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Zhao Wuan was silent.
He is not a saint.
The leaves in the yard rustled, and the smell of dry air brushed past my nose.
Zhao Wuan was unexpectedly calm.
After a while, he stood up and bowed.
"Your Highness the Seventh Prince thinks highly of me, and I am truly terrified. As Your Highness the Seventh Prince said, I do not care who will rule the Yu Dynasty, I only care about my father's injustice."
Grand Tutor Zhao did not deserve to die in vain!
Zhao Wuan closed his eyes tightly and knelt on one knee: "I am willing to be loyal to His Majesty the Seventh Prince, as long as His Majesty the Seventh Prince can help me achieve my wish!"
Xu Nanheng put on a victorious smile and helped him up.
My prince, this is the only way you can win people's hearts.
He just said something and the other side changed their stance.
"Okay, I'll keep my word."
What Xu Nanheng wanted to know was nothing more than the power deployed by Xu Guanlin in the court and the military force in his hands.
Xu Guanlin respected Zhao Wuan's talent and had privately called him his teacher.
He knew all these secret things.
In just a few words, he told Xu Nanheng the important things.
Xu Nanheng's brows were pleased, and after some praise and promises, he slowly left the Zhao Mansion.
Although he had his own hand in Zhao Wuan's defection on the battlefield, he did not believe it completely.
"Go, send a few people to keep an eye on it."
"yes."
As for Zhao Wuan, he only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing those people off.
The tea on the low table remained unchanged.
He knew that Xu Nanheng was skeptical about him.
In short, it's better to fool people for a while.
I don’t know what the young lady’s plan is.
*
"Your Highness, Miss Yang has gone to the East Palace."
Anzi bowed his head and knelt in the study.
Xu Nanheng silently tightened his pen and said in a nonchalant manner, "It's nothing, just keep an eye on it."
"yes."
The hidden piece disappeared in a flash.
Xu Nanheng threw away the brush.
He was painting before Anzi came to report.
The painting clearly shows a portrait of a person from Song Dynasty.
She stood under the iron flowers, looking at herself with a smile.
This was the first time Xu Nanheng met her.
The memory is still fresh.
Xu Nanheng's eyes were filled with innocence: "Jinjin, you will only be mine!"
*
There is only Xu Guanlin in the Eastern Palace. The Crown Princess has been living in her parents' home because of the quarrel some time ago and has not returned. Now the entire Eastern Palace is being monitored by Xu Nanheng's people.
It’s okay if you don’t come back.
Xu Guanlin thought so and found it difficult to finish reading the book in his hand.
It's not something like Sun Tzu's Art of War.
These are some of the hottest scripts on the market.
The book "Mr. Hou's Journey to Marrying a Wife" was very popular in Sheng'an Chuan. Chang Yue had nothing to do so he asked someone to buy him a copy and he has been obsessed with it ever since.
However, this account has not been updated for several months.
How could Xu Guanlin not tell who the story was about?
Because I knew who it was, I took a look at it out of curiosity.
In the past, Chang Yue would point out interesting places to him, but now he was the only one sitting under the tree reading a book alone.
"well!"
Xu Guanlin felt a little depressed and simply closed the storybook.
The crescent moon in the sky is bright, but the beauty is not by my side.
"well!"
Xu Guanlin sighed again.
"Your Highness, what are you sighing about? Are you sighing about people or things?"
The sudden female voice startled him.
Xu Guanlin looked at the person who shouldn't be there and frowned unconsciously: "Why are you here?"
"Your Highness, do you not welcome Chaoxue?"
Yang Chaoxue was about to cry and wanted to go forward and hold his hand, but he ruthlessly dodged her.
"Your Highness?" Yang Chaoxue was surprised.
Xu Guanlin picked up the storybook with an expressionless face and went back to his room.
He didn't say a word from beginning to end.
Yang Chaoxue didn't give up and chased after him.
"Why is your highness ignoring me? But what did Chaoxue do wrong?"
Xu Guanlin didn't respond, but she kept asking questions.
The sound is not loud, but it cannot be ignored.
Until they both walked into the house.
Yang Chaoxue was still questioning him.
"Chao Xue, don't you know what you did?"
The other party suddenly asked her back.
Yang Chaoxue smiled slightly, her bright eyes were like the crescent moon in the sky, so dazzling.
But Xu Guanlin knew clearly what kind of person she was inside.
"What did I do?" Yang Chaoxue's voice was very soft, as if whispering with deep affection, and the smile on her face became bigger and bigger. "Your Highness's question made Chaoxue very sad."
After she finished speaking, she wiped her tears with her handkerchief in a hypocritical manner.
In fact, not a single tear was shed.
Xu Guanlin watched her crying scene indifferently.
After a while, Yang Chaoxue seemed to find it boring, and looked at him coldly with her lips curled up.
"Your Highness doesn't coax me like he used to."
"I remember when I first entered the East Palace, His Highness would send someone to ask me if I was hungry, remember my preferences, and scold Chang Yue for my words... But now, he looks at me with such cold eyes. I don't see any friendship in His Highness's eyes."
Xu Guanlin still had a sullen look on his face.
He turned a deaf ear to her cries.
The wind sneaked in through the window, running around curiously like a child.
Xu Guanlin's gaze involuntarily fell on the incense.
In the past, A Yue was responsible for lighting incense, so she felt a little uncomfortable when she suddenly couldn't smell it.
"Hmm... where is the incense?"
Xu Guanlin muttered to himself, while rummaging through the drawers and cabinets to look for the incense that Chang Yue had put away.
He remembered that Chang Yue said to put it in this cabinet before leaving.
“Your Highness!”
Yang Chaoxue screamed and her handkerchief was messed up.
The person in front of her completely ignored her.
She didn't care what she said.
"Um?"
Xu Guanlin glanced at her distractedly.
As if wondering what was wrong with her.
Yang Chaoxue's eyes were bloodshot, her usual gentle image was gone, and now she looked like a street prostitute.
"It shouldn't be like this..."
"So what do you think?"
Unexpectedly, this time Xu Guanlin responded to her words.
Yang Chaoxue was stunned: "...what?"
Finally found the spices.
A smile appeared in Xu Guanlin's eyes, and he went over with the spices to light them.
Then answer her questions.
"You think I have changed, so let me ask you, have you not changed?"
"Regardless of whether or not you planned the first meeting, you were courteous to me while you were having a secret meeting with Xu Nanheng. I don't care about that. But why did you go to meet him after you got married?"
"Even that unborn child was not yours. You were worried that this child would affect Xu Nanheng's plan, so you cruelly gave birth to it... Chaoxue, you were never so cold-blooded in my memory."
He meant what he said.
Yang Chaoxue could feel from every word he said that he was really disappointed in herself.
But so what!
Yang Chaoxue turned away and said calmly, "It's not that I have changed, it's that Your Highness has never understood the real me."
"Is that so?"
Xu Guanlin covered the stove, carefully packed up the remaining spices and returned.
Yang Chaoxue just watched him walking back and forth in front of her.
"Maybe." Xu Guanlin sighed, "I wanted to get to know you. After all, you were the woman I loved the most. But as a member of the royal family, I couldn't give you the status of Crown Princess. I have always felt guilty about this."
"But Chaoxue, have you ever let me know the real you for a moment?"
From the moment he knew Yang Chaoxue's true face, Xu Guanlin was disappointed.
I no longer expect her to look at me straight in the eye.
He is the future crown prince, it is impossible for him to be obsessed with these things.
He can only give one chance.
It was Yang Chaoxue who gave up.
“…”
Yang Chaoxue couldn't answer.
If you ask yourself, the answer is definitely no.
There was only Xu Nanheng in her heart from beginning to end. In her eyes, other men were just tools to help Xu Nanheng ascend to the throne.
"Since Your Highness knows that I have never liked you, what is the point of saying this now?"
Yang Chaoxue sneered.
The handkerchief was crumpled into pieces by her.
"Yes! I only love Brother Nan Heng. I approached you with a plan, but so what? You men are all the same. You say you like someone, but in fact you get tired of the old and fall in love with someone else after a few months!"
Yang Chaoxue's voice was inexplicably choked.
She looked at Xu Guanlin cherishing a bag of insignificant spices so much, and her eyes couldn't help but redden.
My heart feels sour and a little painful.
Why?
Yang Chaoxue couldn't understand.
Subconsciously, she felt that the scene before her reminded her of Xu Nanheng.
Everyone said that she was their favorite, but what happened in the end?
Xu Nanheng had only known Song Jin for a few months, but he was already so in love with her that he couldn't let go!
The same goes for Xu Guanlin. Before getting married, he vowed that he would only love her, but in the end, he still couldn't stop thinking about Chang Yue.
Are the spices she left behind worthy of his care?
Yang Chaoxue admitted that she was jealous.
These were things she had never desired.
Xu Guanlin noticed that she was trembling.
"This time, you..."
"Stop talking!" Yang Chaoxue roared at the top of her lungs, not wanting to burst into tears in front of him.
So I forced myself to control my emotions and stand upright in front of him.
"Your Highness, we have already gone astray on this path. I will not be soft-hearted towards any of you."
So does Xu Nanheng.
"What do you mean?"
Xu Guanlin sensed that there was something else behind her words.
Yang Chaoxue said nothing, and finally gave him a faint smile before leaving quietly.
Summer nights are cold.
I was wearing thin clothes when I came here, and now when the wind blows, I can't stop shivering.
Yang Chaoxue couldn't tell whether it was her body or her heart that was shaking.
She tilted her head back and closed her eyes.
Anyone who betrays her deserves to die!
*
Xu Nanheng didn't care what Yang Chaoxue talked about with the prince in the East Palace that night.
As long as it doesn't affect his plans.
Two days had passed since the time he had set.
Xu Nanheng pushed open the door of Taichang Palace.
On the day of the abdication, he had warned people not to disturb anyone here.
Mother...
Xu Nanheng suddenly felt his eyes sore.
I have been forced to get to where I am today.
"who?"
Liangpin knelt in front of the jade Guanyin statue as usual.
Hearing the noise outside, he stood up from the mat.
A dark shadow fell on the door.
She was alert. "Is it your Majesty?"
That shouldn't be right. After their last meeting, she and His Majesty will never see each other again in this life.
No one outside is talking.
Liangpin looked at his figure.
Overlap with the person with memory.
"...Heng'er?"
"It's me, mother."
Liangpin widened her eyes in disbelief.
Running fast won't open the door.
The person standing outside the door was Xu Nanheng.
The longing came like a tide.
"Heng'er! Why are you here? Did His Majesty allow you to come?"
Liangpin was shocked and frightened, and hurriedly pulled him in, not forgetting to close the door.
Looking at her nervous appearance, crying and laughing, Xu Nanheng felt a lump in his throat and bent down to hug her.
"Mother, I miss you so much... Can I take you out?"
Liangpin's pupils shrank.
"What did you say?"