The Destiny of Going to Hell

Back home, Ruoxi was unhappy. Why could she only move around in such a small place? She was about to grow grass.

Humph, at worst I can just sneak out.

Before she could put her idea into action, Ruoxi saw three men walking into the room. The one walking in front was the Eighth Prince, who was about 22 or 23 years old. He was wearing a moon-white robe, with a face like a beautiful jade and eyes like bright stars.

Ruoxi secretly exclaimed in amazement, his face was a little feminine, but he was still a handsome man.

The Eighth Prince smiled and helped Ruolan up. "Something delayed me. My Ninth Brother, Tenth Brother and I had something to discuss, so we came here to eat together. I didn't tell you because I was thinking about it at the time."

Ruolan turned around and went out to tell the eunuch outside to serve the meal.

Ruoxi was looking at these three princes with a crazy look in her heart. During the meal, the Eighth Prince and Ruolan talked from time to time, the Ninth Prince ate in silence, and the Tenth Prince, while eating, looked at Ruoxi with a smile.

Ruoxi felt a little proud and wondered if she was a beauty that could please the Tenth Prince.

Ruoxi smiled, but suddenly she noticed that everyone around her was staring at her, and she immediately felt a burning sensation on her face.

After finishing her meal, Ruoxi found an opportunity and sneaked out of the house.

Unfortunately, just as she left the house, she met Minghui who had returned at the gate. Minghui had someone tie her up and take her into the house.

"I have said that Miss Ruoxi cannot leave the house before the selection. Are you not listening to me or are you neglecting your duties?" Minghui sat on the chair, with anger on her bright face.

"The servants failed to supervise properly, and Qiao Xin failed to give advice. She will be severely punished with twenty strokes of the cane. As for you, Miss Ruoxi, you should kneel in the small Buddhist temple in the mansion for a night and think carefully about how your behavior has brought shame to the palace."

After Minghui finished speaking, Qiaolan and the guards were dragged away and beaten with boards. Listening to the crying and wailing, Ruoxi trembled with fear, but she felt more aggrieved and dissatisfied.

"Why do you treat me like this? I'm General Malte's daughter, it's none of your business!"

Ruoxi stiffened her neck, and Ruolan also arrived late.

Ruolan quickly spoke up, "Ruoxi, shut up!"

Minghui stood up as if she had heard some funny joke.

"Of course I am qualified. Once you enter the Eighth Prince's Palace, you are a member of the Eighth Prince's Palace. Naturally, I am qualified to discipline you." Minghui turned and looked at Ruolan.

"It would be best if Concubine Fujin could take good care of her sister. If she brings trouble to the mansion and to me, I will have to use more effective means to discipline her."

Ruolan naturally knew that Ruoxi had run out and bumped into the Fourth Prince a few days ago, and she also knew that she had nearly killed someone, but seeing how well-behaved Ruoxi was during the meal, she thought she knew she was wrong.

She quickly took Ruoxi's hand and bowed, "Thank you, Madam, for your generosity. Ruolan will definitely take good care of Ruoxi and will never let her leave the house by force again."

Ruolan felt very embarrassed when she saw the disdain on Minghui's face.

How did Ruoxi become like this, so rude and disrespectful? She was not like this when she first came.

Ruolan took Ruoxi to the Buddhist temple.

Ruoxi knelt down and complained, "Sister, why are you helping her? She must have seen that the Eighth Master likes you, so she deliberately made things difficult for us sisters."

Ruolan felt that there was some truth in what she said, but she still taught him, "That's enough, Ruoxi. Do you know how serious a crime it is for you to leave the house without permission? Which lady would do that? If you ruin your reputation, will the other women in the Maltai family still be able to survive?"

Ruoxi was so aggrieved that she kept crying. She was clearly implicated by Ruolan and was hated as well, yet in the end she was still being scolded.

In fact, she had no idea that if she hadn't sneaked out of the house by force, she wouldn't have been punished.

She had been kneeling for not long when she saw the Eighth Prince and the Tenth Prince coming together. The Eighth Prince said that there was no need to kneel anymore, and the Tenth Prince helped Ruoxi up.

"Sister-in-law Eight is so bossy. Why should she embarrass you?"

Ruoxi looked at the Tenth Prince standing up for her and her heart was moved. She then looked at the Eighth Prince, and when he gently said that the punishment would be waived, she couldn't help but blush.

After a while, Minghui saw the Eighth Prince who came to the main courtyard to question her.

His usually gentle and elegant appearance was now full of frost. "Fujin, it's just a small matter. Why do you have to embarrass Ruolan and bully a little girl? Ruolan has always been a peaceful person. How far are you going to push her?"

"She has always been a non-confrontational person? Ha, with your Eighth Master's favoritism, she has everything even if she doesn't fight. A concubine is equal to me, but she doesn't even show courtesy when she sees me. Her sister is committing a crime and doesn't take me seriously. Is my slight punishment a threat?"

Minghui smiled gently and asked, "Eighth Master has favored his concubine over his wife for so long, but rumors spread outside the mansion that this wife is tyrannical and jealous. How come your Eighth Master is a good husband with a clean conscience?"

These words made Yinsi's face turn pale and blue. Didn't he think about how much harm it would bring to his management of the palace if he exempted the punishment right after he had just imposed it?

Didn't he know that those rumors were harmful to a woman's reputation? He knew everything, but he still spread the rumors, just to gain the emperor's pity, to get closer to the officials, and to establish a persona that was easy to get close to.

The Eighth Prince had a sad face, and his jade-like face was filled with sorrow and grievance. "Minghui, you never said this about me before. Why have you become so unapproachable now?"

Minghui simply kicked the person out.

Kangxi, who had sent secret guards to watch, was secretly happy when he received the news. He didn't know why, but since the day they met in the imperial garden, Minghui's figure had been all in his mind.

Realizing that Minghui was really angry, the Eighth Prince was a little flustered for a moment. If Minghui no longer helped him because of this matter and he lost the support of Prince An, how could he move forward towards the throne?

Judging from what Minghui said, she probably knew that she was the one who spread the rumor.

The Eighth Prince pinched his nose and thought it was not that difficult.

In the past, when Minghui was angry, I could just comfort her more, but this time she was even more angry.

From that day on, the Eighth Prince always gave Minghui some gifts, but Minghui would just take a look and throw them away.

Even when he apologized, his apology was insincere. None of the things he sent were what Minghui liked. In fact, he naturally had the upper hand in his relationship with Minghui, so how could he lower his head and seriously observe Minghui's preferences?

Since then, the Tenth Prince has always come to play with Ruoxi every now and then, and once he even took Ruoxi out of the house. Minghui sneered, looking at the servants in the house swaying left and right, and was speechless. This Tenth Prince really doesn't respect his Eighth Sister-in-law.

Ruolan was a little worried. Ruoxi was here for the selection, so how did she get together with the Tenth Prince? They even stayed out of the house together overnight. If the Eighth Prince hadn't been there and greeted her, she would have been really scared.

When it came to the Tenth Prince's birthday, the Eighth Prince still couldn't coax Minghui, and because of the Tenth Brother's request, he let Ruolan host it.

Ruolan thought of the Tenth Prince and Ruoxi, so she asked Ruoxi if she liked the Tenth Prince, but Ruoxi replied in the negative.

She said to Ruoxi earnestly and seriously, "It's OK if you don't like it. Although we Manchus don't have as many rules as the Han people, you, as a girl, must know your limits."

Ruoxi just found it funny, she and the Tenth Prince were just brothers.

All the talking and playing happened under other people's noses, and Ruolan said this as if she had done something shameful.

Her face was full of impatience, but Ruoxi didn't think about it. This was in ancient times, where was the theory of brotherhood popular?

She did this without caring about the other girls in the Marte family.