Princess Fengling looked at Xu Yichen's hand pulling her sleeve and suddenly realized that he did it on purpose.
So she simply sat down.
"What are you going to say?"
Xu Yichen tapped the table with his fingers, "I want to discuss a question with the princess."
"What's the problem?"
"Who do you think the new emperor's empress will be?"
As soon as Xu Yichen asked this question, Princess Fengling's expression immediately became alert.
"Why are you asking me?"
"Because..." Xu Yichen suddenly approached Princess Fengling and whispered in a magnetic voice, "Princess, you have a keen eye and should know."
Princess Fengling's face flushed red with shock at the sudden approach.
The smugness on his face could no longer be hidden.
"No matter who it is, it can't be Yan Yunshu."
"Why?"
"My cousin followed the advice of the court officials and decided not to make Yan Yunshu, the son of a traitor, his empress."
Xu Yichen finished saying this.
His expression suddenly froze, "So the princess was just going to... tell Yan Yunshu..."
"Of course..." Princess Fengling looked at Xu Yichen, "Why not?"
"My princess is confused. If you tell Yan Yunshu now, aren't you afraid that Yan Yunshu will get impulsive and immediately return to the capital, staying by your cousin's side every day, and your cousin will change his mind because of this?"
As Xu Yichen spoke, his face was full of the expression "I'm doing this for your own good."
Princess Fengling was stunned.
She felt that what Xu Yichen said made sense. She came here just to create misunderstandings and alienate the two of them.
But this wasn't a misunderstanding; it was the truth. If Yan Yunshu knew about it, with her fiery temper, she might actually return to Beijing immediately! It would be better to keep it a secret from her and wait until things became irreversible before provoking her. It wouldn't be too late!
"As far as I know, my cousin, who is also your cousin, the current emperor, has changed the empress candidate. This is just because he has just ascended the throne and is under pressure from the people. He has no choice but to do so. The person he loves most is still Yan Yunshu, there is no doubt about it. Since she is the person he loves most, he must see her. If he does, then..."
Xu Yichen was halfway through his words when he looked straight at Princess Fengling.
Princess Fengling has already developed a rich imagination.
Then, she deceived the emperor, became pregnant with a prince, and then used the prince to ascend the throne...
Then her position as queen would be like a bubble, and she would never be able to hold on to it again!
Thinking of this, she felt a little scared. Fortunately, she did not provoke Yan Yunshu just now, and fortunately Xu Yichen held her back.
"Thank you for the reminder, Your Majesty!"
"You're welcome. We are distant relatives after all, so we should take care of each other."
"Um!"
After a while, Princess Fengling calmed down a little.
She saw that Xu Yichen had not left yet, and looked at his face that looked very similar to Xu Jinghuai, and actually headed in the direction of Yan Yunshu.
Feeling unhappy, he said, "I didn't expect that Yan Yunshu is so popular in Lingxiu City."
Xu Yichen paused for a moment, "Of course. The granddaughter of the loyal and brave Marquis is a man of both virtue and talent. She should not be underestimated."
Princess Fengling sneered and feigned surprise, saying, "Your Highness, you didn't know? Yan Yunshu has a terrible reputation in Tianze, especially in the capital. Almost everyone wants to kill her. She's the most evil woman in Tianze!"
Xu Yichen put down the teacup, "Really?"
"Of course! I heard that when he was in the Prime Minister's residence, he oppressed his concubine sister, bullied his aunt, abused the servants, and disobeyed his father. His evil deeds could not be described in three days and three nights."
"Oh? If that's the case, how come her father, Prime Minister Yan, was convicted and sentenced to death soon for abusing his legitimate daughter, favoring his concubine, killing his wife, and not distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children? Oh, and Prime Minister Yan had a son with his concubine before his marriage. This matter is now known to everyone in Tianze!"
After hearing this, Princess Fengling turned pale.
"This... this and Yan Yunshu's behavior are two different things..."
"That's one thing. Since the Ministry of Justice has proven with evidence that it was the Prime Minister's family who abused their daughter, then the rumors are naturally false. Just ask, how could an abused daughter of a legitimate wife single-handedly bully the entire Prime Minister's family?"
Princess Fengling was stunned. What was wrong with Xu Yichen in front of her?
Just now, she was trying to get close to him by using distant relatives and using Yan Yunshu's affairs to please him. Now that she talked to him about Yan Yunshu, she actually started to defend her in every way?
Don’t you understand how to bring people closer together?
Does it mean speaking ill of a third person?
Although Yan Yunshu is pretty, she, Princess Fengling, is the future queen, and I am the one you should win over!
Thinking about it, she gritted her teeth and said unwillingly.
"But many of my sisters have seen her slap her own half-sister in public on her coming-of-age day..."
"It's quite surprising to hear that Zhu Nianyan is actually the son of Prime Minister Yan and his concubine, and also the older brother of that half-sister. No wonder she defended him so fiercely even after his brother did something so shameful. He deserves to be disciplined by his own sister."
Princess Fengling didn't know what to say for a moment.
It was only at this moment that she truly realized that except for the fact that Yan Yunshu was the son of a traitor, everything else seemed to have been cleared.
She also suddenly realized that she could no longer use the same words as before to talk about Yan Yunshu to anyone.
She doesn't want to talk anymore.
But Xu Yichen said, "You are my distant sister. From now on, you can tell me anything you want to say or worry about."
Princess Fengling immediately pouted and said aggrievedly, "That day, I followed my cousin to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion, and Yan Yunshu actually said she didn't welcome me."
Xu Yichen was stunned.
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