Going to Lingnan is also a good option!
She came from a military family and fought alongside her father in the northern frontier when she was young.
She preferred the openness and freedom of the border town.
Unlike in the capital, where rules are everywhere and one is constantly constrained.
Leaving aside her, even her pair of spiked clubs are practically rusting from being idle.
It's better to leave the capital. The world is vast and open, there are fewer formalities, and there's no need to pretend with the Fifth Prince's residence.
Xu and the Fourth Prince saw the imperial eunuch out of the mansion. She looked at the imperial edict held by the Fourth Prince and felt joy at the thought of leaving the prison of the capital.
"What? The prince has been exiled?"
"Not exile? It's being sent to a fiefdom! What kind of fiefdom is this! This is exile!"
"I'm not going! I'm not going to Lingnan!"
"Your Highness, cousin, where are you? You must go to the palace quickly and plead with your aunt to help you with the Emperor—"
Just as Princess Xu was planning how to pack her things and what to do with her properties in the capital, a woman came running to the main courtyard, crying all the way.
Princess Xu frowned and looked at the Fourth Prince with displeasure.
The fourth prince hurriedly waved his hands, "It wasn't me! I didn't! It has nothing to do with me!"
He was so annoyed by Xie Rou; she wasn't even a proper relative.
Xie Rou's mother, Cui, was merely a cousin of Consort Cui, yet she constantly addressed him as "cousin."
And do you really think the Fourth Prince doesn't know?
Xie Rou looked down on him, this good-for-nothing prince, and was only interested in currying favor with the Third Prince or the Fifth Prince.
Her decision to "marry down" to the fourth prince was merely a last resort.
Fourth Prince: Bah! You have the airs of a nobleman but not the life of one! What are you so arrogant about?!
Seeing the Fourth Prince's reaction, Princess Xu smiled and then gave a cold wink to the maid beside her.
Two strong maids immediately went out, and then, that was the end of it!
Fourth Prince: The Princess Consort is mighty!
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