Before leaving the Eastern Palace, Yun Xiangye left all the valuable jewelry she was wearing to Ye Wanhe.
Ye Wanhe did not refuse and accepted them all.
After all, she couldn't predict when she would fake her death and leave the palace. Most of the jewelry in the palace could not be sold. Yun Xiangye's jewelry was enough to keep her alive outside the palace for some time.
Late at night, Yun Xiangye and Gu Yan left the East Palace and rode their horses back to Qingfeng Garden.
As soon as they entered Qingfeng Garden, Gu Yan frowned and looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Since you knew at that time that His Highness was not dead, why didn't you tell me?"
Yun Xiangye said, "I told you, you will definitely save His Royal Highness the Crown Prince... Then my sister will not only bear the crime of drugging the Crown Prince, but also won't be able to get revenge. I was wrong to keep it a secret from you for so long, but we have different ideas on this matter and cannot work together. I only admit that I was wrong to keep it from you, but I still don't regret hiding it from you."
Gu Yan said, "Sometimes I want to ask if what you said about loving me is true? Don't you know that this is enough to make our entire Gu family die without a burial place?"
Yun Xiangye said, "So you can divorce me and save your entire Gu family. I don't want to implicate you."
Gu Yan couldn't help but grow more angry and asked, "Do you think that if you die, I can live alone? My position in your heart is not as important as your sister's revenge?"
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan's eyes and said, "Don't be angry, Gu Yan. It's true that I didn't consider it carefully, but be fair, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was my cousin and the Crown Princess was your cousin, what would you do?
If I had known about your plan earlier, I might have tried to persuade her. But by the time I knew about it, she had already committed a grave sin. How could I not help her conceal it? In my heart, your status is definitely higher than yours."
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye unhappily, "Really?"
Yun Xiangye threw herself into Gu Yan's arms and said, "Well, you are the one I love the most."
Gu Yan said: "Do you love Nuonuo more or me more?"
Yun Xiangye: "Gu Yan, when did you become so childish?"
Yun Xiangye Yinyin realized that Gu Yan was angry this time not because she almost put the Gu family into an irretrievable situation, but because Gu Yan felt that he cared about his sister more.
Gu Yan lowered his head and bit Yun Xiangye's red lips. "You are good at lying. You keep saying that you love me the most, but in fact, the one you love the most in your heart is Nuonuo."
Yun Xiangye said in pain, "Gu Yan, you are a minister in the court after all. Isn't it childish for you to be jealous of your daughter?"
Gu Yan said, "When I was the same age as Nuonuo, my father was already the Prime Minister, second only to the emperor and above everyone else. He was also jealous of me. How could I be so childish?"
"On the contrary, you, who clearly loved Nuonuo the most in your heart, lied to me all the time."
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan and chuckled, "Gu Yan, it's different. I love Nuonuo the most because she's my daughter, born from my womb after ten months of pregnancy. I love her. I also love Shuangbai because she's my biological sister, who has the same father and mother as me. I love Sister He because she's my cousin and took good care of me when I was little..."
But you are different. We have no blood relationship, no childhood friendship, and my love for you is simply because I love you, without any preconditions."
After listening to Yun Xiangye's words, Gu Yan picked her up and placed her on the bed, then lowered his head and kissed her lips.
Seeing the tears in Gu Yan's eyes, Yun Xiangye chuckled and said, "Why are you crying?"
Gu Yan said: "I didn't cry, but I thought that with your words, if I was really implicated by you and punished by His Majesty, it would be worth it."
Gu Yan said softly, "Don't ever talk about divorce again. I don't want to be like birds of the same forest, each flying away when disaster strikes. I just want you and I to be birds of the same forest, flying together. No matter how many difficulties we face in the future, we will face them together."
Yun Xiangye's eyes also had tears in them, and she put her arms around Gu Yan's neck, "Well, no matter how many troubles there are in the future, we will move forward hand in hand."
The gauze curtains were hanging lightly, and although it was the coldest time of winter outside, it was warm as spring inside the house.
Unlike the nobles in Chang'an who had warm charcoal fires burning in their rooms, Zhao Yun was freezing cold in the cowshed, and his whole body was aching.
Zhu Ting is a cowardly and useless guy. He is the second son of the Zhu family winery, but he is treated like a slave by his elder brother and younger brother. Now that he is Zhu Ting's servant, he cannot escape the fate of being tortured.
Zhao Yun wanted to escape from this dirty, smelly, drafty and freezing cowshed, but he had no household registration. If he went somewhere else, he might not be able to wait for the opportunity to contact Chang'an in Yongxing City.
After all, Zhu Ting is the brother-in-law of Gu Yan's brother-in-law, so they are more or less related.
Zhao Yun couldn't sleep at night, so he simply got up and practiced martial arts in the yard, hoping to recover and strengthen his body as soon as possible. Maybe he could walk back to Chang'an from Jiangnan without any documents.
"Help me, Third Cousin, you can't do this to me... Third Cousin..."
Zhao Yun heard a sound coming from the middle of the night. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a man who was looking at a girl push away the man in front of him and run into the yard under the light from the eaves.
Zhao Yun didn't want to meddle in other people's business. After all, his current identity was very troublesome.
"Sister Xiao He, my cousin has been fond of you for a long time. Why are you running away? When my aunt and uncle return from Chang'an, I will tell them that I want you to be my wife."
The voice of the third son of the Zhu family came from afar.
When Zhao Yun heard the words "Sister Xiaohe", he frowned slightly, grabbed the hand of the girl who was running over, covered her lips, and took her to the cowshed.
Yu Xihe's lips were covered by someone's hands. She was full of panic and kept struggling with her hands, but she saw the people behind her dragging her into the cowshed. There was no movement and it was very quiet. She heard the footsteps of her third cousin getting closer and closer, and she didn't dare to move anymore.
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