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Ye Zhen answered the empress dowager's question cautiously, no longer as unscrupulous as before. After all, she was different.
The empress dowager was very satisfied with Ye Zhen's attitude. At least, she did not dare to put on airs just because she was about to enter the palace. "Ai jia has a question for you. Do you know that the emperor has set the wedding date?"
"This subject knows." Ye Zhen nodded gently.
"The emperor wants to make you his empress. Do you have any reluctance in your heart?" The empress dowager looked sharply at Ye Zhen, as if she wanted to see through her mind at once.
Ye Zhen returned the empress dowager's gaze in surprise. If she resented Mo Rongzhan, why did she follow him back? "Empress dowager, why do you ask?"
The empress dowager said, "The emperor is Ai jia's son. Ai jia can't watch him marry a woman who has a grudge against him."
"This subject has no resentment against the emperor." Ye Zhen whispered. The empress dowager really misunderstood. Did she think that she married Mo Rongzhan for revenge?
"If you have no resentment, what about your father, Ye Yiqing?" The empress dowager asked.
Ye Zhen smiled and shook her head. "Empress dowager, you don't know my father. If he still can't let go of the past in his heart and is still bent on revenge, he will not let me return to the capital. My father is even less likely to use his daughter to avenge him."
The empress dowager looked at Ye Zhen suspiciously. "You and Ye Yiqing have only known each other for a year. How do you know him so well?"
"He is my biological father. What's so difficult about knowing him?" Ye Zhen asked.
"Ai jia is relieved to hear that." The empress dowager nodded gently. "Ai jia has no other meaning. I just hope that the people around the emperor are sincere to him. Yao Yao, you should understand what I mean."
Ye Zhen looked at the empress dowager with bright eyes. "Empress dowager, this subject understands."
In the empress dowager's mind, no matter how much she liked her, her son was more important. There was no doubt about who to favor.
"Go to Yi. He heard that you are going to the palace today and said he would come to see you. He should have returned from the study by now." The empress dowager said with a smile.
Ye Zhen's heart was a little sour. The empress dowager treated her like a mother and daughter, but now it was impossible to return to that situation.
"Empress Dowager, this subject will take her leave first." Ye Rou bowed her head and slowly left the main hall.
The Empress Dowager looked at her back with a frown and sighed helplessly.
"Your Ladyship, the princess seems to have lost some weight," Aunt Cheng said in a low voice as she changed the Empress Dowager's cup of tea.
"Yes, she has lost some weight and grown taller. She is no longer the little girl from a year ago," the Empress Dowager said lightly. "Aijia feels old when I look at her."
Aunt Cheng smiled. "Empress Dowager, how are you old? You're thinking too much again."
"Ai jia used to like her so much, but now that she's going to be my daughter-in-law, I feel …" The Empress Dowager stopped halfway through her sentence. Now that she looked at Lu Yaoyao, she didn't feel the heartache she had before.
A daughter and a daughter-in-law were naturally different! Aunt Cheng said with a smile, "You've always doted on the younger generation. It's only because I haven't seen the Princess for a long time that I feel unfamiliar with her. She'll be fine in a few days."
The Empress Dowager said, "For her, the emperor doesn't favor any of the concubines. I really don't know who he took after."
Aunt Cheng smiled. "Empress Dowager, men are not greedy for novelty. What they can't get is the best."
"Yes, once Yaoyao enters the palace, the novelty will pass and His Majesty will be fine." The Empress Dowager laughed. At that time, as long as the emperor sees a more beautiful woman, he will definitely be tempted.
Looking at the Empress Dowager's thoughtful look, Aunt Cheng's heart skipped a beat.
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Ye Zhen left the Palace of Benevolent and Peaceful. After hesitating for a moment, she walked in the direction of the prince's residence. Before she reached the prince's residence, she saw Mo Rongyi coming from another direction.
The young man coming from afar looked very much like the Mo Rongzhan she met when she was a child. However, he did not have the coldness and majesty on his face.
"Yao Yao!" Mo Rongyi had already seen her. A bright smile appeared on his handsome face as he strode towards her.
Ye Zhen's eyebrows and eyes revealed a smile. She remembered that when she first met him, he was still a child, but now he has become a handsome young man. Because of her rebirth, this young man also got the chance to prolong his life. She also regarded Mo Rongyi as her own younger brother.
"How long has it been since I last saw you? You've grown so much taller?" Ye Zhen looked at Mo Rongyi with a smile. When he came to her, she found that he was a head taller than her.
Mo Rongyi pointed at her angrily. "You left without saying goodbye to me. I chased after you for a long time, but I didn't catch up. You are not a friend."
At that time, Ye Zhen left the capital in the middle of the night. Even Mo Rongzhan didn't know it. Mo Rongyi must be referring to her substitute. Since it was a substitute, how could her father let others catch up with him? "I didn't know you were coming to see me off. Hey, I just went out for a while. Aren't I back now?"
"At that time, I thought you wouldn't come back again." The anger on Mo Rongyi's face turned into depression. Knowing that she was Ye Yiqing's daughter, he was worried that she would not come back after she left. After all, there was the matter of Ye Zhen and the Ye family. He felt that it was normal for Yao Yao to not want to come back and see her brother.
But she came back!
Ye Zhen wanted to touch his head as before, but found that she could no longer touch it. "How could I not come back? My parents are still in the capital."
Mo Rongyi covered his mouth and smiled with some ambiguity. "I know, there's still my brother."
Ye Zhen blushed and glared at him. "You know more."
"When you were away, my brother didn't look happy. He often didn't come to the harem. It was not easy for my mother to see him." Mo Rongyi said.
"Nothing happened in the palace, right?" Ye Zhen asked in a low voice.
Mo Rongyi walked side by side with her to the pavilion in the imperial garden. "What can happen? Although Ye Yaoyao pleases my mother, she is gone now. There is no need to care about her."
Ye Zhen was slightly startled. "How did Ye Yaoyao please the Empress Dowager?"
She remembered that although the Empress Dowager sympathized with Ye Yaoyao in the past, it was impossible to say that she liked her.
"How would I know? But Ye Yaoyao seems to be different from before. Anyway, she is dead. There is no need to pay attention to her." Mo Rongyi said.
Ye Zhen thought that Mo Rongyi felt that Ye Yaoyao was different. It must be because she recovered her memory that she looked different.
"How is your equestrian archery this year?" Ye Zhen asked with a smile, no longer asking about Ye Yaoyao.
"Definitely better than you. Shall we find a time to compete?" Mo Rongyi cried, his eyes shining.
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