This afternoon, Wei Shuwan's uncle, Sun Xingjian, came to visit him. However, at that time, he was in the quiet room, and his servants did not dare to knock on the door to report. They only told Sun Xingjian to either wait or come another day.

Li Qingchen only learned of this when he came out of the quiet room. By then, Sun Xingjian had already left, so he must have been a little unhappy, thinking that Li Qingchen had deliberately turned him away.

Li Qingchen came to the Wei family to explain the matter, but before seeing Sun Xingjian, he planned to inform Wei Shuwan first, so as not to say anything she did not want him to reveal.

Rather than a formal visit, Li Qingchen felt that sneaking in unnoticed over the courtyard wall would suit her better. After all, she hadn't yet informed her parents of the decision they had reached.

Li Qingchen had no idea that when he climbed over the wall, he would see Wei Shuwan dancing in her room.

Li Qingchen stood in front of the door for a while, but none of the three people inside noticed him, so he had to cough twice to remind them.

The three people inside the room, master and servant, all turned their surprised gazes toward them. After all, there were no men in the entire Fuqu Pavilion. Even when Wei Chengxiu occasionally came over, she would send a maid to inform him in advance. She would never rashly enter her elder sister's courtyard.

After recognizing who was standing in front of the door, the three of them went from surprise to shock.

Wei Shuwan reacted the most strongly. She first frantically hugged herself with both hands, trying to cover her dance costume. But after calming down a bit, she realized that it was better to take it off than to cover it up, so she hurriedly tore the dress off her body, her movements quite rough.

"Young Prince..." The two maids also stood up from their chairs and greeted Li Qingchen.

Although Li Qingchen never had the habit of explaining his actions to his servants, he didn't want Wei Shuwan's maid to misunderstand that he harbored improper intentions towards her young lady, so he explained his purpose:

"I came because I have something urgent to tell you, but it's inconvenient for me to come in person, so..."

As he said this, Li Qingchen felt a little guilty. After all, it was not a respectable thing to break into a young lady's boudoir without permission. Although he did not like to consider himself a gentleman, he did not like to be regarded as a lecher.

Wei Shuwan didn't intend to delve into the matter. After tidying up her clothes, she said to Ziqiao and Miaoxiang, "You two go down first, and don't let anyone else approach this place."

She knew that for Li Qingchen to come at this time in this way, it must be something important.

"Yes." As Ziqiao and Miaoxiang left, they hesitated at the door, unsure whether to leave it open or closed.

Closing the door seemed inappropriate, as it appeared inappropriate for a man and woman to be alone in a room. Leaving it open, however, raised concerns that the other maids might hear the commotion. In the end, she turned her gaze to Wei Shuwan, intending to gamble on her reaction.

Wei Shuwan didn't care too much about it. After all, Li Qingchen had saved her many times, and he wasn't one of those petty people. Besides, he was almost her husband, so there wasn't much of a problem with them sharing a room.

So he nodded to Ziqiao, who then closed the door and left.

"What urgent matter did the young prince mention just now?" Wei Shuwan asked impatiently.

"Your uncle came to the Prince's mansion today."

Wei Shuwan's eyes widened in surprise: "You've met? What did my uncle say to you?"

Li Qingchen shook his head: "It is precisely because we did not meet that I wanted you to pass on a message to him to arrange another time, so that he would not think that I am closing my doors to visitors and do not want to see him."

"Oh." Wei Shuwan's earlier anxiety subsided slightly.

"Furthermore, your uncle came to see me to find out why I was willing to give up the pardon to save the Wei family. Do you want me to tell him the truth?"

Wei Shuwan was about to say no when Li Qingchen continued, "In three days, I will send a matchmaker to your residence to propose marriage. Since the matter is already in sight, there is no need for you to hide it from him anymore."

"Three, three days?" Wei Shuwan had not expected Li Qingchen to be so quick. She had originally thought that the wedding of a member of the royal family would take a year and a half just for the preliminary preparations.

Li Qingchen naturally saw the resistance in her eyes and asked in a cold tone, "What, do you think it's too fast, or are you regretting it?"

Wei Shuwan's mouth moved, but she didn't know how to answer for a moment. Just then, there was some noise outside the door, which sounded like someone was coming this way.

Wei Shuwan quickly walked to the window and looked out. In the lamplight, she saw Wei Shuyao's figure and her heart skipped a beat. She turned around to warn Li Qingchen to leave the room. But the moment she turned around, she found that Li Qingchen was no longer in the room.

She glanced at the door again and found it still tightly closed, clearly indicating that Li Qingchen couldn't have left the room in such a short time. She looked around and noticed that the dance costume she had casually tossed on the wardrobe looked different, so she guessed that Li Qingchen had hidden inside the wardrobe.

A pang of guilt welled up in my heart; I felt sorry for the future regent...

"Third sister, are you inside?" Wei Shuyao's voice came from outside.

Wei Shuwan took a breath and said, "Yes."

Wei Shuyao pushed open the door and entered the room. Wei Shuwan noticed that her expression was a little strange, and her gaze was fixed on her, like that of a lost person desperately searching for light.

"Did you need something from me?" Wei Shuwan asked her.

Wei Shuyao had already sorted out her thoughts on the way here, and given that the relationship between the two families had recently reached a freezing point, she didn't want to waste any more time on preamble and went straight to the point:

"Third sister, I want to ask you to confirm something, please answer me honestly."

"Tell me first," Wei Shuwan said, a hint of wariness in her eyes.

Wei Shuyao asked bluntly, "Has Third Sister ever admired Young Master Du?"

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