Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Since it was something that could be supported, Master Zhou instructed Linlang to get to know the Fourth Prince better.

When Master Zhou gave these instructions, Linlang knew that he had given up on the eldest and second princes and was not particularly fond of the third prince either.

The Fourth Prince has other women, so Linlang certainly won't be with him. But she still needs to think about how to get Master Zhou to give up the Fourth Prince.

Fortunately, Master Zhou didn't force her to be with the Fourth Prince right now, so things could take their time, and Linlang wasn't in a hurry.

If Master Zhou really forces her to be with the Fourth Prince in the future, she can just beat his legs until they become rotten. Then the Fourth Prince will be unable to become emperor, but he can still be a leisurely prince. Moreover, his legs becoming rotten will not affect his status as a prince and his ability to enjoy life. Apart from preventing him from becoming emperor, it will have almost no impact.

This is the easiest way to solve this problem.

Since Linlang had a super simple way to get rid of Master Zhou's pressure to let her be with the Fourth Prince, she naturally wasn't worried about Master Zhou's coercion at this moment.

In fact, the source of the original owner's tragedy was Master Zhou. After all, if Master Zhou hadn't insisted on making the original owner the empress, she wouldn't have entered the palace. With the power of the Zhou family, she could have married into a good family and lived a good life.

As a result, Master Zhou insisted on forcing the original owner to enter the palace, which led to the original owner's tragic end.

The original owner of this body had indirectly died twice at the hands of Master Zhou. After killing the First Prince and the Third Prince, Linlang would deal with Master Zhou.

However, the original owner of this body did not seem to have any particular hatred for Master Zhou, otherwise she would not have refrained from saying that she would kill him. Therefore, Linlang would not kill Master Zhou, but rather let him suffer a stroke and become paralyzed, so as not to feel that she had done a good job, but the original owner was not satisfied. That would not be good. She does not necessarily have to do things according to her own values, but will also take into account the original owner's feelings.

Since there's nothing important to do for the time being, and all that's left is to cooperate with others to take advantage of the Third Prince's misfortune and deal with him, Linlang has been quite free lately and has time to tend to the grass.

Linlang didn't clean up the grass immediately, not because she didn't want to, but because she wanted to wait for what she had done to be exposed.

Qingcao had been preparing for the Crown Prince's arrival and planning his sexual encounter with Linlang.

Three months have almost passed, and the eldest prince is about to be born.

Qingcao planned to send Linlang to the First Prince's bed during the autumn outing shortly after the Mid-Autumn Festival. She thought that once Linlang slept with the First Prince, the Zhou family would have no choice but to marry Linlang to him. Once Linlang married the First Prince, the Zhou family would definitely have to support him.

Linlang looked at her plan and couldn't help but sneer.

As the young lady's head maid, she doesn't consider her mistress's interests but instead cares about an outsider. She even plots to ruin her mistress's reputation for the sake of this man. Such a disloyal and treacherous person deserves to be exposed, even if she isn't killed, no one will dare to approach her. After all, who would dare to employ her again? What if she falls for another man in the future and sends her mistress to his bed again?

Of course, Linlang wouldn't let her off the hook, so she had no future.

Three months passed quickly, and the eldest prince emerged. It was shortly after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the air filled with the fragrance of osmanthus blossoms—a perfect time for autumn outings. Many wealthy families in the capital went out for autumn excursions to enjoy the scenery, and the Zhou family of the Duke of Zhongguo's mansion was no exception. Like most wealthy families, they had their own garden in the suburbs. Because it was in the suburbs, there was plenty of space, so it occupied a vast area, much larger than the Duke's mansion in the capital—a truly beautiful garden.

Because it occupies a huge area, it is easy for grass to grow there, as there are many hidden places.

She already knew that the Zhou family planned to go on an autumn outing to the manor after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so she went to the manor to make arrangements under the pretext of helping her young lady with the outing. When the eldest prince arrived, she led Linlang to the place she had arranged, where the eldest prince would be waiting. Then things would be done.

Linlang watched quietly as she courted death, without doing anything to alert the enemy, and simply pretended not to know anything.

Soon, the Duke of Zhongguo's family went on an autumn outing to the outskirts of the country to enjoy the scenery.

They planned to stay at the estate for three days, enjoy the scenery, host banquets, and then return.

During the banquet, princes and princesses were naturally invited as well.

Unlike the second prince, who had committed a crime and been imprisoned, the eldest prince had only been reprimanded by the emperor, so naturally he was still invited back.

Then, when it was almost time, Qingcao led Linlang to the place she had arranged, intending to knock Linlang unconscious and leave her there. Afterward, the First Prince would go there and do *that* with Linlang. Once it was all over, the people Qingcao had arranged would catch them in the act—the reason Qingcao didn't go herself was naturally out of caution and to be careful, fearing that if the plan failed, the Zhou family would find out it was her doing and cause her trouble. So she only arranged for others to go and catch them in the act—at that point, her young lady wouldn't be able to avoid marrying the First Prince!
When her young mistress marries the eldest prince, she will be a maidservant who accompanies her in the marriage.

If the eldest prince becomes emperor in the future, she has made such a great contribution. Even if she is not made a concubine, she will definitely be a principal consort.

If she were to outdo her mistress and give birth to several healthy sons, then in the future, if her mistress, like the current Empress, also had no children, then her children, like the current Crown Prince, would have the potential to ascend to the throne.

Once her son ascends to the throne, she will become the Empress Dowager, and she will truly become a person of high status.

—She's getting too carried away. She probably forgot that the First Prince has a beloved woman and two sons with her. When it comes to the throne, it will only be the First Prince's beloved woman's son who will become emperor. What chance does her son have? She probably thinks that anything is possible and the future is uncertain, so she's willing to take a gamble. After all, she's already with the First Prince, and there's no hope of finding another prince without a beloved woman. She can only keep messing around on the First Prince's ship.

Actually, after she found out that the eldest prince had someone he loved, she regretted sleeping with him too soon. If she had known that the eldest prince had someone he loved, she would have invested in other princes. But now that she was on the eldest prince's side, there was nothing she could do.

The reason she thought her young lady would be childless was simple: the eldest prince had previously revealed that the Zhou family was very powerful and influential, and even if her young lady became empress, she couldn't be allowed to have children, lest the Zhou family continue to grow stronger.

She didn't know that the Crown Prince said this partly because of this, but more importantly, the Crown Prince wanted his beloved's son to become emperor. That's why he said it, because he couldn't let the Zhou family girl, who had a powerful background, give birth to a child, lest it affect his beloved's son's ascension to the throne.

Qingcao was unaware that the eldest prince was eyeing the son of his beloved. Hearing the eldest prince say this, she became ambitious and felt that she might one day rise above her young mistress. After all, once her son became emperor, even if her young mistress became empress dowager, she would naturally be worse off than Qingcao, who had a biological son.

Harboring such beautiful dreams, Qingcao led Linlang, who was digesting her meal, to the place she had chosen, intending to offer her master there and secure her own wealth and glory. (End of Chapter)