The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1006

Chapter 1006: 477 Chapter One

Gu Jiao stepped out from the Renshou Palace and happened to bump into Yujin, who had just paid her respects to Empress Xiao.

"Aunt Yujin," Gu Jiao greeted her.

Yujin responded with a delighted smile, "Is that Doctor Gu? Did you come to visit the Empress Dowager?"

Princess Xinyang, having looked into Gu Jiao, surely knew of her relationship with Empress Dowager Zhuang.

Gu Jiao nodded.

"Did the Princess come to the palace as well?" she asked.

"Ah, no, only I came. The Empress summoned me while the Princess..." Yujin spoke up to this point and could not help but smile helplessly. She didn’t keep anything from Gu Jiao, "The Empress wanted to know about Young Lord Xiao. The Princess didn’t wish to speak further about it, so she feigned illness to stay at the Mansion, sending me to report back to the Empress."

As for what the Empress asked Yujin, Yujin simply excused herself as a servant who knew nothing.

Empress Xiao could use punishment on others but could not do the same to Yujin, for two reasons: one was that Yujin was innocent, and the second was that Yujin was a confidante of Princess Xinyang. If Empress Xiao dared to touch her, Princess Xinyang would not let the matter rest.

There was no need for family to reach that point.

The two of them walked together towards the Palace Gate.

Gu Jiao never liked to pry into other people’s privacy, but ever since Yujin confirmed Xiao Liulang’s identity, she no longer treated Gu Jiao as a stranger.

Yujin initiated the conversation with Gu Jiao, "Actually, the Princess and the Empress aren’t very close."

She used the word "close," which was a measured and softened euphemism. In reality, the relationship between the two was very cold. The reason traced back to the discord between Marquis Xuanping and Princess Xinyang. As the younger sister of Marquis Xuanping, Empress Xiao naturally wouldn’t blame her own brother.

Thus, she bore some prejudice against Princess Xinyang.

Princess Xinyang was not the kind to warm up to indifference, leading to the current tepid situation between the two.

"Sigh," Yujin sighed, "Both the Empress and the Princess are very fond of the Young Lord. When he was around, the two would occasionally talk. But ever since... the Young Lord had his incident, the Empress and Princess have scarcely interacted."

The only time they met was when Princess Xinyang last returned to the capital and visited the palace to pay her respects to the Emperor and Empress.

However, this was not a case of sister-in-law affection but rather a matter of sovereign and subject protocol.

Yujin didn’t talk to Gu Jiao about these things because she hoped that Gu Jiao would mediate between them or to remind Gu Jiao not to speak about things Princess Xinyang had left unsaid.