"I am willing."

Helian Mo stretched out his iron arm and held the person in his arms. His magnetic and hoarse voice could not hide his excitement, "Ning Xiaoliu, you are smart!"

Yikun Palace.

"Now that the decree has come down to confer the title of Princess to Miss Ning Liu, can you now put your mind at ease?" the Imperial Noble Consort asked Noble Consort Xiang Zhen.

"Just barely." Concubine Zhen sighed softly, lowering her eyes and fiddling with the blue jade-inlaid armor. "I asked someone to inquire about it. The Ning family is in a mess. Ning Liu is a concubine's daughter after all. No one has taught her how to be a mistress since she was a child. Before she gets married, she needs to be assigned a few aunts to teach her. After she gets married, she needs to be sent two aunts to support her. I'm afraid that she will be sensitive and cause the third brother and me, her mother, to be alienated."

"Since ancient times, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been a difficult problem. Don't worry." The Imperial Concubine slid her fingers across Concubine Zhen's palm. "Has Concubine Rong won a lot of money recently? She usually doesn't leave the palace. Today, she went to the Yangxin Palace to deliver soup. I guess she got some rewards."

Concubine Zhen sneered: "You little vixen may not be good at playing mahjong, but you are quite good at seducing people."

The Imperial Concubine glanced sideways: "You won a lot of things from her. If she doesn't go to His Majesty and hang around, how can she make up for it?"

"Tomorrow I will go and defeat her again, and also take back what Your Majesty gave her as a reward today!" Concubine Zhen gritted her teeth.

Ning Mansion.

"Mother, when did that damn girl Ning Shuyu get to know the Prince of Qi and the Princess? She has been clearly confined in the mansion these days and has never gone out once!" Miss Ning III slammed the table in anger.

Madam Ning was sitting on the left side of the coffee table, flipping through a book. She was calm and dignified, with a gentle bun on her hair.

"You are about to get married, so you should be more calm."

"Mother, I just can't understand! Why can Ning Liu, a concubine's daughter, marry a prince? Even though the Third Prince is dark-skinned, he has outstanding military achievements and a noble status. Why would he be interested in a concubine's daughter?"

Madam Ning raised her eyes. The traces of time gently traced the corners of her eyes, but she could still see her beauty when she was young. "Sixth girl can keep her composure. She is more scheming than you! All these years, I have asked you to study and write, but you threw everything to Sixth girl and asked her to write for you. You also asked her to write for you when you participated in poetry competitions. You have a good reputation, but you are nothing but a fool!"

"Mother! Why do you say that to me?" Miss Ning San was indignant. "If you like, just adopt Ning Liu as your daughter!"

"You..." Madam Ning closed her eyes, "Do you understand what Madam taught you today?"

"Isn't it just a housekeeper? What's so difficult about it?" Miss Ning sneered, "As for the so-called concubines and mistresses, mother doesn't have to worry about it. My daughter is marrying down, and the Liu family has to support me. I said he can't have concubines, so he can't have one!"

Madam Ning laughed and opened her eyes to look at her beautiful daughter: "I have been fighting the vixen in the backyard for more than ten years, how could I have raised someone as naive as you?"

"Mother!" Miss Ning San's eyes moved slightly, "Mother, do you think Liu Xiang is not a good person? Ning Liu can marry the prince as his principal wife, and my daughter... I heard that the position of the crown prince's principal wife is vacant..."

Madam Ning closed her eyes and pondered, "You should go back and rest early. Mother is tired."

The situation in the capital is changing rapidly, and outside the capital there are storms.

The spring rain is fine and gentle, the spring thunder is rumbling, and the lightning and thunder at night are the most frightening.

“Woo woo…”

Helian Yu ran out of the room barefoot, sneaked into the next room, and got into Yingyue's bed.

Yingyue has always been a light sleeper and had trouble falling asleep on stormy nights. As she was tossing and turning, she heard light footsteps on the floor. Her hair stood on end and she closed her eyes tightly, held her breath, and slowly pulled her head into the quilt.

However, the quilt was pulled aside and a warm touch passed over her arm.

Yingyue closed her eyes and screamed: "Ah - ghost -"

Helian Yu: "..."

Caiyun was startled awake and huddled in her quilt, "Ah——"

Helian Yu: “???”

Don’t you even take a look?

"Yingyue, it's me."

After Helian Yu spoke, Yingyue's heart, which had jumped up to her throat, finally calmed down.

"Your Highness? Why are you here?" Yingyue hurriedly sat up and placed her hand on Helian Yu's forehead. In the moonlight that flickered with lightning and thunder, she revealed her worry in her eyes, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"No." Helian Yu shook his head and squeezed into Yingyue's arms. "It's thundering outside, and I can't sleep."

"Yingyue reads to you to put you to sleep?"

Yingyue was silent, then hesitantly asked, "Do you want to be punished by the Imperial Master, or by the Fourth Prince?"

How can it be interesting if it harms others but does not benefit oneself? Helian Yu was also silent, and looked at Yingyue in surprise: "But, I can't sleep."

As soon as the voice fell, the lights in the room came on. Caiyun brought a lamp to the bedside and suggested softly: "Your Highness, why don't you read a book or play the piano? The national teacher taught you the music and strings during the day."

Helian Yu blinked and a good idea came to his mind.

"I'm going back to my room to get something!"

Helian Yu ran out with a bang. Yingyue and Caiyun looked at each other, both of them a little suspicious.

After a moment, a suona sound rang out, shocking the two men. They felt chilled to the bone.

Everyone on the fourth floor was awakened by the sound of the suona, and one after another went out to look for the source of the sound.

Helian Chi's face was as black as charcoal, gloomy and scary, and even had a sinister aura: "Zhuo Liu! Go see if it's the little bastard!"

The door between several rooms opened, and Xie Rangchen, dressed in red and holding a wide strip of cloth in his hand, "floated" lifelessly across the corridor.

A red shadow full of resentment flashed before Helian Chi's eyes, and he was startled. After seeing who it was, he rushed back to the room, pulled the bed curtain, and followed Xie Rangchen, gritting his teeth.

"The homework that the Imperial Master assigned to Xiao Yu'er these past two days is still too easy!"

"really."

"I personally think that tomorrow morning you can have her practice martial arts and whip skills, in the afternoon you can have her read and recite, and in the evening you can have her copy articles!"

“It’s something you can consider.”

The two of them spoke one sentence each, and when they reached the end of the corridor, they saw a small figure standing in front of the railing, holding a suona, and playing it with his head shaking, his little body swaying with excitement.

The sound of suona is joyful and noisy, and the song of "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" brings out the noble posture of the phoenix.

Xie Rangchen and Helian Chi looked at each other, tightened the cloth strips and bed curtains in their hands, and walked towards Helian Yu together.

Chang Zuo and Zhuo Liu leaned against each other and yawned.

"It's a good blow."

"right."

Yingyue and Caiyun stamped their feet anxiously: "You two are just watching the fun, what will we do if His Highness gets beaten up later?"

Zhuo Liu groaned, "I don't think so. My prince loves the princess very much."

Chang Zuo nodded: "Sir, you are a gentleman. You should use your words instead of your fists."

Lu Jing and his men came up and asked Chang Zuo: "What happened? Why is there so much noise?"

Chang Zuo raised his hand and pointed to the end of the corridor.

At the end of the corridor, there were flashes of lightning and thunder, and two tall figures were reaching their claws towards the small figure lying on the ground.

"Ouch—my ears—"

“Master! Fourth brother! A gentleman uses his mouth, not his hands—”

Under the dim moonlight, the silvery-white river surface shone with the lightning, and the bright light reflected on the three people.

Helian Yu was tied up tightly, with two men pulling up his ears. His face was wrinkled with worry and he was wailing.

The people watching the fun fell silent one after another.

"Beating is love, scolding is care. My prince really loves the princess." Zhuo Liu made amends with an expressionless face.

Chang Zuo cleared his throat: "My lord, sometimes you are not a gentleman."

The three of them looked at Chang Zuo in unison.