Top white, rich and beautiful, the princess is reborn and the revenge story

As for Zhao Yuanqing, she pretended to faint and lay by the lake. She was then sent to a room in the Peony Garden. The doctor examined her and she slowly woke up.

She opened her eyes and saw Wen Xing and Liu Li standing by the bed. Wen Xing's eyes were filled with tears. Seeing Zhao Yuanqing awake, she burst into tears, "Princess, you're finally awake! I scared you to death!"

Zhao Yuanqing patted her arm and said, "I'm fine now, don't cry."

Liuli also wanted to squeeze out a few tears, but unfortunately, no tears came out. She could only twist her face and said anxiously, "Princess, you finally woke up. We were so worried!"

Zhao Yuanqing sneered. Liuli's anxiety wasn't just for her. She asked, "Liuli, didn't you say those ten kinds of brocade peonies were extraordinary? I fell into the lake and didn't see them. Is it still there now?"

Liuli was a little surprised, not knowing why Zhao Yuanqing mentioned this. "Uh, it should still be there. I don't know for sure."

"Go and take a look, and tell the steward that I want these ten pieces of brocade."

"Yes!"

Liuli went out confused. After a while, she reported back, "Princess, the ten pieces of brocade are still there. The steward has already loaded them onto the truck after hearing that the princess wanted them."

"Okay, let's go home now."

"Yes."

Wen Xing and Liuli helped Zhao Yuanqing get up, get on the carriage, and return to the princess's mansion. The ten pieces of brocade followed them back together.

After returning to the mansion, Zhao Yuanqing changed his clothes and carefully observed the ten kinds of brocade.

These ten-color peony flowers, as the name suggests, have ten colors, namely red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, orange and black. But in Zhao Yuanqing's opinion, they are just a bunch of colors mixed together, which looks messy and not as beautiful as pure colors. It is probably a gimmick deliberately created by the peony garden to attract people.

Zhao Yuanqing ordered someone to find one of her followers, a tattoo artist named Wu Qing.

The people of Daqing were open-minded and tattoos were popular, but mostly on men and prisoners, while women rarely had tattoos.

Wu Qing came into the hall, bowed and said, "Princess, what are your instructions?"

Zhao Yuanqing pointed at the ten pieces of brocade and asked, "Can you embroider this flower?"

Wu Qing looked at the ten brocades for a while and said, "Okay."

"Colorful?"

"It's colorful. You can tattoo all the colors on it."

"Okay! Someone, call Liuli to me!"

After a while, Liuli came and asked, "What do you want, Princess?"

Zhao Yuanqing said, "Liuli, do you admit your guilt?"

Liuli knelt on the ground with a plop, "I don't know what crime I have committed, Princess!"

"Still being stubborn! If you hadn't instigated me to see the Ten Kinds of Brocade in the Peony Garden, I wouldn't have fallen into the lake! I almost drowned! Tell me, are you guilty or not?"

Liuli cried, thinking Zhao Yuanqing had forgotten about it. She didn't expect Zhao Yuanqing to come back to her senses. She kowtowed fiercely, "Princess, I just thought the flower was beautiful. Who knew it would turn out so badly? I won't do it again!"

"I think you're very brave! Come, take Liuli out and beat her to death with sticks!"

"Ah? Princess, please spare me! I won't dare to do that again!"

The fear of death enveloped Liuli. She desperately begged for mercy. After a long while, Zhao Yuanqing said, "Since you have served me for so many years, I can spare your death penalty, but I cannot forgive you for your crimes. I will punish you!"

Liuli breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she survived, it would be fine. "I accept the punishment! Please punish me, Princess!"

"Did you see those ten pieces of brocade? I'll have them tattooed on your face. You can look at them day and night for the rest of your life!"

Liuli was shocked. If she got a tattoo on her face, her face would be ruined! She was so scared that she burst into tears immediately, "Princess, spare my life!"

"Beat to death or tattoo, your choice!"

"Wuwuwu... The slave chooses the tattoo... Wuwuwu."

Zhao Yuanqing ordered Wu Qing to take Liuli away and tattoo ten kinds of brocade on Liuli's face.

Wen Xing was watching with fear from the side, and she quietly pleaded for Liuli, "Princess, a woman's face is very important. If it is damaged, how can she face people in the future? Why not punish Liuli in a different way?"

Zhao Yuanqing said, "Wen Xing, I was lucky this time and escaped from Ning Lake. Otherwise, I would have been the one to die with my face rotted!"

Seeing her furious, Wen Xing didn't dare to say anything. Two days later, she heard that Princess Rongchang's face was scratched by stones. Only then did she feel relieved that Zhao Yuanqing was fine and no longer felt that Liuli was punished too severely.

Zhao Yuanqing sighed inwardly. Wen Xing was indeed loyal to her, but she also had many flaws. One was that she was soft-hearted, and the other was that she was not vigilant enough. Her current situation was full of dangers, and Wen Xing's loyalty alone was not enough.

Zhao Yuanqing called a retainer and said, "Go to a teahouse in a busy place, find a few storytellers, and tell them this..."

"Yes!"

The retainer went out.

Zhao Yuanqing felt that she was increasingly short of manpower. She had been obsessed with Cui Hao before, and the people serving her were all brought out from the palace. Few of them were capable, and few had martial arts skills. Now she could only use retainers blindly, but retainers were difficult to control. They would go to whoever gave them good treatment, and their loyalty was not enough. She had to find a way to cultivate her own people.

Soon, a story called "Fish and Water Love" began to circulate in teahouses in the capital.

It is said that there was a princess who fell into the lake while playing in the peony garden. A handsome scholar jumped into the river and rescued her. The two hugged each other, just like water holding fish and fish circling the water. It was so beautiful. The princess and the scholar were a match made in heaven, just like fish and water, inseparable for life!

The story of Zhao Baozhu falling into Ning Lake and being rescued by Cui Hao had long been spread among the nobles. When people heard this story, they knew it was talking about the two of them.

The common people loved to talk about royal gossip, and they soon exaggerated it a lot. Some said that Zhao Baozhu was pestering Cui Hao, some said that Cui Hao was greedy for wealth, and some painters even used the two of them as prototypes to draw many erotic pictures. The rumors became more and more unbearable to hear, and the reputations of Cui Hao and Zhao Baozhu were ruined together.

The Cui family heard this first. They were overjoyed at first, and then furious. They were happy that Zhao Baozhu could no longer escape, and that their family was going to marry a princess, and wealth and glory would soon come.

What made them angry was that Zhao Baozhu hadn't even entered the family yet, but the Cui family's good reputation had been completely ruined. She was truly a jinx, and had displeased the Cui family.

Huifei's family soon found out. On the third day, Huifei's mother, Mrs. Lu, came to see her and told her the rumors outside.

Concubine Hui was so angry that she threw the cup. "These unruly people outside dared to speak foul language to the princess. They should all be killed."

Mrs. Lu was much calmer than her. "My Lady, think carefully, who spread these words?"

"It must be the Cui family! I didn't want Baozhu to marry Cui Hao, but I didn't expect the Cui family to do such a despicable thing for Princess Shang, destroying Baozhu's reputation. They're forcing Baozhu to marry him!"

"The princess's reputation is ruined, but the Cui family's reputation is also ruined. These noble families value reputation the most. This incident was definitely not done by the Cui family."

"Who else could it be?"

Mrs. Lu shook her head. "I don't know. This incident has dealt a heavy blow to the noble family and also to the Empress. Perhaps it was done by a political enemy somewhere."

"Mom, what did Dad say?"

"Your father said that now that things have come to this, we should turn a bad situation into a good one. Let the princess happily marry Cui Hao, and we can take this opportunity to win over the noble families. As long as the princess and Cui Hao live well, the noble families can be brought into the Third Prince's camp, which will also be helpful for the future cause."

No matter how much Concubine Hui loved her daughter, it was not as much as her son. When she heard that it would help the Third Prince, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

"My Lady, your father said that Zhao Yuanqing's actions have failed twice, which means it's definitely not accidental. They must have been prepared. To avoid alerting the enemy, we should stop now and then slowly make our move."

"I listen to my father."