Chapter 115 We all prosper together, we all suffer together
Chu Yunjin wanted to ask something more, but her eyelids suddenly became heavy. She tried her best to open her eyes and chat with the nanny for a few more words, but found that the face in front of her had changed to Adele.
She jolted awake and sat bolt upright in bed: "Adele?"
"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Adele asked in surprise, quickly reaching out to touch Chu Yunjin's forehead with a worried expression. "Are you dreaming?"
Dream?
The old woman in the dream also asked her this question.
So which one is the dream and which one is reality?
Chu Yunjin's eyes glazed over for a moment, then she raised her hand to rub her temples: "What time is it?"
Adele smiled and said, "It's almost Chenshi (7-9 AM), and the princess is sleeping quite soundly."
Sleeping soundly?
But she clearly had insomnia last night.
"Would Your Highness like to rise now?" Adele asked. "I'll call Zhaixing and Laoyue in to serve you."
Chu Yunjin pulled back the curtains and looked at the sunlight streaming in through the gaps. "Did I sleep for so long?"
"The princess sleeps well."
Chu Yunjin remained silent. It wasn't that she had slept well; on the contrary, she was exhausted, even more tired than if she had exercised all day.
A dream within a dream.
Chu Yunjin leaned against the headboard and couldn't help but close her eyes again: "I'm not feeling well today, I don't want to get up so early."
Adele immediately asked with concern, "Is Your Highness feeling unwell? Should I go and fetch a doctor?"
"No need." Chu Yunjin thought for a moment, then lay back down on the bed. "Let me sleep a little longer."
"yes."
Adele lowered the curtain and tiptoed out.
Chu Yunjin lay in bed, half-asleep, wondering why she had such a dream. The scenes in the dream were so real, just like her own experience.
Does this mean that the person Yan Cang loves is actually herself? Is that a past life she and Yan Cang experienced together?
Then why...why did the original owner take over this body again?
Or are they actually the same person?
Chu Yunjin recalled how Yan Cang had repeatedly emphasized in the past few days, "There is only you, I only like you, there is no one else."
Did Yan Cang know that the person in this body had changed? Did he know that she was no longer the original owner who caused all sorts of trouble?
If last night's dream was real, why not let her dream a little longer? Was it because the events that followed were too powerless for her to bear, so she refused to see them from the bottom of her heart?
She didn't even see Yan Cang's face in her dream...
Chu Yunjin turned over, clasped her hands together under her face, opened her eyes, and stared unfocused at the curtains in front of her, her mind in turmoil.
Chu Yunjin lay in bed for an hour before getting up.
As noon approached, the sun outside grew quite strong, making the room feel rather hot and stuffy.
Granny Zhou delivered an invitation: "This is an invitation just sent from the Duke of Dingguo's residence. The Princess Consort is invited to a flower viewing banquet tomorrow."
Chu Yunjin frowned: "Do they really insist that I go?"
She didn't go the first time they invited her, then Yan Xiyue and Su Ruoli came to see her in person, and the meeting ended badly. Now they're having this flower-viewing banquet...
The flower-viewing banquet was attended by many people, not just because they had specifically invited anyone, but at this critical juncture, the Duke's Mansion's high-profile behavior clearly indicated that they were in dire need of help and had to invite Chu Yunjin to attend.
But Chu Yunjin couldn't understand it at all.
“Granny Zhou.” She looked up at Granny Zhou. “Yan Cang has gone to the border, and I can’t make decisions on matters big or small in the court. Isn’t it a waste of their energy to invite me to the flower viewing banquet at this time?”
Granny Zhou thought for a moment and said, "What the princess says is true. However, they may have other motives."
Chu Yunjin couldn't help but wonder, what exactly is the Duke of Dingguo's mansion doing?
They should have kept a low profile at this time, but they held a grand flower-viewing banquet. Aren't they worried about attracting the emperor's attention?
Chu Yunjin frowned slightly: "Who else did they invite?"
Granny Zhou had just asked the person who delivered the invitation, and the reply was: "I heard that the invitation includes the Sixth Princess, the Princess Consort of Qi, the eldest daughter of the Minister of Personnel, as well as Your Highness's mother and two younger sisters."
"Two younger sisters?" Chu Yunjin frowned. "Yunshan and Yunyao?"
"yes."
Chu Yunjin's expression turned somewhat unpleasant. What was the Duke of Dingguo's mansion trying to do?
Inviting her mother over—is she planning to use her for something?
Although Chu Yunjin felt that she didn't have a particularly deep relationship with her mother, and her mother's excessive favoritism towards her brother left her speechless, the short scene in her dream and those few lines of dialogue made her truly understand the nature of ancient families: the prosperity of one family is the prosperity of the other, and the loss of one family is the loss of the other.
No matter how their relationship is, it doesn't change the fact that they are a family.
If one person in the family makes a mistake, it will affect everyone.
Therefore, she had to find a way to prevent her family from dragging her down, especially her good-for-nothing older brother and her biased mother.
Even if Yan Cang has planned and arranged his life so that he will never fall into a situation where he has no control over his own destiny again, the potential hidden dangers still need to be eliminated as soon as possible.
The father is the person whose words carry the most weight in a family.
All she needs to do is reach an agreement with her father.
Chu Yunjin felt reassured and said to Granny Zhou, "Granny, have the steward go to the Minister's residence to deliver a message, preferably directly to my father, saying that I need to go back tomorrow to talk to him in person."
"Yes." Granny Zhou accepted the order and left.
After getting up, washing up, and changing clothes, Chu Yunjin drank a bowl of soup and then went for a stroll in the back garden alone.
The sun was shining brightly as she strolled leisurely along the corridor.
Although she was in the garden, she had no heart to appreciate the scenery; her mind was still immersed in that brief yet vivid dream.
At this moment, she desperately wished that Yan Cang was by her side.
She wanted to have a serious talk with him and ask him if he felt guilty and remorseful every night because of his past helplessness.
I want to ask him what she can do?
She wanted to tell him that although her future might not be good, she didn't blame him.
Whether it's rebirth or time reversal, returning everything to a point before the tragedy occurred, she wants to tell him that she doesn't blame him.
For the rest of her life, all she wanted was to walk hand in hand with him.
There was no one else, only them.
No one can interfere.
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