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"As the goddess of Tianze Country, you can cure incurable diseases in the blink of an eye. How can you be in poor health? If anything happens to you, I'm sure the goddess will be able to help!"

"Your Highness..." Yan Shuyao was still begging.

The aunt was also begging desperately. One of the two women was crying and wailing, while the other was complaining and crying.

Yan Yunshu looked at the two of them coldly.

It's just being locked up in the woodshed. Is this the end of the world? When she was locked up and starving and freezing, how come it wasn't against the will of heaven? How come it wasn't cold and drafty? How come nothing happened to her?

In my previous life, I was imprisoned in death row for several months and finally died tragically at your hands.

How come it’s not against the principles of heaven?

Tell me, what is the law of nature?

Does the law of nature mean that you can manipulate others at will and maliciously trample on their dignity and lives?

Yan Yunshu held Xu Jinghuai's hand even tighter.

As if sensing her emotions, Xu Jinghuai patted the back of her hand gently.

Fanghua Garden was large and magnificent, and the house was warm. Everyone who was kneeling down was sweating and suddenly felt very hot.

It's hot.

The door suddenly opened and a gust of wind and snow blew in.

The voice came through the screen at the door, before I saw anyone.

"What are you doing? It's so lively!"

It’s Xu Jingye! His Royal Highness the First Prince has also arrived, and everyone is whispering.

Yan Shuyao hadn't seen Xu Jingye for several days. When she heard his voice, her face was full of grievance.

Xu Jingye walked around the screen and entered the main hall.

He was wearing a gray brocade robe, with a handsome and elegant face, and walked slowly towards Xu Jinghuai.

Everyone saluted the eldest prince, and Yan Yunshu also stood up to salute. When she pulled her hand out of Xu Jinghuai's to salute, Xu Jinghuai felt a strong sense of loss.

I really want to hold Yan Yunshu’s hand like this forever!

After Yan Yunshu saluted, she stood beside Xu Jinghuai, avoiding Xu Jingye's sight.

Xu Jingye asked the maids and servants to leave, leaving only Xu Jinghuai, Yan Yunshu, Yan Shuyao and the prime minister's concubine in the hall.

Afterwards, Xu Jingye looked at Xu Jinghuai and said with a feigned smile, "My brother has always been aloof and aloof, but now he seems to be showing some worldly ideas. Are you trying to get involved in the affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

"It's not my turn to take care of the Xiangfu's family affairs. I just take care of my own business."

Xu Jingye sneered, then turned to look at Yan Shuyao. As the rumors in the market said, her face was completely healed. He was surprised and relieved.

Just looking at her crying and grieving, he felt distressed. In the past few days, there have been many troubles in his house. He was so busy that he had no time to come to the prime minister's residence.

He came here this time because the servant of the Prime Minister's Mansion had just hurriedly informed him that His Royal Highness the Second Prince was in the Prime Minister's Mansion and wanted to punish Yao'er. Only then did he put aside the affairs of the mansion.

So what is going on?

Did Yan Yunshu bully Yaoer again?

Without thinking, he glared at Yan Yunshu fiercely. Yan Yunshu didn't look at him, but only half of her face was facing him, and the rest of her face was inadvertently hidden behind Xu Jinghuai.

"So what's going on?"

Yan Shuyao cried hesitantly, "Just now, Yao'er just said something out of turn, and the Second Prince punished her. She was locked up in the woodshed, deprived of food and water, until the day she came of age."

"What did Yao'er say?"

"Yao'er just asked the Second Prince if he was here to cancel the engagement..."

Xu Jingye narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Jinghuai, "It's just one sentence. Besides, I just said what my brother wanted to say. Do you want to make a fuss about it?"

"When did I say I was here to break off the engagement?"

"Hmm?" Xu Jingye looked at Xu Jinghuai warily, "If you're not here to break off the engagement, what are you doing here?"

"What does this have to do with you?"

"Of course it matters. You've messed up the Prime Minister's Mansion. If I, your brother, don't come to clean up after you, and this gets out, what will others say about our royal family?"

"Whatever. I, Xu Jinghuai, have never had a reputation."

"Xu Jinghuai! Don't always be so arrogant and conceited!"

"This is how I am!"

"You've arrested so many children from aristocratic families and taken them to the Ministry of Justice, which has already caused public dissatisfaction. If you insist on punishing Yao'er severely for her words again this time, just imagine what will happen?" Xu Jingye sneered, "I don't believe that my brother is really so indifferent to fame and fortune, and doesn't care about power, fame, or anything else."

"Xu Jingye," Xu Jinghuai replied expressionlessly, "It has nothing to do with you."

"Your Highness..." Yan Shuyao cried and pulled the corner of Xu Jingye's clothes. Only then did Xu Jingye see that there were marks of dart wounds on Yan Shuyao's shoulders and bright red blood stains on her clothes. His heart was broken even more.

This is the woman he loves most, the woman who saved his life when he was a teenager. If he can't even protect the woman he loves most, what face does Xu Jingye have left?

"Xu Jinghuai, I don't allow you to touch Yao'er."

Xu Jinghuai looked at Xu Jingye coldly.

"Xu Jingye, since you care so much about her, then marry her. If you marry her, I will not bother about it because she is the emperor's sister-in-law."

Xu Jingye choked and couldn't say a word.

Marry Yan Shuyao? He wanted to, too! But for the sake of his ambition to become emperor, he couldn't marry her for the time being. The person he wanted to marry was Yan Yunshu, who had a powerful maternal family!

He looked at Yan Yunshu.

Yan Yunshu's entire face was hidden in Xu Jinghuai's figure.

She wanted to be invisible at this moment.

Xu Jingye looked at Yan Shuyao again. Yan Shuyao had a complicated expression. She didn't want to get married, but she couldn't show that she really didn't want to get married. Between marrying and not marrying, she tried hard to control her facial expression.

Yan Shuyao performed the role of unrequited love very well.

Xu Jingye's heart ached even more.

He wanted to yell back, "Do you think I don't want to marry Yan Shuyao? I do!! But no, I must marry that vicious woman Yan Yunshu!! All this is for his and Yao'er's future!!!"

He thought that all his anger was directed at Yan Yunshu.

He doesn't want to get married, but he has to compromise for the sake of reality. The person he has to marry is especially disgusting.

"Yan Yunshu!"

Xu Jingye roared.

Yan Yunshu frowned, anger rising from her heart. Are you sick? You guys can argue as you please. Why are you yelling at me? Did a dog eat your brain?

"Your Highness, is there something wrong?" Yan Yunshu's tone was extremely cold.

"You!!" Xu Jingye was a little stuck. He kept saying "you, you, you" for a long time before continuing, "You've become even more unreasonable now. You actually watched Yao'er being punished and didn't even stand up!"

Yan Yunshu sneered. Oh, she almost forgot. In the past, whenever Yan Shuyao encountered any difficulties, it was her elder sister who stepped forward to take the punishment or took the blame!