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Ever since Zhu's father came to visit Zhu Baishao, she seemed to have let go of some knot in her heart and gradually regained her former bright and sunny self. She played with Xier in Zhuixia Palace every day and selected fabrics and clothes. She didn't feel bored at all.

When Gao Yang had time, he would come to Zhuixia Palace and accompany Zhu Baishao for meals. If he didn't have time, he would come to see her after she fell asleep.

Unfortunately, as soon as he showed the intention of staying overnight, Zhu Baishao would lower her head and remain silent.

As an emperor, Gao Yang had his own pride, but every time he was unhappy, seeing her now round little face and her already obviously protruding belly, he could only stroke his wrist and leave with a gloomy face.

This made many concubines who were inquiring about the news outside Zhuixia Palace overjoyed. This mysterious imperial concubine was not necessarily more favored by the emperor than them!

Every time the emperor went there, didn’t he always come out with a gloomy face?

Gao Yang didn't want people to find out that he was sexually apathetic and misogynistic. Every time he summoned his concubines to sleep with him, he would look at the beauties with a cold face, and then make them kneel outside for half the night.

As a result, the concubines who came to serve the emperor in bed thought that they were not favored by the emperor and were rejected. Not only did they dare not tell outsiders, they also had to hide their secrets and not let others find out.

In addition, they knelt for half the night, and when they went out they staggered and limped, which made them look more like they had been deeply loved.

Until now, they didn't know each other, and their experiences were exactly the same, neither of them had been touched by the emperor.

At the end of June and approaching the beginning of July, the flood in Hebei finally ended and Li Shengjia was about to return to Beijing.

This time, Li Shengjia suffered a lot in Hebei.

When he set out, the journey was smooth and all the officials along the way were friendly. But when he arrived in Hebei and began to supervise the disaster relief, he discovered something was wrong.

The relief food was delivered very quickly. Not only was there no shortage of weight, but there was even a lot more than the scheduled amount. However, it was either low-quality corn mixed with sand and gravel, or old rice that had been stored for who knows how many years.

Moreover, those Hebei officials also worked hard in disaster relief and river repair, but they always pretended to obey his orders but actually disobeyed them. They did not take him, the inspector, seriously, which made Li Shengjia extremely angry.

In the original plot, Li Shengjia was also sent to Hebei to provide disaster relief. He did not have the connections and abilities of the previous inspector, and was also ostracized by Hebei officials, so he lived a very tiring life.

It was the original owner who begged Zhu's father to transport grain all the way from the south of the Yangtze River to Hebei when grain prices were rising, thus easing Li Shengjia's dilemma.

A flood in a county in Hebei Province almost brought down the Zhu family.

Now without the original owner's help, Li Shengjia was exhausted and soon looked much older and more tired.

During the disaster relief period, when Li Shengjia was leading his men on an inspection, they unexpectedly encountered bandits again. They robbed them of everything and beat them up.

The others only suffered minor injuries, only Li Shengjia's right leg was broken.

He was in excruciating pain, but the medical facilities in the disaster area were limited, so they could only give him a simple bandage. He also needed to return to the capital to have his bones straightened, and he walked with a limp after that.

After finally enduring the disaster, Li Shengjia immediately rushed to the capital.

In the capital city, there is not only the Princess Yunzhu whom he has been thinking about day and night, but also the imperial physician with superb medical skills.

When he returned to the capital to report on his work, those Hebei officials who had made things difficult for him when he was in Hebei, praised him a lot when they wrote memorials requesting merit, which made Li Shengjia feel a little elated.

Gao Yang sympathized with his hard work and arranged for an imperial physician to treat his leg.

"Lord Li's leg was not properly treated when it was first injured, and now a lot of bones and flesh have grown back. If you want to restore it to its original state, you need to break it again to allow the bones and flesh to grow back."

The old doctor's words made Li Shengjia and Princess Yunzhu pale.

That’s right, when Princess Yunzhu heard the news that Li Shengjia had returned to Beijing and entered the palace, she immediately rushed over.

Then she saw that the tall and majestic man in her heart had become a limp, and after half a month of living in the disaster area, his skin was very rough and dry, and there were several blisters at the corners of his mouth. He was no longer the high-spirited, suave and handsome man who had passed the imperial examination.

Princess Yunzhu could hardly believe her eyes!

When Princess Yunzhu heard that her brother was going to call an imperial physician for Li Shengjia, she perked up a little. Yes, there was an imperial physician. After the imperial physician's treatment, he would be her elegant and handsome Li Lang again.

"Then interrupt it!" Princess Yunzhu said firmly.

When Li Shengjia looked over with a pale face, Princess Yunzhu looked at him with red eyes, almost crying, and said in a sad tone: "Li Lang, do you remember that you promised to give me a grand wedding? If your leg can't be healed, how can you fulfill your promise?!"

"But……"

Li Shengjia's words were interrupted again.

"Do you still remember your promise to me that we would go to Mobei to see the snow together? When you get better, we will go to Mobei together to see the white snow all over the sky, to see the silver-clad world that belongs to the two of us alone. There will be no princess, no emperor, and no pain. There will only be purity, our love, you! And me!"

"Li Lang, don't I feel pain for you? Seeing you in pain will make me feel more pain. The pain is in your body and in my heart! But for our common future, I ask you, please, hold on!"

Princess Yunzhu's voice was heard outside, and the imperial physician who was combing the beard trembled and pulled out several hairs, causing him to grimace in pain.

Gao Yang, on the other hand, had an indifferent look on his face, as if he hadn't heard what Princess Yunzhu said at all.

After a while, Princess Yunzhu came out and said to the imperial physician, "It's OK."

The imperial physician then brought a few strong men into the inner room, and soon a muffled groan and a scream were heard, and then everything returned to calm.

Gao Yang was sitting in the outer room with a cup of fragrant tea in his hand. He slowly filtered out the floating tea leaves with a tea lid, listened to the miserable groan and took a sip.

What a great tea!

Gao Yang looked at Princess Yunzhu who was shaking from the corner of his eye. His eyes were full of indifference. He said calmly, "Do you really want to marry him?"

Princess Yunzhu was stunned for a moment, and the image of Li Shengjia limping and looking listless just now emerged in her mind.

Then, it was quickly replaced by the high-spirited image of the top scholar. She nodded and said in a tender voice, "Brother, I want to be with him!"

"This is the first time in 17 years that I've been moved. I've made a solemn vow to him that we will be together forever!"

Gao Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, "Regardless of life, old age, sickness and death? Regardless of poverty or wealth?"

Princess Yunzhu felt that Gao Yang was questioning her pure and sacred love and was disrespecting her personality. Her eyes immediately turned red. "Brother, I thought you were different from others and that you understood me!"

"I know that to you, my brother, the world is important, the throne is important, and power is important, but to me, love is more important! What's the fun of life without love?!"

"Li Lang is very important to me. He is the love I have been waiting for for seventeen years!"