Liu Yinyin choked up and continued, "However, Your Majesty, my entire family has received due punishment for the crimes they committed. Now I am the only one left. Not only am I guilty, I am also very likely an unlucky person. I am afraid that marrying Prince Jing would offend His Majesty." Then she leaned over and kowtowed heavily on the ground several times.

Zhu Yu was stunned immediately: Oh my god, what kind of operation is this? Now I am under pressure?

Zhu Yu didn't dare and wasn't in the mood to look up at the emperor, but Zhu Wenyun did. He saw an expression of "as expected" on the emperor's face, and that expression was mixed with disdain for Liu Yinyin. He thought to himself that this was not good. He might have to put in some effort to pick his daughter out later. For some reason, his ears turned red unconsciously when he thought of this.

"Since you don't want to, I won't force you. But if Xian'er gets better in the future, even you, my humble concubine, won't be able to do it for him. Yu girl, what about you? Are you willing to give it a try for Xian'er?" The emperor turned his gaze to Zhu Yu again.

Zhu Yu did not kneel, but bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I did offend the prince because I was greedy for Prince Jing's beauty, and I also asked for your forgiveness to grant us a marriage. If you ask me whether I am willing or not, I am willing. After all, even if Prince Jing is lying there unconscious, he is still handsome and refreshing."

The emperor waved his hand to stop Zhu Yu from talking: "No buts, I am very pleased to hear you say that, let's just leave it at that! I have asked the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to calculate the date, and it will be a good day in three days. I will draft the decree now, and draft the reward and marriage together. Girl, you can go back and wait for the imperial decree with your father and prepare for your marriage with peace of mind."

Zhu Wenyun: . . . . .

Vermilion taro: . . . . . .

Prince Jing, who was eavesdropping from behind: ...

The emperor thought to himself, these two annoying things, neither of them is a good thing, but I still like this girl Yu very much, and it makes me happy to think that she can be a relative of Zhuzi.

When they were leaving, the emperor called out to Zhu Wenyun again: "Lord Zhu, please stay. I have something else to discuss with you."

Zhu Yu glanced at Zhu Wenyun, who motioned for her to go back first, and she went out with Liu Yinyin.

The young eunuch led the two men on the way out of the palace. They each had their own thoughts and were very silent.

Zhu Yu looked at the wide palace road in front of her, and helplessly recalled an ancient poem that didn't quite fit the scene: How deep is the courtyard? I sigh that man proposes, God disposes. After all, she couldn't escape the fate of marrying Prince Jing. If Prince Jing remained in a coma, she could accept it. After all, her father and elder brother were reliable, and the palace shouldn't be too poor. She would definitely be a powerful and wealthy woman. As long as she didn't do too much, she should have no problem living a worry-free life until old age. The only thing she was afraid of was that he would wake up half-dead, which would be upsetting.

Prince Jing: Thank you so much.

Although Liu Yinyin on the side successfully rejected the marriage proposal, she was very unwilling in her heart. After all, Prince Jing was the one she had spent more than ten years trying to win over. In order to win over Prince Jing, she studied needlework with great effort. When she embroidered a purse for Prince Jing for the first time, she took it apart and embroidered it again. All ten fingers were pierced by needlework. Her eyes could not see clearly during that time, and it took her half a month to recover. In order to understand Prince Jing's preferences, she had to spend no amount of money every month to bribe the people around him. Her life was so tight. In order to learn the guzheng that Prince Jing liked, she studied day and night. She had no idea how many strings she had broken, and her back ached all day long. Needless to say, there are too many such cases to mention. In the end, Prince Jing turned out to be like this. When she heard the news from the spies, she almost fainted. She felt that she had failed at the last hurdle. She immediately thought that she must not get herself involved. Although she was the daughter of a guilty minister, with her beauty and talent, it was not impossible for her to find another backer. However, even if Prince Jing was dying and would be a paraplegic at best, she was unwilling to let Zhu Yu take advantage of her. She pinched her handkerchief in her sleeve again and again with hatred, and finally whispered to Zhu Yu with a look of gratitude: "Thank you, Sister Zhu, for your help. Yinyin wishes you and Prince Jing a loving couple and a harmonious relationship in advance."

Zhu Yu: ... If you can’t speak, then don’t speak.

But Zhu Yu didn't intend to lose her momentum. She said arrogantly, "Prince Jing is handsome and has a divine appearance. It's a great blessing to marry him. No matter what he will be like in the future, I've earned it. Maybe God will bless me and I'll really be his lucky star. He'll wake up after a rush. When the time comes, Prince Jing will be moved and fall in love with me because of my unswerving love for him. That will be a good life for both of us."

Seeing that she failed to touch Zhu Yu's brows and was mocked by her instead, Liu Yinyin made a face of secretly shedding tears and wiped her eyes with a handkerchief: "It's a pity that Yinyin is unlucky and can't fight for Prince Jing."

Zhu Yu rolled her eyes. She really couldn't understand why she was so jealous and showing off even though she had already gotten the upper hand. "How should I put it? If I were you, and Prince Jing and I had been childhood sweethearts, and Prince Jing loved me so much, I would go to him regardless of everything. I can't let others take over the man I love. If he dies, I will stay with him. But it's understandable that you don't want to be with him for your own future. There is no rule that requires you to risk your life for love. It's all a personal choice. But I hope that since you have chosen to give up on him at this moment, you won't regret it in the future. Don't let Prince Jing come to you and whine again if he gets better in the future. That would be really disgusting."

Liu Yinyin didn't reply, but cried even harder. Her sobbing made Zhu Yu upset, and he really wanted to slap her and send her away.

Not far behind the two of them, Prince Jing, dressed in black, looked at the two people's receding backs expressionlessly. He first set his eyes on Liu Yinyin's back. She was still wearing his favorite color, a light green dress with a few goose yellow flowers embroidered on the hem. With her graceful steps, her whole body was like a flower branch swaying in the wind. On her ears, she still wore the pair of jade dew earrings that he had secretly given her before he left. Those were his mother's favorite earrings, and he gave them to her as a secret expression of his feelings for her.

His expression seemed calm, but his clenched hands revealed his current mood. He had never expected that his beloved woman would admit the guilt of her family and admit that she was the daughter of a criminal in order to get rid of him.

He risked his life to go out of the city just to help her clear her family's grievances. She knew that. She even knew all the things he had done for her before. However, she actually abandoned him like a worn-out shoe. At this moment, he seemed like a huge joke. "Heh." He chuckled. He was willing to accept the loss and give up on her.

He turned his sight to Zhu Yu again. Today, Zhu Yu was rarely wearing a plain dress, even her pearl hairpins and shoes were plain. He heard everything they said in the imperial study and on the road. He had not persuaded his father to do this, and this outcome was something he had never expected. She must be very upset now. With her temper, she didn't know how she scolded him in her heart, but this woman still gave him enough respect, and after the marriage was irreversible, she firmly chose to stand by him. What she said to Liu Yinyin just now was exactly what he wanted to say to her. The past was the past, and after today, let it all go. As for him and Zhu Yu, she didn't want to, and he didn't want to force it.

Zhu Yu: Really not, I wore plain clothes because Xiaohua said it looked good, and I said those things simply because I wanted to offend people.

All the palace servants serving in the imperial study were sent out and stood outside waiting at a distance. The room was filled with the tempting aroma of meat, mixed with the fresh fragrance of green peppers.

However, on the marble floor, which was always kept clean and tidy, there lay quietly a roujiamo that was supposed to be enjoyed. It was obviously thrown to the ground by someone. It was broken into pieces, with the crispy crust falling all over the floor and the meat filling spilling out of the crust. A piece of yellow oil paper was floating not far away, and most of it had been soaked with oil. I guess the sleeve that secretly put it in would not be spared.

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