After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 817 - 815: Suicide

Su Jin and Xingxing caught some seven-star ladybugs but didn’t need them, so they went to the garden to release them.

The maids and housekeepers in the garden all twitched at the corners of their mouths.

What kind of peculiar hobby does the Heir’s wife have?

Who catches bugs just to release them immediately and even enjoys doing so?

But since Su Jin is hard to please, notorious for her ferocity, the average maids and housekeepers don’t dare to curry favor with her, fearing they might inadvertently become hapless victims.

This is a golden opportunity.

, look—

Su Jin released the seven-star ladybugs in the evening.

The next morning, they were caught again and were brought to her by the garden stewardess, full of enthusiasm, so she could release them for fun.

Su Jin, "..."

Xingxing, "..."

The housekeeper entered Agarwood Pavilion with a jar in her hands, and with an added sachet, left with the jar.

The housekeeper walked as if floating, the words of the Heir’s wife echoing in her ears, "Could you please give these seven-star ladybugs a chance to live?"

Although the housekeeper didn’t handle it well, Su Jin accepted her efforts to curry favor.

She rewarded her with a sachet, plus eight maces of Silver, and told her to take the ladybugs to the garden and release them, so they wouldn’t be disturbed again.

Unfortunately, these ladybugs were doomed to a crisis and couldn’t escape their fate.

Currently, Princess Nanzhang still manages the household of Prince Zhenbei Mansion. After all, she has managed it for many years, and since the Princess Consort is pregnant and Su Jin doesn’t like managing, the household rights haven’t been taken back.

But Princess Nanzhang has always been like a startled bird, not allowing her subordinates to take a single misstep, fearing people would seize on any mistake.

Agarwood Pavilion is out of Princess Nanzhang’s reach, but everything outside it is still under her control.

Could Princess Nanzhang tolerate the garden stewardess openly currying favor with Su Jin?

Anyone who can be a steward in the mansion is a shrewd person.

For a long time, those stewards have behaved well, mostly observing.

Now that someone takes the lead to show goodwill to the Heir’s wife, if this trend isn’t suppressed immediately, who knows how many might switch sides, forcing her to relinquish the household rights.

The garden stewardess had barely left Agarwood Pavilion when she was summoned to Peony Garden to report.

The jar of seven-star ladybugs hadn’t even been set down before it was taken away.

Mrs. Zhao scoffed at the stewardess, "The household rights are still in the Commandery Princess’s hands, and you’re so eager to curry favor with the Heir’s wife?!"

The stewardess’s heart panicked.

She’s not pleasing either side now.

The seven-star ladybugs were not desired by the Heir’s wife, and her actions have become a thorn in Princess Nanzhang’s side.

Now that the household rights are in Princess Nanzhang’s hands, isn’t controlling her as easy as crushing an ant?

The stewardess panicked, knelt down with a thud holding the jar, "Commandery Princess, please calm your anger. This servant had no intention to please the Heir’s wife, and who would curry favor by sending bugs? It was just out of fear of not doing things well before, worried about being blamed by the Heir’s wife, that I tried my best."

What the stewardess said wasn’t wrong.

The maid added, "How not? When you left Agarwood Pavilion, I saw you holding a purse, and when you saw me, you quickly hid it in your bosom. Wasn’t that awarded to you by the Heir’s wife?"

If sending bugs wasn’t to the Heir’s wife’s liking, could she have been rewarded?

It’s fortunate she wasn’t beaten half to death.

The stewardess hurriedly denied it.

"You say no, but it’s clearly on you!" the maid snapped.

Fearing Princess Nanzhang’s disbelief, the maid started searching the stewardess.

The maid came at her strongly, and the stewardess naturally resisted.

With this resistance,

she didn’t hold the jar steady, and it crashed to the ground.

A whole jar of seven-star ladybugs.

What a sight....

When the maid reported it with her mouth covered, Su Jin secretly rubbed the goosebumps on her arms and lighted a candle for Princess Nanzhang in her heart.

The garden stewardess aroused trouble while currying favor, so what more can be said?

It’s not just a matter of being unlucky; it feels like even breathing is met with obstacles.

But this incident served as a warning to Su Jin.

Princess Nanzhang holds household rights too tightly, and she likely plans to grip them until her death.

She must seize an opportunity to reclaim the household rights before the Prince leaves the Capital for the border, lest once the Old Prince and Prince are gone, Princess Nanzhang stirs up trouble while holding household finances.

Su Jin sipped her tea with secret joy.

Xingxing wanted to see how the ladybugs wreaked havoc in the Peony Garden, but Su Jin didn’t want to go. However, she was dragged along by the maid.

But they didn’t get to see it because just as Su Jin approached the entrance of Peony Garden, Princess Nanzhang came out quickly.

She was walking fast and erratically, rushing, leaving Su Jin wondering if she even saw her.

A little maid came out in a hurry.

Su Jin looked at her and asked, "What happened?"

The Peony Garden maid hesitated for a moment and replied, "Princess Duanhui slit her wrist in a suicide attempt."

Su Jin was stunned.

"Did Princess Duanhui die?" asked Xingxing.

"...No."

"The maid discovered it early, and the Imperial Physician arrived in time, saving Princess Duanhui’s life."

The Peony Garden maid relayed the words of the reporting maid verbatim.

With the ladybugs flying all over the house, Princess Nanzhang rushed out, her expression in disarray.

The reporting was done in the courtyard, known to all the maids and housekeepers in Peony Garden.

As for why Princess Duanhui attempted suicide, nobody knew.

Su Jin furrowed her brows.

Princess Duanhui’s suicide attempt truly caught her off guard.

After a turn of her head, Su Jin guessed it was related to the Zhangzhou Iron Mine.

At Princess Duanhui’s residence.

Princess Duanhui was the Empress Dowager’s daughter, her most beloved.

When the Palace Attendant reported that Princess Duanhui attempted suicide by wrist-cutting,

though the Empress Dowager was weak, she still had Nanny Li support her out of the palace.

Princess Duanhui’s sudden wrist-slitting, and the uncontained news, soon spread throughout the Capital’s teahouses and taverns.

From the Emperor to the common folks, everyone was shocked.

Speculation arose everywhere.

And as the news of Princess Duanhui’s tendon-damaged and disabled left hand spread, it piqued even more curiosity about what could push a high and mighty Eldest Princess to such despair?

Was it the Prince Consort’s infidelity, unable to withstand the blow?

It couldn’t be.

If Long Prince Consort was unfaithful, causing the Eldest Princess grievance, wouldn’t the Empress Dowager have no difficulty dealing with Long Prince Consort?

Nanny Li supported the Empress Dowager into Princess Duanhui’s bedchamber.

A faint smell of blood permeated the room.

Princess Duanhui lay unconscious on the pillow, her face pale from blood loss.

The Empress Dowager’s heart ached upon seeing this.

"What on earth happened, to drive you to seek death?" The Empress Dowager’s hand holding Nanny Li trembled.

The Empress Dowager was anxious to know, but no one could answer her.

Princess YiAn wept inconsolably.

The Empress Dowager sat by the bedside, looking at Princess Duanhui’s hand in bandages, soaked in blood, and harshly scolded the Imperial Physician, "Why hasn’t the bleeding stopped yet?!"

The Imperial Physician replied fearfully, "The Princess damaged her tendon, we’ve done everything we can...."

"Everything you can?!"

"Everything you can?!"

"Whenever you’re needed, you just say you’ve done your best. The court provides you with high officials and generous salaries not for you to just say you’ve done your best?!" The Empress Dowager was furious.

Two Imperial Physicians promptly knelt down.

They truly have done their utmost.

Unable to face the Empress Dowager’s wrath, the Imperial Physician quietly brought out Su Jin.

The Empress Dowager’s face turned as purple as an eggplant with anger.

Prince Qi said, "Mother, take care of your health. The urgent matter is to invite the Heir’s wife of Prince Zhenbei to treat the Princess."

The Empress Dowager suddenly looked at Prince Qi.

Gradually, the Empress Dowager’s face grew paler, her heart seemed entwined with vines, causing piercing pain.

Her voice shook like a sieve, "Quick!"

"Hurry and invite the Heir’s wife of Prince Zhenbei!"