After learning Ye Jingyu's identity, Lin Ruochu decisively gave up.
Although she had a good impression of Ye Jingyu, the Duke of Anguo's family was the maternal family of the Crown Prince, so it was absolutely impossible for her to marry another prince.
Otherwise, why has the emperor been selecting consorts for his princes for the past few years without ever considering the Duke of Anguo's family?
Of course, the Duke of Anguo's mansion adheres to the principle of self-preservation and would never willingly get involved in troubled matters.
But the connections between people are just that wonderful.
Living in the same capital city, Lin Ruochu and Ye Jingyan had been friends for several years, but had never encountered these princes before.
However, ever since that first meeting, she has seen Ye Jingyu very frequently, so frequently that Lin Ruochu wondered if she had been set up.
If Yun Shu knew her thoughts, perhaps she could answer her questions.
If there is no fate, how can one talk about being destined for each other?
However, the reason why they see each other so often could be because Lin Ruochu likes Ye Jingyu's face, so she can always spot him in a crowd at a glance.
Although she could always see him, Lin Ruochu only observed him secretly and had no intention of getting close.
When she rejected Ye Jingyan, she rejected her completely.
She was taught from a young age in the Lin family that the interests of the family should be put above personal interests, and that she should never do anything that would be detrimental to the family under any circumstances.
The princes' status was already very special, and the third prince was the most special one.
However, sometimes the more you don't want to cross paths with someone, the more fate seems to bring you together.
Like Ye Jingyan, Lin Ruochu enjoys listening to gossip and joining in the fun, and teahouses and taverns are the liveliest places for her.
One day, while listening to storytelling in a teahouse, she was spotted by a wealthy young man who was dressed like a butterfly and seemed to come from a well-to-do family.
The man insisted on inviting her to tea, and even wanted to go to a private room. Lin Ruochu naturally refused and was about to have her bodyguard, who was secretly following her, send the man away when Ye Jingyu happened to walk into the teahouse.
Although Ye Jingyu only met Lin Ruochu once, he remembered the girl and knew that she was Ye Jingyan's friend.
Ye Jingyu walked over to Lin Ruochu's table and sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and said with a smile to Lin Ruochu, "Why didn't you wait for us and came over on your own?"
His tone was intimate and familiar.
He was not only handsome, but also exuded an air of nobility; he was clearly no ordinary person.
The rich young man glanced at him a few times, then left feeling ashamed of himself.
"Girls should be careful when they go out, and it's best not to go alone," Ye Jingyu told her.
In fact, Lin Ruochu's guards were just a few steps away from her. If Ye Jingyu hadn't appeared, the guards would have come over.
However, among all the people in the teahouse, only Ye Jingyu, who had just entered, came to help her immediately.
Lin Ruochu looked at him and felt a deep sense of regret.
If only he weren't a prince!
Later, she told Ye Jingyan about Ye Jingyu's help to her.
Ye Jingyan also felt it was a pity.
She liked Lin Ruochu very much and hoped that Lin Ruochu could become her third sister-in-law.
So she organized a dinner party and invited Lin Ruochu, her third brother, and Yun Shu.
She thought Yun Shu was quite accurate at predicting marriage, so she wanted Yun Shu to do a fortune telling for her third brother and Lin Ruochu in person. If they were destined to be together, she could try to bring them together.
If it's not meant to be, then there's no need to force it.
The dinner was organized by Ye Jingyan, but when Ye Jingyu arrived, she told him that Lin Ruochu had invited him to dinner to thank him for helping her.
"Sister Lin is a daughter of the Duke of Anguo's family. She is, in fact, the cousin of the Emperor and the eldest princess. We are all relatives, so there is no need to be too reserved."
Ye Jingyan directly pointed out Lin Ruochu's identity, because because of her elder brother, the princes and princesses actually had a very good impression of the Duke of Anguo's mansion.
Sure enough, when Ye Jingyu heard Ye Jingyan say that Lin Ruochu was from the Duke of Anguo's mansion, the expression on Ye Jingyu's face immediately softened a lot.
"Why are you inviting me, an outsider, to your family's meal?" Yun Shu said, but she was the one eating the most heartily.
"Brother Yunshu, aren't you very good at physiognomy? Sister Lin is also of marriageable age, and her family is arranging marriages for her, so I would like to ask you to help her calculate her marriage prospects," Ye Jingyan said to Yunshu with a smile.
She called Yun Shu in a very affectionate way, even more affectionately than she called her Third Brother. Ye Jingyu was a little jealous and looked at Yun Shu with unfriendly eyes.
"Your Highness, you are of noble birth and noble status. I am not worthy of being called 'brother' by you. From now on, please just call me by my name. I'm afraid if you call me that too often, your real brother will put a sack over my head." Yun Shu put down her chopsticks and made a pleading gesture.
Even the Third Prince, who was closest to him, was jealous. If the other princes heard about this, who knows how they would retaliate against him!
"It's okay, you're good-looking, you can handle it," Ye Jingyan said with a smile.
Lin Ruochu wholeheartedly agreed, thinking to herself that Young Master Yun was the most handsome young man in the capital. With his face, even eating would taste better.
Although she preferred the Third Prince, who doesn't love a handsome man?
Yun Shu looked miserable; even the food didn't taste good anymore.
He was handsome, but no girl was willing to marry him.
In fact, he was under much more pressure than the princes and princesses, after all, his family had only one son for three generations, and they were counting on him to carry on the family line.
Unfortunately, one cannot predict one's own fate by looking at one's face; he could not foresee his own marriage destiny.
Otherwise, he could have married his destined one much earlier, and his grandmother, mother, and father would no longer have forced him to go on blind dates every day.
Sometimes he also hated his talent for physiognomy, because he could tell at just a few glances that the girl he was looking at wasn't his soulmate.
Thinking this, Yun Shu looked at Lin Ruochu sitting opposite him.
Upon seeing this, he found it somewhat unbelievable, then turned to look at Ye Jingyu sitting beside him, and then at Lin Ruochu.
Ye Jingyu and Lin Ruochu looked back and forth between the two of them several times, still confused, while Ye Jingyan was already secretly delighted.
If these two people weren't meant to be, Brother Yunshu wouldn't have had to watch for so long.
"So that's why the Fourth Princess invited me to dinner out of the blue!" Yun Shu said to Ye Jingyan meaningfully.
"So, can you figure out where Sister Lin's destined person is?" Ye Jingyan asked impatiently.
Yun Shu glanced at Ye Jingyu, who knew nothing, and said to Ye Jingyan, "I am a fortune teller, not the matchmaker. Even if we identify people as destined for each other, they may not necessarily end up together. Lovers come together because they like each other, not because of fate. Fourth Princess, don't confuse cause and effect."
Ye Jingyan glanced at Ye Jingyu, understood Yun Shu's meaning, and made up her mind.
"Third brother, what do you think of Sister Lin?" Ye Jingyan asked on the way back to the palace after parting ways with Lin Ruochu and Yun Shu.
“She’s the Crown Prince’s cousin and your friend, so naturally she’s a good match,” Ye Jingyu replied without hesitation.
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