In the princess' personal palace, sounds of shatters and crashes reverberated from within. All the maids and eunuchs were kneeling on the ground inside the rooms.

　　Jing Xuan lifted a delicate vase and smashed it to the ground. Another one broken!

　　Cai'er, her personal maid, pleaded with her in tears, "Princess, please stop smas.h.i.+ng the vases. These lowly servants are begging you to stop hurting yourself."

　　"Get out!" she scolded, "all of you, get out!"

　　"Princess…"

　　"I said, get out!" Jing Xuan picked up another crystal cup and threw it heavily to the ground.

　　She was falling apart. Ever since she was forbidden from going out, she had been smas.h.i.+ng things almost every day. When the things she had smashed were replaced, she smashed them again!

　　In these few days, she had never let a moment pa.s.s in peace!

　　Roars and constant sounds of shattering kept being heard from the princess's chambers in the middle of the night, but neither the eunuchs nor the maids dared to speak up. They could only endure the angry princess again and again.

　　But today was different. They had never seen Jing Xuan this angry before.

　　The reason? Because she will be married off to the third prince of Huyi Country.

　　When she heard the news, she crushed the jade bracelet in her hands. Jing Xuan wanted to go and find her Imperial Mother but was instead told that she was grounded and not allowed to leave her chambers.

　　So, she flared up again.

　　As for her marriage, Concubine Xiao had been repeatedly beseeching the Emperor for approval the past few days. The day before yesterday, the Emperor finally caved, thinking that it was about time his daughter should be married.

　　Thus, Concubine Xiao started to arrange her daughter's dowry. She prepared so much that the whole room was filled to the brim.

　　When Jing Xuan first overheard the conversation between her Imperial Brother and Imperial Mother, she wanted to complain to her Imperial Father. She didn't expect her mother to be so heartless that she locked her up. She almost hadn't been able to leave her private quarters at all, only had a few maids around for company.

　　She already had a bellyful of fire from being locked up, but now it's even worse knowing that her family just ordered her to get married, regardless of what she wanted. Moreover, her future husband was not even from Great Lin, but Huyi.

　　That's so far away! It also meant that she would not be able to return for the rest of her life and would never have the opportunity to reveal the machinations of her Imperial Brother and Imperial Mother. How could she stay calm?

　　……

　　All the maids were expelled by her and she closed the door with a slam.

　　"Princess, please open the door."

　　"Princess, please don't be angry anymore, what if you hurt yourself?"

　　"This lowly servant is begging you to please open the door."