Peach Blossom.

Tao Ye looked down on Si Yao, the woman who relied on her status as a princess and always thought that everything was her due. She really wanted to beat her up!

If two people who have cheated can successfully dump their original spouses and get married happily, is there any justice in the world?

"Ridiculous! Just because you like her, she has to divorce him? What's Madam Wang's fault?" Si Yu frowned and immediately rejected Si Yao's request.

Tao Ye glanced at Si Yu with admiration and silently felt glad for Madam Wang that the emperor did not seem to be the kind of person who doted on his sister too much.

Si Yao looked unhappy, and kept rubbing the sleeves of Queen Mother Meng, pouting as if to act coquettishly or to confide in others: "Mother... Don't you know that woman has been married to the Wang family for eight years, and still hasn't given birth to a son. 'There are three unfilial acts, and the greatest is to have no offspring'. Isn't this considered a fault?"

Queen Mother Meng followed Si Yao's words and looked at Si Yu with a smile: "Your sister is right, there are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no descendants!"

Tao Ye glared at Queen Mother Meng and Si Yao, silently cursing: "Whether she has an heir or not is none of your business!"

Si Yu seemed to understand Tao Ye's thoughts, and his reasons for rebuttal were all the same: "Even if that's the case, it's the Wang family's family affair, so I can't interfere, right?"

Queen Mother Meng nodded, then squinted at Si Yao and said, "Son, your brother is right. This is someone else's family affair after all."

"Mother..." Si Yao rubbed the Queen Mother's sleeves even harder.

Si Yu's brows relaxed slightly, but his expression was still very serious: "Royal sister, if you choose another prince consort, you should choose someone who is not married yet!"

"Your Majesty, you speak nicely. How many young men over 20 are still unmarried? If there are any, they must have been picked up and no one wants them! If I choose a younger one, he will definitely think I'm too old! Your Majesty, you were only sixteen years old when you got married. If your father had chosen a twenty-five-year-old woman for you to marry, would you be willing?" Si Yao angrily sprayed Si Yu, not caring about his identity as an emperor at all.

The Queen Mother softened her ears again, and changed her tone to persuade Si Yu: "Yao'er is right, there have always been men who are older than women, how can there be women who are older than men?"

Si Yu had a stern face and said nothing.

Queen Mother Meng really loved her daughter so much that she quickly came up with a plan that she thought would satisfy both parties: "In my opinion, it would be better to make Wang Jing's wife a concubine and then marry her to the princess..."

Before she could finish her words, Si Yao interrupted her capriciously: "No, no! She came in early, even if she is a concubine, she will still be seen as the first wife by others. Who knows how much grievances I will suffer by then!"

Tao Ye glared at Si Yao angrily again, criticizing him in her heart: "You are still a wife who has shared the hardships of life, why are you being wronged?"

This time, Si Yu was Tao Ye's spokesperson again. He sneered and didn't even bother to look at Si Yao: "You still feel wronged? It's good enough that I don't complain!"

Tao Ye looked at Si Yu in astonishment. This emperor was quite wise, but the empress dowager was a hateful old woman who only favored her own daughter.

As expected, the old woman felt so sorry for her daughter that she criticized the emperor: "Yao'er is your biological sister, how dare you say such hurtful words! Can you bear to see her suffer?"

Si Yao nodded repeatedly, her lips twitching as if she had been bullied.

Queen Mother Meng pondered for a moment, and then comforted Si Yao: "Yao'er, in fact... after you get married, you can still live in the princess's mansion with your husband. As long as you let that Wang Jingshao return to the Wang family, his first wife will not be able to influence you!"

"No, no!" Si Yao pouted, looking extremely distressed: "I don't want to recruit him to the princess's mansion, I want to marry into the Wang family!"

The Queen Mother was immediately shocked.

Si Yao explained: "Under the heavens, women marry into their husband's family, but princesses are not... It seems like honor and favor, but in fact, they have lost the most ordinary family happiness! My daughter also wants to have the happiness of an ordinary girl, serving her parents-in-law, getting along with her sisters-in-law, and teaching her children. How wonderful that would be!"

"My Yao'er has really grown up and become more sensible!" The Queen Mother greatly appreciated Si Yao's words, and instructed Si Yu: "You should think more about ways for your sister!"

Si Yu looked helpless, and it was not easy to directly offend the Queen Mother, so he had to perfunctorily answer: "Your son is incompetent and has no good plan for now. The emperor's sister just got divorced, and it is not easy to discuss marriage right away. It is better to take it slowly..."

Before he finished speaking, Si Yao interrupted him capriciously: "No, no! Wang Situ is old, and I heard that he has been lying on his sickbed recently. The imperial doctors said that he may not last long! If something unfortunate happens, won't the prince have to observe mourning for three years? Then how long do I have to wait?"

Queen Mother Meng heard this and quickly added: "That's right, Yao'er is already 25 years old, how can he wait for three years?"

Si Yu finally couldn't stand it anymore, he suddenly stood up from the bed and scolded Si Yao: "This is not allowed, that is not allowed, you are really the most domineering person in the world! I can't control your mess!"

After making the announcement, Si Yu immediately walked out. No matter how the empress dowager called out "My son, my son", he acted as if he didn't hear her.

Si Yao sat quietly, as if he had everything planned out, and said slowly and calmly: "In the whole Jiankang, my mansion has the most outstanding beauties. If my royal brother approves this marriage, you can choose any maid in my mansion!"

As soon as he said this, Si Yu actually stopped slightly.

Tao Ye suddenly felt uncomfortable all over. She had a vague feeling that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at her.

Si Yao was so proud, as if he had caught the emperor's handle: "My brother is already thirty years old, but he only has one son. It's time to fill up the harem!"

Queen Mother Meng listened and nodded repeatedly: "Look at your sister, she is very considerate of you, unlike you who don't care about her affairs at all!"

But Si Yu did not look back. He stopped for a while and then left.

"Mother..." Si Yao pouted again and rubbed the empress dowager's sleeves.

The Queen Mother held Si Yao's hand and comforted him, "Don't worry! Mother will make the decision for you! But... do you know what Wang Jing means?"

"He...of course he is willing!" Si Yao lowered his head slightly and smiled shyly, as if he was shy.

Tao Ye thought this action was unnecessary!

"That's good. It's a blessing for the Wang family to marry into the royal family!" The Queen Mother's arrogant attitude was not much different from Si Yao's. She thought for a while and made up her mind: "I will summon the old lady of the Wang family to see me tomorrow. If she gives a hint, she will naturally find a way to deal with her daughter-in-law. You just go back and wait for good news!"

Si Yao bid farewell to the Queen Mother with a beaming face. The mother and daughter discussed the matter together, and the Queen Mother personally saw Si Yao out the door.

Tao Ye followed the maids and was silently rubbing her hands together, imagining how she would beat the mother and daughter to a pulp.

When they returned to the princess's mansion, it was already dark. Caiwei was kneeling in the garden, outside the princess's embroidery room, holding the dog.

When Si Yao first saw Caiwei kneeling, he didn't quite understand what was going on. When he got closer, he saw that the dog's legs in Caiwei's arms were wrapped with thin bandages.

After entering the palace for half a day, Tao Ye almost forgot about Caiwei's injury to the dog. Only now did she remember it. She thought the dog must have been seriously injured, so Caiwei knelt down early and waited to apologize.

Seeing the dog injured, Si Yao was immediately furious: "What happened to my Baoer?"

Caiwei kowtowed repeatedly, speaking in words of repentance: "Princess, please calm down! I deserve to die! I beg you to give me one more chance to atone for my sins. I will serve you carefully..."

Before he could finish, Si Yao picked up the dog and kicked Caiwei down.

Caiwei fell down, but immediately got up and begged for mercy.

Si Yao took a closer look at the dog and saw that the left hind leg was bandaged. Without asking how serious the injury was, he pointed at Cai Wei and immediately ordered his attendants, "Come here, break her left leg for me!"

Some of them went with sticks.

Caiwei was so frightened that her legs went limp and she kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. The sound of her head hitting the ground could be clearly heard.

Tao Ye and Xiao Wan looked at each other.

Xiao Wan knelt down first and pleaded for Cai Wei: "Princess, please show mercy. Bao Er's leg is not broken. Please give Cai Wei another chance!"

Si Yao was not moved at all: "Bao Er was injured, of course she should pay it back tenfold!"

Tao Ye also wanted to beg for mercy, but she was too disdainful to kneel before this bastard princess!

Seeing the stick being brought, Tao Ye stepped forward to stop it and questioned Si Yao: "You are too cruel! Can a dog be more important than a human?"

Someone brought a chair to Si Yao, who sat down with a look of disdain: "How can such a lowly slave be compared with my Bao'er?" He immediately ordered: "Beat him!"

The housekeepers restrained Caiwei and made her lie on the ground. Caiwei struggled, and two sticks hit her left leg with a crackling sound, and her dress was instantly soaked with blood.

Tao Ye couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so she pushed aside the two men holding sticks and shouted at Si Yao, "To be honest with you, I broke the dog when I fell. Do you want to hit me?"

Si Yao was furious and pointed at Tao Ye: "How dare you threaten me?"

"What's wrong with me threatening you? If you still want to fulfill your good wish, just shut up!" Tao Ye was fearless at this moment and just mustered up the courage to argue with Si Yao.

"You——" Si Yao panted angrily and finally surrendered.

The whole garden was silent and no one dared to make a sound.

Si Yao carried the dog straight back to the house. Although he did not leave any instructions, it was equivalent to giving up the punishment.

Caiwei was carried back to the room where she lived when she first entered the mansion.

Because the previous cooks were dismissed, Caiwei moved to the princess's garden, and Taoye disappeared in Jingshui Tower, Xiaowan had lived alone in this room not long ago. Now that Caiwei was sent out of the garden and Taoye returned to the mansion, the three of them lived together again.

After a while, Caiwei's elder sister Cailing came to visit with some trauma medicine.

Cai Ling only said a few words of concern to Cai Wei, but more of a warning: "You must not bear a grudge against the princess. You have committed such a big mistake, and it is only right that you should be punished. In the future, you should serve her wholeheartedly and don't make any mistakes!"

Caiwei lay on the bed, unable to get up. She was trembling all over. She didn't say a word, but just nodded timidly.

Not long after, Cai Ling left again.

Tao Ye and Xiao Wan, who lived in the same room, felt that the identity of "Princess's personal maid" was more suitable for Cai Ling than the identity of "Eldest Sister Cai Wei".

Tao Ye couldn't help but ask, "Is she your biological sister?"

Although Caiwei didn't look up, she knew that the question was about her. She was a little exhausted and answered in a low voice: "Yes, same father... different mother..."

Tao Ye couldn't hold back her curiosity and continued gossiping: "Who is the principal wife of your two mothers? Who is the concubine?"

"They were both principal wives... After my mother died, my father remarried her mother..." Caiwei's voice became lower and lower.

Tao Ye was confused and couldn't figure out the logic behind this: "Your mother is the original wife, and her mother is the second wife, so how can she be your eldest sister?"

This time Caiwei did not answer. Xiaowan quietly waved to Taoye, signaling Taoye not to ask any more questions.

The room was silent for a while. Xiaowan found an excuse to pull Taoye out and said to her, "It must be that his father had an affair with his stepmother first, and then he found an opportunity to marry her in. Can't you figure it out?"

Unconsciously, Tao Ye imagined many scenes in her mind and started to guess: "Then...could Caiwei's biological mother have been killed by her stepmother or father?"

"My sister, please take care of yourself first..." Xiao Wan looked around to see if there was anyone around and lowered her voice: "You knew that the princess was going to use you to negotiate with the emperor, but you... are you really willing to enter the palace?"