Feeling a cool hand suddenly rest on her, she turned to look at Zhongli Mingye. "I'm... fine..."
"Your Highness, Lady Jin!"
Cheng Song stepped forward, intending to report something to Song Jinyu. Unexpectedly, Zhongli Mingye's face darkened. "What did you call her?"
"P... Princess."
Only after hearing Cheng Song correct his address did Zhongli Mingye stride away.
Really... why be so fussy about such things? Song Jinyu gave him a disgruntled look.
"The Golden Water Palace got that prescription and is now inquiring about the spiritual roots everywhere."
"Don't they know that the spiritual root base on Tianmen Mountain has been completely destroyed?" Song Jinyu mused. "In another two months, the emperor will finish his medicine."
"Let's wait a bit longer. If we act too soon, it will arouse his suspicion, and all our efforts will be in vain!"
"Yes!"
Before leaving Tianmen Mountain, Song Jinyu looked at the prescription left by her master. A thought flashed through her mind. She picked up a pen and imitated her master's handwriting, writing a new prescription.
Unexpectedly, not long after she descended the mountain, the prescription disappeared... "Master Wen is very anxious. He strictly investigated the entire mountain and killed many people."
Song Jinyu smiled faintly. As expected, he was the person she had high hopes for. "Kill well. In a chaotic world, harsh measures are needed... Mercy is for the kind."
But kindness is useless in the dark struggle for power.
She sat in the Flowing Cloud Pavilion, silently tapping on the stone table. "Don't be in a hurry. Take it slow. For now... the Golden Water Palace is more anxious than we are."
When a storm is coming, the one who can stay calm is the real winner. Ouyang Jinsè, although I can't act on impulse and kill you with a single sword.
A mocking smile played on Song Jinyu's lips, and her eyes were as calm as an ancient well. I will make you watch the Golden Water Palace disappear forever. Your Ouyang family is destined to be completely wiped out from the martial world.
The simplest punishment for a person is to kill them directly.
But the most advanced punishment for a person is to make them watch everything they care about being destroyed bit by bit, leaving no trace.
Cheng Song silently looked at Song Jinyu. Unexpectedly, her next words were about him. "You should join the army!"
"Don't let yourself have any regrets." Touched by Cheng Song's decision to give up the position of the sect master of the Heavenly Eagle Sect and choose to follow her in revenge, Song Jinyu didn't want her people to end up badly.
"Lady Jin! As long as the Golden Water Palace is not eliminated, this subordinate will never leave you!" Cheng Song knelt down. Yan Fei was also his brother, and they had grown up together.
She sighed. The people around her were all so loyal and affectionate.
Shuyue, a maid in the prince's mansion, suddenly appeared in the Flowing Cloud Pavilion. "This maid pays respects to the princess." Interrupted so abruptly, Song Jinyu was a bit unhappy. But since she had only been in the mansion for a short time, she wasn't familiar with the maids, guards, servants, and stewards.
So, she didn't say much.
"The prince won't have dinner in the mansion today." Shuyue's eyes darted around, stealing glances at Song Jinyu from time to time.
Unexpectedly, she saw Cheng Song standing behind Song Jinyu, which was against the rules.
"I see. You may leave first."
Song Jinyu pretended not to notice Shuyue's glances, but she secretly remembered this maid. "The waters in the Prince Yu Mansion are very deep."
Cheng Song sneered. "Lady Jin's talents are really wasted here."
"It doesn't matter. Give them more time and a big enough stage, and they'll put on a good show."
Niaoniao stormed in, looking extremely angry. "The servants in the Prince Yu Mansion are so rude!"
"What happened?"
"Miss, you don't know. Since the prince won't come back for dinner, they just served you four simple dishes for dinner."
"They also said that the mansion is reducing expenses."
Song Jinyu suddenly laughed. "It doesn't matter... These are just trivial matters."
It seemed that since they didn't consummate their marriage last night, the servants were good at judging people's attitudes. Most of them probably thought that Zhongli Mingye didn't care about her at this moment.
The mansion steward looked at the two trouble - making cooks with a dark face. "Are you blind?"
"No matter whether the Princess of Prince Yu is in favor or out of favor, we servants are not allowed to be so presumptuous!"
That stupid girl Shuyue, relying on her beauty, thought she would catch the prince's eye and immediately provoked the new princess. For the dinner of a dignified princess, only four vegetarian dishes were served.
Mi Cui, a female official from the Liuzhou Prince's Mansion, noticed something was wrong and gave the steward a chance, which led to this incident. "Steward Cheng, it's right for our mansion to reduce expenses. Since the prince won't come back for dinner, the cooks just need to make a few dishes."
Shuyue still didn't know her place and argued stubbornly.
The steward, an old fox, glared at her fiercely and stepped forward to slap her. "Idiot! You're just a maid, and you still dare to be so presumptuous! Someone, beat them all to death!"
Unable to believe that the steward, who had always thought highly of her, would order her to be beaten to death, Shuyue cried and begged for mercy. "It's the prince who has the final say in this mansion!"
The steward sneered. "That's right... But the prince won't care about the life or death of a maid."
Before it got completely dark, three people disappeared from the Prince Yu Mansion. The remaining servants and guards were all trembling with fear and didn't dare to cause any more trouble.
They didn't dare to look down on Song Jinyu just because the marriage hadn't been consummated.
Mi Cui and Xing Jian looked at Steward Cheng. "From today on, Xing Jian will take over the management of the mansion from you."
The steward was terrified. This incident wasn't originally his fault. But since Shuyue was so presumptuous and despised the princess, he was naturally responsible for his negligence.
Xing Jian stepped forward and said coldly, "How the prince and the princess get along is their own business."
"As servants, we should know our place."
How unlucky! The steward hated Shuyue to the core. Before he left, he specially went to the wood - shed to visit Shuyue, who was half - dead from the beating. "You're really a jinx!"
"Ru... rubbish... The prince doesn't like her anyway. She has a humble background..." Shuyue was in great pain all over her body. She didn't understand what she had done wrong.
Wasn't it just serving a few fewer dishes to the princess?
"You're so stupid! The princess was betrothed by the emperor and personally requested by the prince in marriage."
Shuyue had only been in the mansion for a few months and had never seen Song Jinyu. But the steward knew that the princess had appeared in the mansion twice.
Shuyue shouted, "She doesn't deserve it. I saw her whispering with another man alone in the Flowing Cloud Pavilion just after she got married."
Unable to bear it any longer, the steward stepped forward and snapped Shuyue's neck.
At night, Song Jinyu slept soundly. Not a single whisper of these things reached her ears.
In the study, after Zhongli Mingye heard Xing Jian's report, he repeatedly instructed, "You did a good job. There are people from the queen and the emperor in the mansion."
"We can't move these people easily. We should deal with them quietly." He made a gesture of killing.
"Don't disturb her, and don't let the princess worry about this."
The person Zhongli Mingye thought would be worried was sleeping soundly at this moment. Thanks to the news brought by Cheng Song, Song Jinyu felt much more at ease.