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When Prince Jin returned to his manor, a gatekeeper ran over and whispered into his ear.

In his mind, he recalled the terrified look on Xue Liuhua's face as he was pushed into the water. After making up his mind, he walked into the room with a gentle smile on her face.

Xue Liuhua returned to his residence in a sorry state, changed her clothes, and turned around to return to the side of the Prince Jin Palace. She pushed aside the nosy servant and endured her rage as she barged into the mansion. Fortunately, the servants recognized the eldest Miss of the Xue Manor, who often came and went with her master. They didn't dare to obstruct her and told her to wait in the inner hall.

Seeing Xue Liuhua, whose face was flushed red, sitting on the chair, Prince Jin's entire body started to tremble from anger. He could not help but laugh.

Xue Liuhua waited for a few hours, and when she finally reached the Prince Jin, he turned her head and glared, and gritted her teeth: "I was still afraid that I would not be able to come back in the future."

Prince Jin leaned over, pretending to be friendly, "What are you angry about, isn't this the place?"

Xue Liuhua pushed him away, and laughed coldly again and again, "Prince Jin is truly a beauty, in order to help you, I was pushed into the river by someone else, but you didn't even look at me. Do you know how cold the water is?!"

"I saw it," Prince Jin said leisurely, "I saw him fall into the river, and I feel very anxious."

Xue Liuhua was furious, "Why are you leaving with Prince Duan and the rest when you were so anxious? It's obviously just a lie. "

"With such anxiety in my heart, how can I show you the evidence?" The Prince Jin quibbled.

"You …" Xue Liuhua pointed at him hatefully, "Why didn't you come and save me at that time?"

"I don't know how to swim. If I drown in the river, that would be bad."

"Then why don't you ask Prince Duan to save me!"

Prince Jin rolled his eyes and laughed helplessly. "Maybe the princes of our Great Qin do not know how to swim and the Prince Duan does not know how to swim either."

Xue Liuhua's heart froze, she had wanted to ask Xue Ronghua why didn't she come to save him, but she changed her mind. She wanted to push that bitch down the river, but in the end she was pushed into a corner by her own hands.

A cold light flashed in her eyes, "Even out of a hundred people, there's still not a single person with half of your skill."

Prince Jin clapped his hands and laughed: "Young Miss Xue is right, I do not know how to swim, so I have to work on other things. But since Young Miss Xue can stand here together with me, it should be how to swim, right?"

Xue Liuhua thought of the woodcutter whose face was covered with pockmarks, and a ball of rage rose in her heart, "I struggled for a long time in that bone-chilling ice river, but was saved by someone who chopped firewood."

Seeing her sullen face, Prince Jin knew that the axman must have looked scary. That was why she was so unwilling, and laughed: "Then it means that the Young Miss Xue is blessed by the heavens, and will be blessed by the heavens."

Xue Liuhua stared at Prince Jin with sinister eyes. Seeing him smile so casually, he knew that he had been using him as a tool to obtain Xue Ronghua, and did not have any feelings for him at all.

She narrowed her eyes and said with a smile: "Prince Jin has promised me one thing."

"Oh," Prince Jin smiled slightly, "That."

"I wonder if Prince Jin can keep his promise?"

"How can that be," Prince Jin shook his finger, "Xue Ronghua is not in my hands yet."

"Don't even think about it," Xue Liuhua said coldly. "She won't abandon the Prince Duan and throw herself into your embrace."

"Spring hasn't arrived yet, don't be so ruthless with Young Miss Xue's words."

Xue Liuhua rolled his eyes, "I'm afraid you won't be able to wait until spring."

"Hmm?" The Prince Jin became curious, "There are hidden meanings behind Young Miss Xue's words."

"If," Xue Liuhua said with a sinister smile, "Prince Jin does not consider me to be a wangfei and thus, I will tell Xue Ronghua and Prince Duan about what he has done."

Prince Jin squinted his eyes dangerously. "Are you going to break our alliance on your own before our cooperation reaches its goal?"

Xue Liuhua wiped away her anger and instead smiled charmingly at him, "Whether it's an alliance or a use of me, we both know in our hearts that if you really want to form an alliance with me, then you can show some sincerity and let me feel at ease to continue cooperating with you."

Prince Jin was startled for a moment, then said with a smile: "The position of wangfei is not just a point of sincerity."

"Prince Jin promised me that after we were done, he would make me and Xue Ronghua enter the Duke Palaces together, she would be the concubine, and I would be the legal wife. It looks like there's no harm if Prince Jin marries me in advance, after all, I've really done a lot for the Prince Jin and even fell into the river."

Prince Jin continued to fight with her Tai Chi. "Young Miss Xue, weren't you threatening me again?

"Your skill has surfaced again," Xue Liuhua covered her mouth and laughed secretly. "If Prince Jin wanted to define this matter as a threat, I have no choice but to do so. It's just that this is a small point, if you don't allow me to enter the Prince Jin Palace as the princess, then I'll have to run towards Xue Ronghua."

Prince Jin struggled to speak: "Do you think that the things you have done, will make Xue Ronghua believe you?!"

"She is very clear about every single thing that I have done," Xue Liuhua said indifferently. "She and Prince Duan know nothing about what Prince Jin has done and wants to do, and is waiting for our noble person to point it out."

Prince Jin's gaze became vicious. He should not have let this woman know too many things about him.

Xue Liuhua knew what he was scheming in his heart, and couldn't help but laugh: "Prince Jin doesn't need to struggle anymore, you should just obediently marry me.

"Young Miss Xue is truly clever. Even this king has been forced into a corner."

Xue Liuhua said in a gentle voice, "I should have known this since the day you sent me off after my Hundred Blossom Banquet."

"Okay," Prince Jin let out a deep sigh, "I promise you, I'll marry you and you'll be my wife."

"Really?" Xue Liuhua couldn't help but be overjoyed. She had paid such a heavy price, and now she had finally obtained the position that she had dreamed of for so many years.

"Of course it's true," the Prince Jin said. "I've been forced by you into this state, so I can only marry you."

As long as he could become the wife of the Prince Jin, matters of the heart could be slowly developed over the course of many years.

"Let's talk after Prince Duan gets married," the Prince Jin smiled gently. "We can also be considered to be sending off the prime minister."

Xue Liuhua's eyes were slightly moist. After interacting with her for such a long time, Prince Jin still more or less cared about her.

"When you have time tomorrow, accompany me to the palace to see mother," the Prince Jin lightly caressed her cheeks, "My daughter-in-law will first have to show you to Granny."

Xue Liuhua immediately nodded.

"Remember to dress up better tomorrow," Prince Jin's eyes were so deep that they couldn't see the end of them, "You must not lose to Prince Duan's consort."

Little Zhui and Zhu Tong lit a lamp and waited for Xue Ronghua outside the Prime Minister's Mansion door. In the vast moonlight, they saw two big and small figures walking towards them. She shone the lantern forward and recognized Xue Ronghua and Prince Duan. She immediately went forward to welcome them.

"Miss, you're finally back," Little Zhui said anxiously. "I just saw the young miss and didn't see you, so I didn't dare to ask her, and could only stand here and watch."

"Fortunately, you didn't ask her." Xue Ronghua covered her mouth and laughed at each other.

When Zhu Tong saw Prince Duan, she respectfully bowed and said, "This servant greets Prince Duan."

"No need to be so courteous," Chu Zongge laughed, "Is this girl still doing well?"

Xue Ronghua praised: "Zhu Tong is smart, and is good at medicine and poison, it can't be any better."

Little Zhui asked: "Miss, when you went back to your residence just now, you were so angry that your entire body was drenched. What happened?"

Xue Ronghua smiled again and again, and said: "This was all her doing."

"Then why did the Prince Duan come back with Miss?"

Chu Zongge smiled: "Your family's little girl really cares about you, afraid that you'll be tricked by someone else."

Little Zhui's face flushed red, as she hurriedly said. "Little Zhui has been with me since I was young, so of course you'd care about me."

Zhu Tong saw the peerlessly beautiful palace lamp in Xue Ronghua's hands and couldn't help but sigh. "Is this the lantern used in the Hall of Illumination?

Xue Ronghua took the phoenix in Chu Zongge's hand and passed it over to the two of them, "You two have been waiting here for a long time, this is as a reward for you."

Little Zhui happily received the palace lamp, and said: "After the young miss went back to her room to change, she went out again."

"He went out again?" Xue Ronghua pondered for a moment, then decided to go to Prince Jin Palace to look for Prince Jin.

Chu Zongge tugged on her sleeves, and spoke to the two servants: "It's too cold outside, go back to your rooms and light the fire, your young miss and I will be there shortly."

Xue Ronghua asked doubtfully: "Where do you want to go?"

Chu Zongge smiled, "I heard that the Meilin of the Xue Residence is the absolute best in the capital, and there are also green and yellow plum blossoms. I would like to take a look."

Little Zhui and Zhu Tong bade farewell to the two of them and returned to their room. Xue Ronghua saw that Chu Zongge obviously had something to say to her, and followed his request to go to Merlin.

Plum trees had the most red plums, followed by white plums. Yellow plums and green plums were the rarer varieties, but they could be considered a large number compared to the ones outside the Xue Manor. Xue Ronghua quickly moved past a few red plum trees and she finally saw a green plum tree.

"Look," she pointed, "this is the green plum you want."

Chu Zongge stepped forward to look and saw a pink plum flower quietly blooming on the branch. The moonlight slanted down and flowed lightly on the plum flower, and a faint fragrance lingered around him.

He sighed softly and said, "In my previous life, I had a playmate who was extremely fond of Green Plum. I always wanted to come to the Central Plains to have a look, but unfortunately, I didn't have this opportunity."

Xue Ronghua smiled sweetly, "There are a lot of people who like Plum Blossom at Chiron, especially those who like Plum Blossom."

"Those of you who can see the plum blossoms year after year have such a yearning for the green plum blossoms, not to mention those of us who have never seen them before. We naturally hold these treasures in our hearts."

Xue Ronghua carefully caressed the petals of the green plum blossom with her pure white fingers, "Do you want to break a branch and let Zhu Tong think of a way to keep it, so that in the future, you can return to the Chiron and show it to your good friends?"

Chu Zongge was silent for a long time, but still shook his head in the end, "Green Plum is a precious treasure, so you cannot take it off and play around with it in your hands, it is tainted with the secular world's energy."

Xue Ronghua looked at his serious face and couldn't help but laugh: "You're really full of bookish energy. If it was my previous life, I would naturally have had whatever I wanted."

Chu Zongge looked at her, the moonlight in his eyes like water, "Then, what do you want to do now?"

Xue Ronghua was startled for a moment, then said with a slight smile. "What I want, is only the lives of two dogs, Meng Qianzhong and Su Rushuang."