My Lady is well

Shen Yueyao was walking on a bluestone path, which was lined with pear blossoms. A gust of wind blew, and the flowers fluttered like falling snow.

Jin'er couldn't help but ask as she tidied up the petals that fell on her shoulders.

"Master, why are you hiding here instead of playing with them in front?"

Shen Yueyao curled her lips and said, "There are a lot of gossips ahead, so we'd better avoid them."

After hearing what she said, Jin'er said no more and just nodded slightly.

At some point, someone stood behind her. When Shen Yueyao turned around, she was startled. Jin'er thought it was a thief and quickly protected her behind him.

Shen Yueyao opened her red lips slightly and was stunned for a moment. It was him!

Jin Er glared at him and said, "How dare you scare our master!"

Shen Yueyao quickly placed her hand on Jin'er's arm that was protecting her and said in a deep voice.

"Jin'er, don't be rude. This is the Sixth Prince."

Jing Lince raised his eyebrows slightly. He looked somewhat similar to Jing Ruzhang, but he was not as cold as Jing Ruzhang.

The expression looks very soft and gentle.

"Oh? Why? You recognize me?"

She didn't know him, that was her guess. She didn't pay close attention to the Sixth Prince in the pavilion just now.

But she already knew that she would meet him today.

"I just saw the prince from a distance in the pavilion, so I recognized him."

Jing Lince's eyes lingered on her, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he inadvertently smelled a faint fragrance.

His heart moved slightly and he took a step forward.

"I heard a long time ago that the prince brought back a beauty from Jiangzhou. I guess it's the girl."

Hearing his frivolous tone, his burning eyes were unabashedly examining her.

Shen Yueyao felt uncomfortable all over. She didn't know what kind of weird images the other person was imagining in her mind when he looked at her.

She frowned and said, "Sixth Prince, I have married His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. If I were to live among the common people, you would have to call me sister-in-law."

Jing Lince raised his lips and smiled, and called her seriously, "Sister-in-law."

He deliberately added a trailing tone to make it a bit ambiguous.

Shen Yueyao suppressed the discomfort in her heart and quickly took two steps back to keep a relatively safe distance from him.

Qian Qian bowed: "Sixth Prince, please respect yourself."

Jing Lince didn't care at all and said nonchalantly.

"Shen Yong, the richest man in Jiangzhou, has several sons who are not successful, but the eldest daughter Shen Yun is quite extraordinary. How did the little sister-in-law get brought back by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? I don't know, I wonder if the little sister-in-law can explain it to me?"

Shen Yueyao was startled and looked at him warily.

He has investigated her, what is he going to do?

Jing Lince smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, sister-in-law. I will still need your help in the future."

Jing Lince was threatening her to be an insider.

Jing Lince's biological mother, Concubine De, was not favored. She died of illness ten years ago, leaving behind a prince and a princess.

The emperor didn't dislike him. Jing Lince's ability to compete with the prince today was entirely due to his own efforts.

The city is extremely deep.

He is an extremely dangerous person, and Shen Yueyao doesn't want to have anything to do with him.

If you are not careful, you may lose your life.

But Jing Lince was also someone she could not afford to offend. The Shen family treated her well, and if she really implicated the Shen family, she would be unable to sleep or eat.

She thought about it and said.

"I'm afraid the Sixth Prince has some misunderstandings about me. I'm just a daughter of a small merchant and not favored in the East Palace. I'm afraid I can't bear the Sixth Prince's attention."

He raised his lips and smiled, his laughter was hearty and his eyes were ambiguous.

"I am very good at judging people. My subordinates came back and said that the third daughter of the Shen family is a fool. Now it seems that they are the ones who failed to recognize the value of gold and jade."

Shen Yueyao frowned. Jing Lince simply wanted to use the Shen family to control her because she came from a merchant family and had no foundation.

If it was Yang Li, would he dare to be so presumptuous?

"Sixth brother."

As he was speaking, a young woman was running towards him.

"Qionghua, why are you here?"

Only then did Jing Lince look a little serious.

Shen Yueyao didn't have much impression of this Princess Qionghua. She only remembered that Jing Ruzhang had a younger sister, both of whom were born to Concubine Zhang De.

Thinking it must be her, Shen Yueyao actually breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her coming.

Qiong Hua was pretty. His eyes swam over her and noticed her rosy face, so he looked at her a few more times.

"who are you?"

Jing Lince raised his hand and tapped her forehead gently.

"You are disrespectful. This is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's Consort Shen."

Qionghua's expression turned visibly ugly, and her eyes became contemptuous.

"It was that merchant woman. When the Queen found out, she was furious for several days. I don't know what the Crown Prince said to her to calm her down."

"Qionghua, you are becoming more and more unruly. How can it be your turn to interfere in the Crown Prince's affairs?"

Although there was a hint of blame in Jing Lince's words, his tone was very gentle.

Shen Yueyao lowered her eyelids. Although she felt disgusted with Qionghua in her heart, she did not show any emotion on her face.

"Sixth brother, how dare you talk to a lowly person from the market? I don't know what despicable means she used to confuse the crown prince. It's strange to say, Sister Yang has always hated these things..."

"Qionghua!"

Jing Lince suddenly stopped her in a cold voice. Qionghua looked at him with tears in her almond-shaped eyes and said aggrievedly.

"Sixth brother, you are mean to me. You are mean to me for this lowly woman."

The merchant girl was a lowly person, and these hurtful words went straight into her ears.

She lowered her head and endured it, not wanting to show the slightest displeasure.

She wants to live.

"Why are you here?"

A familiar voice fell into her ears, Shen Yueyao turned around to look, Jing Ruzhang appeared behind her with an indifferent expression, and Jiang Ye stood beside him.

As soon as Jing Ruzhang stood there, the pressure from all around him came over him. Qionghua, who was stuttering just now, instantly became as obedient as a kitten and lowered her head.

The three of them saluted him together, and he said calmly, "Rise."

Shen Yueyao walked over and stood behind him with great insight. The two brothers were not getting along, and she needed to make her position clear.

Follow the leader and you will never go wrong.

Jing Ruzhang glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, with a complicated look in his eyes.

Shen Yueyao stood behind him and put her hands on her slender waist.

"I thought the pear blossoms here were very beautiful, so I came over to take a look."

Qionghua didn't dare to say much in front of him and hid behind Jing Lince. Jing Lince, on the other hand, looked calm and had a bit of cynicism on his face.

"I felt that the front was too boring, so I walked around and happened to meet Concubine Shen, so I exchanged a few words with her."

"That's a coincidence."

There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone when he said this.

"Sixth brother has always been bold in his actions, but it is better for him to stay away from the women of the Eastern Palace. Otherwise, it will give rise to gossip and be passed on to father by someone with ulterior motives. That would be bad. Don't you think so?"

"Your Highness is right. It was my fault for not considering things carefully."

Jing Lince apologized nonchalantly, but there was no sincerity in his tone or expression.

The way he spoke made me feel like he was indebted.

Jing Ruzhang didn't seem to care either.

Qionghua bowed slightly and said, "Brother Crown Prince, it's nothing. I will leave first."

Jing Ruzhang glanced at her indifferently and said in a cold voice.

"As a princess, you are disrespectful to your elders. Go and copy the Book of Rites fifty times."

Qionghua pouted and glared at Shen Yueyao, as if to say, it's all because of you, bitch, that this princess is being punished.

Shen Yueyao didn't like this kind of princess who was so high and mighty and never reflected on herself, so she smiled at her nonchalantly.

In Qionghua's eyes, it sounded like a mockery, and she said angrily.

"Brother Crown Prince, it was this woman who shamelessly spoke to Sixth Brother."

"You are so bold. Looks like I need to find you a new etiquette teacher."

Qionghua was frightened for a moment, her eyes full of panic, and she looked at Jing Lince with a look for help.

She developed a willful and spoiled character since she was young, and the maids in the palace could not control her.

Jing Lince just frowned slightly but did not plead for her.

She looked at Shen Yueyao with resentment and unwillingness, holding back her tears, and spoke softly.

"…I know I was wrong."

"In that case, then leave."

Jing Lince glanced at Qionghua's back, still with a faint smile on his face, and bowed.

"Qionghua should correct her temper. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave."

Jing Ruzhang nodded slightly.

After they left, Jing Ruzhang turned around and looked at Shen Yueyao coldly.

Shen Yueyao felt as if the air around her had frozen, and her scalp was numbing from being stared at.

She asked in a low voice: "…Why are you looking at me like this, Your Highness?"

"What's going on between you and Jing Lince?"

"What the Sixth Prince just said was not false. We just met by chance."

"Shen Yueyao, you'd better be honest with me."

"..."

Shen Yueyao had tears rolling in her eyes and she slowly lowered her head.

"I dare not deceive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Jing Ruzhang stared at Shen Yueyao's beautiful face without blinking. There was a hint of unwillingness between his brows, which made his chest tense slightly and he turned his head away.

He said coldly: "Stay away from him."

There was no tone of advice, but an order.