CHAPTER 117: CHAPTER 115 SHE REMEMBERS THE RULES OF SERVING LU YING

Shen Yinning knelt there, understanding his meaning, her amber eyes full of resistance: "Your Highness... Aze is still outside."

Lu Ying looked down at her from above: "Have you forgotten your identity?"

Shen Yinning bit her lip.

Though unwilling, she had to rely on this dog of a man now.

She had to choose submission.

She remembered the rules for serving Lu Ying.

The carriage rocked back and forth.

The conversation inside the carriage was completely overheard by Lu Jiazhe.

His face turned pale.

Though he felt great pity for Shen Yinning, just thinking about the ruthless and domineering soul hidden under Lu Ying’s cold and solemn facade made him not dare to speak out.

The fight for the throne back then was incredibly fierce, dragging in many princes, with Lu Ying and Lu Shiyan being the most intense opponents.

Lu Shiyan had Zhang Noble Consort’s backing, a favor that was supposed to give him an advantage, yet he still couldn’t surpass Lu Ying, whose mother had passed away years ago.

That year, several princes in the capital died.

Even Lu Shiyan’s leg was crippled in that struggle.

Among the adult princes dragged into the fight for the throne, the one who survived to the end, like surviving a battle of venomous creatures, was the one without support, Lu Ying.

Thinking about the tragic events of those years, Lu Jiazhe couldn’t help but shiver.

He continued to urge the carriage forward, but approaching the year’s end meant the streets were crowded, and the carriage moved very slowly.

While traveling along Eighteenth Street, a carriage suddenly came up from behind, the driver whipping the reins, frightening the commoners into stepping aside.

As it approached, Shen Yunxi lifted the carriage curtain and demanded: "Where is Shen Yinning?!"

She originally came out looking for Lu Ying, only to find he wasn’t around.

By chance, she saw the carriage from the Duke Mansion and figured that Shen Yinning and Lu Jiazhe had gone together to a banquet, and since the Crown Prince might very well be with Shen Yinning, she urgently called out to Lu Jiazhe.

Lu Jiazhe’s head throbbed painfully.

The situation inside the carriage was already troubling enough, and now there was Shen Yunxi to deal with!

He cleared his throat: "Sister Shen has caught a cold and can’t be exposed to the wind, so she’s sitting inside the carriage. If the Crown Princess Consort has anything to say, you can tell me, and I’ll pass it on to her."

"Caught a cold?" Shen Yunxi’s face twisted, "I see her talking more eloquently than anyone, how could she catch a cold?! You must be deliberately deceiving me! Move aside, I want to see for myself!"

The curtains of the Duke Mansion’s carriage were drawn so tightly that she suspected the Crown Prince and Shen Yinning were hiding inside doing something indecent.

She had to see it with her own eyes!

If she found out Shen Yinning dared to seduce the Crown Prince, she would certainly kill her!

Inside the carriage, Lu Ying pressed down on Shen Yinning’s head.

Outside the carriage was the bustling and prosperous capital, countless people brushing past closely. They would never imagine that the once noble and proud daughter of the Duke Mansion was now doing such shameful things in secret.

She had become the Forbidden Fruit of her sister’s husband.

Under the dual stimulation of body and mind, Shen Yinning trembled lightly, her fair skin blushing faintly red.

Lu Ying lowered his gaze, gently stroking her flushed earlobes and neck, sending waves of numbness and itchiness through the young girl.

He pressed down hard on her nape, tilting his own head back slightly, his Adam’s apple rolling with difficulty.

Finally, it was over...

Shen Yinning knelt awkwardly, rubbing her sore cheek.

"Shen Yinning! I’m calling you, can’t you hear?!"

Shen Yunxi’s angry voice reached them again from outside.

Shen Yinning hurriedly dressed in her jacket and skirt, lifting a corner of the curtain: "Sister, please forgive me, I’ve caught a cold, and it’s gotten me muddle-headed, so I didn’t hear you calling me..."

Shen Yunxi scrutinized her, her face flushed, her voice hoarse, indeed acting as if she had a fever.

She glanced into the carriage.

Lu Ying was leaning against the side of the carriage, but from her angle, she couldn’t see him, only catching sight of Shen Yinning alone inside.

Only then did she feel at ease, glaring at Shen Yinning viciously.

Heaven is truly unfair to have given Shen Yinning such a beautiful face!

Even her hand resting on the window looked particularly delicate and smooth, like white jade.

She couldn’t help but pick a fault: "What’s with all this ’you’ and ’me’? You’ve been exiled to Gan State for three years and forgotten the rules of the capital?! I am now the Crown Princess Consort, you must address me as Your Highness, and refer to yourself as this subject’s wife! I call you sister as a favor, but you should know your place, given your current status, you shouldn’t be calling me sister! If you continue to be so ignorant of the rules, I’ll send a maid to educate you!"

Shen Yinning nodded meekly: "You are right, Your Highness, it is this subject’s wife who has overstepped."

"You are now behaving." Shen Yunxi raised her eyebrows, intent on humiliating her, "Back in the day, everyone thought you would be the Crown Princess Consort, but in the end, it was I who married the Crown Prince. Sister, doesn’t that make you sad? Aren’t you jealous?"

Shen Yinning deliberately leaned against Lu Ying’s shoulder, trailing her white tender fingertips in slow circles across his chest, softly saying: "This subject’s wife has no such fortune, and no fate with the Crown Prince, naturally unworthy of being the Crown Princess Consort. Your Highness has deep blessings and mutual love with His Highness, this subject’s wife cannot compete with Your Highness, nor dares to."

These words made Shen Yunxi’s mood brightened.

If three years ago, no one would have ever imagined that someone as proud as Shen Yinning could be brought this low.

Elder brother even said to cut the grass by its roots, but as she sees it, Shen Yinning has lost all her sharpness and does not deserve their effort to kill her.

She snorted coldly: "You are so sensible now, seems those three years in Gan State weren’t wasted. Speaking of which, since your return to the capital, you should pay respects to the Duke Mansion and the parents of this subject’s wife, after all, they are your elders. I intend to hold a plum blossom banquet at the Duke Mansion tomorrow, remember to come."

She had already planned how to humiliate Shen Yinning tomorrow.

Before, when Shen Yinning was the daughter of the Duke Mansion, she was so arrogant that she offended many young ladies from noble families. She planned to invite them all over to show them how destitute Shen Yinning had become!

Shen Yinning obediently replied: "This subject’s wife will remember."

Shen Yinning put down the curtain, her red lips curled into a faint smile.

She had already planned to visit the Duke Mansion, and Shen Yunxi’s invitation was just what she had hoped for.

Her father and brother had no intention of seizing the throne, it must have been her uncle who framed them.

If she could find evidence of her father’s and brother’s innocence at the Duke Mansion, wouldn’t they be able to clear their name?

She glanced at Lu Ying, concealing her smile, and began to shed tears as if feeling wronged.

Lu Ying sensed she was about to start acting again: "Why are you crying?"

"Your Highness bullies this subject’s wife, and so does the Crown Princess Consort..."

Lu Ying drew her into his embrace: "If you don’t want to go, then pretend to be sick and don’t."

With tears on her cheeks, she spoke in a hoarse little voice: "Doesn’t Your Highness understand the Crown Princess Consort’s character? If this subject’s wife pretends to be sick, she will surely be furious and bully this subject’s wife even more... Your Highness cares for the Crown Princess, but not for this subject’s wife, and will only let her be bullied in vain."

The young girl was like a lotus emerging from water, her eyes bewitching from a year of being indulged by a man, stirring the heart intensely.