Being favored by the paranoid master, the whole imperial capital kneels down

"What on earth is Nan Chuzheng so proud of? What is she so proud of?"

Chu Jingyue, who was pushed down the stairs, clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and felt sour in her heart.

Although Chu Jingyue was extremely reluctant to admit it, at this point, she had to admit that Nan Chuzheng was living a better life than her.

Perhaps because she had stayed in the Eastern Palace for a long time, Chu Jingyue deeply understood the happiness of being with Nan Chuzheng for the rest of her life.

She once tried her best to enter the Eastern Palace.

But after entering, she found that she did not get any wealth and honor in the Eastern Palace, let alone any power.

She thought that as the prince's woman, she would be able to do whatever she wanted in this prosperous dynasty and be second only to the emperor.

But Chu Jingyue was wrong.

Not only was she wrong, Wang Lanzhi was also wrong.

Marrying the prince is just like jumping from one cage to another.

As women, they once felt so uncomfortable and unfree in their boudoirs.

It's still the same now.

Call the wind and rain? That's far from possible.

Standing at Chu Jingyue’s current height.

She didn't think that anyone in the Great Sheng Dynasty could truly call the wind and rain.

I'm afraid it's impossible even for the queen.

There is always Yama hanging over their heads.

Yama Luosi controlled most of the power in the Great Sheng Dynasty, and the queen and the prince had no access to the remaining bits of power.

Thinking of this, Chu Jingyue got up from the ground, and she walked forward again, knocking on the door of Nan's house desperately.

A cold dagger was pressed against her waist.

An ordinary guard of the Nan family said to Chu Jingyue in a cold voice,

"If you make any more noise and disturb the young lady's peace, you will be a corpse!"

Before she finished her words, Chu Jingyue felt a sharp pain in her waist.

The ordinary guard had already pointed the dagger in his hand towards Chu Jingyue's waist.

He was serious about killing Chu Jingyue.

Chu Jingyue was frightened and quickly ran away, picking up her skirt.

Her face was pale and the wound on her waist was bleeding. She endured the pain and hurried back to the palace gate.

But just as Chu Jingyue handed in her badge to enter the palace and return to the East Palace.

A maid from the East Palace came out quickly and stopped Chu Jingyue.

"Madam, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has ordered that if you fail to complete the instructions of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Empress, you will not be allowed to return to the Eastern Palace from now on."

Chu Jingyue was furious and slapped the East Palace maid in the face.

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"The Crown Prince loves me the most, how could he bear not to let me go back?"

The palace maid who was slapped was not angry, but said to Chu Jingyue with a blank expression,

"The Empress said that since you are unable to give birth to a child for His Royal Highness, and Su Shizhi is now dead, there is no way for His Royal Highness to win over children from poor families."

"If you are no longer of any use, then there is no point in staying with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

This palace maid no longer has the most basic respectful words when speaking.

That's what I call Chu Jingyue.

Chu Jingyue was about to slap the palace maid again.

The palace maid hurriedly stepped back and avoided Chu Jingyue.

There was a look of sarcasm in her eyes.

Looking at Chu Jingyue, it was as if I was looking at a has-been clown.

Chu Jingyue continued to move forward, but the imperial guards guarding the gate stopped her.

Without the order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Chu Jingyue left the palace and wanted to re-enter. Even with the Eastern Palace badge, it would be useless.

Only then did Chu Jingyue realize how determined the Crown Prince and the Queen were.

But Nan Chuzheng refused to come out of the Nan residence, and there were so many people surrounding her.

How could Chu Jingyue do anything to the baby in Nan Chuzheng's belly?

Chu Jingyue, filled with anger and resentment, pointed at the noses of the imperial guards at the palace gate and cursed loudly.

But the imperial guards remained unmoved.

After cursing for a long time, Chu Jingyue's mouth was dry and her tongue was parched. She had no choice but to turn around and hurried back to Zhou's house.

Because of Zhou's death and Zhou Mingzhu's ruined reputation, the Zhou family is now in a very depressed state.

Zhou Zhenchang has reached this point in his official career and there is no possibility of further advancement.

In the past, he was able to make a living in the officialdom.

It was because the Chu family, a marquis family, acted as his guarantor.

Although the Chu family was on the decline and was gradually withdrawing from the ranks of the top dignitaries in the imperial capital.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and it is more than enough to protect a mere Zhou family.

After Lord Chu was stripped of his title, the Zhou family became increasingly financially stretched.

They are like grasshoppers in autumn, unable to flutter no matter how hard they try.

In the past, some people were concerned about the blood relationship between Zhou and Nan Chuzheng, and would at least give the Zhou family some face.

Even if Zhou Zhenchang did not achieve anything in officialdom, he could always get some special tolerance.

But after Zhou died, the Marquis of Chu became terminally ill and was said to have been in a coma for many days.

During this period, there was no sign of any interaction between Nan Chuzheng, the wife of the head of the Yama Division, and the Chu family.

Everyone was no longer willing to tolerate the Zhou family.

It is obvious from what Zhou Zhenchang did in officialdom that no one was covering up for him.

Recently, Zhou Zhenchang has been constantly criticized by his immediate superior.

Even because Zhou Zhenchang made a minor mistake, he was scolded by his immediate superior, who told him to stay at home and not to go to the office again.

Zhou Zhenchang was furious.

He knew that the current official environment was very abnormal, so he had been asking what had happened in the past few days.

In addition to everyone changing their attitude according to the situation, they felt that even if they tolerated Zhou Zhenchang, it would be impossible to please the head of the Yama Division.

Also because

Zhou Mingzhu's reputation is extremely bad.

Before Zhou Mingzhu was exiled to the northern border, she frequently met with young men in the imperial capital for a period of time.

People always have an inexplicable intuition about the danger that is about to happen to them.

So Zhou Mingzhu took the risk during that period and continued to have relationships with those young men.

The purpose is to make sure that in the future, a few of those people will remember the relationship between them and bring her back to the imperial capital from the northern border.

Zhou Mingzhu spread the news of this matter after returning to the imperial capital.

As a result, all the ambiguous correspondence she had with some people over the years was dug up.

Those young men who were favored by Zhou Mingzhu are now the heads of their families and have wives and children.

Naturally, the wives and sons of these men did not want their husbands to have anything to do with a woman with a bad reputation like Zhou Mingzhu.

So they tried every possible way to make trouble for Zhou Mingzhu.

And these troubles fell specifically on Zhou Zhenchang.

Zhou Zhenchang's superiors repeatedly criticized Zhou Zhenchang for his poor performance, not only because Zhou Zhenchang really did not have the ability to do so.

Also because he had been warned, he must not let the Zhou family have an easy time.