There's even a scene where Wu Shi, after receiving the imperial edict, talks to herself, saying that she only has her cousin in her heart, and since she has no choice in her own life and cannot give her body to her cousin in the future, she will never give birth to another person's child.

The scene ended, and Yinzhen said with a dark expression, "Stop."

Confused, Lady Wu stopped undressing him and looked at Yinzhen with a blank expression.

Yinzhen couldn't tell anyone about such a miraculous thing, so he could only suppress his feelings and then said to Wu Shi, "Go and sleep on the wooden bed in the outer room."

After saying this, ignoring Wu's astonished expression, Yinzhen took off his clothes and went to bed. Since she was so "loyal" to her cousin, he wouldn't force her. If she didn't want anyone other than her cousin to touch her body, he would grant her wish. So she didn't need to sleep in a bed; a wooden couch would suit her well.

Confused, Lady Wu went to rest on the wooden couch outside for the night, and Yinzhen didn't sleep well at all.

The next day, when Su Peisheng was helping Yinzhen get up, he noticed the dark circles under his eyes and couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't asked for water the night before. This reminded Su Peisheng of Song Yuerong, who was also confined to her quarters to copy palace rules, and whose situation was even worse than Yinzhen's.

Su Peisheng didn't dare ask anything and obediently pretended he hadn't seen anything.

After seeing Yinzhen off, Lady Wu felt confused and puzzled, but at the same time, she breathed a sigh of relief. No matter the reason, the fact that the Fourth Prince hadn't touched her was a good thing for her.

She was no longer destined to be with her cousin in this life, but she still longed for him.

Empress Wu dismissed the palace maids who were serving her and tidied up the room herself.

That evening, Su Peisheng was thinking about what had happened that morning and didn't dare ask Yinzhen where he was resting. Since he didn't ask, Yinzhen pretended not to know that there were women waiting for him to sleep with, and went to sleep in his own room.

After sleeping alone for several days, Yinzhen's nausea finally subsided somewhat.

Meanwhile, Li, who was in the backyard, could no longer sit still.

She was the legitimate daughter of the prefect, and her status in the local area was not low, but in the capital, that was nothing. She was born beautiful, so she was unwilling to marry someone of low status, and thus she wanted to win a rich and noble future through the imperial concubine selection.