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After eating breakfast, the emperor saw that the Prince Zhan was determined to drag him to the empress dowager's "seat." Helplessly, he forced himself to play a few games of chess with the Prince Zhan.

The empress dowager was very happy. Although the Prince Zhan just sat there indifferently, the emperor had a helpless expression on his face.

In a blink of an eye, Prince Zhan accompanied the empress dowager for lunch. When she thought about how Qin Ruxue would also accompany the empress dowager to the palace in the afternoon, the empress dowager's mood became even better.

"I have matters to attend to today, so I won't be keeping the empress dowager company." After Prince Zhan finished his lunch, he suddenly looked like he had something to do, and wanted to leave in a hurry.

The emperor and empress dowager looked at each other. It wasn't that the Prince Zhan was full of filial piety this year and had come early in the morning, but he had some matters to attend to this year …

Although the empress dowager was unwilling, she didn't say anything in the end. The emperor, on the other hand, had a mischievous smile on his face as he asked the Prince Zhan, "Chu Xiuhan, you brat, don't tell me you have an appointment with a beautiful woman?"

The Prince Zhan naturally ignored the emperor's teasing. After sitting for a while, he left the palace.

The empress dowager pondered for a moment before asking the emperor, "Han'er, do you have a beautiful woman you'd like to meet?"

The Emperor answered vaguely, "I was just teasing him. I heard that he is ranked first among the thousands of young ladies in Shangjing City that want to marry him. How could he lack some beautiful woman?"

She cast a sidelong glance at the emperor, "Don't think that I'm too old to know, but it's just that Nangong Waner from the Assistant Minister’s Residence s of the Ministry of Public Administration. The Wind Criticism is not very good, and a while ago there was a marriage with Xiao Ze from the Minister of Industry's office, and there were rumors about some plans he had to spend the rest of his life with a man. The empress dowager said the last words with some vehemence.

When the emperor heard the empress dowager's rage, he hurriedly and observably pinched the empress dowager's shoulders, "Empress Dowager, those are just rumors. When did you become so gossipy? In my opinion, she is very compatible with Chu Xiuhan. "

The empress dowager couldn't be bothered to reply to the emperor, but continued to speak with a cold snort. The last time you entered the palace, you saw a child who came from a small family didn't even have a foundation. How can he help the Prince Zhan's Mansion to spread the leaves and manage the backyard? "

The emperor looked at the empress dowager and muttered under his breath, "Chu Xiuhan's personality is already good enough to marry one, and he's even managing the backyard. How could he have three wives and four concubines?"

The emperor also wasn't used to it. After sitting with the empress dowager for a while, he still couldn't sit still. Not long later, Qin Ruxue dejectedly walked into the empress dowager's sleeping quarters.

The emperor happily found an excuse and slipped away, leaving the empress dowager with Qin Ruxue.

"What happened to my Snow? It's a festival, why is your expression so bad? Could it be that it's frozen? " The empress dowager pulled Qin Ruxue away, and the anger she showed to the emperor disappeared immediately. Instead, she looked at Qin Ruxue benevolently and asked this.

"No, no." Qin Ruxue explained in embarrassment, but the more he explained, the more he seemed to be concealing it.

"Aunt, when Ru Xue entered the palace, she ran into Prince Zhang at the entrance. It's just that he …" Qin Ruxue suddenly lowered her head, there seemed to be a lot of dew hidden under her eyelashes, it was a little bright.

How could the empress dowager not know? It must be because the Prince Zhan's cold face chilled Qin Ruxue's heart yet again.

When the Prince Zhan was young, she had always been good to Qin Ruxue. In this palace, she would always bring along Little Sister Xue wherever she went, but when she woke up thirteen years ago, she had completely changed. The empress dowager thought that she had only been stimulated a little, and would need to slowly recuperate.

"Aunt, what happened thirteen years ago? Why did the Prince Zhang's personality have such a drastic change? It had already been thirteen years … "He still isn't my Brother Han …" Qin Ruxue supported himself onto the empress dowager's leg and cried out a few times.

When the empress dowager heard Qin Ruxue's words, the hand that was touching Qin Ruxue's head suddenly stopped. "Thirteen years ago …" The Empress Dowager, however, could not continue.

"Yeah, I owe Han-Er, and I owe Hanxue." The empress dowager murmured in a voice that even Qin Ruxue could not hear.

For some reason, after exiting the empress dowager's palace, the emperor felt very stifled as he looked at the circular walls. "What does this bustling palace have to do with me?" When the Emperor finished looking at the depressed city walls, he started to walk under the rows of lanterns. "I suddenly feel a little envious of that brat Chu Xiuhan.

Furthermore, Prince Zhan had indeed returned to the Duke Palaces in the afternoon, and the butler of the Duke Palaces had also reported on the matter of the Lord Assistant Minister s coming to deliver the Boxing Ceremony in the afternoon. He had also carefully made a list of all the things Assistant Minister’s Residence had sent over.

Prince Zhan looked at the detailed list for a while, "Do you need to return the gesture?" Prince Zhan asked the Duke Palace's butler in a low voice.

"Yes, yes, of course we need you, your highness." Before the Duke Palace butler could reply, Wen Guang, who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion, walked over while shouting.

"Yes," the Prince Zhan said in a deep voice.

It was unknown whether it was a coincidence or not, but the moment Lord Assistant Minister came out from the Liu Estate, he met the Prince Zhan Elder who said that he wanted to go to the Assistant Minister’s Residence to return the favor to him. The Lord Assistant Minister felt very embarrassed and followed the Prince Zhan back to the Assistant Minister’s Residence.

"Miss, the old master is back. He's calling for you." On the day of New Year's Eve, Nangong Waner was in a depressed mood, as if it was the Spring Festival. He slept on the bed twice, and upon hearing Ju Xiang's call, he opened his eyes in a daze.

"Ju Xiang, I was dreaming. I dreamt that you called me, and it was exactly the same as this scene. I seem to get up the same way, scratched my somewhat disheveled hair, casually put on a coat and left. " Nangong Waner really talked to Ju Xiang as he got up from his bed.

"Miss, it's not that you're dreaming, it's that you've slept twice today and came back to sleep. I've called you once in the morning as well …" Ju Xiang could not help but straighten out Nangong Waner's jacket, "Miss, are you sure you don't want to go back to your room to wash before going to see the Old Master?" Ju Xiang looked at Nangong Waner who had gone back to sleep again. He couldn't bear to watch this any longer so he closed his eyes.

Nangong Waner, on the other hand, did not care. The sky was cold and the ground was frozen.

"Aiya, Wan Er." Before even entering the hall, Madam Yang walked over, "Why aren't you going back to pack up? Look at what you look like." Unexpectedly, Madam Yang had changed from his usual virtuous and virtuous image, and pushed Nangong Waner out of the courtyard in a disdainful manner.

"Aiya, mom, what are you doing?" Nangong Waner was pushed back several steps by Madam Yang's unknown strength. Madam Yang was actually still in the mood to push around in the courtyard with her.

"I've already said that you don't mind your mother's ugliness, but your mother still loathes her. It's not right for you to do this, Mother." Nangong Waner smiled as he avoided Madam Yang and ran to the front hall.

Nangong Waner did not even run two steps before he stood still … Lord Assistant Minister and Prince Zhan were currently raising their heads to look at her …

Nangong Waner looked at Chu Xiuhan in a daze. His expression was indifferent, just like the time when he first met him in the back mountain of Shi Yuan County. His bright eyes seemed to contain stars in the sky.

Nangong Waner stood there staring at the Prince Zhan blankly for a while …