Chapter 232: Setting a Net
The Crown Prince carried Sun Jiaojiao straight back to the Eastern Palace in one go. The tactful palace servants immediately shut the hall doors tightly, kneeling on the floor all the way, not daring to even breathe loudly.
For the entire night, the only sounds coming from the room were the Crown Princess's delicate gasps and pleas for mercy.
"Your Highness, gentler..."
"Your Highness, you can't fuck me anymore, I'll get pregnant..."
"Your Highness, so good, shoot it all for Jiaojiao..."
The next day, the sun was high in the sky before Sun Jiaojiao finally, exhaustedly, managed to wake up. The Crown Prince had already risen and gone to the study to handle political affairs.
Palace servants came to help Sun Jiaojiao wash up and serve her breakfast.
"These were all prepared on His Highness's orders. They are all dishes His Highness the Crown Princess enjoys. Your Highness, please try them." The palace maid looked at Sun Jiaojiao with immense envy. She thought to herself that reincarnation truly was a technical skill. To be successfully reincarnated as a Minister's daughter and marry the Crown Prince as the official wife was one thing, but to also be exclusively doted on by the Crown Prince... The delicate gasps from the room last night were proof enough that even if Sun Jiaojiao argued with the Crown Prince and ran away from the Eastern Palace in a fit of temper, she was still deeply favored.
The palace was different from the outside. The one thing the palace didn't lack was eavesdroppers and gossips.
The news that Sun Jiaojiao was awake hadn't even reached the Crown Prince's ears before it had already spread like wildfire to the ears of all the noble consorts in the palace.
The Old Empress Dowager found out.
The Empress also heard about it.
The Imperial Consort also heard about it.
The Old Empress Dowager listened to her spy's report with a frown on her face the entire time. When she finally heard the line, "The Crown Prince and Crown Princess don't even avoid suspicion when they are deep in passion," she slammed her hand on the table. "Outrageous! As the Crown Prince of a nation, the future ruler, to be so shameless, so lacking in decency! How is that any different from a crude country bumpkin? What a disgrace! Have they forgotten what kind of dignity is required to sit in the positions of Crown Prince and Crown Princess?"
The Empress Dowager's spy knelt on the ground, trembling, burying their head as low as it could go.
The Empress also had her own spies. When she heard the report, she was first shocked, then delighted. "Is the Crown Prince truly that brazen? Hehe, it seems there will be another good show to watch in the palace soon... I wonder if the east wind will prevail over the west wind, or if the west wind will crush the east wind."
The Empress's spy immediately started bootlicking, "No matter which way the wind blows in the palace, everything must rely on Your Highness the Empress to manage the overall situation. Otherwise, wouldn't it all descend into chaos?"
The Empress smugly admired her newly manicured nails and smiled inscrutably. She said, full of hidden meaning, "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."
The Imperial Consort had the most spies planted in the Eastern Palace. Usually, the Crown Prince didn't live in the palace, so those spies were useless. But recently, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess had been staying in the Eastern Palace for a few days, so the Imperial Consort's spies reported news several times a day.
When the Imperial Consort heard that the Crown Prince and Crown Princess were as harmonious as ever, perhaps even more inseparable than before, her expression changed instantly. "We absolutely cannot let them produce an imperial grandson before my son! Anyone who blocks my son's path deserves a terrible death!"
She knew very well that the road to seizing the throne was long and arduous. One had to be ruthless. To achieve great things, one must be willing to make sacrifices.
She prepared to start the sacrifices with this Crown Princess, Sun Jiaojiao.
But how could the Crown Prince not know what these high-status women in the palace were scheming?
He had already laid his net. He was just waiting for these ignorant inner palace women to rush in and throw themselves into it. When the time came, he just needed to pull the net closed according to plan.
The first person who couldn't hold back, who came to "test the net," was the Imperial Consort.
Before the Crown Prince could take Sun Jiaojiao from the Eastern Palace back to the Crown Prince's Residence, the Imperial Consort, under the guise of visiting, swayed gracefully into the Eastern Palace.
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