The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 947 - 947 432 Long Yi (second update)_2

Chapter 947: 432 Long Yi (second update)_2 Chapter 947: 432 Long Yi (second update)_2 Prince Ning looked at her with amusement, “How sour. It’s just a small treasury, hardly anything significant.”

Indeed, it’s just a trivial daughter of the Marquis, hardly anything significant. Why does she care so much?

She was not someone unfamiliar with turmoil; she understood better than anyone that glory for a moment is easy, but glory for a lifetime is true skill.

She is the Crown Princess, the future Empress of Zhan Country, a motherly figure to the nation, of esteemed status, and there was truly no need for her to concern herself with a mere girl.

But why could she, who was always rational, no longer maintain her composure?

The Crown Princess took a deep breath and said, “Now that you’ve offended her husband, she will come looking for you if you can’t settle things with her!”

Prince Ning said without concern, “She can’t do anything to me.”

The Crown Princess looked at Prince Ning, puzzled, “So you just keep tolerating her?

Prince Ning removed her veil, gently caressing her cheek with his fingertip, “Linlang, don’t make a fuss without reason.”

The Crown Princess turned her head away, dodging his hand, and said with irritation, “I’m not making a fuss without reason.”

The smile on Prince Ning’s face faded, he grasped her chin, forcing her to look at him, the gentleness in his eyes gone, replaced by a cold sternness and ferocity, “Fine, do you want to kill her because she offended you, or because she married Xiao Heng?”

The Crown Princess stiffened.

…

The Crown Princess returned to the East Palace. The Crown Prince greeted her with an anxious expression, “Linlang, where have you been? Eh? What happened to your face?”

Her face was actually fine long before, yet the Crown Prince still noticed something off. It seemed that only this man cared for and minded her so deeply.

Before the Crown Princess could answer, the Crown Prince rolled up her sleeves, exclaiming in surprise, “Your hand!”

With an unchanged expression, the Crown Princess said, “I accidentally took a fall.”

“Where did you fall?” the Crown Prince asked with pained urgency.

The Crown Princess smiled, “In Princess Xinyang’s courtyard.”

“Did you go to visit your aunt?” the Crown Prince mumbled. “Why did you go to your aunt’s place again? Didn’t I tell you to rest well in the East Palace? Does it hurt?”

Princess Xinyang was the Emperor’s own sister. Before her marriage, the Crown Prince used to call her “aunt.”

Afterward, she married the Marquis of Xuanping. Since the Marquis was also the Crown Prince’s uncle, the Crown Prince started calling her “auntie” instead.

The Crown Princess said softly, “Uncle hasn’t returned to the Capital City, and auntie is all by herself. I couldn’t rest easy about her. I’ve already applied medicine; it doesn’t hurt anymore.”

The Crown Prince held her hand, blowing gently on it with concern, “You’re always too considerate of others. When will you think of me? I’ve been searching all night for Xiao Liulang, exhausted to death. Coming back only to find you gone, my heart was in distress.”

The Crown Princess looked ashamed, “It’s my fault; I’ll be more careful next time.”

In truth, the Crown Princess of the East Palace was not as free as the wives of princes outside the palace. It was only because the Crown Prince and the Emperor trusted her that she had the freedom to leave the palace.

“Has there been no news from Xiao Liulang?” she asked, feigning casualness.

The Crown Prince, preoccupied with concern for her injury, failed to notice the change in her expression and answered, “Not yet, the imperial guards speculate that Xiao Liulang has been brought back to Capital City again. The only ones who entered the city without being checked that day were Minister Zhao from the Ministry of Works and your auntie, but both of them said they didn’t see Xiao Liulang.”

“Auntie?”

The Crown Princess suddenly thought of the men’s clothing that Yujin had hung out to dry, and the locked bedroom of Princess Xinyang.

Could it be… Xiao Liulang was saved by Princess Xinyang after all?

If that was the case, it wouldn’t be hard to explain why Prince Ning and the Crown Prince had almost turned Capital City upside down without finding any trace of Xiao Liulang.

But why would Princess Xinyang keep it a secret? Was she worried the enemy might resort to another scheme if this one failed?

Gu Jiao was certainly in the know.

She didn’t visit to treat Princess Xinyang but because Xiao Liulang was there.

Thinking back, Yujin’s words now seemed quite ridiculous.

Referring to her as “Doctor Gu” repeatedly, saying she was closer to the princess, but in the end, even Xiao Liulang’s whereabouts were hidden from her.

The Crown Princess clenched the handkerchief in her hand.

The Crown Prince distinctly felt the shift in the Crown Princess’s aura, and he looked at her with concern, “Linlang, what’s wrong? Your complexion suddenly looks awful.”

The Crown Princess closed her eyes, “It’s nothing, I’m just tired.”

The Crown Prince hurriedly said, “Then let me help you back to your room to rest.”

Meanwhile, on the other side, having sat on the wall for a full 2 hours, nearly roasted into a piece of dried fish, Gu Jiao was finally plucked down by Long Yi.

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