She refused to marry.

Su Wanwan accompanied Feng Chenjun to the Forget-Worry Pavilion.

Lord Fengchen loved reading, and books such as "The Strategy of Stabilizing the State" and "Governing the Country" were all about governing the country.

If I sit down to read without being disturbed, I can easily spend half a day doing so.

Su Wanwan fiddled with the sachet, pondering how to get Feng Chenjun to look through those beauties.

Suddenly a man walked in from outside.

It was less like walking and more like flying like an arrow, leaping into the pavilion in just a few steps.

Su Wanwan turned to look at the person who had come; it was Feng Chenjun's shadow guard.

He gives the impression of being slender and agile.

"My lord, we've found it." The shadow guard whispered a few words in Feng Chenjun's ear.

They talked about things like the Crown Prince and their interactions.

After listening, Feng Chenjun put the book aside and got up to walk towards the study.

Aoyama and the shadow guards followed him into the study, and the door was closed from the inside.

Su Wanwan walked out of the Forget-Worry Pavilion and moved to the warm pavilion, where the two maids stood respectfully at the door.

She went inside, unfurled the scroll, and after examining it for a while, ordered someone to bring over a screen and hang up the dozen or so alternative scrolls.

These women were all tall, beautiful, and exceptionally talented. One painting in particular caught her attention. Shen Yan…

Logically, she should have caught the attention of Crown Prince Changxin by now; I wonder how things have progressed between them.

After thinking for a while, he rolled up Shen Yan's scroll and tossed it aside.

After taking a few steps, I saw an annoying person, Zhou Lingyi.

Su Wanwan stopped in front of her portrait. This painting was a unique copy, and it took a top-notch old painter a whole month to make such a lifelike portrait.

At the time, Shen Qingrong privately mocked Zhou Lingyi for going on a hunger strike to paint a portrait.

These were portraits sent to the palace, but the eldest princess beat them to it and brought them to the East Garden.

After the princess finishes using them, these paintings will probably have to be sent back to the palace.

Recalling Zhou Lingyi's actions towards the female lead in the palace in the original novel, Su Wanwan almost turned the comments into a sieve.

She walked to the table, picked up the paintbrush, and gently touched Zhou Lingyi's cheekbone with it, thus completing the drawing of a "husband-killing mole".

Su Wanwan was very satisfied.

I put away my brush and ink and strolled into the garden to watch the fish.

Her face was reflected in the pool; she had fair skin, a beautiful face, and bright almond-shaped eyes. As a supporting actress, having such a beautiful face was truly worthwhile.

"I must see the Emperor! How dare you stop me!"

"Third Princess, His Majesty has ordered that no outsiders are allowed to approach the East Garden!" came the voice of a guard trying to stop them.

"Am I an outsider?! Open your eyes and look carefully! Besides, I clearly saw a woman in the Forget-Worry Pavilion just now. Didn't Your Majesty promise that Your Majesty could not get close to any woman before I am married?! If you marry one, I will kill one!" The woman's voice was shrill.

After hearing this, Su Wanwan stood up tremblingly, looked around to make sure no one had seen her run to the entrance of the warm pavilion.

She saw that the two maids looked uneasy and were trembling as they looked around.

Without thinking twice, she quickly hid inside the house.

The two maids at the door also took the opportunity to hide inside the house.

"Are you scared too?" Su Wanwan pointed outside.

The two maids nodded. "Miss Su, you don't know this, but this is the Third Princess. Whenever she has a chance to leave the palace, she always comes to His Majesty's place. And whenever she sees a woman in the East Garden, she never ends up well..."

"Girl, please save us! Although we haven't gotten close to the Emperor, the Princess won't tolerate us even though we've brought this picture album."

The two maids knelt down.

Su Wanwan also knelt down in front of the two women, helping them up. "You've come to the wrong people. There's nothing I can do to help you."

The maid shook her head, took her hand, and said, "Miss, you've stayed in the East Garden for so long and still survived, which means the Emperor treats you differently."

We, the people of Fengyi Palace, are watching. We'll bet on how long you can live.

"You are still favored by the Emperor, which means he truly loves you. If you just beg him, we won't die."

One of them started crying.

"You made a bet in Fengyi Palace? A bet on how long I can live?" Su Wanwan pointed to her face.

That's really unfair.

"Miss Su, now is not the time to talk about this. The Third Princess will probably be coming in soon, and the guards won't be able to hold out for long."

"Is the Third Princess really that scary?" Su Wanwan helped the two of them up.

"It's terrifying. Several of our sisters were killed by the Third Princess in the flower garden of our Phoenix Palace. After that, no one dared to approach His Majesty again." The maid cried softly.

Su Wanwan opened the door a crack, listening to the sounds around her. "Let's hide somewhere else for a while, and come out later."

"Yes," the two maids nodded softly.

Su Wanwan opened the door, remembering the place where she had been imprisoned last time, and led the two of them into a secluded courtyard deep inside.

After circling around for a while, we finally found that secluded courtyard.

The door was locked; it seems no one can hide there now.

"Miss Su, why are you hiding here?"

"Isn't this place very safe?" Su Wanwan moved a rock and smashed the lock.

Su Wanwan pushed open the door. "Let's go!"

The two maids went in trembling and stood in the courtyard, not daring to move an inch.

"What's wrong?" Su Wanwan asked, sitting on the steps.

The two maids pointed in her direction, "A person once died here, right where you are sitting."

Su Wanwan jumped three feet high down the steps and looked up at the beam above her head. She must have hanged herself.

"Who!" Su Wanwan followed the two and sat down together.

"I'm not sure," one of the maids said.

"Why are we so unlucky to have to be the two of us delivering the painting..." the maid choked out.

Su Wanwan listened to the commotion outside.

"search!"

"Search them all!"

"Kill any woman you see!"

Suddenly, something occurred to her. "Have you done anything recently that violated the Princess's taboos?"

Upon hearing this, the two maids shook their heads and nodded repeatedly.

Last night, Chunhua said that a message came from the Princess's residence, asking her to come.

She was received by the Princess's people.

Therefore, it was the eldest princess who delivered the message, not Fengchenjun.

The banquet is to be held the day after tomorrow. The fact that the Third Princess has come to stay here today means that the Eldest Princess's purpose is to use the Third Princess to put her to death.

No wonder Feng Chenjun looked surprised when she stepped into the East Garden today.

"Search this yard too!"

The sound was getting closer.

"Third Princess, you can't go in here!" the nanny said as she followed.

"Why not? Could it be that His Majesty is really hiding someone?" the Third Princess said arrogantly.

"Has the Third Princess forgotten that His Majesty has a younger sister?" the nanny whispered.

"Of course I haven't forgotten." The Third Princess stepped in.

"That woman committed suicide here in the end," the old woman said earnestly.

The third princess quickly withdrew her feet, "What bad luck!!! Let's go!"

The group followed the Third Princess out of the courtyard.