He Xue looked Xu Yan over carefully again, then looked at the Crown Prince: "Crown Prince, do I look like her?"
He Xue didn't want the Crown Prince to create too many peripheral products.
"No, you are unique, unlike anyone else!" the Crown Prince said to He Xue with affection.
Xu Yan's face turned deathly pale; it turned out she was just another person.
"Please forgive me, Your Highness, I didn't know that it was a token of your love between you and the Crown Prince, otherwise I would never have dared to accept it!" Xu Yan explained in a panic.
"You don't need to be nervous. How could the token of our love have fallen into someone else's hands? So what you saw must be fake!"
"I've misunderstood!" Xu Yan said.
"How did you know the Crown Prince was here? Spying on the Crown Prince's whereabouts is a serious crime!" He Xue felt that Xu Yan had deliberately appeared here.
"I happened to be here and happened to see His Highness the Crown Prince! I beg Your Highness to see the truth!" Xu Yan felt that she could no longer speak to He Xue. Ever since she started talking to He Xue, she had been in a passive position.
"The Crown Princess is asking you what you want me to understand!" the Crown Prince said impatiently.
"Too many coincidences are no longer coincidences! This is the street of the Prince's Mansion, you can't be unaware of that, can you?" He Xue felt that she had encountered too many coincidences today.
"Your Highness, I've just arrived in the capital and don't know much about it yet. I just happened to see the Crown Prince, and I really just want to express my gratitude to him!" Xu Yan said with red eyes, as if Xue had bullied her.
"It was the Crown Prince who helped you, but you give me the impression that you helped the Crown Prince! Are you waiting for the Crown Prince to repay your kindness!"
"If you really wanted to thank the Crown Prince, you wouldn't keep bothering him. Don't try to get close to him under the guise of thanking him!" He Xue said coldly.
“No, I don’t! Is the Crown Princess so jealous? Or does she lack confidence in herself and worry that any woman who gets close to the Crown Prince will steal him away?” Xu Yan looked up at He Xue and asked.
"My Crown Princess is not someone you can question! Who do you think you are, daring to come here and contradict the Crown Princess?" The Crown Prince looked at Xu Yan with a sinister gaze.
Xu Yan was frightened by the Crown Prince's expression. "This commoner knows her crime!"
"Never mind, Crown Prince!" He Xue didn't want to make things too difficult for Xu Yan and hoped that Xu Yan would back down. If Xu Yan insisted on currying favor with the Crown Prince, she would not be lenient.
"I'll do whatever you say!" the Crown Prince said gently, looking at He Xue.
The Crown Prince looked at He Xue and sighed inwardly, thinking that his Xue'er was becoming more and more like the Crown Princess.
The First Lady watched from the side. She had been worried that He Xue was too naive and wouldn't be able to deal with the women around the Crown Prince, but now it seemed that she had worried too much.
"It's getting late, we should head back." The Crown Prince took He Xue's hand and helped her into the carriage.
The Crown Prince turned to the Eighth Prince and said, "I have prepared a big gift for you tomorrow, Eighth Brother. I hope you will like it!" After saying that, he got into the carriage and urged He Zhu to return to the palace.
The Eighth Prince naturally knew what the Crown Prince meant. He was afraid that the Crown Prince would announce Xu Nanping's affair to the public tomorrow. Guo Yunjin should also be under the Crown Prince's control. He had miscalculated this time. However, he did not expect that the Crown Prince would actually wait for three days.
He now needs to figure out how to deal with tomorrow in order to minimize his losses.
Xu Yan watched the Crown Prince's departing figure. He hadn't said a word to her and just left like that. Seeing how carefully the Crown Prince took care of He Xue, her heart was filled with jealousy and resentment.
The eldest prince and his wife also left to return to their own residence.
The Eighth Prince looked at Xu Yan, who was staring intently at the Crown Prince's carriage. Although seeing Xu Yan reminded him of the Crown Prince's scheme against him, he thought that Xu Yan might be useful to him, and he could use her to sabotage the relationship between the Crown Prince and He Xue.
As for his one-night stand with Xu Yan, it was nothing in his eyes. Which man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? He also firmly believed that the Crown Prince was just talking about it now, and that other people would definitely enter Yuqing Palace soon.
Even if the Crown Prince were willing to only have eyes for He Xue, I'm afraid the Emperor and the Empress Dowager wouldn't agree. The Crown Prince is the heir apparent, and they wouldn't allow He Xue to become too powerful, especially since He Xue has the Suhetai and Tongjia clan behind her.
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