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Chapter 8 - Helpless Rage!

After making an example of them, Shen Lanxi smoothly escorted Mama Li and her family to the back gate.

The guards at the gatehouse hadn't received any orders to prevent the Wangfei from leaving, and they looked conflicted when they saw her.

"Quickly go report to The Prince!"

A guard immediately ran off.

Shen Lanxi walked to the gate and said, "Open the gate!"

The guard captain hurried over to explain, "Wangfei, please don't make things difficult for us!"

Shen Lanxi understood that when a wall falls, everyone pushes. She said coldly, "I am still the Wangfei of Zhennan Prince's Mansion. Does this Wangfei not even have the right to release servants of the Shen Family?"

The guard captain glanced at Mama Li and her family, and breathed a sigh of relief.

It's fine if the Princess isn't going out.

"Your Highness, I've already sent a guard to ask The Prince. Perhaps we should wait for his reply before…" Before the word "decide" could be uttered, Shen Lanxi had shoved the guard captain back four or five meters.

The guard captain's eyes widened in disbelief. He had trained in martial arts since childhood and honed his skills on the battlefield with The Prince. He was already considered a master, yet he'd been easily pushed back by a seemingly delicate woman?

It must have been because he wasn't prepared!

The other guards, thinking the captain was afraid to confront the Princess, weren't standing quite so tall anymore.

"Open the gate!" Shen Lanxi commanded sternly.

The guards were momentarily intimidated by her commanding presence and actually moved aside. The gatekeeper, seeing the guards weren't stopping her, nervously went to open the gate.

"Without The Prince's orders, I'd like to see who dares to move!" Bai Qingling arrived, bustling and full of energy.

Shen Lanxi's eyes were icy. "Since when did the Zhennan Prince's Mansion start taking orders from a lowly concubine?"

Bai Qingling was furious as she looked at the extraordinary Shen Lanxi. Even if she looks like a phoenix, so what? From now on, she's a fallen phoenix, no better than a chicken.

A daughter of a disgraced official, daring to act like the Wangfei in the Prince's Mansion? When the Prince returns, he'll definitely get rid of this woman.

Thinking about how she had knelt to a disgraced woman that morning, Bai Qingling was so angry she could almost vomit blood. If she had received the news earlier, she wouldn't have suffered such a humiliation!

It's all Shen Lanxi's fault. Just you wait and see, there will be no more Lanxi County Princess in the Zhennan Prince's Mansion. She will make Shen Lanxi pay for every bit of the humiliation she suffered!

Bai Qingling's expression was arrogant, not putting Shen Lanxi in her eyes at all, and her eyes were filled with disdain.

"Before the Prince went to the palace, he entrusted me with all matters within the mansion. I only know that everyone in the Zhennan Prince's Mansion must listen to the Prince!"

What a load of rubbish! She wasn't a concubine, but that venomous woman Shen Lanxi would definitely be cast aside.

"What a joke! Who do you think you are, daring to speak to this Wangfei like this? The Prince himself wouldn't be so presumptuous in front of me, what are you?"

Bai Qingling's face was drawn, and she suppressed her anger. Her eyes darted around, and suddenly, a triumphant smile appeared on her face.

"You probably don't know yet, but last night the Shen Family was raided overnight. All of you Shen Family members are now in the Imperial Prison awaiting trial!" It's always been about flaunting your family's status, hasn't it? Now that the Shen Family is gone, let's see what arrogance you have left!

Shen Lanxi said with a mocking tone, "Even if the Shen Family is gone, I am still Lanxi County Princess, personally appointed by His Majesty. I am the Empress Dowager's most beloved junior, and the betrothed Zhennan Prince's wife, so it's not your place as a servant to be so presumptuous!"

As her words fell, she followed up with a lightning-fast strike.

Slap!

Bai Qingling's face was slapped sideways, and her body couldn't help but stumble back a few steps. Only with the help of the old woman behind her did she manage to steady herself.

Bai Qingling's eyes were filled with disbelief and humiliation. Shen Lanxi still couldn't see her own situation, and she dared to hit her?

A sneering sound rang out.

"I wonder if this slap knocked your child out?"

Bai Qingling's face changed, and she instinctively put her hand on her belly.

"I learned this from Consort Shu. Back then, Consort Shu slapped Noble Lady Lan, and her three-month-old pregnancy was gone. My maternal uncle, His Majesty, treasured the imperial descendants, so he directly demoted Consort Shu to Consort Shu, and she hasn't recovered her position ever since."

Consort Shu is Zhou Ruyuan's mother. According to tradition, if she were a Consort, Zhou Ruyuan could petition to have Consort Shu brought out when he married. But, sadly, she is currently just Consort Shu.

She was reminding Bai Qingling that even if Zhou Ruyuan had achieved great military feats, they wouldn't be enough to absolve his mother's crimes. She was also reminding her of how important the imperial heirs were to His Majesty!

Clearly, Bai Qingling had realized this, and her face turned pale with fear.

"Do you have a child? If you don't, you're committing treason. If you do, and you give birth, your fate is death!"

Bai Qingling finally realized she had underestimated Shen Lanxi.

"No wonder Ruyuan says women in the inner quarters are only good at scheming. He despises women like you, who only know how to play tricks and schemes in the back."

Shen Lanxi said, "Someone, go to the palace and ask the Imperial Physician to come examine the mistress. If the Imperial Physician despises her lowly status and refuses to come, tell him Lanxi County Princess is requesting his presence!"

"You dare!"

"What wouldn't I dare? You keep talking about how women in the inner quarters are, but aren't you a woman yourself?"

Bai Qingling was furious, "I am a woman, but I'm not like you, who only knows how to scheme!"

Shen Lanxi's voice was sharp: "Since you know you're a woman, you should also know about propriety and shame. Yet, you've thrown yourself at Zhou Ruyuan with no status, and now you're secretly pregnant. What face do you have to slander the women in the back courtyards? A woman like you, who doesn't understand propriety or shame, I'd soil my hands hitting you!"

Bai Qingling felt everyone in the courtyard staring at her, and she lost all face. Her eyes were red as she glared at Shen Lanxi.

Shen Lanxi, you wait, you just wait for me, I won't let you go!

"Hmph, you shameless thing. If I were you, I'd have crawled into a rat hole and hid from the world. But no, you dare to strut around the Prince's Mansion like you're some hero. Only Zhou Ruyuan, that blind dog, thinks you're worth anything!" Shen Lanxi turned and headed for the door.

She opened the door herself to see who dared to stop her!

No one dared to stop her!

After watching Mama Li and her family of six leave, Shen Lanxi turned and bolted the door.

Bai Qingling glared at Shen Lanxi with murderous eyes.

"What a pity, Zhou Ruyuan is in the palace. He won't get to see your impotent rage!"

Bai Qingling gritted her teeth, venomously saying, "Shen Lanxi, we could have coexisted peacefully. But you had to ruin everything."

"What? You want to hit me?" Shen Lanxi sneered.

"You're a woman, yet you despise all the slander and scorn heaped upon women in the back courtyards. Did you just pop out of a rock? I wonder if your mother, grandmother, and maternal grandmother, as well as all the women in your family, would sever ties with you if they heard you belittling women like this!"

"Oh, right, the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and all the concubines in the harem are women. You're denigrating women, so you're including them too. I wonder what they would think if they heard this?"

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