Chapter 622: Berated

“Royal Father, watch over your consort properly! Don’t let her take half a misstep out of line.” After saying this coldly, Mo Lian promptly leaped up next to the little fellow and pulled her into his embrace, patting her back to placate her.

Qingluan released a long cry before immediately beating its huge wings, carrying the crown prince and crown prince consort to the Eastern Palace.

Only after seeing the two people going off into the distance did Noble Consort Zheng finally exhale a long sigh of relief. She feebly lay against the old king’s chest and wept, “My king! Look at that crown prince! Even the consort he’s marrying is so insufferably arrogant! Completely disrespecting your wife! They heckle me, their concubine mother, precisely like this! Wuwuwu, my king, you have to do me justice! My king!”

However, her tantrum only gave the old king a headache, and a hint of fury surfaced in his eyes. He abruptly flung away Courtesan Zheng’s hand and pushed her to the floor at once. “Don’t think that We don’t know what fine deeds you did!”

“We were giving you face in front of the crown prince consort earlier!” The old king admonished furiously. “That Handsome Fairness Huang was clearly one of your people! You’re still not admitting it? Look at what stupid thing you’ve accomplished! Hah? Why did you go kidnap the crown prince consort’s mother and sister without rhyme or reason? Ah? You’re just asking for trouble! If not because of Little Fifteenth, We wouldn’t have bothered to save you just now! We just didn’t want Little Fifteenth to lose her mother’s care at such a tender age!”

“My king!! This wife has been accused wrongly! My king…” Noble Consort Zheng’s delicate body quivered as she wept charmingly. She shuffled forward on her knees and groveled in front of the king as she wailed, “My king. No matter what, this wife is also the crown prince and crown prince consort’s concubine mother! How could they treat me like this? Disrespecting their concubine mother makes them unfilial! As paragons for the common people, how could the crown prince and crown prince consort, the future king and queen, disregard propriety, justice, integrity, and honor like this and