Capítulo 495: Chapter 280 Noble Consort
Shu Wan’s heart skipped a beat—she rembered making a few small marks in that travel journal, and she hadn’t expected Qi Yuan to discover them.
“So things I read from other travel journals, and so my father had told about. I longed for those places, so I made notes in the journal, and now Your Majesty has caught ,” she said.
Qi Yuan didn’t indicate whether he believed her or not. He closed the book, closed his eyes for a mont, and suddenly said, “Co here.”
Shu Wan sighed silently. She had just managed to fall asleep, and now there was more trouble.
But she didn’t show her irritation. She threw off the covers, donned an outer robe, and went over to Qi Yuan’s side, “Your Majesty, please command .”
Qi Yuan patted the spot beside him, “Co up.”
Shu Wan’s eyes flickered slightly, and she lowered her gaze to answer, “Yes.”
Zhongcui Palace was a residence for lower-ranking concubines, and the bed was not large. With Qi Yuan’s tall build, he occupied most of it.
Shu Wan carefully climbed up, positioning herself at the edge of the bed very gingerly.
Qi Yuan watched Shu Wan’s movents the entire ti, his frown deepening.
This was very strange.
Qi Yuan thought, why didn’t he feel any repulsion? This wasn’t right.
From the mont Shu Wan had appeared before him, he had sent people to the Extre North to inspect, and Shu Wan’s body was still properly stored in an ice coffin.
Moreover, Zui Yu had not been found yet, nothing had started, and it was impossible for Shu Wan to have co back.
Yet he still felt no repulsion toward this person in front of him.
For so reason, Qi Yuan suddenly felt a surge of disgust, disgust at himself.
He was repulsed that he could transfer his feelings for Shu Wan onto soone else just because of a similar appearance. Thinking this, Qi Yuan abruptly stood up and left in a swish of his sleeve.
Shu Wan sat puzzled.
She sniffed her own body, not finding any strange odors, what was the rush to leave?
But with Qi Yuan gone, it was just as well—for Shu Wan was terribly sleepy. She yawned, closed her eyes, and soon fell asleep.
In the following days, Qi Yuan did not visit Zhongcui Palace again.
Initially, everyone thought that Shu Wan, being promoted to a noble and also having served in the personal chamber, would rise high, making everyone else envious.
Knowing that Shu Wan had angered Qi Yuan, the whole harem secretly mocked her.
Moreover, during this ti, Qi Yuan, for so unknown reason, had suddenly commanded the Jinyi Guard to search throughout the country for won who resembled the late Empress.
The scale of the operation was beyond Qi Yuan’s usually cautious style.
“Today, the palace brought in a batch of won who look like the late Empress,” Lin Yuan said while eating lon seeds, speaking to Shu Wan. “I heard one of them looks even more like you.”
Lin Yuan had no interest in vying for favor. Originally disliking Shu Wan because she entered the palace by leveraging her resemblance to Shu Wan.
Now that Qi Yuan had neglected Shu Wan and brought in a large group of won who looked even more like Shu Wan than Shu Wan did, Lin Yuan actually felt sowhat favorable toward Shu Wan, and these days, she often ca to chat.
“The Emperor seems to have deep feelings for the late Empress,” Shu Wan responded to Lin Yuan.
“Yes,” Lin Yuan seed unsurprised. “They were childhood sweethearts. Even when His Majesty was Crown Prince, he was very fond of Shu Wan.”
Shu Wan’s eyes flickered slightly, wondering where this childhood sweetheart narrative had co from—they had only t when she was six. But hearing Lin Yuan’s tone, it seed she knew so inside stories.
She passed a handful of lon seeds to Lin Yuan, “Isn’t it customary in our kingdom that unmarried n and won cannot et before marriage?”
The customs were also related to the economic developnt level. During the forr Emperor’s reign, the court was in chaos, the people’s livelihoods were devastated, and customs were tightly controlled.
Won couldn’t even go to night markets, let alone the daughters of the Pri Minister, who were expected to adhere strictly to all norms.
According to custom, a marriage between a man and a woman only required a matchmaker’s involvent and they should not et before marriage, otherwise it would disrupt Feng Shui.
“Yes,” Lin Yuan cracked the lon seeds loudly, “but the Crown Prince and my older brother were good friends. He often had my brother bring things for to pass on to Shu Wan. The Crown Prince was really good to Shu Wan.”
With Lin Yuan’s words, Shu Wan rembered.
Lin Yuan did like to bring her various gifts. Every ti she visited the Pri Minister’s Mansion, she brought all sorts of fun things. At that ti, Shu Wan never questioned it when Lin Yuan said they were from her older brother.
Now that she thought about it, they were probably all from Qi Yuan.
But since when did it start? Shu Wan’s mind stirred. It seed to be after returning from a palace banquet when she was six, she began receiving various gifts.
“How could he like her so much if they’ve never t in person?” Shu Wan was genuinely puzzled.
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