Although Xie Zixin was reborn, the years she returned were exactly the years when Li Jingchen began to miss his cousin who passed away young. This made Xie Zixin, who claimed to be in love with him, feel very resentful. Now that he saw Zhou Qiongyue, he couldn't help but lose control of himself.
Zhou Qiongyue glanced at Xie Zixin, who looked like a nagging woman, and nonchalantly said something even more infuriating, "Actually, my fifth cousin is pretty good to me."
Xie Zixin could only lower her head to hide the resentment in her eyes when she heard this. She knew Zhou Qiongyue was qualified to say this. After she died in her previous life, Li Jingyu had a quarrel with the emperor and had basically not entered the palace since then.
How could Zhou Qiongyue have such great merits that so many people cared about her? How could Xie Zixin not be jealous?
Xie Zixin acted normal on the surface, but she couldn't help but mutter in her heart: "You might as well just piss me off to death."
In the end, Xie Zixin reluctantly agreed, "Ms. Zhou is still enviable."
"Oh..." Zhou Qiongyue just responded casually, and began to look around the scenery of Xuanping Marquis Mansion casually.
She wasn't the original owner, nor did she want to marry the second prince, so she didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the male and female protagonists. Now she had everything she needed, and she just wanted to live a stable life under the protection of her family.
Seeing Zhou Qiongyue's indifferent expression, Xie Zixin was actually a little angry for a moment. People! No matter who they are, once they get angry, they easily lose their minds.
"The Second Prince also mentioned Miss Zhou to me, saying that he treats you like his own sister and values you very much."
After Xie Zixin finished speaking, she did not forget to act as if she had a good relationship with the Second Prince and that the Second Prince told her everything with pride.
She felt that Zhou Qiongyue would be angry after she said this! She might even be furious. It would be best if she could argue with her. The outer courtyard was just across the wall from this garden. If a man outside heard something and spread it, it would be even worse.
"Oh..." Zhou Qiongyue looked at the heroine speechlessly again, and couldn't help muttering in her heart, why does the final winner in this novel look like a mentally retarded person.
This method is too crude! Even she, who has never experienced the inner house struggle, can see it. If the inner house struggles in this world are all at this level, she feels that she is still quite safe.
In fact, Zhou Qiongyue was overthinking it. The reason why Xie Zixin's method was so rough was nothing more than the influence of her previous life. She thought Zhou Qiongyue was the original owner and liked the second prince very much.
I feel that such a crude method is enough. Also, Xie Zixin was a superior for a long time in his previous life and has not yet adapted to his current status.
So if Zhou Qiongyue was still the original owner, she might really make a fuss and would definitely question the relationship between Xie Zixin and the second prince.
Unfortunately, Zhou Qiongyue was not the original owner, so her reaction was quite dull.
Xie Zixin was quite dissatisfied with Zhou Qiongyue's indifferent reaction, and continued to ask, "Why don't you ask the Second Prince why he told me all this?"
"What does it have to do with me..." Zhou Qiongyue said this irritating truth and then admired the flowers in the garden. It must be said that the flowers in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion are well planted.
Zhou Qiongyue pointed out a few of her favorites and asked with a smile, "Do you have seedlings of these flowers? Or where did you buy them at the Xuanping Marquis Mansion? I really like them. I'll send someone to buy some to plant in my yard when the time comes."
"What?" Xie Zixin didn't know how the topic jumped to planting flowers.
Zhou Qiongyue turned and stared at Xie Zixin. The expression on her face was easy to understand. "Is there some secret method to grow these flowers?"
Xie Zixin finally realized what was going on and quickly tried to remedy the situation. "It's not a good thing. When Miss Zhou returns, I'll have the servants move a few for you."
Xie Zixin smiled happily on the surface, but she was actually filled with anger and annoyance on the inside. She felt like she hadn't achieved anything today. Not only was she being led around by the nose, but she was also filled with anger.
"Thank you very much, Miss." Zhou Qiongyue got the answer she wanted, and her mood was even better. The heroine was actually reborn, and she didn't seem very smart. She was already looking forward to seeing the excitement in the future.
Xie Zixin didn't achieve her goal, so she didn't feel like taking the enthusiastic Zhou Qiongyue around. So she took Zhou Qiongyue for a while, then found an excuse to take her back.
Zhou Qiongyue and Xie Zixin didn't know that there were indeed two people under the wall where they were chatting. They were the second prince Li Jingchen and his good friend, Prince Fu'an Yuan Bohua of a different surname.
Yuan Bohua was the same age as the Second Prince. All his family members had died, all on the battlefield. He was the only one left alive, and due to his poor health and inability to practice martial arts, he inherited the title of prince at a very young age.
The second prince mainly wanted to come to the backyard to meet Miss Xie by chance. He was afraid that he would be too conspicuous to be alone, so he asked Prince Yuan to cover him. Then, if he said he had taken the wrong road, people would believe him.
The two of them listened to the entire process. Yuan Bohua glanced at the Second Prince with amusement, "I didn't expect that you would be unpopular sometimes. It seems that rumors can sometimes mislead people!"
Yuan Bohua had also heard rumors about Yuan An, all of which said that 'Miss Zhou and the Second Prince were childhood sweethearts.'
The Second Prince knew what his friend meant by his joke, but he didn't have the habit of explaining everything to his cousin without further explanation. "I have always treated Yue'er as her own sister, and Yue'er has always treated me as her own brother."
"Oh, it turns out to be an earth-shattering brother-sister relationship!" Yuan Bohua smiled even more happily, mainly because he liked Miss Zhou and Miss Zhou had defended him.
As a person living in solitude, it is easy for him to fall in love with a girl who has been kind to him.
Seeing his friend laughing so happily, the Second Prince thought that he was just watching the fun, so he didn't take it seriously and just teased him, "You should maintain your aloof image outside. If someone sees you, your image will be ruined."
Yuan Bohua clenched his fist, put it to his mouth and coughed, trying to maintain his persona and said, "The banquet is about to start, we should hurry back, otherwise if someone sees us, we really won't be able to explain it."
The second prince, Li Jingchen, glanced at the wall in disappointment, but unfortunately he saw nothing. He could only say in disappointment, "Let's go!"
Neither of them took the conversation between the two girls seriously. They thought it was just two girls speaking their minds and didn't think of it as involving swordplay at all.
When the Crown Prince's wife, Lady Jin, saw her daughter coming back, she calmly pulled her daughter's hand.
Zhou Qiongyue calmly let her mother hold her hand and gave her mother a reassuring look.
When the Crown Prince's wife, Lady Jin, received the look in her daughter's eyes, she felt relieved and continued chatting with the people around her.
Zhou Qiongyue didn't feel bored, so she sat calmly next to her mother, listening to her mother and the other ladies chatting and talking about Yuan An's gossip, while eating snacks from the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.
Zhou Qiongyue felt that she quite liked this feeling. Someone was holding up the sky for her and she just needed to smile. How wonderful!
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