"I remember, July is your birthday."

You Ran immediately became alarmed, "Why is Your Highness so concerned about my birthday?"

Chu Heng chuckled, "I just wanted to give you a birthday gift."

He snorted leisurely, "I don't care!"

Chu Heng added, "If I remember correctly, you came of age this July."

You Ran gritted her teeth and asked, "So what?"

"My marriage proposal from last year is still valid. You Ran, won't you really consider marrying me after you come of age?"

"Don't even think about it!" You Ran bristled, her voice laced with threat. "No matter what methods you use, I will never marry you! If you try to use imperial power to suppress me, do you know how much influence I have?"

Chu Heng's eyes were calm. "Of course I know. You have supernatural powers, and I will not force you. Everything is up to your own wishes."

Hearing this promise, You Ran breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said goodbye and left.

As she left, she noticed a hint of inquiry and apprehension in Jia Nan's gaze.

Exploring her case reveals why she is so fearful.

Was he also afraid of the power of her little notebook?

She chuckled softly. When she was needed, she was like a city god; when she wasn't needed, she was like a raging flood.

After leaving the small courtyard, she thought for a moment, then turned left and headed towards her senior brother's courtyard.

Unbeknownst to her, Jia Nan, who was secretly observing her path, watched as his fear became a reality and dashed into Chu Heng's room, shouting, "Your Highness, she's gone again!"

Chu Heng sighed, skillfully took out a human skin mask from a box under the table, and ran outside while taking off his outer clothes.

When You Ran arrived outside her senior brother's courtyard, she called out, "Nan Zhuo?"

Not here.

He pushed open the door and entered. "Senior brother?"

They're not here either.

Then a voice rang out from outside, "Junior Sister."

He turned around leisurely and saw the two of them looking travel-worn as if they had just returned from outside. He happily went to greet them, "Senior Brother!"

Wen Yuanbai dusted himself off. "Junior Sister, what brings you here at this hour?"

"I just went to see the Crown Prince, and he's much better now. Senior Brother, could you talk to him and tell him that I don't need to treat him anymore?" You Ran's tone carried a hint of coquetry.

Wen Yuanbai smiled indulgently, "What's so difficult about that?"

"Oh, senior brother, you're the best!"

Nan Zhu was internally screaming, "How can these two be such good actors?"

He was clearly the real two-faced man, but the pair in front of him seemed even more like two-faced men than he was!

And when will this constant running around to two places ever end?!

...

However, plans can't keep up with changes.

On the second day, You Ran suddenly heard that her senior brother had accompanied Chu Heng to set off for the capital city early in the morning.

It seems they just received the news and left immediately.

She asked her father and was shocked to learn that the capital city of Kyoto had undergone a major upheaval.

The Empress poisoned the Emperor and Consort Zhou's food, causing them both to fall into a coma. Taking advantage of this, the Empress forged an imperial edict to depose the Crown Prince, claiming he was dying from poisoning, and attempted to install the Third Prince as the new Crown Prince.

For some reason, the Second Prince, who had always been virtually invisible in the palace due to his blindness, suddenly jumped out and said that his eyes had been restored and that he had personally witnessed the Empress stealing the Emperor's jade seal and using it to stamp imperial edicts.

With witnesses available, the cabinet ministers immediately withheld the so-called imperial edict to "change the crown prince" and, together with the Court of Judicial Review and the Ministry of Justice, thoroughly investigated the matter.

Upon receiving the news, Chu Heng set off overnight to return to the capital, instructing Yun Yue to make preparations before departing.

Sure enough, less than half a month later, an urgent imperial edict, sent by the Crown Prince to oversee the state and summoning the Duke of Zhao back to the capital, arrived in Liaozhou.

So the group embarked on their journey back to the capital.

Before setting off, she even made a special trip to Shenshan County to find Su Youchen and Yue Yue, who were overwhelmed with work. Her arrival was like divine intervention; she immediately used blood tests to determine that the villagers in the plague-stricken village were suffering from lead poisoning, and the culprit was a lead mine upstream of the river that had been washed away by lightning.

You Ran used up almost all of her 10,000+ luck points to exchange for enough antidote, which completely solved the poisoning problem of the villagers in the plague-stricken village and the three other villages that had been affected. She also took out nearly 200,000 taels of silver from her own pocket so that the villagers of these four villages could be relocated to the west of the county town to reclaim the land.

Although it was extremely painful, Yu Ran also gained a lot of gratitude points from it.

So, in late June, the group that returned to Kyoto consisted of Yun Yue, Yun Tiankuang, Su Youchen, Su Youran, and Yue Yue.

Yun Zhao, along with Yun Tianbai and Yun Tianbai, continued to stay in Liaozhou to carry out construction.

Yun Tianbai really wanted to come back with him, but Yun Yue, who had already sensed his wicked intentions, could not agree.

Originally, the families were supposed to have a lively celebration after returning to the capital, but since a major incident had occurred in the palace and the fate of the Emperor and Consort Zhou was unknown, they could only keep a low profile.

You Ran went to the Xuanwang Mansion several times but couldn't find her senior brother. She also didn't want to go to the palace and run into the Crown Prince.

I only learned from my grandmother, mother, and father that since the Crown Prince returned to the capital, he had used swift and decisive measures to suppress the restless Third Prince's faction and eliminate dissidents. Now the Crown Prince is overseeing the country, the Crown Prince's heir is in charge of the four guards in the capital region, and the Crown Prince holds the military command of the five cities and the Imperial Guard, which means he has the military power of the entire capital city under his control.

The Empress and the Third Prince, as well as the Empress's maternal family, the Jiang family, have all been taken into custody. The capital city is now filled with an atmosphere of fear and unease.

So she could understand why her senior brother was so busy.

But as her coming-of-age ceremony on the tenth of July drew closer, she began to feel increasingly anxious.

Seeing that Chu Heng is too busy with the changes in the palace to pay attention to his own coming-of-age ceremony, according to the nature of his grandmother and mother, he will definitely have to hold it. Perhaps it will be held in a low-key manner because of the Emperor and Consort Zhou's affairs, but the key figures will definitely be invited.

For example, the national teacher and the eldest son's mother.

The palace will inevitably be alarmed.

His own senior brother must be on the list too. How could the Crown Prince not know that?

If he knew, and remembered that imperial decree bestowing the marriage upon him…

You must finalize your marriage with your senior brother before your coming-of-age ceremony.

With that in mind, she went to the Xuanwang Mansion again, intending to wait there.

As the carriage passed by Renji Medical Center, it spotted a familiar figure.

She pulled the carriage curtain open a little wider and saw her third sister, Yun Manying, smiling as she walked towards another carriage.

A servant carefully helped a person off the carriage.

Yun Manying was about to reach out and help her up as well.

But the man smiled, took a step back, and bowed to her.

When the man raised his face, You Ran was surprised. This person looked familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before.

As the carriage drove away, she could vaguely see her third sister and that person chatting and laughing as they entered the clinic.

Upon arriving at the Xuanwang Mansion, the guards, as usual, said that the young master was away on business and not in the mansion.

She insisted on going into the mansion to wait for him today, and the guards had no choice but to reluctantly let her in.