Rebirth of a Lost Nation: Princess, Please Respect Yourself

The next day—

Bai Jinyuan and Bai Fenglin met at the Lakeside Courtyard. The servants were kept outside. There was no joy on the faces of the brother and sister. As soon as they met, they went straight to the point.

"I've been serving the Empress diligently, and finally earned a glimmer of hope. But you can negate all my efforts with just a casual remark about an old story!" Bai Jinyuan began sarcastically, "Even if Big Brother wanted to die, he shouldn't have dragged the Bai family with him!"

Bai Fenglin was furious, "When did it become your turn as a lowly concubine to criticize me?"

"Lowly? Haha!" Bai Jinyuan asked with a sarcastic smile, "Yes, I come from a humble background and have never been in Big Brother's eyes, but now Big Brother has come to beg me, hasn't he?"

Bai Fenglin felt a little embarrassed when his secret was revealed, and said with his neck stiff.

"No matter what, you are also a member of my Bai family. You must understand the principle that we all prosper and suffer together. Father hopes that you can say a few good words to the Empress Dowager so that the Jingzhao Yin will relax his stance."

"Big brother is really confused. The rumors are spreading like wildfire. There's no way this matter can be resolved peacefully! Even in that remote cold palace, people are talking about Big brother's romantic affairs!"

Bai Fenglin panicked when he heard this, "What should we do then?"

"Now there is only one plan."

Bai Jinyuan whispered some advice into Bai Fenglin's ear, but Bai Fenglin quickly waved his hand to refuse.

"No! No! You said the rumors were spreading like wildfire. If he dies like this, someone will definitely blame me!"

"Speculation is just speculation, after all, it can't be used as evidence. Only when he dies will he stop implicating our Bai family, and Big Brother can rest easy, right? What's more, the people are just watching the excitement. Once this excitement dies down, is there anyone who will seriously seek justice for him?"

Bai Fenglin was a little shaken by this advice, "Even so, I don't know who to ask for this job..."

"Big brother is really wary of me at every turn!" Bai Jinyuan snorted coldly. "Now that the situation is urgent, I might as well speak frankly. I know about Big brother's relationship with those bandits. Big brother has supported them for so many years in vain, so he should at least let them do something, right?"

Bai Fenglin widened his eyes in shock, but met Bai Jinyuan's cold eyes. Only at this moment did he realize that the girl in front of him was no longer the concubine who was at the mercy of others.

Bai Fenglin was silent for a long time before finally having to compromise.

"okay, I get it."

The brother and sister met in a hurry and parted on bad terms.

No one noticed that there were two people sitting on the tree trunk above their heads.

Jiang Lige shook his stiff legs and complained softly, "These two are so mean. They didn't even know to find a good place to sit. It's so scary sitting in a tree!"

"Doesn't the princess like to climb trees? I think the view up there is really nice."

Ning Yunxiao curled his lips slightly when he heard this, and did not forget to mention Jiang Lige's embarrassing incident.

Jiang Lige curled his lips and glared at Ning Yunxiao. Seeing Bai Jinyuan walking away, he moved closer.

"Sir, when you look at Miss Bai, don't you think of anything?"

Ning Yunxiao was confused, "What?"

Seeing that the confusion on Ning Yunxiao's face did not seem fake, Jiang Lige snorted lightly.

"No wonder they say men in this world are so fickle. When we were in Jingzhou, Miss Bai even threw herself into the arms of the prince, and it hasn't been that long, and the prince has completely forgotten her."

After Jiang Lige said this, Ning Yunxiao remembered the woman in Jingzhou who cried with him after she "slipped", and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

If Jiang Lige hadn't mentioned it, Ning Yunxiao really wouldn't have connected the two of them, but being stared at by Jiang Lige like that, even though he had done nothing wrong, he felt a little guilty.

Jiang Lige was raising his chin triumphantly, as if asking Ning Yunxiao for an explanation, which made Ning Yunxiao almost laugh and cry.

I just teased her, but she insisted on taking revenge. The little girl has a strong sense of revenge.

Thinking of this, Ning Yunxiao suddenly raised his lips and moved closer. His hair messed up by the treetops and his faint smile gave him an air of devilish charm.

His lips brushed her earlobe, and the words were spoken lightly, but seemed to carry a hint of ambiguous reproach.

"So, Princess, do you want me to be that 'loving man' who remembers others?"

The sudden shortening of the distance frightened Jiang Lige so much that he subconsciously shrank back, but he forgot that he was now on a tree with no guard behind him.

She lost her balance when she stepped back, and before she could react, she fell off the tree trunk.

Ning Yunxiao was also shocked by this sudden change. He subconsciously reached out to pull Jiang Lige, but instead of saving him, the gravity pulled down the tree trunk.

As the world spun around him, he no longer cared about etiquette and grabbed Jiang Lige's waist. With a little force, he switched their positions, and then...

He became Jiang Lige's meat pad steadily.

The girl opened her eyes, a mixture of fear and confusion.

Jiang Lige was lying on Ning Yunxiao, so that his breath lingered in her ears, and his eyes were deep and ambiguous.

Jiang Lige talks big but when it comes to this moment, he is actually a coward.

So, she used her hands and feet to climb up from Ning Yunxiao, her face as red as a lantern.

"I... I didn't mean to!"

Ning Yunxiao was in a good mood. He stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes. He glanced at Jiang Lige and saw that he was still jumping around. He thought that there was nothing serious wrong with him.

"Even if the princess is jealous, there's no need for her to be so hard on me."

Jiang Lige's face turned even redder when he heard this. He didn't even dare to meet Ning Yunxiao's gaze and stammered, "Who's jealous?"

"Whoever is jealous knows."

Ning Yunxiao didn't embarrass her any further. He dropped this question in a nonsensical tone and changed the subject: "By the way, there must have been a lot of rumors about me in the palace recently. Princess, if you hear them, don't pay any attention to them."

Jiang Lige nodded, trying to calm the throbbing in his heart, and then asked, "I heard that the Hanlin Academy is now quite prejudiced against the prince. Is that true?"

"indeed so."

Although Jiang Lige knew Ning Yunxiao had his own plans, he couldn't help but advise him, "Those old men in the Hanlin Academy are so good at talking. It won't do the prince any good if they get angry."

"I know." Ning Yunxiao felt a warmth in his heart, and his tone softened. "It's just Wang's doing. Princess, don't worry. When the time is right, I will make them pay back with interest."

Ning Yunxiao stopped talking, and Jiang Lige knew that his guess that day was probably right, so he stopped talking and got down to business.

"Although Wen Liu will not leave the city to confront the bandits until a few days later, I'm worried that Bai Fenglin will become desperate and take action early. As for Feng Yu..."

Ning Yunxiao understood, "Don't worry, Princess. I'll have someone keep an eye on them."