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Prince Chu Mansion.

Shui Yiyuan paid a visit once again.

"Doctor Shui, please." The butler from Shui’s Marion immediately invited Shui Yiyuan in.

"Please lead the way." Shui Yiyuan was also very polite.

In the Prince Chu's study, Shui Yiyuan went in and bowed. "Greetings, Your Highness."

"Doctor Shui, no need for formalities." Prince Chu was still dressed in dark blue robes, and there was a mature look on his face. It could be seen that he was also a beautiful man when he was young, and he was currently sitting behind the desk and looking at Shui Yiyuan.

Shui Yiyuan got up and raised his head to look at Prince Chu.

In the current court, the Prince Chu was a giant.

There were four princes with different surnames that had just opened their nation's Yun Chao, and now only the Prince Chu Palace was left standing, standing firmly on the ground.

The Prince Chu Palace could not be underestimated, and neither could the Prince Chu s.

However, just a few days ago, he had gotten along with Shui Yiyuan and the respect in his heart had been replaced by anger.

"My son did not admit to having anything to do with love." Prince Chu calmly looked at Shui Yiyuan, and directly went into the topic.

Shui Yiyuan had also been in the government for his entire life, and it was not the first time he had interacted with Prince Chu, so he did not change his expression at all.

The Prince Chu raised his eyebrows. He thought that Shui Yiyuan wanted to borrow his daughter's body to climb up the big tree known as the Prince Chu Palace. Otherwise, Shui Yiyuan would have brought this matter to the emperor a long time ago. Now that things had reached this stage, the one who was injured was Shui Yiyuan's daughter.

Shui Yiyuan opened his mouth again: "May I ask Your Highness, where is my daughter now?"

Hearing this, Prince Chu sneered: "How would I know where your daughter is?"

Shui Yiyuan immediately choked.

"My son hasn't been in the capital for five years, and he has already repeatedly met with your love after just returning to the capital. It truly is fate." Prince Chu's tone carried an indescribable tone, "I don't know where my son is, so I don't know where your daughter is."

The corner of Shui Yiyuan's mouth twitched.

"If you find your daughter, please tell me where you found her so I can find my son." The Prince Chu nodded his head, agreeing with his words.

Shui Yiyuan was already petrified.

He was here to pick up his daughter, why did he become the one helping Prince Chu find his son! The son of the Prince Chu did not care about his ass, he only wanted to find his daughter!

Shui Yiyuan could not find anything, so he returned home with a dark face. Who knew that Shui Yiyuan would be angered by the Prince Chu again, but he had already achieved his goal.

Shui’s Marion, Qing'an Yard.

"Aunt, Master did not find Fourth Miss!" Bai Lu immediately told the news to Madam Hu.

"Can't find it?" Madam Hu was slightly surprised.

"Could he have eloped?" The Senior Servant Rong said as if she was deep in thought.

When the Madam Hu heard this, the corners of her mouth slowly raised into a faint smile.

"Right, he must have eloped!" Bailu Yi smiled to herself.

Shui Qingyuan's room.

"Miss, I heard that Master did not bring the Fourth Miss back." Bai Cao covered her mouth and laughed, "They are all saying that the Fourth Miss is not willing to come back."

Shui Qingyuan remained expressionless as she continued to embroider: "Is it related to us?"

Bai Cao lowered her hand and laughed: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, Miss's peony embroidery should be finished soon."

"Yes, there's a post from Ning’s Mansion. We need to bring a new embroidery item over in a few days." Shui Qingyuan said indifferently.

"Alright, I'll go and prepare Miss's clothes for that day." Bai Cao praised her young miss as she had the air of a direct descendant.

"No need, go and see how auntie and daddy are doing, come back and tell me." After Shui Qingyuan finished speaking, she stopped the work in her hands and frowned.

If Shui Qingyan had truly eloped with Prince Chu, the Shui family could accept that other than her, there seemed to be no one else suitable for the Jadesnow Mandarin Duck. Second Prince always had a Princess Feicui by her side, so she did not think highly of Second Prince.

"Alright." Bai Cao smiled as she left the room. She had heard that if the Fourth Miss really eloped with that sickly son of hers, the Second Miss might really become the Second Princess. In the future, wouldn't she become the most capable and trusted subordinate of the Second Princess?

Thinking about that, Bai Cao laughed crazily in her heart. When the time came, all of the servants in the Shui’s Marion would respectfully call her Big Sister Bai Cao.

Shui Qingyuan, who was in the room, shook her head, her eyebrows knitted together as she thought about something.

At the same time, the one who was most concerned about this matter was the eldest miss of the Ning’s Mansion.

When it came to the young miss of Ning’s Mansion, everyone gave her a big thumbs up. She was both talented and good-looking.

Moreover, in the four beauties' selection, she was unquestionably the number one beauty in the entire capital. In terms of beauty, even the three beauties in the capital were inferior to her.

One was beautiful, the one who obtained it was Shui Qingyan, who used a peerless beauty to proclaim herself as a beauties of the capital.

The second day beautiful, the winner is Jiang Yunsu, with one hand to the lute to reap the name of Beijing beauties in the talent circle.

The third day was when she was pretty and the one who got it was Liu Yinyin. She had an inborn proud figure that could rule over all the beauties in the capital.

Ning’s Mansion.

The young miss of the Ning family, Ning Xuewei, was wearing a gold coloured long dress with flowers tied around her waist. She was pruning the flowers, and just by looking at her slender fingers, one could tell that she was extremely good at raising them.

Behind Ning Xuewei was her personal servant — Jiaoli.

At this time, Jiaoli was narrating what she had heard.

"It's said outside that the Fourth Miss of the Shui family and the Prince Chu are betrothed to someone else." As the maidservant spoke, she covered her mouth and snickered.

The hand Ning Xuewei was using to cut off the flower branches suddenly shook, causing a pitiful branch to be cut off by mistake and fall to the ground.

Ning Xuewei's long eyelashes drew an elegant arc in the air as she looked down at the flowers.

Jiaoli looked at her young miss lowering her head to look at the flower branches on the ground, then kneeled down with a thump: "Please forgive me young miss."

Ning Xuewei turned around and slowly walked away, completely ignoring the Jiaoli on the ground.

Jiaoli bit her lips, she had disrupted the young miss's interest in fixing the flower, she deserved to die.

Ning Xuewei walked for a while before stopping, "Continue to investigate."

Hearing that, Jiaoli felt relieved and immediately kowtowed: "Thank you, young miss!" Then she got up and quickly ran out. She knew what news the Miss wanted to know.

Ning Xuewei casually threw the scissors on the ground and then left.

Behind him, the cut off flower branches were lying alone on the soil.

That night, Shui Qingyan still did not show any signs of waking up, but her eyebrows were raised high, and she continued to mutter non-stop at night, scaring the Yu Niang so much that she did not dare to close her eyes for the entire night.

On the second day, Chu Chen was eating.

Liu Si appeared again.

"The news has definitely come from the Liu’s Mansion and the Shui’s Marion. The source has already been found." Liu Si told his what he had heard yesterday, "There's new news today, does master want to hear it?"

Chu Chen leisurely refused to eat his breakfast: "Speak."

Liuyi was outside but he had already pricked up his ears. When he heard the rumors, he laughed until his stomach hurt.

Liu Si frowned for a moment, then said: "Today, there was a rumor that Master and Fourth Miss had eloped, and the Fourth Miss no longer has any innocence."

Chu Chen's expression did not change as he continued to eat his breakfast.

"Yes." Chu Chen responded faintly.

However, the Yu Niang inside the room had her face turn white, and anxiously walked over to confirm that Shui Qingyan's gatekeeper sand was still there. When she saw that Shui Qingyan's gatekeeper sand was still there, she heaved a sigh of relief, and silently cursed those who were still talking in her heart.

Outside the house, Liuyi covered his mouth and laughed, he truly admired those people, if his master was interested in the Fourth Miss, it would definitely be a marriage ceremony, how could they be so rude!

"To make an example out of nothing." Chu Chen said indifferently.

Liu Si hesitated for a moment, then said: "The earliest news about Shui’s Marion involved the young miss of Ning’s Mansion."

Chu Chen paused in his actions as he picked up the dishes.

"When Third Miss Shui was a guest at Ning’s Mansion, she found out about Fourth Miss going to the Ma Ji Town." Liu Si said somewhat uncomfortably, "After Third Miss Shui went back, she spread it around unrestrainedly. The people from the Shui’s Marion added fuel to the fire, that's why it's like this."

Chu Chen put down his chopsticks, "Don't let me repeat myself a second time."

Liu Si immediately understood. "Yes." Then it disappeared.

The Yu Niang in the room had her fists clenched tightly. Those who killed thousands of blades were thinking of ways to harm xiaojie, so why was xiaojie suffering so much?

After Chu Chen finished his meal, he started to ruthlessly abuse Ye Lai Xiang Yuan with his flexible sword.

Hiding far away, Liuyi praised as he looked at Chu Chen's smooth and natural sword moves.

If it wasn't for the fact that his master had been secretly harmed, the Night Fragrance Garden would have been completely barren.

I wonder why Master is so angry, is it because of the Miss Ning?

Thinking about it, Liuyi remembered the scene of the man and woman pulling a horse and walking by the river.

Could it be that Mistress had really been tempted by the Miss Ning at the time? If she was, why would she still insist on 'killing chicken to make an example out of monkeys'?

Amidst a pile of fragrances and leaves, Chu Chen threw away the sword in his hand. His forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and he stood there without moving an inch.

Liuyi sighed, Master had never been tempted by a woman, it seemed like Miss Ning had influenced Master a lot.

However, Chu Chen was able to see his own room through the broken branches and leaves. On the bed in his room, there laid a stubborn girl.

He never thought that so many people would hope for Shui Qingyan to die.

Just as Phoenix Yaoling had said at the beginning, Shui Qingyan had disgraced the imperial family. If this matter blew up, Shui Qingyan would very likely be bestowed with three feet of white silk by the Emperor.

Suddenly, Chu Chen remembered the light smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I naturally know that the Prince Chu would not care about my insignificant skill."

Thinking about that, Chu Chen retracted his gaze, and slowly walked towards the bamboo house.

She could allow Shui Qingyan to be granted a three feet tall white silk under his control, but she definitely would not allow others to interfere in this matter.