Song Heqing said, "Yuning, I know how hard it is to share a husband with so many other women after entering the palace. I also know that the harem will never be peaceful due to the fighting, but I just like Your Highness."
"Even though I know I'll lose favor with you in the future, or even lose it altogether, as long as I can be His Highness's woman and enjoy your happiness for a moment, I'm willing to do it."
Qi Yuning really couldn't understand Song Heqing's desperate desire to throw himself into a flame: "What if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't ascend the throne in the future? What if someone steals the throne?"
Song Heqing said with tears in her eyes, "Yuning, I only like the Crown Prince, regardless of his status. If I can't marry him in this life, I would rather become a nun than marry some young man from the Guan family."
Qi Yuning sighed softly, "Forget it. I'll go talk to your parents. I want you to be engaged to my brother. That way, your parents will definitely not dare to arrange a marriage for you with anyone else. At the very least, we can postpone it until the selection in the spring of next year. Before the selection in the palace, I'll go and say that the marriage doesn't count. You won't be engaged, and you can still participate in the selection."
Song Heqing stepped forward, shook Qi Yuning's hand tightly, and said, "Thank you very much, Yuning."
Qi Yuning smiled softly and said, "We have been sisters for many years. It's too polite for you to say thank you. It's almost noon. Let's have lunch together?"
Song Heqing shook his head and said, "No, I won't bother you anymore. I'll leave first."
Qi Yuning said: "Then I will come to your Song Mansion tomorrow."
"Thank you very much."
After Qi Yuning sent Song Heqing away, he returned to the study and heard bursts of laughter coming from next door. Qi Yuning walked over to the next door and saw Lingling and Lu Baozhu playing with a ball.
Lingling was running around picking up balls, sweating profusely, while Lu Ze continued to paint amidst the noise.
Qi Yuning came inside and wiped the sweat off Lingling's forehead with a handkerchief. "Look, you're all sweaty from playing. Let's stop playing and eat."
Lingling took Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Mom, please wipe Daddy's sweat off too."
Qi Yuning naturally couldn't wipe Lu Ze's sweat, "He has a sister, let his sister wipe his sweat!"
Lu Baozhu said, "My brother dislikes my dirty handkerchief. He doesn't want me to wipe his sweat. He won't let me touch anything. I'm his biological sister. He even asks the servants to clean the couch after I sit on it."
Qi Yuning paused while wiping Lingling's sweat.
Lu Ze paused and said, "Men and women are different. Even if they are siblings, they can't be so casual."
Lu Baozhu said, "You just dislike dirt. You moved into your brother's courtyard and asked the servants to clean it inside and out at night. How can you be different from your brother?"
Lu Ze said nothing more: "Let's go back to the house and have dinner."
Lu Baozhu picked up Lingling and said, "I want to have dinner with Lingling!"
Lingling lay in Lu Baozhu's arms and said, "Lingling also wants to have dinner with Auntie."
Qi Yuning sourly asked Lu Baozhu to stay for dinner, but Lu Ze did not stay. It was obvious that the rain would not stop today, so he might as well go back to the Dali Temple to do some work.
After lunch, Qi Yuning returned to the room to coax Lingling to take a nap.
On the desk by the window in the room, there was a piece of rice paper, only half painted, but you could see it was a portrait of her just now when she was looking at the account book.
One has to admit that Lu Ze's painting skills are excellent. If he becomes poor in the future, he can still support his family by selling his paintings.
However, unless the Zhao imperial power is overthrown, Lu Ze will never be in poverty.
Jingzhe said from the side: "Princess, Master Lu's painting is really good. Master Lu must have the princess in his heart, so he can paint so well."
Qi Yuning said, "Lu Ze has me in his heart? Then you might as well think that the sun rises from the west today."
Lu Ze said that she was arrogant and overbearing, but wasn't he, Lu Ze, the same?
Born into a noble family, His Majesty's favor and expectations for Lu Ze are no less than those for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
On the surface, he is a gentle gentleman, but in private, he is also a noble, unattainable and arrogant person. How could a person like him have someone else in his heart?
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After Lu Ze finished his meal at the princess's residence and before he headed to the Dali Temple, he received a note.
Holding the letter, Lu Ze braved the rain and went to a royal garden in the south city. This royal garden was a gift from His Majesty to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
It was a rainy day today. When Lu Ze arrived at the Royal Villa, his fifth cousin Qin Zhen, who had just been engaged, and his cousin Qin Yuli were both there.
Qin Yuli saw Lu Ze coming forward and said, "Cousin Ze."
Lu Ze saluted Zhao Chong and Qin Zhen and said, "Your Highness, my fifth cousin."
Crown Prince Zhao Chong chuckled and said, "Why are you willing to call him cousin, but not me uncle?"
Lu Ze said, "Fifth cousin has been used to calling him that since he was a child, and so has Your Highness."
The prince chuckled and said, "Your fifth cousin's marriage is being arranged today, which is a cause for celebration. Why are you the only one here? Where is Baozhu?"
Lu Ze said, "Baozhu was having dinner at Prince Qi's mansion, so I didn't go to call her."
Qin Yuli frowned upon hearing this and asked, "Where does Baozhu eat? Prince Qi's mansion? Isn't she afraid that Qi Yuning will poison her to death?"
Lu Ze said, "The princess wouldn't poison someone in the palace."
Lu Ze looked up at Qin Zhen and said, "Fifth cousin, congratulations."
Qin Zhen reached out and patted Lu Ze's shoulder. "I didn't know you had a verbal engagement with the Guan family's daughter before. Only after the engagement did I find out that you and Guan Zhiyi had a verbal engagement with Madam Lu. I'm truly sorry."
Lu Ze sneered in his heart. Qi Yuning and Lu Baozhu fought over silks, satins, and jewelry openly, but his fifth cousin liked to compete with him secretly.
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