Chapter 4 — I Am Your Royal Highness, Not Your Puppet

Write a letter home, of course not to accuse. With my father's temperament, if he knew that I had to endure this kind of resentment in the Royal Palace, I'm afraid he would have directly led the army to level the entire Diem Vuong Palace. I just want to remind a few people that Tham Thanh Ninh has never been a person without support. My pen glides like a dragon flying and a phoenix dancing, in the letter are all daily inquiries, asking about the recent situation of my father and brother at the border, and mentioning some interesting things happening in the capital. Just at the end of the letter, I accidentally added a sentence.

"The younger sister in the palace accidentally soiled the snow fox fur coat that father gave her. The daughter was extremely heartbroken so she burned it. I hope father will not blame her."

That's enough. With my father's wisdom, he could of course see how underneath those seemingly calm lines were hidden storms. I folded the letter, carefully sealed it, and then used the Tham family's private seal to stamp it on the layer of red wax.

“Send someone immediately to the North, eight hundred miles urgently.”

As soon as he finished giving instructions, the hospital door was kicked open. Tieu Canh Diem carried a cold aura and strode in. He has already arranged the arrangements for Lieu Nhu Nguyet. At this moment, he is coming to me to settle the matter. When he saw the sealed family letter on the table, his pupils immediately shrank.

“Have you written a letter to your father?”

Tieu Canh Diem's voice carried a trace of panic that even he himself had not yet realized.

“I wrote a letter to my father, do I still have to report to the Royal Family?”

I gave the letter to the soldier standing next to me and advised:

“Let's go immediately.”

“Obey!”

The soldier received the order and turned around to leave.

“Stop!”

Tieu Canh Diem shouted loudly. The soldier's footsteps stopped for a moment, but did not stop, his figure quickly disappeared outside the courtyard gate. In the rules of the General's Palace, my orders are higher than all. Tieu Canh Diem's face immediately became extremely unsightly. He stared at me, like an angry and cornered beast.

“Tham Thanh Ninh, what do you want?”

“What do I want?”

I met his gaze and calmly asked back.

“I should have asked you this question.”

"Tieu Canh Diem, what do you want? Do you want to abolish me, this Princess, for the sake of your good cousin? Or do you want to let the General's palace's 300,000 troops drag your entire Royal Palace down and bury it with you?"

“It really makes no sense!”

He was silenced by my words, so angry that he couldn't choose his words.

“When did I ever say I wanted to abolish her?”

“Do you really have to make such a fuss?”

I laughed softly.

“Your Majesty, from beginning to end, I was only protecting my face as the Royal Princess.”

"On the contrary, he has humiliated his own wife time and time again because of an outsider."

“Nhu Nguyet is not an outsider!”

He immediately objected.

“She is the only bloodline my mother left in this world!”

“Before she passed away, the mother gave her to me to take care of.”

“I promised you, I will definitely take good care of her!”

He finally said it words that are true in my heart. It turns out that was the responsibility he shouldered after accepting the entrustment before his death. I looked at him and suddenly felt a bit sad.

“So, your so-called care is to welcome her into the Royal Palace, provide her with good food and beautiful clothes, let her provoke your wife, and then you continue to support her, right?”

He was momentarily speechless.

"Tieu Canh Diem, have you ever thought that your unlimited 'care' is not helping her, but is harming her."

"You made her gradually lose her identity, forget what the limits were, what the rules were, so that she naively thought that as long as she had your protection, she could act recklessly in the Royal Palace."

“Today I only slapped her mouth twenty times.”

"But if she continues to be so ignorant of heaven and earth, and later enters the palace, stands in front of the Queen Mother or the Queen and dares to be so disrespectful, do you think she will lose face, or her head?"