Sun Jiming rubbed his fingers and bowed to the Fourth Princess. "I understand. Please rest assured, Princess!"
With Sun Jiming's promise, the Fourth Princess felt much more relieved. She gave Sun Jiming a smile. "Then thank you, Young Master Sun. I'll go back first!"
"I'll see you off, Princess!"
Sun Jiming stood aside, waiting for the Fourth Princess to leave. After thinking for a while, he summoned his personal page and ordered, "Go find the County Prince and tell him about this."
He understood the Fourth Princess's concerns, but he also knew that neither Qin Junxing nor the Crown Prince was a person who would ignore the overall situation. Moreover, this was something they needed to resolve between themselves, and he didn't need to get involved.
After all, if you're not in the game, how can you talk about solving it?
It should be noted that not only the Fourth Princess noticed Xie Fengran leaving with the Crown Prince, but another person did too.
The Third Princess watched the two carriages driving away, her eyes filled with hatred. Her eyes shifted slightly as she ordered her personal eunuch, "Go and find that fool Xie Yunxi for me!"
The eunuch responded and ran off to look for the person. Coincidentally, he saw Sun Yuelan dragging the person away. He quickly returned to report, "Your Highness, Miss Sun from the Sun family has taken the person away."
"Sun Yuelan? She's lucky. Go and tell Hei Si to follow Xie Fengran. He'll know what to do."
"Princess, this..." The eunuch hesitated. Hei Si was the Princess's shadow guard. This...
"Just go when I tell you. Where do you get so much nonsense from!"
"Yes!"
The eunuch turned around and went to look for the person.
The Third Princess glanced at the direction where the carriage of the Marquis Mansion disappeared. A look of pleasure flashed across her eyes.
Xie Fengran, you've made me lose face again and again. Don't blame me for being ruthless to you!
You still want to marry Cousin. Don't you even look at your own virtue!
What makes you think you deserve Aunt to go to the Marquis Mansion in person to propose marriage?
Now, let's see who will marry you if you're ruined!
Xie Fengran didn't know that she had been targeted at this moment. She told the coachman to follow the Crown Prince's carriage all the way to the north of the city.
There was a royal private garden in the north of the city with beautiful scenery. The Crown Prince's carriage stopped there.
Zhuqing lifted the curtain and took a look. Then she turned back and said, "Miss, the Crown Prince has got off the carriage."
"Let's get off too!"
Meanwhile, Qin Junxing, who had gone to the academy to pick someone up, came back empty - handed.
But he happened to run into the person sent by Sun Jiming!
The page was very smart. He said clearly what he should say and didn't reveal a single bit of what he shouldn't. After he finished speaking, he took his leave.
"My lord, do you want to go and take a look?"
Qingye looked at the page's back and was a bit stunned. When did his lord develop his love - rival into an ally?
"No. Go back to the teahouse." Qin Junxing sank his face and got on the carriage.
This time it was Qingye's turn to panic. He said helplessly, "My lord, Miss Xie isn't such a person. There must be some misunderstanding. Do you want to follow and take a look?"
The Grand Princess had just arranged a marriage for his lord. His lord was finally going to marry the girl he had been longing for. If he didn't marry her because of a misunderstanding, his lord would surely regret it later!
Unexpectedly, Qin Junxing looked at him with a look as if he were looking at a fool. "What's on your mind? Do I need you to remind me what kind of person she is?"
"My lord, then why...?" Qingye was confused.
"What use are you?"
"..." There was no need for personal attacks!
"Go!"
Qin Junxing was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.
He had never doubted Xie Fengran. He knew what kind of person the girl in his heart was.
The girl went to see the Crown Prince probably because she felt that at a certain moment, she had used the Crown Prince's feelings to get the opportunity to enter the girls' academy in front of Old Madam Xie.
The girl couldn't get over this hurdle in her heart. She just wanted to give the Crown Prince an explanation and a chance to say goodbye.
The feelings in her eyes for him were real. Over the past few days, they had gradually gotten closer, and the girl's resistance to him had gradually disappeared.
If he couldn't recognize these things, he wouldn't have let his mother be so anxious to arrange the marriage.
Qingye was disliked by Qin Junxing. He sat on the carriage shaft and thought for a long time. Finally, he got a clue. But he still thought, "My lord, what if the Crown Prince..."
"The Crown Prince won't go against me for a woman, nor will he ruin his own future!"
In the garden, Xie Fengran said the same thing to the persistent Crown Prince in a calm tone.
"Your Highness, you won't go against the only Grand Princess of Dayue for a woman, nor will you give up the throne and ruin your own future for a woman."
Xie Fengran looked at the blooming flowers in the garden. Unexpectedly, she thought of the northern border that Qin Junxing had mentioned. The corner of her mouth twitched, and the depression in her heart suddenly disappeared.
She looked up at the Crown Prince. "Your Highness, the me you know isn't the whole me."
"How do you know that the me who likes you won't like all of you?" The Crown Prince stared at Xie Fengran intently, as if he wanted to see a possibility of being together from her face.
Xie Fengran shook her head and smiled. "Your Highness, do you know that it's me who writes the storybooks behind Lingfeng Teahouse? The rumors about Zhang Yao and Qin Junxing in the capital were all written by me."
"And the storybooks about chivalrous women and strange tales that are popular in the circle of young ladies in the capital were all written by me!"
The Crown Prince frowned, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face. "How could you...?"
"How could I write these things?" Xie Fengran twitched the corner of her mouth. "Do you think that as the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Dingguo's Mansion, with the rules passed down from a century - old aristocratic family, I'm destined to grow up according to the rules and etiquette of the aristocratic family? To act according to the script set by my grandmother for me? To marry you and support the prestige of the Marquis Mansion?"
The Crown Prince didn't say a word, but the look on his face clearly showed that he thought so.
Xie Fengran smiled self - deprecatingly. "Just because I'm the legitimate daughter of the Marquis Mansion, I have to do all these things?"
"You've enjoyed the glory of the Marquis Mansion, so you naturally have to do these things."
"You're right. I can shoulder the future of the Marquis Mansion, but I don't necessarily have to do these things." Xie Fengran looked serious. She looked at the Crown Prince. "Grandmother's kindness to me has only lasted for a few years. If she really cared about me, I definitely wouldn't resist. But she just regarded me as a tool. Maybe in your eyes, tools don't need to have their own thoughts, but you've all forgotten that I'm a living person!"
The look on the Crown Prince's face relaxed a bit. After a moment, he frowned again. "Aunt attaches great importance to rules. If she knew that you write storybooks, she definitely wouldn't tolerate you."
"Do you think that with the Grand Princess's character, she wouldn't know what kind of person I am before going to the Marquis Mansion to propose marriage?"
Xie Fengran heard from Zhuqing about the Grand Princess's proposal on the carriage. She should have figured out some things on the way.
"Your Highness, this is the difference between you and Qin Junxing. In his eyes, he wants to marry me just because I'm me, not because I'm Xie Fengran, the daughter of the Marquis Mansion!"