After swallowing my anger and taking the blame, I became the lucky little queen

Xiao Jianting didn't speak for a long time.

Nian Susu knew that he wouldn’t be able to figure it out for the time being, so she said this and stood up to leave.

"Mr. Xiao, what I said today came from my heart. I didn't say anything hurtful out of resentment or blame for you."

"I feel sorry for Zhizhi. It's not worth it, but I also hope that you can live well and have the courage to face the future instead of living in the past all your life."

"I think...she thinks so too."

Nian Susu walked down the stairs step by step. Gusts of cold wind blew past her behind her, and the hem of her clothes rustled on the ground.

She suddenly heard him ask: "So she is Li Yaoyuan?"

Her back was turned to him, so she couldn't see his expression, but she could tell from his tone that he asked this with hope.

"No." She spat out two words indifferently and quickened her pace to leave.

When we returned to Yian Palace, all the luggage had been loaded onto the truck.

Qin Junyu and Xiao Yunzheng were talking at the door.

"Brother Yu, where is the second prince? Why is he nowhere to be seen? Isn't he going back with us?" Xiao Yunzheng looked around.

Qin Guanqing disappeared as soon as he arrived in Yuhang. Even when Qin Junyu and Nian Susu fell to the bottom of the mountain, he did not show up during the five days he was missing, as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Xiao Yunzheng scolded him several times for this and was planning to settle the score with him when she returned to Shengjing, but she didn't expect to see him when she left.

Qin Junyu lowered his head and straightened his sleeves. "I don't know which county town he is in now."

"Ah?" Xiao Yunzheng didn't react.

Nian Susu walked closer with a smile, and continued Qin Junyu's words to explain to her: "The Second Prince said that he followed us out to relax but it was just an excuse. He just wanted to take the opportunity to slip out of the capital. How could he go back with us?"

Qin Guanqing was a man who couldn't sit still. Having been trapped in the capital for more than half a year, he had been itching to fly to the vast world immediately. If he hadn't been hindered by Qin Junyu's marriage, he would have left in March.

"Then he won't attend your wedding banquet?" Xiao Yunzheng's eyes moved between the two of them.

Qin Junyu: "He said to wait until the wedding date is set before sending him a message."

Xiao Yunzheng said "Oh" and didn't ask any more questions.

She ran to help Axuan - feeding the horse with hay.

Qin Junyu and Nian Susu looked at each other.

"You went to see Jian Ting?"

"Yeah." Nian Susu felt inexplicably guilty.

Xiao Jianting was originally going to come to give him a farewell party, but she went over and scolded him, so it was impossible for Xiao Jianting to come again.

He must be sad, right? He couldn't even say a few words to his friends before leaving.

Nian Susu looked at him carefully, observing his expression.

Unexpectedly, Qin Junyu just smiled calmly and said, "What are you thinking about? I just asked casually, I don't mean anything else."

Nian Susu clearly saw the reluctance in his smile, but things had come to this point and there was nothing she could do.

After the horses were well fed and watered, they set out on their journey back to Beijing.

Xiao Jianting stood at the city gate and watched their carriages going farther and farther away, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Li Yaoyuan hurriedly watched them leave in the crowd of the downtown area. Only when they disappeared into the distance did she withdraw her gaze in disappointment, feeling empty in her heart.

……

Three days before New Year’s Eve, I finally returned to Shengjing.

It was snowing in Shengjing. The whole city was covered in white. There was also a thick layer of snow on the ground. The carriages left two deep ruts on the snowy road.

One carriage returned to the Xiao Mansion, one carriage returned to the Nian Mansion, and the rest slowly swayed towards the direction of the imperial palace.

Qin Junyu spurred his horse and galloped in the snow, hurried towards Dongzhimen.

Nian Mansion.

Nian Chengyun and Yang Yuerong received news early in the morning that their daughter would be home today. They waited at the gate of the mansion for an hour in the wind and snow. It was freezing cold, but they had no intention of retreating.

Finally, they saw the shadow of the carriage. The two were so happy that they asked people to prepare umbrellas and personally held a blanket to pick up the people.

Ma Yu stopped at the gate of Nian's mansion, and Nian woke up slowly.

She took a nap in the car, and when she opened her eyes she heard her parents' voices, and she suddenly became alert.

She sat up, pushed open the car door, and was filled with cold air and blizzard. She squinted her eyes and shrank back.

Yang Yuerong stood on tiptoe and handed the umbrella to her, holding it above her head to shield her from the snow. Her limbs were frozen stiff and her face was too frozen to make any expression, but she still tried her best to smile, "Lingling! Come down quickly!"

Nian Susu opened his eyes, smiled at his mother, and called out sweetly, "Mom."

This long-lost feeling of home.

Nian Chengyun was waiting in the back with a blanket in his arms. When he heard his daughter calling "Mom" instead of "Dad", he immediately became anxious, "Lingling, come to Daddy quickly, don't catch a cold."

Nian Susu's eyes were red, and he called out again, "Dad."

Nian Chengyun was finally satisfied.

Yang Yuerong helped the man down from the carriage and immediately wrapped him in Nian Chengyun's blanket.

The three of them huddled together and walked inside.

Nian Susu walked into the front hall, rubbing her hands as she went. Yang Yuerong closed the umbrella and shook off the snow. Nian Chengyun pulled off the blanket and shook off the cold before wrapping Nian Susu up again.

The three of them stood under the eaves of the front hall, and the scene was warm.

"Mom, don't we have a good reunion dinner tonight?" Nian Susu asked with a smile.

This is the time for dinner.

Yang Yuerong's smile froze, as if she had thought of something.

"Sister." A familiar voice came from behind Nian Susu.

Nian Susu’s expression froze and he slowly turned around.

Nian Qiaoyue looked at her with a smile. She was four months pregnant and her belly was already noticeable. Her winter clothes were loose and thick, and the bulge of her belly was not very obvious. However, the movement of Nian Qiaoyue supporting her waist and leaning back was very natural, and one could tell what was going on.

"Why are you here?" Nian Susu was surprised.

Nian Qiaoyue was demoted to a slave and sent to Xiangru Palace to serve Qin Fengtian. How could she appear in the Nian family at this time?

Nian Chengyun glanced at Nian Qiaoyue and said, "It's windy outside, go in first, and we can talk later."

Nian Qiaoyue was obedient and nodded to Nian Chengyun, and was even respectful to Yang Yuerong.

She turned and went into the hall.

"Lingling, the emperor decided to let Qiaoyue marry Prince Qing as a concubine a while ago, but the wedding date has not been set yet. Although she is a concubine, it is not appropriate for her to stay in Xiangru Palace all the time, so he let her go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to live temporarily."

Yang Yuerong had heard these words before, and with the emperor above her, she dared not disobey. But after hearing them again, she still felt angry and her face immediately turned dark.

"So she's going to marry out of our family?"

"If I remember correctly, she is no longer a member of the Nian family. How can she marry out of the Nian Mansion?" Nian Susu was anxious.

She had finally made Nian Qiaoyue suffer the punishment she deserved, so was she really going to let her make a comeback like this?

Nian Chengyun seemed a little embarrassed, so he pulled her aside and said in a low voice, "According to the emperor's wishes, on the day Qiao Yue gets married, we will help her rent a house outside and let her go out from there."