Chapter 98: Revocation of the Decree to Grant the Crown Princess

After Xie Shian's eyes met Fu Qianran's, he hurriedly looked away.

At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard again.

Yun Xiangye saw the big maroon horse from afar, and her heart finally settled down.

Gu Yan came on horseback and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yun Xiangye on the horse in one piece.

Gu Yan came to the white horse, hugged Yun Xiangye's waist tightly, brought her to his horse, held Yun Xiangye tightly in his arms and said: "Didn't you say that you would never leave Nuonuo? I didn't see you after I finished the polo game."

Yun Xiangye said, "Miss Fu and I wanted to go out for a walk to relax, but we lost our balance and rolled down the hillside."

Gu Yan saw Yun Xiangye's outer dress on Fu Qianran, "Why are you here in the mountains to relax?"

Yun Xiangye looked at the Crown Prince who came behind Gu Yan, and saluted, "Your Highness."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dismounted and saw Fu Qianran's face was red and swollen beside the white horse, with obvious marks of five fingers. He frowned and asked angrily, "Who hit you?"

Yun Xiangye said quickly: "I hit her. She fell and fainted just now. I was afraid that she would not wake up, so I slapped her hard. I acted in an emergency. I just wanted to save her..."

Zhao Yun looked back at Yun Xiangye.

Gu Yanlian got off the horse, put his arm around Yun Xiangye, and knelt in front of Zhao Yun with her.

Zhao Yun frowned and looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Do you know what is the crime of deceiving the emperor? Tell me everything that happened today, and don't hide anything!"

Fu Qianran also knelt in front of Zhao Yun.

Yun Xiangye glanced at Gu Yan and said, "I didn't dare to lie to Your Highness. It was indeed me who slapped him."

Zhao Yun looked at Gu Yan and said, "You found a good wife, An Que."

Yun Xiangye saw a woman in black coming down from the tree. She knelt down in front of Zhao Yun and said, "Your Highness, it was Lu Qingchao, a villager from Hongliu Village, who abducted Miss Fu in order to avenge his brother and sister-in-law. The Crown Prince's wife had been following Miss Fu and trying to persuade her not to take any risks, so she was knocked unconscious..."

The black-clad secret guard reported everything that had just happened.

Yun Xiangye clenched his fists as he listened, and said hurriedly, "Your Highness, the Lu family is already pitiful enough. After all, they didn't do anything to the Crown Princess. Please let the Lu family go."

Fu Qianran also kowtowed and said, "Your Highness, they are indeed eager for revenge, please forgive them."

Zhao Yun looked at Fu Qianran's tattered clothes and said in a cold voice, "You can be the Crown Princess because the Fu family has a very good reputation. Now your brother has been causing trouble again and again, looting the people's land, and treating human life as worthless. Today, he even didn't care about the remains of his own mother, but instead let you, a woman, come and take risks. I can no longer forgive him, nor can I let you enter the East Palace.

I will report this to my father later and withdraw the decree that I have granted you the title of Crown Princess."

When Fu Qianran heard this, she kowtowed and said, "Your Highness...don't..."

"Your Highness, I know I am wrong. Please don't take back my position as Crown Princess..."

Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan, wanting Gu Yan to plead for Fu Qianran.

Gu Yan just held Yun Xiangye's hand tightly, signaling her not to make a sound.

Xie Shian knelt down and said, "Your Highness, this was all done by Fu Ming. Your wedding date has been set, and it will be less than two months away. The envoys from those small countries may have come to Chang'an to congratulate you on your wedding. You must not take back Miss Fu's position as Crown Princess at this time."

Zhao Yun said: "The East Palace does not need a Crown Princess with a bad reputation!"

Yun Xiangye murmured softly, "It's not Fu Qianran whose reputation is ruined, it's her brother."

Gu Yan quickly reached out and covered Yun Xiangye's lips.

Zhao Yun didn't say much and left impatiently.

Yun Xiangye and Fu Qianran both collapsed to the ground helplessly due to fainting just now.

Gu Yan hurriedly supported Yun Xiangye.

Yun Xiangye hurriedly said to Gu Yan: "Your Highness must get married in April!"

Gu Yan said: "Your Highness will definitely get married in April, but the candidate for the Crown Princess may be changed."

"Will you still get married?"

Yun Xiangye was really afraid that Zhao Yun would not get married in April, and by then her sister's belly would not be able to be hidden.

After all, the pregnancy will start to show after four months, and by that time my sister will have to fake her death and leave the palace.

Gu Yan nodded, "The wedding date has been set, and foreign envoys have come to Chang'an to celebrate. Your Majesty will definitely let the prince get married in April."

Yun Xiangye breathed a sigh of relief.

Fu Qianran, who was standing aside, had a look of despair on her face. She looked up at the sky helplessly, her eyes blurred with tears... After all, could she not be the Crown Princess?

When she was chosen as the Crown Princess five years ago, my mother was very happy. However, not long after, she fell seriously ill and died.

Fu Qianran also missed her chance to get married in the palace because she observed mourning for three years.

A year after her mother passed away, her father took in a concubine's daughter from the Wu family as her stepmother in order to manage the affairs of the rear house and arrange her marriage.

But when her three-year mourning period for her biological mother was about to end, her stepmother passed away. Although she had only been her stepmother for two years, she was still her stepmother, so she had to observe mourning again.

This time the wedding date has been set... When Fu Qianran thought that she could finally enter the palace to fulfill her mother's wish, she was disliked by the prince because of her brother.

Fu Qianran felt a vague sense of relief in her heart. In the future, she would no longer be the Crown Princess... She no longer had to worry that after becoming the Crown Princess, she would be threatened by her brother to help him get promoted and seize the wealth of the common people.

She also doesn't have to let her family members use her name as the Crown Princess to do evil things.

But she... was too embarrassed to go back to the Fu family.

Fu Qianran staggered to her feet and took off the phoenix hairpin on her head...

When Yun Xiangye saw this, he hurriedly said to Xie Shian, "Stop her quickly!"

Xie Shian quickly reached out and grasped the phoenix hairpin in Fu Qianran's hand, and with his other hand he snatched the phoenix hairpin from Fu Qianran's hand.

Fu Qianran saw the phoenix hairpin that fell to the ground. She shed tears and said, "I am twenty years old... Now my engagement has been broken off by the royal family and I am disliked by the Crown Prince. No one dares to marry me anymore. I will never get married in this life. Rather than being laughed at by everyone in Chang'an, I would rather die."

Yun Xiangye said, "The jokes in Chang'an won't make you lose a piece of meat. Your Majesty is wise now. It's not like the previous dynasty where girls couldn't live without getting married. You can set up a female household and do some small business. It's much more comfortable than getting married. What others say is nothing. The most important thing is that you live a comfortable life. Life after getting married is not easy."

Gu Yan frowned as he listened to Yun Xiangye's words.

Yun Xiangye persuaded the tearful Fu Qianran, "Besides, it's not like no one dares to marry you."

Yun Xiangye looked at Xie Shian.

Xie Shian said slowly: "Miss Fu, if your engagement is broken off by the royal family, there will definitely be someone willing to marry you."

Fu Qianran looked at Xie Shian with tears in her eyes.

Xie Shian said to Fu Qianran, "Stop crying, I'll take you back to change your clothes first. Maybe His Highness was just speaking in anger."

As Xie Shian spoke, he lowered his eyes and helped Fu Qianran onto the horse.

Fu Qianran wrapped herself tightly in her outer robe made of Yunxiang leaves and when they arrived at a place where people lived, Xie Shian spent one or two taels of silver to buy her a piece of coarse cloth clothing.

Yun Xiangye was worried about Fu Qianran changing clothes alone, so she followed Fu Qianran into the room to change clothes.

Fu Qianran has a good temperament, and even after changing into coarse cloth clothes, she can't hide her nobleness.

Yun Xiangye stood by Fu Qianran's side and said, "Not being able to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince may be a relief for you. You should be more open-minded. There are men in this world who are more suitable for you as a husband than His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Fu Qianran asked, "Are you talking about Xie Shian?"

Yun Xiangye smiled faintly and said, "So you knew?"