According to Concubine Zhao's original arrangement, the Third Prince Feng Jingxuan, Princess Yunxi, and Bai Di were each assigned to one of the rooms. Served by their personal servants, they drank the hangover soup sent by the Imperial Hospital and then went to rest.
At this moment, after passing by two rooms in succession, both were wide open and empty inside.
Concubine Zhao's heart thumped wildly. The closer she got to the innermost room, where there was a crowd of people, the more her hands trembled.
Bai Sheng walked quickly in the front. Her lotus - colored embroidered shoes stepped on the ground, making her skirt bloom like a huge lotus flower.
Her eyes were fixed firmly on the front.
There, it was already surrounded tightly by palace maids and eunuchs. Each of them was vying to peek into the room, but not a single sound was made.
Some were so shocked that they stood still, while others covered their lips with their hands and looked at each other in consternation. Not even a whisper of private discussion could be heard.
It was an eerie silence.
In sharp contrast to this silence were the heart - rending cries of Bai Di coming from inside the room from time to time, almost on the verge of collapse.
"Ah—ah—"
Bai Sheng's heart was suddenly lifted.
She walked faster and faster, and went straight to the door of the room. She pushed aside the on - looking crowd forcefully until her sight could clearly see the scene inside the room without any obstruction.
The moment she saw it clearly, Bai Sheng's pupils shrank suddenly, and she stood there completely stunned.
Inside the room, the floor was littered with messy clothes. Especially the white underwear and the pink undergarment embroidered with mandarin ducks clearly indicated the debauchery that had taken place in the room.
On the carved bed at the far end, Bai Di was huddled in the corner, covering her body with only a thin blanket, and crying hysterically.
The thin blanket was just draped over her body. As Bai Di's body trembled violently, it gradually slipped off, revealing her slender neck and fair shoulders. One could clearly see that Bai Di's body was covered with festering red marks.
What made Bai Sheng even more devastated was the bright red stain on the bed.
The meaning of this bloodstain was self - evident—Bai Di had lost her virginity.
However, the person she lost it to was not her fiancé Feng Jingxuan.
It was a young man who was now quickly putting on the eunuch's uniform in the room, with his hair crown in disarray, his face flushed, and sitting on the other side of the bed gasping for breath.
It's all over, completely over...
Bai Sheng only felt a chill rising from the soles of her feet and quickly spreading throughout her body, freezing every cell in her body.
She could even clearly feel the goosebumps rising on her skin layer by layer.
She knew what she should do at this moment, but she just couldn't move.
"What's wrong, Sister Sheng?" Su Muxiao pushed past Concubine Zhao and rushed into the crowd, coming in front of Bai Sheng.
Concubine Zhao was gently pushed by her. Her already trembling feet couldn't bear the force, so she simply fell down.
Su Muxiao ran over. First, she looked at Bai Sheng with concern and said, "Sister Sheng, why did you run so fast? What on earth happened... Di'er?"
Following Bai Sheng's line of sight, Su Muxiao also saw the scene inside the room. Her eyes widened in surprise, and she couldn't help shouting, "What are you doing? This is the imperial palace! How could you do such a thing!"
At this moment, Bai Di was still immersed in the great shock of suddenly losing her virginity. Due to shouting for too long, her voice had become hoarse, and she had lost her strength. Finally, she stopped her hysterical screaming and began to sob softly.
Someone dispersed the crowd, and Feng Linche and the others followed closely.
The situation inside the room clearly fell into the eyes of everyone present.
Bai Zheng, who finally saw everything clearly, was also stunned.
She suddenly turned her head and stared at Su Muxiao in front of her with blazing eyes, who was pretending to be surprised.
As if feeling Bai Zheng's gaze, Su Muxiao glanced at Bai Zheng from the corner of her eye, and a barely noticeable arc curled up at the corner of her lips.
What a crazy woman!
Bai Zheng couldn't help scolding in her heart.
Feng Linyuan frowned his long eyebrows and stepped forward to block in front of Bai Zheng.
"Jianzhi?"
Feng Jingye, who finally made his way to the front, squinted his eyes and called out in disbelief.
The young man inside the room finally raised his head and looked in the direction of the voice.
"Your Highness."
He forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.
This smile was completely different from the contemptuous and unruly one when he was galloping on the street with a pair of horses, hitting people and refusing to admit his mistake.
So it's him!
After seeing the other person's face, Bai Zheng gasped.
Wasn't he the most useless younger brother of the Crown Princess, the second young master of the Chen Duke's Mansion, who was well - known for his bad temper, being unreasonable, and only knowing how to haunt brothels all day long—Chen Jianzhi?
Speaking of this Second Young Master Chen, that day, Bai Zheng only saw him from afar on the street. His self - indulgence, not knowing the hardships of the common people, and the way he regarded human lives as worthless after hitting someone left a deep impression on people.
Therefore, although Bai Zheng didn't know all his glorious deeds at that time, she still knew his character quite well.
After the incident of him injuring people with his horse, Bai Zheng specially sent someone to investigate him.
Excluding the illegitimate sons, there were only two legitimate sons in the Chen Duke's Mansion, the second young master Chen Jianzhi and the youngest young master Chen Yanzhi.
However, these two were like heaven and earth. One was as outstanding as the moon in the sky, well - versed in both literature and martial arts, and praised by everyone. The other was like the grass on the ground, good for nothing, and avoided by everyone.
But after Bai Zheng's investigation, she found that Chen Jianzhi was actually quite pitiful.
Chen Jianzhi and the Crown Princess Chen Jing were both born to Lady Li, the original wife of the Chen Duke. Unfortunately, Lady Li died young of illness when Chen Jianzhi was three years old.
The next year, the Chen Duke married his second wife, Lady Sheng. The youngest young master Chen Yanzhi was born to Lady Sheng.
It must be said that Lady Sheng was really a remarkable woman. She didn't pay attention to the illegitimate sons. Although Chen Jing was a legitimate daughter, she was a woman and had a gentle and easy - to - manipulate personality, so Lady Sheng didn't care about her either.
She was only very wary of Chen Jianzhi.
He was the legitimate son of the original wife, with a higher status than Chen Yanzhi, the son of the second wife, and was also older than Chen Yanzhi.
If there were no accidents, the Chen Duke's Mansion would fall into his hands in the future.
Fortunately, when Lady Sheng entered the mansion, Chen Jianzhi was still young and his character was not yet set. So Lady Sheng used the tactic of "killing with excessive praise" on him.
Since she entered the mansion, she had shown that she was very sympathetic to this child who had lost his mother since childhood. One could say that she was afraid of dropping him if she held him in her hands and afraid of melting him if she put him in her mouth.
For this legitimate son of the original wife, Lady Sheng was even more caring than for her own son.
Since childhood, there had only been one maid and one page boy around Chen Yanzhi.
But around Chen Jianzhi, there were seven or eight young and beautiful maids who were quick - witted, playing and joking with him and undressing him.
Letting him grow up in a soft and fragrant world of women, he naturally became a flower - loving prodigal when he grew up.