On the day of the wedding of the third prince and Li Zhu'er, the young lady of the Zhenguo General's Mansion.

The ban on Langhuan Hall has been lifted, but Lu Zhaoling has not received an invitation to watch the ceremony, and she does not want to go.

It was Shen Fengjiu who was specially invited.

On this day, the whole palace was busy and lively, but this festive scene did not disturb the remote Langhuan Palace.

Lu Zhaoling, as usual, got up early in the morning and practiced his knife seriously in this quiet courtyard.

Until an unexpected person arrives.

This person is Chu Sheng.

Chu Sheng still looked cold and indifferent, but his complexion was obviously much better, and there was some brilliance in his eyes.

He brought a delicate yellow rosewood box, saying that it was a birthday gift from the third prince to Princess Tongguang.

Lu Zhaoling accepted the box, looked at it silently for a while, and then told Qiu Xi to take it and put it away, but did not open it.

Chu Sheng didn't ask much.

Lu Zhaoling has never had a princess frame, and chatted with Chu Sheng.

"Are you doing well in Yonghe Palace?" Lu Zhaoling asked.

"Your Highness treats me very well." Chu Sheng replied.

"That's good." Lu Zhaoling smiled, "I said a lot of big things, but I couldn't help you." Fortunately, there are still three princes. ”

"If it weren't for you, the third prince wouldn't have been gracious to me." Chu Sheng said lightly, "Princess Tongguang, I have said something that misunderstood you. ”

"It's okay." Lu Zhaoling hurriedly waved his hand.

"I shouldn't have mistaken your kindness. But I still won't teach them how to play. Chu Sheng said.

Lu Zhaoling remembered what Chu Sheng had experienced, and didn't answer for a while.

"It's too despicable to be a servant. lives by pleasing and pleasing people, and the fate of this life is in the hands of the master's joy and anger. If you're lucky, it's too rare to meet someone as noble as you and the third prince. ”

Many people in this world seem to be struggling in the abyss of pain. Chu Sheng is like this...... The same is true for Bai Heng and Li Zhu'er.

Lu Zhaoling looked at Chu Sheng with a faint look of compassion, and suddenly thought of this.

"Do you think that a 'nobleman' like me and the Third Prince can control his own destiny?"

She herself didn't know why, and asked Chu Sheng such a sentence.

Chu Sheng was stunned.

Lu Zhaoling did not wait for Chu Sheng's reply.

She suddenly felt a little resentment in her heart.

The kingdom of Ryu was weak and was intimidated by Anping's force, and offered the young daughter of the monarch to sue for peace.

Lu Zhaoling has been a hostage of a small country since he was a child, walking on thin ice in the palace, and he doesn't know if he will be able to return to his homeland in this life.

Bai Heng's mother died unjustly and tragically, and she curled up alone in the Yonghe Palace to escape the world, but she still couldn't escape the shackles of the royal family and was forced to marry Li Zhuer.

It seems that everyone is just a puppet, and they have to be manipulated and manipulated by high-ranking and powerful "masters".

"This world is too strange." Before Chu Sheng left, he said.

Later, as if the lively atmosphere in the palace was unwilling to leave the Langhuan Hall alone, another person came to visit.

It turned out to be the second prince Bai Xi.

He still had a bandage around his neck, and said with a smile in Lu Zhaoling's surprised gaze: "Sister Zhaoling, I can finally come to visit you." ”

"Shouldn't you go to the service now? What's going on with your neck? Lu Zhaoling asked.

"Oh, I think Sister Zhaoling hasn't heard of it yet. A few days ago, the third brother had some misunderstanding with me, and this neck was accidentally broken at that time, so it didn't get in the way. Bai Xi smiled, "I just don't know if the third brother's anger has disappeared, today is his great joy, I still don't want to touch the third brother's mold." ”

"What misunderstanding? How can it hurt your neck? Lu Zhaoling asked in confusion.

"The third brother suspects that I instructed someone to do the poisoning." Bai Xi had a somewhat helpless look on his face.

"This ...... How can you suspect that it's you? ”

"I may have heard some slander. But in the end, I also have some resentment against my father. Bai Xi suddenly lowered his voice as he spoke, and joked to Lu Zhaoling with some deliberate looks, "When I say this, Sister Zhaoling shouldn't sue me." ”

"Definitely not." Lu Zhaoling was also amused by him.

"I'm relieved to see you smile, as soon as I enter the door, I see your sad face, where is it still like my free and easy sister Zhaoling?"

Bai Xi laughed at her, and continued: "Since I was a child, my father and emperor have intended to compete among our princes, especially for the throne, and my father likes to say that only the final winner in the struggle will be worthy of the blood of the Son of Heaven and qualified to take over the world." And my third brother and I are close in age, and we have been natural opponents since I was a child, and in recent years, my father has also intended to choose the crown prince among the two of us. As a result, the situation forced me to have a relationship with my third brother. ”

Bai Xi said this, and sighed: "My third brother and I have been playing together since we were children, listening to Taifu's lectures together, and we have also been through naughty disasters together, in the palace, I and my third brother were the closest. But now it'...... Alas, it's a pity. ”

Lu Zhaoling couldn't help but ask, "Even if Your Majesty wants your brothers to fight...... Will someone do this to their biological brother for the sake of saving the position? ”

"If this is the case, my father will say, 'The weak are not worthy of living in the royal family.'" Bai Xi's expression was a little sad.

Lu Zhaoling listened to Bai Xi's confession, and he was still a little incredulous in his heart.

In her memory, the brothers were cheerful and harmonious. She doesn't understand, why in the Anping Dynasty, which is known for its "benevolence and harmony", the princes and princes have to be incompatible because of the struggle for power, so that the brothers are suspicious and cannibalistic? ?

"If it is really for the sake of the throne, he used despicable and sinister means against his own brother, then wouldn't it be a vicious and cold-blooded and ruthless person who won? Can such a person be the emperor and rule the world? Where is righteousness? Lu Zhaoling couldn't help but say to Bai Xi, with a bit of righteous indignation between his words.

"Sister Zhaoling, the palace is such a place." Bai Xi's eyes were also full of helplessness, and he said warmly to Lu Zhaoling.

Lu Zhaoling was speechless for a while.

"So I don't complain about the third brother. The palace is a place where everyone is in danger, and the third brother almost died, and his suspicion and anger are all taken for granted. It's just that I, as an elder brother, can't take good care of my third brother. ”

“…… How innocent are you? Lu Zhaoling sighed lightly.

"Don't say these frustrating words." Bai Xi changed his expression, "Fortunately, the third brother has a great fortune, not only survived this catastrophe, but also got married to his childhood sweetheart, Miss Zhenguo's General's Mansion, and with the support of General Li in the future, the third brother's road to the prince can be much better." ”

Zhaoling, I don't want to be a prince, I just want to leave Jingyang.

Lu Zhaoling remembered Bai Heng's words in a nasal voice when he buried his face in her shoulder socket.

"He probably doesn't want to be a prince." Lu Zhaoling said softly.

Bai Xi was silent for a moment, and did not answer this sentence, but asked briskly: "By the way, Sister Zhaoling, when did you become so familiar with the third brother?" ”