Chapter 274 - Fifth Princess Got into Trouble at Tianfeng Palace (2/2)

Two servants came and pulled Beauty Liu apart. One used a handkerchief to press into her mouth while the other held her hand, preventing her from swaying.

Mo Xuetong stood aside and pretended to be unaware of it. However, she had no sympathy for Beauty Liu as there were numerous concubines in the palace. Furthermore, Beauty Liu had the malicious intention of disfiguring her to please Fifth Princess.

Fortunately, she was learning medicine and knew about herbs and drugs. Such an abnormal fragrance made her immediately alert. Moreover, Beauty Liu brought her on a split path, which indicated an obviously insidious intention. Mo Xuetong thus immediately kneeled down and got rid of the scent that Beauty secretly placed in her sleeves.

The corner of her eyes swept to the obviously fl.u.s.tered Fifth Princess with a tinge of hatred. She was truly too arrogant in thinking that she could escape so easily from her crime.

“Fifth Princess, why do you want to harm me?” She looked up suddenly, directly taunting Fifth Princess, instead of Beauty Liu. She was tempting her to retaliate.

Fifth Princess immediately stood up, and angrily retaliated.

“Harm you? Why will I harm you? Do you really think you can seduce my cousin with your pretty face?”

Even though she did not admit it, she did not hide her hatred and murderous intents in front of everyone. Compared to this adopted princess, she was a true princess of the royal family, and she did not believe that her father would punish her just because of such a humble girl.

“I don’t understand what Fifth Princess meant. Sir Bai had nothing to do with me and he merely agreed to come by invitation of Mother and Fifth Princess. We had a few words and it was nothing like what the Fifth Princess thought. Perhaps you are indeed retaliating me for what happened previously.” Mo Xuetong’s eyes turned watery as she was about to cry, as if she had met with great injustice.

“Fifth Princess was willing to disfigure me just because I talked to Sir Bai?”

Furthermore, this was in Princess Royal’s palace, which meant that Princess Royal could testify. Fifth Princess started to panic as she remembered that Princess Royal was dominant even in front of Mother. Furthermore, she was the one that Father trusted the most. If she stood up for Mo Xuetong, Fifth Princess would be in trouble.

“Gibberis.h.!.+ Why are you blaming me for your matter with Beauty Liu? I never once left the palace! I shall not take responsibility for Beauty Liu’s gibberis.h.!.+” Fifth Princess’ face turned cold as she stood up, chiding Mo Xuetong.

She had asked her servants to talk to Beauty Liu’s servants previously, making sure that no blame could be a.s.signed to her. Furthermore, she did not believe that Mo Xuetong could interfere with palace affairs.

“Princess Anping, do you know that framing the royal family can result in the death penalty?” The Empress’ face sank and she shouted solemnly.

“Exactly. It is a death penalty to frame the royal family, but who shall die since Anping was the one being framed?” An angry voice came from the door of the hall.

At this time, a servant outside shouted, “Princess Royal Mingzhu arrived.”

Everyone present was all stunned. Mo Xuetong secretly smiled as it was now impossible for the Empress and Fifth Princess to suppress her using authority.

“Save me, Princess Royal. Quick, let Fifth Princess take out the antidote, same me…” Beauty Liu jumped out first. Knowing that her face was gone, she could not endure anymore and struggled out of the servants’ control. She spat out the handkerchief in her mouth and jumped out, kneeling in front of Princess Royal.

“What happened?” Princess Royal stopped and asked harshly.

“Fifth Princess wanted to disfigure Princess Anping, not me. Fifth Princess had the poison on the monkey and the monkey belonged to Fifth Princess too…” The sharp pain on Beauty Liu’s face reminded her of her fear. She was afraid that even a second of delay would ruin her face.

She kneeled and clawed towards Fifth Princess, begging her, “Fifth Princess, give me the antidote. Save me, and I will always listen to you.”

“Beauty Liu has gone mad. Bring her aside, she should not be kneeling in front of Xueyu.” Seeing that the situation was a mess now, she turned and ordered the servants.

Even though beauties had no real power, they were still concubines of the Emperor. It would be utterly inappropriate for the Emperor’s wife to beg and kneel in front of the Emperor’s daughter. Even they were different in status, they made it up with age. It did make sense for the Empress to say that Beauty Liu was crazy.

Mo Xuetong smirked as she knew that the Empress wanted to push all the blame to Beauty Liu by saying that she was mad and incredible.

“Go away, crazy woman!” Fifth Princess looked at Beauty Liu’s b.l.o.o.d.y face and kicked her away, disgust written all over her face.

A few servants came and pushed Beauty Liu down, pus.h.i.+ng the handkerchief back into her mouth. The skillful actions made Mo Xuetong’s heart skip a beat.

She knew that she could have been severely punished by the Empress if not for Princess Royal’s arrival! Her cold eyes landed on Fifth Princess, who was patting her dress because of disgust toward Beauty Liu. She knew that the girl wanted to disfigure her merely because she talked to Bai Yihao.

No wonder she could be a good friend of Mo Xuemin. The two were similar in their malice and arrogance. Their small age did not limit their ability to manipulate the life of others. Mo Xuetong hated them as they placed themselves at the center of the universe, controlling the life and death of others…

However, Fifth Princess was too “clever” and had harmed herself!

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