Chapter 11

 

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Little Princess   

Chapter 11

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Li Zhen Zhen’s body fell limply like a body of water. She was now sprawled on Li Yue’s body. Even her whimpers ceased to come out from her mouth.

Li Yue stood up then carried her into the palace. He later bent down and laid her carefully on the bed, so his meat pole finally left the warmth of her body.

Li Zhen Zhen's pretty eyes opened slightly, she dazedly said:

“Imperial father.. Imperial father... Imperial father... don’t go...”

Li Yue pressed his body on hers and shoved his meat pole once more into her little lush cavern. This time around, he shoved in gently and carefully into her c*nt while looking at her face and whispered:

“Imperial father is not going anywhere.”

Li Zhen Zhen held on to his waist as comfortable pleasures filled her while she moaned softly:

“Ah~ Nnn ah~~ Imperial father~~”

Liu Xu and Gao Sheng heaved a sigh of relief once more. When they all discovered that Zhen Zhen had disappeared, grey stormy clouds with flashing lightning and thunder seemed to appear behind Li Yue when his wrath rose. His dark gaze could have killed them all and it was really really fortunate that they all managed to survive through this calamity.

Gao Sheng waited at the back of the building in trepidation, while Liu Xu couldn’t stand her nerves anymore and started to clean everything inside the building. It was then that she noticed the windows in front were pushed open, yet no one had come in besides both of them. She hurriedly went to take a closer look at the windows and doubted her own suspicions. It might have been the wind that made it this way, so she stretched out her hands to close the windows panes.

Li Zhen Zhen was now whimpering softly, while the sound of bodies slapping rang inside the room. She begged Imperial father to thrust into her body. Li Yue then sat up, pulled her into his embrace and continued on taking her body, cherishing every single moment they had spent together.

Li Zhen Zhen’s body swayed to his movements, her little rounded globes shook up and down while Li Yue bended his head and bit onto one of the white globes. He then increased the speed of his thrusts underneath.

Li Zhen Zhen felt so much pleasure that she could no longer respond to the sensation with her voice.

Li Yue desires were only fully satisfied with Zhen Zhen when darkness fell on the scenery outside. He carried her into the bathing pool to soak in the warm waters until their limbs loosened, then sent Zhen Zhen back to bed. He rocked her to sleep and went out to deal with more official matters.

That night, Zhen Zhen’s dreams were all good. She woke up at dawn in excellent spirits and sat in front of the mirror while she did her makeup and combed up her hair.

A lower court lady suddenly announced from outside that her highness, the lady consort wished to request audience with her.

Li Zhen Zhen only knew then that her mother had come together with them to the Summer Palace.

She grew up in Wen De palace right beside Li Yue so she had never been close to her own Consort mother. Although they were only mother and daughter in name, they were still tied together by blood.

She had been living blissfully these days yet her heart still felt insecure. She was afraid that her days would suddenly disappear like a puff of smoke. She still didn’t comprehend what her status was now, she didn’t know the meaning of repeatedly doing things in bed with Imperial father. She only knew that she felt sorry for her own Consort mother as she did not take any further steps to ask about her Consort mother’s condition.

All she knew was that her Consort mother came out from the cold palace and that Imperial father did not give her any harsh punishment and even maintained her title.

She innocently thought that the worst had passed so they were able to revert back to how things were in the past.

What Li Zhen Zhen didn’t know was that the incident made a lot of people around them enraged.

Her consort mother had officially put a green hat on the emperor’s head. She even managed to escape the cold palace unscathed. Her 11th princess was not only not related to him at all but she was also currently still being pampered and he even broadcasted his love for the princess so brazenly!

TL: The person wearing a green hat means that that person is being cheated on.

Li Yue even protected Zhen Zhen by not punishing Noble Consort Wan. This implied that the Emperor still adored Noble Consort Wan to the extreme to the people that surrounded them.

When they came to the Western Mountains this time around, Li Yue did not even bother with anything to do with the Imperial harem, so his people automatically included Noble Consort Wan in the procession and brought her here.

Zhen Zhen personally went to search for her Consort mother later on.

Half of Li Zhen Zhen’s looks came from Noble Consort Wan. Noble Consort Wan was a lady in her thirties and was well maintained, so she still looked like she was in her early 20s. This made her look more like Zhen Zhen’s older sister than her own mother.

Li Zhen Zhen bowed down to her when she arrived:

“Consort Mother.”

She stared at her own daughter while her mind was elsewhere. Her daughter was wearing a peachy pink Ruqun with gold thread weaving through the materials of her dress. The panel that was covering her chest was filled with little sapphire beads. Her embroidered shoes twinkled with the same jewels as well. She wore a set of pink gems with rose gold pins on her hair. Her every step caused the jewels to tinkle on each other. It grated on her ears and froze her skin as if a heap of icy snow suddenly fell on her.

When she raised her head to see her daughter’s face, she only realized then that her daughter’s beauty had bloomed like a peach blossom flower. No one would dare to take a second look at her as she looked too sexy and too alluring.

When Zhen Zhen raised her head to face her, both her eyes were like spring water; clear and charming.

She thought back of what she had personally seen and heard and her fingers suddenly cut into the palm of her hands underneath her long sleeves.

Her daughter was constantly away from her just because Sire liked it that way and it also raised her status too. That day she had to sneak in to come and find her own daughter to convince her to beg Sire to give her another chance. She was still young and her facial features were pretty so she thought that she was still worthy of receiving favors from Sire.

Who knew what she had found out!

Noble Consort Wan took a deep breath. Sire had not entered the harem for quite some time, so the whole harem was trying to find out why.

Is it because there was a new wh05e in the Wen De Palace that the emperor was now enthralled with some new court lady?

It was true that there was a temptress present, but that very female is her own daughter, Li Zhen Zhen!

Li Zhen Zhen looked at her Consort Mother’s eyes and felt a little fearful, so she called out to her:

“Consort Mother.. Did you have some important matters when you came to find daughter?”

She continued on worriedly, 

“Is Consort Mother living well these days? If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, please don’t hesitate to tell daughter, daughter will inform Imperial father about it.”

Noble Consort Wan could only hear her daughter’s, “Imperial father, f**k Zhen Zhen, Zhen Zhen feels so good...” and Sire’s “Zhen’s little Jiao Jiao” screaming in her head. She pushed the tea set furiously to the floor, stood up and pointed a finger at her face:

“You little wh*re! How can you even show your face here now!”

Li Zhen Zhen froze, her eyes looked at her in confusion.

Noble Consort Wan can now see Zhen Zhen’s face fully. She was so gorgeous that words can no longer describe her allure. Although she is also pretty, Sire had only bestowed favors on her a few times.

“He he!” Iciness crept into Noble Consort Wan’s laughter.

“You dare to seduce your mother’s husband. How unfilial you are! Seducing your own father, how dirty!”

“I, I, I didn’t...” Li Zhen Zhen frantically walked backwards.

“You didn’t? I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears! You little wh05e, you willingly took off your clothes and let your own father ride you! Wh*re!”

Tears started to drip from Li Zhen Zhen’s eyes while she shook her head:

“No, Zhen Zhen really didn’t...”

“What? You want to be his Noble Consort? You want to share a husband with your mother? Piss off*!”

TL: *I used piss off instead of the original I “spit sound effect” or it can be translated mildly to I deny you but it doesn’t seem to do the phrase justice.

“I really didn’t...” 

Zhen Zhen wiped away the tears that kept pouring out from her eyes. It was really not like this. Her heart kept tangling further and further into a mess. She really didn’t know anything so she didn’t know how to fight back.

Noble Consort Wan’s boomed out laughing spitefully:

“It’s so funny! So very exciting! It turns out that Sire slept with his own daughter. This is the biggest joke ever to descend from the skies!”

She poked her fingers at Li Zhen Zhen.

“Li Zhen Zhen, you are a scarlet flood of disaster! You will be the one to bring down the empire! Everyone will now scold Sire and he will be the brunt of everyone’s jokes because of you!”

TL: Scarlet flood of disaster- 红颜祸水 in Chinese means a femme fatale that brings disasters to a nation. Something like a black widow spider but on a much larger scale.

Li Zhen Zhen immediately froze in shock when she screamed those words at her. She didn’t even move her eyes, making her look really pitiful. Noble Consort Wan eyes were full of spite and contempt when it landed on her face. Her gaze later traced down her neck and she saw the love marks that were not covered. Those were the marks that Sire sucks had created!

When had she even heard the gentle and adoring tones of Sire’s?

Noble Consort Wan immediately came forward and gave Li Zhen Zhen a hard slap:

“You are a little wh*re!”

Liu Xu hurriedly rushed forward, hiding Li Zhen Zhen behind her back and shouted at her:

“What is Lady Noble Consort doing now?”

She pushed away Noble Consort Wan with all her strength and went back to hold up Li Zhen Zhen’s body halfway.

“Princess, it doesn't matter. This doesn't matter. Don’t cry, don’t cry, his majesty’s heart will ache.”

When Noble Consort Wan heard those words, she no longer cared about her dignity and came forward to hit Li Zhen Zhen once more:

“Little wh05e! You are a little wh05e! Li Zhen Zhen, you are no different than a prostitute outside. You have slept with your own father and stole away your mother’s man! You wh05e...”

Liu Xu hid Zhen Zhen behind her back. Both her hands reached out and pushed Noble Consort Wan to the ground. She angrily said:

“Lady Noble Consort, don’t put the blame on this slave even though the words that will come out will be harsh to listen to! There are some things that you should also understand. What merits do you have to call yourself a dignified noble consort? How dare you do something so scandalous which was enough to send you to the cold palace? Do you think you won’t be sent there again? How did you think your whole family managed to escape being slaughtered by his majesty? How dare you?!”

Liu Xu kneeled and pinned her down:

“You are dreaming! You are now at the mercy of our princess! When you entered the cold palace, our princess spent one whole day kneeling to beg for your life. When she was sick and had a high fever, where in the world were you at?!”

“You b*tch!”

Noble Consort Wan went in to try to scratch Liu Xu’s face. Yet Liu Xu pinned her down even harder:

“This slave is now nicely advising you, so you should think carefully! If you are still thinking of comfortably spending the rest of your days, you will swallow down the words that I have told you or else you will only end up marching towards the final road of death!”

“You are a b*tch that fights dirty!”

Liu Xu scoffed:

“This slave is fighting off the princess’ dirtiness! This slave is also advising your highness to please keep your dignity. If you don’t, then this slave will now go straight to his majesty and tell him all about this! Our Sire is willing to keep you alive on the behalf of the princess, he can also kill you for the princess!”

TL: Dog that fights dirty- 狗仗人势 translates roughly to the dog that fights people forcefully (dirtily), basically refers to an evil person who uses various tactics to bully innocent people or animals. Liu Xu uses 仗 (fighting) and 势 (dirtiness). 势 actually means force but it means forcefully bullying someone in this idiom. I hope I did the idiom some justice.

Noble Consort Wan had always controlled the blowing of the wind and the calling of the rain because she was the highest ranking person in the harem. Now an insignificant court lady treated her like this, so she threw a tantrum and shrieked out loud. Liu Xu could no longer bear her attitude, so she slapped her face hard and mercilessly gave her a warning:

TL: 呼风唤雨 - I put the literal translation up there. It basically means having the power to fully control the situation down to the scandals, gossips and so on...

“If you want to live then shut up!”

Noble Consort Wan covered her mouth with her hands because of the pain. Liu Xu then stood up and helped the shocked Li Zhen Zhen up as well. Her heart ached when she said:

“Princess, are you alright?”

Li Zhen Zhen shook her head stiffly. She looked at her Consort Mother once more and her eyes were filled with pain and despair with fear lurking through its depths. Liu Xu assisted her as she turned around and walked out the room.

Li Zhen Zhen was in a jumbled mess.

The words that her Consort mother had screamed at her, awakened every single doubts, facts and irregularities that she had tried to bury deep inside her own heart. Now, she recognized them all for what they were.

This was especially true when Consort mother screamed that she had stolen her own mother’s man. Li Zhen Zhen’s tears suddenly ran down and covered her whole face. She turned her face towards Liu Xu and asked her:

“Sister Liu Xu, I, I.... Did I really steal my Consort Mother’s man?”

Liu Xu sighed. She knew that this would happen but her princess needed to understand the facts sooner or later.

“His majesty had never belonged to anyone in the Imperial harem. Please be rest assured, Princess.”

Li Zhen Zhen now cried out:

“Then that means that Imperial father has never been mine as well? Sister Liu Xu, Imperial father has been doing all this with me, so, so, so he is also doing the same thing to the consorts at the side. That, that even includes my own Consort mother, right?” Her voice started to tremble heavily at the end of her question.

“Princess, his majesty only has you now.”

“No no no...” 

Zhen Zhen shook her head while her heart was splitting in pain then she looked at Liu Xu,

“This, this, is this what bestowing favors means?”

Liu Xu sighed inside her heart, she can only nod her head because Zhen Zhen needed to finally understand how the world works.

Li Zhen Zhen went back to her own side palace and laid on the bed and cried the whole afternoon.

Li Yue was still solving the major flood that had ailed the southern region, so he was cooped up at the Eastern palace discussing official matters and no one dared to come in and bother him. He still didn’t know what had happened to Li Zhen Zhen.

Li Zhen Zhen laid on the bed, her mind was still mulling over Consort mother’s words. She had called her a little wh05e and even accused her of seducing her own father. Yet the words that had stuck and replayed over and over in her mind was; Imperial father was now being made a laughingstock by the people behind his back and all of this was because of her!

Her tears silently rolled down her face.

She had read the history books before so she knew that people never forgot the sins of the previous emperors and will curse them even after years have passed.

She sobbed while she mulled over her thoughts. It turns out that it was not appropriate for her to be with Imperial father like this.

Imperial father was bestowing favors on her.

Imperial father also will not be able to give her any other status, so she can only remain as Imperial father’s princess.

They will always be father and daughter in the eyes of the public. No daughter especially one that has turned 15 years old will continue to live on in Imperial father’s attached palace. Although nobody was suspicious of them now, as time went on, people will definitely know what had happened.

If she was the only one who was harmed by this, then she could still let things go.

What about Imperial father? Does he really need to turn his back on his morals and blacken his good name?

Imperial father had always been a respected noble. When she was young, her Imperial father had always told her that he wanted to be a righteous emperor who leads the country into glory.

Li Zhen Zhen’s tears didn’t stop flowing and it kept accumulating.

What should she do now?

She didn’t know what she can possibly do.

TL: When an idiom appeared while NC Wan was cursing Liu Xu... I was like nooooo... while racking my brain to give me enough curse words to give the idiom some dirty justice. I changed the English translation so many times that I have now lost count. English curses are so much more straightforward unless you count how the more refined Brits snide people when they are displeased and if they are not drunk.

Other than that, am I the only one who thinks that Zhen Zhen suddenly grew up after her mother cruelly screamed at her? I was half glad that it forced her to face the facts and not bury it underneath all the snu snu that Li Yue hazed her mind over with. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the snu snu, but I love the fact that she finally matured even more.

Title: Mother and daughter

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