Xie Yuan considers herself a good influencer who dotes on her fans, and she is becoming increasingly affectionate towards Princess Xu.
Feeling the goodwill Xie Yuan showed, Princess Xu was overjoyed. She whispered, "Ah Yuan! Elder sister, my maiden name is Ah Yuan!"
Xie Yuan instantly understood what Princess Xu meant. She smiled and said, "Alright, then I'll call you A-Yuan from now on, okay?"
Xie Yuan paused for a moment after uttering the words "A Yuan".
Ah Yuan? Ah Yuan?!
Their names are homophones but have different tones.
Is this fate?
"I am destined to be with my elder sister!"
Princess Xu was also a quick-witted and intelligent girl.
She knew Xie Yuan's name and secretly called out "Sister Yuan" in her heart, feeling that her relationship with her sister had taken another step forward.
"Yes! It really is fate."
Xie Yuan also found it very strange—
She had no prior acquaintance with Xu Yuan, the Princess Consort, and had no relation to her whatsoever.
However, they all married into the royal family and became sisters-in-law.
Now, they have met again in the wild and untamed land of Lingnan.
The best part is that they get along well and hit it off immediately.
If this isn't "fate," then there really is no other explanation.
"Sister, I've admired you from afar for a long time!"
Princess Xu was even happier to see that Xie Yuan also approved of their relationship.
She's a straightforward person; she expresses her happiness openly and generously.
Princess Xu reached out and took Xie Yuan's arm.
Xie Yuan also gripped her hand tightly.
Her enthusiasm was met with a similar response, which encouraged Princess Xu.
She smiled and said to Xie Yuan, "When we were in the capital, the prince always mentioned you to me."
"Oh? What did Prince Yong say about me?"
Xie Yuan raised an eyebrow; she didn't think she had any good relationship with the Prince of Yong.
She only had a few encounters with the Fourth Prince, the Prince of Yong.
Each time, things didn't turn out well—the fourth prince would come looking for trouble with malicious intent, but he ended up losing more than he gained.
Tsk, sometimes Xie Yuan even wondered if the Fourth Prince had a screw loose.
Later, she came to Lingnan, where she and Helian Jue fell in love and finally became husband and wife.
Helian Jue would then tell her about things happening in the capital.
Incidentally, he would also analyze the personalities of the princes, as well as some of their "true colors."
When mentioning the Fourth Prince, Prince Yong, Helian Jue said, "On the surface, the Fourth Prince is foolish and reckless."
"He was like a gun in Lao Wu's hands, foolishly letting Lao Wu use him."
"But in fact, none of the children who grew up in the palace were stupid."
"The fourth prince's maternal family is the Cui clan of Qinghe, a famous and powerful family in the north. The Cui family is ambitious and always wants to support an emperor with Cui blood!"
"The fourth prince is simply not cut out to be an emperor. He is indeed not smart, but he is not stupid either."
"He probably didn't want to get involved in these things at all, but the Cui family kept pressing him, so he just went all in and became a complete 'fool'!"
"The fifth brother used the fourth brother as a tool, but didn't the fourth brother also use the fifth brother?"
Helian Jue was quite moved.
None of his brothers were easy to deal with.
Xie Yuan listened to Helian Jue's analysis and slowly nodded, "I see. I knew it. On our wedding day, the Fourth Prince came to cause trouble."
He made inappropriate advances towards Xie Yuan.
While feeling embarrassed and annoyed, Xie Yuan also sensed something was amiss: "His frivolity was too formulaic, as if he was deliberately putting on an act, just going through the motions."
At the time, Xie Yuan was more embarrassed and annoyed than confused, and since the matter was resolved quickly, she didn't take it to heart.
It was only after listening to Helian Jue's analysis of the princes that he suddenly realized: "The fourth prince may not be very kind, but he should not be a great villain."
He's just a fool who wants to protect himself but doesn't know a better way!
"You idiot! All you do is follow Fifth Brother's nonsense. Now you've been brought to Lingnan by the Sage, haven't you?"
Helian Jue was furious when he saw his foolish younger brother, the Fourth Prince.
In particular, as soon as they met, he heard the fourth brother laughing at him behind his back.
Little lamb?
Hmph, what an idiot! How dare he mock others for being little lambs?
Helian Jue disliked the Fourth Prince, but the Fourth Prince also found Helian Jue displeasing.
"Hmph, brother, how dare you talk to me like that? You may be clever and noble, but you were still exiled to Lingnan by Father Emperor."
He left the capital and escaped that turbulent circle.
The fourth prince, on the contrary, seemed to be letting his true nature show.
Cough cough, there's another possibility: he's no longer alone; he has a fierce queen by his side who wields a spiked club.
With the princess protecting him, he wouldn't be afraid of Helian Jue at all.
To prove his courage, the Fourth Prince, for the first time, dared to point out Helian Jue's mistake directly in front of him.
"Also, brother, you are no longer the crown prince, so you should no longer refer to yourself as 'I, the Lonely One'."
The fourth prince had wanted to say this for a long time.
Hmph, they've already been crippled, yet they still keep calling themselves "lonely," they really have no manners.
Helian Jue's face turned even uglier.
This little brat really knows how to bring up the most sensitive topics.
He would refer to himself as "I" because it was a habit he had developed over a decade, and it was not something he could easily change.
Secondly, in Helian Jue's heart, he never believed that he was no longer the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Was it scrapped?
Helian Jue refuses to admit it!
Sooner or later, he will return to the capital and reclaim what is rightfully his.
Helian Jue occasionally refers to himself as "I, the Lonely One," as a reminder to himself—
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