Gao Ji smiled and stared at the saber at Luo Qingzhi's waist.

Luo Qingzhi pointed and asked, "Do you like it?"

Gao Ji seemed to understand Luo Qingzhi's question, nodded, and stretched out his hand to take it.

Gao Yan immediately scolded, "Ji'er!"

Luo Qingzhi took off her saber and offered it with both hands, "Then, I will give it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Gao Ji hesitated for a moment, and after seeing Gao Yan nodding, he reached out and touched it.

"Okay, Concubine Shu, take it down."

Concubine Xiao Shu got the order and took Gao Ji away.

"Ahem—ahem!"

Gao Yan coughed a few times and took another deep breath.

"Arlo." He called to her, "Follow me."

Luo Qingzhi followed behind Gao Yan, looking at his somewhat clumsy body, and suddenly felt a little relieved.

When the two came to the study, Gao Yan took down a red sandalwood box from the bookshelf and said, "This is the heirloom jade seal."

Luo Qingzhi didn't stretch out her hand, but asked, "Give it to me?"

Gao Yan nodded and put it on the desk.

"Ahem—ahem!"

"I will give Concubine Shu to death so that you don't have to worry about the future."

Luo Qingzhi frowned, "Actually," I wanted to speak, but I still stopped talking.

Gao Yan said, "If she doesn't die, you won't be Ah Ji's only relative, and he won't be able to trust you wholeheartedly."

Luo Qingzhi sighed, "Your Majesty, just spare her life, just drive her out of Jinling."

"No," Gao Yan resolutely said, "Ah Luo, have you forgotten Gao Zhen's mother?"

「......」

Luo Qingzhi didn't stop anymore, just sighed silently.

Gao Yan continued: "I will handle these things for you, but there is only one thing that you have to handle by yourself."

"What?" Luo Qingzhi asked.

"Gao Zhen!"

Gao Yan said: "Now, the soldiers and horses of Yizhou have also belonged to him, and he is already a great disaster for the imperial court."

Luo Qingzhi nodded, "I'll take care of it."

Gao Yan nodded, "Okay."

"Arlo." Gao Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said gently, "Come with me and go for a walk on the city wall."

"Okay."

Luo Qingzhi summoned the sedan chair, and Gao Yan was already a little out of breath.

She hesitated, "Why don't you go another day."

"Nope." Gao Yan refused, "I'm afraid it won't be another day."

Luo Qingzhi stopped talking and helped him get into the sedan chair.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the foot of the city walls.

Gao Yanping retreated and looked at Luo Qingzhi, "Let's go, let's go up."

Luo Qingzhi held his hand, so cold and so generous.

"Yesterday was too rushed, and I didn't have time to say a lot of words." Gao Yan said lightly.

Luo Qingzhi began to shake her head, "No need, no matter what happened in the past, it's all in the past."

Gao Yan clenched his clasped hands and sighed, "Ah Luo, I, Gao Yan, have never been sorry for anyone, but you, I owe a lot."

Luo Qingzhi opened her mouth, and Gao Yan said, "You heard about me, listen to me, Ah Luo."

Gao Yan exhaled and looked at the streets outside the city wall, "I asked Luo Yi to come to Jinling that year, and it was I who spread the news of him."

"I know." Luo Qingzhi responded lightly.

Gao Yan smiled, "In those ten years, I put you in Yuzhou because I wanted you to recover Yuzhou, and then control Yizhou, and later, let you go to Ningzhou, but also to take back the military power of the Mu family's army."

"I know." Luo Qingzhi said again.

"I'm sorry." Gao Yan said sincerely: "Since the palace change, everything you have experienced has more or less my participation."

Luo Qingzhi looked up at Gao Yan, "I know everything, and I understand."

"I, I really want to set you free." Gao Yan said.

"Hmm." Luo Qingzhi nodded, "Me."

Yes, second brother."

Gao Yan coughed a few times, slowly squatted down, and leaned against the city wall.

"There are so few happy days in my life."

Gao Yan closed his eyes and smiled silently.

Luo Qingzhi said, "It's windy, let's go back."

Gao Yan shook his head, "Ah Luo, come, you sit down."

Luo Qingzhi sat down next to Gao Yan, and Gao Yan continued: "That year, I didn't want to be on the throne, I just wanted to be an idle prince."

"So, why?" Luo Qingzhi asked.

Gao Yan exhaled, "Perhaps, if you have enjoyed the taste of power, it will be difficult to give up."

Luo Qingzhi naturally understood that Gao Zhen's reason was not true, but she didn't want to ask any more, and when she saw the dark clouds gathering in the sky, she said, "Seeing that it's going to rain, go back, second brother."

Gao Yan turned his head, looked at Luo Qingzhi, and asked softly, "Ah Luo, if we were just the children of ordinary people, how good would it be."

After he finished speaking, he sighed deeply, "How nice it should be."

Luo Qingzhi was a little moved, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

Gao Zhen opened his eyes, looked at the sky, and said lightly, "Ah Luo, you have to go by yourself on the road ahead."

"Second brother." Luo Qingzhi called softly, "I'll send someone to find Zhixin right away, with her, you will definitely be fine."

Gao Yan shook his head, "No need, the person who should have left a long time ago has had these two years for no reason."

Luo Qingzhi said, "Second brother, don't talk nonsense, Ji'er, you still have to take care of him growing up."

Gao Yan smiled, "With you, he will definitely be a good emperor."

Luo Qingzhi opened her mouth, and Gao Yan raised her head, "Ah Luo, tell me, do you really like Gao Zhen?"

「......」

Luo Qingzhi hesitated.

Gao Yan continued, "Then what kind of feelings do you have for me, for me?"

Luo Qingzhi turned her head violently and looked at Gao Yan with a puzzled expression.

Gao Yan snorted and laughed, "That's it, I already knew the answer."

"Let's go back." Gao Yan said.

After coming down from the city wall, Gao Yan let Luo Qingzhi stay with him, and for three days, even Gao Ji was not allowed to enter the palace to greet him.

Gao Yan completely let go of the emperor's figure, just like the elder brother of an ordinary family, listening to Luo Qingzhi tell about his experience.

The laughter that came from time to time in the hall made the palace people waiting outside the hall look at each other.

Luo Qingzhi said, "Second brother, what else do you want to do?"

Gao Yan thought for a while, "Out of the palace, I want to go outside the palace to see."

"Okay." Luo Qingzhi nodded, "I'll arrange it."

Gao Yan said, "It's just you and me, okay."

「...... Okay."

Luo Qingzhi and Gao Yan changed into ordinary people's clothes and quietly left the palace at night.

Before leaving the palace, Gao Yan drank the medicine prepared by the imperial doctor, which could temporarily restore his strength.

Gao Yan stretched out his hand, "Ah Luo, I'm weak under my feet, pull me, okay?"

Luo Qingzhi stared at the palm print in Gao Yan's palm and didn't speak for a long time.

Gao Yan silently retracted it, and said lightly, "It's a little abrupt."

Then, he took two steps, stumbled, and finally took Luo Qingzhi's hand.

Gao Yan grinned, and Luo Qingzhi sighed, "Second brother, be careful."

"Okay."

The night market in Jinling was very lively, Gao Yan carefully held Luo Qingzhi's hand, secretly sad.

Gao Zhen around the corner looked at the two people who were so close, and there was a loss and killing intent in his eyes that couldn't be hidden.