"What's wrong, Your Highness? Ye Zhi...I hope nothing has happened to Ye Zhi."
Seeing the Crown Prince hesitate, Liu Lingxi immediately tensed up. With the man's help, she sat up abruptly from the soft couch.
The beautiful woman sat quietly on the couch, her silky black hair cascading down, creating a striking contrast with her fair and delicate face.
Dressed in red with dark hair, she was delicate and slender, her snow-white neck so thin it seemed as if it could be broken with the slightest touch.
At this moment, her slender, fair hands were tightly gripping Sheng Changfeng's large hands, her big eyes blinking anxiously as she looked at Sheng Changfeng's small face.
"Your Highness, I want to know what happened. Ye Zhi never leaves my side."
Even if it's just to give them a chance to be alone, you should stand guard at the door and come out as soon as you call them softly.
Liu Lingxi paused for a moment, then turned her head to look at the door, wondering if she had missed something.
However, they couldn't find that familiar figure.
Liu Lingxi muttered to herself for a while, then turned her gaze to His Highness the Crown Prince, hoping he would give her an answer.
"He's not here, Your Highness..."
The woman's hesitation and inquiry were impossible for the man to ignore, and the prince could no longer care about his inner conflict or carefully choosing his tone.
"Xi'er, don't worry, Ye Zhi just went to help Xiao Changzi with... the matter of moving the palace."
The crown prince steeled his heart, closed his eyes, and concealed the unease in them.
After he finished speaking, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked up at the beautiful woman in front of him.
His expression wasn't relaxed, but at this moment it seemed he was wearing a perfect mask, not wanting to convey any pressure to the woman.
Sheng Changfeng forced a smile and pulled her into his arms, becoming her support and reliance.
"Don't worry, Xi'er."
"Your Highness, you are the Crown Prince. If you don't live in Chonghua Palace, where will you live? Could it be... that the Emperor has... deposed you from your position as Crown Prince and intends to expel us from the palace?"
Sure enough, upon hearing the words "relocation of the palace," Liu Lingxi keenly sensed something amiss and kept pressing for answers by focusing on those two words.
She even started thinking more and more, her thoughts branching out and she began to think even further.
Clearly, she remembered who the Crown Prince had met before, and only this one person could have made him move the palace and issued this order.
Emperor Sheng Jin!
Thinking of this, Liu Lingxi looked at her husband, her only support in this life, with a look of worry in her eyes.
Whatever you do, don't let yourself be deposed as crown prince!
Her heart was filled with prayers, her eyes were full of anxiety, and her little hands were unconsciously clenched, showing both tension and worry.
Fortunately, the Crown Prince did not ignore Liu Lingxi's nervousness and quickly explained the reason that he had just come up with in a flash of inspiration.
He gently supported the woman's body, tightly holding Liu Lingxi's arms with both hands, and looked into her eyes sincerely as he spoke.
"Xi'er, don't worry. It's because your father values the dragon child in your womb that he allows us to live with him in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."
Xi'er knows that you are now pregnant with twins, and there are countless eyes watching you both inside and outside the palace. There are also many spies in Chongzhong Palace. What if someone really plots to harm you—
"Xi'er, the safest place in the whole world is Father Emperor's bedchamber. No one can reach into Father Emperor's palace, so it will be safer for us to move in."
After the Crown Prince finished speaking, Liu Lingxi was quite frightened, because he could feel the woman under his command stiffen.
“Your Highness, the Emperor wants us to move to the Hall of Mental Cultivation… This is against the rules.”
After regaining her senses, Liu Lingxi broke free from the man's grasp, her eyes clearly showing panic, looking completely lost.
She seemed to have heard some unbelievable news and couldn't laugh at all.
The Emperor… She was already terrified of him, and now she had to move in and live with him?
If this gets out, what will become of my reputation?!
Thinking of this, Liu Lingxi's eyes welled up with tears. As if grasping at the last straw, she cast her pleading gaze at the Crown Prince.
"Your Highness, may I plead with him instead of going?"
As she thought about it, her eyes filled with tears, the corners of her eyes reddened, and her red lips clenched tightly. She wanted to go and beg him herself.
"Xi'er..."
Sheng Changfeng looked distressed, but he couldn't agree directly. However, perhaps Xi'er's personal pleading would really bring about a turning point.
He pulled her into his arms, and feeling the trembling little body in his embrace, his heart broke.
"I'm sorry, it's my incompetence that I couldn't persuade Father. I'll go with you to plead. Don't cry, okay?"
The man felt a dampness on his chest and hated himself for being so powerless that he couldn't even protect the woman he loved most.
He gritted his teeth and gently coaxed Liu Lingxi. Hearing her sobs, he felt a sudden urge to kill his own powerless self.
"Xi'er, don't cry. You are carrying our child. He will protect his mother."
The prince barely suppressed his resentment, gently cupped the woman's face, and kissed away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
His kiss was soothing, gentle, as if he were handling a precious treasure.
Liu Lingxi felt the tenderness in his kiss, and her sobs gradually subsided until they disappeared completely.
A blush rose to her cheeks, as if she had applied the finest rose powder, making her look like the most beautiful and delicate flower.
A few tears clung to her long eyelashes, and her slightly reddened eyes made her look even more pitiful, softening one's heart and making one want to protect her.
As if realizing she had acted rashly in the heat of the moment, she quickly wiped away her tears with a handkerchief.
Like a startled fawn, it turned away, wishing it could hide far away.
"Your Highness, please allow me to freshen up and get ready before I go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to plead with the Emperor."
She could feel the intense gaze of the man behind her, so she quickly changed the subject, her face flushed and very alluring.
"Alright, I'll send someone to serve you."
After this commotion, Crown Prince Sheng Changfeng felt much better.
After all, the Crown Princess was his lifeblood.
Being able to be close to women had already brought him considerable comfort.
At the same time, he became even more determined to protect this precious child, otherwise... he wouldn't want to live either.
Seeing that it was getting late, he thought he should hurry up and go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Maybe Xi'er could really change that stubborn man's mind.
"Be good, I'll go and call someone. Once you're all ready, we'll go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to request an audience."
"Um."
The woman then stopped crying and smiled. She sincerely hoped that she could stay in Chonghua Palace to rest and prepare for childbirth.
This is where she lived for decades in her previous life, and she doesn't want it to change.
The Emperor... he's really gone mad... I still need to be careful and try to persuade him.
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