"Speak your mind, or spit it out."
Xie Lingqin, however, had lost some patience, causing Liu Yunzhou's handsome face to fall slightly. "Um, I..."
"You can't marry Lanxiang now, at least not right now. The best way would be for you to find a place where no one knows about her and hide her away. But you're such a pedantic scholar, I'm afraid you can't do that. So... go back. I'll handle this."
"How do you plan to handle this?"
"I have already asked the Crown Prince to help me find a place. I will hand Lanxiang over to you after the news has calmed down."
"Your Highness..." Liu Yunzhou looked at Xie Lingqin, his lips moving as if he didn't know what to say.
"Alright, if you feel guilty, just give me a few tens of thousands of taels of silver. Anyway, your Liu family has plenty of money."
Liu Yunzhou choked for a moment, then glanced at Lanxiang secretly.
Lanxiang immediately lowered her head, feeling very guilty.
She was a woman who had long since forgotten the meaning of shyness. Yet, in such a life, she still met a man she loved, someone she had once laughably fallen for at first sight, making her heart flutter like a deer. This was something she had never expected, something she had never anticipated.
However, she couldn't give him any burden.
He is a cloud of impeccable reputation, pure as snow, and she cannot taint him.
"By the way, there's something else I need to tell you during this handover."
Liu Yunzhou thought for a moment, then took out a slip of paper from his sleeve and handed it over.
Zihe quickly stepped forward to take it and handed it to Xie Lingqin.
"This is……"
"This is..." Liu Yunzhou's voice lowered slightly, "It was given to me by Consort Shu from the palace before dawn today."
Xie Lingqin raised an eyebrow.
Consort Shu, Liu Yunzhou's cousin.
Aside from her role as Yan She, and Dong Lao's assistance in examining her unborn child, she and Yan She had no other interaction.
Xie Lingqin immediately opened the note.
The text consists of only a short line of characters, elegant and proud, written with slightly heavy strokes and stagnant ink, indicating that the writer was somewhat heavy-hearted at the time.
However, the content...
"Okay, I understand."
Xie Lingqin handed the note to Zihe, instructing her to crush it with her internal energy. Only then did her gaze fall back on Liu Yunzhou. "So, you're not leaving yet? Are you going to have breakfast here?"
"No, I'm leaving, I'm leaving now."
However, a storm is brewing.
Half an hour later, an imperial edict arrived from the palace, summoning Xie Lingqin to the palace to inquire about the recent investigations.
Judging from his tone, he was clearly accusing her.
Tridacna and Zihe both tensed up, but their young lady remained calm and composed. She instructed the two of them not to follow her before riding alone into the palace in a carriage.
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