In the Ye family's backyard.

Ye Wanhe looked at her unchanged boudoir. It looked like this when she left Yongxing City, and it still looks like this now.

There was not a trace of dust, which showed that her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law were looking forward to her return.

Ye Wanhe sat by the window, looking at the banana tree outside. It still looked the same as when she left, except that the tree outside the window was a little bigger.

Zhao Yun stayed beside Ye Wanhe and looked around her boudoir. Compared with the bedroom in the East Palace, it was of course much smaller, but it was quiet and clean.

Zhao Yun walked over to Ye Wanhe's desk, looked at the words she had written earlier, and smiled faintly, "So this is what your handwriting looked like when you were thirteen or fourteen."

Ye Wanhe snatched the paper from Zhao Yun's hand, "This is the last homework I've written since I came to Chang'an City... I didn't even dare show it to Mr. Li. If I had known Mr. Li's identity earlier, I would have shown it to her. Otherwise, I wouldn't have become a slave in the Chang'an Palace..."

Zhao Yun frowned slightly and said, "You still don't want to come to the palace to meet me?"

Ye Wanhe raised her eyes to look at Zhao Yun and said, "It's not that I don't want to meet you, but I don't want to go back to the palace and live in fear, with no freedom, and only relying on the hope of leaving the palace to survive."

Zhao Yun took Ye Wanhe into his arms. He had indeed hurt her deeply during her ten years in the palace. "I'm sorry, Wanhe. I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you."

Ye Wanhe was in Zhao Yun's arms, looking at his still white hair and his still thin body that had not yet recovered. In the end, Ye Wanhe reached out and hugged Zhao Yun back.

"Your Highness, can I sleep here tonight?"

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Well, I'll stay here with you tonight."

Ye Wanhe smiled faintly and said, "Okay."

The Ye family’s dinner was very sumptuous.

When entering the banquet, Shuang Bai saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince coming hand in hand with Ye Wanhe. He looked at Yun Xiangye with a little surprise and said, "Sister, he..."

Yun Xiangye and Shuang Bai stood up and saluted Zhao Yun, saying, "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhao Yun greeted everyone and said, "Today is a family dinner. We don't follow the palace rules or distinguish between the emperor and his subjects. Please take a seat and enjoy the meal."

Shuang Bai couldn't help but be surprised that the mute slave bought by Chen Qing before turned out to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. How could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince become a mute slave?

Yun Shuangbai looked at Yun Xiangye with doubts.

Yun Xiangye smiled and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "I'll explain it to you someday."

Ye Wanhe looked at Shuangbai and said, "You are Shuangbai, the second sister of Yun? When I left, you were the same size as Nuonuo now. Now you have grown into such a graceful young lady. Do you still remember me?"

Shuang Bai smiled and looked at Ye Wanhe and said, "I vaguely remember that you often hugged me when I was a child."

It has been a long time since the Ye family has gathered together like this. Except for Gu Yan's absence, today is considered a big reunion for the Ye family.

After finishing the meal, Yun Xiangye began to miss Gu Yan.

The two sisters had not seen each other for a long time, so Yun Shuangbai followed Yun Xiangye back to their palace residence.

Yun Shuangbai stuck to Yun Xiangye to inquire about the affairs of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Ye Wanhe, and Yun Xiangye told Shuangbai everything she knew.

Shuang Bai became more and more angry as he listened. "Sister He has suffered so much injustice and pain, yet she easily forgives His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. His Royal Highness deserves to do hard labor in the winery. If I had known, I should have taught him a lesson."

Yun Xiangye smiled gently.

Yun Shuangbai looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince looked down on Sister He before, but what about you? Have you also been bullied in Chang'an City?"

Yun Xiangye said: "No, it's time to go to bed. It's very late."

Yun Shuangbai knew in his heart that Yun Xiangye's life must have been turbulent since she had just arrived in Chang'an and had been kept in the dark by Gu Yan for three years. However, seeing that Yun Xiangye was sleepy, Yun Shuangbai stopped asking.

The next morning, when the weather was not very hot.

Yun Xiangye and Yun Shuangbai got up early and took Nuonuo to the Ye family, planning to go to visit their parents' grave with Ye Wanhe.

Yun Xiangye was pregnant and according to the rules she was not allowed to go to the grave, but her parents were buried in the Ye family's ancestral tomb.

Yun Xiangye thought that they were all his ancestors, so there was nothing wrong with them going, so he went with them.

Zhao Yun was originally going to accompany Ye Wanhe, but the officials from Yuezhou City had already gathered in the palace to seek an audience, so Ye Wanhe did not let Zhao Yun go.

Yun Xiangye and Ye Wanhe arrived at their parents' grave and placed the dishes for the sacrifice.

Yun Xiangye looked at the tombstone in front of her and said, "Dad and Mom, I've brought my sister back to see you."

"Mom and Dad, please bless Gu Yan to return home safely and bless me to give birth safely."

Ye Wanhe knelt in front of the tombstone and offered nine incense sticks: "Aunt, Uncle, Wanhe is late."

Little Nuonuo followed their example, kneeling down and calling out to Grandpa and Grandma, kowtowed adorably, "Grandpa and Grandma, please bless Nuonuo with lots of delicious food."

Yun Xiangye chuckled and said, "Grandpa and grandma will definitely bless Nuonuo."

After burning incense, when everyone was about to go down the mountain, they happened to meet the Yun family members who came to the ancestral grave to add soil and burn incense during the Ghost Festival.

"Hey, isn't this Xiangye? Didn't you say you were going to Chang'an? Why are you back again? Who is this?"

Aunt Yun saw Ye Wanhe next to Yun Xiangye and said, "This is the daughter of the Ye family, your cousin who entered the palace as a slave, right?"

Seeing Ye Wanhe, the Yun family's cousin said, "Wanhe, is it really you? You've left the palace and returned, not as a servant?"

"Tsk tsk, how pitiful! She's already 26 years old and just left the palace. It's hard for her to find a husband at this age. Other families are almost arranging marriages for their children."

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