After a passionate lovemaking, both of them lay on the bed, panting and motionless. Pei Wenxuan wanted to hug her, but Li Rong pushed him away with some disdain, saying, "I'm sweating."

Pei Wenxuan smiled and did nothing. Li Rong reacted and wondered if her attitude was too tough, so she turned sideways and gently rested her head on Pei Wenxuan's shoulder. Pei Wenxuan raised his hand and put it behind his head, and asked her, "Does it hurt?"

"No." Li Rong closed her eyes and rested, but her body was sticky and she wanted to sleep but was drowsy. She felt too lazy to get up. Pei Wenxuan saw that she was sleeping restlessly and knew the reason. He got up, put on his clothes, went out, asked someone to fetch some water, and wiped her body dry.

Li Rong accepted his service lazily and finally fell asleep feeling satisfied.

The two of them slept for the whole afternoon. When they woke up, they did not receive the divorce decree. Li Rong could not help but poke Pei Wenxuan with her elbow: "Father, you haven't given the order yet. Are you lying to me?"

"Did I lie to you about this?"

Pei Wenxuan laughed and thought for a moment: "He probably has other considerations."

"So what do we need to do?"

Pei Wenxuan didn't say anything. He thought for a moment and said slowly, "I'll have someone forge a confession from Hongde. You go to the Inspection Office later and meet Hongde. After you go, you can dismiss everyone and leave only you and Hongde in there. When you come out, take the confession with you and say you got it. After you get the confession, you can write a letter and put the confession and the letter together and submit them together."

"But a fabricated confession is always false," Li Rong frowned. "Even if we submit it, we'll know once we examine it."

"Don't worry about that," Pei Wenxuan smiled, "I have my own arrangements. You only need to do one thing."

"What?"

"I absolutely believe that this confession is true."

Li Rong thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and nodded. Although she didn't know what Pei Wenxuan was planning, she was willing to believe him once.

In her experience, when two people are doing something, there must be someone taking the lead; if they each think of their own ways, the whole thing will fail.

Pei Wenxuan was delighted to see Li Rong agreed so easily, "Your Highness, won't you ask a few more questions?"

"You have your own plans."

Li Rong waved her hands. After hearing what Li Rong said, Pei Wenxuan lowered his head and kissed her: "You are so good."

Pei Wenxuan stood up and put on his clothes, saying as he did so, "There is no time to waste. I will go and make arrangements right away. Your Highness, please take a rest first. I will come to you after I get the confession."

"Um."

Li Rong nodded. Pei Wenxuan put on his clothes and saw her lying on the bed in a daze. He didn't know what she was thinking about. He couldn't help but tell her again: "Don't just sleep on the bed. Hurry up and eat."

"knew."

Li Rong responded lazily, thinking that this man was a jerk.

"Also, don't drink anything cold recently, and don't touch anything that pregnant women shouldn't touch. Although the chances of getting sick are low, it's still a good idea to be on the safe side."

"You think too highly of yourself." Li Rong sneered, "Can you get it right in one try?"

Pei Wenxuan felt a little embarrassed by her mockery. He grabbed his coat, walked to the bed, bent down and kissed Li Rong who was lying on the bed, and said gently, "I'm leaving first."

Li Rong was a little annoyed by him talking about whether to leave or not for so long, but she still controlled her temper and said, "Yes."

Pei Wenxuan stood up and walked out. When he reached the door, he felt a little cold. He couldn't help but turned back: "Please put on more clothes when you go out. Now it's..."

"Get lost!"

Li Rong finally couldn't control herself and spoke impatiently. Pei Wenxuan knew from her voice that she was annoyed. After thinking about it, he felt that he was meddling too much, so he turned around and left without delaying any more.

Hongde drew talismans and wrote spells for many people, but his calligraphy was not available, so he asked a master who specialized in imitating calligraphy to make a copy for him. Although the copy could not stand up to scrutiny, it still looked pretty close.

At night, Pei Wenxuan brought back a confession and handed it to Li Rong. Li Rong glanced at the confession and found that Hongde's entire confession was that Su Rongqing personally went to the Huguo Temple and used his power to force him to deceive Concubine Rou and bear false witness to frame Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan.

This confession completely cleared Concubine Rou of all charges, making it easier for Li Ming to take action.

Li Rong looked at the confession quietly. Pei Wenxuan's eyes turned colder when he saw that she didn't say anything, but the smile on his face was still as warm as the spring breeze, without any trace of gloom. He only said softly: "If Your Highness feels that it is inappropriate, then I will change another confession that Your Highness thinks is appropriate?"

Li Rong paused for a moment, then shook her head gently: "No, there's nothing wrong."

As she said this, she put the confession into her sleeve and asked again, "Is there anything else you need to remind me of?"

"No, everything has been arranged." Pei Wenxuan chuckled, "Just go early and come back early."

Li Rong nodded, then got up and went out. She rushed to the Inspection Office and brought Hongde out.

After a few days in prison, Hongde no longer looked like the monk he was before. He looked haggard and pitiful. When he saw Li Rong, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Your Highness, I was also deceived by someone. Please let me go."

Li Rong asked everyone to leave and sat on a chair. She looked calm and waved her fan gently, saying, "You said someone seduced you. Who seduced you?"

Hongde was stunned when he heard this. Li Rong poured him some tea and soothed him, "Come on, talk slowly."

Hongde was silent for a long time, and then he said slowly: "I...I don't know either."

"You said someone was tempting you, but you said you didn't know?" Li Rong laughed, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

"No, Your Highness," Hongde said quickly, "I really don't know. I only know that a young man came to Huguo Temple that night and summoned me back. I have no idea who that young man is. I haven't even seen the faces of his guards. But he kidnapped my son, so I can't do anything."

"You have a son?" Li Rong was a little surprised, then she realized that with Hongde's personality, it was not surprising that he raised a woman and had a son after wandering outside for so many years.

But she didn't know about this, but the other party did.

But think about it, he was actually the one who handled many things back then, so it's normal that he knows more details than she does.

Just thinking about it, she felt an indescribable nausea and pain rolling up at the same time. Li Rong lowered her eyes, stroked the small golden fan in her hand, and asked slowly: "Then what?"

"He tied me up, put me in a carriage, and told me that he was going to tell everyone that you wanted to postpone the Crown Prince's wedding. I... I wasn't lying, was I?"

"You are lying."

Li Rong looked at him coldly: "I have never done such a thing."

Hongde was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, "Yes, yes, your highness has never asked anyone to look for me. No matter what, your highness, I really have no way to deal with this matter. I hope your highness will be magnanimous and forgive me."

"I'm a magnanimous person. Okay," Li Rong nodded, "if you are willing to do as I say."

Hongde looked up at Li Rong, and Li Rong smiled and said, "Is it Su Rongqing who asked you to do these things?"

"Su Rongqing?" Hongde responded, "The eldest son of the Su family?"

Li Rong nodded, and Hongde laughed: "Your Highness, what's the difference between this and asking me to die?"

"So you don't want to?"

Hongde didn't say anything, but Li Rong understood that Hongde listened to Su Rongqing because his son was in his hands. Now she had nothing to threaten him, and he was the only one who lived. With his identity, he had just identified Su Rongqing, and the Su family would not forgive him. Since they were all going to die, he probably didn't want to cause trouble.

After all, he didn't know who had the child.

Li Rong looked at Hongde without any fear, she smiled lightly, and simply sat down and chatted with Hongde casually.

Hongde responded to Li Rong carefully. He had served many dignitaries over the years, and he talked to Li Rong for a while.

Li Rong knew him inside and out, especially the dirty things he had done. Hongde didn't really want to harm anyone. He simply liked money and told countless lies in order to cheat people out of money.

Li Rong asked him how he cheated people with a respectful look on his face. Hongde also knew that he might not live long, and Li Rong also knew his background, so she started to show off.

Li Rong listened carefully to his past and couldn't help but frown: "You deceived so many people and harmed so many people. Don't you feel guilty?"

Hongde paused while drinking tea. After a moment, he suddenly laughed: "Then Your Highness, don't you feel guilty?"

"What am I guilty of?"

Li Rong frowned, and Hongde drank a sip of tea: "I later became a monk, made some money, read a lot of books, and learned a saying, 'When you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace.' There are many people like me in this world, especially among the ruffians, I am still considered good."

"You haven't seen those who kill for a few ounces of silver," Hong De laughed sarcastically, "That's what we call evil. If there are only one or two people like me, we can say that we are born evil, but if there are more...are there so many bad people in this world?"

"You always ask us why we do evil, why don't you ask yourself why we do good?"

Li Rong listened to these words without any change in her expression. If she were young, she would probably sneer at them, thinking that a good person is a good person even if he is in the mud, and a bad person is always a bad person. However, she doesn't think so now. If someone can stay out of the mud without getting stained, he is a saint. But how many saints are there in this world?

She didn't say much. She looked at the sky outside and saw that it was getting late, so she stood up, asked someone to leave some tea for him, and then went out.

After returning to the princess's residence, Pei Wenxuan was not in the room. Li Rong couldn't help but feel a little strange. She looked at Jinglan making the bed, then turned to ask Jingmei who was washing her feet, "Where is the prince consort?"

"The Prince Consort has moved out of the inner courtyard."

Jingmei raised her head and said with some worry: "He said you know the reason, and I dare not ask more. Your Highness, are you two arguing again?"

The conflicts between the princess and her husband in the princess's mansion happen every other day, and the servants are exhausted.

Li Rong thought about it and understood what Pei Wenxuan meant. Since Pei Wenxuan had asked Li Ming for a divorce, he had to pretend even if Li Ming didn't issue an edict now. There were countless informants in the princess's mansion. They could guarantee the inner court was full of their trusted people, but if the two of them were fine, and the news got out, it was hard to guarantee that Li Ming would be suspicious again.

So Li Rong nodded, without saying anything more, and wrote the memorial word by word at night, and put it away together with the confession. When Pei Wenxuan and Li Rong met in the morning of the next day, Pei Wenxuan had a cold face and Li Rong smiled. When they walked out side by side, Pei Wenxuan whispered, "Have you finished writing the memorial?"

"alright."

Li Rong responded: "Don't worry."

Li Rong handed the memorial over that day.

According to the procedure, unless there are special circumstances, memorials are generally submitted to the Memorial Hall, where they are reviewed by officials and sorted out according to their severity and urgency before being submitted to the emperor for approval.

Li Rong's memorial was brought to the memorial hall. She did not mark it with the red word "urgent", so she had to wait for the officials' approval along with other ordinary memorials.

While Li Rong was waiting, Pei Wenxuan lived separately from Li Rong.

Pei Wenxuan lived in the outer courtyard and Li Rong lived in the inner courtyard. Except for going to court together in the morning and pretending to be a couple, they seemed to have really quarreled.

This news reached Li Ming's ears. Li Ming listened without saying anything. After a long time, he sighed and said, "Let them be."

Fulai listened to Li Ming's tone and asked carefully, "What about the imperial edict that Your Majesty mentioned before?"

"Let's wait and see." Li Ming thought, "A good woman should never marry again. If we can save the marriage, there is no need to..."

Li Ming thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait and see."

When Li Ming heard the news, he was relieved a lot, but it was hard for Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan.

The two had just gotten married and had been happy for less than a year in their previous life. They had finally made up for it in this life, but were stuck here again. As a result, the two couldn't sleep at night. The only time they could be alone was in the carriage, but they were afraid of lighting a fire and not being able to put it out, which would be even more troublesome, so they could only drink water and talk about business all the way.

After two days of torment, Li Rong finally got used to it. She had dinner alone and went back to her room out of boredom. But just as she pushed the door open, someone grabbed her mouth and pressed her against the door.

Li Rong smelled Pei Wenxuan's usual scent and knew who was coming without even looking up.

She didn't know why, but her heart beat faster and she couldn't help swallowing.

She guessed that Pei Wenxuan probably couldn't help but come to find her.

She didn't know whether she should be more reserved, or be more cooperative, or whether she should reprimand him for taking risks for such a thing.

As she was hesitating, she heard Pei Wenxuan lower his voice and said anxiously, "The memorial you left in the memorial hall has been taken away. Hurry and go to the palace before they can react."

“It’s time to start.”