Chapter 1 Shen Yinning is a Fairy
Shen Yinning, her clothes disheveled, straddled Lu Ying. Though she was now a married woman, she had been trapped in Shen Garden by the Crown Prince for three days.
Lu Ying nonchalantly flipped through a calligraphy book: "You spent three years in Gan State, and your skills in serving men have clearly improved. But your handwriting—it's still as atrocious as it was three years ago. Where's the grace of a daughter of the Duke Mansion?"
Shen Yinning mocked herself inwardly. Once a proud and privileged daughter of the Duke Mansion, she was now the fallen daughter of a criminal, the wife of a low-ranking official, and entirely reduced to being the Crown Prince Lu Ying's beck-and-call plaything.
She spoke in a soft voice: "Your servant and her family were ruined, exiled to Gan State that year. I was wed to a local Eighth Rank officer, while Your Highness married my cousin as the Crown Princess Consort. I've heard that the two of you have been deeply affectionate and harmonious these past three years. Yet here Your Highness is, not in the Eastern Palace accompanying my sister, but secretly meeting me in Shen Garden. If my sister finds out, won't she be angry?"
"I'm asking you about your calligraphy practice."
Lu Ying wore an impassive expression: "I told you to practice calligraphy properly in Gan State, but you treated my advice as nothing but wind past your ears?"
Shen Yinning, soft and pliant, clung to his shoulders and lightly kissed his ear and neck: "Then what punishment does Your Highness deem appropriate for your servant?"
The storm outside raged on.
Under the corridor outside, two young eunuchs overheard the faint sounds of tender moans emanating from the study. Unable to help themselves, their ears flushed red.
Gui Quan sighed: "You have to admit, Madam Shen does have her ways! A convicted criminal's daughter, her parents dead, her family confiscated—yet she still managed to climb into His Highness's bed the night before her exile, leaving him obsessed with her for three years! Look here—His Highness arranged for her to marry a local minor official, then quietly transferred that official to be a Capital Official, bringing her back to the Capital without anyone realizing!"
De Sun shook his head: "The Crown Princess Consort is fiercely jealous. If she discovers His Highness's affair with Madam Shen, there'll definitely be a huge commotion, and we won't escape trouble either. Gui Quan, we need to keep our mouths tightly shut."