Demoted from wife to concubine? Reborn, the mistress of a noble family plots another high-status mar

Chapter 390

"Slap!" Yun Xiyue took the slap squarely.

"Ningning!" the Empress Dowager cried out anxiously, but it was too late to stop the eldest princess.

Everyone was startled and turned around to see that it was the Emperor.

Murong Yu looked displeased and strode over. When he reached Yun Xiyue, he felt a pang of heartache upon seeing the handprint on her face. Then, he angrily questioned the princess, "What did A-Yue do that made you hit her?"

The eldest princess retorted angrily, "Then you should ask her what she did first?"

"A-Yue," Murong Yu asked her in a low voice.

Yun Xiyue's eyes instantly reddened. "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have offended the Princess."

The princess trembled with rage. "I understand now. You're a vixen, deliberately seducing my brother. You slut, I'll beat you to death!"

"Stop!" Murong Yu waved his sleeve, sending the two men flying two meters away.

The princess cried out, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground.

"Ningning!" The Empress Dowager felt sorry for her daughter and wanted to reprimand the Emperor, but Murong Yu coldly questioned her, "Mother, you made A-Yue learn etiquette and manners, but I think the Princess should first learn what etiquette and manners are."

"How dare she be so presumptuous in front of me? Does she have no respect for me, no sense of propriety whatsoever?"

The Empress Dowager was rendered speechless by the rebuttal and could no longer accuse Yun Xiyue of being unruly. If a real judgment were to be made, the Emperor would bring in someone to judge, and the Princess's words and actions just now would be deemed unacceptable.

There is also suspicion that he bullied Yun Xiyue.

She looked up at Yun Xiyue and realized that she had deliberately taken Ningning's slap. "I really underestimated you."

The Empress Dowager sneered.

Yun Xiyue hid behind the Emperor, looking weak and helpless. "Your Majesty, it's all my fault. Just now, when Prince Rui and Princess Rui were serving tea together, the Princess said that my family background was not as good as Princess Rui's, and that I was a second-time bride and not worthy of Your Majesty. I only talked back to the Princess in a fit of anger..."

"In short, it was my fault. The Empress Dowager is right. I didn't learn the rules well. I will study them properly when I get back."

Murong Yu had seen her trying hard to learn the rules. She didn't have to suffer like this in the first place. It was all because of him that she was so frightened. Murong Yu felt even more sorry for her.

"There's no need to learn the rules anymore."

Yun Xiyue said, "We must learn it, otherwise Granny Chen will be beaten with twenty strokes of the cane."

Murong Yu frowned slightly and looked at Chen Mama, "What happened? Chen Mama, come here and explain everything to me."

Granny Chen dared not hide anything and told her everything.

After listening, Murong Yu looked at the eldest princess with a cold gaze. "A-Yue is not wrong. If we're talking about stains, if we're talking about bringing shame to the royal family, you, as a princess, are the first to bear the blame."

"My elder sister is the least qualified person to speak ill of A-Yue."

Murong Ning's face instantly drained of all color. "For this woman, you've abandoned all family?"

"Unfaithful to one's own family?" Murong Yu couldn't help but laugh, glancing at the Empress Dowager. "My mother taught me from a young age that as the Crown Prince and the Emperor of Great Xia, I must not have any emotions."

The Empress Dowager's face stiffened slightly, and she remained silent.

"Speaking of family ties, has Your Majesty considered my feelings?" Murong Yu asked with a smile.

“You already know that A-Yue is my fiancée, yet you still humiliate her in public like this.”

"Then why should I consider our sibling relationship?"

Their sibling relationship wasn't that deep.

From a young age, the Empress Dowager forbade the siblings to be together.

They isolated him; no one was allowed to approach him.

Murong Ning froze, and when the palace maid helped her up, her face was deathly pale.

“Brother, this is all my fault.” At this moment, Prince Rui came over. “Please don’t mention my sister.”

Murong Yu glanced at him, a cold smile playing on his lips. "Since it's a misunderstanding, then A-Yue and I won't disturb you any longer. You two serve tea to the Empress Dowager."

“From now on, Granny Chen will be A-Yue’s tutor and will not need to return to Funing Palace. Does Mother have any objections?”

The Empress Dowager's lips twitched slightly. "Alright. I will test her in a few days. If she doesn't do well, I hope the Emperor will not cover for her."

Murong Yu pulled Yun Xiyue away, and Granny Chen followed Eunuch Fu to Zichen Palace.