Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

Afraid that this silly girl would not know the seriousness of the matter, Song Zhi specifically explained to her the severity of the matter.

He asked her to return to the Song Mansion first while he prepared to enter the palace.

Xiao Tao was a little scared, "Miss, I dare not do that. What if they find out about me? I will definitely be killed to silence them."

Oh, now I feel scared.

Song Zhi couldn't help laughing, but he understood, so he said, "Then keep going forward. Two blocks away is Yunshui Youyou. You can hide there for a while and go back when the rain stops."

"But Miss..."

"what happened?"

"There won't be any problem if you enter the palace like this."

Xiaotao grabbed her sleeve worriedly because the umbrella was tilted when they collided just now, so she got a lot of rain.

Song Zhi gave her a gentle smile, "You don't believe your young lady?"

Xiao Tao hurriedly shook her head. "It's not that I don't believe you, it's that I'm worried. No matter how powerful the young lady is, she's just a young lady who needs protection in Xiao Tao's eyes."

Song Zhi touched her head and said, "It's okay. Go to Yunshuiyouyou and have a good sleep. I'll be back when you wake up."

Although Xiaotao was worried, she knew that she couldn't delay important matters, so she had to let go.

After being delayed for a while, Song Zhi quickened his pace and rushed to the palace.

Because after making a bet with the emperor, the emperor had ordered Song Zhi to enter and leave the palace freely, so her entry into the palace this time was very smooth.

She went straight to the imperial study, but was told that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was discussing matters with the Emperor inside and asked her to wait for a moment.

After a cup of tea, the door opened from the inside.

Mu Yuanzhi's handsome face appeared inside the door. After not seeing him for a few days, his complexion had recovered well.

At least the naked eye can no longer tell how weak he is, and he is not much different from before being poisoned.

He walked out and looked at Song Zhi with deep affection.

Noticing that her sleeves were soaked, Mu Yuanzhi couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you change your clothes? The weather is getting colder, and you'll catch a cold."

Song Zhi said respectfully, "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I will not be in the way."

"But I seem to be in the way."

He pulled her away without saying anything, and did not forget to tell the eunuch beside him: "Tell the emperor that Miss Song will come to see him later."

"I won't go. Mu Yuanzhi, don't take advantage of your status as the crown prince to do whatever you want. If you don't let go, I'll take action!"

Song Zhi struggled hard, but found that he couldn't get free at all.

Mu Yuanzhi softened his voice, "Zhi'er, I'm just worried that you might get sick, so I won't do anything to you. You don't have to resist like this. I'll have someone get some of my sister's clothes for you to change into, okay?"

"No, Your Highness, you are forcing me to do what I want."

Song Zhi finally managed to hold onto a pillar and stopped abruptly.

Mu Yuanzhi's eyes were full of hurt. "It's hard to force someone to do what you want. So, you don't even accept my concern?"

"Your Highness, I believe I've never had any contact with you before, nor have I ever been of any help to you. Could you please tell me why this is happening, and why you're interested in me?"

Song Zhizhen was completely puzzled and couldn't figure out the reason no matter how hard he tried.

Mu Yuanzhi seemed a little surprised to know that she had been struggling with this issue, but he soon smiled brightly.

"Some people, just by standing there and doing nothing, can become the moon that makes people want to admire it, like you."

Song Zhi didn't feel cold during the walk, but when he heard such sweet love words, he shuddered suddenly.

"Are you OK?"

What kind of reason is this?

Mu Yuanzhi smiled noncommittally, "The first time I saw you was at my grandmother's eightieth birthday. Because it was a major birthday, my father ordered all the royal descendants to attend the celebration. It was also on that occasion that I had the good fortune to return to the palace I had been away from since childhood, and saw you at the banquet, dressed in a charming and charming manner."

"Back then, as the daughter of the Prime Minister, you were surrounded by people eager to curry your favor. You were so adorned with stars that even the ribbons on your lapels seemed to glow."

Song Zhi knew that the palace banquet he was talking about was grand and solemn.

"But I don't have any impression of you."

"Of course you have no impression of me. How could a darling like you, held in the palm of your father's hand, notice me, who was spying on other people's happiness from a distance like a rat in a gutter?"

"So? Just because of this?"

This feeling came too hastily.

"Of course more than that."

The rain seemed to be a little lighter, accompanied by a slight cool breeze.

Mu Yuanzhi fell into distant memories, "Back then, your sister Song Yale was even more eye-catching than you. She was carefully dressed up by your mother, and she was good at complimenting people. No one present disliked her."

Song Zhi: ???

After all this time, he actually likes Anya Song?!

Seeing what Song Zhi was thinking, Mu Yuanzhi quickly denied it with a dry cough.

"Of course I don't like her. Who would like a girl who is so thoughtful at such a young age?"

"I saw the envy in your eyes."

"When you look at your sister, you are filled with longing and envy."

Song Zhi was embarrassed, "You even noticed this?"

Mu Yuanzhi said in a gentle voice, "Of course, it's so hard not to notice. You should be a favored child, but you envy your sister for being loved by your mother in every way, while you are completely ignored."

After a pause, he brushed away the raindrops falling from his temples, "Isn't this very similar to me?"

Under the wide sleeves, Mu Yuanzhi clenched his fingers tightly.

"I'm a precious prince, but I was sent to the temporary palace just because I was born. I have to envy all the royal brothers who can stay in the palace. I'm just in poor health, so should I be thrown so far away?"

He looked at Song Zhi deeply, unable to understand. "Could it be that the doctors in the imperial palace are better than the imperial doctors in the palace?"

Song Zhi finally understood that although Mu Yuanzhi seemed warm and gentle, in his heart, the experience of being abandoned was a hurdle that he would never be able to overcome.

When he was young, he regarded her as his support, thinking that they shared the same suffering and thus became obsessed with her.

So now that he had the chance, he desperately wanted to self-righteously "save" her.

He probably thought that as long as they got married, he and she would be free from the darkness of the past.

Song Zhi smiled.

I really laughed, the kind that made me laugh out loud.

"I originally thought His Highness was a perceptive person, but I didn't expect that His Highness would confine himself to a prison of his own making and refuse to come out."

There was a glimmer of doubt in Mu Yuanzhi's eyes.

She released her arms from holding the pillar, stood upright in front of him, and looked straight at him.

"I can get over the longing for family affection that keeps me tossing and turning at night, and I can rationally let go of unworthy relatives and constraints. Those things that I once thought were so big that the sky would fall, now looking back, are just trivial matters. As long as I don't care, they can't hurt me at all."

"you……"

"Your Highness, why dwell on the past? I told you last time that tomorrow's path is bright and glorious."

Song Zhi smiled and said, "No one can be your salvation except yourself."