A life of leisure is worse than a life of flowers and splendour

The fat man might have put too much force on the woman, sometimes feeling overwhelmed. When he was upset, he tortured Bai Ruxue, cursing and swearing. She cried and screamed, but no one came to help her. She didn't struggle, so she just lay down and let the other man torment her. Looking at Bai Ruxue, whose body was covered with the marks he had left on her, her eyes dull and like a corpse, the fat man lost interest. At this time, Bai Ruxue finally breathed a sigh of relief. Who would want to die when they could live? If she didn't want to live, she would have died long ago. How could she still be alive now?

She knew from a young age that life was not easy. She was born with fetal toxins and her health has never been good. Although her life is not in danger, she always feels that she will not live long. Every day she thinks about how to survive and how to live longer.

It's not that she doesn't care about chastity. Women born in a patriarchal society all care about chastity, but her own life is more important. She just wants to survive, and only by surviving can she talk about the future.

Three days later, Du Shuangshuang was summoned to the palace by the empress. She arrived at the time set by the imperial decree, but was made to stand at the gate for an hour. If she hadn't practiced before, she would have fainted. Adding to the underlying illness from the previous soaking in water, the cold could have caused her to fall seriously ill. So, according to this situation, Du Shuangshuang put on a show for him. She was carried to the side hall, and the imperial physician was summoned. Du Shuangshuang used her spiritual power to control her pulse, making it look extremely thin and weak, and intermittent. Unexpectedly, she exerted too much force, and the imperial physician concluded that the eldest daughter of the Du family was extremely weak and in very poor condition. Even if she survived this time, she would not live long if she was not well cared for. A cold could kill her. What the imperial physician didn't say was that she might not be able to survive this time, and it would be better to send her back quickly to avoid her dying in the palace.

After hearing the servant's report, the Empress panicked. While others didn't know what was going on, she knew. She wasn't the one who summoned Miss Du to the palace. She was working for the Emperor, but out of frustration, she wanted to intimidate her and make her suffer. But things had gone badly for her. If she died at her hands, she wouldn't be able to explain herself, and the Emperor would probably hold a grudge against her. This vixen, no good.

Du Shuangshuang naturally didn't want to drink the bitter medicine, so she cooperated and let the imperial physician give her a few injections. After that, she slowly woke up. The first thing she did after waking up was to cry and ask to see the queen. Tears welled up in her eyes, she said, "Your Majesty, I am very unwell. If there is nothing particularly important, I beg Your Majesty to show mercy and let me go home!"

The empress didn't dare to make the decision and could only send someone to ask the emperor. The emperor didn't want to keep the person. He wanted to go over and ask a few questions, but he was afraid that the illness would spread to him. He was the emperor, and he was very precious. So he ordered someone to carry the sedan chair and escort the empress out of the palace.

After returning home, Du Shuangshuang claimed to be ill. The imperial physician came every few days and brought many gifts from the emperor and the empress. Du Shuangshuang was very confused. She had clearly emptied the emperor's private treasury, so where did all the things come from? The same was true for the empress's. She didn't expect that a lean camel could be bigger than a horse. She could still give away so many good things.

Du Shuangshuang had forgotten that the Emperor also had the Empress Dowager's subsidies. How could the Empress Dowager watch her son suffer from nothing after such a thing happened? The Empress still had her family. As for not caring about her eldest nephew's affairs, it was enough for him to be safe. His brother was counting on her to rescue his son, and he had given her many good gifts.

However, it was a good thing for Du Shuangshuang, as she got a lot of good medicinal herbs during the days when she pretended to be sick.

Five days later, as if someone had finally remembered, the emperor's eunuchs notified the two families to come and pick up the person. As for what to do next, the two families discussed it among themselves. Du Shuangshuang had been sending people to keep an eye on the two families, so she knew about it immediately. Later, she also sent people to guard the front and back doors of Princess Shuhua's mansion.

As expected, the two families arranged a marriage. Du Shuangshuang didn't care much, as she had her revenge anyway. The one who was unhappy was the eldest prince. After all, she was someone he had loved before, but how could he possibly be willing to marry a slut who had slept with someone else, even if it was a concubine? He couldn't bear it. Furthermore, his own home had been robbed, and he had lost the property of two large shops. He was truly heartbroken. For a time, the entire eldest prince's mansion was stretched to the limit.

What to do when the emperor has no money? Increase taxes, allocate funds from the treasury, and wait for people below to pay tribute. How can this replenish the blood? Of course, the fastest way is to confiscate the property. So a month later, the theft case was not solved, and the lost stolen goods were not recovered. The court successively investigated and confiscated several corrupt officials. Those were the Situ family's spare money bags. When they were out of money and needed money, they would just take the money from them. Businessmen were also picked on in various ways. If they were not careful, their shops would be closed down, and some were even directly imprisoned and their property confiscated. This was also one of the Situ family's spare money bags. The court gave you food to eat, and you were dependent on others. Naturally, you had to contribute when needed.

For a time, the court was in a state of silence, and the wealthy merchants all tightened their necks, keeping a low profile as if they had never existed. Many clever ones, seeing that the situation was not going well, quickly offered money and property, in order to avoid disaster.

Amidst the tense atmosphere in the city, another farce occurred. Princess Yuancheng, who was engaged to the Duke of Song, had an affair with the eldest prince. Her fiancé caught her in the act, and the whole city knew about it. Of course, Du Shuangshuang was involved in this, but the two had gotten together on their own. Du Shuangshuang simply lured Song Qingshu over, drawing a large crowd of onlookers, making the incident a big deal and spreading the news.

The eldest prince actually slept with his cousin's fiancée! This is a scandal! And what a coincidence, he was caught in the act by his cousin! Now the whole capital knows about this. Can a man with such bad morals still be the heir to the throne? For a man, sleeping with a woman is not a big deal, at most it can be said to be a playboy, but the key point is that this woman is his cousin's fiancée, which is a huge scandal!

Because of this scandal, the Duke of Song's mansion refused to allow women like Bai Ruxue to enter their home, even as concubines, and they considered her disgusting. Song Qingshu even declared that Bai Ruxue was worse than the prostitutes in Chunfeng Tower, and that he would never allow someone like her to invade his backyard. Such a woman would be a nuisance to anyone who entered their home, but between injuring others and her own son, she chose to do the wrong. Although she scolded her son, she kept the matter under wraps.

But Du Shuangshuang's revenge on the eldest prince wasn't over yet. To completely eliminate his chances of succeeding to the throne, she decided to inflict further punishment. She put a sack on the eldest prince, beat him severely, and then crippled his lower three legs. Such a person was unworthy of leaving offspring, and a disabled person who couldn't even stand up, let alone inherit the throne.

The eldest prince was destined to be deposed, but the queen still had a son, the fifth prince. She couldn't bear to lose a son and also lose the heart of her mother's family, so she finally forced the eldest prince to agree to take Bai Rushue as a concubine.

Knowing that she had accidentally brought the two together again, Du Shuangshuang was not disappointed. Under such circumstances, how could the eldest prince not be disgusted if Bai Ruxue was taken in? Not to mention that the eldest prince had lost his fertility. Thinking of this, Du Shuangshuang suddenly wondered if Bai Ruxue would be pregnant. If she was pregnant with Song Qingshu's child, it would be fine, as it would disgust the eldest prince. But if it was the eldest prince's child, since he had lost his fertility, he might have to have another baby. To be on the safe side, Du Shuangshuang went to the pharmacy to get a sterilization drug, ran to the princess's mansion at night, found someone, knocked her unconscious, and gave her the drug.

Du Shuangshuang was quite surprised. Even in this state, she still lived a good life in the princess's mansion. After all, she was the princess's biological daughter, and the princess still loved her. So, if she had the princess's support in the future, except for the lack of love, her life would not be too difficult. After a few years, after the limelight died down and the eldest prince issued a divorce letter, wouldn't she still be the glorious princess? How could this be possible?

Du Shuangshuang felt that she couldn't let her go so easily. She had to disfigure her face and hang her on the city wall someday. In her previous life, when Du Wushuang was sent to the cold palace, she had her face scratched by her. She also found a group of disgusting beggars to abuse her, feeding her aphrodisiacs at every turn. Sometimes she sent beggars to her, and sometimes they just watched her suffer. Later, she was beaten all over her body. She was tortured for three whole years. Finally, she was stripped naked and hung on the door of the cold palace. She hung there for four or five days until she was dead. She was taken down and thrown into a mass grave. Du Shuangshuang didn't know how the original owner died. Was she starved to death, thirsty, or died of pain? In short, she died in pain.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Du Shuangshuang almost stabbed one side of Bai Ruxue's face, but she still felt unsatisfied. Du Shuangshuang grabbed the man, stripped him naked, and threw him into a dilapidated temple outside the city where beggars gathered overnight. She told them that they could play with him as they pleased, but they must not kill him. She would come back to take him away in a day. If he died, she would kill everyone there.

The next day, the princess's residence sent out many people to search for their princess. Of course, they couldn't just say they were missing, so they could only search secretly. On the morning of the third day, when the city gates were opened, many people lined up at the gates and saw a naked, bruised woman hanging high above the gates. When she was rescued, she was breathing more than she was breathing.

The common people still didn't know who it was, but the people in the Princess's Mansion rushed to identify the person and took him away. Most people living in the capital were human sperm, so it was self-evident who this person was.

The news in the princess's mansion was kept secret, but it couldn't stop Du Shuangshuang. Her life was saved, but her body was completely ruined. But no matter what, when the day came, she was still sent to the eldest prince's mansion in a sedan chair.

The eldest prince had just been deposed, even in his own residence, with not a single thief in sight. Then, Princess Yuancheng was abducted, raped, and tied naked at the city gate. The empress nearly lost her mind, but she still had a young son, otherwise she would have gone mad. Emperor Zhao also complained bitterly. This time, Princess Shuhua had even gone so far as to rush into the palace, disregarding her dignity and threatening to die. After all, she only had this one daughter. How could she possibly accept such an experience?

The emperor was also very angry. His own storehouse was completely robbed, and these two were not only robbed, but also deposed. Even though he was the emperor, he did not have such capable people. After carefully reviewing what had happened recently, the emperor suspected that the root of everything was with the eldest prince. Maybe he was the one who invited the people and caused the disaster. Seeing that Princess Yuancheng was also in a miserable state, he was afraid that he also had something to do with it. He and the queen were probably implicated. After all, the two of them only lost money, and the accidents were basically related to the eldest prince. Even Princess Yuancheng might have been implicated by him. After all, everyone in the capital knew that the eldest prince liked Princess Yuancheng. He and the queen were his parents, the official who was robbed was also from the eldest prince's family, and even the two shops belonged to the eldest prince. Is there any doubt about this?

So the eldest prince was brought into the palace. Perhaps feeling good about himself, he spent a whole day and night trying to figure out who he had offended, even suspecting it was another prince's doing. In the end, he found nothing, and the emperor simply told him to go back and think about it slowly, and tell him when he figured it out.

The eldest prince cried again, begging the emperor to intervene and to find the culprit and cut him into pieces to avenge him before he left. The emperor had no patience with the eldest prince now. Thinking that he had been implicated by this fool, he wanted to beat him up. He wanted to take revenge and put the culprit to death. He wanted to find the culprit and turn him over to the emperor. He was the kind of person they could afford to offend. If he had offended him, he would probably be lying in bed now. He also wanted to cut him into pieces. He should be grateful that the other party didn't cut him into pieces.

Of course, Du Shuangshuang didn't forget to deal with another person: the son of the Marquis of Duyuan, who had been added to the small notebook. Ever since his beating at the hands of Second Young Master Su, he'd been hanging around General Zhenguo's residence, constantly trying to inquire about the women there. This behavior caught the attention of Second Uncle Du, who gave him a severe beating. Upon returning to the residence, he was reportedly seriously ill. Upon learning of this, the Marquis's wife discussed the matter with the others, ultimately concluding that the woman must be Du Wushuang without her makeup. However, the son of the Marquis of Duyuan refused to believe this.

最后商量的结果就是度远侯夫妇带着儿子上门求见，如果真的是杜无双，那么侯府愿意用侯府世子夫人的位置去求娶她。但是这件事将军府会答应吗？那可是想都不要想，老将军和侯爷在朝堂上、朝堂下斗了一辈子，怎么可能让自己的孙女嫁过去。所以将军府毫不犹豫地拒绝了他们的请求，并警告他们不要再出现在将军府附近，否则见一次揍一次。

但是有的人就是挨揍也不愿意放弃，还是总蹲在将军府附近，这次是杜双双亲自出马的，还让对方看到了自己，然后把人引到胡同里，套上麻袋狠狠的揍了一顿。解解气就算了，并没有弄残他，毕竟人家只是舔狗，虽然给杜双双添了些麻烦，但记忆里没有在成什么大伤害。算起来已经被揍了好几次了，多大的气都解了。