Jiang Meijuan

She is the Matriarch of the **Prince Jing Estate** who often uses her status and love of her husband/son's love for her to get her way. When she realized that Yu Xiaocao had a place in Zhu Junyang's heart she would often do things to make sure they had to spend time with each other.

First introduced when she went to Tangu Town to relieve her boredom and be closer to Zhu Junyang (who was sailing to the western hemisphere) she was introduced to Yu Xiaocao through Xia Chuxue. While staying there she was fed medicinal foods with the Divine Stone's mystical water and her former ailments were eventually healed.

After Zhu Junyang was hurt protecting Yu Hai from a bear attack she vented her anger on Yu Xiaocao by making her stand outside but once she was told that her medicines had an 80% chance of healing him she came out of her confused state and treated Xiaocao normally. She asked her to help Zhu Junyang in any way she could effectivly making Xiaocao his personal maideservant.

## **History**

Second Son Zhu Junxi had a difficult birth and the princess consort had a lot of postpartum bleeding. She was nursed for a long time before she was out of danger. At that time, Prince Jing didn’t even go to court anymore. He personally served his wife at her bedside and refused to let other people take over. Although the princess consort was ultimately able to retain her life, her body was no longer the same as before. Whenever the wind blew on her, she would get a headache and pain in her heart. This made Zhu Xiaoli very worried. Naturally, he was not very happy with his second son for causing his wife’s problems and didn’t like him very much.

When the princess consort was pregnant with her third son, Zhu Junyang, they had to use medications to hasten his birth prematurely due to her body’s condition. After he was born, the imperial physician said that this son might be too premature and may not survive to adulthood. Princess Consort Jing felt very remorseful and focused all of her energy towards raising her youngest son.

On the year that her youngest son turned nine, one of the higher-ranking concubines in the residence decided to meddle with her. Princess Consort Jing’s personal maidservant was bribed and started to poison her with a slow-acting substance. Her body’s condition slipped with every passing day. Her youngest son, who was already living in his own courtyard, visited her when she was ill one day. As he passed her personal maidservant with a medicine bowl in her hands, he suddenly pulled out the dagger from his waist and chopped off her hands in a rage. He continuously interrogated the hapless servant, demanding to know who sent her.

Finally, Prince Jing investigated this situation after he heard about what happened. Only then did they find out what ‘good deeds’ that personal maidservant had done. By following the trail of clues, they finally found and caught the villain behind the scenes. The concubine had been punished with death by poison while the rest of the world only knew that she had passed away suddenly from a fast-acting illness. At this time, Princess Consort Jing realized she had misunderstood her son this entire time. However, it was too late to try to fix her mistakes.

She used an entire year’s worth of time to carefully attend to her youngest son. Only then was she able to slowly crack open his outer shell and sneak through a tiny little hole to his inner thoughts and heart. That was when she finally had a hint of the secret that he had concealed for five years.

She was truly quite frightened when she first found out his secret! However, when she saw the hurt and pain within her youngest son’s eyes, she knew right then that if she pushed him away again, she would lose her son forever.

## **Trivia**

* She is a flower lover who often likes to compete with the other noble ladies to see who has the best and most rare flowers.
* Even though she is a flower lover she once harmed a valuable camellia flower so that Zhu Junyang could spend some time with Yu Xiaocao.
* Her Father was an Imperial Tutor and one of the most respected teachers of Zhu Junfan.