Pei Wenxuan listened to this, his expression unchanged, looking at Su Ronghua coldly, only Gu Chusheng and Pei Wenxuan were completely different, Gu Chusheng could not reconcile, it was he who really hurt Chu Yu. And Pei Wenxuan, from beginning to end, except for hiding the fact that Li Rong helped Qin Zhenzhen, he actually did not hurt Li Rong at all. Li Rong gave him one point, he returned one point to Li Rong, Li Rong gave him ten points, he returned ten points to Li Rong. "Lord Su, you know what you did just now, isn't this slap undeserved?"

Su Ronghua was confused when he saw Pei Wenxuan asking with a clear conscience: "What did I do?"

"Your Highness is a precious person, but Lord Su actually coaxed Your Highness to jump from such a high place. What if he falls?!"

"That one," Li Rong could tell Pei Wenxuan was angry, so she pulled him aside and said, "I want to dance this one."

"Then he won't stop?" Pei Wenxuan became even angrier when he saw Li Rong was still trying to speak for Su Ronghua. "You are the king and he is the subject. If you make a fuss, he will follow suit!"

"You also said it," Su Ronghua immediately replied, "She is the king and I am the subject. If she wants to jump, I will take over. Can I go against her words?"

"you……"

"Stop arguing," Li Rong saw that the two were about to quarrel, and quickly interrupted them, saying to Pei Wenxuan, "It's urgent to find someone, let's go first."

As she spoke, Li Rong grabbed Pei Wenxuan's hand and dragged him out.

Pei Wenxuan wanted to argue with Su Ronghua, but when he saw Li Rong glaring at him, he calmed down a little. He felt that it was really inappropriate to quarrel like that, so he followed Li Rong out. Just as they reached the door, Pei Wenxuan suddenly stopped, looked down, and then turned back.

Li Rong followed his gaze and discovered the problem. There was a grassy path on the road they walked out of the yard, and there were only the footprints of the two of them on this grassy path, so it was obvious that no one had walked there before.

They both looked up at Su Ronghua, and there was a straw frame upside down behind Su Ronghua, which was very conspicuous in the haystack, and the short branches next to the haystack had traces of being broken, obviously someone had stepped on them just now.

Li Rong immediately walked towards Su Ronghua, who smiled and asked, "Your Highness, why are you back again?"

Li Rong ignored him and walked towards the straw frame. Su Ronghua raised his hand to stop him, but Pei Wenxuan quickly stopped him and said, "Brother Su, I'm sorry."

Just as she finished speaking, Li Rong had already grabbed the edge of the straw frame. She raised her hand and pulled it upwards, but the straw frame stayed firmly on the ground without any movement.

Li Rong narrowed her eyes: "Shangguan Ya, let go."

Shangguan Ya's voice was deliberately changed from inside: "What is this young lady doing? Why is she pulling my straw frame?"

"Shangguan Ya," Li Rong confirmed that it was Shangguan Ya inside. She stood up and kicked the straw frame. "I have something to talk to you about. Come out and talk."

There was silence for a moment. Pei Wenxuan guessed Shangguan Ya's concern and immediately said, "Don't worry, Miss Shangguan. We are not here to arrest you on behalf of the Shangguan Mansion."

Hearing this, Shangguan Ya decisively lifted the straw frame, stood up and said, "Why have you been chasing me for so long? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

As she spoke, she turned to Li Rong, raised her hand respectfully and said with a bit of flirtation, "I have met your Highness."

Li Rong looked at the energetic girl in front of her and felt a little complicated for a moment. Shangguan Ya in front of her was very beautiful. She was wearing a men's suit of servant clothes with her hair loose. She stood in front of her leisurely, with a demeanor that was rare among ordinary people.

Pei Wenxuan saw Li Rong was stunned. He walked behind her, coughed lightly, and said to Shangguan Ya, "Why don't we move over and talk?"

Shangguan Ya nodded and raised her hand, saying, "Please."

Shangguan Ya turned around and bowed to Su Ronghua: "Thank you, Mr. Su, see you another day. But..."

Shangguan Ya signaled Su Ronghua with her eyes, and Su Ronghua smiled: "Don't worry, I will keep it a secret."

He looked at Shangguan Ya with a smile, and said, "See you another day."

Shangguan Ya nodded, walked to the side, picked up the headscarf that had fallen on the ground, tied up her hair, and led Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan to a tea room in a familiar manner.

Jucai Hall was favored by dignitaries not only because it was strictly managed and difficult to enter, but also because as a casino it had everything and was very convenient.

The three of them sat down in the tea room, Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan sat on one side, and Shangguan Ya sat alone on the other.

Li Rong fanned herself in the palm of her hand, while Shangguan Ya raised her hand to fix her hair. Pei Wenxuan saw that the two girls were silent, so he poured tea and exchanged pleasantries: "How long has Miss Shangguan been in Beijing?"

"They came two days before your wedding."

Shangguan Ya smiled and looked at Li Rong: "Your Highness and I are cousins. I came to Beijing specifically to watch the ceremony. I felt sorry that I couldn't personally congratulate Your Highness. I didn't expect to see Your Highness here today."

Shangguan Ya was still as strong as in Li Rong's memory, and she got straight to the point: "I wonder what you want to talk to me about, His Highness, that has you looking for me so anxiously?"

"Sister Ya should be seventeen this year, right?" Pei Wenxuan handed a teacup to Li Rong and then a cup of tea to Shangguan Ya.

Shangguan Ya nodded and said, "Just one month."

"After I got married, my mother started to worry about Chuan'er's marriage. What does Miss Shangguan think about this?"

Shangguan Ya paused when she heard this. She thought for a moment and then laughed, "So Your Highness came here for this matter. Your Highness wants to discuss the Crown Prince's marriage?"

"Yes." Li Rong said directly without beating around the bush, "I heard that the Shangguan family's choice for the Crown Princess is you."

"Your Highness, are you dissatisfied with your coming here today?" Shangguan Ya bent one leg, picked up the teacup, and turned to look at Li Rong.

"I……"

"But it doesn't matter," Shangguan Ya put down the cup and smiled softly, "The Shangguan family has plenty of girls. If Your Highness is not satisfied with Aya, just tell my father directly. There is also a sister named Awen coming to Huajing this time. As long as she is from the Shangguan family," Shangguan Ya turned her head away, with a bit of sarcasm in her eyes, "You can choose."

Li Rong frowned. She could hear the dissatisfaction in Shangguan Ya's tone. After a pause, she slowly said, "It's not that I think you are incapable, but the Shangguan family has been the queen for three generations."

Li Rong looked up at Shangguan Ya and asked seriously, "Are you not afraid, sister?"

Shangguan Ya turned to look at Li Rong and put away her smile: "What do you mean?"

"Chuan'er and I are both from the Shangguan family, so we will naturally support the Shangguan family unconditionally. But if you marry Chuan'er, what do you think His Majesty will think?"

"Your Highness, what you said is interesting," Shangguan Ya said with a cold look in her eyes, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is from the Shangguan family, isn't he the current emperor?"

"Kechuan'er ruled the country with benevolence and virtue, and only sought peace and stability. Is that what the current emperor does?"

Li Rong knew that Shangguan Ya was not completely ignorant of state affairs, so she reminded Shangguan Ya, "Why do you think the Yang family disappeared?"

Shangguan Ya didn't say anything. She held the teacup and took a sip. Li Rong continued, "The Shangguan family and Chuan'er are already very close. In fact, there is no need for you to enter the palace to consolidate this relationship. Marriage now would be too ostentatious for His Majesty."

"So what you mean is," Shangguan Ya looked at Li Rong seriously, "Your Majesty wants to take action against Your Highness now?"

Li Rong remained silent, Shangguan Ya continued, "Your words are useless to me. This matter is not for me to decide, and I am just living happily until they decide. Your Highness," Shangguan Ya raised her hand and raised the cup with tea instead of wine, "If you say this, I have to leave."

Having said that, Shangguan Ya finished her tea, placed it on the table, and then stood up and left.

Before she walked out of the door, she suddenly leaned back halfway and said nervously, "Your Highness, you must not tell anyone else about your encounter with me here today."

Li Rong got a headache when she heard this and waved her hand, telling her to get out quickly.

After Shangguan Ya left, Pei Wenxuan sat next to Li Rong. He drank a sip of tea and said with a smile, "It seems that it is useless to start with Shangguan Ya."

"not necessarily."

Li Rong stood up and walked out, saying calmly, "She will consider it."

If she knew Shangguan Ya, her old friend, Shangguan Ya would most likely think of a way to deal with it if these words got out.

As long as Shangguan Ya starts thinking of a solution, she will help.

Li Rong thought about this while walking out with Pei Wenxuan. Pei Wenxuan saw that Li Rong looked depressed and couldn't help but ask, "You don't seem very happy?"

"Not really," Li Rong laughed, rather helplessly, "I just suddenly realized that, in fact, many things in my previous life seemed unclear to me."

"For example, Shangguan Ya?" Pei Wenxuan clasped his hands in his sleeves, his expression showing some clarity.

Li Rong didn't say anything. She thought of Shangguan Ya in her previous life.

In her previous life, when Shangguan Ya met this man, she was already the Crown Princess.

At that time, she wore brightly colored palace clothes every day to cover her eyes and eyebrows. She was well-behaved, sensible, elegant, and graceful. Only occasionally in private would she have a few moments of unbridled behavior.

She had always thought that Shangguan Ya was a flower born and raised in the palace, but when she saw Shangguan Ya's bright eyes today, she suddenly realized that Shangguan Ya at that time seemed to be a person who had stepped into a coffin with one foot. From the moment she entered the palace, she had used the coffin board to press herself inside.

Thinking about Shangguan Ya's bright eyes, she turned around and said, "By the way," she suddenly remembered, "you seem to know that she has this temper?"

"I don't know if she has this temper," Pei Wenxuan squinted at her, "but I know she is definitely not a simple lady from a wealthy family. I'm not surprised by what she does."

"Oh?" Li Rong was quite curious, "What interactions did you have with her in your previous life?"

"I have nothing in common with her, but I do have something in common with you." Pei Wenxuan said directly, "What kind of lady from a rich family could your friend be?"

Li Rong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then raised her hand and hit him with her fan: "What do you mean?"

When Pei Wenxuan saw her fan coming towards him, he quickly dodged. When Li Rong saw him dodging backwards, she couldn't help but feel itchy for some reason, so she chased after him and pinched him.

Pei Wenxuan dodged and retreated, yelling, "A gentleman uses words, not fists. Have some manners. Hey, stop pinching your waist... Oh, I'm dying, I'm dying."

Li Rong saw Pei Wenxuan pretending to wail and leaning against the pillar. She couldn't help laughing and stopped, saying, "Why are you so childish?"

"How dare you ask me that?"

Pei Wenxuan leaned against the pillar and looked at Li Rong with a smile: "You are eighteen years old this year, are you the reincarnation of a monkey spirit?"

Li Rong froze. When Pei Wenxuan said this, she suddenly remembered the chase she and Shangguan Ya had today. She felt a little embarrassed for a moment. She didn't know what was wrong with her. After being back for a long time, especially when seeing old friends, her mentality seemed to be more and more like a little girl.

Pei Wenxuan saw Li Rong embarrassed, he chuckled.