The emperor just doesn't treat everyone equally, and it's none of my business!

Gu Shijin had a very comfortable time during the two days she was back home. Delicious food was prepared for her at every meal. Her father, mother, sister and brother checked on her four or five times a day, giving Gu Shijin a rare experience of being part of a family.

Oh, her elder brother Gu Chengfeng was still on duty in the palace and missed this rare opportunity for family reunion.

However, it was Gu Chengfeng who personally escorted Gu Shijin back yesterday. He said that he would go home for dinner tonight.

On the seventh day of May, Gu Chengfeng returned from his duty in the palace before the hour of Shen.

After coming back, he went to Gu Shijin's house to see Gu Shijin first.

"I am here to meet you, the Queen."

"Brother, what are you doing?" Gu Shijin said helplessly: "There are no outsiders here."

Gu Chengfeng stood up and said, "Walls have ears. It's always better to be careful."

Their house is very conspicuous now, and many people are watching them.

Although the Gu Mansion had been cleaned up many times by him and his father and there should be no spies there, such things could not be absolute.

"Brother, you're off duty so early?" Gu Shijin knew that his explanation was not going to make sense, so he stopped talking about it.

"Yes, the emperor asked me to come back early." Gu Chengfeng said.

Gu Shijin smiled and felt warm in his heart.

Gu Chengfeng felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Gu Shijin's expression. She was obviously his sister, but now she was thinking about another man. Sigh...

but……

"When I came back today, the emperor wanted to come with me to the Gu Mansion, but I refused." The wedding is tomorrow, and the two newlyweds cannot meet today.

"Haha..." Gu Shijin looked at Gu Chengfeng and said, "Brother, aren't you afraid that he will make things difficult for you in the future?"

Gu Chengfeng: "That won't work either, my sister is the most important."

"Thank you, brother." Gu Shijin said sincerely.

Every member of this family was genuinely kind to her.

Gu Chengfeng shook his head and looked at Gu Shijin with a dazed look. He felt that his younger sister had changed a lot, but he didn't want to delve into the reasons. Life in the deep palace was already hard enough. No matter what the reason was, he just hoped that his sister could be happy.

No one mentioned any sad things during this dinner, and everyone finished the dinner tacitly.

……

In the palace, Lu Junze was also having dinner, but it was not going very smoothly. The third and fourth princes were sensible enough and would not cry and shout for their mother, but Lingyi was still young and kept shouting for her mother until her voice was hoarse.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Lu Junze hugged little Lingyi and coaxed her softly.

Little Lingyi gave face to her father. She cried for a while in Lu Junze's arms and then stopped crying. She just kept hiccuping and looked very sad.

"You will be able to see your mother tomorrow, don't cry, baby." Lu Junze patted little Lingyi on the back and coaxed her.

Because tomorrow's coronation ceremony would be complicated and tiring, Gu Shijin was sent back to bed early by his family.

As a result, she saw Lu Junze’s back as soon as she walked into the room.

"Aze?"

"Lingyi missed you so much that her voice became hoarse from crying." Lu Junze turned around and said.

Upon hearing this, Gu Shijin swallowed back what he was about to say.

"Little Lingyi." Gu Shijin took the little person from Lu Junze's arms, only to find that the person had fallen asleep.

Gu Shijin glared at Lu Junze.

"She really missed you." Lu Junze took Gu Shijin into his arms, "She just fell asleep."

Gu Shijin didn't doubt the truth of this, but it was obviously an excuse for Lu Junze to find him.

"Jin'er, did you miss me?"

"Your Majesty, we haven't seen each other for just one day."

"Jin'er, haven't you heard a saying?" Lu Junze kissed Gu Shijin's forehead and said, "One day without seeing you feels like three years."

"Jin'er, I miss you so much." Lu Junze looked into Gu Shijin's eyes and said seriously.

Gu Shijin blinked his eyes, "How much does Aze miss me?"

"If I could change my heart to yours, I would know how deeply I miss you." Lu Junze said word by word.

Gu Shijin blushed, and at the same time he knew that Lu Junze's words were meant to imply something.

Her feelings for Lu Junze were indeed not deep enough, at least they could not compare to Lu Junze's feelings for her.

Lu Junze touched Gu Shijin's head and whispered, "Jin'er, have a good rest and wait for me to pick you up tomorrow."

He didn't come here to do anything today, he just wanted to take a look at Jin'er.

"Okay." Gu Shijin nodded, "I'll wait for Aze."

Lu Junze smiled, and that smile was so gentle and doting that Gu Shijin's heart softened.

After Lu Junze left, Gu Shijin couldn't fall asleep. She thought about many things, and finally, when she thought about what she had to do tomorrow, she could only force herself to fall asleep.

……

On the eighth day of the fifth month in the thirteenth year of Yuanjing, the emperor and empress got married.

As soon as the day broke, the capital city became bustling with people. There were crowds of people everywhere, and it was packed everywhere. Even so, everyone's face was filled with smiles.

"Is today a good day? Is the capital celebrating a festival? Why are there so many people everywhere?" A foreign businessman, whose attire was clearly not from the Great Xia era, asked the person next to him.

The person being asked first glanced at the man, and when he realized that he was not from Daxia, he suddenly said, "You are not from Daxia, so you may not know."

"Today is the day when the Emperor of Great Xia marries the Queen. We common people all want to come and witness the Queen's grace." The man said with a smile.

"Ah." The foreign businessman smiled and then said, "Then I am really lucky today to be able to witness such a grand event."

"Yeah yeah."

As the two were talking, they saw many soldiers coming out with spears, shouting and separating the common people from the middle of the road. Soon a road about three meters wide was revealed.

This is where the Queen will pass by in a while.

It is said that we are going to walk around the capital, but in fact we are just walking around the inner city. After all, the capital is so big that one day will not be enough to finish the whole walk.

Lu Junze did not come to greet Gu Shijin in person. He wanted to, but the ministers refused to agree. First, it was against the rules, and second, it was too dangerous. What if an accident happened?

Lu Junze thought so too. He was not afraid of assassination or anything like that, but he was afraid that today's ceremony would be ruined.

When the auspicious time arrived, Gu Shijin sat on the queen's phoenix chariot and set off.

In the front were the guards leading the way, followed by a group of musicians dressed in festive attire.

Behind the music team was a ceremonial guard composed of palace maids and eunuchs. They all held various pairs of utensils in their hands. These things were symbols of the queen's status and none of them could be missing.

Behind the guard of honor was a group of court ladies, all of whom were ladies of the first and second ranks. They wore auspicious robes and walked in front of the empress's phoenix sedan with serious expressions.

The phoenix chariot was extremely luxurious, with exquisite and gorgeous decorations. It had a canopy made of pure gold, curtains made of pearls, and bright yellow satin curtains all around, embroidered with auspicious patterns of dragons and phoenixes. The curtains all around were rolled up, revealing Gu Shijin in a phoenix robe in the middle.