Exile? A mad, wicked woman empties the national treasury to escape famine.

Ji Yunyao suddenly threw herself into the eldest prince's arms, burying her head in his neck, her voice choked with sobs.

"Brother Jinsheng, don't worry, Yao'er will definitely try her best to remember that thing and get the blueprints out for you as soon as possible, so that you can smoothly take that position."

But, Brother Jinsheng, you must remember what you promised me. I've been through a lot of fright lately, and whenever I'm in a bad mood, my mind goes completely blank, and I can't remember anything. You'll have to be good to me during this time.

She said this, but her eyes were clear and bright, showing no signs of sadness or distress, but rather a sense of determination.

She had suffered greatly during her exile and was no longer the naive girl she had been in the capital, who only knew how to cry and pin her hopes on the eldest prince.

She now had her own thoughts and understood why the Crown Prince had come to find her. Wasn't it for the thing in her mind? They were simply getting what they needed from each other.

But she would never reveal her trump card so quickly before she got what she wanted.

Another wave of pain shot through the back of her hand, and she instinctively hissed. Seeing this, the First Prince didn't have time to think about anything else. He opened the curtain and told Xiao Wu to call the doctor over.

While the two carriages were filled with affection, in another carriage, Ji Yunshu and Xie Moyao sat quietly, neither of them speaking, creating an somewhat strange atmosphere.

Ji Yunshu was somewhat puzzled. She thought for a long time but couldn't figure out why Xie Moyao had been looking at her with a resentful gaze ever since she got into the carriage.

With a hint of grievance in her eyes and redness in them, she looked like a wronged young wife, even though she hadn't wronged him.

She could no longer tolerate it.

"Xie Moyao, just say what's on your mind. Don't look at me like that."

It made it seem like she had done something to offend him, but he didn't say anything. If she said anything too hurtful, she wondered if Xie Moyao would burst into tears.

Xie Moyao felt genuinely wronged. Recalling the way Ji Yunshu and the First Prince were outside the carriage just now, he felt like he was superfluous.

He knew he had no right to be angry, nor could he be angry. After all, Ji Yunshu and he had never had any overly intimate interactions, nor had they confirmed their feelings for each other. But seeing the way Ji Yunshu talked to the Crown Prince made him feel a surge of irritation.

Are you happy now?

Ji Yunshu was somewhat confused, but she still went along with it.

"Yeah, I'm in a pretty good mood right now. What's up?"

She was naturally very happy to have just solved the food problem for the villagers.

Especially when she had just left the village entrance, she used her mind to take a lot of flour, rice, and cabbage seeds, and gave them to the villagers. She thought that if they were to plant them in the village, their future would be prosperous because of her, and she felt incredibly happy.

Seeing her smiling face, Xie Moyao assumed that she was happy because the eldest prince had come. He immediately deflated like a punctured balloon. Did he have no chance at all?

The woman was already so happy just from Chu Jinsheng's arrival; wouldn't she be even more excited as they spend more time together?!

"I know you're excited, but... but please be a little more careful. You are my wife now, after all. My mother isn't in good health, so please don't make it too obvious. I'm afraid she won't be able to accept it."

Ji Yunshu...

What is that?

Can't accept it?

The old princess was unaware that she had taken things out of her spatial storage.

She stared intently at Xie Moyao's expression for a moment, and then realized that the two of them might not be talking about the same thing.

"Xie Moyao, what exactly do you mean? What do you mean by whether my mother-in-law can accept it or not? I haven't done anything shameful."

Xie Moyao glanced at her and said sullenly, "Stop pretending. I know you're happy that the Crown Prince is here, but, but don't make it too obvious. We're not divorced yet. In front of outsiders, you are still my wife and I am still your husband. Please, please give me some face."

Ji Yunshu was speechless. So that's what Xie Moyao meant. When he asked her if she was happy, he meant if she was happy that the First Prince had come.

She's happy for no reason! Which eye of his could tell that she's happy because the First Prince is here? She'd rather the First Prince stay far away from her!

"You don't think that I was happy because the First Prince came, do you? You're crazy. That peacock of a prince, who would want him to come? I'd rather he stay far away from our group!"

The officials in the procession had finally managed to side with us a bit after I egged them on, but now that he's here, with a prince like him standing in the middle of the line, who will dare to give me any special treatment in the future? I find him so annoying!

Xie Moyao's lowered eyes suddenly lit up, and he slowly raised his head, looking at Ji Yunshu's troubled expression, as if he wasn't lying.

"You, are you telling the truth? You wish he weren't in the ranks? Haven't you always liked him? Before the wedding, everyone knew that you, Ji Yunshu, liked the First Prince and followed him around all day."

That's why, on the day the Prince's mansion was raided, when he saw the so-called evidence in Ji Yunshu's dowry chest, he felt that Ji Yunshu had deliberately married him to frame their mansion.

Ji Yunshu's eyes twitched. Listening to Xie Moyao's words, she was somewhat incredulous, but she had to admit that Yuansheng had indeed done such a thing. How shameful, truly shameful.

When pursuing a man, it's one thing to ignore him, but to keep trying to win him over with cold indifference only makes you the laughingstock of the entire capital. It's so embarrassing! Luckily, she'll never go back to that wretched place, the capital!

"Hey, you said that was before, right? I was out of my mind back then. Now, even if that prince offered me a place, I wouldn't want it. I heard he has dozens of concubines and maids in his household, like a stud, taking turns day and night. It's disgusting."

Why would I want to associate with someone like that? Don't mention him to me again.

Especially in the original novel, after Chu Jinsheng ascended the throne,

In order to produce offspring as quickly as possible, people were constantly sent to the inner palace. They worked day and night like donkeys in a production team, and as a result, the concubines in the palace became pregnant one after another.

But either the child was never born or died. In order to preserve his so-called royal bloodline, Chu Jinsheng worked tirelessly day and night like a donkey in a production team. Before long, he was worn out and almost lost his life.

It seems that when he finally died of old age, only his and Ji Yunyao's only child remained in the palace.

Some people even wrote storybooks praising the deep affection between the emperor and empress.