Her curiosity was aroused, and after much tickling, she finally got the truth out of him.
After she finished speaking, Shen Aoshan thought the little girl would make a joke. Unexpectedly, a look of disappointment appeared on Yan Miaoling's face. Her heart tightened, and she grabbed Yan Miaoling's hand, "Ling'er, do you look down on me? Do you think I'm two-timing?" She had a fiancé, yet she accepted the Sixth Prince's things.
Yan Miaoling smiled, "No, no! He's just grateful for your help twice and worried that you might lose the gift he gave you when you came to the border."
It turned out that it was during those three days before departure.
Shen Aoshan had once gone to the palace with the fake Xuanyuan Mingchen to attend the emperor's farewell banquet for him. At the banquet, all the princes and princesses singled out the sickly Sixth Prince, who had no maternal family to rely on.
Shen Aoshan helped out out of a moment of weakness.
Before leaving, the Sixth Prince had this delivered to him, along with a book explaining the whole story.
The general meaning is that I am a dying man and just want to express my gratitude to my benefactor. I hope he won't think too much about accepting the amulet.
The Sixth Prince in the book is a minor cannon fodder, briefly described. Suffering from an incurable disease, he was diagnosed by the imperial physician as a child, saying he wouldn't live past the age of twenty. Now, at seventeen, he's practically on the verge of death.
Yan Miaoling remained silent because she was worried that the heroine would be moved by the Sixth Prince's tenderness and get too involved.
Comforting her, "Sister, you are going to be the empress, and having three harems and six courtyards is normal. What's wrong with accepting a man's things? Don't feel burdened."
With Yan Miaoling's "encouragement" and "incitement", Shen Aoshan became braver. She said what she had been thinking about for a few days, "Ling'er, I want to support the Sixth Prince. Will you support me?"
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