Ye Xingxue's expression was cold, ignoring Ye Feng's sabotage.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, comes the annual imperial banquet.

At the lively banquet, most people were quite surprised to see only Ye Feng and his two sons, with Ling Luo nowhere to be seen.

Ling Luo didn't even show up at such an important occasion as the palace banquet...

Immediately, all sorts of speculations arose in everyone's minds.

Before today, they all knew that Ling Luo had not participated in any combat assessments at the Hailuo Military Academy in the past year.

I also know that she missed the final theory exam last semester because she was sick.

Ling Luo's identity has attracted much attention.

Both of these things will affect her image in the eyes of the people of the empire.

As the person involved, she should personally handle such an important matter and make some arrangements.

But she never appeared from beginning to end.

This is very strange...

Thinking about all this, many people suddenly realized that apart from these few important matters, they hadn't heard any other news about Ling Luo for the entire past year.

She seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Some people were curious and wanted to ask Ye Xingxue or Ye Feng about Ling Luo.

After some whispering and learning about this information, everyone had a guess in their hearts—it was all orchestrated by the royal family.

Everyone knows what the royal family's purpose is in manipulating all of this.

After all, no matter how powerful Ling Luo's ancient martial arts are, even if she has brought glory to the empire, she has no cultivation aptitude and her background is ordinary. How could Ye Feng and Ye Xingxue really accept her?

Let alone the royal family, even if their son married Ling Luo under those circumstances, they would never be able to accept her.

Not to mention that Ye Xingxue's aptitude is so good, it's countless times better than their son's.

Since the royal family wanted to get rid of Ling Luo, they naturally wouldn't bother asking Ye Xingxue or Ye Feng about Ling Luo's whereabouts.

Ling Luo was busy, and Ye Zeru and the others also knew about it.

to be honest.

They hadn't expected that Ling Luo wouldn't even show up at the palace banquet.

However, their ideas differed from others.

They naturally couldn't believe that Ling Luo's absence was the result of manipulation by the royal family.

They assumed Ling Luo had something very important to do.

Luo Yi knew less about Ling Luo than anyone else.

She was naturally quite surprised that Ling Luo hadn't appeared at such an occasion.

She didn't believe that Ling Luo's absence was the result of royal manipulation, after all, Ye Xingxue was really special to Ling Luo.

She found a moment to ask Ye Zeru and the others, "What's wrong with the Crown Princess? Is she still sick?"

Ye Zeru and the others looked at each other, unsure of what to say.

Hearing her words, he said, "We're not too sure about that either. You know, we haven't seen you in a long time. We'll find a chance to ask my brother later."

Luo Yi nodded: "Oh."

As the Crown Prince, Ye Xingxue still had to entertain people on such occasions, so he didn't have much time to chat with them.

However, many people assumed that the relationship between Ye Xingxue and Ling Luo was over, and many people brought their daughters to talk to Ye Xingxue. Everyone understood what that meant.

After the ball began, many people stared at Ye Xingxue, wondering who he would invite to dance.

After all, as the crown prince, he should be the one to perform the opening dance.