Yan Wan is reborn as a legitimate wife: Curing Ruyi's Douyi syndrome

Gyeongin Palace

Everyone stood at the door and whispered.

Meipin: "Have you heard? Yesterday in Yongshou Palace..."

Concubine Qing: "Of course I've heard of it. That person is really very powerful."

Meipin: "Fortunately, you didn't come to find me yesterday, so I escaped a disaster."

Concubine Qing: "Didn't they say that all the palaces should go and call for help?"

Meipin said thankfully, "Maybe he forgot there's a Meipin in Yonghe Palace. After all, the emperor has forgotten my title."

She was clearly performing before Lin Ruoyao, yet the emperor still gave Lin Ruoyao the title of "Mei". How could Ruyi and Rong Pei take someone seriously when even the emperor didn't care about her?

Concubine Qing consoled her, "Rong Pei is old, maybe her eyesight is blurry."

Meipin was not a sentimental person, so she changed the subject and asked, "Sister, why didn't you go yesterday? Didn't Rongpei call you?"

Concubine Qing rolled her eyes and said, "Rong Pei came to call her a long time ago, and Sister Shu Fei helped me refuse."

Meipin sighed, "We sisters are so lucky to have escaped. Otherwise, we might have been caught and punished together... We've been talking for so long, why won't you let us in?"

Concubine Qing said sarcastically, "Who knows? Maybe she's so angry that she can't sleep or get up."

Meipin: "She's quite a hot-tempered girl. Who can be as delicate as her?"

Concubine Qing: "Isn't it..."

The voices of Concubine Mei and Concubine Qing were not small. Rong Pei, who was standing at the door, could hear them clearly, and Ruyi, who was hiding in the room and couldn't wake up, could also hear most of it.

Seeing the two of them talking more and more excitedly, Rong Pei stepped forward and said, "Since everyone is not here yet, you are not allowed to enter."

It would have been fine if Rong Pei hadn't said anything, but once she did, she aroused public anger.

Concubine Shen said sarcastically, "Oh, you're so arrogant! Even if it was the Empress Dowager, we would have to wait when we went to pay our respects. Why is it that when it comes to the Imperial Concubine, if she's not here, all the concubines have to be punished together?"

Concubine Yi echoed, "If the Empress had been like the Imperial Concubine, wouldn't we have to wait at the door every time we paid our respects?"

Concubine Shen echoed the sentiment, "Sister Concubine Yi, who are you waiting for?"

Concubine Yi, fearing Ruyi couldn't hear, said loudly, "Of course, we're waiting for someone inside. In the past, when the Empress was in Beijing, the Imperial Noble Concubine was also late. Fortunately, the Empress was kind, so we could still wait. Things are different now."

Concubine Chun smiled and said, "Yes, the Empress is naturally different from others. She is not in a proper position, so she naturally has to show off her power elsewhere."

Ruyi could no longer sit still and was about to stand up when Rong Pei had a perverse idea and shouted, "Princess Mei has been late, causing the other concubines to wait. The Imperial Noble Consort is also acting according to the rules."

Rong Pei wanted to shift the blame to someone else, but the concubines refused to buy it.

Meipin sarcastically said, "Oh, how fresh! Isn't this trick of the Imperial Noble Consort annoying? We said we shouldn't let the concubines sit around waiting. Rong Pei, you don't think that just because you brought Meipin up, we'll take our anger out on her, right? Are you taking us for fools?"

Idiot No. 1 Yingpin: ...

Idiot No. 2, Concubine Ke: ...

Concubine Shen echoed, "When others ask about the earth, you answer to the sky. What a trick to divert the trouble away."

Ning Xi, who was left aside, said loudly: "I am the head maid of Yongshou Palace. I came to report an incense stick ago. Aunt Rong said that I would disturb the Royal Noble Consort's rest.

Now, I report again: Concubine Mei was terribly frightened yesterday. The imperial physician said her headache has worsened and she cannot come to pay her respects. I have been asked to come and ask for leave."

Ning Xi spoke quickly and clearly, and Rong Pei was unable to stop her. The looks from the concubines became more and more strange.

Concubine Yi gritted her teeth and said, "The Imperial Concubine is really capable. Are we here to vent our anger on you? Since the Imperial Concubine does not want to see me, I will take my leave."

Concubine Shen followed closely behind and said, "I will take my leave."

Concubine Chun bowed and left.

Shu Fei glanced at the embarrassed Rong Pei calmly and said, "I am very busy. Since the Imperial Noble Consort is not anxious to see me, I will take my leave."

Shu Fei turned around and took Qingpin and Meipin away with her.

Ning Xi had already run away when things were in chaos.

Rong Pei, Kepin and Yingpin were left staring at each other.

Although Concubine Ke and Concubine Ying were stupid, they had never been treated so poorly before, and they left hand in hand angrily.

Yangxindian

Hongli was surrounded by Concubine Shen, Concubine Yi, and Concubine Chun, crying and complaining, feeling extremely annoyed. Did Ruyi feel uncomfortable if she didn't cause trouble for a day? Why did she embarrass the concubines during the greeting ceremony?

Did Ruyi think she was the mistress of some humble family? She even wanted to make a concubine stand at the door and listen to her lecture? How dare she openly torture a concubine when so many eyes were watching her in the harem?

Ruyi, a noble imperial concubine, was so petty. Hongli was so angry that he couldn't stop regretting it. He had never thought that Ruyi was so unpresentable. He couldn't help but feel lucky that the late emperor had chosen Langya for him instead of following his wishes.

Hongli waved his hand and said, "Alright, Wang Qin, go to the palaces and pass on the order. From now on, the concubines no longer need to go to the Imperial Noble Consort's palace to pay their respects. Since Ruyi can't get up, forget it."

Wang Qin: “Yeah.”

Concubine Shen, Concubine Yi, and Concubine Chun, having achieved their goal, were too lazy to act any further and stood up to take their leave. They simply didn't want to go pay their respects to Ruyi, and now that they had such a good excuse, they naturally wanted to make a big deal out of it and urge Hongli to cancel the visit.

Gyeongin Palace

Wang Qin read out the decree with a calm expression and then took his leave.

When Ruyi saw Wang Qin leave, she was so angry that she broke the teacup in her hand. Rong Pei was frightened and lowered her head, not daring to speak.

Rong Pei is largely responsible for this incident today. Not only did she confuse right and wrong, she even did it in front of everyone. It would be strange if she wasn't exposed!

Ruyi now wants palace authority, but she doesn't have it; she wants a palace seal, but she doesn't even have one. Her power to dispose of concubines was rejected by Hongli, and now Ruyi doesn't even have the power to attend meetings and pay respects.

Ruyi now has nothing but the title of Imperial Noble Consort and a monthly allowance. Her reputation has also been spread to the extreme.

Ruyi desperately wanted a child, as if this would prove that she was still the legitimate and unshakable imperial concubine.

Ruyi summoned Jiang Zhou almost every day, just because she wanted Jiang Zhou to find a way to make her pregnant.

What could Jiangzhou do? Ruyi had difficulty getting pregnant to begin with, and then she used a prescription to force pregnancy and then didn't take care of her body. That prescription was a one-time thing, so how could she get Ruyi pregnant?

What's more, Jiang Zhou didn't want Ruyi to get pregnant.

Jiang Zhou's refusal could not interfere with Ruyi's determination to get pregnant. Since Jiang Zhou was unwilling to find a solution, Ruyi would find one herself.

Ruyi found the prescription and studied it carefully, and asked Rong Pei to take double the dosage and drink double the amount of fertility soup every day.

But Ruyi's enthusiasm was useless. Hongli was exhausted physically and mentally by Ruyi's two disturbances. He no longer came to Ruyi's palace and even found excuses to stay in the Yangxin Palace on the first and fifteenth days of the month.

Ruyi's newly ignited fighting spirit was directly poured with a bucket of cold water by Hongli. She couldn't even complete the first step of her plan, and Ruyi's position in the palace became increasingly embarrassing.

Yingpin and Kepin were not as enthusiastic as before. After all, when they were paying their respects, they heard several concubines mocking Ruyi openly and secretly, saying that she was not as good as the empress. The two of them were also patients with advanced cancer, so naturally they were biased.

But Yingpin and Kepin could not resist Ruyi's intentional goodwill.

The concubines in the palace were disgusted with Yingpin and Kepin. One side prided itself on being noble ladies and unwilling to be on the same level as barbarians, while the other side prided itself on being straightforward and magnanimous and could not stand the concubines' affectation.

After many twists and turns, under Ruyi's deliberate goodwill, even if Concubine Ke and Concubine Ying disliked Ruyi very much, their attitudes softened.