"Oh no! We've fallen for their trap!"

After Xiao Ye and his group had completely disappeared, the guards of the Chu Prince's Mansion shouted and hurriedly turned back to their rooms.

They rushed to the room where the "Ten Thousand Sons and Thousand Grandsons" painting was kept, and quickly uncovered the painting to find that the lifelike painting was still there. They breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Su Liluo and the others had already returned to the Crown Prince's residence.

Ye Han and the others suffered minor injuries, and Xiao Ye instructed the royal physician to bandage their wounds.

Su Liluo took out the real painting and handed it to Xiao Ye, smiling, "Look, I got the original!"

"you......"

Xiao Ye wanted to ask her how she got it, but then he thought of her inexplicable disappearance and reappearance today, and suddenly held back.

He decided to trust her and let her speak when she was ready.

After all, such a bizarre and strange thing is really unbelievable.

What's wrong with me?

At this moment, Su Liluo was only happy to have stolen the painting and did not notice that Xiao Ye had discovered her strange hiding skill.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask if you were injured?"

Xiao Ye asked with concern.

"Don't worry, I'm not hurt. How about you, my husband?"

Su Liluo smiled.

Xiao Ye also shook his head, saying that he was not injured.

Then, Su Liluo opened the painting in front of Xiao Ye and showed him the real "Ten Thousand Sons and Thousand Grandsons".

*

With the birthday banquet approaching, Xiao Churen personally checked the map after Xiao Ye and his group broke into the Chu Prince's mansion last time, and found no problems.

So, on the day of Emperor Wenjian's birthday banquet, he mysteriously took what he thought was the "Ten Thousand Sons and Thousand Grandsons Picture" to the palace.

Because it was Emperor Wenjian's birthday banquet, the banquet was very grand, even more so than the previous New Year's banquet.

The number of officials attending the birthday banquet was much greater than that of the New Year's banquet, and even princes from the vassal states came to the capital to attend the banquet by imperial decree.

Su Liluo wore a light blue palace dress and put on a delicate and lively makeup before going to the palace banquet with Xiao Ye.

After the carriage stopped at the palace gate, Xiao Ye jumped down from the carriage first, and then personally reached out to help Su Lilu down.

"Luo'er!"

Suddenly, Su Liluo heard a familiar, joyful female voice coming from afar.

After she got off the carriage, she looked around and saw a pretty woman in a turquoise palace dress walking towards her.

His smiling face was like a gentle breeze.

"Chu Yan!"

Su Liluo exclaimed in surprise.

"How did you get back from the barbarian lands?"

Chu Yan is the daughter of the Vice Minister of Revenue. She and Su Liluo were neighbors when they were children and played together. They were very close friends.

Later, Chu Yan married Prince Xiao and went to the barbarian lands. After that, the two never saw each other again.

"It's Father Emperor's birthday. Prince Xiao and I haven't celebrated with Father Emperor for several years. This time we came back specially by imperial decree."

Chu Yan smiled.

Then, Prince Xiao, dressed in a dark blue brocade robe of noble bearing, came over.

"Your Highness, it's been a long time. Is this your new Crown Princess?"

Xiao Wang greeted Xiao Ye, then looked up at Su Liluo.

Noticing Xiao Wang's gaze, Su Liluo suddenly remembered Xiao Wang from her previous life.

To be honest, this person is quite remarkable.

In his previous life, Xiao Churen's biggest rival on his path to the throne, besides Xiao Ye, was this Prince Xiao.

After Xiao Ye's leg was crippled, Xiao Churen was focused on removing Xiao Ye from the position of Crown Prince, but he overlooked the fact that Xiao Wang had gradually risen in the court and gained many supporters.

Prince Xiao came from a humble background. His mother was a palace maid serving the Empress. She became pregnant after being favored by the Emperor once and was then granted the title of Consort.

Over the years, she has had little presence in the harem.

Su Liluo did not live to the end in her previous life and did not know the final fate of King Xiao. She only knew that before her death, King Xiao's strength had become comparable to that of Xiao Churen.

At that time, Xiao Churen also wanted to use the same method to arrange for a woman to infiltrate Prince Xiao's inner circle, but unfortunately...

Su Liluo looked at Chu Yan and suddenly felt a pang of sadness.

In her previous life, her fate wasn't much better than his.

Chu Yan devoted herself to Prince Xiao, and the two seemed to be a loving couple, but it was all an illusion.

Chu Yan's marriage to Prince Xiao was a complete deception from beginning to end.

Thinking of Chu Yan's fate in her previous life, Su Liluo felt sad and her gaze towards Prince Xiao became complicated.

"Yes, this is indeed my Crown Princess."

Xiao Ye grasped Su Liluo's hand and introduced her to King Xiao with a smile.

He had just sensed Su Liluo's emotional change, and although he didn't know why, he still held her hand and comforted her.

Su Liluo then came to her senses and nodded gently to Prince Xiao.

"Luo'er, you're already married, why didn't you write to tell me? I missed your wedding banquet, and I didn't even prepare a wedding gift for you!"

At this moment, Chu Yan smiled and complained.

If she hadn't seen it today, she wouldn't have known that Su Liluo had actually become the Crown Princess, and that the two of them had become sisters-in-law.

She remembered that when she was a child, wasn't the Crown Prince engaged to Su Wanshi?

How did it suddenly become that Su Liluo got married?

What exactly happened in between?

Chu Yan was very curious, but she didn't have time to ask more questions in this situation.

After exchanging a few words, they had to go inside to attend the palace banquet.

The four of them entered the palace together. Chu Yan and Su Liluo had not seen each other for a long time, so Chu Yan held Su Liluo's hand and walked to the back to chat.

Xiao Ye then walked to the front with King Xiao.

When they walked from outside the palace into the palace, Princess Cheng saw the two of them walking in chatting and laughing, and her face fell.

Princess Cheng walked up to Chu Yan with displeasure and said sarcastically, "Oh, Princess Xiao, you're really bold! You actually dare to walk next to the Crown Princess, aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"

She still remembered the time she was poisoned by a curse, so she was particularly annoyed with Su Liluo now.

Chu Yan was displeased upon hearing this and glanced at Princess Cheng. "Princess Cheng, what do you mean? Can't you speak properly?"

If you can't speak properly, then shut up!

"Heh, Princess Xiao, you haven't been to the palace in a long time. You probably don't know that the Crown Princess is not to be trusted. Last time I sat close to her, I was inexplicably poisoned."

You've been standing so close to her today, be careful you don't get poisoned later! Anyone who gets near the Crown Princess is doomed!

"Smack!"

As soon as Princess Cheng finished speaking, she received a loud slap across the face.

"You...you actually hit me!"

Princess Cheng covered her cheek and looked at Su Liluo in disbelief.

That's right, it was Su Lilu who slapped me just now.

"Oh dear! I'm so sorry, Princess Cheng. I just saw a mosquito buzzing on your face, and it was so annoying that I couldn't help but try to swat it. I didn't expect to swat your face instead!"

Su Liluo said with a smile.

Chu Yan covered her mouth and smiled.

Princess Cheng was so angry that her face twisted in anger.

"Nonsense! There were no mosquitoes at all! You deliberately slapped my face! Your Highness, you are incredibly arrogant! You must apologize to me!"