However, seeing her pause, Gu Jingyan unexpectedly asked, "Why?"

Li Xiaodie pressed a handkerchief against her temple and smiled sinisterly, knowing that the Emperor had taken the bait. It seemed that she had really hit Li Shushu's sore spot this time.

"My concubine and I, my brothers and sisters, thought that when Shushu grew up, she would marry the Seventh Prince as his concubine!

I'm afraid they've been secretly colluding for a long time..."

"How dare you! Stop talking nonsense." Gu Jingheng was originally quite expectant, wanting to let his royal brother know that the person standing next to him was the one he had been thinking about for many years.

He never quite understood what the relationship between his royal brother and Shushu was, and what he felt for her.

Privately, he still couldn't believe that his wise and powerful brother, who was the emperor with countless concubines in the harem, would fall in love with a slave.

So, he wanted to express his feelings for Shushu to his royal brother, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity and couldn't speak.

At this moment, a free mouth substitute came, and he did not stop it immediately at first, wanting to see his brother's reaction.

But he listened to Li Xiaodie's increasingly outrageous words, and then looked at his brother's face. He looked normal one second, and then dark as ink the next...

If she continued to talk like this, it would be extremely disadvantageous to Shushu.

He endured it again and again, but finally couldn't bear it anymore and had to interrupt.

"Royal brother, please don't listen to her nonsense. Although I have known Miss Shushu since childhood and we did exchange a few words, it is absolutely innocent. There is nothing so vile as she said..."

"Really?" Gu Jingyan looked at Li Shushu as he spoke.

Li Shushu's heart was beating like thunder at this moment, but she knew that white can never be turned into black, and the more she said, the more mistakes she would make, so she didn't rush to explain.

She just shook her head vigorously at Gu Jingyan, stimulating her tear glands, and her eyes were already sparkling...

A trace of pity flashed in Gu Jingyan's eyes. Didn't he know whether this girl was pure and innocent before she followed him?

The first time, she...

Let him remember it deeply.

And that bright red handkerchief couldn't be fake.