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Night fell quickly, Luo Xue left the palace, and Leng Ming did not enter the palace to confess his crime and disappeared.
Yongping came to Xingnan's room and heard the door open. Xingnan sat up with a grunt. When she saw Yongping, she asked anxiously:
"Big sister-in-law, you...where have you been?"
She spent the entire afternoon waiting for Brother Ning to come and explain to her, but after waiting for a long time, she didn't even see a shadow of a person.
Yongping came and sat on the round stool beside her bed, looking at her with a sad face.
"Xingnan, do you know why the emperor sent us over this morning?"
Xingnan shook his head vigorously, "I don't know."
Yongping breathed a sigh of relief.
"I've been thinking a lot just now. Now that you're pregnant with Ning's child, I think it's better for you two to be together..."
"Really?"
Upon hearing this, Xingnan was so excited that she didn't know what to do. As long as the Empress Dowager nodded in agreement, she would go to Brother Ning and he would definitely agree.
Unexpectedly, Yongping sighed and continued:
"But...but the Emperor is already planning to give you to the recently divorced Prince Ming, and make you his consort."
What?
Xingnan's face turned from sunny to gloomy, she frowned and looked at Yongping,
"Sister-in-law, how is this possible? Prince Ming and Princess Ming have a very good relationship. If it weren't for Prince Ming's mother interfering, how could they possibly divorce? They would definitely be a happy couple. Now asking me to marry him, isn't this sincerely making me the villain? Besides, I won't marry Prince Ming. I won't marry anyone else except Brother Ning."
Although Yongping was very angry when he heard Xingnan's last words, he still tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart and nodded calmly.
"I thought so too, so I replied to the Emperor on your behalf, saying that you are ill and it is not appropriate to talk about these things. The Emperor will come to see you in person later, so you must not let the Empress Dowager know about this, otherwise, the Empress Dowager will be guilty of deceiving the Emperor."
Seeing that the emperor's sister-in-law was willing to consider him, Xingnan immediately gave her a big smile.
"Sister-in-law, you are so kind. How about this? When the Emperor comes, I will pretend to be very sick, so that he will not give me to Prince Ming."
Yongping looked at her in a very awkward manner.
"Pretend to be sick? Can you fake it?"
Xingnan couldn't help but secretly curl her lips. She pretended to be pregnant and the emperor's sister-in-law didn't suspect her. Wouldn't it be even easier to pretend to have caught a cold?
Thinking of this, she nodded heavily.
"Don't worry, my dear sister-in-law. This is a piece of cake for me. By the way, do you really agree that Brother Ning and I should be together? Then I will go tell him the good news right now."
"Xingnan, you're a girl, you should be more calm when doing things. Besides, if you go out now, what if you run into someone close to the emperor? Wouldn't it be discovered that the emperor's sister-in-law lied? If that happens, not only will the emperor convict me of deceiving the emperor, he might even send you directly to Prince Ming's mansion to get married. You'd better stay quiet."
Xingnan nodded in understanding.
"What the Empress Dowager said makes sense. I'll listen to you and stay here. I won't go anywhere. But you have to promise me that after this is over, you'll go find Brother Ning and ask him to come see me. He's such a stubborn guy. I went to see him this morning, but he ignored me. If the Empress Dowager doesn't want to be with us, you have to stand by me. I've made up my mind. I'm not going to marry anyone but him."
Yongping's brows furrowed even tighter because of this, but she had already made up her mind to resolve today's matter first. As long as the queen died, everything would fall into place. Even if Xingnan was unwilling, there was no other way. At worst, she could just talk to her slowly and reasonably!
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Night fell quickly. Ah Hong had just finished delivering food to Luo Lan when she was stopped by a girl who came running over.
"Miss Ah Hong, the Emperor wants you to come over. He said there's something urgent."
Ah Hong looked back at Fengyi Palace and said with some embarrassment:
"But...but Miss Acai is not here, and the other girls have gone to dinner. I was thinking that I could just stay here by myself. If I leave now, what will happen to this place?"
Seeing this, the girl volunteered to step forward.
"I'll stay here for you. Miss Acai will be back soon anyway."
"But……"
"Please don't worry. The Emperor seems to be in a hurry. What if you go too late and cause delays?"
Seeing this, Ah Hong nodded hurriedly.
"Then you will guard here for me. Remember, no one can enter and disturb the Queen."
"I know, you can go without worry."
Ah Hong turned around with secret delight and walked away with big strides.
As soon as Ah Hong left, the maid looked around and saw that there was no one around. Then she made a gesture and a moment later, Yongning came over with a maid, holding a bowl of medicine.
After looking at her, the girl nodded slightly, then raised her voice and asked:
"Princess Yongning, what are you doing? Miss Ahong just ordered that no one is allowed to enter."
"This princess went to deliver medicine to the Queen. She probably forgot to tell you that the Queen took this medicine yesterday, so she can't stop taking it today. Get out of the way immediately. If you delay the Queen from taking the medicine, you will die."
"I dare not. Princess Yongning, please come in."
Yongning rolled his eyes at her, turned around, took the medicine bowl from the maid, and instructed her:
"Guard here. No one is allowed to come in. Don't disturb the Queen."
"I understand."
After receiving the response from the maid, Yongning took small steps and walked quickly towards Fengyi Palace.
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