[Little melon, little melon, little... melon! Did your majesty just say the word "engagement"? ]

[Yes, yes, yes... You heard it right, I heard it too.] The system's voice was scattered, [Host's reaction, isn't this what you want?]

[I would like to ask Your Majesty to grant me a chance to be pardoned, so that my parents will not be implicated by me.]

Emperor Yuan: ...Is it too late to take back what I said?

The system asks: [Do you want to correct the emperor? ]

[No! I want a chance to be pardoned because I am afraid that if I insist on being with Ah Yue in the future, His Majesty will find a trumped-up charge to convict me! ]

Emperor Yuan is dissatisfied. Am I the kind of incompetent ruler who cannot distinguish right from wrong?

【That……】

[Oops~] Jiang Yueyang interrupted the system, [I won’t talk to you anymore, Your Majesty will regret it later.]

After saying this, Jiang Yueyang smiled sweetly and bowed to His Majesty, "Thank you for your grace! I will live up to your trust and will keep Miss Ling'er until Your Majesty can give birth safely!"

Emperor Yuan sighed in his heart, forget it, the words have been spoken. Your Majesty is not joking, so let it be.

Anyway, given Lu Yunting's personality, he would never give up Jiang Yueyang. If he pushed her too far, she would really rebel.

A marriage in exchange for the military power of the Lu family army, this deal can be done.

Moreover, the loyalty of Minister Jiang and Jiang Yueyang is beyond doubt.

Seeing that Emperor Yuan had no reaction, Jiang Yueyang became anxious and could not help but call out softly, "Your Majesty?"

Emperor Yuan withdrew his thoughts and nodded lightly.

"Then..." Jiang Yueyang poked her finger and said shyly, "When will Your Majesty allow me to get engaged to Ah... General Lu?"

Hearing this, Emperor Yuan couldn't help but reached out and poked Jiang Yueyang on the forehead.

With the tone of an old father who was disappointed with his son, he said, "Jiang Yueyang, you are a girl, can you be more reserved? When it comes to engagement, no matter how anxious you are, you have to wait for the man to propose it!"

"How could he dare to mention your tense relationship unless he was completely sure?" Jiang Yueyang muttered softly.

"What did you say?" Emperor Yuan didn't hear clearly.

"No." Jiang Yueyang smiled and waved his hand, "I am motivating myself."

Emperor Yuan knew what she was thinking and warned her deliberately: "The engagement should be brought up to me by him. If you reveal even a word, your wish will be void."

"ah……"

Although Emperor Yuan warned him verbally, he knew that Jiang Yueyang's thoughts would reveal everything.

It all depends on what Lu Yunting will do.

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Li Yan stayed on Banyue Mountain for several days, but he never met Wen Shuyan.

At this moment, he was sitting in the pavilion with his chin propped up, looking at the mountains in the distance with a troubled look on his face.

On the other side, Qiao Xi took the initiative to find Wen Shuyan to go shopping, and the two were sitting in the private room of Linglong Pavilion.

On the table were two sets of exquisite jewelry and two plates of snacks.

Qiao Xi picked up a plum blossom hairpin and inserted it into Wen Shuyan's hair. "Ayan, what do you think of Mr. Li?"

Wen Shuyan's hands tightened, "Why does Sister Qiao ask this?"

"You usually don't even look at men, but you had a great conversation with Master Li that day. I'm a little curious."

Wen Shuyan lowered her eyes, and after a moment she spoke slowly: "Mr. Li is gentle and polite, and his conversation is good. He makes good wine and writes beautiful calligraphy. I think... he is very good."

Qiao Xi nodded.

"Qiao... Sister Qiao, what do you think?"

"I also think he's good." Qiao Xi's smile was a little bitter, "But, he seems to have someone he likes."

Wen Shuyan looked up at Qiao Xi in surprise, mistakenly thinking that she was rejected by Li Yan, and her eyes were full of pity, "Sister Qiao..."

"Why are you looking at me like that!" Qiao Xi covered her eyes with her hands, "I have a little interest in him, but it's not to the point where I have to be with him.

Besides, I asked you out today not only to confirm your feelings towards him, but also to tell you something else."

"Um?"

"He asked me if the Miss Wen we met that day was from Prime Minister Zuo's family."

Wen Shuyan was stunned, and her brain was a little nonfunctional.

"He also said... Miss Wen's talent is well-known in the capital." Qiao Xi slowly stood up, "Ayan, he has known you for a long time."

Wen Shuyan has completely stopped thinking.

Qiao Xi lowered his eyebrows and looked at the stunned Wen Shuyan for a while, then left the private room after a while.

As soon as she left, Fuqiu said excitedly, "Miss, did you hear that? What Miss Qiao said means that Mr. Li has feelings for you."

Wen Shuyan didn't react at all, her mind was full of Qiao Xi's last words.

"Ayan, he has known you for a long time..."

In this way, Wen Shuyan stayed in Linglong Pavilion for half a day. When she sorted out her thoughts, it was already dark.

"Fuqiu, let's go home."

Hearing this, Fuqiu was a little surprised, "Miss, aren't you going to look for Master Li?"

Wen Shuyan shook her head.

Fuqiu thought that she should consider Qiao Xi's feelings and give up Li Yan, and was about to persuade her.

Unexpectedly, Wen Shuyan said again: "It's getting late, let's go find him tomorrow."

Fuqiu was delighted and nodded heavily, "Tomorrow I will give you a very nice hair style."

"Then I'll leave it to you."

"Leave it to me!"

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On the other side, Jiang Yueyang waited at home for a whole day, and finally waited for Gu Linger to come back when night fell.

She pulled Gu Ling'er to her front, her eyes firm, "Miss Ling'er, how about we make a deal?"

Seeing how serious she was, Gu Ling'er couldn't help but be curious about what kind of deal she wanted to make with her.

So, she raised her eyebrows slightly, "Tell me about it."

"I will teach you a medical skill you have never seen before. You will stay in the capital to help the Queen give birth smoothly!"

"You'll teach me medicine?"

Gu Ling'er couldn't help laughing. She wasn't being sarcastic, she just thought the words were a little outrageous.

"From what I know, your medical skills are not even enough to qualify you to prescribe medicine. How can you teach me?"

"I don't know how to do it, but I have a medical book!"

Gu Linger stared at her for a long while before slowly speaking, "First, tell me what kind of medical skill that is."

"Miss Ling'er has been studying medicine since she was young. She must know the importance of blood to the human body. She must have seen many patients who died from excessive blood loss.

My medical skill is to help patients survive the danger of excessive blood loss when the body cannot supply blood on its own."

"Speak clearly."

"To put it simply, when a patient loses too much blood and needs blood to maintain life, another person's blood is transfused into the patient's body."

Gu Linger's eyes widened after hearing this. "How...how is this possible? This goes against common sense!"

"Everything is possible. My medical skills have been proven. Listen to me. As long as the blood type is determined, and with the help of tools, blood can be transfused to the patient..."

"Wait, what is a blood type?"

"Pathologist Karl Landsteiner discovered that there are four blood types: A, B, AB, and O.

It should be noted that only people with the same blood type can donate blood to each other, so we need to make sure before we donate blood to patients..."