Tang Yingliu could not understand how her life, which should have been smooth sailing, had become a tangled mess ever since Lin Jingyue returned to the manor.
First, the Old Madame had forcibly taken two dowry portions from the main courtyard to give to Lin Jingyue. Then, after Tang Yingliu had spent great effort and money to curry favor with a dead eunuch in order to serve the Third Prince in the palace, Lin Jingyue had somehow ended up as the Crown Princess. Even the imperial edict conferring upon her, Tang Yingliu, the title of Secondary Consort to the Third Prince, explicitly credited Lin Jingyue for the achievement!
She had hoped to leverage the Third Prince's favor to keep Lin Jingyue under her thumb. She had deliberately caused a scene, forcing the Old Madame to press Lin Jingyue to apologize, intending to use that to belittle the Eastern Palace while simultaneously trampling on Lin Jingyue. But not only did that plan fail, her father had just returned from a trip with the intention of taking a lowly maidservant as a concubine into the Marquis Manor!
Chapter 113