The night breeze is blowing, the fragrance of flowers is bursting, Lin Wan is sitting in the pavilion, looking up at the starry sky, his eyes are like water, his face is calm, and his temperament is Qinghua.

Before he knew it, it was already the dead of night, and Lin Wan was still sitting in the octagonal pavilion, looking at the mountains in the distance and the palace where the silhouette could be faintly seen.

Qingtong tilted his head slightly, leaned close to Lin Wan's ear, and said in a low voice: "Miss, His Royal Highness Prince Ximen has come down, just outside the gate." ”

Lin Wan was stunned when she heard this, but she didn't dare to look in the direction of the gate of the back garden, got up slowly, and said casually: "Qingtong, warm heart, I'm a little tired, let's go back." ”

Of course, Nuanxin also found Ximen Yuqing outside the door, and also heard what Qingtong said to Lin Wan. However, he didn't expect that Lin Wan would deliberately avoid Ximen Yuqing. Knowing that Ximen Yuqing was coming, not only did he not look out of the door, but he immediately got up to leave.

Lin Wan slowly walked towards the west door, Qingtong and Nuanxin followed behind her. Of course, Qingtong knows it, but his warm heart is full of doubts. However, whether it was Qingtong or Warm Heart, they didn't look back, and they tacitly pretended not to know anything.

However, how could Ximen Yuqing not know? When Lin Wan got up to leave, he stopped and watched her leave quietly, knowing very well that Lin Wan suddenly wanted to go back to the room just to avoid himself.

Ximen Yuqing's heart seemed to have suddenly fallen into a dark cave, feeling endless darkness and despair. The brows were slightly frowned, his eyes were full of loss and sadness, and his slender and handsome figure looked particularly lonely under the moonlight.

Lan Ziyu walked to Ximen Yuqing's side at some point, looked at the empty octagonal pavilion, and gently reminded: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Miss Wei has already left." ”

Ximen Yuqing took a deep breath, smiled helplessly, turned his head to look at Lan Ziyu, and asked lightly, "Princess Ziyu came here late at night, why did she come here?"

Lan Ziyu looked shy, and snorted: "Ziyu can't sleep, come and try your luck to see if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here." ”

Ximen Yuqing hooked his lips and smiled, and said, "Does Princess Ziyu have anything to do with this prince?"

Lan Ziyu was stunned, raised her innocent and injured eyes like a rabbit to look at Ximen Yuqing, and murmured resentfully: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, you obviously know Ziyu's intentions, why do you want to ask more?"

Ximen Yuqing frowned slightly, looking at Lan Ziyu's sad and desperate appearance, he couldn't help but feel a kind of sourness in his heart, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and he unconsciously revealed a faint tenderness.

Lan Ziyu's heart moved, a glimmer of hope was born in her big sad eyes, she stared at Ximen Yuqing's eyes with affection, suppressed the excitement in her heart, and said sadly: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please tell me, where is Ziyu inferior to Wei Qiniang? If you talk about beauty, I don't think you lose to her; If you talk about talent, I have already performed at the banquet, haven't you and the emperor praised me? Your Royal Highness the Prince, what do you like about her? Is it because she disdains you, so you always remember it?"

Ximen Yuqing's brows furrowed even tighter, and he looked at Lan Ziyu's gaze, feeling a little more distressed. The cold and handsome face, the calm and ruthless expression, also gradually began to move.

Lan Ziyu's eyes were already full of tears, and she choked up: "What about me? Is my affection for you so despicable? Just because I fell in love with you at first sight and couldn't extricate myself, can you ruthlessly trample on my dignity? Just because I am the princess of Nanyue and came with the covenant between Nanyue and Xiling, do you not believe my sincerity? Is my infatuation with you not as good as that cold and cold woman?"

Ximen Yuqing frowned and looked at Lan Ziyu, quietly listening to her complaints and reprimands, pursed her lips, and was silent.

Lan Ziyu tilted her head slightly, looking at Ximen Yuqing's eyes for a moment, the infatuation in her eyes, and the tears hidden in her eyes, anyone who saw it couldn't help but feel heartache.

Ximen Yuqing took a deep breath, sighed lowly, frowned slightly, and said slowly: "Ziyu, the marriage between the two countries has no love between men and women, only deceit and conflicting interests. There is no trust between husband and wife, only mutual suspicion. You've just said so much, I'm only thinking about one thing. How true and how false are those things you say, or are they just lies fabricated to gain my pity?"

Lan Ziyu listened to Ximen Yuqing's cold and ruthless words, and her heart suddenly fell to the bottom. It cannot be denied that she did come for the alliance between the two countries, and everything she did was also ordered by Xu Nuo, but her heart was true.

When she saw Ximen Yuqing for the first time, and when she saw His Royal Highness the Prince, who was gentle, personable, handsome, and extraordinary, her heart was already beating wildly. When she was very young, because of her beauty, intelligence and calmness, she was favored by the Holy Aunt and chose to enter the Holy Land.

She has lived a bleak and lonely life in the Holy Land since she was a child, although she is deeply loved by the national teacher and has taught her various skills, whether it is learning, calligraphy and painting, piano art, martial arts, or the art of expelling Gu, she has always been the best among all the registered disciples and palace maids around the national teacher.

Although the national teacher has never failed to accept female disciples, he has always treated them equally when teaching them the skills of these palace maids. How much you can learn depends on your own talent.

The national teacher personally sent her out of the holy land, and then, she was sent into the palace with two other beautiful women, and learned all kinds of etiquette and various methods to confuse men with the teaching of the queen's mother, and even the way she walked and the way she spoke, as well as her seductive eyes, were professionally trained.

And the most important thing that Mama Ji has repeatedly explained is that you must not be tempted by the man you want to marry, in the battle of feelings, whoever moves the true feelings first will lose.

However, Xu Nuo also told her that if she didn't pay attention, she wouldn't be able to impress Ximen Yuqing. However, she can't give all her affection, otherwise she will put herself in a catastrophe and affect the whole plan.

At this moment, Lan Ziyu looked at Ximen Yuqing, who seemed to be a little shaken, but still ruthless, and her heart was extremely entangled. Ximen Yuqing is right, since the interests of the two countries have been involved, how can there be pure feelings?

How much is true and how false is her heart, and she can't even tell her own, how can she convince the other party to believe in herself?

Xu Nuo said that among all the women who participated in the concubine selection feast, Ximen Yuqing was most likely to choose Princess Wan of the Great Seal Kingdom. Moreover, it is said that when Ximen Yuqing was in the Great Sealing Kingdom, he was inseparable from Princess Wan, and his relationship was very good, and he had already made a private decision for life.