Su Xuerong looked at her quietly and said softly, "Princess, I cannot help you."
Do you want her to kill someone with incense?
Isn't Chen Siyi incredibly foolish?
"No! I don't want your incense, I want you to help me dissuade the prince from marrying Fang Ningzhu..."
Chen Siyi did not hide anything and told the truth about the situation of Fang Mingzhu and her sister.
Su Xuerong was stunned.
She never expected that Xiao Yuan's princess would be a sickly woman who would soon die.
Su Xuerong found Chen Siyi quite inexplicable.
She's not some immortal being, how could she possibly control who Xiao Yuan marries or doesn't marry?
Seeing the mockery on her face, Chen Siyi took a deep breath and said, "Arong, as long as you give up on Mr. Ling, you can help me."
Su Xuerong wondered if she had misheard: "What did you say?"
Chen Siyi gradually calmed down, and asked with a hint of amusement in her eyes, "Do you know what happened when Mr. Ling was ordered to escort the Fang sisters to Hangzhou?"
Su Xuerong couldn't hold back any longer.
This woman is really full of tricks and schemes.
She ignored it, picked up a piece of jade dew dumpling, put it in her mouth, and chewed it slowly.
Chen Siyi said helplessly, "They were on their way back to Hangzhou by boat. On the day they stopped at a dock to resupply, Fang Ningzhu accidentally fell into the water. It was Mr. Ling who jumped in and rescued her."
Su Xuerong was about to retort, "So what?"
But then he suddenly remembered something, and his expression stiffened slightly.
"It was just the beginning of summer a while ago, and Fang Ningzhu's summer clothes were as thin as cicada wings. After getting wet..." Chen Siyi didn't continue.
Su Xuerong had already imagined the scene from that time.
The pretty woman, soaking wet, was pulled from the water by the man, who held her tightly in his arms.
In this way, Fang Ningzhu would never be able to marry anyone else.
“However, the Fang family kept this a secret from Mr. Ling, and even begged him to keep quiet about it.” Chen Siyi said with a mocking tone, “Because Fang Ningzhu absolutely cannot marry Mr. Ling.”
Su Xuerong suddenly asked, "Since the Fang family is keeping their mouths shut, how did the princess get this information?"
Chen Siyi heard the sarcasm in her words, but she wasn't annoyed: "Money makes the world go round. Since I want to find a way to marry into the royal family, I have to use some means to gather information."
Su Xuerong was silent for a moment before saying, "Could it be that Madam Fang is still thinking about Mr. Ling because of this matter?"
A young woman of marriageable age, who rarely leaves her home, would naturally be flustered and confused by such a situation.
But when she met a man as handsome as Ling Qingxue, she would naturally be moved.
Chen Siyi glanced at her and smiled, "Arong, I know you're using Mr. Ling as an excuse to avoid the prince's one-sided affections. If you really don't want to enter the prince's mansion, then do me this favor and let Fang Ningzhu marry Ling Qingxue. Once I become the princess, I will help you buy whatever kind of land you want in the future."
Su Xuerong looked at her, her brows furrowed deeply: "How did you know I was using Mr. Ling?"
Her tone was rather harsh, but Chen Siyi wasn't annoyed at all. Instead, she gently tapped her forehead with her finger: "Because when you mentioned Ling Qingxue, your eyes didn't show the slightest emotion."
Su Xuerong was somewhat bewildered.
How could you tell that?
Chen Siyi continued, "When you have a crush on someone, your heart races, your cheeks flush, your eyes sparkle, and even your palms sweat when you hear their name... Have you ever experienced any of these things?"
Su Xuerong's cheeks twitched a few times as she looked at her incredulously: "Does the princess have someone she admires?"
Chen Siyi's eyes dimmed slightly: "There was once..."
This statement immediately piqued Su Xuerong's intense curiosity.
In her previous life, Consort Chen entered the palace and became a favored concubine. Where is the person she loves?
Anyway, she didn't think Chen Siyi would be interested in Xiao Cheng.
"Is it the Prince?" Su Xuerong couldn't help but ask.
Chen Siyi glanced at her, then suddenly let out a series of silvery laughs: "Which eye of yours saw the person I like?"
"That……"
Su Xuerong couldn't think of anything.
Xiao Cheng and Xiao Yuan are the emperors of both the North and South Zhou dynasties. If she looks down on them, then who else could she be?
Chen Siyi gazed at the beautiful lake in the distance and murmured softly, "He is unlike any other man in this world..."
At that moment, Su Xuerong actually saw the hazy, lingering look in her eyes, filled with tender and affectionate feelings.
But Chen Siyi quickly composed herself, though her eyes still reddened.
Su Xuerong felt a pang of unease: "If the princess doesn't like the prince, why is she going to such lengths to marry him?"
Isn't this like stabbing yourself in the heart?
Chen Siyi sighed deeply and said with a bitter smile, "If I don't marry him, Xiao Cheng will definitely find out. That old man is still keeping an eye on me..."
Su Xuerong understood.
Rather than being forcibly taken as a concubine by Xiao Cheng, a man in his fifties, she would rather marry a young and handsome prince like Xiao Yuan.
She didn't want to be a concubine, so she had to become the principal wife in order to completely control her own destiny.
Thinking of this, Su Xuerong suddenly felt a sense of kinship with her.
She didn't want to become a concubine in the palace either.
“Arong, I’ve met many women, but only you and I share the same thoughts,” Chen Siyi said earnestly.
Su Xuerong hesitated.
Seeing this, Chen Siyi immediately pressed her advantage, saying, "You probably don't know the Prince very well. He would never force you to do anything. If you really don't want to enter the Prince's mansion, he won't do anything to you."
"If I were to become your principal wife, I would never have done what I did to you today."
Su Xuerong slowly raised her head: "Are you implying that the person who deliberately slandered and framed me is Princess Fang?"
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