On Ji Chenglin's side, the Regent's Palace.
Ji Chenglin was reluctant to eat the box of pear blossom cake when he received it in the morning. At noon, he heard that the empress dowager had taken the eldest and fifth daughters of the Ning family into the palace. In the afternoon, he heard that Concubine De was deposed for offending a girl from the Ning family.
Han Shu looked puzzled, "Miss Ning likes the prince so much, why did she want to enter the palace?"
Ji Chenglin said calmly:
"As a young girl, how can she escape her family's arrangements except for her own death? The Ning family is very ambitious and wants the next emperor to come from the Ning family. And the emperor wants to use the power of the empress dowager to suppress me."
Han Shu sighed, "It would be great if Miss Ning was not from the Ning family."
At night, Ji Chenglin's mind was full of thoughts, time and fate.
She came from an ambitious family and was implicated by her family. She threw the thief into Ning Rongrong's room in the morning. Judging from the way Ning Danruo handled the situation, it was clear that she was a qualified daughter of a noble family and took her family's reputation into consideration.
But I cannot give her happiness. Last night when she was in my arms, I vaguely remember that there was a difference, but there was still not much change.
He tossed and turned until dawn. He heard that the emperor had invited Ning Danruo and Ning Rongrong to go boating on the lake in the royal villa today, and he felt uneasy. Ning Danruo was so beautiful that even a fool would know to choose her as the queen.
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As for the Emperor, when he looked at Dan Ruo again today, he did not feel as amazed as he did yesterday.
Last night, the emperor was surprised why Ning Rongrong did not do as they had agreed before. Ning Rongrong entered the palace in a low-key manner behind Ning Danruo.
Of course Ning Rongrong didn't dare to tell the emperor the truth. After all, she sent Caihe to ask the imperial physician, and the imperial physician said that there was no cure for the Broken Heart Powder, but Ning Danruo could.
Her life is in someone else's hands, but she won't let Danruo have an easy time.
She told the emperor that if Ning Dan used her concubine to threaten her, she would have to step forward and compete for favor.
Because Ning Dan Ruoxin was still concerned about her previous fiancé, the Regent, and did not want to be with the emperor. She also said that the emperor was plain-looking and of low birth, and was not worthy of her status as the legitimate daughter of a duke.
Today, the emperor only felt that Ning Danruo was beautiful but had a heart as vicious as a snake. If it weren't for her status, he really wanted to marry her to the Regent and let her be a widow for the rest of her life.
He had always disliked Ning Danruo because she had been engaged to the Regent. Now that he knew that her heart was still with the Regent, he felt even more angry. The queen he had to marry actually had her heart set on the Regent, the man who dominated all the princes.
The emperor hated him the most. The previous emperor had clearly passed the throne to him, but he still let him become the regent and monopolize power.
It is even said that he left a will stating that as long as the regent had an heir, the throne would belong to him.
On the exquisite and majestic dragon-carved cruise ship, the emperor and Ning Rongrong were admiring the scenery at the bow, while Danruo was standing slightly to the side.
When the eunuch served the hot tea, his body tilted and pushed Ning Rongrong under the boat. The accident happened in an instant. The emperor hurriedly shouted: "Stop the boat and save people."
A eunuch who knew how to swim jumped into the water immediately. After a while, he still couldn't pull anything out. The emperor was furious and wanted to vent his anger at Dan Ruo, but Dan Ruo took the initiative, his eyes blazing with fire:
"Your Majesty, how could my little sister have fallen into the water when she was fine? If my little sister is gone, the Ning family must demand justice."
Ji Chenglin was in a bad mood all morning and happened to be in need of a book, so he made an excuse to go to the library in the royal villa in person to get it.
When he reached the shore, he heard a commotion from the cruise ship. He was startled to hear that someone had fallen into the water. He didn't feel relieved until he saw Danruo standing on the boat safely.
After a while, Ning Rongrong was rescued. Although the lake water was not frozen in winter, it was still cold to the bone, and she soon spit out the water that had choked her.
After the boat docked, the emperor carried Ning Rongrong to the room. The imperial physician came to treat her and said that she would be fine after resting for a while, but the lake water was cold, so he was afraid that it would be difficult for her to have children in the future.
The emperor didn't care about it, as he had enough children. Ning Rongrong cried heartbreakingly: "The eunuch who hit me must have done it on purpose. Someone was pulling me down underwater, and I couldn't break free no matter how hard I tried."
Only after the emperor promised to conduct a thorough investigation did Ning Rongrong drink the medicine and fall into a deep sleep under its effects.
The emperor sent Danruo to another room to rest.
Dan Ruo knew from the Samsara Pearl that Ji Chenglin was in the library, so she asked Cai Yue to take a few maids given by the Queen Mother to rest and drink some wine to warm themselves up.
She went to the library alone, but only royal family members were allowed to enter.
Han Shu, who was waiting at the door, asked the gatekeeper to let Dan Ruo in as soon as he saw her. He also guarded the door tightly.
Dan Ruo found that Ji Chenglin was asleep on the table in the inner room, with a faint purple mark under his eyes. However, when he fell asleep, he looked like a handsome man of a different style, a little obedient and a little smooth-haired.
The timing is right, just in time to fall asleep.
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