Professional Ethics of a Concubine

The Crown Princess calmed down, and her eyes immediately became murderous. She first glanced at the palace maids, then looked at Xia Liangyuan and others, and said in a deep voice,

"What happened today must not be spread outside. Not a single word of it can leak out! If I find out who is the one who spoke the truth, I will punish him with a hundred strokes of the cane."

When Xia Liangyuan heard about being beaten with a stick, she felt pain all over her body and quickly agreed.

Even if the Crown Princess didn't give the order, they wouldn't spread the news.

They are not fools. If this matter gets out, not only will the prince lose face, but they will also be in trouble!

After all, they are all out of favor. Su Fengyi couldn't stand the loneliness and hung out with the eunuchs around him. Then people would think that they might have the same possibility.

Even if they definitely didn't do anything, but because others said that the unfavored women in the Eastern Palace had started to hang out with the eunuchs, they were included in it.

Seriously, it's as disgusting as swallowing a fly!

After the Crown Princess said this, she became furious and hurried towards Su Fengyi's courtyard.

Along the way, the Crown Princess was recalling Su Fengyi, also known as Su Ranran,'s previous words and deeds. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this matter subverted her cognition and was unimaginable.

She wouldn't be so shocked if Qin Fengyi or Sun Fengyi, who came from brothels, did such a thing, but how could it be Su Ranran!

Although she gave him the impression that she was a little pretentious and thoughtful, she was always a person with high standards and a lofty spirit. How could she do such a degrading thing?

When the Crown Princess arrived at Su Ranran's courtyard, Nanny Zhou had already arranged people to seal off the place and issued a gag order to other servants in the East Palace.

Su Ranran and Eunuch Xiao Ma had been tied up and gagged, and they were kneeling on the floor in a panic.

Eunuch Xiao Ma was so frightened that his handsome face turned pale, because he knew he had no way to survive, and the feeling of waiting for death to come was particularly terrifying, because he was afraid that he would be tortured to death.

Su Ranran, on the other hand, looked normal, even a little too calm.

The Crown Princess had Eunuch Xiao Ma taken away for interrogation, but she herself did not want to interrogate him for fear of dirtying her ears.

"Can't you stand the loneliness?" The Crown Princess looked at Su Ranran and said in a relatively calm tone, "I really can't imagine that you would do such a thing."

Since the situation is under control and won't cause any big uproar, there's no need to get hysterical or anything.

Although the Crown Princess was shocked by this incident, she was not that angry. She was more confused as to why Su Ranran had become like this.

"Hehe..." Su Ranran smiled at her coldly.

"It's really easy for the Crown Princess to talk without any pain. You are the Crown Princess, and although the Crown Prince doesn't favor you, he still respects you enough.

You have a son and daughter who are both very smart, Concubine Ye who helps you in every way, and a family of the Duke of Guo who is obedient and law-abiding. You have taken all the benefits, so you naturally don’t know my suffering.”

Princess,...

It’s true, except for not being favored by the prince, her life is already perfect!

Now she doesn't ask for the prince's favor anymore, so as long as the children and Qingzhi are by her side, it will be perfect, absolutely perfect!

"Well, you are right." The Crown Princess nodded seriously, "I really don't know your suffering. You might as well tell me. I am free now and can listen."

Su Ranran's face became even colder, and her voice was filled with hatred.

"I really hate the pity and charity of you people... I don't need you to understand. I don't want to live anymore. You can kill me now."

"After all, you have been the prince's cousin, and the bond between you and the prince is different. Even though what you did is a capital crime, I will not take the initiative to execute you. Wait for the prince to come back and let him decide."

The Crown Princess shook her head and spoke.

When Su Ranran heard this, she raised her head and laughed.

"Hahaha... friendship? There is no friendship between the prince and I! The prince once promised me that he would let me have a child after I recovered!

However, after Ye Qingzhi entered the mansion, he was completely seduced by her. How could he remember the promise he made to me? "

"The key is that you haven't taken good care of yourself yet. You're sick every other day and you're weak and sickly. How can you get pregnant and have a child? Every time the prince asks you about it, he tells you to take good care of yourself."

The Crown Princess thought she was being fair and said,

"There's still a lot of time to come, and the prince might favor you in the future, but you've blocked your way out now!"

Su Ranran,...

Is it possible that she was the only one who was wrong and the prince was not wrong?

No, she didn't believe the nonsense that the prince would favor her in the future!

There won't be any more!

The other concubines still have families, and they can hope that after the prince ascends the throne, their families will be rewarded. Therefore, even if they have no children and are not favored, they still have other hopes.

They even feel that such days are easy and comfortable, and are happy about it.

But what about Su Ranran? She is an orphan and has no relatives!

She used to think she could rely on her cousin, but in the blink of an eye, her cousin became King Jing, and King Jing became the Crown Prince, and they became more and more distant from her!

In the two or three years since she entered the East Palace, she has not met the prince in private. She can only glance at him from afar each time, but his eyes are always on Ye Qingzhi and he never looks at her again.

Day by day, her tears and spirit were drained away, and the last bit of love she had turned into resentment and the urge for revenge.

Because she had nothing to look forward to.

So, she hooked up with a lowly eunuch. She wanted to use her body to take revenge on the prince. She also gained a perverted physical and psychological pleasure from it.

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! You lied to me! It's impossible for the prince to favor me again, it's impossible!"

Su Ranran screamed loudly.

The Crown Princess looked at her somewhat crazy appearance and sighed.

"...Alas. Never mind. It's too late to say more."

She could now understand Su Ranran's suffering a little.

An orphan, helpless and without relatives, although she lives a life of luxury, she is destined to be childless and unloved for the rest of her life. She is all alone from beginning to end.

However, she had once been promised a better future. In comparison, it is understandable that she is more resentful and resentful than other women.

But then again, her life was already pretty good. If she were in someone else's backyard, with her physique, how could she compete with others as a concubine and she wouldn't be able to survive.

Do you think being the legal wife is easy? Do you think you are safe? You are always living under the control of men, so how can it be easy?

If Su Ranran were the legal wife, she would either be angered to death or exhausted to death. She doesn't have a good body, is not considerate of her husband, and has no capable servants. She simply cannot endure it on her own.

But this person always likes to stare at what she doesn't have, always resenting why others don't give her this or that, but she doesn't look at the good things she already has, nor does she think about why she wants this or that.

"Just keep her locked up well, deliver three meals a day on time, and don't tie her up." The Crown Princess said this and was about to turn around and leave.

There is no point in talking if you don't agree with me. The Crown Princess was too lazy to say anything more to someone like her who was so depressed and had already reached the end of her rope.

Su Ranran looked at the Crown Princess's departing figure and suddenly laughed like a crazy woman.

The Crown Princess turned around and looked at Su Ranran. She looked at her and asked calmly, "What? Do you have something to say?"

"Hey, Crown Princess, we are all still young, living alone every day, unable to sleep every night, don't you have any thoughts when you can't sleep at night?

The women in the backyard may be fine for one or two years, but what about after ten years? They are all in their thirties, can they endure loneliness forever?..."

"It's so filthy!" Madam Zhou frowned and glared at Su Ranran fiercely, "Shut up and don't pollute the Crown Princess' ears!"

Su Ranran giggled, not feeling the slightest bit ashamed. Once a person's moral bottom line is broken, there is no bottom line anymore.

Especially when it is mixed with hatred, it can really distort a person's psychology.

The Crown Princess frowned and looked at Su Ranran for a moment, then said in a cold voice, "Shut her mouth."

After saying that, the Crown Princess turned around and left. Su Ranran's interference made her feel suspicious and angry.

Could it be that the other women in this backyard are in similar situations?

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In the following days, the peaceful and tranquil atmosphere in the Eastern Palace was gone because the Crown Princess was conducting a screening, and there was a sense of panic and alarm.

Every palace maid and eunuch on duty was on high alert. The women in the backyard stopped playing mahjong and started to recite Buddhist scriptures behind closed doors.

Nanny Zhang also disciplined the servants in the courtyard, asking them to be careful with their words and actions, not to bring trouble to the concubine, and to keep the matter of Su Fengyi to themselves.

The Crown Princess investigated for a while but didn't find any other problems, so she stopped investigating. She was always suspicious and it was exhausting her energy.

If there are really people who are seeking death, it is because they are tired of living, and she can't do anything about it.