When Prince Zhao Liu Huai returned to his mansion and was playing with his beloved wife and concubine, a steward came to report that the Fifth Prince had been collecting food and reorganizing the army. Prince Zhao touched the delicate and tender breasts of the beauty in his arms and sneered when he mentioned the Fifth Prince: "...I was fooled by him before. It turns out that the barking dog bites. In the future, you must be more careful of this brother."

Liu Huai narrowed his eyes: "Arranging the army and preparing food and grass, do you think he can rest assured when he is in Sima Mansion? This is a sign of rebellion, I have to help my father keep an eye on him. The fifth brother has big plans, we can't let him succeed!"

A capable younger brother can help oneself. A capable crown prince, however, cannot make people feel at ease. The princes of the Southern Kingdom finally drove away the King of Hengyang. Was it for the King of Chen? Liu Huai was the first to disagree. Sitting among the beauties, Liu Huai played with the beauties while absent-mindedly planning how to deal with this younger brother. After all, Liu Chu had obvious weaknesses: his mother's family was weak, and he had to rely on the Lu family behind Lu Sanlang for care. But the Lu family did not think highly of the King of Chen. If it were not for Lu Sanlang, how could the Lu family take care of the King of Chen?

There is no doubt that in order to take care of Lu Sanlang who was far away, Chen Wang Liu Chu put himself in danger. Knowing that his brothers' opinions of him had changed, but no one would believe him now, Liu Chu could only slowly get through this period of time.

Rumors continued, and the poor disciples in the court talked about Liu Chu's recent abnormal behavior at night. The poor disciples' words inevitably reached Zhou Yangling's ears. While helping the refugees in Jianye to survive the winter, Zhou Yangling disguised herself as a man and became famous in Jianye under the name "Zhou Zibo". This was the side that her father Zhou Tan was looking forward to - but unfortunately she was not a man.

When Zhou Yangling heard this rumor, her beautiful eyes flickered and she seemed to be thinking about something.

The next day, Prince Chen received Zhou Yangling's surrender at his residence - and asked His Highness to wait for a while, as she had some fame as far as food supply in Jiangnan and further down, and perhaps she could help His Highness.

Liu Chu was puzzled as to where Zhou Zibo's fame came from. He didn't know that Zhou Yangling was talking about the fame of the famous scholar Zhou Tan, and he didn't know that Zhou Yangling wanted to borrow her father's help... It was just that Zhou Lang came to his aid in times of need. Sitting in the study, Liu Chu held the letter in his hand, feeling relieved, and stood up suddenly: "He, he, he personally sent it?!"

Liu Chu: "I, I, I didn't ask him to do anything! He personally sent me there?"

The subordinate was used to the young master's stuttering when he was excited: "Yes, Zhou Lang came to the mansion in person to look for Your Highness. Your Highness was not there at the time, so Zhou Lang left a letter and left."

He closed the door and fell down. The doors and windows of the room were closed. He sat in the study for a long time in a daze, holding his forehead. Thinking of the beautiful young man who was as gentle as jade and knew how to move forward and backward, thinking of the young man standing in the wind and bowing to him, thinking of the man's eyebrows and thinness, and even thinking of the helpless "Young Master" voice when she called him... His hands trembled, and Liu Chu's eyes were hot, almost crying——

I am fortunate to have Zhou Lang’s patronage.

...Whenever he had time, he would find an excuse to visit Zhou Lang, help Zhou Lang with things, and arrange staff for Zhou Lang, and finally he got Zhou Lang's attention.

Zhou Lang was happy to receive the favor, knowing that his kindness was not in vain.

...Then what else does he want?

He was willing to remain silent and help Zhou Lang all the way. If Zhou Lang wanted fame, he would give it to him; if Zhou Lang wanted power, he would lend it to him. He couldn't ruin Zhou Lang's future, he just wanted to be friends with him.

A better friend than him and Riku Saburo.

People with strong purpose are always like this. If they want to befriend someone, they will do everything they can to please him. Liu Chu had a lot of plans in mind. When he made up his mind to make Zhou Lang treat him as a close friend, countless plans had already emerged in his mind.

Unfortunately, this plan went astray from the beginning.

It was Zhou Yangling's fault for pretending to be so good and colluding with her father. Liu Chu never knew that the person he loved was not a man, but a beautiful woman.

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In times of trouble, everyone has their own plans. Jianye people are uneasy, and the unstable factors are gradually moving towards Lu Erlang's dream. Although Lu Erlang has a poor political sense and did not immediately realize the possible results of these factors, he also changed many trajectories due to his mistakes. The changed trajectory collided with the trajectory that should have happened, causing things to gradually deviate from the dream that Lu Erlang had.

For example, in Nanyang, Luo Lingyu shouldn't have been there at this time.

If Luo Lingyu was not around, the pleading of Fan Silang of the Fan family in Nanyang would be of no use at all.

But it's useful right now.

The Fan family surrendered and did not want to offend the new governor, so Fan Jun promised Fan Shi to cancel the marriage between his family and the Luo family. It was just Luo Lingyu, and Fan Jun did not like her in the first place. He wanted to marry her openly at the beginning, but it was only because Fan Silang liked her. Since this woman did not give Fan Jun face and was pregnant with another man's child, the marriage was canceled.

Fan Qingchen knelt outside his father's house for several days.

He knelt straight without drinking a drop of water. After he fainted, the doctor came and gave him some medicine. After he woke up, Fan Qingchen ignored everyone's advice and knelt in front of his father's door again. He didn't say a word, but everyone here knew his request. Not many people supported Fan Qingchen, but when Fan Qingchen knelt like this for half a month and was almost dying, Fan Qingchen's mother couldn't stand it anymore.

Fan's mother wept and told her husband, "I know you don't like Miss Luo, and I don't like her either. But in my opinion, if Silang continues like this, he will die. He loves that girl so much, how can we really not help him? Would you rather lose Silang than let him marry?"

In his own house, he was not afraid of being overheard by outsiders. Fan Jun was furious and said, "Women's views! Si Lang has been corrupted by you! What do you know? That Luo lady is pregnant with someone else's child... How can I, the Fan family, let such a woman marry into our family?"

This was the first time Fan's mother heard this, but she saw her son kneeling outside the door, and her heart softened again. Fan's mother said, "Si Lang treated her like this, she would rather be pregnant with another man's child than marry him. This woman is hateful! But my son is dying... Even if she is pregnant with another man's child, what's wrong with Fan raising the child for her? It can't force Si Lang to death, right?"