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Which garden? This really made Jiang Wan feel troubled.

The west side of the garden was artificially dug into a lake to draw water from the moat. If it were in summer, the dark green lotus leaves would meet the sky and the pink lotus flowers would be scattered all over the place. However, the lotus flowers would have withered during this season, and the Wang Lake would have been frozen into an ice field long ago.

The garden on the east was made of plum trees with a variety of plum blossoms. It was a good time to admire the plum blossoms in winter, but the garden on the east was close to the Crown Prince's study. Her goal today was to avoid the Crown Prince and leave.

Seeing the awkward look on Jiang Wan's face, Xia He could only say that she asked recklessly. She was just a new customer, how would she know which garden was better? Thus, she smiled and said, "I was careless. This young lady has just arrived today, so why don't you follow me to the Plum Garden? I am also going to break a few plums for my mistress and insert them into the Plum Bottle."

Jiang Wan was a very kind person. If one were to say who in the crown prince's mansion didn't want her to enter the mansion the most, it would definitely be Cui Liandi. The person following her right now should be the safest person.

Because of this, she almost didn't have any psychological burdens as she followed Xia He all the way to Plum Garden.

In her previous life, Jiang Wan came to visit this Plum Garden quite a bit, but today, when the snow stopped and the sky cleared, in the entire Plum Garden, there were plums amidst the snow and plums within the snow, so the scenery was naturally different from before. Smelling the faint plum blossom fragrance, she walked between the blossoming plum blossoms. They had left, and had unknowingly left with Clove and Jasmine. Even Xia He had also disappeared.

Jiang Wan secretly cursed in her heart. Just as she was about to turn back and look for Clove and Jasmine, she suddenly caught sight of a bright yellow light in the Plum Garden. A colourful figure.

This scared Jiang Wan so much that she quickly hid herself into the forest.

Could it be such a coincidence? They really met each other in this Plum Garden?

In the Great Liang Dynasty, it could pierce through the heavens. There had only ever been two perverts. One was the current emperor, while the other was the Crown Prince.

Jiang Wan felt a burst of bitterness in her heart. She discovered that she was truly courting death. If she honestly stayed in elder sister's courtyard, perhaps she wouldn't even be able to meet him!

Thinking of this, Jiang Wan retreated a bit, but she didn't expect to bump into something. When she wanted to turn around and look, she discovered that her hair seemed to be hanging on top of something, and any slight movement of her head would cause her scalp to ache.

"Don't move, I'll do it!" Suddenly, a gentle voice came from behind her, making Jiang Wan's entire body tremble and turn stiff.

Is that him … Could it be him? This voice sounded so familiar. She stood there stunned, guessing in her heart.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." The voice behind her was so soft that it seemed it could turn a person into water. Jiang Wan closed her eyes and could feel him very gently stroking her hair.

A gust of wind blew by. The snow that had fallen on the Plum Blossom's branches was blown away. Tiny snowflakes drifted about, falling onto the two of them.

Time... Can we just stay like this...

Jiang Wan gripped the handkerchief in her hand tightly as she thought to herself.

"Alright." While Jiang Wan was still in a daze, the voice behind her spoke again.

Jiang Wan quickly took two steps forward, turned around, and blessed the people behind her. "Thank you, Your Highness, for helping us out."

Lifting her head slightly, she saw Xiao Rui dressed in a clean white robe. However, he looked the same as the time she had met him at the city gate, ill and sickly.

"You know me?" Xiao Rui asked with a smile as she looked at Jiang Wan.

Yes, I know you!

Jiang Wan shouted in her heart, but the moment she opened her mouth, her reply was: "I don't recognize her."

She was only the daughter of a small official seeking recovery. How could she possibly know the exalted Crown Prince Jin?

At this moment, Jiang Wan felt her heart bleeding.

"Oh?" Xiao Rui stood there, his hair a dark green, his skin fair, his eyes dark like jade, and his eyebrows raised slightly in high spirits. He was dressed in a white, dark flower pattern, and his stature was tall and straight, though he had a sickly look on his face, it did not affect his noble young master's demeanor in the slightest.

Jiang Wan admitted that she was a bit lost in thought at that moment.

He suddenly bent down and picked up something from the ground.

Only now did Jiang Wan realize that the handkerchief in her hand had unknowingly fallen to the ground, and it was now in Xiao Rui's hands.

She wanted to ask for her handkerchief, but Xiao Rui took it in his hand and started observing it.

What was going on?

Jiang Wan's face turned pale as she watched.

The personal belongings of a girl in a pavilion were actually in the hands of an unfamiliar man. If they were to be used by someone as an example to him, she might end up in a worse state than she had in her previous life.

"What is it embroidered with?" However, Xiao Rui Xuan seemed to be unaware of this. He frowned as he looked at the crooked embroidery on the handkerchief, not knowing whether it was a word or a flower.

"He's really ugly!" He pulled the handkerchief and looked at it over and over, then twitched his mouth and said.

This handkerchief was Jiang Wan's first and only work since she came to the Great Liang Dynasty. Due to her poor craftsmanship, she only embroidered the word "Wan" on a corner of the handkerchief.

"Who wants you to look!?" Hurry up and return it to me! " The slightly angry Jiang Wan couldn't care less about the taboo for both men and women. He immediately jumped up and snatched the handkerchief from Xiao Rui's hands.

However, Xiao Rui Xuan seemed to have already expected that she would use this move. He held the handkerchief up high and danced in the air for a bit before stuffing it into the sleeve of his other hand.

"You … "How can you be such a scoundrel!" Seeing that it was hopeless to snatch the handkerchief back, Jiang Wan was so anxious that tears almost flowed. In a moment of desperation, she stomped heavily on Xiao Rui's foot without a care, to vent the hatred in her heart.

In pain, Xiao Rui Xuan also let out a loud shout, causing the people outside the forest to shout: "Who's there!"

Jiang Wan's expression tightened, recognizing that it was Crown Prince Xiao Rui Zhao's voice.

Crap! She thought to herself that things weren't looking good. She had been too impulsive just now, and if someone were to find out that she and Xiao Rui were a boy and a girl alone here, then there would be no room for debate.

"Shh!" Xiao Rui pressed his large hands on her shoulders and whispered, "Don't talk!"

With that, he said loudly: "Your Highness, it's me!"

He randomly picked a plum blossom and was about to walk out when he suddenly turned his head towards Jiang Wan and said with a smile, "My name is Xiao Rui Xuan, what about you?"

"Ginger..." Jiang Wan … " Jiang Wan, who only thought of getting him to quickly go outside and take that person away, reported her name without even thinking.