Late at night, everything in the East Palace was silent.

Inside the misty gauze tent, Ye Wanhe couldn't fall asleep at all. Fragments of her past memories kept flashing before her eyes, like a passing scene.

She recalled the little moments when she played with Yunxiang and Ye Suzhan in the Five Colors Embroidery Workshop when she was young.

At that time, the children always liked to play among the cloths hanging to dry in the courtyard of the embroidery workshop.

As they grew older, after the age of nine, due to the differences between boys and girls, Su Zhan had less and less time to play with them.

She gradually became calmer and came to the embroidery workshop only to learn embroidery skills from her aunt. She no longer played hide-and-seek among the drying cloths as mischievously as she did when she was a child. She also began to imitate adults and drive away the children who were hiding among the cloths.

Until twelve years ago, the second uncle of the Ye family took on the task of selecting palace maids for the court. When he was about to send the palace maids he selected to the officials coming from Chang'an, a little girl ran away.

Time was extremely urgent at that time. It was too late to find another palace maid who knew the woman well and could be sent to the palace.

The second uncle was afraid of causing trouble, so he set his sights on Ye Wanhe and asked Ye's parents to allow Ye Wanhe to go to Chang'an as a palace maid.

Ye Wanhe only knew that her mother cried for a long time that night and did not want her second uncle to take her away.

But since it concerns the royal family, if the second uncle is in trouble, I am afraid their family will also be implicated.

In addition, her second uncle had treated her very well since she was a child. Ye Wanhe could not bear to see her second uncle being punished, so she agreed to help her second uncle through the difficulties.

Leaving her parents for the first time, Ye Wanhe cried almost every day when she boarded the ship to Chang'an, until she met Su Zhan.

Su Zhan made her happy and taught her how to play chess and piano. Gradually, she came out of the thought of leaving home.

Su Zhan accompanied her all the way to Chang'an Wharf and told her that all the palace maids would leave the palace on the 25th, and he would wait for her to leave the palace.

The memory was so old that Ye Wanhe couldn't help but sigh.

Ye Wanhe recalled the first time Su Zhan was favored by the prince. It was the first time in all the years since Ye Wanhe entered the palace that she dared to look directly into the prince's eyes. That day, she also saw the shadow of Su Zhan in the prince's eyes.

"Wanhe..."

Ye Wanhe heard the man beside her mumbling in his sleep and hurriedly said softly, "Your Highness, what are your instructions?"

Zhao Yun opened his eyes and was still in a daze when he heard the voice in his ear. He was stunned for a long time. When he realized that it was just a nightmare, he hugged Ye Wanhe in his arms and kissed her lips.

"Um... Your Highness."

Zhao Yun hugged Ye Wanhe tightly in his arms, "Fortunately, it was just a nightmare."

Ye Wanhe asked softly, "What nightmare did your Highness have?"

"I dreamt you died..."

Zhao Yun was halfway through his words when he frowned and said sternly, "Get out! Go sleep in the outer room!"

Ye Wanhe replied, "Yes."

Ye Wanhe stood up and took the coat beside her. Before leaving, she poured a glass of warm water for Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun took the warm water and looked at Ye Wanhe in the candlelight through a warm lamp beside the bed, recalling the nightmare just now.

He actually dreamed that on his wedding day, he heard the news of Ye Wanhe's death...

When Zhao Yun thought of the dream now, he felt a stabbing pain in his heart like needles.

Zhao Yun stood up and reached out to hold Ye Wanhe's wrist. He pushed Ye Wanhe against the table behind him, clasped the back of her head with his big hand, and kissed her hard.

Ye Wanhe was obedient and submissive and let Zhao Yun do whatever he wanted.

Zhao Yun and Ye Wanhe held each other's fingers tightly, "I will never let you leave me!"

Ye Wanhe put away her inner thoughts and said softly, "As long as Your Highness doesn't let me leave, I won't leave Your Highness..."

Zhao Yun picked up Ye Wanhe horizontally and placed her on the wooden couch. His actions today were very careful and gentle.

Ye Wanhe looked at the eyebrows and eyes that were similar to Su Zhan. She just felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very strange today. He seemed... to care about her a lot.

Ye Wanhe didn't know when she fell asleep. She only remembered that afterward, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince condescended to help her wash and apply medicine.

Zhao Yun almost didn't sleep the whole night, perhaps because the dream was too real.

It was difficult for Zhao Yun to explain his feelings for Ye Wanhe. At first, he just had unspeakable and embarrassing dreams. At that time, he could always dream of making love with her.

Later, Zhao Yun learned from medical books that it was normal for the young man to have such a dream when he was young. He also knew that the young men from noble families outside the palace would be given maids to teach them some matters of family ethics.

Normally, there should be maids in the palace to teach him about human affairs, but his grandmother believed in a lifelong marriage and hated concubines, so the palace did not provide him with a maid to sleep with him...

After Zhao Yun read the book given to him by Xiangjun Prince Zhao Rui, he didn't intend to be harsh on himself...

She's just a palace maid.

He was only eighteen at the time, so young after all, he had no idea that he would actually get Ye Wanhe pregnant...

He was very conflicted when he learned that Ye Wanhe was pregnant.

He certainly didn't want to marry a palace maid as his princess. He was born as the crown prince and became the crown prince soon after his birth.

He had always been at the pinnacle of power, so it was hard for him to accept a palace maid as the Crown Princess...

After Ye Wanhe had an abortion, Zhao Yun felt guilty about her and gave her the position of the chief maid in the Eastern Palace so that she could stay by his side.

Until now, six years have passed.

The wedding is approaching, and he is about to marry Fu Qianran, a virtuous, gentle and generous woman from a noble family of scholars, who is known as the most talented woman in Chang'an, as his crown princess.

Zhao Yun knew he should let Ye Wanhe go...

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