"Okay, everyone, please stand up. You are being so cautious. It seems like I am disturbing your interest." Gu Shichong said to everyone without any formalities.
"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Gong!"
Everyone knelt down to thank him, then stood up and only dared to take their seats after Prince Gong sat at the top seat.
Xue Zhentong, who had been following him all the time, was extremely flattering in his words and actions. He sat in the first seat below Prince Gong and chatted with him with a smile on his face.
Although Xue Zhiyi and Gu Shichong are engaged, they are actually not familiar with each other.
The main purpose of this marriage was to tie the Xue family and Prince Gong together tightly. In her previous life, Xue Zhiyi had always stayed quietly in her boudoir and had met Prince Gong only a few times, and all of them were at banquets like this one.
Compared to her and Prince Gong...
Xue Zhiyi glanced at Fu Rongxin who had her head lowered.
There seems to be a red thread between this real girl from the Xue family and her fiancé that is destined to be unbreakable.
In her previous life, Fu Rongxin was a concubine of the Fu family. Faced with Hu Shuixian's forced marriage, she escaped from home alone, but by chance she met Prince Gong.
Xue Zhiyi still clearly remembered that time when Fu Rongxin cried and begged her, saying that she and Prince Gong were truly in love, and hoped that when Xue Zhiyi became Prince Gong's wife one day, he would be able to give her a place to stay, even as the lowest concubine, as long as she could stay with Gu Shichong.
Xue Zhiyi had no romantic feelings for Prince Gong, and he and Fu Rong felt like sisters, so he agreed to her request.
However, although she and Prince Gong were not very familiar with each other, it did not mean that Gu Shichong did not owe her anything.
At that time, the Xue family had just encountered trouble, and Xue Zhiyi was fined and demoted to a prostitute and sent to Chunfeng Tower as a government prostitute.
At that time, she was worried about the safety of other members of the Xue family, and was unwilling to reveal their whereabouts even after being tortured.
Until one day, she escaped from Chunfeng Tower at night and knocked on the door of Prince Gong's Mansion, asking him to help find the other members of the Xue family because Xue Zhentong had followed him in the past.
But Prince Gong was preoccupied with his own affairs at that time and did not agree to her request. Instead, he ordered his men to send her back to Chunfeng Tower.
That time, Xue Zhiyi was almost beaten to death.
After that, she calmed down and agreed to the madam's request to receive customers.
Because only in this way can she have the opportunity to move among the powerful people in Huajin and secretly collect evidence that can clear the Xue family's grievances.
At that time, although she had witnessed the ruthlessness and ungratefulness of Prince Gong, the evidence in her hands all pointed to his political enemy, Prince Sheng, which Gu Shichong would need.
As long as the evidence is handed over to Gu Shichong, the Xue family will have hope of clearing their grievances.
Later, this evidence became the key for Prince Gong to turn the situation around and overthrow Prince Sheng.
But even so, Xue Zhiyi, who was in Chunfeng Tower, did not wait for any turning point.
Both the Prince Gong party and the Xue family abandoned her.
It was then that she learned that when she first asked Prince Gong for help, Prince Gong had actually already secretly hidden the Xue family and properly settled them.
And at that time, Gu Shichong actually already knew the identity of Fu Rongxin's true phoenix.
It turns out that the only one who was kept in the dark and used from the beginning to the end was this poor scapegoat...
Perhaps the hatred in Xue Zhiyi's eyes was too glaring, causing Prince Gong to follow her gaze and face her head-on.
Xue Zhiyi quickly lowered her head. But her eyes grew colder: she had been reborn in this life and was determined to personally destroy Gu Shichong's dream of becoming an emperor.
With her around, Gu Shichong can't be the emperor, and Fu Rongxin can't be the queen!
"Brother Prince Gong, what are you daydreaming about?" Princess Anle's words drew Gu Shichong's attention back.
Prince Gong tutted softly, "Can't you just sit back and enjoy some snacks and tea? Why do you always pester me to talk?"
"Who's bothering you?" The master of Anle County had clever eyes. "I'm asking you, where's my second brother?"
"Your second brother?" Prince Gong looked around and didn't see the person he was looking for, so he said, "You know Huo Wuyou very well. He hates joining in the crowds. Who knows where he is lazing around right now?"
"It's so boring. I haven't seen him all day." Princess Anle muttered, holding her cheek. After that, she stood up and said, "Chai Yue, I want to go find him."
The female official named Chai Yue was wearing an official robe and looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. She had a pretty face with a cold air and her thin lips were pursed in a serious manner.
She said yes, and then shouted to the palace maids and ladies-in-waiting behind her: "Princess, please set off!"
Princess Anle's face puffed up even more: "I'm just strolling around, there's no need for such a big fuss."
She put her hands on her hips and pointed at a few people at random: "You guys just follow me from a distance. As for the rest of you, I will show you mercy and let you go and have fun on your own! Otherwise, it would be so boring if you all followed me."
Upon hearing this, Chai Yue lowered her head and said, "Yes."
So, Princess Anle left the table in such a grand manner and started strolling around the Xue family's courtyard.
After seeing the princess off, in the garden, even though all the guests had gathered there, everyone still gathered in groups of three or four with people they knew to play chess, drink tea, or play mahjong.
However, the seats in the octagonal pavilion were given to Prince Gong and several high-ranking officials from the court who visited today, so these girls had no choice but to move their seats outside the octagonal pavilion.
Their position was neither too far nor too close, just enough for them to see what was going on inside the octagonal pavilion, but they couldn't hear clearly what they were talking about.
At this time, Miss Lin from the Censor's family suddenly suggested, "We have nothing to do anyway. Look at the different flower lots on the table. Why don't we draw lots and play a piece of music based on the theme of the lot we draw?"
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