I'm in trouble again! My best friend, the princess in the group, please save me!

Huanyan and Jiang Xingkuo stayed up late last night and went to the warehouse to steal things. She didn't get enough sleep in the first place, and now she had been pretending for the whole morning just to get rid of the trouble brought to his family. She was immediately furious.

"Why did you mention him? It's better not to mention him! Are you here to cause trouble for me? Do you think I didn't die fast enough?"

Jiang Xingkuo, who was standing by, had just taken two bites of cheesecake when he thought of Yutai again. He also chimed in unhappily, "That's right! That's right!"

Tengxi lowered his head and said, "It was I who spoke too much."

Before the two of them could relax for a moment, the tiles on the roof creaked.

"What's the noise?" Jiang Xingkuo quickly got up.

I saw Xiao'e, who hadn't been seen for many days, jumped in from the window.

"It's you." Jiang Xingkuo sighed to the sky. "It's you again."

"Girl, it's time to go back to the palace." Xiao'e was still expressionless as always.

"Oh. Okay, okay. I just happen to have something to talk to her about." Jiang Xingkuo sighed.

"Go ahead." Huanyan smiled and pushed her with her foot. "Remember to say hello to my brother."

"Are you a human?" Jiang Xingkuo pushed her feet away with disgust.

"What? This wasn't your own choice?" Huanyan gloated.

"Come on, come on. Half a catty is not worth eight taels. How dare you say that to me?" Jiang Xingkuo rolled his eyes at her.

Huanyan didn't say anything, but shrugged helplessly and then sighed.

Tengxi looked at them silently, not understanding what they were talking about. But their behavior had always been so strange, so she didn't take it to heart.

"Princess, I have something I would like to ask for your permission."

"Tengxi, what's wrong with you? Just tell me if you have something to say." "Princess, can you allow me to enter the palace with Miss Jiang tonight?"

Huanyan reluctantly sat up. "Hmm?"

"I went to visit Yutai's parents two days ago, and I felt that life is impermanent, so I thought of some old friends and sisters in the palace. So today I want to go to the palace with Miss Jiang to visit old friends and reminisce about the past."

Tengxi's eyes were already slightly red.

When the jade platform was mentioned, Huanyan and Jiang Xingkuo were both stunned.

"Go ahead. Life is short, and you should go meet the people you want to meet right away." Huanyan nodded.

Jiang Xingkuo also patted her shoulder and turned around to pack his things.

Soon she and Xiao'e took Tengxi away.

Songyan scratched his head, thinking. "I remember that Tengxi was aloof and aloof, and it seemed like she didn't have any special close friends or sisters..."

"What? You don't allow people to have a lover in the palace?" Huanyan turned over lazily.

"Ah? That's absolutely impossible. Teng Xi once scolded me that all men in this world are heartless and only know how to take advantage of women, or lock them up at home to give birth to children and manage the household, causing the wives and concubines to fight each other to death. Or they give living women away to make friends with the powerful and to smooth relations, or they cheat and deceive them in order to climb up, forcing them to do many things they don't want to do... At that time, I just thought this idea was rebellious and unique. Alas, this world..."

Songyan kept mumbling to herself, while Huanyan propped up her head with her hands in deep thought. "Well... you really shouldn't say that..."

The galloping carriage passed through the bustling streets and stopped under the palace wall.

Jiang Xingkuo looked up at the towering palace wall and took a deep breath.

Passing through the Imperial Garden, I found that both sides of the road were covered with exceptionally brilliant chrysanthemums.

"Why did the Royal Garden change its taste?"

She remembered that all kinds of flowers had been planted in this area before. When spring came, all the flowers bloomed, making it very lively.

Xiao'e remembered what the emperor had taught her, so she said in a serious tone, "De Fei is pregnant, and has been taking a walk in the Imperial Garden every day. His Majesty has specially replaced all the flowers in the Imperial Garden with De Fei's favorite chrysanthemums to show his favor."

Jiang Xingkuo gave her a strange look. "Oh."

Concubine De is pregnant. If she is, then she is pregnant. She even told me through Xiao'e.

Xiao'e carefully observed Jiang Xingkuo's expression, but found that she had no expression at all.

The Piyun Palace was right in front of them. Xiao E said she was going to report to the emperor and left first.

Jiang Xingkuo and Tengxi were just about to go in when a faint fragrance wafted from the corner of the wall.

She stopped in alert.

"It's you."

"Second Prince." Teng Xi bowed.

"I haven't seen you for a while. You've lost weight." He stood there, and his expression could not be seen clearly. His hair fluttered in the wind, and his broad shoulders and narrow waist looked even more charming in the sunset.

"Thanks to you, I'm still alive." Jiang Xingkuo smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Why do you say that? Is someone trying to kill you?" He walked over slowly, holding a paper fan in his hand.

Only then did Jiang Xingkuo notice the intriguing smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It's almost like killing you." Jiang Xingkuo curled his lips.

"Miss, please be careful with your words. This is not the princess's mansion." Teng Xi reminded her hurriedly.

An Yuyan then noticed her. "Hey. Isn't this... the one next to Huanyan... what was that? How come he's also in the palace?"

"I am Tengxi." Tengxi lowered her head.

"Teng Xi." An Yuyan walked in front of her, turned her wrist slightly, and pried up Teng Xi's panicked face with the other end of the paper fan.

"She's also a beauty."

"Second Prince..." Teng Xi's voice began to tremble.

Jiang Xingkuo frowned, "Please respect yourself!"

An Yuyan smiled and put down her hand. "I'm praising her, why are you so nervous?"

"Tengxi, go in and do your thing first." Jiang Xingkuo pulled her behind him and handed her the bag on his back.

Tengxi quickly took the bag and ran away without any greeting.

"What exactly do you want to say?" Jiang Xingkuo crossed his arms across his chest in annoyance.

"I just came to tell you something," he suddenly leaned over and leaned close to her ear. Looking at the beautiful face that suddenly approached, Jiang Xingkuo's heart skipped a beat.

"Wei Chuchu, at the Hai family."

Jiang Xingkuo calmed himself down, and after a while he said, "Oh? Why are you telling me this? Why are you so kind?"

Looking at Jiang Xingkuo's little action, he smiled slightly, "Nothing else. I value her talent. And she and I are old acquaintances."

"Then how do you know?" Jiang Xingkuo looked at him half-doubtfully.

"Grandpa is old. As the younger generation, it is our responsibility to visit him often."

An Yuyan was involved with the Hai Mansion. She thought of the recent developments in the Hai Mansion.

Jiang Xingkuo stared at him, "Do you... have any ideas?"

"Oh? What idea?" He pretended to be stupid.

"Wouldn't it be better to speak frankly?" Jiang Xingkuo tilted his head.

"Okay. No. I don't have any ideas. What ideas can I have? I am just a chess piece that the Hai family has given up. What can I fight for? How can I fight?"

His series of rhetorical questions left Jiang Xingkuo speechless.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, he continued, "I'm asking you for the last time, will you come with me? Come with me to Quanzhou. There it's spring-like all year round, with clear water and green mountains. It's far away from calculations, far away from the hustle and bustle, far away from the harem..."

"Why me?" She raised her head and looked at him, her eyes moving.

She didn't understand why he was still so persistent when she had rejected him many times.