After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 896 - 891: Concubine

Su Jin ordered the Imperial Physician in public; he dared not disobey.

The Imperial Physician wasn’t afraid of offending Princess Nanzhang, after all, he couldn’t afford to offend the princess even more.

Besides, even if he didn’t say anything, the Emperor would find out.

The Imperial Physician took his leave.

After he left, the Princess Consort also got up and left.

She had been sitting there the whole time, completely not expecting Su Jin to win this battle so beautifully.

However, there was never a time when Su Jin didn’t win beautifully.

Xique assisted the Princess Consort back to the front courtyard.

The Peony Garden was almost completely rebuilt, but it had just been painted and the smell was quite strong; it would take at least ten days to half a month to air out before moving in.

Su Jin and Qin Hanhan went for a walk in the garden, thanking her.

Qin Hanhan laughed, "Why are you being so polite to me?"

Qin Hanhan was well aware that the poison in Princess Nanzhang was administered by Su Jin, and she was sure to help her detoxify it.

Was she brought in just to provoke Princess Nanzhang and her son, or to lend a helping hand?

After all, she had just frightened the Marchioness Jingguo a few days ago.

The Marchioness Jingguo already disapproved of her continuing to raise Gu Worms.

By asking her to detoxify Princess Nanzhang, Su Jin was indirectly telling the Marchioness Jingguo that Gu Worms aren’t necessarily bad and can also detoxify.

She only helped Su Jin with a small favor but also gained Su Jin’s great gratitude.

However, Qin Hanhan wasn’t mistaken; part of the poison in Princess Nanzhang was indeed administered by Su Jin.

The poison in Princess Nanzhang, though seemingly severe, wasn’t difficult to detoxify and even if the Imperial Physician couldn’t help, it could be delayed for a few days.

Su Jin wasn’t patient enough to play a small conspiracy with them for several days.

In this mansion, who would poison Princess Nanzhang?

Other than herself.

Such a clumsy trick, Su Jin saw through it at a glance, yet they were still enjoying playing it.

While taking Princess Nanzhang’s pulse, Su Jin also poisoned her, leaving the Imperial Physician helpless, forcing Xie Jinyu and Xie Jingchuan to seek the antidote.

This antidote, Su Jin had to find it.

Otherwise, even if Princess Nanzhang took the antidote, the poison wouldn’t be cleared. Without her own poison as a cover, Su Jin would be like a fish flopping on the sand, completely exposed.

The timing of Princess Nanzhang’s self-victimization was excellent, but once exposed, it became the worst timing.

The Emperor was already worried about Xie Jingchen following the Prince to the border, leaving Su Jin in Prince Zhenbei Mansion as unsafe, though Eunuch Fu always thought the Emperor’s worries were unnecessary.

For so long, it’s always been bad luck for anyone who provoked the Heir’s wife.

The result is the same whether the Young Master was there or not.

Now that Xie Jingchen had just left for half a day, Princess Nanzhang and her two sons started causing trouble, ruining his daughter’s reputation.

Using her own life to scheme against others, the Emperor was furious, almost wanting to actually take Princess Nanzhang’s life.

Finally—

The Emperor decreed to strip Princess Nanzhang of her noble title.

In front of the princess, what noble status does a commandery princess have to speak of?

Then take away this noble commandery princess title!

While the Emperor was furious here, Princess Nanzhang was also furious in the Buddhist Hall.

She scolded Mrs. Zhao and the others for being too stupid.

How could they admit this matter?!

The Prince had just left, she didn’t believe the Heir’s wife would really let her die and watch her die of poisoning.

At the very least, they should have framed Third Master as the poisoner.

Fake Old Madam is Third Master’s birth mother; it was his mother and daughter who bled from the orifices, so it would be reasonable for Third Master to want to kill her for revenge for Fake Old Madam.

Moreover, Third Master had escaped and was missing.

Framing him, Third Master couldn’t defend himself with a hundred mouths.

Princess Nanzhang was so angry that her chest hurt.

Mrs. Zhao dared not argue, she just felt the Commandery Princess was oversimplifying the matter.

If she hadn’t confessed and instead blamed Third Master, then whatever happened to the Commandery Princess couldn’t be blamed on the Heir’s wife.

The Heir’s wife really would’ve let her die!

But now it was too late to say anything.

The Emperor already knew about their conspiracy against the Heir’s wife, and it was uncertain how he would punish them.

The next day, Eunuch Fu came to Prince Zhenbei Mansion to announce a decree.

The Emperor rescinded Princess Nanzhang’s noble title.

Princess Nanzhang knelt on the ground, her face ashen.

However, what further infuriated Princess Nanzhang was yet to come.

Eunuch Fu came to deliver the decree merely as a formality; the main purpose was to bring tributes to Su Jin.

Two full baskets.

Su Jin, "..."

Everyone, "..."

The maids and matrons thought the Heir’s wife’s skill in angering people was indeed partly credited to the Emperor.

The Emperor’s ability to anger wasn’t lacking at all.

Stripped of the commandery princess title, Princess Nanzhang wasn’t infuriated to fainting.

But rewarded with two baskets of tributes for the Heir’s wife, she was.

This time, Su Jin achieved three goals with one arrow.

First, she had Princess Nanzhang stripped of her title.

Second, she invited Qin Hanhan to detoxify Princess Nanzhang, using the opportunity to let others know she was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted; even when framed by Princess Nanzhang’s self-victimization, she still sought to save her.

Third, she took the opportunity to clarify the death of Princess Qi.

Though Princess Qi died of poisoning, regardless of who poisoned her, the cause was the Gu Worm.

Because servants saw the Gu Worm at Prince Zhenbei Mansion, many believed Su Jin was the one who used it on Princess Qi.

Without conclusive evidence, however, rumors are frightening.

Su Jin took the chance to reveal the Gu Worm again while detoxifying Princess Nanzhang, telling everyone it was used for detoxification, not killing.

Such a detoxifying Gu Worm, would she use it on Princess Qi?

Certainly not.

With the imperial decree, Princess Nanzhang and her son were pushed again to the forefront of public opinion.

Everyone discussing this unanimously agreed Princess Nanzhang was too foolish.

A foolish father, one foolish person.

A foolish mother, a whole family foolish.

Especially Xie Jingchuan...

Not long ago, he burned Peony Garden, and ended up burning Peony Garden, burning away most of Princess Nanzhang’s dowry.

Having learned nothing from that, he once again used the trick of self-victimization to frame the Heir’s wife, but failed, resulting in losing the commandery princess title.

Others play self-victimization once and it’s a hit.

As for them, it’s bad luck every time, what’s worse is, they never learn.

The ones endangering them aren’t the Heir’s wife, it’s themselves.

’Heaven’s sins are forgivable, self-inflicted sins are not.’

Sooner or later, they will put themselves to ruin.

At this rate of disaster, that day is probably not far off.

These discussions inevitably reached the ears of Princess Nanzhang and the Empress Dowager.

Princess Nanzhang—

No, she can’t be called Princess Nanzhang anymore.

Her original surname is Liu.

In the future, she can only be addressed as Consort Liu.

The word ’consort’ is a thorn in Princess Nanzhang’s heart, and no one dares to mention it.

Before, she had her commandery princess status as a fig leaf, but now that fig leaf was removed.

The three words ’Consort Liu’ directly angered Princess Nanzhang into falling ill.

And not just Princess Nanzhang, but also the Empress Dowager.

If not for the Empress Dowager’s pressure back then, the Prince would’ve never married Princess Nanzhang, and she wouldn’t have been able to marry him.

These three words slapped both Princess Nanzhang and the Empress Dowager across the face.

One can only imagine how furious the Empress Dowager was.

The Empress Dowager was so angry, her head hurt even more.

The Empress Dowager ordered all prefectures and counties to actively search for Doctor Wei’s whereabouts, declaring that she would not tolerate any negligence.