“Then the princess shouldn’t have gone to see him,” Liu Su disagreed. “If it’s discovered that Young Master Shen is not in any danger, it will only be the princess who will be criticized.”
Lu Qingyan yawned while hugging a quilt, and said with dissatisfaction, "Honestly, I used to think you were very clever, but now you've become as annoying as agate. I know what I'm doing, and I definitely won't let anyone find out."
After Lu Qingyan finished speaking, she fell asleep with a sweet smile on her lips, leaving Liu Su standing beside her with a wry smile: "Granny Chang really protected the princess too well. Now that she's gone, the princess will just continue to act so recklessly in this palace as before. From now on..."
Well, the princess is her master, so she, as a servant, should naturally do her duty and be loyal.
After Liusu left, Lu Qingyan lay on the bed and shed two lines of tears: "Liusu, I actually understand everything. If there really was a place for me here, why would I have schemed so meticulously?"
Long fingernails digging into flesh—who wouldn't understand the implications? The current Emperor of Lu's two empresses were both from the Shen family of the Duke of Huguo's mansion. The current empress is Lu Qingshu's birth mother and the Crown Prince's aunt. Even though her mother and the late empress were close friends, and even though she and Shen Jiyan were truly in love, some things, even with these conditions, are not enough.
Firstly, Lu Qingyan doesn't have Shen family blood, so she might not be loyal to the Shen family. Secondly, since her mother's death, the Changbo Marquis's mansion has gradually declined; how could it possibly protect Lu Qingyan?
Lu Qingyan knew that the Shen family's preferred daughter-in-law was Lu Qingshu. They looked seven or eight parts alike, but their minds were vastly different. To be honest, compared to the pampered Lu Qingshu, Lu Qingyan was like a pearl meeting a luminous pearl.
Of course, this disparity is how the world perceives them. Lu Qingyan knows that the truth is slightly better than that.
However, even with such a vast difference between them, she still wanted to fight for her future. She couldn't bear to just give up Chen Jiyan like that.
Lu Qingyan slept soundly through the night and even dreamed of the scene of her and Shen Jiyan's wedding ceremony.
Shen Jiyan had mentioned to Lu Qingyan before that he would ask His Majesty for a marriage proposal today.
Lu Qingyan knew that His Majesty's health wasn't very good, but he was still alive. Holding a celebratory event would help to counteract this, which would be a joyous occasion. However, if His Majesty were to pass away someday, she would still have to observe the mourning period.
Ahem, thinking like that is rather rebellious. Lu Qingyan didn't know why she had such a strange idea, but she didn't have much affection for her father, whom she had barely met and didn't even know what he looked like.
Lu Qingyan stretched and asked Liusu, who was leaning against the window, "Do you think his marriage proposal will go smoothly today?"
Liu Su shook her head: "This servant should say something I shouldn't, but there is basically no possibility between you and Young Master Shen. Not to mention the distant past, this servant doesn't know much about the other things. But this servant knows that the Fourth Princess will not give up easily, and the Empress dotes on the Fourth Princess the most."
"No matter what, the palace is the princess's maternal family. The emperor has never cared about these things, and I don't even know if he remembers you as his daughter. It won't do the princess any good to fall out with her maternal family like this. The Shen family is the empress's maternal family and also the fourth princess's maternal family..."
Lu Qingyan nodded: "I know all of that."
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