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The young man stared at the Regent's carriage receding into the distance outside the window. His eyes reflected the blazing sun, yet a chilling coldness emanated from them. He rose unhurriedly and said, "Lead the way."

Xie Lanheng did not accompany him.

We arrived at the small house in the backyard of the teahouse.

The door to the house was ajar, and sobbing could be heard coming from inside.

Just as he was about to push the door open to "rescue the damsel in distress," he peeked through the crack and saw that someone had gotten there first, rescued Li Jingyu, and was gently comforting her!

His carefully planned scheme, intended to make Li Jingyu even more infatuated with him, ended up benefiting someone else.

The young master's expression remained unchanged, but a chill flashed in his eyes.

I didn't go in.

He turned and quietly left.

As he left, he brushed past Xie Lanheng, who had already removed his armor and was pretending to be about to enter the teahouse. His lips, brimming with vitality, parted almost imperceptibly as he coldly ordered, "Someone intercepted us. Find out if it was a coincidence or deliberate stalking!"

Xie Lanheng realized the seriousness of the matter and hummed in response.

The two entered and exited without exchanging glances or making eye contact, and no other tea drinker noticed that they knew each other.

In a corner on the first floor.

A pair of indifferent eyes observed the surroundings without leaving a trace, watching the departing figure of the boy.

I picked up the teacup and took a gentle sniff.

The rich aroma of tea wafted into the nostrils, mellow and sweet. The tea drinker's lips curled into a slight smile, a smile of satisfaction and understanding.

"Great place, great tea!"

……

The next few days.

Jiang Ruining would wake up, take medicine, eat, then sleep again, sleeping for most of the day. She would wake up and repeat the process, feeling dazed and confused.

On the fifth day.

Grandma Red Flower ordered that they could not take a nap for more than two hours during the day, and that they had to go out for a walk after each of their three meals.

Jiang Ruining sat in the main hall near the entrance, bathed in sunlight filtering through the cracks in the walls. Her face was still deathly pale, and she was weak and powerless. Everything in front of her was swaying slowly from side to side. She mumbled, "Aunt Wan, I have no strength. I can't walk!"

Grandma Honghua's surname is Wan, and her given name is Honghua.

It was a three- or four-year-old medicine boy who went out and misspoke, and others misunderstood. In this way, the story was passed on from one person to another, and Granny Honghua became Granny Honghua.

Now that Wan Honghua is familiar with everyone, they all call her Madam Wan.

Jiang Ruining wanted to befriend her, so he affectionately called her Aunt Wan.

Madam Wan has a son who was also a mischievous little devil when he was young, so she treats him with extra kindness.

He shoved a dark, black pill into her mouth: "The weaker you feel, the more you need to limit your sleep. Sleeping endlessly will only harm your health. Go for a walk to get some fresh air and boost your energy!"

Jiang Ruining was so distressed that her face scrunched up and her neck shrank back. Even though she was listless, she was stimulated to perk up!

Madam Wan smiled and said, "Now that's more exciting!"

Jiang Ruining gave her a resentful look, then glanced at the scorching sun outside, and shook her head: "No way! I'm not going! I'm so weak, I'll get heatstroke if I go out for even a short while!"

Lady Wan poked her forehead: "I told you not to sleep, but I didn't tell you to go for a walk in the middle of the day! Before the sun gets hot and after the Empress Dowager sets, you should take a walk at least twice a day, half an hour each time, and you can walk and stop as you please."

He then gave instructions to the others.

"Keep an eye on her, don't let her slack off."

Xin Yang smiled and said, "It just so happens that I also take a walk every day, so I'll keep an eye on her!"

Jiang Ruining hugged her arm and nodded happily, "That's great! Taking walks together every day will definitely strengthen our relationship!"

Gongsun Changming let out a soft "Ah," looking at his wife with pitiful eyes: "My chance to please my wife was stolen?"

Xin Yang gave him a reproachful look: "Aren't you tired of being together all the time?"

Gongsun Changming's gaze was intense: "A brief separation is but a short farewell."

Xin Yang's face was flushed.

Zheng Lingyi rubbed her arms teasingly: "You two, is it appropriate to be so lovey-dovey in front of a group of us single folks?"

Jiang Ruining chuckled and said, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder; wouldn't the prince consort and princess be living like newlyweds every day?"

Gongsun Changming coughed lightly, his neck turning slightly red.

"You two are such a tease!" Xin Yang pinched Jiang Ruining and Zheng Lingyi's cheeks, winking meaningfully. "You've both come of age; it's time to start thinking about your marriages!"

Zheng Lingyi, with a girlish charm on her face, covered her face and remained silent.

Jiang Ruining remembered that her marriage with Xie Lanheng hadn't been settled yet when the accident happened... But this time, with her there, she would definitely not let Zheng Lingyi be schemed against again!

As for herself.

She spent her fifteenth birthday in a coma.

So she didn't have a coming-of-age ceremony, but she received many gifts, each of which was quite valuable.

It's all because of her cheap father and Xiao Che's influence.

After all, she saved Xiao Che, so she would have some influence in front of him in the future. Which of Xiao Che's ministers and their families would not want to befriend her?

But she didn't want to get married. In this era, women who stayed at home could have a better life if they loved their own families. But once they entered their husbands' families, a group of elders could boss them around and there were rules everywhere. Unless it was a banquet, they couldn't even think about going out!

She absolutely does not want to live that kind of life!

But whether she gets married or not, and whom she marries, is not up to her.

However, her adoptive father feels indebted to her, and since she doesn't want to talk about marriage too early, he probably won't object.

She laughed it off and said, "I'm still young, let's talk about marriage in a few years!"

Xin Yang was slightly surprised.

In a few years?

Would Your Majesty agree?

After all, he's not young anymore!

The little girl doesn't seem shy at all; instead, she seems to be avoiding things. Could it be that... the Emperor has never expressed his feelings to the little girl at all?

Thinking of his elder brother's temperament, Xin Yang felt very worried.

But she didn't talk much.

Because she had also gone through this process, the time when they were testing each other was when their feelings were at their strongest. The deeper these feelings accumulated, the stronger their feelings became. They had to break through the barrier themselves!

If no one is willing to take this step, it's not too late for her to step in!

"That's good. Being a young woman is the most relaxed time of your life. It's nice to be able to stay home and do more things." She paused, her expression becoming more serious. "There's something I need to thank you for."

"Thank me?" Jiang Ruining asked, puzzled. "I haven't done anything for my sister."

Xin Yang gently stroked her high, protruding belly: "It's a baby."

"The cannon-shaped mark on my sister's lip...did someone really tamper with it?" Jiang Ruining exclaimed in surprise. "My sister has always been kind to others. Who would do such a thing to my sister and the child?"

That name was squeezed out from between Xin Yang's teeth, which shows how much she hated it!

"It's Rong An!"

Rong'an, the Empress Dowager's youngest daughter.

"That scoundrel somehow found out that Changming had been schemed against and harassed by a female merchant, so he instigated her to harm me and promised her that if it worked, he would connect her with the Manufacturing Bureau."

"That greedy female merchant agreed and secretly ordered someone to set a trap for the steward in charge of purchasing in the princess's kitchen, who accidentally killed an innocent person. She then threatened him to put fish and shrimp fed with cinnabar into the kitchen and cook them for me every day."

"If you hadn't reminded me, if I had continued eating, my child and I might have..."

Jiang Ruining recalled a TV series with a similar plot, in which a concubine who was poisoned gave birth to a deformed baby. The baby didn't die, but was buried alive because it was considered unlucky!

The concubine's health completely collapsed due to the poison and the pain of losing her child!

Princess Rong'an, despite her young age, possessed an extremely vicious heart.

Zheng Lingyi looked surprised: "Seeing the two blisters on Ying-jie's lips, you guessed someone had tampered with her food?"