Everything happened too fast. Xie Yunli had just clearly seen a woman in his fourth brother's room.

But in the blink of an eye...

Xie Yunli looked at his fourth brother.

Fourth Brother was tall and strong, his body large enough to cover a woman's figure.

Xie Yunli stepped forward, wanting to find out what was going on.

Xie Xuanjin said coldly, "Get out! Close the door!"

Xie Xuanjin's gaze passed over the person at the door and met Liu Shi's gaze.

Liu felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

It's the Prince of Huai!

Memories of being taken to the Dali Temple prison that day flooded her mind. Liu Shi felt a chill run through her body as she averted her gaze and hurriedly pulled Madam Jiang, "Let's go, let's go!"

Liu walked away.

The door to the side room was closed.

Xie Yunli was locked out, which further confirmed his suspicion that there was a woman in his fourth brother's room.

The way Fourth Brother nervously hid her only fueled Xie Yunli's gossip-loving spirit.

Inside the side room.

Song Qingning's hand was still on Xie Xuanjin's waist.

She wasn't afraid of Liu, but if Liu discovered she was eavesdropping, it would affect what was to come.

"She's gone," Xie Xuanjin said.

Song Qingning then woke up with a start, noticing the hand on his lower back. She took a step back to create some distance between them. "Thank you for your help, Your Highness Prince Huai."

"Um."

Xie Xuanjin turned around.

The person in front of me is slender; it's hard to imagine what she looked like fighting on the battlefield.

She was dressed in a woman's silk robe and wore a red velvet flower in her hair, a fashionable outfit for women in the capital, and looked completely frail.

But just now she warned people.

Chopping off hands, feet, heads, and waists... these are all her specialties.

"Have you settled in since returning to the capital?" Xie Xuanjin suddenly asked with concern.

Song Qingning: "..."

His Highness Prince Huai's concern...

"I also spent a few years in the army," Xie Xuanjin said, as if afraid she would misunderstand.

Song Qingning understood that he cared for her as a subordinate, and replied, "You have to get used to it."

The rules of survival in the capital are different from those on the border battlefield.

But she was reborn; she had experienced it in her previous life, so getting used to it wouldn't be difficult.

"Fourth Brother? Fourth...Sister-in-law?"

Xie Yunli, standing outside the door, seemed impatient.

Xie Xuanjin: "..."

Song Qingning: "..."

The two looked at each other, both startled by the title.

Xie Xuanjin turned his gaze away first.

Song Qingning knew that Xie Yunli's discovery of the Prince of Huai hiding people was probably a misunderstanding.

Going out like this will only lead to more misunderstandings.

She couldn't cause any more trouble for Prince Huai, so Song Qingning thanked Xie Xuanjin again and climbed out the window.

The door was opened.

Xie Yunli smiled excitedly, eager to see who the woman his fourth brother had hidden was. But after searching around, apart from his fourth brother, who looked gloomy and displeased, there was no sign of the woman in the room.

"Fourth Brother? Where is he?" Xie Yunli asked.

Xie Xuanjin ignored him, turned around and walked out of the room, leaving the City God Temple.

……

Song Qingning returned to the Yongning Marquis's residence before Liu Shi.

Upon returning home and hearing the commotion in the East Courtyard, Song Qingning immediately rushed over.

As they approached the main courtyard, the noise gradually became clearer.

"Young Miss, how could you upset Madam like this! Madam loves and cares for you..." Chen Mama helped Lu Shi up.

She wanted the young lady to know the lady's intentions.

Song Qingyan interrupted her with a cold laugh, "Love me? Ha, she insisted on marrying me off to that impoverished Jiang family, is that what she calls loving me?"

"That was an engagement that was arranged long ago! If we forcefully break off the engagement, it will be bad for your reputation."

"Yan'er, your maternal grandfather has already promised me..."

Lu knew all too well the importance of reputation for a woman.

Song Qingyan didn't want to hear any more from her. "Grandfather, grandfather, that old-fashioned man, what can he do to help me?"

"There's no way I'll marry into the Jiang family. I'm not afraid to tell you, my destiny is with the heir of Prince Yu's mansion, and I will marry him!"

Lu was stunned for a moment, then was horrified.

The Prince Yu's Mansion is owned by members of the imperial family.

If Yan'er didn't have the marriage agreement with the Jiang family, she would have to beg the Empress to give Yan'er a chance to get her wish.

However, with the marriage agreement with the Jiang family in place, doing this would only earn her a bad reputation.

"Yan'er..." Madam Lu leaned closer to Song Qingyan.

Song Qingyan resented her and shoved her hard.

As Lu leaned back, about to fall to the ground, an arm caught her.

It is Song Qingning.

"Ning'er?" Madam Lu was still in shock.

Song Qingyan glanced at Song Qingning, who had suddenly appeared, and resented her for being so meddlesome. It was only when Madam Lu fell that she was taught a lesson!

She wanted to reprimand Song Qingning.

Just then, Madam Liu entered the courtyard.

"Second Aunt, did everything go smoothly when you went out today?" Song Qingyan went up to ask.

"Everything went smoothly, everything went very smoothly."

Liu naturally pulled Song Qingyan along, their intimacy like that of a mother and daughter.

Song Qingyan immediately learned that the Jiang family had agreed to the marriage with a different person.

Very good!

Song Qingyan looked triumphantly at Song Qingning, then glanced at Madam Lu, "Mother, some destinies are preordained. What isn't meant for me will never be mine, and what is meant for me will eventually be mine!"

Song Qingyan refused to listen to Lu's advice any longer and left the East Courtyard with Liu.

"Yan'er will ruin herself sooner or later." Madam Lu sighed. She didn't know when she had raised this daughter to be so arrogant, and she would suffer the consequences sooner or later.

Song Qingning knew that the Lu family was kind-hearted and had not seen much evil in the world.

The evil of wicked people lies in their ability to destroy others to achieve their own ends.

Song Qingning lowered her eyes coldly, thinking about what Song Qingyan had just said.

"Everyone has their own destiny. My cousin is right. Some relationships are preordained. What is not meant for her will never be hers, and what is meant for her will eventually be hers."

Song Qingning chatted with Madam Lu for a while.

He watched her take a Seven Flower Pill and fall asleep before leaving.

Before leaving, she once again instructed Chen's mother that the Seven Flower Pills and lotus seeds are incompatible, and that Madam Hou should not drink lotus seed soup while taking the Seven Flower Pills.

Mother Chen remembered it well.

Mother Chen liked the second daughter very much.

Sometimes, when I look at the second daughter, it's as if I'm seeing the lady in her youth.

More accurately, it is a fusion of the young Mrs. Meng and Miss Meng.

The way Madam Liu and Miss Qingyan left together just now gave her the illusion that they were the real mother and daughter.

Chen's mother was frightened by this "illusion".

……

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

That's enough for Song Qingning to do a lot of things.

Early that morning, Xie Xuanjin took Xie Yunli to Wangshu Tower for tea.

Wangshu Tower is located on the same street as the Yongning Marquis's residence.

"Fourth Brother, you... something's not right!" Xie Yunli stared at Xie Xuanjin, trying to see through him.

Xie Xuanjin sipped his tea. "How so?"

"You usually go to the Shence Army camp outside the city or to the Dali Temple. Even when you come out to play, I have to do everything I can to drag you along. Today... you're acting a bit strangely, a bit decadent."

If something is out of the ordinary, then something sinister is at play.

Xie Xuanjin was shocked to realize that the abnormality of the past three days was not limited to this.

These past few days, I've had that same dream almost every time I close my eyes.

In his dream, he saved a woman, but he still couldn't see her face clearly. However, every time he woke up, he would think of Song Qingning.

One was a married woman, and the other was an unmarried girl.

One has a leg disability, while the other is agile and skilled in martial arts.

They really have nothing in common.

"Fourth Brother, is it because of her? Who is she? If you like her, why not ask the Emperor to grant you a marriage?" Xie Yunli was very frustrated.

These past few days, he's been constantly pestering his fourth brother about that woman.

Fourth Brother remained silent.

He was so curious!

Because he was so curious, he didn't know if he had caused trouble for his fourth brother.

Xie Yunli felt a little guilty.

He carefully observed Xie Xuanjin's expression and saw that he was frowning and thinking about something. After struggling for a while, Xie Yunli decided to confess.

"Fourth Brother, we brothers have a very good relationship, right?"

Xie Yunli was very confident about this.

"Um."

The answer is yes.

Xie Yunli was greatly encouraged.

"Fourth Brother understands me. He knows I've never been disloyal to him. Even if I do something wrong, he won't blame me if it's based on my intentions, not my actions, right...?"

"Um."

The sound was calm and even.

Safety!

Xie Yunli breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that if he confessed, his fourth brother would definitely forgive him.

So he spoke.

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