Suddenly, Nangong Manyu smiled and said to Su Luo.
“Princess Yu, why don’t you come to my palace for a visit? I’ll make Prince Yu worry for a long time and get back at him for affecting my mood.”
"This...isn't that a bad idea?"
Nangong Manyu took Su Luo's hand and pulled her towards the inner palace.
"What's wrong with that? You're my friend, I'm not going to fight you for a used man, what are you afraid of?"
Hearing this, Su Luo breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that Nangong Manyu could figure it out on her own; otherwise, she really wouldn't know how to explain it to her.
"Very well! Fifth Princess, please!"
Nangong Manyu took Su Luo's arm and walked towards the inner palace. In the palace, she had no one to talk to, and if she accidentally said something, others would take advantage of it.
Therefore, Nangong Manyu hadn't talked to anyone about her own affairs for a long time, especially considering her previous infatuation with Prince Yu.
Because of her father's decree and the fact that she was a princess, no one dared to mock her.
As the two walked, Nangong Manyu made sure no one was approaching before speaking to Su Luo.
"Princess Consort Yu, I will let bygones be bygones and still consider you a friend. Would you do me the honor..."
Nangong Manyu had already offered her a way out, so what was there for Su Luo not to take?
"certainly!"
Upon arriving at Nangong Manyu's palace, she dismissed all the maids and eunuchs and then carried out a small box from her bedchamber.
The coins were placed in front of Su Luo and opened to reveal several old copper coins, but they weren't the kind commonly used in currency.
What is this?
Nangong Manyu poured five copper coins onto the table, arranged them in different positions with her fingers, and then spoke.
"You wouldn't understand this, would you? This is the divination result given to me by the Imperial Advisor. The Imperial Advisor doesn't easily give divination results to others. It was only after my father issued an imperial decree that the Imperial Advisor gave me this divination result."
Su Luo could probably guess that it was because of Nangong Chiyu and her that Manyu cried for a long time, which was why His Majesty had the Imperial Advisor calculate this marriage fortune for her.
"Is this for predicting marriage?"
You can tell that?
Nangong Manyu nodded shyly: "Yes! The Imperial Advisor said that I am not destined to be with Prince Yu, and that my true love is someone else, someone whose soul is connected to mine and who can be with me."
If the imperial advisor could calculate it, then it would almost certainly be correct.
"Did the Imperial Advisor tell you who this person is, where they are, what their identity is, and when they will appear?"
Nangong Manyu rested her chin on her hands, pouted her lips, and looked at the divination chart in front of her.
"The Imperial Advisor spoke quickly, but he didn't say anything about who he was or where he was from."
Although the Imperial Advisor was her senior brother, Su Luo couldn't understand the divination result presented by Nangong Manyu. Otherwise, she could have helped her with some of the explanations.
"When the time is right, you will naturally meet him. Don't rush. You are in the prime of your youth. There are no men in this world who are worthy of you."
"That's right!"
Remembering Nangong Qing's strange behavior today, Su Luo asked Nangong Manyu about it.
"Fifth Princess, I think I saw your third brother looking unwell. Is he sick or something?"
Nangong Manyu recalled that her third brother hadn't spoken to her for a long time. She remembered that the last time the two of them were chatting and laughing was half a month ago.
“My third brother was fine before, until you wrote him a letter, he couldn’t wait to open it and read it.”
After thinking for a moment, Nangong Manyu continued, "By the way, it seems that after reading the letter you wrote to him that day, he stopped joking with me."
A few days later, he fell ill again. The imperial physician said it was because he had accidentally injured his internal organs while drinking, and he even vomited blood. It was probably because he hadn't fully recovered from his previous illness.
Su Luo was puzzled. Why did she fall ill after reading her letter? She drank alcohol and vomited blood. Could it be a stomach hemorrhage?
She didn't write anything in her letter; she was just sharing her story with Nangong Chiyu with her friends.
Could it be that Nangong Qing drank the wine because she was with Nangong Chiyu?
Su Luo suddenly thought of many things she had never considered before. Sometimes, Nangong Qing was indeed different towards her than towards others.
However, the two of them always stayed within the bounds of propriety and never crossed any lines.
Su Luo also felt that Nangong Qing's identity was not simple, and she was also the mother of two children. She was not sure if things were as she thought.
I chatted with Nangong Manyu about many things, including her and Nangong Chiyu. Half an hour passed.
Su Luo had just come out of the inner palace when she saw Nangong Chiyu being blocked by the Imperial Guards.
"Luo Luo, are you alright?!"
When Nangong Chiyu saw Su Luo being pulled away by the Fifth Princess, he almost went to find His Majesty, but then he thought that Nangong Manyu wouldn't dare to do anything too outrageous to Su Luo.
Given Su Luo's personality, she certainly wouldn't let herself suffer a loss, but he was still very anxious.
"I'm fine! Go back now."
...
Inside Zegan Garden on South Street, Ye Qianning changed into a red, tight-fitting embroidered dress. The dress had narrow shoulders and wide embroidery, and the tassel hair bun on her head accentuated her alluring charm.
"Princess, it is not convenient for the master to see you right now. Please go back."
Shuang Shuo stopped Ye Qianning, who was carrying a pot of wine, and said.
"How dare you! Who do you think you are, to speak to this princess like that? Get out...!"
Shuang Shuo raised his eyes and gritted his teeth, knowing that his master wouldn't be as polite as he was when letting this woman, who had just been named a princess, in.
Ye Qianning pushed open the door with light steps, adjusted her expression, and smiled. She didn't even knock.
"cousin……"
She smiled sweetly as she entered the room and saw Ye Beihan leaning back in his chair, one hand touching his chin, his eyes fixed on the portrait on the wall, and she wondered what he was thinking.
Ye Qianning took two more steps before she could see clearly what was attracting Ye Beihan.
When she saw what was hanging on the wall, it was a portrait of a human figure, pinned to the wall with a dagger.
The dagger is positioned directly above the person's forehead in the illustration, and both shoulders are also leveled by the dagger.
A beautiful painting of a woman has been smeared with blood, yet Ye Beihan seems to prefer paintings like this.
Ye Qianning was only slightly surprised when she saw it, but quickly regained her composure.
Even that surprise was only because the person in the portrait was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Nanning, whom she had just met today, and also the Princess Consort of Yu.
Upon hearing footsteps, Ye Beihan's eyes sharpened, and his playful demeanor instantly turned into a fierce aura.
"Who let you in?"
Ye Qianning knew her cousin's temper well. He had no woman by his side, was ruthless and vicious, and had killed countless women who wanted to sleep with him.
Holding the greatest power in Northern Liang and controlling the entire court, this man didn't even glance at her, which piqued her interest.
Ye Qianning placed the wine pot in front of him and said.
“Cousin, Qian Ning met the two princes of Nanning for the first time today and really doesn’t know what to do. I wanted to ask you for advice.”
Ye Beihan was suspicious of everyone, even the wine that Ye Qianning poured for him, he waited for Ye Qianning to drink before he drank it.
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