so virtuous, cousin Zeng can now rest assured."

Zeng Suqiu, who was thousands of miles away, suddenly felt a chill. She subconsciously touched her lower abdomen with her palm. Seeing this action, Lin Qiao observed her expression again and asked, "Miss, are you feeling unwell?"

Zeng Suqiu's face turned pale: "Nu Nu is not unwell, but... she is pregnant."

She raised her hand unnaturally and touched the long hair hanging on her shoulders. This was the hairstyle for unmarried women, but... Zeng Suqiu could see that Lin Qiao had been guarding against her. If she wanted to seek help from the other party, she had to come up with more chips with enough weight: "Nu Nu lost her mother when she was young. It was my aunt who was kind and raised me. My aunt has a son and a daughter. My cousin is the prince of the Marquis of Anguo Mansion... He is only a few months younger than Nu Nu. Because Nu Nu is not a proper master in the mansion and has no extra money, the servants often treat her poorly."

"Only my cousin and cousin are kind to me and often help me." Zeng Suqiu's face became paler and paler. "I fell in love with my cousin, but he was engaged to the eldest princess, so I never dared to have any fantasies. But one night he got drunk for some reason and broke into my room. We..."

Zeng Suqiu choked up and spoke word by word: "I, I don't want to, I don't want to be with him... I don't want this, the child, I don't want to... stay there, but, but..."

The few people who were related to her by blood all made her afraid, and she subconsciously avoided them and didn't want to face them, but she didn't know how to resist properly.

And the scene in the strange dream, in which Lin Qiao, a woman wearing official uniform, rescued a girl who was forced to lose her virginity before marriage like herself, became the only life-saving straw Zeng Suqiu could think of at this moment.