Lin Yan didn't like heavy makeup, but as a new bride, her makeup was thick and even her hair couldn't escape.

  Lin Yan didn't know when the Emperor would return, so she took the opportunity to wash her hair while bathing.

  After washing up in the bathroom and coming out feeling refreshed, Lin Dai finally felt relaxed all over, as if she had washed away all the fatigue of the day.

  Mu Qing took a towel and helped her wipe her hair.

  Lin Daiya took a phoenix coronet that had just been removed from her head and played with it in her hand, thinking of Wu Guifei who had called the emperor away. She suddenly smiled and said to Mu Qing: "I find that Wu Guifei is actually also a romantic person, very much following her heart's desires."

  Logically, Wu Guifei should not be unaware that even if she could call the emperor away, it would be useless. The emperor would still return to her Changkun Palace in the end. Even her actions might not be able to gain a good impression from the emperor, but she was willing to do something unprofitable just to poke at her own heart and provoke this new empress.

  The woman on her wedding night, but the husband was called away by the concubine who entered first. Even if the husband would return in the end, even the most generous woman would find it hard not to mind. Lin Daiyu thought she wasn't magnanimous, so at this time, she really couldn't be calm and composed towards Wu Guifei's actions.

  She had also dealt with Wu Guifei quite a few times, when she was young in the Wangfu, because of her aunt and the emperor's fondness and favoritism towards her, she didn't quite get along with her.

  Oh, she remembered that when she was a child, she had been wrongly accused of putting poisonous snakes in Xiao Jing's room with Tai'er. At that time, Tai'er was still young, but his temper was fierce, and after being wronged, he actually found a small snake and threw it at Xiao Jing. Because her aunt was there, she and Tai'er were not wronged, but Xiao Jing was scared into illness.

  Also at the previous Winter Solstice Palace Banquet, she deliberately sat on the Phoenix Throne in Changchun Palace, deliberately using the power of the Imperial Noble Consort to suppress her. She knew that this would displease the Emperor, but she just wanted to satisfy her own pleasure for the moment.

  Mu Qing wiped her hair without stopping, and said calmly: "That's also because the Empress knows that the Emperor will only lightly punish her at most, and won't hurt her fundamentally, so she dares to do as she pleases."

  The Lin and Wu families, the Emperor may be biased towards the Lin family, the Empress and the Imperial Concubine, the Emperor may also be biased towards the Empress. However, balance is needed in both the imperial court and the harem, with the Lin and Wu families on opposite sides of the scale in the imperial court, and the Empress and Imperial Concubine Wu on opposite sides in the harem.

  The emperor will not sit back and watch the Lin family's power grow to a point where it is uncontrollable. Everyone has greedy thoughts, even the Lin family itself may not believe that when their power grows to the point of threatening imperial authority, they will not have any ambitions towards imperial authority.

  Even if the Lin family can suppress this greed, there will always be some petty people who will constantly push them forward.

  How did Taizu Emperor establish his dynasty back then?

  The Taizu Emperor was originally a general of the former Great Zhou Dynasty. After the mutiny at Gaoqiao Bridge, the Taizu Emperor ascended to the throne with the support of his colleagues and established the Great Liang Dynasty.

  Later, why did Emperor Taizu also use a cup of wine to release the military power of those meritorious officials who supported him? It was just that he was worried about another "Yellow Robe Incident" and the Liang Dynasty becoming another Zhou Dynasty.

  So before a new family or group emerges to counterbalance the Lin family, the emperor is dissatisfied with the Wu family and will not let them fall from this end of the scale.

  Lin Xiao put down the phoenix hairpin in her hand with a light and nimble movement, her eyes firm and sharp.

  Is it balanced?

  Then let them see who will be laughing in the end, the Lin family or the Wu family.

  In the Yanqing Palace.

  Xiao Tai lay on the wide bed in his bedroom, his eyes open and staring at the four-clawed dragon pattern on the beam above, with a dark and gloomy expression on his face.

  He had maintained this posture for a long time, so long that his personal attendant was watching him with great concern.

  The whole palace outside was filled with the sound of sheng, suona and drums, and even the faces of the palace maids and inner servants were covered with the joyful atmosphere of the emperor's grand wedding.

  His father emperor married a new empress, but his new stepmother was the woman he had cherished in his heart for a long time.

  What are Father Emperor and Yuanyuan going to do in Changkun Palace now? They will drink the union wine that symbolizes a hundred years of harmony, then they will enter the bridal chamber with candles lit...

  Xiao Tai clenched his fists, his eyes as if they had shattered ice and snow.

  The housekeeper advised him with some worry: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, you should get some rest! Tomorrow you still have to pay respects to the new Empress."

  Xiao Tai suddenly jumped up from the couch, kicked a foot on Gonggong's leg, and shouted: "You go, you go to Changkun Palace to call Father Emperor over, just say that I am ill, dying soon, let him come see me."

  Household Gong was so frightened that he forgot the pain in his legs, and directly knelt down, hugging Xiao Tai's legs, saying urgently: "Your Highness, you're fine, how can you curse yourself like this? Moreover, Your Highness, don't you see what day it is today, how can you disturb the Emperor?"

  The other eunuchs in the palace also knelt down in fear and surrounded Xiao Tai along with Housekeeper Fang to persuade him.

  Xiao Tai was furious, and he kicked away the eunuchs surrounding his feet one by one. He shouted: "I sent you to Changkung Palace, if you can't bring back my father, I'll have your heads..."

  He grabbed a small eunuch by the collar and roared: "You go, immediately give me..." After finishing, he threw him away and caught another eunuch: "You also give me, you all go, all of you go together..." Then one by one, he kicked the eunuchs towards the door.

  The eunuch who had been kicked away crawled back again, embracing Xiao Tai's legs and said repeatedly: "Your Highness, please calm down, Your Highness, please calm down..."

  The eunuch's face was covered in sweat as he looked at the furious prince, his eyes already red, and choked with sobs: "Your Highness, Your Highness, don't be like this. If not for your own future, then think of the late Empress Dowager..."

  "You useless dogs, can't even be bothered to obey me? You just wait and see, I'll make you regret it... If you won't go, I'll go myself." Then he stormed out the door with tears in his eyes.

  The eunuchs hastily grasped his legs, and Xiao Tai angrily glared at them, saying: "Get out of the way, all of you get out of the way for me."

  Finally, one of the eunuchs spoke up: "Your Highness, the Emperor is not in Changkun Palace. The Emperor has gone to Zhaoyang Palace."

  Xiao Tai's eyes moved slightly and stopped, looking at the eunuch who was speaking.

  The eunuch explained: "The fourth prince is ill, and Her Highness the Imperial Consort has invited His Majesty to go to the Chao Yang Palace."

  Xiao Tai was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly looked delighted and turned his anger into laughter: "That little brat, usually so annoying, but today he's conveniently ill."

  Household Gong's eyebrows furrowed, this remark was indeed somewhat treasonous, but due to the Crown Prince's antics today, Household Gong didn't dare advise him as usual to be mindful of his words.

  Xiao Tai's mood was light and easy, he said to Fang Gonggong and others: "You all go out, I want to rest." After finishing speaking, he entered the inner palace.

  After Fang Gonggong and others came out of the bedroom, Fang Gonggong looked at the gate of the hall behind him, and finally it was quiet inside.

  The eunuch wiped the sweat from his forehead, then narrowed his eyes and said in a stern voice to the surrounding attendants: "Tell all the palace guards on duty today to keep their mouths shut tight, otherwise, be careful with the head on your own neck."

  The eunuch looked towards Changkung Palace again, hesitated for a moment, and then asked the attendant beside him: "Did the Emperor really go to Zhaoyang Palace?"

  The eunuch replied: "Yes, but just now, His Majesty has already returned to Changkun Palace."

  The old eunuch furrowed his brow and then instructed, "Don't let the Crown Prince know."

  If this young ancestor makes another scene, will he still want the crown prince position?