Concubina Favorita Destrói a Esposa? Meu Segundo Casamento com o Primeiro-Ministro Incendeia Toda a Capital
Depois de anos de dedicação extenuante ao gerenciamento da casa, o príncipe achava Ning Junruo entediante e a ignorou por cinco anos, mas trouxe de volta Chang Yuniang, grávida, e exigiu que ela fosse
“Princess, Lady Chang has arrived. I observed her and she truly looks as though she is six or seven months pregnant.”
Hearing the clear voice of her maid, Huaixi, Ning Junru felt a sudden haze, realizing she truly had been reborn.
“What are you standing there for? Hurry and bring her in!” Dowager Madam Xu fixed her with an impatient gaze. “The princess has been in the manor for five years and has borne no children. The other women in the rear court are no better—none have conceived! Lady Chang may be an outsider, but she carries the prince’s blood. You must settle her in properly…”
Ning Junru’s lips curled into a barely perceptible, cold smile.
“Years ago, I traveled all the way from the capital to Liangzhou, fell ill for half a year, and the prince, fearing contagion, would not visit my chambers. The border has been unstable, and he’s always away. Even when he returns, he never spends the night in my courtyard.”
“How could I not wish to bear heirs for the prince? But one hand cannot clap alone; even if I desire it, I am powerless.”
Her tone shifted, “But rest assured, Mother. I will see that Lady Chang is well settled.”
Ning had always been gentle and respectful, yet today she dared to answer back?
Dowager Madam Xu shot her a cold glance, thinking her words were not without truth, and suppressed her anger. To conceal her displeasure, she sipped tea slowly from her cup before saying, “Her pregnancy is so far along. We can’t keep calling her Lady Chang—she needs a proper status.”
As soon as her words fell, Huaixi usher