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

Chapter 584

"Xiao Shu!" Yunxi quickly sent someone to inform Pei Shang.

When she arrived at Funing Palace with her entourage, she was stopped.

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has not summoned you back, has she?"

Yun Xiyue's eyes darkened slightly, and she said angrily, "How dare you! Get out of my way!"

The guard's face froze, and cold sweat broke out on his palms.

The Empress was the Emperor's most favored woman.

They naturally wouldn't dare do anything to her.

But they dared not disobey the Empress Dowager's orders.

"Your Majesty, this is the Empress Dowager's order."

Yun Xiyue asked anxiously, "Why did they kidnap Gong Shu?"

"This subordinate does not know..." The people of Funing Palace are tight-lipped; even if they knew, they wouldn't say.

This made Yun Xiyue even more worried.

"If you allow me into the palace, I will bear the consequences."

"Humph!"

At this moment, Pei Fang came out from inside.

"Consort Pei, how is Xiao Shu?" Yun Xiyue asked.

"She almost caused Princess Rui to miscarry, so naturally she should be severely punished." Pei Fang curled her lips, a hint of schadenfreude in her eyes.

"Women like you, who come from merchant families, are not only of lowly status, but you are all vicious women."

“Gong Shu plotted to harm Prince Rui’s heir; my aunt will not forgive her.”

Yun Xiyue's face turned ugly. "Xiao Shu is now a member of your Pei family. She is your sister-in-law."

Pei Fang sneered, "What sister-in-law? Only you think that way. Gong Shu is nothing more than a woman sent here for a political marriage. My elder brother was forced to marry her."

"She's just a merchant's daughter from the Great Wei Dynasty. Does she really think the Great Wei royal family will back her up and offend our Great Xia Empress Dowager?"

"Even if she dies, the Great Wei won't care, and I would never acknowledge her as my sister-in-law, because she is unworthy." When she said this, it sounded more like she was cursing Yun Xiyue.

They were using veiled criticism to criticize others.

Yun Xiyue's thin lips were slightly pursed, and her aura was gloomy and terrifying.

"If you dare to touch Xiao Shu, the Great Wei will absolutely not let your Pei family off the hook."

Pei Fang felt a little panicked. She hadn't expected Yun Xiyue to show such a terrifying, murderous look in her eyes, like a vengeful ghost that had crawled out of a pile of corpses.

"Hmph, you want me to plead for you? That's not impossible. With just one word from me, Gong Shu will be safe and sound."

"However, you have to agree to one condition: that your cousin comes to Fanghua Palace to consummate our marriage."

Yun Xiyue's eyes grew increasingly gloomy as she walked forward step by step.

The guards tried to stop them, but soon the guards from Jiaofang Palace arrived and surrounded them.

"Yun Xiyue, how dare you! What do you want to do!"

"Do you intend to disrespect the Empress Dowager?!"

Yun Xiyue ignored her and said, "Press her down and grab her."

Pei Fang shouted.

Inside the main hall, Gong Shu had been beaten with a board and had already fainted, but they continued to beat her. Zhang Chuhuan sat to the side watching, wishing he could beat Gong Shu to death.

"stop!"

Yun Xiyue rushed in with her men, and seeing Gong Shu covered in blood, she couldn't believe it. Her face gradually lost its color, and as she touched Gong Shu's cold hand, her voice trembled, "Little Shu..."

"Your Majesty, who allowed you to enter?"

Yun Xiyue, holding Gong Shu, glared at the Empress Dowager and said, "Empress Dowager, you are so cruel! What did Xiao Shu do to offend you? You only feel satisfied when you beat her to death?"

The Empress Dowager's expression changed slightly; she felt somewhat guilty under the fierce, scarlet gaze of the woman.

Gong Shu and Yun Xiyue look so alike.

Both women were daughters of merchants, yet both married men of high rank and power.

This man also dotes on them.

The Empress Dowager simply disliked them.

Gong Shu had just talked back to her.

"Zhang Chuhuan!"

Yun Xiyue then stared coldly at the woman who was the culprit, "If anything happens to Xiao Shu, Pei Shang will not let a woman with such a vicious heart get away with it."