When she knelt down, her eyes swept over Concubine Li behind the emperor. She looked at Concubine Song with complicated eyes.

......

On the second day, the emperor ordered the confiscation of the property of Concubine Li's mother's family and exiled them. Concubine Li was stripped of her title and sent to the cold palace.

Rumor has it that Concubine Li is still pregnant, but the child is not the emperor's.

Tu Yufan felt that Concubine Song had some tricks up her sleeve. She was careless before because she probably thought that she had no prince and posed no threat to other concubines. She was in a high position and could live in peace. However, she did not expect that her most trusted sister would be so cruel that she not only dared to use her surrogacy to bear a child, but also wanted her to bear all the sins.

In the plot, Concubine Song's crime was rehabilitated more than ten years later, but she and Liu Zhuling had long since turned into a handful of earth.

At that time, even if their grievances were cleared, they could not be resurrected.

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After Tu Yufan took part in the metropolitan and palace examinations, he was selected as the third place in the imperial examinations. Many people in the capital wanted to marry him, but most of them were rejected by Marquis Huayang.

Soon, rumors spread in the capital that Tu Yufan was unwilling to get married at his age because he was dreaming of marrying a high-ranking official and becoming a royal consort.

Everyone laughed and said that it was no wonder that Tu Yufan had wasted his time until he was old.

…

Xue was resting in the room when Marquis Huayang walked in with a dark face.

"You are the one who spread these rumors?"

Xue said quietly, "I am here to help Yufan. If His Highness the Third Duke doesn't know his feelings, then it would be a waste of effort to wait for him. It would be better to tell His Highness the Third Duke directly. Maybe he will feel his deep love and be willing to marry her."

Marquis Huayang was speechless. Aren’t the three ministers still training Tu Yufan? Then he thought, this should be the right time now.

Soon, Tu Yufan was summoned by the emperor to the Yangzheng Palace.

"Do you know why I came here?"

"I wish to marry Sangong 㹏 as my wife, and I hope Your Majesty will grant my approval."

"Humph! You dare to speak directly. If you didn't have some knowledge, I would have broken your legs long ago."

The emperor seemed very dissatisfied with Tu Yufan, his expression darkened. Tu Yufan guessed that in the eyes of the emperor, the daughter he had doted on for so many years was pestering him to marry another man, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart.

However, it was also this so-called Empress Dowager who ordered Liu Zhuling to be sent to marry a foreign prince, and she was tortured to death.

He thought that when he was emperor, his personality was not so divided.

I guess Concubine Song had already seen through the emperor, so she behaved herself and was cautious.

"How did you get to know the three dukes?" the emperor asked expressionlessly, leaning back in his chair.

Tu Yufan's expression was indifferent. The two of them were talking back and forth, neither of them had any good impressions about the other.

More than ten days after Tu Yufan left, the emperor finally granted marriage to Liu Zhuling and Tu Yufan.

After Xue learned the news, she felt like a clown when she saw Marquis Huayang's calm expression.

At the wedding, Liu Zhuling was the duke and did not kneel down to pay homage to the Marquis Huayang and his wife. Later, she went to the duke's mansion.

Liu Zhuling had her own private residence, so Tu Yufan simply summoned her on the pretext of being a public official and ordered her to no longer live in Huayang Marquis's residence.

All those messy things in Huayang Marquis's Mansion can finally be far away from him.