My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

The queen paused, her lips twitched, and she turned back with a dignified and generous expression, "Princess, King Jing of Zhenguo is a foreign minister, this is the Changguo harem."

"I want to see Prince Jing." It was still the same sentence.

The queen couldn't help but feel a little annoyed: "I remind the princess again that Prince Jing is a foreign minister of the real country, and this is the harem of Changguo."

Princess Wan raised her eyes and stared at her dully, "Well, since he can't enter the palace, then I will go out of the palace to meet him."

"Princess!" The Queen's face was already very ugly, and she raised her voice, "I don't care what you have experienced in Zhenguo these years. But now that you are back, you are still my Dachang Princess! Your every word and action is related to the face of my Dachang Royal Family. For you, the Emperor of Dachang, your brother, can even put aside the death of the Crown Prince, and hundreds of thousands of troops can be withdrawn at will. How can you be so cold and indifferent? Princess, you should think carefully about the brother-sister relationship with the Emperor in the past, and think about what you should say and do as the Princess of Dachang!"

After the queen finished speaking, she turned away.

Outside the palace, she could be heard instructing the palace servants, "The princess has been away from her homeland for many years, and she really misses the plants and trees in this palace. She might want to come out and take a walk and have a look. But the princess has been traveling for days, and the imperial physician said she must stay in bed and rest, and it's best for her to stay in this courtyard. You must take care of the princess and let her rest well. Do you understand?!"

The palace maids and eunuchs quickly said, "We understand!"

Hearing the Queen's tone, is there anything you wouldn't understand?

In the inn, Cui Hongjing stood by Mei Xueer's bed, looking at her eagerly.

She has been lying like this for twenty days, motionless.

After Wangli took Mei Xueer's pulse, Cui Hongjing's eyes turned to him again, "How is it?"

Wang Li showed a rare smile on his face, "Your Majesty, don't worry too much. In my opinion, Miss Mei has shown signs of waking up."

"...When? When will she wake up?" Cui Hongjing grabbed his wrist, his eyes shining.

"Ahem... Your Majesty, can you be gentler? Gently... I can't say exactly when. Anyway, don't worry, I will stay by your side and continue to give you acupuncture. To put it in a good way, it should be in the next few days."

Cui Hongjing's brows, which had been furrowed for days, finally relaxed.

God knows how he got through these days, even staying by her bed all night long and not daring to sleep.

If Mei Xueer woke up suddenly, he wanted him to be the first person she saw after waking up.

He was also afraid that she would be angry with him after waking up and seeing him sleeping.

Along the way, he even ignored Princess Wan who was accompanying him. He knew that Aunt Wan had a problem with him because of this, but he couldn't care less.

No one is more important than Mei Xueer.

Seeing her lying motionless on the bed, recalling every detail of their past, he even thought that for her, he could give up everything and not fight for anything.

How nice it would be to live with her in this small world and lead the life of an ordinary couple.

However, Mei Xueer's identity as the daughter of Princess Anping of Nanyue and the hatred between his mother and grandfather forced him to fight.

Only by winning the fight can you have the simple life you always dream of.

He knew that he and she still had a long way to go, and the road was full of thorns.

"Your Highness, the King of Chu is here." Zhuang Xiang whispered outside the door.

The King of Chu walked back and forth in the main hall with his hands behind his back, tilting his head to look east and west.

It would be difficult to get any answer from Cui Hongjing as to why Princess Wan became like this.

It was just that his father had asked him to come and find out the truth, so he had to come. "You are more suitable for this kind of thing than King Kang."

He snorted: Humph, no matter what I do, I am more suitable than King Kang - except giving birth to children.

The wife of the prince Kang had given birth to two children, a son and a daughter, but he couldn't even handle a young girl who was naive to the ways of the world. And none of the women in the palace could give him a son or a daughter.

He suddenly had a very bad idea: Is there really something wrong with me?

Just as I was daydreaming, I heard a cough behind me.

Cui Hongjing: "What are you doing? Are you trying to pick off the iron ring on my armor?"

Yes, what am I doing here, my king?

The King of Chu smiled awkwardly and turned back, clapping his hands: "The craftsmanship of Zhen Country is only this good."

"Didn't you say before that you wanted to fight me in front of the battlefield?" Cui Hongjing sat down, straightened his clothes, and crossed his long legs casually. "To deal with you, this kind of chain mail is enough."

The King of Chu laughed awkwardly: "From the tone of the King of Jing, it seems like he has won a victory? But..."

Cui Hongjing interrupted him directly: "Your Highness must have come here for Princess Wan, right?"

The King of Chu was not angry. He just smiled and sat down on his own. "I wonder if the King of Jing has anything to tell me?"

Cui Hongjing lowered his head slightly, glanced at him sideways, and tapped the table with his slender fingers.

"When my mother was alive, she had a close relationship with Princess Wan, so I have always called her Aunt Wan."

"Really?" The King of Chu chuckled. "I didn't know. I thought..."

He didn't say anything else, but the annoying and obscene smile on his face clearly showed what he was thinking.

Cui Hongjing's fingers that were tapping on the table suddenly stopped, his face darkening, "Your Highness has a very unique way of thinking - Princess Wan is your aunt after all."

"Your Highness is right. So today, I was really distressed to see my aunt behave so abnormally... No, I was distressed on behalf of my father. If I had known this would happen, I would have let the Tiger Master of Changguo destroy the Zhen Kingdom. If your Highness is lucky, you might even be able to fight me in the capital of the Zhen Kingdom."

"No need to decide. I am the male and you are the female."

King Chu: ...This is an idiom! You are uneducated, you are so pitiful.

"Prince Jing means that there is nothing good to say about my aunt Wan?"

"I suggest that your Majesty the Emperor should ask Aunt Wan himself. Perhaps you will have a better chance of getting the answer you want." Cui Hongjing stood up and looked at him with contempt. "There is no need to ask you to come and test it."

"Perhaps Father thinks that I am useless and can only do things like meeting with Prince Jing." The King of Chu laughed, "Looking at Prince Jing's behavior, he seems to be trying to drive me away. Fortunately, I am a man who knows what's interesting."

"No need to see you off!" Cui Hongjing was thinking about Mei Xueer, so he turned around and left.

"Your Highness!——" The King of Chu called him.

He stopped but did not turn back: "What else does your Highness want?"

The King of Chu slowly walked up to him and said, "I want to make a deal with you. Are you interested?"

"...with you?" Cui Hongjing looked at him with some amusement.

The King of Chu nodded and said, "If this deal goes through, I will do my best to ensure that Miss Mei can recover safely during her stay in Changguo."

He spoke the last sentence slowly and with great force.

"You——" Cui Hongjing felt a chill all over his body when he heard his tone. He grabbed his collar and said word by word: "Do you believe that I will kill you right now?"