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Chapter 4495: 5.0247 Piercing the Heart

"Normally, it was out of consideration for your mother that I tolerated your foul temper and let you have your way in everything. Do you think with your pig-headed brain and useless skills, I would willingly stay by your side, letting you hit and curse me, ordering me around like a dog?"

"You and I are both princesses. What makes you so noble?"

"Do you know how disgusting you are, constantly showing your foolish face, offending people everywhere! And I have to clean up your messes. I've had enough of you."

"Ah!" Princess Jiankang felt an excruciating pain in her arm, as if it were about to be torn off, causing cold sweat to pour down her forehead.

"Princess! Princess!" The little palace maid cried out anxiously and angrily, repeatedly calling, "Ninth Princess, Ninth Princess, don't be like this! Ninth Princess, please let go of our princess, Ninth Princess."

"Rong Yuhu, you hussy! You and that hussy mother of yours, are just alike... Ah!" Princess Jiankang felt a crisp "crack" from her arm. Her arm was actually pulled apart by that hussy, Rong Yuhu.

"Hussy? You keep calling people hussies, why don't you look in the mirror? Who looks more like a hussy now? Who's the hussy??" Rong Yuhu pushed her onto a fan-shaped seat by the pavilion edge, holding her down fiercely, forcing Rong Shanshan to look at her own disheveled reflection on the water.

"Just because you were born of the Empress, you've used that status to bully others since childhood. Have you ever thought that one day, you would fall from power like this? That you would live like a dog, like this moment?"

"Ah, ah," Princess Jiankang's head was pressed by Rong Yuhu's fingers, forcing her to lean over and look at her own swaying reflection on the water.

"I bet you still haven't figured out how you ended up in such a miserable state, have you?" Rong Yuhu seemed to find something amusing and couldn't help but chuckle. "That idiotic brother of yours, vying for power with His Majesty, ultimately met a sudden, violent end. Even your mother, who is so shrewd, now doesn't dare to do anything against His Majesty. All she does is hide in Renchuan Palace, living a life of abstinence and praying, completely detached from everything."

"How could you be so foolish? You even thought of seeking help from your mother, and you actually believed His Majesty would spare you for the sake of your sibling bond?"

"Do you think His Majesty is like me? When I was a child, even when you killed my beloved Little Snowball, I dared not say anything. I could only hug its corpse, secretly hide in a cold corner of the garden, cry all night, and finally bury it."

"At Pingshan Town, His Majesty could barely tolerate you!" Rong Yuhu pressed down on her face fiercely, then, as if offering a treasure, took out a drawing from her embrace and handed it to Rong Shanshan. "Look, what is this? Do you still recognize it?"

Evidently, Rong Yuhu didn't expect Rong Shanshan to answer, and enthusiastically continued, "Isn't the woman in the painting very beautiful? Look, look, do you still recognize this little snow ferret?"

"Princess, Princess," the little palace maid cried out in alarm, trying to rush forward, but was blocked by several palace maids beside Rong Yuhu.

Rong Shanshan struggled to lift her head slightly, looking at the woman in the painting, dressed in plain white like snow, with beautiful, expressive eyes. She saw the woman holding a familiar little snow ferret in her arms.

"I had someone copy this."

"His Majesty has a painting that is a thousand, even ten thousand, times better than this."