To divorce his wife, the top scholar preferred being cuckolded to wearing a red hat.

After having breakfast, Su Mingyue went to the palace.

Yesterday, her father-in-law sent her a message, asking her to go to the palace to see the emperor.

Upon entering the palace, she followed the young eunuch to the imperial study. When she arrived, the emperor was still discussing important matters with his ministers, and she waited in a side hall.

Half an hour later, the Emperor sent someone to summon her.

"Your humble servant greets Your Majesty, long live the Emperor." Su Mingyue is now the lord of a city, and naturally a subject of the Emperor.

"Princess Su, please rise." The Emperor smiled and said, "I summoned you here today because I have some questions for you. There's no need for you to be so formal."

"Your Majesty, please ask whatever you wish. I will answer whatever I know."

"I seem to have heard that Princess Su left home when she was young and only returned to the capital half a year ago. During these years away from home, did you go to study medicine? Princess Su, please don't misunderstand, I don't want to know about your private affairs, it's just that your medical skills are extraordinary and I'm curious."

"Your Majesty, there's nothing I can't say. I did leave home to become a disciple back then. My master once saved me by chance, and I witnessed her power. That's why I wanted to become her disciple. But she stayed on the mountain and wouldn't come down, so I thought I'd go find her. I didn't actually run away from home back then; I just found an excuse to go out."

The Emperor laughed upon hearing her words: "I never would have guessed that Princess Su was such a thoughtful person even as a child. If it weren't for your prescription, the epidemic in Qingzhou might not have been contained for another two months. You have made a great contribution, and I will remember it."

Su Mingyue quickly replied, "It's all thanks to His Majesty's wisdom in sending me there in time. If it weren't for His Majesty's decisiveness and concern for the people of Qingzhou City, I wouldn't have been able to use my skills, no matter how capable I am."

It is said that the emperor's heart is as unfathomable as a needle at the bottom of the sea. Su Mingyue did not know whether the emperor genuinely wanted to praise her or was just pretending. Praising the emperor would be the wisest thing to do.

"The reason I summoned you today is to inquire about your marriage to Prince Zhan. He is my brother, not a blood brother, but closer than a blood brother, as you must have heard. You two worked together to overcome the crisis in Qingzhou City, and your cooperation was truly remarkable. I was thinking of setting an auspicious day for your wedding. Do you have anything to say about that?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Su Mingyue was surprised to learn that the matter concerned the marriage. "I am humbled and will follow Your Majesty's arrangements. However, as a woman who has been married twice, I fear that a grand wedding would tarnish Your Highness's reputation. Moreover, my ex-husband has suddenly died. If I were to have a grand wedding at this time, I fear that some people would use this to their advantage to criticize Your Highness, which would not be a good thing."

"I have also heard about his suicide in prison out of fear of punishment. He was talented, but unfortunately his character was flawed. It is a pity that he is dead now. Your consideration is correct. Now that you and the War King are married, those voices of suspicion from outside the court are probably turning their attention to him. Let's wait and see."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." It seems that the Emperor only wanted to test her opinion on the marriage, and did not genuinely want to arrange it.

Indeed, she had become famous because of the Qingzhou City incident, and with the War King's previous reputation, if the two of them were to get married... Thinking of this, Su Mingyue quickly understood the Emperor's thoughts, and he also did not want them to get married so soon.

After leaving the Emperor's residence, Su Mingyue went directly to Anping's palace.

Anping sent a letter to her in the morning, inviting her to the palace for a talk.

"Princess, the princess is waiting for you inside. This servant will take you there." As soon as Su Mingyue left, Anping's maid came out to greet her.

In fact, Su Mingyue and Anping's relationship wasn't that deep.

Anping's current politeness towards her surprised her somewhat.

Sure enough, Consort Shu was here too.

"Mingyue greets Consort Shu and Princess Anping."

"Quickly, prepare a seat for Mingyue." Consort Shu greeted her with a broad smile as she approached.

Su Mingyue sat down, already guessing why Consort Shu wanted to see her.

Sure enough, the King of Light arrived shortly afterward.

The group first praised Su Mingyue's medical skills, saying that Su Mingyue was really good at hiding her talents before, and did not reveal her excellent medical skills to others.

He quickly got to the point: "Princess Su, I have offended you greatly before. After your ex-husband was dismissed from his post, I took a liking to his talent and recruited him as my advisor. I never expected him to be such a traitor, daring to follow your Qingzhou and almost ruining it, not to mention nearly harming you and your uncle. Fortunately, you and your uncle are alright, otherwise I would have had no way to explain myself."

It's fortunate that the two of them are alright. If anything had happened to either of them, the fire would have likely spread to him.

"Yes, Ming'er was also deceived by his appearance. I never expected him to be such a bad person. He pretended to be on Ming'er's side, but who knows who he was colluding with in secret. After he came out of Dali Temple, Ming'er wanted him to leave, but he told Ming'er that he was going back to his hometown, so Ming'er didn't pay attention to where he went. If I had known that this guy was so vicious, I shouldn't have let him out of Dali Temple and let him stay in there for the rest of his life."

"Yes. He has nothing to do with me after he left the Dali Temple. What he did in Qingzhou has nothing to do with me. I hope the county princess will explain this to my uncle so that he will not misunderstand me."

Colluding with spies from the Western Qi is a serious crime; who would dare to take the blame?

Listening to their conversation, Su Mingyue gently curled her red lips: "Fu Jingsheng definitely has someone behind him. As for who that person is, we dare not make a judgment now, after all, we need evidence. Now that he has committed suicide out of fear of punishment, we are still investigating whether he left any evidence. Besides Fu Jingdang, there were also several Xiqi people in Qingzhou at the time. If we find them, we can also clarify some things. Mingyue, there is no need to worry too much. His Highness is a person who can distinguish right from wrong. If this matter has nothing to do with Prince Ming, he will never suspect Prince Ming."

"Of course, I can assure you that this matter has nothing to do with me."

“Yes, Mingyue. We can’t just suspect Fu Jingsheng because he was Ming’er’s advisor before. We need to have evidence and investigate thoroughly.”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, this matter will surely be resolved." It is a matter of great importance and cannot be easily dismissed. As for who was ultimately identified, that remains unknown.

“Of course we trust Uncle Wang.” Having said this much, King Ming could not continue.

He told Su Mingyue everything he needed to say today, and he thought she would explain things clearly to the prince.

Before long, Su Mingyue left the palace.

Consort Shu frowned: "Ming'er, will she help us? Her attitude is neither warm nor cold, and I can't figure out what she means."

“Mother, she definitely wants to be on good terms with us. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t have offered to treat Anping.” Prince Ming believed that Su Mingyue wanted to be on good terms with them.

If they didn't have that intention, they wouldn't have stepped forward to treat Anping.

On the way back, Xingchun asked Su Mingyue, "Miss, I've never understood why you would help Princess Anping when Consort Shu and her son were not good people, and Consort Shu's maternal family, the Cheng family, had always wanted to frame you."