She had originally intended to ask someone to prepare hot water for her bath, but then she remembered Zu An's words before he left, hesitated for a moment, and began to meditate and cultivate her internal energy on the bed.
She quickly opened her eyes in shock, because she felt the essence of life spreading through her body. The weakness she had felt during that time gradually faded away, replaced by her former youthful vitality.
She reached up and brushed a strand of hair back, noticing that her once snow-white hair had partially returned to its original black color. Her face gradually flushed: "That bastard..."
Although he was still cursing, his tone had lost its previous anger.
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In the following days, Zu An went to the East Palace to pay his respects several times, but each time Bi Linglong made an excuse not to see him. As the Crown Princess, it was quite normal for her not to see officials from outside the palace.
Zu'an knew he had angered her, but he didn't know what to do for a while. He could only spend his days bored playing Go with the Crown Prince, beating the fat idiot to a pulp.
However, many things have happened in the capital in the past few days.
The biggest thing was that the people of the capital began to spread the story of Yu Nan visiting brothels, and various storytellers described it vividly, as if they were there themselves.
The story of how he won the heart of the courtesan Nanxun and how he was repeatedly defeated by Zuan is told in a dramatic and engaging way.
Ordinary people love to hear gossip about those in power, and soon these stories became common knowledge.
While everyone was cheering with excitement, some people began to question why Yu Nan, who was the emperor's son-in-law, would go to a brothel to compete with other men and lose face. What about Princess Changshan?
At first, Princess Changshan was able to tolerate it, after all, for the sake of her husband's face and for the common interests of the couple, she couldn't say anything.
But the rumors spread and grew stronger, and people began to wonder why the princess was pretending to be deaf and dumb.
Various rumors spread: some said the princess was ugly and couldn't keep her husband's heart; others said the princess condoned her husband's infidelity; still others said the princess was infertile...
The more it's spread, the more outrageous it becomes.
Although the Yu family used all their connections to try to suppress these rumors, and even arrested some storytellers as a warning to others, for some reason, it not only had no effect, but also added fuel to the fire.
Princess Changshan finally couldn't take it anymore and went to the palace crying, begging the emperor to intervene on her behalf.
Then the emperor, taking advantage of the situation, brought the matter up for discussion in the court. A group of officials who were prepared beforehand came forward to impeach Yu Nan for being immoral and disgracing the royal family...
The final result was that Yu Nan was dismissed from his official post and ordered to divorce the princess.
After this incident, Yu Xuanchong, the head of the Yu family and the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, took the initiative to resign and apologize. However, the emperor stopped him with a gentle smile, saying that Yu Nan's mistake had nothing to do with him and that the court still needed a pillar of the country like him. He firmly disagreed with his resignation and even punished several people who impeached him.
Zu'an found it strange. The emperor clearly wanted to deal with the Yu family, so why did he give up such a good opportunity?
Could it be to lull the enemy into a false sense of security? But that doesn't make sense. Usually, such methods are only used to deal with powerful ministers. But with the emperor's military strength and prestige, it would be easy for him to seize this opportunity to bring down Yu Xuanchong. There's no need for such trouble.
However, his doubts were quickly resolved.
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A new volume will soon begin. The second volume marks the beginning of Zu'an's entry into the center stage of the empire. In the third volume, the various forces will abandon their previous dormancy and begin to compete fiercely head-on, determining both superiority and life or death. It all depends on what Zu'an chooses to do.
I need to work on the plot of Volume 3 recently. Although the outline has been completed, it involves too many intertwined forces and characters, which means that each storyline must be arranged in advance. Otherwise, it will be difficult to add things later, and it is easy to mess up the writing.
I apologize for the slow updates lately!
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