After the divorce, I was adorned in a phoenix robe, while my ex-husband's entire family dug up

Wei Jiaruo shouted, "Everyone! Today's events were clearly a setup by Princess Jiayi herself, an attempt to frame the Seventh Princess!"

The women all paused. In fact, they had already become suspicious when Princess Jiayi, feeling guilty, didn't want to continue the investigation.

Who doesn't know that Princess Jiayi and the Seventh Princess don't get along?

The words he just said seemed to have been prepared in advance to mock the Seventh Princess.

Princess Jiayi angrily retorted, "How dare you! Even now you dare to argue!"

Seeing that everyone had stopped, Wei Jiaruo continued, "Everyone, think about it: I didn't even leave the banquet table, so how could I have stolen Princess Jiayi's Southern French pearls?"

"Leaving aside how the pearl ended up on me, the most important thing is that Princess Jiayi clearly just returned. How did she know that the Seventh Princess left her seat to change her clothes?"

"It's as if it was all planned in advance. Besides, Princess Jiayi only had soup splashed on her clothes, not her earrings. Why did she have to take off her earrings just to change?"

This barrage of questions left Princess Jiayi speechless. She stammered, "That's sophistry! Do you even know what the crime of slandering a princess of the reigning dynasty is?!"

The Seventh Princess spoke casually, looking at Princess Jiayi with a half-smile, "I also want to know, what crime is it to slander the reigning princess?"

Princess Jiayi felt as if she had punched a cotton ball, her face turning red.

Wei Jiaruo continued, "Everyone has discerning eyes, and you should all have a clear understanding of what happened today."

"As for who is taking advantage of this situation, we need to investigate that thoroughly. Princess Jiayi, I can go to the Dali Temple. I did nothing wrong, and I believe the Dali Temple will clear my name."

"But now that things have come to this, there are many things that don't make sense, Princess. The emperor is subject to the same laws as the common people. Why don't you go to the Dali Temple and let the Minister of Dali Temple investigate thoroughly to see if there are any flaws in what happened today?"

A commotion erupted below. Wei Jiaruo was incredibly audacious to allow a princess to enter the Dali Temple!

At this point, everyone already knows exactly what's going on.

Princess Jiayi's reaction was not something an innocent person should have done.

If one is truly innocent, one should speak with full vigor, just like the Seventh Princess did back then.

Many of the women felt a bit resentful. Normally, when attending a palace banquet, everyone would get up early to carefully match their clothes and even their makeup and hair would be meticulous.

When those palace servants were checking, they didn't even spare the girls' hair. They said that because the hair was thick, no one would notice if they hid something in a bun, and they insisted that people let their hair down.

Even now, when she ties her hair back up, it still looks a bit messy, not to mention her clothes are all wrinkled from being pulled.

Why does Princess Jiayi have to drag them along when she's acting?!

Princess Jiayi felt a tightness in her throat from anger when she saw that everyone was no longer looking at her so kindly.

She is a princess of a country, how could she enter a place like the Dali Temple!

"You utterly disrespectful wretch! I, the princess, am the one who lost something. How dare you send your victim to the Dali Temple with a thief like yourself! This is outrageous!"

"Guards! Drag him directly to the Dali Temple!"

A princess is a princess after all, and no one dares to act recklessly towards her. Admittedly, the people below all knew what was going on, and they dared not speak out rashly or say anything bad about the princess.

Princess Jiayi's face was unusually ugly. She glared at Wei Jiaruo and muttered something under her breath.

Everyone looked at her with disdain, making her lose face.

Wei Jiaruo was soon taken to Dali Temple.

Princess Jiayi's reputation was ruined, and the banquet ended unhappily.

What should have been a welcoming banquet turned into a complete joke.

Wei Zhaoning walked to the palace gate and was about to get into the carriage when she suddenly heard a clear female voice.

Why are you helping me?

Turning around, I saw the Seventh Princess. Her eyes were clear, the sharpness in her brows had faded, leaving only a touch of childishness, and her tone was friendly.

Wei Zhaoning smiled, "Didn't the princess help me before?"

In her past life, the Seventh Princess was truly tricked by Princess Jiayi. Although, on a smaller scale, it was just a minor argument between the two of them.

However, this incident had a very significant impact on the Seventh Princess's life.

The Great Yong Kingdom was open-minded and democratic. The decision of a princess to marry a foreign ruler was not made by His Majesty alone. When a marriage was deemed unavoidable, it was decided by the votes of the officials and the people.

Because of this incident, the already proud Seventh Princess suffered great damage to her reputation and lost the support of the people in Dayong.

Compared to Princess Jiayi, whom everyone liked, in a situation where a marriage alliance was unavoidable, everyone felt that the Seventh Princess was morally flawed and a stain on the Dayong Dynasty, so they wanted to send her away.

In her previous life, not long before her death, she heard news that the Seventh Princess had gone to the northern border for a political marriage, but was tortured to death by the tyrant within a month.

She wanted to save the seventh princess once.

"Thank you. You're a smart person. I apologize for what I said before. Perhaps I really misunderstood you." Pei Ran stared intently at Wei Zhaoning, her tone solemn.

Wei Zhaoning slightly raised her chin. "It's a give-and-take situation, you don't need to thank me."

The Seventh Princess said urgently, "No, you should thank me."

"If it weren't for your timely intervention, my reputation would have been ruined. I must thank you no matter what."

Wei Zhaoning felt a slight stirring in her heart, a feeling she couldn't quite explain.

This "thank you" sounded somewhat dazed; in her past life, she had toiled her whole life but never heard a "thank you" before she died.

Hearing these two words in this lifetime deeply moved me.

She smiled and said, "I'm leaving now. Be more careful in the future and protect yourself."

After saying that, she got into the carriage.

The Seventh Princess stood there for a long time, watching her leave, her smile never fading.

*

Today's events have caused quite a stir. When the emperor heard about Princess Jiayi's affair, he was furious.

Although she was exempted from going to the Dali Temple, how could the emperor not know about her little tricks? He personally punished her with a whipping.

Wei Jiaruo was detained in Dali Temple for three days before being released after proving her innocence.

When he returned to the Marquis's residence, he was covered in dust and dirt.

Nobody really wanted to talk to her, and no one came to greet her.

Besides Lu Zhufeng, he felt sorry for Wei Jiaruo, who was pregnant and suffered this undeserved misfortune, and personally cleaned her body.

The next day.

During breakfast, Lu Zhufeng called everyone out to eat with Wei Jiaruo and scolded them, saying they didn't know how to care for their sister-in-law.

Wei Zhaoning noticed that the people at the dinner table had become much more distant from Wei Jiaruo.

There was silence for a moment.

Lu Zhufeng's face was grim, his tone icy: "Ningning, have you been sleeping well these past few days?"

Wei Zhaoning paused, picking up food with his chopsticks, seemingly lost in thought.

"good."

Upon hearing this, Lu Zhufeng's forehead veins bulged, and his breathing became rapid and heavy.

"Snap—"

He slammed his chopsticks down hard.