Abandoned Princesses
The Arrest of General Su

Princess Lan sneered in annoyance. On his wedding day yesterday, he was treated to his mother's nagging.

Consort Wu spent a lot of time scolding her for marrying the second son of a general.

"The first son alone is not worthy of being your husband, let alone the second son?! Are you blind?!" That was just the essence of Consort Wu's nagging at Princess Lan. Moreover, Consort Wu also told her to divorce the man after a year of marriage.

Of course he was upset, but he already loved the man. So he finally could only swallow the nagging and again feel happy because that day his marriage will be done.

But who knows?

Not only did Su Xiao look at Qiao Rong before their wedding, even after they were legally married, her husband still did not take his eyes off the woman.

In fact, Princess Lan had painstakingly ordered the rong mask that was currently being the lips of the women in the Capital. However, how did the once extremely ugly Qiao Rong now become so beautiful?

It wasn't even anything yet, what made Qiao Lan rise in blood was certainly a shameful occurrence in her first night.

Su Xiao who had to serve the officials and drank a lot of wine entered their bridal room drunk. And it was precisely because of her circumstances that, the thing that Princess Lan had never expected happened.

Even when Su Xiao took off her clothes one by one, and started kissing her, Princess Lan was still very happy because she was overwhelmed with the newlyweds' joy. However, right at the time of the first night's duress, Su Xiao whispered Qiao Rong's name in Qiao Lan's ear.

How could he not be angry? She slapped her husband. Su Xiao looked surprised and scolded him in a drunken state. Perhaps his mother was right, Qiao Lan indeed had to divorce from the man.

How hurt was he when Su Xiao whispered the name of another woman on their first night?

But he could only cry all night because he could not get out of the bridal room because he was ashamed of the ladies. What would the whole palace say that on their first night, he slept apart?

"What are you thinking?" Su Xiao appeared from behind Qiao Lan and hugged the woman who was combing her hair.

Su Xiao seemed to have no recollection of last night, therefore Princess Lan could only smile bitterly. "It's okay, let's get ready to greet Father." Qiao Lan stood up to let the ladies prepare her clothes.

Su Xiao simply nodded.

After their preparations were finished, the two of them immediately walked towards the palace hall. But the two of them would certainly soon be surprised by the displeased face of the Emperor, and General Su who was already present with a sour face.

*****

A few moments before...

That morning Emperor Qiao was ready to sit on the throne while reading some files on the problems he had to deal with.

Suddenly he Emperor Qiao was startled by the arrival of Prince Qin who seemed to be in a hurry and immediately bowed respectfully to him.

"stand. What business did you come here for?" The Emperor asked curiously. Usually Prince Qin was a quiet and calm person, so rarely interfered in royal affairs.

"Ayahanda, what is the punishment for corruption?" Hearing the words of Prince Qin, the Emperor was certainly very surprised.

"The execution of seven descendants." The emperor said firmly. Although the Emperor was still confused by Prince Qin's intentions, it seemed that his son wanted to convey something very important.

Suddenly, Prince Qin took out a few pieces of paper from within his sleeves.

"Su Tianqing, embezzlement of military funds fifty gold coins, selling posts, embezzlement of weapons, buying and selling of prisoners of war.." Prince Qin then handed over all the documents to the Emperor.

The emperor was speechless. He was shocked by the discovery of the document. He had trusted General Su very much because the man's father had once helped him ascend the throne. It was unexpected that his trust was betrayed outright.

The Emperor's face had now turned sour and reddened.

"Call Su Tianqing here right now!" The Emperor's shout echoed throughout the palace hall.

Prince Qin could only smile silently.

"Su Tianqing!! How dare you! I didn't think you were so presumptuous all this time!!" As soon as he saw the documents in the hands of the Emperor, General Su already knew that this was the end of his history.

"Please forgive Your Majesty! Servants.. Servants are blinded only by momentary gain! Please Your Majesty consider my loyalty and service and my father's!" General Su could only kowtow and beg the Emperor not to punish him.

However, his words even further enraged the Emperor.

"Consider your father's service you said?! You even won only one small-scale war, and I instantly raised you to be a general! Then what is this?! Is this the reply I got?!" The Emperor threw the papers so violently that many landed in front of General Su's face.

General Su could only look at Prince Qin hatefully. He also actually did not know why Prince Qin would do such a thing to him. Though Princess Lan had just become part of the Su Family yesterday.

"Prince Qin, are you not—" But yet General Su finished his words, the emotion-stricken Emperor immediately shouted.

"Chief Eunuch Qi! Su Tianqing, the corrupt official, the execution for his entire family is five days away!" Hearing that, General Su cried out for mercy until his voice was hoarse and could no longer speak. But the Emperor's heart filled with anger was not moved in the slightest, he was more focused on massaging his aching head.

Head Eunuch Qi just nodded and began to write the Emperor's decree that he would later deliver to the Su Residence.

The Emperor felt like he had forgotten something, but because he felt so annoyed at General Su, he ignored his feelings.

Until finally..

"Yahujana?" Princess Lan's voice sounded from the end of the palace hall. The emperor froze.

From a distance, the clattering of feet signified the palace soldiers coming. They immediately filled the room and dragged General Su who was still not receiving.

Naturally Princess Lan and Su Xiao immediately panicked and shouted as the soldiers dragged the two of them along as well.

"Yahanda! What is this?! Brother!!" Qiao Lan tried to fight back with all his might, until the soldiers began to be overwhelmed.

Seeing that, the Emperor immediately stood up from his throne and could only blame himself. How could he forget that his daughter had just yesterday joined the Su Family?

Now the Su Family will be sentenced to death. Wouldn't Princess Lan be involved as well? The Emperor was now angry with himself who could have forgotten about it because he was overwhelmed with anger.

Meanwhile, Prince Qin who saw Princess Lan could only fall silent. He was silent a thousand words and only noticed the reaction of the Emperor who did not want his daughter to be dragged by the royal soldiers who were now besieging the woman so that he could not fight anymore.

Oh naw. Inner Emperor.

*****

"Good." Qiao Rong then poured a cup of tea for Prince Qin who was now sitting opposite him.

Of course Qiao Rong was already very satisfied with the fact that Princess Lan was now in prison and was just waiting for her death sentence.

Prince Qin simply smiled and blew away the tea that was inside the cup.

"I didn't think big brother was so good at gathering so much evidence." Qiao Rong praised Prince Qin.

Prince Qin smiled again. "Sister was too complimentary, actually I didn't collect all of it myself. There's a mysterious person who put evidence of the crime on my desk this morning. I thought it was a sister's act?" Now Prince Qin had asked in confusion to Qiao Rong.

"Oh?" Qiao Rong was surprised. Who knows his plan and helps him? Qiao Rong could not think of anyone. After all, the only ones who knew about this were him and Prince Qin.

However seeing Prince Qin waiting for his answer curiously, Qiao Rong could not let Prince Qin doubt their agreement. Qiao Rong certainly could not give the impression that he was leaking their plans to a third party.

Therefore Qiao Rong only answered briefly.

"Yes sure." Said Qiao Rong while displaying his trademark smile.