In the years of famine, I led a comfortable life with my husband

Su Zhizhi shook her head. "I don't know, but this matter is beyond our ability to resolve. The only way to break the impasse now lies with His Majesty. Why don't you go to the palace and inform His Majesty of this matter, and then His Majesty will make the decision."

Xie Chengjin thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. "Alright, after all, this is Princess Changle's lifelong event, and neither you nor I can interfere too much. Let's just leave it this way. But as for Shen Wenjun..."

Su Zhizhi took over and said, "As for Shen Wenjun...I'll go. I need to make some things clear to him."

Xie Chengjin and Su Zhizhi agreed to split up into two groups and head to the imperial palace and Shen Wenjun's residence.

At Shen Wenjun's residence, Shen Wenjun was extremely surprised to hear that Su Zhizhi was coming. Besides being surprised, she was even more excited, and quickly asked someone to invite Su Zhizhi in.

When Su Zhizhi stepped into the main hall, Shen Wenjun had already prepared tea and snacks and was waiting for her. When she saw Su Zhizhi come in, she quickly stood up to greet her.

"Zhizhi, why did you think of coming to see me today?" Shen Wenjun asked while motioning Su Zhizhi to sit down and placing something next to Su Zhizhi's hand.

Su Zhizhi nodded slightly, thanked him, and after a moment's silence, she said, "I came to see you today... because of Princess Changle's matter..."

Hearing Xu Miao's name, the smile on Shen Wenjun's face gradually faded, and there was some hurt in her eyes when she looked at Su Zhizhi, "Zhizhi, I don't believe you don't know my feelings. Although you are already married, I am happy to accept it. But now you are pushing me towards Princess Changle. I cannot accept it."

Shen Wenjun could vaguely sense what Su Zhizhi was about to say next, so she interrupted her directly.

Hearing this, Su Zhizhi sighed deeply and looked at Shen Wenjun seriously, saying, "Shen Wenjun, you have a bright future now, and Princess Changle is deeply in love with you. If you can become the princess's consort, you will be able to rise to the top from now on, and nothing can hinder you. Why do you have to set your sights on me?"

Shen Wenjun did not answer, but just shook his head stubbornly, as if denying what Su Zhizhi said.

Seeing this, Su Zhizhi knew that she was afraid that she could not persuade Shen Wenjun, but she seemed a little unwilling to give up, and left a sentence, "Shen Wenjun, I don't want to delay you because of me. You should think carefully about Princess Changle's matter."

After saying that, Su Zhizhi turned around and left without staying any longer.

Shen Wenjun just sat there, watching Su Zhizhi disappear from her sight.

After a long while, Shen Wenjun sighed and murmured, "Zhizhi, you asked me to let go, but how easy is that?"

After returning to the house, Su Zhizhi thought about Shen Wenjun's reaction just now, and felt depressed. She didn't want to see Shen Wenjun like this. If she knew that Shen Wenjun would fall deeply in love with her in the future, she probably would not have chosen to meet Shen Wenjun. But time cannot go back, and Su Zhizhi can only find a way to solve the problem.

Xie Chengjin stayed in the palace until night. Su Zhizhi was about to go to bed, so Xie Chengjin packed up and went into the house.

"Why did you come back so late?" Su Zhizhi asked puzzledly.

Xie Chengjin sat on the bedside and held Su Zhizhi in his arms. "Your Majesty is also very upset about Princess Changle's matter, but Shen Wenjun doesn't have any romantic feelings for Princess Changle. This is the most troublesome thing. Judging from your condition, I'm afraid there won't be any gains today."

Su Zhizhi nodded wearily. "Yeah, who knew Si Geya would set his sights on Xu Miao? We can't really let Xu Miao go for the marriage proposal."

"His Majesty should not be willing, so he may force Shen Wenjun to marry for Xu Miao in the end. I hope Shen Wenjun will not reject it too much." Xie Chengjin recalled the emperor's attitude in the imperial study before, and couldn't help but worry for Shen Wenjun.

Su Zhizhi and Xie Chengjin were not very clear about what happened next. They only knew that the emperor summoned Shen Wenjun and Xu Miao into the palace. When the two came out again, the imperial edict granting their marriage was announced to the world.

Although Shen Wenjun was still somewhat resistant, she reluctantly agreed to get engaged to Xu Miao.

Naturally, the news that Xu Miao was engaged was the first to reach Sigoya's ears.

Sigoya's subordinates were a little resentful and complained in front of Sigoya, but were simply stopped by Sigoya.

Since Xu Miao was already engaged, there was no need for Sigoya to stay here, so he simply gave up and left the capital with the delegation.

In any case, for Xu Miao, at least the crisis of the marriage was resolved. However, after this incident, Xu Miao also clearly realized that Shen Wenjun really seemed to have no interest in him, and even because of this incident, Shen Wenjun was a little disgusted with him.

Xu Miao is a thoughtful and sensible person. She was just blinded by love before. Now it seems that Shen Wenjun's rejection of her had existed from the beginning, but Xu Miao subconsciously ignored it at that time.

After the delegation left, Shen Wenjun avoided his nominal fiancée Xu Miao even more, as if their engagement had never happened.

Although Xu Miao realized something, he couldn't help but feel depressed.

Seeing Xu Miao like this, Su Zhizhi felt very uncomfortable, so she often visited Xu Miao with some new and interesting things she had collected to make him happy.

Therefore, Xu Miao liked Su Zhizhi even more. He was always amused by Su Zhizhi and had no time to think about Shen Wenjun's affairs.

That day, Su Zhizhi came to play with Xu Miao as usual. Before leaving, Xu Miao stopped Su Zhizhi and said, "Zhizhi, the weather has been nice these days. How about we go out of town tomorrow?"

Su Zhizhi became interested, "Out of town? Where to?"

"I remember there is a lake on the outskirts of the city. It's warm today, and I think the scenery there must be nice. I haven't been out for a long time. How about you just think of it as keeping me company?" Xu Miao thought for a while and suggested.

"Okay, I'll go back and prepare some snacks that you like. It's naturally comfortable to have delicious food and beautiful scenery." Su Zhizhi smiled at Xu Miao.

But what no one expected was that the news that Su Zhizhi and Xu Miao had agreed to go out of the city somehow reached the ears of Xu Wanqing, who was still under house arrest.

Ever since Xu Wanqing was defeated by Xie Chengjin and Su Zhizhi last time, she has been holding a grudge against them and had long wanted to attack Su Zhizhi. Unexpectedly, she happened to encounter the day when Su Zhizhi went out of the city alone. Xu Wanqing thought this was a great opportunity and planned to use it to kill Su Zhizhi.