In my dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, I snatched Wu Zetian from my lap.

Wu Yu bowed: "Your Highness, the princess sent me."

"Princess? You're still awake so late?" Li Yuanchang asked in surprise.

"In the evening, the Tibetan envoys paid homage to the princess and had a brief conversation with her. After that, the princess became somewhat depressed and did not eat dinner."

"When her subordinates asked, she refused to say."

"Just now, he suddenly told his subordinates to ask His Highness to come over, but not to let anyone know," Wu Yu said.

Li Yuanchang frowned: "What did the discussion on Qin Fu tea say?"

"Your Highness, I don't know. The princess dismissed us at the time, it seemed to be some precautions regarding entering Tibet. Lunqin Fucha said that she had your permission."

Li Yuanchang exhaled a breath of stale air; he understood.

Lunqin Fucha had requested to see Li Su multiple times, but Li Su had already refused him many times. If he refused again, there would be a problem. In addition, as an envoy for the peace treaty, Lunqin Fucha had many things to discuss with Li Su.

He stood up and handed the letter to Wu Yu.

"Send the letter back to Liangzhou."

"Yes."

A short while later, Li Yuanchang arrived at Li Su's temporary residence, which was surrounded by layers of guards and protected by the elite troops of the Prince of Han's mansion and the left and right guards. Not even a fly could get in.

But for Li Yuanchang, it was like his own backyard.

He entered the palace with ease. It was quiet and deserted, with only a cluster of lights shining.

"Susu," Li Yuanchang called out.

Li Su snapped out of her reverie, turned around, and smiled: "Your Highness, you've arrived."

Li Yuanchang nodded, his gaze lingering on her for a while longer.

It was so late, yet Li Su hadn't removed her makeup. Instead, she was dressed up extra exquisitely, with floral decorations on her forehead, her eyebrows drawn like indigo, her lips stained with cherry juice, and her cheeks flushed with rouge, neither too light nor too heavy, like the glow of dawn when spring awakens.

When she turned around, the gold hairpin dangling behind her head jingled softly.

"What did Lunqin Fucha tell you today? I heard you didn't eat?" Li Yuanchang's voice was very magnetic, and then he magically produced a plate of food.

Li Su pursed her lips and said, "He said that the Tibetan king abolished many outdated customs and allowed me to wear Hanfu without shaving my face."

"They also approved the son-in-law ceremony, which will be held in Baihai."

As she spoke, she lowered her head, her eyes filled with no excitement befitting a bride, only endless despair.

Li Yuanchang couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"Can you tell me why you agreed to depart ahead of schedule when you were in Chang'an?"

"If you resist, it is not impossible for me to arrange for someone else to be Princess Wencheng."

His response was the extreme quiet of the palace and the pattering rain outside.

Li Su lowered her head, pursed her lips tightly, and remained silent, only her eyes filled with red tears.

Seeing this, Li Yuanchang stopped asking questions.

"Come on, let's eat something first."

"Man is made of iron, food is made of steel; you'll get hungry if you skip a meal."

The rhyme made Li Su laugh through her tears.

"How does Your Highness know so many tongue twisters?"

"This isn't called a tongue twister, it's called a rhyme, it's for the postgraduate entrance exam," Li Yuanchang joked, opening the lunchbox to reveal it was full of meat and vegetables.

What he didn't notice was that Li Suxian walked to the palace gate and locked it from the inside.

"What is the postgraduate entrance exam?"

"Um... it's like getting into the Imperial Academy." The two talked as if they were having a casual chat.

"The Imperial College?"

"Can these words get you into the Imperial Academy?" Li Su was both amused and exasperated.

"Just kidding, come on, hurry up, eat it while it's hot," Li Yuanchang urged.

Li Su looked at all the meat and vegetables and couldn't eat them, but seeing Li Yuanchang's eyes, she still obediently did as he said.

Li Yuanchang watched her eat quietly, taking small bites and chewing slowly, without making a sound.

If this were to go to Tibet, I wonder if they would still be eating raw meat there.

A while later.

Li Su ate about half of it and said apologetically, "Your Highness, I... I can't eat anymore."

"Let's have one last bite of meat," Li Yuanchang said.

Li Su had no choice but to force herself to eat one more bite.

"Alright, speak now, what brings you here?" Li Yuanchang then asked.

Upon hearing this, Li Su's eyes became uneasy, and he hesitated before stammering, "Your Highness, could we talk inside?"

Li Yuanchang raised an eyebrow. If they went any further in, it wouldn't be a temporary palace, but a sleeping palace.

In ancient traditions, this was tantamount to adultery.

Seeing Li Su's embarrassed yet hesitant expression, Li Yuanchang nodded and stepped inside.

Li Su took a deep breath, glanced at the lightning and thunder outside, and as if she had mustered the greatest courage of her life, slowly followed them inside.

No sooner had Li Yuanchang entered the palace than the largest cluster of lights suddenly went out, plunging the entire palace into a dim, inexplicable light.

It's clear, yet ambiguous.

Li Yuanchang turned around.

Li Su followed them in, her hands clasped over her stomach, pressing on something, her gaze lingering on her.

"Your Highness, you...you don't worry, I've feigned illness and transferred all the palace maids and eunuchs around me."

"Once I leave Shanzhou, it's as if I've completely left the Tang Dynasty. I'm afraid I'll never have another chance like this. I'm about to become the Queen of the Tibetan King. I'm very happy to have Your Highness by my side these days."

But one day, we will have to part ways.

As she spoke, she choked up, but suddenly forced herself to lift her head, her icy eyes brimming with tears, yet filled with determination and resolve.

"I want to offer myself to Your Highness before that."

With that, she bit her lip, loosened her grip, and the gold-embroidered palace dress slipped off with a whoosh, falling and piling up to her ankles.

Her slender, willow-like body was instantly exposed to the air.

Li Yuanchang's pupils were shocked!

Li Su wasn't wearing any clothes underneath!

Not at all!

From her delicate collarbone to her snow-white calves, there was nothing covering her, even her most private areas were completely exposed. In the dim light, she was a beauty that rivaled Qin Keyu's.

The palace was silent, but then a deafening roar, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down!

bass!

Li Yuanchang transformed into a cheetah and pounced.

But instead of pushing her, he quickly grabbed her clothes, draped them over her body, and tightly closed them.

"Susu, don't do anything rash." Li Yuanchang took a deep breath.

Li Su's tears fell with a thud, like jewels.

"Your Highness, Susu didn't do anything reckless!"

"I want to give the most precious thing to Your Highness, and to the person Su Su loves, before we reach Baihai. That way, at least Su Su will have lived once, and even if the future is a sea of ​​suffering, Su Su will have something to remember!"

She choked up, her eyes sincere and clear as an iceberg, glistening with tears, extremely poignant.

boom!!

A clap of thunder sounded outside the window, followed by a downpour, just like Li Su's words. Once they got out, the world would collapse!

A princess about to be married off in a political alliance, and the envoy in charge of the marriage...

But when the lightning struck her delicate face, there was no fear in it, only a resolute determination and a final wish before resignation.