"No," An Ning whispered.
With a dark expression, Mu Ange pushed her to the ground without saying a word.
"Stay away from me, okay?" Mu Ange looked down at An Ning with disgust in his eyes.
An Ning's lips trembled slightly, and in those eyes filled with disdain, she could see an urgent warning: Do not beg for mercy!
She looked down at her chapped hands with a hint of helplessness: "At times like this, you're really living up to your persona."
Hearing the commotion, the emperor looked over and saw Mu Ange's disgusted face. He knew what had happened. He was still upset about what had just happened and vented his anger on the eunuch: "My son, you mustn't."
Bai Lan had already prepared herself for execution. Looking at An Ning who had fallen to the ground, she smiled and said, "Eunuch Ning, let's continue this love in our next life."
An Ning propped herself up, ignoring Mu Ange's warning, and walked step by step to the emperor's side, saying, "Your Majesty, Bai Lan deserves to die, but considering her merit in reporting the Crown Prince, could you please be lenient? This servant remembers that Your Majesty's birthday is approaching. If the whole palace is filled with too much blood, would that be inappropriate?"
The Emperor raised an eyebrow, seemingly pondering An Ning's words.
"Indeed, my birthday is approaching, and it is not advisable to harbor too many murderous thoughts. So then... eighty strokes of the cane. If she can withstand it, then so be it; if she cannot, then it is her fate to die."
An Ning swayed slightly, her face deathly pale: Eighty strokes of the cane...
Eighty blows of the wooden cane would either kill or cripple her, let alone a woman like her. How could she possibly withstand it?
An Ning suddenly regretted it. She shouldn't have pleaded for him. If she hadn't, perhaps she could have left peacefully...
Mu Ange looked at An Ning's swaying body, sighed, and turned her head away.
"Take him away and execute him," said Eunuch Wu.
"yes."
Soon, the guards took Bai Lan away.
An Ning lowered her head, not daring to look at her. She must be resentful of herself, resenting her for being so talkative and for being presumptuous!
Mu Ange couldn't stand her life-or-death act, so she walked to her side without making a sound and whispered, "Lingchi is cutting off her flesh inch by inch. Compared to caning, she should be grateful to you."
An Ning glanced at him sideways and silently said, "Thank you."
Before the gratitude he felt could even last a second, he heard him think with utter contempt, 'You don't even know about being slowly sliced to death? What an idiot.'
An Ning was in a bad mood: Never mind, I won't argue with you.
"Anyway, thank you for today."
Eunuch Wu glanced at Su Yunyan, who was still kneeling in the main hall, and reminded her, "Now that the Crown Prince has been demoted to a commoner, what should be done about the Crown Princess?"
The Emperor rubbed his temples and sat back down on his dragon throne: "Crown Princess... husband and wife are one, but..."
An Ning felt a tightness in her chest.
The Emperor said, "However, the Crown Princess is kind-hearted by nature and has suffered much humiliation since her marriage. She should not be implicated by the Crown Prince any further. I hereby grant you two the right to divorce. Su Yunyan, you are now free."
After a gloomy day, I finally received some good news.
Su Yunyan looked at An Ning, her joy evident in her eyes.
However, when she straightened her back and came out of Yangju Hall, looking at the surrounding walls, she suddenly felt empty inside.
As a discarded concubine, she would inevitably become the subject of gossip. If she returned to Yangzhou, she would be drowned in spittle from her relatives and neighbors. But if she didn't go back, she would be all alone in the capital. Where would she go?
"Sister Yunyan?"
A loud, carefree shout came from afar.
Su Yunyan didn't see the person, but she knew who it was: the one from Xiliang.
"Sister Wu Ying?"
Wu Ying walked over with a smile and said, "Everyone is here. We heard that you and the Crown Prince have divorced and you are free. Everyone is happy for you. We plan to hold a divorce banquet tonight!"
Su Yunyan was stunned: a divorce banquet? This was something she had never heard of or seen before.
"This, this is not good. I, I am free, but I don't know where to go. Looking back, there is nowhere for me to stay."
Wu Ying exclaimed, "Sister Yunyan, is this really a big deal? Come to my place, go to Xiliang, and I'll send you a letter. I guarantee they'll take good care of you and make you plump and healthy."
Qingyao walked over and grabbed Wuying's increasingly unruly hand: "This is not the place to talk. Let's go back to the palace to talk."
"good."
Bixiao Palace.
The room was packed with people.
Everyone was talking at once, offering suggestions to Su Yunyan.
"Sister Yunyan, let others say what they want. Life is for yourself. I never care what others say."
Lanxi rested her chin on her hand and blinked as she spoke.
Su Yunyan sighed: "I'm not like you. I've always been so carefree since I was little. I remember when I was a child, someone said that my face was chubby, and I endured it for a whole month without eating rice."
"Huh?" Xu Jiao'er looked at the crab roe pastry in disbelief and took another bite: "Food is essential for life, you can't go without it."
"Hahaha."
Everyone knows that Xu Jiao'er is a carefree foodie who doesn't worry about anything. She came today because she heard there would be a palace banquet tonight, where she could eat a lot of good food, so she begged the Fourth Prince to come.
"If you want me to, you should find a house in the capital and settle down. There are many business opportunities in the capital, and you might be able to do some small business."
After all this talk, Qingyao finally came up with a feasible solution.
Su Yunyan was somewhat apprehensive: "Me, myself? I don't know how, I've never done business before."
Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at the honeysuckle.
Their family is the richest in Youzhou, so doing business should be a piece of cake for them, right?
Jin Yinhua felt a little flustered under everyone's gaze and hurriedly said, "Although my family has always been in business, it's all been run by my father and my brothers. I only manage the spending; the rest..."
Hearing this, Su Yunyan lowered her head: "Never mind, I originally knew nothing and had no skills, so I'm sorry to have troubled everyone."
"Yunyan, don't say that. I... Although I've never run a proper business myself, I've learned a little bit from being around people since I was little. But I can't guarantee whether I can make money."
Su Yunyan's dim eyes lit up again:
"But I don't know what kind of business I can do."
Honeysuckle stroked her chin and said, "Then let's start with what you're good at. What are you good at?"
After pondering for a long time, Su Yunyan hesitated before asking, "Does embroidery count?"
Honeysuckle clapped her hands: "Of course it counts! In Youzhou, my brother runs a shop selling embroidery. Although he hasn't made a lot of money, he can still support himself. Do you want to give it a try?"
Su Yunyan was somewhat tempted, but lacked confidence: "Am I capable? I've never..."
Honeysuckle walked to Su Yunyan's side and took her hand: "It's just a shop, and the investment isn't that big. I'll cover the initial capital. If you make money, you can pay me back slowly. If you don't make money, I'll just consider it a failed investment. Anyway, you know I have plenty of money left."
After saying that, the girls looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Wu Ying reached out and pinched her butt: "I misspoke, you already have a Mr. Right~"
Honeysuckle blushed: "Oh, Wu Ying, you're being a pervert again."
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