Chapter 31: Bringing Her into the Eastern Palace as a Concubine
The dim light of a green lantern flickered in the washroom.
The small foot rested high on the edge of the bathtub, the golden bell tied around the pale ankle jingling, like a wild beast restrained of its freedom.
Candle wax dripped and rolled down.
The sound of water had never ceased, with droplets scattered across the floor, and in the bathtub, Shen Yinning had gradually lost the strength to struggle.
Lu Ying lifted her out, grabbed a towel to dry her off, and then carried her to sit on the imperial concubine couch by the window.
Shen Yinning leaned weakly against Lu Ying’s chest, her eyes closed, speaking faintly: "Your Highness, when you summon the Crown Princess Consort to serve in bed, is it also like this?"
Lu Ying did not answer her question, his voice cold: "How many times have I told you not to provoke the Crown Princess Consort? Yet you never seem to understand. It was you who stirred the whole matter of her imprisonment at the Ministry of Justice, and the trouble at the cherry blossom banquet as well. Shen Yinning, I’m running out of patience."
He lowered his lashes. At this moment, he knew the woman in his arms was wholly his.
She was no longer the high-born daughter of the Duke Mansion; she was merely a disgraced daughter of a traitor, a lowly official’s wife. To be frank, while the waves she made in the Capital in recent months might have caused great trouble for Shen Yunxi, in his eyes, it was nothing more than petty mischief.
There was no need to kill her.