Shen Wan walked ahead.

Xie Jingyan followed behind with a look of doting affection.

After walking only a hundred steps, a maid ran up behind him and said, "Your Highness, Young Master Cheng has arrived."

Is there something urgent that you need to talk to him about?

Shen Wan also wanted to know if she had guessed wrong.

The two turned around and saw Cheng Yi striding towards them.

Cheng Yi walked over and bowed to Xie Jingyan and Shen Wan. Xie Jingyan asked, "Is it urgent that you need to see me?"

Cheng Yi said, "Well, it's not exactly an urgent matter..."

Shen Wan and Xie Jingyan looked at him.

He asked what business he had at the Prince Ling's residence.

But when they saw this, Cheng Yi's ears turned red, and he couldn't open his mouth.

Xie Jingyan saw this and said, "You've come to me to help you propose marriage?"

Cheng Yi was surprised and blurted out, "How did Prince Ling know?"

Xie Jingyan, "..."

They actually came to him asking for help in proposing marriage...

Xie Jingyan was exhausted. He glanced at Shen Wan and saw that she had a "I told you so" expression on her face. She was so smug that it made the heart of the man itch.

Withdrawing his gaze, Xie Jingyan looked at Cheng Yi, "With your status as the eldest son of the Right Prime Minister's mansion, which girl can't you marry? Do you need me to help you propose?"

Cheng Yi's ears turned red, and his face and neck were red as well. "I want to marry your cousin, Brother Jingyan, the eldest daughter of the Yan family."

Du Cheng'an married the second daughter of the Yan family by asking Prince Ling for help in proposing marriage.

He wanted to marry Miss Yan, and his parents also told him to ask Prince Ling for help.

Having no other choice, Cheng Yi had to go to Xie Jingyan.

Xie Jingyan was surprised to find that Cheng Yi wanted to marry his cousin. He was actually happy to see the Yan family and the Right Prime Minister's family become related by marriage.

However, Xie Jingyan did not immediately agree to help, but instead asked Shen Wan, "Are Yue'er and he mutually in love?"

Shen Wan said, "I don't know."

She felt that Yan Yue probably liked Cheng Yi, but this was just her feeling. Since it concerned Yan Yue's lifelong happiness, Shen Wan dared not say anything carelessly.

Xie Jingyan then asked, "How did you know he came to ask me for help in proposing marriage?"

“I guessed,” Shen Wan said.

"..."

Xie Jingyan raised his hand to his forehead.

Although Cheng Yi is a good person and trustworthy, he still hopes that his cousin can marry someone she likes.

Shen Wan said, "But I wasn't just guessing..."

Shen Wan told Xie Jingyan about Yan Yue accidentally hitting someone at Huguo Temple.

Xie Jingyan's forehead was covered in black lines.

Cheng Yi stood to the side, too embarrassed to find the words to describe it. He was still standing there, and the Prince and Princess Ling were speaking. If they didn't want to avoid him, they could at least have kept their voices down. He could hear everything clearly.

Miss Yan begged him not to tell her older brother Yan Zheng about hitting him, didn't she?

Why did she have to tell everyone herself?

Now that my cousin knows, how can I keep it from my own older brother?

Although the bruise on his forehead had long since healed, it was inexplicably throbbing now, and then Xie Jingyan's voice came through, "Did my cousin develop feelings for you after hitting you with a rock?"

Cheng Yi, "..."

I feel like coming to see Ling Wang was a mistake.

Is it too late to leave now?

Before he could even figure out how to answer that question, another one came at him: "With your skills, how could you not dodge a rock?"

It's unacceptable to be hit on the back of the head, let alone the forehead.

Shen Wan didn't think there was a problem, but Xie Jingyan was a martial artist, so she couldn't hide it from him.

Cheng Yi felt that he had nowhere to hide in front of Prince Ling.

He didn't hide it from Xie Jingyan; when he was attacked at Huguo Temple, it wasn't that he couldn't avoid it, but that he deliberately didn't.

That day, he accompanied his mother to Huguo Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings. The Right Chancellor's wife met a familiar noblewoman and invited her to have tea together. With nothing to do, he wandered around and then saw Yan Yue under the marriage tree, trying her best to throw the red silk up the tree.

It failed the first time and floated down.

Frustrated, she picked it up and tried to throw it a second time.

The third time...

The fourth time...

He was probably too idle, so he wanted to see how many times it would take her to throw it up.

By the ninth time, she stomped her foot in anger, glanced around at the ground, found two stones, tied them to both ends of the red ribbon, and then threw them towards the tree.

He used too much force, and the red silk flew straight at him.

He found the girl quite interesting, and being hit by her red silk ribbon gave him a chance to speak with her.

He thought the red ribbon would hit him in the chest, and indeed it did, but the stone hit him on the forehead.

The rock was quite large; it hit him so hard he saw stars.

That was the first time he experienced what it meant to bring trouble upon oneself.

However, he was able to talk to Yan Yue as he wished. When he saw that he had hit someone, Yan Yue quickly came over to apologize. She did not recognize Cheng Yi. When she returned to the capital, there was a smallpox outbreak in the capital. Yan Zheng did not allow them to leave the mansion. When they were allowed to go out, they went to Huguo Temple to pray for their cousin.

Yan Yue's flustered apologies resembled a startled deer in the jungle. Cheng Yi laughed, "It seems the young lady's marriage is destined for me..."

Yan Yue blushed, thinking she had encountered a lecherous man. She was so frightened that she didn't even bother to apologize and turned to run away as fast as she could.

He even dragged Yan Qing'er, who had just returned from washing her hands, along with him as they ran.

Yan Qing'er was completely bewildered.

Yan Yue thought Yan Qing'er didn't recognize Cheng Yi, so she told Yan Qing'er about how she had smashed the lecherous man. Yan Qing'er said, "You just smashed the eldest son of the Right Prime Minister's mansion. He has a very good relationship with my cousin and also with my elder brother. How could he be a lecherous man?"

Yan Yue blushed deeply. She also felt that her older brother and cousin wouldn't be friends with a lecherous man, and that she must have misunderstood.

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