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knelt on the soft cushion with his hands clasped together. He was not praying for the blessings of the unborn child of Aunt Min, but rather grumbling about when he would be able to get out from this suffocating monastery.

The Madam Ye slipped in soundlessly and pushed at Xue Liuhua's shoulder.

She turned around to see that it was her mother. Her happiness could be clearly seen from her words. "Mother, you've come to see me …"

Madam Ye put her finger on her lips, telling her to lower her voice, "Don't shout out loud, I came here while carrying your father, be careful not to let others hear."

Xue Liuhua knelt in the temple for a long time, she was already exhausted, "Mother, when will father allow me to leave?"

Madam Ye was troubled: "Your father won't let you go, you must go in the spring of next year."

Xue Liuhua's eyes instantly reddened, and she said with teary eyes: "Father is really that heartless?"

Madam Ye helped her up from the ground, feeling pained. "Yes, after all, he is your father's child."

"But I am also my father's child. How can my father keep me in the monastery?"

"There's no helping it, push Aunt Min down from the top floor. Everyone in the entire residence knows, if your father does not punish you ruthlessly, how can he control his words?"

Xue Liuhua looked at Madam Ye with sorrow, "Does mother think that I was the one who pushed Aunt Min down?"

"You are a good child," Madam Ye pinched her cheek lovingly. "You would never do such a thing."

"But Father just didn't believe me, and after hearing what Aunt Min said, it was all my fault."

"Who told you to be so impatient, you got into trouble at the East Garden." Madam Ye sighed lightly.

Xue Liuhua justified herself: "You can't blame our daughter for being impatient, she was the pride of the Aunt Min, for relying on her pregnancy, she did not put me in her eyes."

Madam Ye nodded in agreement, "Aunt Min is really too annoying, I really don't know how she got pregnant."

Xue Liuhua wiped the tears at the corner of her eyes, and gently replied. "Didn't mother make preparations in the past?

Madam Ye was silent and nodded her head heavily a few times.

"Then how did the Aunt Min get pregnant? She couldn't be trying to use a fake pregnancy to win her favor, right?"

Madam Ye said: It can't be a fake pregnancy, I'm afraid that she had deliberately sent many doctors to check it out, but they all said that she was pregnant, and that falling down the stairs that day was indeed a small birth.

Xue Liuhua looked confused, "Then what happened to the Aunt Min?"

A trace of ruthlessness flashed past Madam Ye's eyes, "She … "She swallowed her gold and killed herself the night of the birth."

Xue Liuhua was shocked, "How could this be? Father will never let me out."

"Madam Ye pondered for a while and decided not to tell Xue Liuhua the truth. What are you worried about? Aunt Min being unable to protect his own child has nothing to do with you. If your father lost that child, you would be the only one.

Xue Liuhua narrowed her eyes hatefully, "Father still has Xue Ronghua. That day, Aunt Min fell from the stairs and she was beside him."

Madam Ye was startled, she felt that something was not right, "Xue Ronghua is also here? "What's she going to do?"

Xue Liuhua suddenly realized something, "Mother, at that time, when Xue Ronghua was trying to mediate between me and Aunt Min, she was the one who borrowed me to push Aunt Min down!"

The Madam Ye held her shoulders nervously, "Are you sure it was Xue Ronghua who framed you and pushed you to the side of the Aunt Min?"

"It must be her," Xue Liuhua said as she gnashed her teeth, "She knew full well that I don't like the Aunt Min, and she even allowed me to go to the East Garden to incite trouble between me and the Aunt Min.

Madam Ye muttered to herself slightly, then said: "If Xue Ronghua was the one who was plotting against you, then everything makes sense. Only …"

Xue Liuhua's face darkened, "It's just that there's no evidence, so I'm guessing that father wouldn't believe me."

Madam Ye looked at his daughter who was depressed and immediately consoled her: "Don't worry, I will go find someone from the Ye Residence to help find the truth."

Xue Liuhua's eyes lit up again, "Mother must seek justice for my daughter, don't let my daughter be framed for no reason."

"Of course," Madam Ye squinted her eyes dangerously. "I want to see how Aunt Min got pregnant."

Xue Ronghua accompanied Chu Zongge to drink a cup of wine, then prepared to take his leave.

Chu Zongge laughed: "Once Prince Jin leaves, I'm afraid that it won't be convenient to send you back. I'll accompany you out of the palace."

Xue Ronghua smiled, "Then I'll be troubling Prince Duan."

After the two of them got on the palanquin, Chu Zongge purposely let the carriage driver pass by the Imperial Garden.

"What are you doing in the royal garden?"

Chu Zongge smirked: "I heard that the lotus flowers in the imperial garden are blooming extremely beautifully, I want to take a look."

Xue Ronghua disagreed: "No matter how beautiful the lotus flowers in the imperial garden are, it's still a artificially created beautiful scenery. It's not as beautiful as the one in the lotus pond over the river outside the capital."

"So what if it is natural, so what if it is manmade? It is all the beautiful scenery of the mortal world, so there is no need to care so much."

Xue Ronghua raised her brows, "Prince Duan likes lotus flowers?"

Chu Zongge answered: "When I was at the Chiron in my previous life, I had heard mother recite a poem about lotus flowers for me. I felt that the jade bowl-like flower that bloomed on the jade plate must be extremely beautiful, so I kept wanting to take a look. It's just that there have never been lotus flowers in Chiron before."

Xue Ronghua said gently: "Then today you can see for yourself."

There were many green and red dragonflies flying in the air. Chu Zongge was captivated by the beauty that had only appeared in the poems in the past, and couldn't help but take a few steps forward, wanting to take a look at this beautiful scenery. Suddenly, two human figures appeared from deep within the overlapping pink and white lotus, followed by many people. When he took a closer look, he realized that it was the crown prince and Empress Chen.

Chu Zongge cursed in his heart. Didn't the two of them return after giving them the flowers, why were they still here playing? It should be because the Lotus Pond was too big. He subconsciously looked inside the palanquin, saw that Xue Ronghua had lifted the palanquin curtain and was about to get off.

"Don't come down, the empress and the crown prince are over there." Chu Zongge asked anxiously.

Xue Ronghua was so shocked that she immediately retreated back into her sedan. Why were the Empress Chen and the crown prince here?

The crown prince's eyes were sharp, in a moment he saw Chu Zongge who was seated beside the sedan, admiring the flowers.

"Your son greets the empress." Chu Zongge immediately bowed towards the Empress Chen.

Empress Chen said with a smile: "No need to be so courteous, quickly get up."

The crown prince leaned over to look at the palanquin that was stopped beside the lotus pond and asked, "Where is Prince Duan going?"

"The heat in the Xinyang Hall is unbearable, little brother will go to the bamboo forest and enjoy the cool air."

The Empress Chen covered his face with a smile, "Prince Duan is very free, unlike the Crown Prince who stays in the East Palace all day long and rarely goes out."

Chu Zongge tactfully said: "Since the crown prince is the ruler and wants to toil for the country, he naturally won't do nothing like I do."

The Crown Prince nodded in satisfaction and asked, "Prince Duan, when will your quasi wangfei marry you into her family? As your brother, I am very worried for my younger brother."

Chu Zongge found it hard to say anything while Xue Ronghua was in the palanquin, "The Crown Prince is really worried about little brother, I have been discussing this with quasi beast king."

The Crown Prince laughed, "Prince Duan is always like this, neither too fast nor too slow. I think I have also never met the quasi wangfei before, I wonder when I will be lucky enough to meet her?"

Chu Zongge revealed an awkward expression. "Quasi-wangfei is more shy and inconvenient …"

"Why wouldn't it be convenient?" The Crown Prince laughed arrogantly, "It can't be that the quasi wangfei was born with such a beauty that could topple nations, could it be that the Prince Duan is afraid of scaring big brother?"

"Of course not. No matter how devastatingly beautiful she is, how can she compare with the empress?"

Empress Chen rolled up his sleeves coldly. "Prince Duan is too considerate for the wangfei to pull it out carelessly, you should be thinking for the Prince Duan's sake."

When the crown prince heard mother speak, he immediately lowered his head and said, "mother is right, this son is being rude."

Chu Zongge chuckled, "Many thanks, Empress."

"Then Prince Duan will slowly admire the flowers," the Empress Chen glanced at him indifferently, "I and the crown prince will return to the Changchun Palace first."

Chu Zongge immediately stepped aside and looked at the figures of the Empress Chen and the crown prince disappearing into the distance, then sighed in relief.

"mother," The moment he returned to his Changchun Palace, the crown prince hurriedly followed him into the inner palace, "Just now at the Lotus Pond, there was clearly someone inside the palanquin that Prince Duan had left."

The Empress Chen laughed lightly, "I know that when the sedan chair is shaking like that, there's no other person. The Prince Duan thought that I was old and had lost my eyesight."

"Then why did mother …"

The Empress Chen swept the crown prince with his sharp and cold gaze. "You were a bit too abrupt with your words just now, but do you know that the person sitting inside is a would-be wangfei?"

The crown prince was startled. "How could it be a would-be wangfei?"

"Otherwise, who would still hide in the palanquin and refuse to see them?" Empress Chen lightly sipped on his tea, "It seems like the palace guards were still in trouble, they actually let a woman in."

The Crown Prince said: "This Xue Ronghua is bold, she dares to barge into the palace."

"If she was a normal girl, how would she have been able to attract Prince Duan?"

The Crown Prince was confused, "Is there something special about this Xue Ronghua?"

"When I saw her in the Hundred Blossom Banquet the last time, I felt that there was a heroic spirit between her eyebrows. She wasn't weak and weak like those girls, but instead had a bit of a manly temperament."

The Crown Prince frowned, "Does Prince Duan like this kind of woman?"

"I don't know whether Prince Duan likes this kind of woman, but what I am most certain of is that this isn't the first time Xue Ronghua has come to the Prince Duan Palace for a private meeting." Empress Chen's eyes were filled with frost.

"Why is Xue Ronghua always coming to the palace? We should get married early if we're close to the Prince Duan."

"You think that the reason the Prince Duan married Xue Ronghua, a concubinage who even his mother does not know, is all because of love?" "From a distance, outsiders would think that only someone who loves beauties would be able to marry Xue Ronghua. I'm afraid that he's making this decision for the greater good!"

The Crown Prince was furious, "Prince Duan is so disloyal, and you still dare to put on a front in front of me!"

The Empress Chen held onto the corner of his clothes tightly, "If this Xue Ronghua is really that outstanding, then the Prince Duan is so much better to take advantage of."

The Crown Prince was furious, but he suddenly calmed down. "It won't be difficult to solve this problem."

"She is already a would-be wangfei, and will soon become a legitimate Princess Duan. What other loopholes is there to take?"

The corners of the crown prince's lips curled into an evil and threatening smile, "Back then, I was able to take away the Yu Zhu of the Prince Jin, and today, I can also take away the Xue Ronghua of the Prince Duan."

When Empress Chen heard Yu Zhu's name, he felt a headache, "You, you could have held Prince Jin's chess piece in your palm all those years ago. In the end, a small dancers caused you to lose your mind."

The Crown Prince laughed, "That dancer is so beautiful, Yu Zhu. A single tune like the Spring Dancing has captivated countless people's minds."

Empress Chen rolled his eyes at him in a bad mood, "You are just messing around, snatching Yu Zhu over for a while and then giving it up again. Luckily, Noble Consort Kang can't tolerate her executing her, otherwise I really wouldn't know what would have happened."

"Yu Zhu is rather useful, I even used her to make a copy of Prince Jin."

"Alright, alright," Empress Chen waved his hand, "The matter with Yu Zhu is already in the past, we need to catch him now."