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When Prince Jin returned to the Weiyang Palace, he had already sent Xue Ronghua and Prince Duan away.

"mother," Prince Jin smiled, "When I smelled the fragrance of the flowers on Xue Ronghua's body, I knew that she must have chatted with the two of them for a long time."

The Noble Consort Kang smiled like a flower, "No matter how fragrant the scented sachet Xue Ronghua has on her body, it still wouldn't be as fragrant as the incense of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

"I've already given it away, but my concubine Ning still doesn't know about it." The Prince Jin snickered.

"Ning Xuemo was clumsy and thought that someone else was faking her orders to tease her. However, she wasn't the only one who didn't know what was going on."

Prince Jin slightly raised his brows, and said: "Royal Father shouldn't be angry, right?"

Noble Consort Kang lowered her head and laughed, "With a new beauty in your arms, how can you be angry? I'm afraid you're too engrossed with your beauty, and won't be able to react in time."

Prince Jin raised his teacup, took a sip, and said happily: "Xue Liuhua's beauty is even greater than that of many concubines; I will definitely not let go of it."

"Ever since Liu Chengyun's death, your Royal Father has allowed you to roam around the world of flowers," The corners of the Noble Consort Kang's mouth raised into a trace of a disdainful smile, "Who cares how beautiful Xue Liuhua is, she's just a bright and beautiful flower in the harem's garden. There will be a day when she wilts, when even more young and beautiful women enter the palace, the Emperor won't spare her another glance."

"mother is right."

"You said that Xue Liuhua is the direct daughter of the Prime Minister Xue," the Noble Consort Kang thought for a moment, then asked, "What kind of status will the Emperor give her?"

"I don't know about that," Prince Jin nodded, "It's just that mother doesn't need to mind."

The Noble Consort Kang laughed involuntarily, "I will not mind. In this life, only Liu Chengyun has bothered to think about it, and now, even her ashes cannot be found, so who needs me to mind."

"Then what about Empress Chen?"

Empress Chen didn't mind at all," Imperial Concubine Kang said with a smile. "She had been jealous of Liu Chengyun for such a long time, how could he care about his other concubines? Besides, the emperor only has Liu Chengyun in her heart, why would she care about such a small Xue Liuhua when she sits on the Phoenix throne?

Prince Jin was silent for a moment. Looking at Noble Consort Kang's eyes which were gradually filled with ice, he suddenly kneeled down and bowed: "Mother, don't worry. This son will definitely live up to mother's expectations and will definitely deliver this beautiful scene to mother."

Noble Consort Kang was startled, and immediately helped him up, "What are you greeting me for?"

Prince Jin looked at her deeply, "Mother, this son knows that you have suffered a lot under the Empress Chen. This son must take back all the suffering from the Crown Prince and Prince Duan."

Noble Consort Kang's eyes reddened as she said with tears in her eyes: "The harem's deep night is really hard to endure. With you here, mother does not feel that it's hard to endure, it's just that mother and I must work together and not fall into the trap of outsiders."

Prince Jin nodded heavily, "What did mother say to Xue Ronghua and Prince Duan just now?"

Noble Consort Kang wiped off a few tears from the corner of her eyes and laughed: "I did as you said, I only told you that Empress Chen killed Mrs. Heyi with poison, and didn't even mention anything about Mrs. Heyi being pampered, and pretended that Empress Chen had poisoned the Luan Feng pendant."

"Then do they all believe it?"

Noble Consort Kang frowned, "The Prince Duan's face instantly became darker, but Xue Ronghua still asked him a few more questions."

Prince Jin's gaze dimmed. As expected, that Xue Ronghua was not to be underestimated, she definitely did not believe it completely.

"However," the Noble Consort Kang asked doubtfully, "Why did you ask me to intentionally make it so that they would know that you had already come to the palace?"

"and Prince Duan already knew that I was going to try to rob them, and they could also guess that I would enter the palace in advance. Since that's the case, I might as well convince them that I already spoke to you before they came in."

Noble Consort Kang was still puzzled, "Why is that so?"

"They have always been on guard against me, why don't we just let them guard against me justifiably," the Prince Jin said with a shallow smile, "While being careful of the crown prince, they also have to be wary of me. I would like to see how many hearts they have to watch both sides at the same time."

"Are you not afraid that the Prince Duan will not cooperate with you?"

"Naturally, he's not afraid. He already knows that his mother was killed by Empress Chen, so he can't help but be worried. Only I can help him topple his Empress Chen and Crown Prince. He has to be on guard against me, but he still has to obediently ally with me."

The Noble Consort Kang let out a sigh, and was a little depressed, "Today, I saw myself telling Prince Duan that a Empress Chen had poisoned the Mrs. Heyi, and it didn't seem to have any good effects."

Prince Jin had a faint smile on his face as he consoled, "Don't be disappointed, mother. You have a great use for this.

"What's that?"

Prince Jin wiped his lips ambiguously, "I understand that I must keep this woman, Xue Ronghua, by my side."

After handing over the Luan Feng pendant for Zhu Tong to inspect, Xue Ronghua and Chu Zongge finally relaxed under her "no problem" expression.

"Miss, you are underestimating Zhu Tong," Little Zhui laughed, "If this jade pendant was poisoned, Zhu Tong would have definitely seen through it a long time ago."

Yeah, "Xue Ronghua and Chu Zongge looked at each other and laughed," The people around us are more reliable than the people in the palace, we need to believe in ourselves first. "

"Miss, which palace did you go to today?" Little Zhui looked at her in anticipation.

"It's the Empress' Weiyang Palace," Xue Ronghua pinched her cheek. "The palace that the Noble Consort lives in is naturally better looking."

"Sigh," Little Zhui looked as if she had thought of something, "Yesterday, I seemed to have heard that First Miss is also going to some Central Palace.

Xue Ronghua was startled, "I didn't enter the palace with Xue Liuhua. Who did she go with?"

Little Zhui shook her head in a daze, "I don't know, I just passed by the door of the young miss's room, and saw her testing on her clothes inside.

Chu Zongge's heart skipped a beat, "Do you know where Xue Liuhua went to yesterday?"

"This servant doesn't know," Little Zhui shook her head, "This servant only knows that after Eldest Miss came back soaked, she went out again."

Xue Ronghua thought for a while, before raising her chin towards Little Zhui and the others, "You two go out and wait for a while, I'll have a chat with Prince Duan."

After Little Zhui and Zhu Tong left, their words returned to the Prince Jin.

"You think that Prince Jin brought Xue Liuhua to Noble Consort Kang's Weiyang Palace?" Chu Zongge was very suspicious of this, "Prince Jin probably doesn't want to marry Xue Liuhua as her wangfei."

"Xue Liuhua has already mentioned the Weiyang Palace, so it must be the Noble Consort Kang's palace," Xue Ronghua looked at him with certainty.

Chu Zongge slightly nodded his head, "Noble Consort Kang detests Xue Liuhua very much. Prince Jin won't bring her to the Weiyang Palace."

"Could it be that Prince Jin is lying to her?" Xue Ronghua thought for a moment, "Would Prince Jin pretend to take her to see the Noble Consort Kang at Weiyang Palace, in reality, it is to take her somewhere else?"

"You still missed out on a critical problem," Chu Zongge smiled, "Xue Liuhua was ruthless, but also smart. She only did things that were beneficial to herself, so why do you think she wanted to enter the palace with the Prince Jin?"

"Then according to what you're saying, Xue Liuhua should be extremely eager to see the Noble Consort Kang. An unmarried man brought her, an unmarried woman, and the two of them are even close to each other in the eyes of the people in the capital. Since that's the case, entering the palace to see the Noble Consort Kang, doesn't that mean that the Prince Jin is going to marry her?"

Chu Zongge gently shook his head: "Just because Xue Liuhua wants to doesn't mean that Prince Jin wants to. He cannot voluntarily bring Xue Liuhua to see his own mother, unless he has some weakness that is in Xue Liuhua's hands."

Xue Ronghua's eyes suddenly lit up, "Xue Liuhua has a close relationship with Prince Jin, she must know a lot of things that Prince Jin doesn't want us to know."

Chu Zongge looked at her gently and said with a smile: "Truly extremely intelligent. If there really is something Prince Jin can do, then we have no choice but to listen to her. Take her to the palace to see Noble Consort Kang."

"If my guess is not wrong," Xue Ronghua said as she felt a kind of ecstasy. "Xue Liuhua's condition is to marry into the Prince Jin's Palace and become the Prince Jin's Consort;

"Prince Jin will definitely not submit to her at this point. She will definitely find an opportunity to escape." The corner of Chu Zongge's mouth raised slightly as he looked at Xue Ronghua.

"I'm guessing that before he let Xue Liuhua see the Noble Consort Kang successfully, he had already started throwing this burden out." Xue Ronghua revealed a shallow smile.

"That's roughly the time when Prince Jin just came out of the Weiyang Palace, and the moment the two of us went in," Chu Zongge said with a smile, "What do you think Prince Jin needs to do to prevent Xue Liuhua from entering the Weiyang Palace?"

"With one foot already over the threshold, how could Xue Liuhua let it go so easily?" Xue Ronghua squinted, as a bright light shone out from her eyes, "There are only two ways to prevent her from entering."

"The first thing is to kill her," Chu Zongge laughed, "Prince Jin would never do something like this. He has always just borrowed the blood of others to kill people, he won't let others' blood dirty his hands."

"That's number two, make her faint and move her somewhere else."

"Where?"

Xue Ronghua shrugged helplessly, "There's nothing I can do to guess. Go to the palace again tomorrow and send a few capable people over to check out what is going on in the palace."

"You're right," Chu Zongge nodded. "I'm just afraid that there's some kind of scheme behind it."

"That's not necessarily true," Xue Ronghua smiled sweetly. "Maybe it's the end of the road, or maybe it's a struggle to the death."

The Emperor was still trying to calm Xue Liuhua, but she had secretly analyzed the situation.

This beauty match today must have been set up by the Prince Jin. As expected, he didn't want to marry himself into the Duke Palaces, and from beginning to end, used her as a tool to get close to Xue Ronghua. Now, he even cupped his hands in front of her and collapsed the Sovereign King, flinging away her burden. This man was even more cold-blooded than she was. He did not hesitate to personally destroy her innocence and wanted to put her behind him.

"Liuhua, are you alright?" the Emperor asked softly.

Xue Liuhua was startled, and cried for a long time until her eyes became dry. She raised her tear-stained face and said tenderly, "Your Majesty, this subject didn't expect things to turn out like this."

The Emperor let out a long sigh. "This Emperor had clearly asked someone to invite his concubine, but the moment he stood up, he saw you."

Xue Liuhua maintained the delicate posture of a little girl on the surface, and carefully sized up the Emperor with his eyes. Although she was a lot older, she was still the father of the Prince Jin and the crown prince in the end.