Every time the prince opens his eyes, he sees

Lu Yaoyao nodded reluctantly, her eyes slightly red, "Okay, then I will wait patiently to be your bride."

Under Qingfeng's escort, Lu Yaoyao returned to the palace again.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Xie Qingchen. Not surprisingly, the disappointment on her face was reflected in her eyes.

"Why, you're so distraught after seeing Liu Wenxuan, as if you can't leave him for a moment? Lu Yaoyao, you're only so ruthless to me, right?"

"Is it necessary for you to be sarcastic?" Lu Yaoyao sat down, not in the mood to argue with him.

At this moment, she suddenly noticed that there were several plates of exquisite side dishes on the table, which were specially covered with something to prevent them from getting cold.

Could it be that Xie Qingchen was waiting here specifically to have dinner with her?

But when she came back, what he saw was not her smiling face, but her heartbroken over another man.

She couldn't help but reflect on whether she was too cruel to him.

"You haven't eaten yet, have you? Do you want me to eat with you?"

"I have no appetite. I still have memorials to review, so I'll go back first."

Lu Yaoyao had no intention of standing up to keep him.

Nothing necessary.

This would only make Xie Qingchen think that she had feelings for him and start going crazy again.

After Xie Qingchen left, Lu Yaoyao sent a servant to bring in water so that she could wash up and go to bed.

Xie Qingchen didn't really go far. He walked around a little and then came back.

He thought that if he could see Lu Yaoyao, she would at least feel a little guilty for her meanness and indifference to him, but what happened was that she just turned off the lights and went to bed.

Xie Qingchen stood in the dark, looking towards Lu Yaoyao's room, feeling an unbearable pain in his heart.

He smiled self-deprecatingly, turned around and was about to leave, but stopped.

He stared at Lu Yaoyao's window sill for a long time until Qingfeng reminded him, "Your Majesty, it's late at night and the dew is heavy. Your shoulders are wet. Why don't you go back first?"

Xie Qingchen closed his eyes, suppressed the pain, and left.

Returning to his own bedroom, Xie Qingchen sat at the desk and felt that the magnificent palace was full of coldness. It turned out that without Lu Yaoyao, no matter how prosperous the place was, it was empty and cold.

The scene of Lu Yaoyao and Liu Wenxuan hugging each other, as well as her cold and distant attitude towards him, which Qingfeng reported, kept appearing in his mind.

He understood that he had completely lost in this emotional entanglement.

……

Lu Yaoyao didn't sleep well the whole night, with Xie Qingchen's melancholy eyes and brows filled her mind.

She forced herself not to think about it. After breakfast, she went to the Imperial Garden to get some fresh air. Xie Qingchen no longer locked her up.

Who knew that he would meet such a short-sighted concubine when he came out.

This concubine usually acts tyrannically by relying on the power of her mother's family. Even the queen has to give her some respect. Lu Yaoyao is Liu Wenxuan's wife-to-be, but she was snatched away by the emperor and imprisoned in the deep palace for several days.

She had never seen the emperor so obsessed with any woman before, so how could she not be jealous?

She passed by Lu Yaoyao, pretended to bump into her, and then left. After walking a few steps, she suddenly said, as if remembering something, "Hey, where's my bracelet? Why is my bracelet gone?"

"Thief, you stole my bracelet, didn't you?"

She pointed at Lu Yaoyao, and several palace maids came forward, held Lu Yaoyao down, and brought her over.

Lu Yaoyao frowned and looked at the concubine who was deliberately looking for trouble, and she already knew her intention.

This concubine obviously wanted to take the opportunity to cause trouble. Although Lu Yaoyao didn't want to cause trouble, she was not afraid of it.

"Bracelet? Maybe you lost it accidentally. What does it have to do with me?" Lu Yaoyao said in a cold tone, with a hint of disdain in her eyes.

Upon hearing this, the concubine's face darkened. She turned around and walked back, pointing at Lu Yaoyao's nose and said, "How dare you! You bitch, how dare you be so rude! You must have stolen my bracelet, why don't you hand it over!"

Seeing this, the palace maids and eunuchs around lowered their heads and dared not speak, for fear of being involved in the dispute.

Lu Yaoyao sneered in her heart. She had seen a lot of dirty things in the palace. If this concubine didn't teach her a lesson today, she would probably become even more arrogant in the future.

"You keep saying that I stole your bracelet, but do you have any evidence?" Lu Yaoyao asked the concubine calmly.

The concubine was stunned, then said arrogantly: "Evidence? Do you need evidence? Who else has the guts to steal my things? If you don't hand it over today, don't even think about leaving this imperial garden!"

After she finished speaking, she waved her hand to signal the maids behind her to come forward and attempt to forcibly search her.

Lu Yaoyao's eyes flashed, and she was about to resist, but she saw a group of guards coming hurriedly from a distance, and the leader was Qingfeng.

"Stop!" Qingfeng shouted, quickly walking to Lu Yaoyao's side and sweeping a cold gaze over the concubine. "This is Miss Lu, who the Emperor has personally ordered not to be neglected. How dare you be so rude?"

The concubine's face changed slightly, but she still tried to save face and said, "Master Qingfeng, this bracelet was given to me by the Queen Mother. If it is really lost, you will be blamed."

Qingfeng sneered, "The gift from the Empress Dowager is naturally valuable, but if you use it to arbitrarily accuse others, I'm afraid the Empress Dowager won't be happy if she finds out. I will report this matter to the Emperor, and he will make the final judgment on the right and wrong."

"Well, then please ask the emperor to come. The bracelet must be on this woman."

The concubine is also very confident.

Soon Xie Qingchen was invited over. The concubine thought he could make the decision for her, so she told him everything.

Xie Qingchen said with a cold face: "Okay, I will search you myself."

The concubine always felt that this sentence was strange, but she didn't think much about it.

Xie Qingchen walked up to Lu Yaoyao and grabbed her maid and automatically stepped back.

Xie Qingchen stared at Lu Yaoyao, but his hands began to search her body.

Lu Yaoyao was originally very angry, but he also believed that she stole the bracelet?

Until the bracelet was found on her.

She clearly doesn't have any bracelets on her, what's going on?

What made her even more dumbfounded was that Xie Qingchen actually held up the bracelet. Amidst the astonishment, ridicule, and smug gazes of the concubine, he said loudly, "I found this bracelet on Yaoyao not to punish her, but to tell you that no matter whether she stole it intentionally or someone deliberately murdered her, in her case, I will not care about right or wrong."

Everyone took a deep breath.

The emperor has never given such preferential treatment to anyone since ancient times!

The concubine's face turned pale and blue, and she couldn't utter a word.

Xie Qingchen's eyes were as cold as a knife: "Why don't you hurry up and get out of here? Are you waiting for me to treat you?"

The concubine was so frightened that she trembled all over and retreated repeatedly. She fled the imperial garden in a panic with a group of maids and dared not say another word.

Lu Yaoyao stood there in a daze, looking at Xie Qingchen, feeling mixed emotions.

She didn't understand why Xie Qingchen was so protective of her, especially in this situation.

"If you do this, today's incident will be spread out, which will not do you any good."

"I don't care, Yaoyao. You know what I want is never just fame. I never got what I wanted from the beginning to the end."

Lu Yaoyao turned her head. She couldn't give him what he wanted, so she could only choose to remain silent.

"Okay, until you get married, no one will come here to disturb you."