Xiao Ding knew that his mother had not yet been executed by Xiao Sheng, so he went to plead with Xiao Sheng.
"Your Majesty, I wish to see my mother. Please grant me this favor." Xiao Ding knelt on the ground.
Xiao Ding learned the royal etiquette very well.
"Brother, it's not that I don't want you to see him, but I'm afraid that you'll be sad if you do!"
Xiao Ding cursed Xiao Sheng in his heart.
"A hypocrite, how could he possibly feel sad when he sees his own mother?"
"Your Majesty, I am not sad. Please let me see my mother!" Xiao Ding squeezed out tears.
"Little horse, take the Second Prince to see the deposed Empress Zhao Yunwan. The one in Shufang Pavilion."
Xiao Ding was puzzled. "The one in Shufang Pavilion? What does that mean?"
Little Ma led Xiao Ding to Shufang Pavilion.
Zhao Yunwan stood there, feeling restless.
When he saw Xiao Ding arrive, he didn't recognize him.
But he knew Little Horse.
"My lord, my lord, when will you let me go home? My mother is not well, and I'm afraid she won't be able to endure this winter!" Zhao Yunwan's voice was strange, like a woman's voice and a man's voice at the same time.
Xiao Ding looked at Zhao Yunwan in front of him and was surprised to find that she was not in shackles.
She can walk freely? Then why doesn't she go find him and her sister?
Xiao Ding called out "Mother" and threw himself into Zhao Yunwan's arms.
Zhao Yunwan saw it, but simply dodged it.
He dared not offend the children in the palace.
Xiao Ding fell to the ground.
This is so strange.
This is not his mother.
His mother never avoided him.
And this voice isn't his mother's voice either.
Only this body belongs to the mother.
Was Xiao Sheng playing a trick on him? Did he find someone who looked exactly like his mother to fill in?
"Whose child is this, rushing into my arms like that? I'm not even married yet, I don't have a child that big."
Xiao Ding stood there, stunned.
Where is his mother?
Seeing this, Xiao Ma helped Xiao Ding up and led him outside.
"Second Prince, let's go! Your mother, there's a problem here." Little Ma pointed to his head.
Xiao Ding was skeptical.
The way my mother acted just now clearly showed she was a completely different person.
Thinking of the methods my mother knew.
Could she have escaped using some other method again?
Leave someone who looks exactly like her here as a cover?
Xiao Ding felt a surge of joy.
Does this mean that my mother will contact me as soon as I go to the fiefdom?
With this in mind, Xiao Sheng returned to his palace.
Liang Qianfan requested an audience.
Xiao Ding thought this person was really unreliable, so he didn't meet him.
The palace servants angrily reprimanded Liang Qianfan and ordered him to break off the engagement.
Who is this palace maid? It is none other than Yinghong, Zhao Yunwan's personal maid.
After Zhao Yunwan was captured, Yinghong had a palace maid impersonate her and leave the palace, while she herself disguised herself and went to Chonghua Palace.
Zhao Yunwan instructed her to protect the Second Prince.
She dared not reveal her true face and could only stay by Xiao Ding's side like this.
Liang Qianfan was scolded by Xiao Ding's palace servants and returned home dejectedly.
Back home, Liang Jiamei cried and made a scene.
She was older than Xiao Ding and had no other merits besides her beauty.
They don't have brains.
She thought she was a phoenix, worthy of the best man in the world.
Her family originally wanted her to marry the Crown Prince to repay Zhao Yunshu for her kindness.
For some reason, Father's thoughts changed.
The empress became close to her and bestowed upon her many jewels and ornaments that she had never seen before.
The second prince also has a better reputation than the crown prince.
Liang Jiamei was immediately smitten.
But looking at it now, it turns out she really was destined to be an empress, but she missed the opportunity.
If she hadn't been won over by the Empress's sweet talk, she would have been the Crown Princess, the future Empress.
With a sigh, Liang Qianfan wrote a memorial to annul the engagement, knelt at the door of Prime Minister Wan, and asked Prime Minister Wan to deliver the memorial to the Emperor on his behalf.
Wan Nian accepted the memorial.
He glanced at Liang Qianfan.
"Qianfan, how could you be so foolish?"
"Lord Wan, I was bewitched back then and went astray. It's no use saying anything now; I can only reap the consequences of my mistakes!"
Liang Qianfan got up and walked away.
Wan Chengxiang shook his head repeatedly.
One wrong step leads to another, and there's no turning back.
Out of good intentions, Wan Nian handed the memorial to Xiao Sheng.
After reading it, Xiao Sheng wrote in red ink to annul the engagement with Xiao Ding.
When the news of the annulment of the engagement reached Chonghua Palace, Xiao Ding was a little happy, but mostly sad.
Another reliable force has been lost.
He is now just a prince in the palace, with no other status whatsoever.
The palace servants outwardly respected him, but the things Zhao Yunwan did had some influence on him.
After all, he was using the pretense of fighting for the throne for Xiao Ding. Although Xiao Ding himself did not personally do anything to fight for it, he was still the one who benefited.
Xiao Ding noticed the attitude of the people in the palace, so he rarely went out.
He spent his days reading and daydreaming in Chonghua Palace.
Huangfu Chuying's whereabouts are sometimes visible and sometimes hidden. The entire Nan Chen Kingdom is tracking her, but she always manages to escape at the crucial moment.
Xu Ningyou plans to personally go and arrest Huangfu Chuying after the New Year.
On the eve of Xiao Sheng's ascension to the throne, he visited Zhao Yunwan again, accompanied by Linghu Yao.
Xiao Sheng told Zhao Yunwan about Liang Jiamei and said that he had already broken off the engagement on Xiao Ding's behalf.
Xiao Ding has lost another source of support.
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