Chi Mu looked at her in a daze. This outfit was indeed different from before, and even had a bit of glamor.
Although Shen Yuerong also dressed up in the past, she was indeed...
It was never as eye-opening as it is today.
Shen Yuerong looked at him with a perverted look on her face and stopped talking halfway through.
"What? Are you stunned?"
Only then did he realize that he was being a little impolite, and he quickly lowered his head, with a flattering tone in his voice.
"This is not the past. You have never dressed like this before. I was stunned for a moment and couldn't recognize you."
Shen Yuerong looked at him like this and laughed out loud.
"What a fool."
She took the initiative to reach out and hold the man's arm, "Let's go."
The carriages creaked as they pressed down on the snow. Almost all the shops on the street were closed. Only a few people struggling to make a living were still walking back and forth on the streets.
For Shen Yuerong, Chi Mu specially had the interior structure of the car changed, and now no one can feel the cold wind at all.
"Do you feel cold?"
Chi Mu was very concerned about everything about Shen Yuerong, fearing that he would get hurt in the slightest because of his lack of preparation.
Shen Yuerong shook her head, “No, and it’s warm.”
Along the way, he changed his previous dullness and instead kept talking to Shen Yuerong in a random manner, trying to narrow the distance between the two of them.
As they got closer to the palace, Shen Yuerong felt that his expression became more and more panicked, and there was a hint of tentativeness in it.
"What's wrong with you? Wasn't it you who wanted me to come from the beginning? Why did you suddenly... If you don't want me to appear in front of others, and we haven't established a relationship, I can naturally break up with you..."
"That's not what I meant."
The man suddenly grabbed Shen Yuerong's hand, staring at her with his eyes.
"He was also at the banquet today."
Shen Yuerong reflected for a long time before she remembered this. Who was he referring to?
"So? What does it have to do with me?"
Shen Yuerong looked like she didn't care, and shook her grabbed hand again, "It hurts a little, let me go first."
The man knelt on one knee and almost held her in his arms. "If he begs for mercy, will you... leave him with him out of consideration for our old relationship? Will you... not want me anymore?"
His tone sounded a little aggrieved, which made Shen Yuerong feel even more distressed.
"What are you talking about? I won't go with him."
Shen Yuerong stretched out her hand and placed it on his shoulder, then gently pulled her into her arms, letting his forehead overlap her chest.
The heartbeat in your chest can never deceive anyone.
"I'm not good at expressing my feelings, and because I've suffered so much from him, I don't know how to express it to you, but I hope you can understand that you are unique in my eyes from beginning to end."
She reached out and stroked his forehead, "Chi Mu, I won't abandon you."
These words have remained in his heart and left a deep impression on him.
During the day, Chi Mu placed Shen Yuerong in his residence in the palace and let her rest, and they only appeared at the banquet together in the evening.
The emperor just said it casually that day, but he didn't expect that he would actually bring the person.
Now that so much time has passed, the emperor always feels that the Shen Yuerong he sees now is different from before.
The prince sat on the left side of the emperor, looking at the woman in front of him with gloomy eyes.
It is indeed unique.
"I think the woman next to the prince looks familiar. Isn't this Shen, the wife of the general's mansion a few days ago? Could it be that... the beloved person the prince mentioned that day is her, at the previous banquet..."
He said this deliberately, just to see if the person in front of him would abandon his identity of many years for the sake of his beloved.
Chi Mu held Shen Yuerong's hand tightly under the table, refusing to let go of it even for a moment.
"That day, the only person I cared about was Miss Shen. I also said that the person I love is a married woman. Under the circumstances at that time, Miss Shen was the most suitable person. As for other things, I never said anything."
His words made the prince a little dazed.
The prince had never thought that he would be like this, so he said these words straightforwardly.
"I didn't expect the prince to steal the wife of a minister?"
"Your Highness is joking."
He sat on the chair, playing with the porcelain on the table with his other hand, looking at the prince who obviously wanted to cause trouble, but there was no trace of anger on his face.
"When the general and his wife divorced, I was able to work outside. When I returned to the capital, their marriage had already ended. Why can't she and I be together, the woman is unmarried and the man is unmarried?"
He had never had the desire to snatch Shen Yuerong away from him when Shen Yuerong and Fu Hengyu were still together.
So naturally he was not afraid that the prince would throw dirty water on him.
But the prince did not restrain himself at all, and when he wanted to speak again, he was scolded by the queen.
“Prince, this is the prince’s own private matter. What happens between him and Miss Shen is not something you, a junior, can care about. Why don’t you leave now!”
The Queen had sensed the Emperor's love for Shen Yuerong a long time ago.
I used to be a little scared. If the emperor took her into the harem, she would be intimidated by my existence.
But now that she was in love with Chi Mu, she gave up the idea of entering the palace in this life.
Fu Hengyu had been sitting slightly below him, and the jealousy in his heart had already broken when he saw Chi Mu and Shen Yuerong being so sweet.
Du Wan sat beside him, looking at his expression, and said with a hint of sarcasm, "Seeing that she left you and went to find the prince, are you jealous? Why didn't you leave her in the first place?"
Fu Hengyu felt that Du Wan was a little too much, but he didn't dare to scold her loudly in such a place, so he had to lower his voice, "Don't say those nonsense, in such a place, aren't you afraid of losing face?"
"Why am I embarrassed?"
Du Wan looked at him, who no longer had the patience to coax her as before, and her tone became even more vicious.
"Don't you think about the fact that you've been indulging in alcohol and music since your divorce, and you've delayed many important things? Now that you see that the person is living so well after leaving you, you must be unwilling to accept it?"
He lowered his head and didn't want to reply to Du Wan's words, but Du Wan kept chattering, as if he had to give an answer.
“That’s enough!”
Finally, he was fed up with the nagging and said, "I just can't accept it. Are you satisfied?"
He stood up as he spoke, then went to the back garden from behind.
Du Wan felt even more aggrieved. It was clearly her who had followed him outside for many days, but in the end, her heart was completely snatched away by Shen Yuerong.
"Damn woman, she's really haunting me."
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