Chapter 291 - Who does she thinks she is? (1/2)

Hao Mei stared at Zhao Ming in fear as she heard her order.

' How can she strip her of her position as kitchen staff? What authority does she have? Who does she think she is?' hearing Zhao Ming's words, Hao Mei was fuming in anger.

While other maids just stared at Zhao Ming in disbelief. They have never seen this kind of strong aura from Zhao Ming.

Earlier, she seems to be weak because Wen Xu always subsides her opinion and never treated her as the Empress.

If Empress Dowager never treated her as the Empress than others in the palace never considered her the same as well.

Their audacity and arrogant behavior was encouraged by Wen Xu and Xiao Li behind the scenes.

Of course, it was Zhao Ming's fault as well because she never fought back to Wen Xu and always tried to understand and kept quiet just because she was her mother in law.

Old Zhao Ming thinks that it will be wrong for her to sow discord between a son and mother if she complained to Ji Cheng about Wen Xu.

But her thoughtfulness was taken for granted by Xiao Li and Wen Xu.

When Ji Cheng was not in the palace and went on some wars or expeditions, they took it as their chance to suppress Zhao Ming.

The main purpose of them doing all this is just to remove her from the position of an Empress because Wen Xu wanted Xiao Li to be the Empress and next Empress Dowager when she gives birth to their heir.

However, they can't do it directly. They used different methods to humiliate Zhao Ming and Xiao Li used Wen Xu's dislike and hatred towards Zhao Ming as her weapon to remove her from the position.

She did all sorts of tricks on Zhao Ming to remove her from the position. She tried everything to not let Ji Cheng spend time with Zhao Ming by using Wen Xu as her weapon, because if that happens, and she becomes pregnant, then her schemes will be of no use.

After Zhao Ming becomes pregnant, Xiao Li was sure that Wen Xu will forget everything and just care about her heir.

But she cannot let this happen. So she did everything in her power to separate Ji Cheng and Zhao Ming from each other.

She even planned the scandal of Zhao Ming having an affair with her bodyguard which created a big mess and led Zhao Ming losing her life.

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Hao Mei felt wronged when Zhao Ming said to remove her from her position and transfer to the lotus pavilion.

She clenched her fists tightly and shouted, ” What are you doing? How can you do this to me? You have no authority to do this to me. You can't do this.”

” I will not go anywhere. I will remain here and I see who has the guts to remove me from my position. Until Consort Xiao Li arrives and asks me to go to lotus pavilion herself, till then I won't go anywhere. ” she said stubbornly as she sat on the ground with her legs folded.

Zhao Ming saw Hao Mei behaving stubbornly. She was laughing at her mindset.

' This girl is naive. She is holding onto something which will not wait to throw her away.' she scoffed lightly.

” You're really stubborn, hm?”

Zhao Ming watched Hao Mei creating a scene by crying and sobbing like an abandoned child which was opposite from her arrogant and rude behavior earlier.