Jinhua Palace.
Because there is a banquet in the palace today, the palace servants are presenting new clothes for Xiao Jincheng to choose from: "Your Highness, these are all new formal dresses that have just been sent by the Imperial Dressing Office. They are all colors and samples that you like. Please take a look and see which one you want to wear today."
Xiao Jincheng stared at the dresses, but his thoughts drifted away.
He had no interest in choosing new clothes now; he hadn't seen His Majesty since the day His Majesty visited him.
He didn't want to see His Majesty; he was afraid to see His Majesty.
That day she told him to give her ten days to consider the divorce, and that no matter what his answer was, she wanted a divorce. Now the ten days are almost up, and he is afraid that she will really divorce him, especially since today is a banquet. He is really afraid that she will announce this in front of all the officials and the royal relatives, leaving him no face at all.
"Feng Jun?" The palace servants couldn't help but speak up again when Xiao Jincheng remained silent.
"There's no need to choose anything. Father, just wear the Phoenix Prince's auspicious robes to the banquet!" Before Xiao Jincheng could speak, Duanmu Qingxin's voice suddenly came from the doorway.
Upon seeing Duanmu Qingxin approach, the palace servants quickly bowed to her, saying, "Greetings, Your Highness."
Xiao Jincheng felt a headache coming on just seeing her, and frowned unhappily, saying, "Why are you here?"
If you could say how much he used to dote on Duanmu Qingxin, now he loathes her just as much, not for any other reason than that she is proof of his affair with Duanmu Shenghua.
If it weren't for Duanmu Qingxin, perhaps Duanmu Junyu wouldn't have fallen out with him so badly, considering their many years of marriage. It was all because of Duanmu Qingxin's status that Duanmu Junyu completely broke off relations with him.
Duanmu Qingxin could easily see Xiao Jincheng's impatience with her, and she was also very annoyed.
She genuinely didn't know what had happened. Everything had been fine before; everyone revolved around her, and she was the only moon among all the stars.
She couldn't understand why everything seemed to have changed overnight. No one paid any attention to her anymore, and even her mother and father, the two people who loved her the most, had grown to hate her.
Where exactly did things go wrong to turn out like this?
Duanmu Qingxin waved to the palace servants, who then tactfully withdrew.
Duanmu Qingxin sat down next to Xiao Jincheng, picked up her teacup, poured herself a cup of tea, took a sip, and then said, "Father, do you not want to attend that little bastard's full moon celebration?"
Xiao Jincheng's expression changed slightly, and he sighed silently: "Your mother has given a strict order that no one is allowed to be absent from this banquet. How dare I be absent?"
Duanmu Qingxin frowned. Indeed, she didn't want to participate either, but she dared not disobey her mother's order!
Duanmu Qingxin looked up at Xiao Jincheng and comforted him, "Since you insist on participating, then let's participate in a grand manner. None of those newly made formal dresses can compare to your Phoenix Emperor's auspicious robe. Just wear that one, and you'll surely put those bastards in check!"
Xiao Jincheng's eyes flickered slightly; he felt that Duanmu Qingxin's words made some sense.
Of course, he didn't want to wear the Phoenix Emperor's auspicious robes to impress people. It was just that the robes he wore when he married Duanmu Junyu. He thought that wearing those robes might at least rekindle some of the feelings between him and Duanmu Junyu. Even if he couldn't change her mind, he hoped that it wouldn't make her so heartless as to announce their divorce in public.
Fengming Palace.
Duanmu Junyu changed into her phoenix robe early in the morning.
Jinzhu carefully helped Duanmu Junyu put on her phoenix robe and said with a smile, "Your Majesty hasn't worn a phoenix robe in a long time."
Since Miss came to Xiliang, His Majesty has not attended the morning court session. His Majesty is usually very easygoing and does not wear the phoenix robe unless he is attending court or there is an important matter.
Duanmu Junyu smiled as she looked at herself in the mirror and asked Jinzhu, "Have you asked the Bureau of Imperial Ceremonies to prepare the auspicious clothes for Ning'er, An'er, and Xiaobao?"
Jinzhu quickly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, the princes' auspicious robes have all been made and sent over."
Duanmu Junyu nodded in satisfaction and went to the side hall.
As soon as Duanmu Junyu arrived at the side hall, she saw Su Xuening sitting in front of the mirror doing her makeup after taking a bath.
"Mother." Upon seeing Duanmu Junyu, Su Xuening hurriedly tried to stand up and bow, but Duanmu Junyu pressed her back down even faster: "Alright, you've just finished your postpartum confinement, there's no need for such formalities with your mother."
"Thank you, Mother." Knowing that Duanmu Junyu genuinely cared about her, and that they were mother and daughter, Su Xuening readily complied and stopped being so polite.
Seeing the palace maid beside her wringing Duanmu Junyu's hair, Duanmu Junyu subconsciously reached out to the palace maid: "I will do it myself."
The palace attendant was taken aback, seemingly not expecting that Duanmu Junyu would personally wring Su Xuening's hair, so she presented the cloth in her hand.
Duanmu Junyu took the cloth and gently twisted her hair: "I remember when you were little, you always wanted me to twist your hair for you."
Su Xuening smiled: "Because my mother is the gentlest, she won't hurt me."
When she was little, there were many maids and servants in the general's mansion, but every time she finished washing her hair, she would run to her mother's courtyard and ask her mother to help her wring her hair.
Although the servants below dared not hurt her, it was different when her mother twisted her hair. She liked her mother to twist her hair, perhaps as a way of showing her affection for her mother.
Duanmu Junyu seemed to recall that time as well, a gentle smile appearing on her face.
She was never a gentle person before, so how could she completely change after losing her memory?
Perhaps it was because of Su Renzhong, who truly gave her a lot of love, or perhaps it was because she herself had become a mother, so she always unconsciously treated her two children with kindness and gentleness.
After wringing Su Xuening's hair dry, Duanmu Junyu began to comb it again, this time styling it into a Western Liang woman's hairstyle.
Unlike the women of Dongchu, the women of Xiliang did not have very elaborate hairstyles. The women of Xiliang had very simple hairstyles, either fully tied up or half tied up, and they would wear a simple jade or gold crown, along with a jade or gold hairpin.
Generally, married women tie their hair up completely, while unmarried women tie it up only halfway.
Although Su Xuening had already given birth, she was not officially married in Xiliang. Therefore, Duanmu Junyu styled her hair in a half-up style and put a white jade crown and a white jade hairpin on her head, making her look so heroic and dashing.
Looking at Su Xuening's face in the mirror, which was exactly like her own, Duanmu Junyu couldn't help but feel a little dazed: "Twenty years ago, I looked just like this."
She was just as young as Ning'er back then, but she probably didn't have Ning'er's composure and wit. She was too naive back then!
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