Since then, every year when the palace banquets important ministers and family members, Xichen and Zini appear in front of everyone in pairs.

Blue Palace Mengyin is married far away and the princess, and he does not have any power in the Nanlin Kingdom, although he is deeply favored by Duanmu Qian, but he is not the object of the courtiers. What's more, her beauty will always make the people standing on the side ashamed of themselves, so on such occasions, there are not many family members who take the initiative to be close to her. It's Na Zini, every time she comes to the palace for a banquet, she chats with Nangong Meng for a few words.

In the first year, Zi Ni was cold in front of people, but she was always smiling in front of Nangong Meng, and she always looked adored and happy when she talked about Xichen.

In the second year, Zini was cold in front of people, and she was still smiling in front of Nangong Meng, but she no longer took the initiative to talk about Xichen, and a trace of confusion occasionally flashed in her eyes.

In the third year, Zini became more and more cold in front of people, and she didn't smile much in front of Nangong Meng, and began to avoid topics related to Xichen.

In the fourth year, Zini became even colder in front of people, and she no longer smiled in front of Nangong Meng, and her words gradually became less.

"Zini, how are you doing in the General's Mansion?" Although there are not many such meetings every year, Nangong Meng is keenly aware that there is a problem between Zi Ni and Xi Chen. In this Nanlin country, even if Zi Ni is the closest female relative to her, Nangong Meng hesitated for a long time, but still asked.

"Concubine Meng, I'm fine." Zini's eyelids are lowered, and her long eyelashes cast a perfectly curved shadow.

"But I don't think you're happy."

"Concubine Meng, are you happy?" Zini raised her eyes and looked at Nangong Meng.

"Me?" Nangong Meng didn't expect her to ask herself like this, and smiled faintly, "You also understand the life of the harem, not to mention that I am just a kind concubine." The emperor treats me well, I am already content. "Since the day I agreed to come to Nanlin Country and kiss, Nangong Meng has no chance of happiness. But she always has to pretend to be happy in front of Duanmu Qian and in front of everyone, which is the only way to ensure that she lives safe and sound. After all, there is hope only if you are alive.

"Then I'll be fine. The general said that he would protect me for the rest of my life, and I think he kept his promise in public. I'm fine at the General's Palace. Zi Ni also smiled, but Nangong Meng clearly felt that there was a trace of loneliness in that smile, which was the loneliness of a lonely woman in her heart.

The next day, Nangong Meng wrote in a secret letter to his father, "The relationship between the Holy Maiden Zini and Xichen is delicate. She never thought that it was this seemingly gossip intelligence that finally achieved the unification and hegemony of Yueli Country.

When the army of Yueli broke through the border of Nanlin Kingdom and marched towards the capital, Nangong Meng learned the truth of the whole thing from his father's secret letter.

It turned out that Xichen had never loved Zini. On that day, he asked to marry Zini, just because Zini was a saint.

The saints of the Higashiyanagi Kingdom were kept in the shrine, and in this shrine enshrined the god Mang, who was regarded as the guardian god of the Higashiyanagi Kingdom. The holy woman needs to feed the python with her own blood every month.

Because this python is highly poisonous, in order to prevent the saint from being poisoned and killed when it sucks blood, the saints of the past generations will taste herbs and soak in medicinal baths since childhood, until the poison does not invade. And the blood of the saint is the antidote to the poison. This secret is only known to the elders of the royal family and the temple of the Dongliu Kingdom, as well as the holy women of the past dynasties.