"You also know that Chen Zhizhou did not hide anything from you." There was jealousy and disgust in Naiza's eyes.
This emotion came for no reason, perhaps because of her own unfortunate fate. After she knew how loving the couple was, she always felt jealous and hateful.
Naiza looked Gu Qing up and down carefully. This was the first time she looked a Tianxuan person in the eye. Even the emperor, she had never looked at him straight in the eye.
Gu Qing raised her head slightly, her body graceful and upright, and looked at Naiza neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"This princess thinks you are plain-looking, how did Chen Zhizhou take a fancy to you?"
Gu Qing frowned slightly, "Princess, it seems inappropriate to ask this question at this time."
"Why are you pretending to be sick?" Gu Qing brought back the topic. Naiza glanced at her, flicked her sleeves and lay back on the couch, seemingly not intending to pay any more attention to her.
Gu Qing was not annoyed. He found a chair and sat down, then said slowly, "I know that the princess doesn't want to come for marriage."
Naiza, who had her back to Gu Qing, seemed to tremble, but after a moment, she pretended not to hear anything.
"Since ancient times, no princess has wanted to become a victim of political struggle." Gu Qing's lips curled slightly as he spoke word by word, "Besides, the princess already has someone in her heart. How can she commit herself to someone else?"
After she finished speaking, Naiza's eyes were complicated, her scarlet eyes were mixed with anger and hatred. She suddenly rushed to Gu Qing and said, "What did you say?!"
"What do you know!" She grabbed Gu Qing's shoulders hysterically.
If she had not heard some rumors in her previous life, she would naturally not know that Naiza had someone in her heart, but now it seems that the rumors are not without reason.
Naiza's reaction said it all.
"Why is the princess so excited?" Gu Qing's eyes curved into crescents. Compared with Naiza's madness, she was calm at the moment.
Naiza slowly loosened her hand and returned to her previous dead expression: "Nothing, no matter what you say, I won't admit it."
"You Tianxuan people are all useless. You can't even cure this princess's illness."
Gu Qing sneered: "Whether it is a real illness or a fake one, the princess knows it in her heart. However, the princess wants to put the blame on the imperial concubine and try to frame her. It is really stupid."
"Princess, do you think His Majesty will really punish the Imperial Concubine because of you?"
Noticing a slight change in Naiza's expression, Gu Qingxin understood.
It seems that her guess was correct. The purpose of the Princess of Northern Frontier pretending to be sick was to frame the imperial concubine.
But she had just arrived, so why would she attack the imperial concubine?
In her previous life, she stirred up trouble in the capital, took advantage of the emperor's love of face, murdered Chen Zhizhou, and transferred him out of the capital.
Gu Qing has been thinking about this for a long time these days. He originally thought that the Princess of Beijiang did this to avenge her marriage, but now it seems that the driving force behind this is not Beijiang.
Gu Qing's eyes darkened: "If I were a princess, I would not do such a stupid thing."
"Are you mocking this princess?" Naiza glared at Gu Qing. Even though she was sent here to marry, the princess would not allow her pride to be trampled upon by others!
Especially since she is the most beautiful and noble princess in the Northern Frontier!
Gu Qing just smiled without saying anything, but this smile was so dazzling in Naiza's eyes.
But after a while, she walked back quietly, sat cross-legged, and faced Gu Qing: "What do you want to do?"
Gu Qing raised his eyes and met her gaze: "Break the deadlock and stop pretending to be sick."
Across from her, Naiza gave a terrifying smile, then she lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly, her laughter growing louder, her eyes filled with tears.
The princess's pride wouldn't allow her to cry. Naiza wiped away the tears from her eyes and said absurdly, "If I hadn't claimed to be ill, would you have gone to bed with me instead?"
She had never spoken a word to anyone in all these days, but the woman in front of her today actually knew her secret.
There was even a moment when Naiza saw a glimmer of hope.
"Since the princess said so, it proves that I was pretending to be sick?" Gu Qing stood up and looked around. The house was magnificent and beautiful.
But this is a cage that traps Naiza, and she is the canary in the cage.
"The princess has no choice. I understand." Gu Qing appealed to her emotions and reasoned with her, his voice soft and gentle, "Since we are here, we should make the best of it. Isn't being alive more important than anything else?"
"For the ones you love, for the ones who love you."
Naiza's eyes relaxed a little, and she stared at Gu Qing for a long time without saying a word.
After a long time, he smiled bitterly and said, "Go away."
Gu Qing didn't say much, but just gave a word of advice: "Princess, you are also a smart person. We have a saying in the Central Plains that goes, 'When you reach the mountain, there will always be a way out.' As long as Princess doesn't go astray, the road ahead will surely be full of spring and bright scenery."
After saying that, she turned and left the house.
Naiza sat on the couch, motionless, with crystal tears falling drop by drop on the back of her snow-white hand.
The princess's pride vanished at this moment. She, Naiza, had never been able to control herself.
......
When Gu Qing returned to Zhongcui Palace, good news came from the side hall.
Nanny Yuzhu came into the room with a smile and said excitedly, "Your Highness, the Princess of Northern Frontier is back in good health."
The imperial concubine's eyes showed appreciation and surprise. After dismissing the nanny, she personally made a cup of tea for Gu Qing: "It seems that I didn't find the wrong person."
"But I'm a little curious. What did Madam Chen say to the Princess of Northern Frontier that made her change her mind so quickly?"
Gu Qing naturally wouldn't tell the truth, and said tactfully, "The Princess of Northern Frontier is feeling depressed and doesn't want to be kept like a canary in the palace."
"But as a princess, she has no choice. She can only have hope if she survives."
The imperial concubine raised her eyes and glanced at Gu Qing: "Is that all?"
"Such a simple truth, she wouldn't understand it."
Gu Qing lowered her eyes and said, "I dare not hide it, it is indeed so."
"The Princess of Northern Frontier is feeling depressed and simply doesn't want to sleep with you."
Hearing this, the imperial concubine paused, a sudden realization dawning on her: "She... doesn't want to sleep with me."
"yes."
As she said before, how can she commit herself to someone else when her heart already belongs to someone else?
In Gu Qing's memory, after Chen Zhizhou was demoted to the frontier, the Princess of Northern Frontier hanged herself in the palace and actually took abortion pills before her death.
When this incident came out, everyone in the palace sighed. She only learned about it from others during the palace night banquet.
"Never mind, she's a pitiful creature. I don't want to have too much contact with her. Now that she's recovered, I'm sure she'll be allocated her own palace in a few days."
As she spoke, the imperial concubine called upon Nanny Yuzhu to fetch her white jade rose hairpin.
"This is the dowry that I brought with me when I got married. Since you have done me a great favor today, I am giving it to you."
Gu Qing wanted to refuse, but the imperial concubine suddenly stood up and said, "There is no reason for me to send back what I have given away. Madam Chen, please accept it."
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