Having many children brings many blessings; the struggle for power begins with marriage.

Seeing that Lu Chen was staring at her without saying a word, Ji Yunmeng asked, "Why is Young Master looking at me like that?"

Upon hearing Ji Yunmeng's voice, Lu Chen quickly snapped out of his daze and said with an embarrassed expression, "I apologize, Your Highness, I just suddenly thought of something."

Ji Yunmeng asked, "Oh? What is it that made you so distracted when you saw me?"

Lu Chen said, "I was just thinking that Your Highness bringing me to your palace might damage your reputation, so I should leave now."

Ji Yunmeng said nonchalantly, "The court is in chaos right now, and no one cares what I do."

At this point, Ji Yunmeng also glanced at Lu Chen. Lu Chen was handsome, wearing a silver hair crown and dressed in white. He had an otherworldly air about him and looked like a young master from a wealthy family.

Ji Yunmeng asked, "May I ask how you are addressed, young master? And where do you come from?"

Lu Chen replied, "Your Highness, I only know that my name is Lu Chen. I don't remember anything else besides my name. Perhaps I injured my head when I fell from the sky and lost my memory."

Ji Yunmeng did not doubt Lu Chen's words. When a person falls from such a height, amnesia is a minor matter.

Ji Yunmeng continued, "What are your plans next, young master?"

Lu Chen fell silent for a moment. Since his system was still there, he would follow its guidance. Although he hadn't figured out what the system was up to, for the time being, the only thing he could rely on was the system.

However, Ji Yunmeng is the eldest princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I am just an ordinary person now. It would probably not be an easy thing for me to become her man.

Even though Ji Yunmeng is a princess without a title, a princess is a princess. He is just an ordinary man who wants to be a princess, unless Ji Yunmeng is willing to do so.

Seeing that Lu Chen did not answer her question immediately, Ji Yunmeng said, "I will have someone look for your family. Until then, you can stay with me at the Princess's residence."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen asked in confusion, "The Princess's residence?"

Ji Yunmeng said, "I already have a title, and His Majesty has also allowed me to leave the palace and establish my own residence."

This……

Lu Chen thought to himself that, usually, when a princess leaves the palace to establish her own residence, it is because she is getting married. Before getting married, a princess usually lives in the palace.

Unless the princess is the emperor's favorite daughter, in which case the princess might be able to leave the palace before getting married.

However, Ji Yunmeng doesn't seem like a favored princess at all. If she were favored, she wouldn't be twenty-three years old and still unmarried, nor would she have a title.

It's understandable that the Emperor doesn't want her to leave the palace so soon since she hasn't married yet, but it's unreasonable that she only received a title now.

Lu Chen asked, "May I ask if Your Highness has established your own residence because His Majesty bestowed a marriage upon you?"

Lu Chen's biggest worry right now is this: if Ji Yunmeng marries someone else, it will be even more difficult for him to make her his woman.

Ji Yunmeng replied, "That's not the case. His Majesty promised me that I could decide my own marriage."

Hearing Ji Yunmeng's words, Lu Chen felt relieved.

Lu Chen then bowed and said, "This humble subject is willing to follow Your Highness to the Princess's residence!"

Ji Yunmeng glanced at Xiao Qi and Xiao Jiu, then said, "Alright, then you two prepare yourselves. The imperial edict will arrive at Yanyun Palace soon." Just as Ji Yunmeng finished speaking, a eunuch's voice came from the doorway, "The imperial edict has arrived!"

Upon hearing the eunuch's voice, Ji Yunmeng immediately led the maids of Yanyun Palace and Lu Chen to the entrance of the main hall.

Upon seeing Ji Yunmeng emerge, the imperial eunuch immediately opened the edict and began to read it aloud.

"By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Princess Ji of Yunmeng, a woman of exceptional beauty and virtue, gentle and respectful in the inner palace, intelligent and virtuous, I, by the order of Heaven, hereby bestow upon you the title of Princess Yun'an, granting you a golden book and golden seal, and authorizing you to choose an auspicious day to establish your own residence. I hope that you will..."

After the eunuch finished reading the imperial edict, Ji Yunmeng immediately accepted it, and then the eunuch left.

As soon as the eunuch left, Ji Yunmeng said, "The princess's residence is ready, and we will move there today."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen was stunned again. The imperial decree had just been issued, and Ji Yunmeng's princess residence had already been built?

Moreover, shouldn't you choose an auspicious day for moving? Isn't Ji Yunmeng being a little too hasty?

Ji Yunmeng didn't explain much to Lu Chen. After she gave the order, all the maids and eunuchs in the Yanyun Palace sprang into action.

at the same time.

The inner palace, Chang Le Hall.

A beautiful woman dressed in a dark red robe with pheasant feathers leaned against a soft couch. Her robe was loose and the collar was slightly open, revealing a small patch of fair skin. Her hair was styled in a high bun, adorned with gold ornaments that exuded nobility. At this moment, she had one long leg crossed over the other, and her skirt was slightly open, revealing her slender, jade-like leg. Her delicate hand rested on the edge of the couch, her index finger tapping the edge of the couch repeatedly, as if she was thinking about something.

At this moment, a eunuch was kneeling in the middle of the hall. The eunuch continued, "Your Majesty, I reckon the eldest princess has already received the imperial decree."

Hearing this, Pei Shuhua couldn't help but laugh. "I thought my eldest son had really put all his energy into cultivation and had stopped caring about worldly affairs. I didn't expect that he still had people he cared about."

Pei Shuhua was not Emperor Zhou's real mother. However, Emperor Zhou's mother was of low status and died soon after, so the position was placed under Pei Shuhua's name. When Pei Shuhua married the late emperor, she was still very young, and the late emperor was already terminally ill. Even now, Pei Shuhua, the Empress Dowager, is still a virgin, so she can be said to have become a mother without pain.

However, Spirit Warriors are often very old. Although Pei Shuhua is now over two hundred years old, as a Spirit Warrior in the mid-stage of the Profound Realm, she can live for at least several thousand years. Therefore, she looks like a beautiful middle-aged woman in her thirties.

The throne was not originally meant for the current Emperor Zhou. It was only because the Pei family was so powerful in the Great Zhou Dynasty that Emperor Zhou, Ji Mingxuan, was able to ascend to the throne with their support.

As soon as Ji Mingxuan became emperor, he devoted all his attention to cultivation. However, Pei Shuhua knew very well that this was just a disguise for Ji Mingxuan. Thirty years ago, Ji Mingxuan suddenly emerged from seclusion and made a lot of small moves, and also married many concubines.

Ji Mingxuan's children were all born around that time, but soon Ji Mingxuan returned to his Wanshou Palace, and for the next twenty years, Ji Mingxuan remained silent.

Not to mention a princess title, even the princes don't have any titles right now, but today he suddenly bestowed a title upon Ji Yunmeng, this princess.

At this moment, Pei Shuhua looked at the kneeling eunuch in the main hall and asked, "What do you think His Majesty's purpose is in doing this?"

The eunuch replied, "Perhaps His Majesty felt he owed Consort Ming too much, and since the eldest princess had reached marriageable age, he bestowed upon her a title."

Back then, Ji Yunmeng's mother, Consort Ming, took a sword for Ji Mingxuan, and died as a result. If Consort Ming hadn't taken that sword, Ji Mingxuan would have died long ago.

Therefore, many people in the court at this time believed that Emperor Zhou bestowed the title upon the eldest princess entirely because of Consort Ming's life-saving grace. (End of this chapter)