I'll tell you the secret and let's laugh together!

Before the Second Prince came up to him, he heard the old lady of Duke Dingguo ordering someone to slap Ning Zhiyi in the face. He quickly quickened his pace and shouted:

"No, old lady!"

It would have been fine if the old woman just said a few words, but now it has escalated to violence. He is really speechless. Today he will tell this old woman that if she is given the face, she must accept it quickly, otherwise her "face" will fall to the ground!

"Hurry up!" Lu ordered again, fearing that the second prince would come to cause trouble.

Jiang couldn't help but take a few steps forward, looking anxious, wanting to appreciate the miserable state of Ning Zhiyi being beaten up close. A smug smile was already on the corner of her mouth, ready to welcome today's results in advance.

In the letter, the third prince emphasized how hateful Ning Zhiyi was, who relied on the emperor's favor to act recklessly and joined forces with the queen to oppress the imperial concubine.

Jiang was delighted. Humph, if even the imperial concubine couldn't do anything to him, he would be in trouble too if he fell into her hands.

"Heh, you want to slap me in the face, right?" There was no fear in Ning Zhiyi's eyes. Instead, she took a step forward and lowered her head so that no one could see the look in her eyes.

"Yes!" Jiang said proudly, "If you are afraid, kneel at the palace gate until the old lady is satisfied..."

"Snapped!"

"Ah!" Jiang covered her face, her smug look disappeared, replaced by anger, "You hit me?"

"Pa!" Ning Zhiyi slapped her again, on the same cheek.

"You dare to hit me?" Jiang was stunned by the second slap. She covered her face and screamed.

"Pa!" Ning Zhiyi slapped him again without any hesitation, "You still have the nerve to yell. You should be beaten for your foul mouth. Come on, keep yelling. I'll beat you for every yell!"

"You...you!" Jiang was a bully who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. She did not dare to continue to provoke Ning Zhiyi, this ruthless man, and shrank back behind the old lady crying.

He showed his swollen and red face to the old lady and asked her to make the decision for him.

"Back off!" The old lady of Duke Dingguo was so angry that her chest kept rising and falling. She waved Jiang away and looked at Ning Zhiyi with a gloomy face, "You beat up the lady of the Duke for no reason. Ning Zhiyi, you are really lawless, just like your crazy father!!"

"Your Majesty and the Queen dote on you, but I will not indulge you. Someone, take her down and bring her to the Emperor!"

The servants behind the old lady immediately surrounded Ning Zhiyi, worried that if Ning Zhiyi took action again, things would develop in an uncontrollable direction. The second prince took a few steps to block Ning Zhiyi and kicked the servants away.

"Why does the old lady have to get angry with a junior?"

"Second Prince, are you also in cahoots with her?"

"You are wrong, old lady. I am not on the side of anyone. I stand on the side of justice."

The old lady of Duke Dingguo sneered and pierced through the Second Prince's disguise with a sneer, "Standing on the side of justice? What a joke, she dared to beat the Duke's wife for no reason, and you didn't help me punish her, but stood on her side. Is this what you call standing on the side of justice?"

The cynical smile on the Second Prince's face disappeared. He looked directly into the eyes of the old lady of Duke Dingguo and said word by word, "Duke's wife? There is no Duke's wife here. Are you talking about her, old lady?"

The second prince pointed at Jiang and laughed exaggeratedly. Jiang, who was pointed at, looked frightened. What happened back then was not very secretive, and many people knew about it. Many ladies looked down on her.

Jiang was never invited to any gathering of top ladies, and there seemed to be a sense of them banding together to exclude her.

This is also the reason why Jiang tried so hard to please the old lady. Only by staying by the old lady's side could she experience the feeling of being superior to others. Only then would those ladies who never looked at her straight in the eye look at her with respect.

"How can she be called the wife of a duke? At best, she is just a favored concubine!"

"Second Prince, you..." The old lady of the Duke was furious. Before she could finish her words, another voice interrupted her.

"Yes, the Duke's marriage is a big event. I don't know when Duke Ding remarried the Duke's wife. Please let me know, Madam." Ning Yuanze ran over, looked at Ning Zhiyi carefully, and was relieved only after confirming that she was not injured.

The tall figure blocked the old lady of Duke Dingguo's view of Ning Zhiyi, and a murderous aura spread.

"How dare you! I have to see the emperor!" The old lady of Duke Dingguo was so angry that her eyes went dark. She staggered two steps and almost fell down.

Even if she fainted, no one would care. Ning Yuanze continued, "I heard an interesting story a few years ago. It was said that the Duke's Mansion welcomed a concubine into the mansion with great fanfare. Could it be that the concubine was this lady?"

"I've heard that the Duke Dingguo's Mansion has been ignoring etiquette and chaos in recent years. Today, I saw a concubine dare to act so presumptuous in the palace. It seems that those rumors are not groundless."

Jiang's face turned pale, and she fainted without even looking at the old lady's expression.

The old lady of Duke Dingguo was speechless. Over the years, many people had questioned Jiang's identity, simply because when she got married, the sedan chair she rode in and the clothes she wore were all replaced with those of a concubine!

What's even more infuriating is that the brother of the former Duke's wife, Mrs. Shen, sent people to guard the gate of the Duke's Mansion, forcing Jiang to enter the mansion from the side. As a result, the ceremony of marrying a wife was turned into a joke just like taking a concubine!

In the old lady's eyes, the Shen family is a group of shameless troublemakers. Her daughter was unlucky and deserved to die early. She didn't know where she got the nerve to stop them from marrying a successor!

The old lady of Duke Dingguo's idea is also quite simple. She simply doesn't want the Shen family to be happy and wants to go against them!

Didn't the Shen family not want her son to remarry? They even used despicable means to obstruct the marriage, but she had to be nice to Jiang and even pamper her in a big way!

Because the old lady was of a high generation and respected status, no one dared to behave abnormally in front of her. Some people would even look up to Jiang for the sake of the old lady's face, so the old lady always thought that the wedding was over.

But she didn't expect that Ning Yuanze would dare to bring up this matter in front of her. It was simply a provocation and made her so angry that she couldn't breathe.

"I demand to see His Majesty. Let's wait and see, you two brats!" The old lady of Duke Dingguo pointed at the siblings Ning Yuanze and Ning Zhiyi with trembling fingers.

"Madam, don't miss anyone. We two brothers are involved." The second prince embraced the crown prince and said to the old lady.

"Add me one more!" Prince An's voice came from not far away.