No matter what Lianxin said, Lu Ruoyi remained unmoved. Lianxin could only leave helplessly. She shook her head at Qingyin and said, "No, the Crown Princess won't listen."

Qingyin didn't go in to persuade Lu Ruoyi. People who act on their own will and are selfish should bear the consequences, right? She caused such a disaster and refused to repent. There was no need to save her.

Lu Ruoyi sat there blankly, motionless, her thin shoulders slumped, as if unable to support her head.

How could she not know what Lianxin said? Even if she didn't understand it at first, after staying in Chang'an City for more than two years, she had come to her senses. She was no longer the little girl in Fanyang Academy who disguised herself just for her dreams.

But so what? There was no turning back. If she dared to dump the Fourth Prince today, he would destroy her reputation tomorrow. Her only option now was to follow his plan. Whether he or the Crown Prince won, as long as she and her family were alive, it would be fine.

After a while, the prince's voice sounded outside the door, "Where is the princess?"

"Your Highness, the Queen is in the room."

Lu Ruoyi quickly wiped the tears from her face, fell on the bed, and pretended to fall asleep.

The door opened, and footsteps approached and stopped in front of the bed. Lu Ruoyi didn't dare to move. She turned her back, so she didn't see the prince's sad and raging eyes.

After a long time, the footsteps went out again.

"I have some things to take care of, so I won't be returning to the palace these few days. Please take good care of your queen."

"Yes."

The prince walked away, and Lu Ruoyi opened her eyes. She jumped up and took out the bag given to her by the Fourth Prince. Inside was the ochre-colored clothes. She just had to put it in the prince's study. After that, she would not care about it anymore. She would leave the rest to the two men.

She ate, bathed, and rested, and the day passed.

The next day, the same thing happened again, there was still no movement, and the clothes were still lying in Lu Ruoyi's box.

On the third day, someone became anxious and came to find Lu Ruoyi quietly.

Qingyin reported, "Your Majesty, Zining from the purchasing department is here and has something important to report."

Hearing this name, a trace of anger flashed in Lu Ruoyi's eyes, "I am busy now, let her wait."

"Yes."

Qingyin went out and said, "The Queen is busy now, please wait for a while."

Zi Ning could only wait reluctantly.

Zining's arrival broke Lu Ruoyi's peace of the past two days. He could no longer be an ostrich and had to face this real and cruel world.

"Qingyin, ask her to come in."

"Yes."

After a while, Zi Ning came in. After she closed the door, she walked straight to Lu Ruoyi. Without even a greeting, she said straight to the point, "Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince wants to ask you if you have completed that matter. He is still waiting for your news."

Lu Ruoyi did not answer. She was surprised at Zining's attitude towards her. She was the Crown Princess, and Zining was just a palace maid. Why was she so rude to her and so domineering? Was she ordering her to do things?

"You slave, why don't you bow to me?"

Zi Ning laughed sarcastically, "Your Majesty, why bother with all that formality? Just answer my question quickly. The Fourth Prince is waiting!"

Lu Ruo stood up angrily and slapped him!

But unfortunately, she didn't win the lottery. Zi Ning grabbed her wrist and said sarcastically, "You, a princess consort, have been fooling around with a man in the guest room, completely disgracing the etiquette and dignity of our ancestors. Now you come to pick on a little servant like me. How ridiculous!"

Lu Ruoyi was angry and anxious, her face flushed red, "You bitch! You lowly slave! How presumptuous!"

"Not even as lowly as you, the Crown Princess! Worse than us slaves!"

Zi Ning's eyes flashed with resentment and madness, and Lu Ruoyi suddenly understood something, "The Fourth Prince has also taken you in? So you are jealous of me?"

This hit the nail on the head. "Now that you know, I won't hide it from you anymore. The Fourth Prince has indeed taken me in. I'm his woman, just like you. We're the same, so you don't have to brag in front of me."

Lu Ruo shouted angrily, "How can you compare with me? I am the Crown Princess, and you are just a lowly servant!"

Zi Ning laughed again, "Bah! We're both women who slept with the Fourth Prince, how are you any more noble than me? In the final analysis, you're not even as good as us servants! We servants all know to do our duty, but you're the Crown Princess, yet you're stealing other men. How despicable and shameless!"

"you you you!"

It was the first time that Lu Ruoyi was scolded like this, and it was so vulgar. She almost wanted to find a hole to crawl into. She wanted to refute it, but what Zi Ning said was true.

"You are such a slut, how can you compare to me? Even though we are both women of the Fourth Prince, I am still much more noble than you!"

Zi Ning pushed her hand away. "What do you mean by 'this palace'? It's so annoying! You won't be 'this palace' anymore soon! Humph, when the Fourth Prince achieves great things in the future, I can still show up and make him a noble lady. But you can only stay in this small courtyard for the rest of your life. Who dares to take you out?"

This hit Lu Ruoyi's sore spot, which was exactly what she was most worried about.

Zi Ning had been insolent enough and said, "The Fourth Prince said that we should get things done quickly. He is still waiting."

After saying that, she opened the door and went out, not caring about Lu Ruoyi's reaction at all.

Lu Ruoyi was stunned for a long time, lying on the bed and crying silently, thinking that she had been admired since she was a child, but today she was humiliated by a lowly maid. This was something she could not imagine in the past!

She remembered what her teacher had said in class when she was a teenager: A person must first humiliate himself before others humiliate him.

Confucius said that a person must behave in a way that brings humiliation upon himself before others can humiliate him. Therefore, one must be careful in what one says and does, and never lose one's bottom line. Otherwise, no matter how high one's status or how much money one has, others will look down on and humiliate him.

Lu Ruoyi was so immoral that she could even humiliate a small servant like Zi Ning in front of her. If more people knew about it, wouldn't her family be humiliated as well?!

Today, Lu Ruoyi finally regretted it. The imaginary knife finally pierced her heart. The contempt from Zi Ning made her more sad than the fact that Zi Ning became the Fourth Prince's woman.

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