Nie Wu Yan also heard Jin Xun's report, knowing that she was going to leave her seat to talk to her mother about personal matters, so she didn't disturb her. Upon hearing this, she nodded and said: "Fourth sister, go ahead, I'll take care of myself - today, Mother and elder sisters are all here!"

  Song Yi smiled and put down her wine glass, quietly withdrawing from the banquet with Jin Xun.

  Upon reaching the gate, a blast of cold air hit them in the face, and after wrapping their fur coats tightly around them, both master and servant felt invigorated!

  She then asked carefully: "Who was it that just passed on a message to you in front of your mother? Can you tell me what business does my mother have with me?"

  "I don't even know what her name is!" Jin Xun said with some embarrassment, "But I remember she was one of the attendants serving in front of the princess - as for what she wanted to say, she didn't say anything, just hastily gave a few instructions and left!"

  "Is that so?" Song Yi smiled and narrowed her eyes, as if thinking deeply, "We haven't been in touch with Mother for days, and even the servants are strangers to each other!"

  Jin Xun only then reacted to his own recklessness: the other party came and went in a hurry, she at least pulled him back to ask a few more questions, and then report back to Master!

  She couldn't help but blush and was about to apologize when Song Yi smiled and shook her head, saying: "Anyway, go wait at the changing room first!"

  "What's meant to come will come!"

  At this time, Jin Xun still didn't know what she meant by saying so, but after a moment, the master and servant in the dressing room did not wait for Wei Mengying, but instead saw Cui Jianli who was heavily pregnant and walked with difficulty!

  "Very unexpected?" As soon as Cui Jianlian entered the door, the maid Xiaoman who accompanied her immediately locked the door behind her!

  She took Xiaoman's hand and walked to the table, sat down gently, and glanced at Song Yisheng with a playful smile. "Obviously, you were waiting for your mother, but it turned out that I came instead?"

  "Hengshan Wang Taifei has been looking at us mother and daughter with disapproval for a long time, not just one or two days. What's so special about giving you a hand?" However, unexpectedly, Jin Xun was indeed surprised, but Song Yi smiled calmly, still holding the teacup and taking a light sip, before saying, "Could it be that you still expect me to think I'm being sold out by my own mother just because of one maid?"

  Cui Jianlian heard this and slightly narrowed her eyes. After a moment, she looked surprised and said, "You know that maid has a problem?"

  "Naturally." Song Yi smiled and put the tea bowl on the table, fiddled with the bangle on her wrist, and chuckled, "As the saying goes, no one knows a mother better than her daughter. Even though I haven't been in touch with my mom much lately, it doesn't mean I can be fooled by your little tricks!"

  How much her own mother valued her body!

  If there really is something to discuss with the eldest daughter at this time, it's not necessary to have a hasty meeting in the palace! Otherwise, people will see that the mother and daughter are clearly estranged on the surface but secretly colluding. What if the Crown Prince fails in the future? How can Wei Mengying get a good outcome?

  But there's no need to tell Choi Jianyun about this.

  Song Yi laughed lightly, "I really can't understand: what qualifications do you have to repeatedly make things difficult for me? No matter how you calculate it, shouldn't it be that you owe me, rather than I owing you?"

  "What do I owe you?" Cui Jianlian muttered, repeating a sentence, suddenly laughing too, with a bright smile, but her eyes were filled with frost, "You're sitting here safely and soundly, how dare you say I owe you?!"

  Song Yi laughed coldly: "Are maidservants not human?!"

  "I didn't intend to harm your maid at first!" Cui Jianlian casually smoothed out her sleeves, "If that maid hadn't been dragged down by you, a useless thing, how would she have ended up disabled?"

  "You can still turn black and white upside down with such a straight face, you really are as shameless as ever!" Song Yi's hand in her sleeve clenched and relaxed suddenly, and she laughed lightly, "It's no wonder that on the Lantern Festival, the Empress Dowager also wants to give you some color to see, so you don't forget your place as a concubine!"

  Cui Jianlian heard the two words "concubine", a flash of anger on her face!

  "You dare to say that I'm shameless? Who can be more shameless than you mother and daughter?! If it weren't for you driving me back to the Cui residence all those years ago, preventing me from seeing Third Brother frequently, how would I have ended up in this state?! You've ruined my entire life, yet you still dare to say that I owe you?! It's you who owes me for this lifetime and the next!!!"

  Song Yi laughed and scolded: "With your vicious heart, even if you see Lu San Gongzi every day, he would still drive you out of his house! A person like you, those who don't know your true nature or are blinded by your beauty; if they knew the truth, how many men in this world would want you?"

  Her eyes were as cold as ice, staring at Cui Jianliang, word by word, "You ended up like this today, it's what you deserved! No matter how miserable you become, it's what you deserve!"

  "What about you?" Enraged to the extreme, Cui Jianliang suddenly calmed down and countered coldly, "What are you, a good thing? You eat from the Hengshan Wangfu, wear from the Hengshan Wangfu, use things from the Hengshan Wangfu, even your coming-of-age ceremony is in the Hengshan Wangfu... In the end, you still want to help that mother of yours plot against the master of the Hengshan Wangfu! What right do you have, yet you can marry a man of your liking and live a life of conjugal bliss?"

  "I'm asking you why you're bothering me!" Song Yi Xiang heard this and burst out laughing, "So it's because you didn't end up marrying Young Master Lu San, and now you can't bear to see that I'm living a good life after getting married?"

  She fiddled with the jade bangle on her wrist and looked up to ask, "But what can you do even if you don't like me?"

  "You saw through that maid's problem, yet you still came here to wait for me. Are you thinking that no matter what, I won't be able to do anything to you?" Cui Jianlian gazed at her coldly, his tone mocking, "Why don't you take this opportunity to mock me privately?!"

  Song Yi smiled and said: "You can be considered clever for once!"

  "I didn't expect that guy to be flawless either!" Cui Jianlian heard this and didn't get angry, but instead looked at her with a deadpan expression and lightly smiled, "As long as you're here, no matter if it's in a muddle or with an air of self-importance - I can rest assured!"

  As she spoke, she slowly lowered her head - Song Yi and the servant followed her gaze, on the indigo skirt, a dark red bloodstain was slowly spreading!

  "Ah!" Jing Xun covered her mouth in shock, her lovely face turning pale as death in an instant, "You... your pregnancy?!"

  "You are the most ruthless and crazy person I have ever met! You can be counted as one of them!" Song Yi's face was also very ugly, but there was no panic in her eyes, she just said calmly, "Flesh and blood, still twins, and already six months old - just to avenge me? You really are capable of doing it! I don't know what the Empress and the Crown Prince will think when they find out the truth one day."

  Cui Jianlian clutched the edge of the table, enduring wave after wave of intense pain in her abdomen, and sneered: "But they won't know! I'd rather see how the Prince of Yan will look at you in the future? Oh, maybe there's no need to look, Empress Dowager is so fond of him, how could she allow him to have a wife who drags him down? Counting your age, you're not even married yet, are you? How pitiful, after Yi Shikong's daughter-in-law, another beauty will die young!"

  Song Yixiao noticed her gaze sweeping across her skirt and subconsciously clenched her handkerchief: "You Qingchun?"

  "How does it feel to be sold out by your wet nurse's own daughter?" Choi Jianlian heard this and instead of being shocked, she was delighted. Her tone had an indescribable pleasure, "I've heard that you were never close with your birth mother, but rather treated your wet nurse like a half-mother, relying on her heavily. What a pity! She may have been kind to you, but not as much as she is to her own daughter! Otherwise, how could Zhao Shi, who has always been clever, let someone tamper with your personal belongings?"

  "You first hoped that I would suspect my birth mother, and then you hoped that I would be disappointed in my wet nurse. This is really interesting! Song Yi smiled and pursed her lips, laughing softly, "Let me guess: You didn't want to enter the Eastern Palace at all, but were forced by your family? Especially by your parents? Otherwise, why would you go to such great lengths to make me taste the feeling of being betrayed by my own family?"

  Her lips curled slightly, drawing a clear malicious intent, and she said in a sweet tone, "It's just a pity that your design didn't succeed! However, this is also the natural law of heaven: someone like you who views human life as worthless at such a young age deserves to be seen as nothing but a pawn by their own family!"

  "Despicable person!!!" The last sentence hit Cui Jianli's sore spot, and she no longer had the mood to play tricks on others. She turned her hand over and pulled the tablecloth down to the ground along with the tea set, giving a look to Xiao Man who was supporting her - Xiao Man understood, and let out a loud shout: "Someone come! Come quickly! The side consort is not well!!!"

  "Madam! What shall we do now?!"

  "The concubine is willing to sacrifice six months of her pregnancy for this performance, which is equivalent to risking her own life!" Song Yi Xiang didn't look at her, but instead gazed coldly at the bloodstains on the ground, saying lightly, "Such a rare good show, if we don't watch it to the end, wouldn't that be disappointing her efforts?"

  She stroked her cloud-like hair with a backward hand, and a hint of sarcasm appeared at the corner of her lips.

  A moment later, the Crown Princess hastily arrived and changed her expression as soon as she saw the blood under Cui Jianli's skirt: "Where is the imperial physician? Has someone been sent to summon the imperial physician?"

  Song Yi smiled and stood up, giving her a courtesy, saying: "As for the Crown Prince's words, just now there was already an official who went to invite you!"

  "Fortunately, you're here!" The crown princess heard this and let out a sigh of relief, nodding her head in gratitude towards her - but unexpectedly, Xiao Man followed up with tears, saying: "Your Highness, why are you still thanking her? If it wasn't for her, Concubine Consort wouldn't be like this!"

  "What?! The crown prince's consort was shocked, looking at Song Yishang - but saw her expression calm and looking back at herself, couldn't help but frown slightly, displeased, scolding Xiaoman, "Your master is suffering now, you don't serve well, but instead talk nonsense here! What grudge does the lady of Yan country have against Cui sister that she would harm Cui sister?!"

  He said, taking another step forward and grasping Cui Jianli's hand, "Sister Cui, how are you? Hold on a little longer, the imperial physician will arrive soon!"

  "I know my sister's younger sister has a good relationship with that Song family!" Who would have thought that Cui Jianli, who had been closing her eyes and pretending to be weak, suddenly opened her eyes, shook off her hand, and coldly said, "But you and I are both serving the Crown Prince, we should be even closer - no matter how much my sister loves her family, how can she still protect that Song family at this time?! If so, why bother asking for a doctor again? Let me go, it's better to avoid offending you!"

  The princess heard this and her expression changed slightly: "Sister, I don't understand what you're saying!"

  As he stood up and looked at Song Yi with a smile, "Can you tell me what just happened, little sister? So that everyone doesn't misunderstand!"

  Song Yi smiled and glanced at Cui Jianliang with a cold expression, saying lightly: "The Crown Princess didn't say so, I also wanted to wait until the situation of Concubine Cui stabilized before making things clear!"

  "She sneered, 'After all, marrying your husband may be a high match, but we've become relatives and our family tree has been entered, there's absolutely no reason for me to leave the house just because you say so!!'"

  When she heard this, not only was the crown prince's consort stunned, but even Cui Jianli, who had been firmly convinced, was also left staring with her mouth agape: When did she ever say that Song Yiliao should be deposed?! She just wanted Song Yiliao to die, okay?!

  "Wait!" Cui suddenly thought of something and his face turned iron-gray in an instant!