Yan Shangxu hugged Mu Wanyao, who was crying and was frightened. She had been holding back her uncontrollable sobs for so long, and he heard her... Didn't he know that she couldn't leave him at all?
Mu Wan was shaking stiffly, with her husband holding her back, but she wanted to escape from here.
But she overthought.
She just stiffened her back and hoped that the embarrassing scene would never happen. Yan Shang just opened his eyes and looked at her, then closed his eyes again. He leaned against the bedpost, and his already loose collar was pulled open even more by this action, and the gauze bandage inside was clearly visible.
He closed his eyes, his face was pale, his black hair fluttered in the wind, but his hand was stroking her back, like soothing a nervous cat, comforting her: "Yaoyao, don't cry, I'm fine..."
After saying that, his body actually slid down along the bedpost.
Thanks to Mu Wan who was in a panic and leaned over to hug him.
Seeing that it was him, he fainted.
Mu Wanyao felt the heat on his cheeks. She stared at the gauze covering his forehead and saw a little red on the edge of the gauze. She was horrified again: "Yan Shang? Yan Shang?"
Her tears flowed easily again, falling down as she fluttered her eyelashes.
It felt like she was suffocating by the throat.
Mu Wan was so anxious that she called for help in a hoarse voice. She thought her voice must be very powerful, but she was so scared that her voice was shaking and trembling: "Where is the doctor? Where is the chief physician? Where is the imperial physician? Just one of you... Just one of you!"
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As soon as Yan Shang was brought back from injury, the Ministry of Revenue invited the best doctor from the Imperial Medical Bureau under the Taichang Temple to treat Yan Erlang's injury. After the doctor bandaged Yan Shang, Mu Wanyao arrived, and after a while, the princess directly invited the imperial physician from the Shang Pharmacy from the palace.
After the imperial physician examined Yan Shang's injury again, he comforted the princess and said that the previous doctor had already taken care of it, so the princess didn't need to worry.
Mu Wanyao was talking to the imperial physician behind the screen. She also saw the doctor bandaging Yan Shang again. The large red burn marks on his shoulders and back were shocking... She was so scared that she went cold all over, but she couldn't help but feel lucky that her face was not injured.
If his face was injured, his career as an official might be cut short.
Mu Wanyao was still worried: "After applying the medicine, will it be fine? If I take good care of it, it won't leave scars, right?"
Imperial Physician: "This requires expensive medicinal materials..."
Mu Wan glared back: Does she look like she has no money? !
The Imperial Physician wanted to say that since Yan Shang was an official appointed by the imperial court, his injuries should at most be treated by the Imperial Medical Bureau, and should not be under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Pharmacy, which treats the princes and princesses. Moreover, Yan Erlang should pay for the medicine himself.
However, when he saw the princess' glaring eyes, the imperial physician immediately understood that Princess Danyang was going to pay for Yan Erlang's medical treatment out of her own pocket.
Mu Wanyao: "Use the best medicine! Use the medicine you usually give me! It doesn't matter what kind of medicine it is, just use it. If he gets a scar in the future, I will only hold you responsible!"
The imperial physician was used to being threatened by these royal children for many years, so he just bowed and nodded.
The imperial physician only said: "Erlang needs someone to watch him when he sleeps at night. Don't let him turn over casually. Don't let him touch anything painful or itchy to prevent scratching."
Mu Wan shook his head and wrote down many of the instructions given by the imperial physician.
She frowned: "He's very hot, is he having a fever?"
The Imperial Physician said, "This is the most dangerous thing. Burns are minor, but fever is serious. Has Erlang Yan been too busy with official duties recently? His Qi, blood, and heart are depleted, and he got hurt this time, so he became seriously ill in an instant. Your Highness should send someone to look after Erlang tonight and help him cool down... If he is not properly taken care of, and the fever continues, it is normal for him to be burned to death."
Mu Wanyao was frightened, her face turned pale, and she nodded repeatedly, promising to take good care of her. Then she refused to let the imperial physician return to the palace, and insisted that he stay in Yan's house tonight, so that in case of any emergency, the imperial physician could take care of her in time.
At night, they said they would leave someone to take care of Yan Shang. Mu Wanyao stood in the corridor and saw rows of servants and boys of the Yan family. She frowned and still hated that someone of them had brought white silk and frightened her into thinking that Yan Shang had passed away.
How can a servant like this take good care of Yan Shang?
Mu Wanyao: "Leave five people to set up beds outside and take turns at night. I will take care of the inside myself, so you don't need to do anything."
The servants were all shocked, and Xia Rong asked directly: "Your Highness, how can this be possible? What if Your Highness gets sick from this?"
Mu Wanyao was already weak, and a slight breeze or a rain could easily make her bedridden. Thanks to the fact that she was a princess and was well taken care of, she was able to be as healthy as she is now. With such a physique, how could Mu Wanyao take care of another patient?
Xia Rong is now more daring and more controlling than before, and even dares to refute Mu Wanyao. But Mu Wanyao ignored them and turned around to go into the house to see Yan Shang. Seeing the princess like this, Xia Rong could only sigh and arrange for the maids to take good care of the princess.
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For two days in a row, Mu Wanyao slept at Yan Shang's place at night. Fortunately, their two families lived too close to each other, and the servants were all from the princess's mansion, so no one knew about the princess's willful behavior.
Mu Wan hugged Yan Shang and took care of him attentively yet unfamiliarly.
She knew her servants would do a better job than she did, but none of them would be as attentive as she was.
She hugged him, put her forehead against his, and was terrified when his body temperature was a little bit higher; and she was also anxious when his body temperature was cold. She held his hand and dared not let him turn over at night, fearing that he would get hurt. She slept next to him, and the slightest change in his breathing would wake Mu Wan up.
In Mu Wanyao's eyes, Yan Shang was not a very powerful official in the court, he was just a weak scholar.
She treated him so well.
She didn't ask for anything, as long as he got better, she would feel relieved.
After two nights, Yan Shang finally stopped having a fever, and after the maids knelt down to persuade him, Mu Wanyao went back to her own residence to sleep. Even so, she still came here every day to watch over him and take care of him.
The maids looked at each other in bewilderment. They used to think that His Highness liked Erlang a little; now they knew that His Highness actually liked Erlang so much.
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Yan Shang was half asleep and half awake for two days.
He was first awakened by Mu Wanyao's crying and tears, and fainted again after waking up for a while. In the following two days, although he was still in a coma, he could vaguely feel that Mu Wanyao was always by his side. Her breath surrounded him, applying medicine to him, and feeding him porridge.
At night, she would hug him again, sometimes doing nothing, and sometimes crying softly, calling him "Second Brother Yan" in a low voice.
Yan Shang felt extremely sad, as if his heart was soaked in bitter water. He only wished he could wake up quickly so that she would stop worrying.
When he was sleeping in his dream, he always felt that her breath was damp, as if she was crying all the time. But she just cried, but didn't say anything. At the beginning, she collapsed and said, "What should I do if you leave me?", but she never said it again.
Calm and indifferent. But still crying.
Why are you crying? Didn’t you say you don’t like crying anymore? Didn’t you say you won’t cry anymore? Didn’t you say you broke up with him?
Then why do we still do this?
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On the third day, Mu Wanyao sat by Yan Shang's bed as usual, lowering her head to feed him medicine. After feeding him the medicine, when she was about to leave, her wrist was gently pulled.
The force was extremely light.
Mu Wan shook her head and saw the person lying on the bed. He looked haggard and pale, but he opened a pair of eyes as warm as autumn water and reached out to hold her.
Mu Wan shook stiffly, lowered her head and looked into his eyes.
Facing a patient who had just woken up, her reaction was too cold. She just looked down at him without a look of surprise.
Yan Shang said hoarsely: "Shake..."
He tried his best to wake up, just to say something to her, asking her not to worry. However, he just woke up, his voice was hoarse, and he couldn't speak. He just smiled at her with great effort, hoping that she could understand his expression.
Mu Wan shook her hand away from his and put it behind her back.
She said indifferently: "I am not here to take care of you. I am just being a good neighbor and visiting the patient as a routine. Since the ministers are here, it would be embarrassing for me not to come. Don't think too much about it. It doesn't mean anything."
Yan Shang was speechless, he just stared at her blankly. She lowered her eyes, stood up and stood behind the bed, her eyelashes were thick, and all the expressions in her eyes were blocked by herself.
It seemed that his awakening once again brought their relationship back to its freezing point.
Mu Wan said in a moaning voice: "Don't call me 'Yaoyao'. We have already separated. Yan Erlang, please be careful about your words and actions and don't ruin my reputation. I have finished visiting the patient and will not come again. You can take care of yourself."
Yan Shang was stunned.
He tried to sit up and speak, but she turned around and ran away, leaving him no time to say a word to keep her. The next moment, the servants outside rushed in, excitedly serving Yan Erlang and surrounding him.
The servants inside were laughing and crying, and they went to ask for a doctor. Outside, Mu Wan leaned against the wall, trying to calm herself down.
She had already instructed the servants that neither of the two families' servants could say that she had taken care of him for two days and two nights.
She thought she must have behaved very well just now, acting very normally as her lover visited the patient after their separation.
She was glad that she ran fast, otherwise Yan Shang would have seen her eyes full of tears and she started crying again. She was glad that she ran fast, so she didn't throw herself into his arms and hug him and sob.
Thanks to her fast running!
Otherwise, she wouldn't want to leave for a moment and would want to lie by his bed and watch him every moment.
But she couldn't do that.
She was a bad girl, she had been selfish for so long, enjoying Yan Shang's kindness for so long. She couldn't let herself sink again... She had finally gotten rid of his influence, she couldn't let herself make the same mistake again!
Yan Shang was like opium to her. She was really afraid that she would be unable to leave him, afraid that she would give up everything for him and become isolated and helpless... That was too terrible. It was like asking her to give up her fate again and tie her fate to someone else.
She no longer wanted to give up her fate.
She also doesn't want to become a bad princess and let Yan Shang sacrifice his whole life for her.
She guarded her heart and her love, and would not let anyone hurt her last bit of dignity.
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However, as the evening approaches, my soul is restless.
She somewhat regretted taking care of Yan Shang.
In the past month, when she hadn't seen Yan Shang, she really felt that she could get by; but now, after seeing Yan Shang, she always thought of him. Every time she returned home, she stood in front of the two opposing gates and could not help but turn her head to look at the Yan family's door.
If this continued, Mu Wanyao was afraid that one day she would walk into the Yan Mansion in a state of unconsciousness, stand beside Yan Shang's bed, and beg him to come back.
She felt that her life was so boring.
There was no one who always followed her, and was attentive to her every word and action; there was no one who spoke to her in a clear and unhurried voice to cheer her up when she had a cold face; there was no one who just endured the pain but never fought back when she pounced on him; there was no one who, when she kissed and hugged him and made his face blush, would just sigh and acquiesce.
At night, Mu Wanyao sat on the third-floor attic of his mansion, looking at the lights of the mansion opposite.
These days, the lights in the study of the mansion opposite have never been turned on at night, and it is only the lights in the dormitory that are on.
Mu Wanyao wondered if his injury had gotten better.
Has he gone back to the government office to work in the past two days?
Did the official who pushed him onto the lamp oil come to see him and apologize to him?
Mu Wanyao didn't know anything, and forced herself not to ask. She was afraid that it would be too late to undo what had been done, and that she would not be able to stop asking.
She just sat in the dark for a long time, looking at the lights of the mansion opposite, looking at the lights in the mist. She could often sit like this all night until she fell asleep.
However, one night, out of the blue, the window of the bedroom in the mansion opposite was opened, and a man stood in front of the window... Mu Wan was frightened and fell off the rattan chair. He squatted on the ground and shouted in panic: "Turn off the light! Turn it off!"
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After Yan Shangneng got off the ground, he thought of something and opened the window to look at the mansion opposite. He saw that the light in the attic opposite was on, and the next moment, the lantern went out.
Yan Shang was stunned for a moment as he stood in front of the window, wearing his clothes. He thought of the two days when he was sick. He always felt that she was hugging him and crying in his dreams. He could vaguely feel the tears that made him feel uncomfortable.
Yan Shang stood there for a while, then he put on his robe and went out with the lantern. He was injured, so he could only wear such a wide robe to avoid touching the wound. When Yan Shang went out with the lantern, Yun Shu tried to stop him, but failed.
Yunshu had no choice but to help carry the lantern and go out with Erlang to knock on the door of the mansion next door.
After a while, the gatekeeper of the princess's mansion came to open the door apologetically: "Erlang, our prince does not allow you to come. Besides, it's late today, and our prince has already gone to bed."
Yan Shang lowered his eyes and said softly: "I just knocked on the door and didn't ask you to go and ask her, so you knew she was asleep?"
The servant blushed because of the lie.
Of course, Yan Shang knew who ordered this, and he just said, "I just want to talk to her for a few words. Is it really impossible to be flexible?"
Servants: "Erlang... there is nothing we can do."
Yan Shang: “Okay.”
The servant of the princess's mansion thought he was leaving and breathed a sigh of relief, but saw the young man in front of the mansion door looking down and whispering: "Then please tell Her Highness that I will stand here waiting for her tonight, unless she is willing to come out to see me."
The servant was terrified and hurried back to report.
After the gatekeeper left, Yun Shu, who was following Yan Shang, said, "Er Lang, can we see His Highness now? After seeing His Highness, Er Lang will feel relieved and can go back to rest, right?"
Yan Shang said, "She won't come to see me."
Yun Shu was stunned.
Yan Shang said helplessly: "When she is determined, she is like this. If I just stand there for a while, she will think I am threatening her and will not come to see me. If I was not injured, she would probably send guards to beat me out directly."
Yun Shu: "...Then what are we doing standing here?"
Yan Shang said softly: "An attitude."
He raised his head and looked at the plaque on the door of the princess's mansion. He murmured, "I must see her."
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Mu Wanyao was originally feeling hopeless and depressed as if she was about to die. However, she was able to go out with Yan Shang in the past two days, but she was annoyed to death by Yan Shang.
In order to avoid him, she now sneaks out of the back door of the princess's mansion every day. Fang Tong has already found out everything about Chunniang and returned to Mu Wanyao, but Mu Wanyao is no longer in the mood to worry about Chunniang.
Fang Tong helped Mu Wanyao go out and explore the situation at the back door of the princess's mansion. Then he let the princess, who was wearing Mu Li, come out quietly and quickly mount her horse and leave.
Fang Tong: "Your Highness, are we going to have to avoid the main entrance like this from now on?"
Mu Wanyao: "What else? Yan Shang is so smart, if he really wants to meet us, can we avoid him?"
Fang Tong: "But we go out the back door every day, Erlang should be able to guess it."
Mu Wan shook: "..."
She said vaguely: "He is alone anyway, so he can hide for as long as he can."
Fang Tong: "Why is Your Highness so afraid of him? You just separated from him, Your Highness doesn't owe him anything, why do you feel so guilty?"
Mu Wanyao: "I'm afraid that if he says something, I won't be able to help but reconcile with him! I'll agree to marry him, agree to give up power, interests and ambitions, all for him... I can't give up these. I can't lose these things... He's just unlucky to be favored by me, but he doesn't love me that much. I don't want his sympathetic kindness."
Fang Tong couldn't help but say something for Yan Shang: "Erlang is a calm and self-controlled person, and never acts impulsively. How does Your Highness know that Erlang is just sympathetic and has not really made up his mind..."
Mu Wanyao said softly: "I don't care about the heart that has weighed the pros and cons."
But after a while, Fang Tong, who was riding on the horse, vaguely heard the princess murmur again: "He shouldn't be childless. He should have a better life."
Fang Tong turned his head to look and saw the princess riding a tall horse, with the curtain covering her ankles and skirt. The low voice seemed to be his hallucination, not something Mu Wanyao said.
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The emperor met Mu Wanyao in the palace.
Ever since the prince teased Mu Wanyao about arranging a marriage for her last month, Mu Wanyao has actively rejected the marriages arranged by the Li and Wei families. However, the Li family sent three or four letters in a row, but recently the letters stopped. Mu Wanyao was unable to mobilize resources in the south.
The Li family began to put pressure on them.
The emperor looked at the little girl sitting under him. She was bright and pretty, but he felt that she was sad. The emperor said calmly: "Yaoyao, are you still thinking about your marriage?"
Muwan shook his guard.
She couldn't figure out what the emperor meant for a long time, so she leaned forward slightly, lying on the emperor's lap, and said coquettishly: "Father, I don't want to marry again, I want to stay with you forever. Does your father really want me to marry again?"
The emperor stroked her long black hair. She raised her eyes like black grapes from his knees and looked at him with charming eyes.
The emperor looked dazed for a moment, as if he saw his A Nuan come back to life, and then he felt sad again.
The emperor said slowly: "Whether Yaoyao wants to get married or not, no matter who she wants to marry, I support her. Now, I just hope that you can live a good and happy life."
Mu Wan was surprised and looked up blankly. She was just acting, but she didn't expect to see a look of pity and love in her father's eyes... Why was he so good to her?
Emperor: "Is the Li family forcing you?"
Mu Wanyao didn't know what he meant, so she didn't dare to answer. It took her a while to stop laughing: "What are you talking about, father? It's not true."
Emperor: "Yaoyao, do you want me to help you deal with Li?"
Mu Wan was shocked! Her first reaction was not that the emperor wanted to help her, but that the emperor wanted to use this as an excuse to uproot the Li family. Without the Jinling Li family, how could she gain a foothold in the court?
Mu Wanyao: "No! I can do it myself! Father, father is not in good health, he should rest more... It's just a small matter, don't worry about it! Father, didn't you want to help in the past two years? Let me do it this time, okay? I can do it myself. If I can't do it, will you ignore me if I ask for help again?"
The emperor saw fear and vigilance in his beloved daughter's eyes.
He laughed at himself.
He stroked her long hair with his skinny hands and told her not to worry.
The emperor repeated again: "I have said that I will not force you anymore. Whether you are planning to get married or really don't want to get married again... I will not force you anymore. It's just that Yaoyao, it's not easy to meet someone you like in this life. I also hope that you can be happy, so don't push yourself too much."
Mu Wanyao was silent for a long time.
She suspected that the emperor was mentioning Yan Shang in a euphemistic way.
Mu Wan shook his head for a while and said, "I want to go to Jinling."
The Emperor paused with his hand on the top of her head.
Mu Wan shook her head and said, "I want to go to Jinling and meet my grandfather and his family in person. Didn't my father promise me that I can solve it myself? Can you promise me, please?"
The emperor said: "Yaoyao, Nanjing is too far away..."
Mu Wan lowered her eyes and said sadly, "I know. Father, I don't know if you can understand that I have been very unhappy recently and often in a trance. I think if I stay in Chang'an any longer, I will make mistakes. I want to hide away and forget some things... I want to go to Jinling to relax. I hope that when I come back, all this will be over."
After a long while, the emperor said, "You are my favorite little daughter. How could I not agree?"
Mu Wanyao thanked him tearfully and was allowed to leave Chang'an and go to Jinling.
As for Jinling's trip, the emperor would never have agreed to it two years ago. At that time, the emperor was wary of Mu Wanyao getting too close to the Li family... But now, the emperor doesn't seem to care so much.
Mu Wanyao wondered, could it be that he had been ill for so long that he became confused and remembered to love his little daughter?
She doesn't believe it.
But no matter what, she always enjoyed the many privileges that the emperor now gave her.
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Mu Wanyao chose the day to leave Chang'an very carefully.
After all, the most important thing is to prevent Yan Shang from knowing.
She deliberately picked the day when Yan Shang went back to the Ministry of Revenue to work, and asked the court officials to look for Yan Shang more often and drag Yan Shang away. When Yan Shang was too busy to be aware of anything, she quietly left, and he naturally had no idea.
The princess's mansion was now cut off from Yan Shang's information. Yan Shang came to see the princess every night, but if the princess didn't show up, he would go back. He didn't know that just across the wall, the servants of the princess's mansion were packing their bags, preparing to go to Jinling with the princess.
Yan Shang has been busy lately with the handover of work between the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works.
The previous incident of him being burned by lamp oil was caused by officials from the Ministry of Works. When the King of Jin learned about it, he and the Minister of Works came to visit and apologize, and sent a lot of precious medicinal materials. When Yan Shang returned to the Ministry of Revenue, the officials above asked Yan Shang to deal with the Ministry of Works to pay the money the Ministry of Works had asked for this year.
The Ministry of Revenue still wants to cut expenses by half.
Yan Shang had been in the Ministry of Revenue for more than a month and had learned a lot about the situation in the Ministry of Revenue. He whispered, "The Ministry of Revenue is not that short of money."
The official who gave him instructions looked at him and laughed, "Yan Er, is this your first day as an official? Those outsiders are greedy. They want money, and we only need to give them half of it."
Yan Shang: "The Ministry of Works is here to build a dam to benefit the people and the people. It will benefit future generations. So we have to cut it in half?"
The official said unhappily, "When you become the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, then you can worry about the arrangements from above. These are all instructions from the higher-ups. If all the money is given away, who will pay our salaries? Who will build the dining hall that is full of noise every day at noon? The amount of money that the Ministry of Revenue pays out every month is several times that of other ministries... Haven't you ever gotten any of this?"
Yan Shang: "But the Ministry of Revenue always tells people that it has no money. Where is this money..."
The official interrupted: "Yan Er, do you want to be an honest official?"
Stared at by the other party's threatening eyes, Yan Shang was silent for a while, whispered "How could it be", and took over his own work and did not continue the topic. The official was still worried, and reported Yan Shang's words and deeds to the prince. After observing for a few days, he saw that Yan Shang was just talking to the Ministry of Works step by step and did not do anything extra, so he was relieved.
After a few days, Yan Shang became less interested.
His injuries had not fully healed, and he was not in a good mood when doing his daily chores, so he was thinking about taking a leave.
Early that morning, when Yan Shang was going to the Ministry of Revenue government office, he met several eunuchs on the official road.
The leading eunuch had a handsome face, and the younger eunuchs following behind him lowered their heads and served carefully.
The eunuch looked over here, and when he saw Yan Shang, his eyes narrowed slightly. Yan Shang saw him, recognized Liu Wenji, and his eyes also moved slightly.
He stopped on the official road.
Liu Wenji led two young eunuchs to stand in front of him. The two stood facing each other in silence for a long while. Liu Wenji bowed and said, "Greetings, young master."
Yan Shang felt sad when he saw this.
However, he could not recognize Liu Wenji, whether for his official career or for Liu Wenji's status in the palace.
Yan Shang only said in a gentle voice: "Are you guys here to work so early?"
Liu Wenji slightly strained his voice, trying not to make it sound as sharp as other eunuchs. He tried to act like normal, and said calmly, "I have received the order from His Majesty to go to the Imperial Guards to observe their military appearance."
Yan Shang raised his eyebrows, wondering if His Majesty was going to mobilize the army in Chang'an?
Is it aimed at the King of Qin, or is it just a routine transfer?
Yan Shang said little, bowed to Liu Wenji, and watched the eunuchs walk past him. When they were far away, Yan Shang opened his hands and looked at a rolled-up note in his hand - it was Liu Wenji who quietly passed it to him when he bowed.
Yan Shang opened the note, which was written by Liu Wenji: "Princess Danyang cannot get pregnant."
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Yan Shang tore the note bit by bit, leaving no trace.
He had known for a long time that Mu Wanyao could not get pregnant.
This is not the value of Liu Wenji's note. The real value of Liu Wenji's note is that the emperor knows about it.
Liu Wenji must have wanted to inform him a long time ago, but Yan Shang was in the Secretariat before, so Liu Wenji could not see him at all. After that, Yan Shang fell ill again and rarely came to the government office. Even if Liu Wenji tried to leave the palace every day and walk on the official road in front of the six ministries, it would be difficult for him to run into Yan Shang.
So this note should be what Liu Wenzhi wanted to give to Yan Shang a long time ago, but he only gave it to him at this time.
But Shang already knew about this.
Liu Wenji could only know it from the emperor.
How did the emperor know this?
...It is very likely that it was the Wuman King Meng Zaishi.
Yan Shang closed his eyes and thought about the day he met the emperor in the palace, and the emperor and Mu Wanyao sitting together drinking.
It was obviously her father...but she didn't know that her father already knew all this.
Her eldest brother plotted against her, her father watched coldly, and her lover hesitated at the first moment... Yan Shang's eyelashes trembled, and he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
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Mu Wanyao boarded the carriage. She took a last look at Chang'an and the mansion opposite the princess's mansion.
Xia Rong asked if there was anything he hadn't brought.
Mu Wan shook his head, got in the car and lowered the curtain.
So he left Chang'an and headed for Jinling.
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At the Prince of Jin's mansion, the Prince was handling a farm matter on the outskirts of the city, while the Princess of Jin went up the mountain to pray for a child. The one with the highest status who stayed in the mansion was Chunhua, who was canonized as a concubine because she gave birth to the eldest son.
When Chunhua heard that a court official wanted to see Prince Jin, she sent someone to tell him that Prince Jin was not there.
However, the messenger reported that the court official seemed to be in a hurry and insisted on waiting for Prince Jin to come back to his house. He wanted to know clearly when Prince Jin would be able to return.
It was inconvenient to pass the message back and forth, so Chunhua tidied up her appearance, had someone put down a screen to separate them, and went to talk to the court official in person.
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Chunhua was surprised to see Yan Shang in the main hall of Prince Jin's Mansion.
Yan Shang bowed to her through the screen, which surprised her.
For a moment, she couldn't figure out whether Yan Shang came to see Prince Jin, or was deliberately making up an excuse to actually come to see her.
Because he whispered: "I want to know what Your Highness experienced when he was in Wuman. I want to know everything... I didn't think it was necessary to know so much before, thinking that there would always be a future, so why should I always focus on the past."
He stood with his eyes lowered. In Chunhua's eyes, he was as pale and dim as the cold moonlight under the sunlight.
Chunhua refused: "I can't tell you. This is the princess's past and has nothing to do with you, my lover."
Yan Shang said in a very sad voice: "But I have no future... I can only beg you to tell me everything.
"Why did she become what she is today? Why can't she have children? She told me that she used to be very obedient and had a good temper. But why is she not like that in the way I know her? When she asked me in Nanshan, 'Since ancient times, beauty can only be taken away by others?', what was she thinking in her heart?
"I can't escape anymore. I know she locked herself up. I heard her crying at that time, but she denied it when I woke up... Chunhua, I want to support her.
He raised his eyes, tears in them, and stopped Chunhua, who was about to leave: "I think Mu Wanyao can rely on me."
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