CHAPTER 820: CHAPTER 820 VIRTUAL WORLD (5)

Shi Yaoguang looked at her and smiled faintly.

"So it’s really you, Xiangfei."

"Princess Zhaoyang" heard her address and gave a proud smile, "Yes, it’s me."

"But so what if you know it’s me? We swapped identities. If you speak out, will anyone believe you? No, they won’t."

"They’ll just think you’re crazy."

As she spoke, her smile grew more and more arrogant, "Now I have become you, and you have become me."

"So tell me, if I were to report you now, what would be your fate?"

Shi Yaoguang seemed not to understand her words, and asked, "Report me? How do you plan to report me? Aren’t you afraid that if it doesn’t work out, you’ll implicate yourself?"

"Princess Zhaoyang" rolled her eyes, "I... I am now a princess, while you are merely a prisoner. What bad outcome would there be for me to report you? Don’t think that you can pacify me with a few words."

"Of course, I don’t have that ability. But..."

Shi Yaoguang curled her lips in a light smile, "I have discovered a secret, Xiangxiang, do you want to know it?"

"What secret?" Xiangfei, with Princess Zhaoyang’s face, made a contemptuous expression.

Shi Yaoguang smiled at her, stretched out her hand, reached into her clothes, and pinched hard.

"Ah—"

"Princess Zhaoyang" cried out in pain, looking at Shi Yaoguang with disbelief, "It’s you!"

"Yes." Shi Yaoguang revealed a threatening smile without fear, "Xiangfei, do you think... if I become a prisoner, can I live well? If I don’t want to live, then..."

She deliberately prolonged her tone, her smile turning sharp, "Then... I’ll take you down with me, Xiangxiang."

Xiangfei: "..."

Damn it, this lunatic!

She cursed quietly in her heart but had no choice but to plaster a flattering smile on her face.

"Princess, please don’t say such things. We are good sisters..."

Shi Yaoguang was not buying her act, "Who’s good sisters with you?"

Seeing this, Xiangfei could only ask, "Then what do you want?"

Since Shi Yaoguang had brought this up proactively, her purpose was clearly to threaten her.

And she...

had no choice but to accept the threat.

But she was reluctant!

Why should Shi Yaoguang threaten her?

Previously, she was the noble princess, and Xiangxiang was only a concubine caught having a forbidden affair!

She even thought about killing the princess to silence her.

Of course, there was more to it; if the princess had only caught her having an affair, she could have explained it, blaming it on the Emperor’s obsession with the Empress, which made the six palaces a mere decoration.

She was a woman, she had desires, and inevitably, she would make mistakes. She hoped that Yaoguang would spare her for the sake of their sisterhood.

But the princess had not only caught her affair, but had also overheard her conspiracy with the man.

She planned to conceive a child with the man and then frame it on the Emperor.

For many years, the Emperor had no heirs, and even if he didn’t say it, he definitely wanted one.

With a prince, her position would become more secure.

Most importantly,

If she birthed a son, he would inherit the throne.

By then, she would become the Empress Dowager!

When planning the conspiracy, she was making love to her cousin bodyguard.

Princess Zhaoyang, due to their good relationship, had purposely avoided having maidservants announce her presence, sneaking in through the back to surprise Xiangfei, but ended up shocking her instead.

After recovering, Princess Zhaoyang’s first reaction was to tell her father.

After all, she was her father’s most cherished daughter.

If her father was cuckolded, how would that be different from her being cuckolded?

Even if Xiangfei was her sister, for this, she could not forsake her father’s honor.

Not to mention muddling the Royal Family’s bloodline.

Why had there been no new offspring in the Royal Family over the years?

It wasn’t the Empress’s problem.

The real issue lay with the Emperor himself.

He had an ailment, not the Empress.

He could favor concubines, but could not make them pregnant.

This was what the Imperial Physician had diagnosed in private.

Of course, he wouldn’t disclose this to the public.

As it happened, he and the Empress had a good relationship, and the Empress was willing to bear the blame for him.

And because the Emperor couldn’t father children, he simply stopped visiting other women’s palaces.

People thought the Emperor was deeply in love, not that he couldn’t father a prince.

These things, Xiangfei had no knowledge of.

She only knew that though she became the Emperor’s concubine, he never spent the night in her palace.

She had come with a family mission, fearing that without a child, and without connections, her future would be bleak.

So,

She came up with a devious plan.

Thinking that if she had a prince, the Emperor would have to see her differently.

Fortunately, she didn’t conceive.

If she had conceived,

That would have been her end.

After all, the Emperor wasn’t a fool.

It was impossible that while he himself could not have children, his woman got pregnant with his child.

Don’t even mention the minuscule odds.

It sounded like a joke.

A husband hadn’t been home for three years and received a letter from his wife saying she was three months pregnant with twins.

A child is born, happy?

Is the hat green enough?

Xiangfei didn’t know these things. She kept thinking that if Princess Zhaoyang hadn’t accidentally overheard her secret, she might have become the Empress Dowager.

Now threatened by Shi Yaoguang, she felt even more that she could never surpass Shi Yaoguang, feeling even more oppressed.

As a concubine, she had to please her.

Now as a noble princess, she still had to please her!

Was she destined to be inferior to her?

Shi Yaoguang looked at "Princess Zhaoyang" with an angry expression and asked, "What’s your name?"

Xiangfei: "Lin Xiangxiang."

After saying it, she was startled and hurriedly said, "I am Shi Yaoguang!"

Hearing this name, Shi Yaoguang squinted, her suspicion confirmed in her heart, but she asked, "How can you prove it?"

Xiangfei grew more confident, "I can guarantee that my identity has no problem. No matter who checks, I am the true princess!"

Shi Yaoguang thought for a moment and nodded.

Xiangfei was stunned.

She thought the real princess, Shi Yaoguang, would be unwilling.

Unexpectedly, she was so calm.

Just as she was thinking this, she heard Shi Yaoguang say, "I can let you have the identity of the princess, but on one condition."

"What condition?" Xiangfei said, showing a smug expression, "You want me to agree to your condition, you are dreaming!"

Shi Yaoguang didn’t waste words and bit her tongue hard.

"Hiss—"

Xiangfei cried out in pain again. Seeing the blood on Shi Yaoguang’s lips, she couldn’t help but question, "Shi Yaoguang, are you crazy?"