Su Youran snapped out of her shock, "The Third Prince...?"
Wen Yuanbai answered affirmatively, "His heart belongs to the Princess of Nanyue."
"Then on that day..." Su Youran was stunned.
"He probably thought I was proposing to the Princess of Nanyue that day, so he just happened to come in to join in the fun, and the Empress took advantage of the situation. Little did I expect... he still couldn't escape the clutches of the Princess of Nanyue!"
"This princess of Nanyue is too open, isn't she?"
She was already the emperor's woman, yet she still managed to sleep with the third prince?
Her eyes darted around. "Could it be... that she resents the Empress and is deliberately targeting her?"
Wen Yuanbai nodded slightly.
"But she... this... isn't the price too high!" How will outsiders view the girl from Nan Yue?
Moreover, if word got out, the emperor would be accused of being cuckolded by his son!
Can she survive?
Wen Yuanbai asked Nan Zhuo, "Has the Emperor agreed?"
Nan Zhuo shook his head, "The Emperor only threw Lady Nan into the Cold Palace in a fit of anger, and the Third Prince is still kneeling outside the Imperial Study, begging for mercy."
"I never expected that the Third Prince would be so love-struck," Su Youran remarked.
Wen Yuanbai's heart skipped a beat. He waved for Nan Zhuo to leave and closed the door, then asked, "In your dream, the Crown Prince was deposed. Who was then made the new Crown Prince?"
Su Youran thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "It seems that no new crown prince was established... However, a few years later, I heard that Prince Rong was plotting a rebellion..."
She was later locked in the cellar until her death, unaware that the world outside had turned upside down.
"Yes, the other day, taking advantage of Qingping's death, the Prince Rong's heir also returned to the capital." He tapped the table with his finger. "On the surface, her death has nothing to do with you. But it's not impossible that they won't find out about her plotting against the Imperial Preceptor at the Yun Mansion, which resulted in him being replaced. You need to be careful these days."
Su Youran blinked, feigning innocence, "What do you mean by switching things? What does that have to do with me?"
Wen Yuanbai glanced at her.
Su Youran immediately admitted defeat, "Okay, okay, I'll be careful!"
Suddenly, she seemed to have figured out the key point. "Senior brother! That prince... I mean, could it be that the prince in the dream wasn't actually deposed because of something as trivial as being lame?"
"Hmm? What came to mind?"
"That Princess of Nanyue clearly had her eye on the Crown Prince, but the Emperor took her instead. In the last... dream, she certainly wouldn't let it go so easily; she schemed to get the Crown Prince. The Emperor, in his fury, deposed him from his position as Crown Prince?" Su Youran thought about it more and more, nodding frantically, "That must be it!"
That makes sense in accordance with the logic of the Eight Trigrams!
Wen Yuanbai nodded slowly, "That makes sense too."
“That Third Prince… is in a precarious situation right now!” Su Youran had no impression of this Third Prince, nor did she have any particular likes or dislikes for him; she was simply stating the facts.
In the previous life, the crown prince was able to be deposed for cuckolding the emperor and was dismissed on the grounds of being lame. But if the third prince is to be demoted to a commoner... there must be a legitimate reason, right?
When Wen Yuanbai asked again, "Speaking of Master, I wonder if he appeared in your dreams...?"
Su Youran blinked. "In that dream, Master didn't appear until much later. My godmother, the Eldest Princess, and Yueyue weren't by my side either. There are rumors that Yueyue went missing when she was young..."
She stared at him in surprise, "Senior brother, could it be that time... when we were in Wufeng County..."
Wen Yuanbai had obviously also thought of the time when Yueyue and she were kidnapped.
"So, in your previous life, you didn't go to Taizhou, nor did you meet us?" Wen Yuanbai quickly figured out the key point. "And what about me? Did I appear in your dreams?"
In his previous life, after he was crippled, he probably wouldn't use the identity of Chu Heng anymore.
What about Wen Yuanbai's identity?
Su Youran laughed, "You...you, as a sickly and delicate young master, stayed at the Duke's mansion. For two years! And then..."
She chuckled and said, "Not long after, I heard you passed away! Senior brother, tell me, if we hadn't gone to Taizhou in this life, and you hadn't met me and changed your unlucky constitution, would you have died young like in the dream?!"
She almost blurted it out, and completely failed to notice that Wen Yuanbai had already used the phrase "the previous life".
Fortunately, Wen Yuanbai nodded in agreement, "Yes, Master said long ago that you are my lucky star! After you appeared, all my bad luck disappeared."
Master said that as long as he establishes a connection with her, her good fortune will always suppress his bad luck.
He's no longer unlucky, and things have been going smoothly for him these past few years.
Originally, he was destined to be unlucky enough to be framed and deposed by the princess of Nanyue, and then die young due to illness. But in this life, everything has changed!
Now that they're already on such a smooth path as fellow disciples, if they were to become husband and wife... wouldn't he be blessed with even more good fortune?
Thinking this way, her determination to marry her grew stronger; the image of the Crown Prince in her heart...
It's all a story full of bitter tears!
He tried to salvage his true identity, saying, "So, the current situation is actually quite different from what you dreamed of. Therefore, Your Highness, is it also as you imagined?"
Su Youran gave him a strange look. "Why are you bringing up the Crown Prince again? Does it matter whether his true personality is very different from what I imagined?"
Wen Yuanbai nodded. "It's very important."
Su Youran immediately understood, "Because you're on good terms with him, right? It doesn't matter. He's not my enemy. You can befriend him as you please. Don't worry, I won't have anything to do with him. What kind of person he is is none of my business."
Wen Yuanbai felt a chill in his heart. Sigh, this girl!
...
Soon, news of the Lady of the Southern Kingdom spread from some obscure corner and quickly became the talk of the capital, making the Third Prince a laughingstock.
Of course, the emperor also became a laughing stock.
While it's not uncommon for someone to be cuckolded by their own son within elite circles, it's absolutely unheard of for someone to openly do so to the emperor.
Emperor Shunqing was also surprised by this turn of events. After the news spread throughout the capital, he immediately issued an edict to confine the Third Prince to his quarters.
As for Lady Tazana of the South, she was also relegated to the sidelines.
This left Prince Tazashi of Nanyue completely bewildered.
The peace talks between the two countries had just begun to improve when this unexpected turn of events occurred.
He stormed into the cold palace in a rage and confronted Tazana, "You foolish woman! Are you trying to ruin diplomatic relations between our two countries?!"
Tazana, however, looked smug and said, "That vile queen dared to frame me, so I'll destroy the son she cares about most!"
Tazashi slapped him across the face, "Idiot!"
Tazana covered her face and said bitterly, "I've been ruined by the Empress. I can't marry the Crown Prince of Great Zhou, and I don't want to live anymore! Hit me! Kill me, and then send another princess for the marriage!"
Tazashi was nearly driven mad, but her last words reminded him.
"Ignorant fool!" His large hand gripped her neck in the next instant.
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