Encountered You

Part 4; a face

No matter how stubborn Xian Wang was he couldn't compare with Emperor and Empress Dowager's will at all, both were the smartest of the palace and vicious schemer, compared with Xian Wang who was doted on by them and the late Emperor, it was like compared heaven to the earth.

Li Xi Yue felt no surprised when a palace maid from Empress Dowager's palace came and established Han-shi as Cefei. She was the one who received the Palace maid and female officials seen that the highest ranking woman in Xian Wangfu was her. After these palace maid and Female Officials bowed to her, she let Hong Ying entrusted several pouches to them.

She glanced at Han-shi's behavior then sighed inside, this is why concubines couldn't compared to a wife at all, one should marry a virtuous wife because the woman responsible for the bearing of three generations.

"a daughter shouldn't concern herself in the matter of her father, but seeing that in the whole Wangfu, this Junzhu got all the authorities and highest ranking, This Junzhu will say in my mother's place, i hope Han Cefei know her place and served Father-wang well."

She didn't even look at Han-shi's expression when she went away with her maids and eunuch. While Han-shi clenched her hand tightly.

"is that ok, Junzhu to speak to Han Cefei like that?"

Li Xi Yue revealed a smile to Bai Xia, "she is too arrogant in conduct, if someone doesn't warn her, i'm afraid she will turned this Wangfu upside down."

This is the Wangfu her younger brother was set to inherited in the future, she didn't want to experience a battle between di and shu sons of a Wang, she and her younger sister still needed to married, reputation for girls were everything, who would came and knocked their door to ask for marriage if this kind of shameful problems occured in the future?

Call her wicked, corrupt, evil or anything, but who let her lost her mother so young? Born of Imperial Family, she knew that her marriage would never one decided by her parents, those three from the palace would decreed everything, but it didn't mean that she couldn't make her life better.

Maybe because she was born in the Imperial Clan or maybe because she had incompetent father, and weak mother, but she had this kind of temperament since she was a child, maybe because she was raised under Emperor's knees and spent her childhood in Imperial study with the Emperor, or maybe because she was pampered, but she had this extreme ways of thinking, she was extremely double-standard, she was good girl, her background was noble, she was prominent in every talents any noble girls required to be since young age, she was the model of every young misses in Jian capital, everyone's mother wanted them to copied her, thus she liked to compare others but extremely dissatisfied when others compared her, maybe she was really this weird.

Months passed away quickly and new year were approaching. Her siblings's birthday were always being celebrates by only three of them and their servants, Li Xi Yue would personally cooked bowl of longevity noodles for her siblings, her father? Don't ask about him, he was busy played loving family with Han-shi their son, leaving the three children alone, but it was good, at least Li Xi Yue didn't need to act docile in front of her father at all.

Her younger siblings loved her greatly, her younger brother, Li Xi Qiu was very good at learning, he was smart, got a lot of praises from his teachers, him, Crown Prince and Jin Wang Shizi were in the same age.

Li Xi Yue admired the Emperor greatly. He was an amazing ruler, but only had one weakness, he didn't have many children of his own, he only got his first daughter, Princess Qing He and Crown Prince, both were born after they tried so hard. Compared to him, his younger brothers were better, look at her own father, Xian Wang got three di children bore from his first deceased wife and one shu son of his concubines, while Jin Wang got four children from his Wangfei and two more from his concubines, and Rong Wang got three sons, the Shizi even older than her, he was the first Imperial Grandson of the deceased Emperor. It's pity that Rong Wang's birth mother's birth was too low, thus made him uncapable to defeat his other half-brothers, especially when the Emperor was adopted by Empress Dowager since he was a child along with her father.

For months, after Han-shi's installment the woman couldn't sit still and look pretty as she was supposed to be at all, she had thoughts that she wasn't supposed to be, that's to grasped a household matters from her. First she complained to Xian Wang, made Xian Wang thought so too, but Empress Dowager from the palace reprimanded him and told him that no concubines ever in the whole Imperial Clan to lay a hand in the household matter, even if the original wife passed away, there's still a di daughter present, even if one day she married, there should be another di daughter to hold it and if there's no di daughter then there's still Chief Sterward from the Palace, they're not so pitiful to the point they must let a Concubine hold an account book of a household.

Once a concubine entered an Imperial Clan members's Fu, they were just a plaything, a property that was owned by their masters. Harsh? Yes, but it was the Imperial Family's prestige and face, Empress Dowager and Emperor already relented for Xian Wang too much and elevated Han-shi's status, there's no way they would let Xian Wang trampled into the dignity of the Imperial Family too much.

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Di: children born from the legitimate wife

Shu: childrwn born from the concubines

Cefei: a concubine rank bellow Wangfei

Shi: literally a Clan, once Li Xi Yue married, she would supposed to be called as Li-shi, but seeing she was an Imperial Family member, she and other princesses of Imperial clan will always known by their title unless they married to someone higher ranking than them (a Wang or an Emperor).