I just want to live a good life

"What did you say? She actually stole the flowers from the flowerbed and sold them?"

Mu Yunting slammed the book he was reading onto the desk. Ever since he married Xia Qingyan as his concubine, this desk had been smashed countless times.

Ye Yin silently glanced at the subtle lines on the upper right corner of the desk and whispered, "What the Concubine is selling are only the flowers in the flowerbed of Duiyueju."

"The flowers in her flower bed were moved from the flower garden. After all, they are still flowers from my flower garden."

“But once you enter Duiyueju, those things belong to the Concubine…” Ye Yin’s voice became smaller and smaller as Mu Yunting’s expression changed, and in the end he didn’t dare to say any more.

After being sulky for a while, Mu Yunting snorted coldly and then said, "Let her do whatever she wants. She won't be able to stay in the Prince's Mansion for long anyway. They want to throw this troublemaker to me, but it's not that easy. I will throw her back the way Xia Lian pushed her to me."

"Your Highness, do you want to send the concubine back?" Ye Yin asked tentatively.

"Humph"

"But Your Highness, the Concubine did nothing wrong!"

"She'll be doing something wrong soon!"

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In March, the imperial city is about to usher in a festive day - the Qianqiu Festival.

Many people were busy working for this day, including Su Nuan.

"Miss, tomorrow is the Queen's birthday. We just need to protect this flower for one more night and it will be done."

Su Nuan stood up and rubbed her legs that were numb from squatting. "We must be careful not to take it lightly tonight."

"Miss, do you think Baozhu's method will work? Can those flowers really bloom in front of the Queen?"

"Bi Tao, we have to believe in the power of the pearl. Didn't you see the crabapple flower blooming in front of us before?"

"But Baozhu herself said that her method sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. What if it doesn't work for the Queen?"

"We have done what we should do, and the rest is up to God's arrangement."

Su Nuan said this while pointing to the sky.

"Empress, Empress, something bad has happened, there's something wrong with the flowers." Meixiang ran into Duiyueju screaming.

"What?" Su Nuan asked in horror before she could even put her fingers down, "What's wrong with the flower?"

"The buds, the buds have all fallen off."

Su Nuan's face turned pale and she ran to the flower garden without saying a word.

At the same time, outside Mu Yunting's study, Lu Zhu received news from Zhang Shun and knocked on the door of the study.

"Your Highness, something bad has happened in the flower garden. All the peony buds have fallen off."

Mu Yunting's hand holding the book twitched, and the next moment, the book fell heavily on the desk.

After a while, Mu Yunting and Su Nuan arrived at the door of the flower garden almost at the same time.

"What's going on?" Mu Yunting asked first.

Su Nuan said, "It's just that there are some problems with a few flowers in the flower garden. How did it alarm His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? And why did His Royal Highness come so quickly?"

Mu Yunting said, "You can do whatever you want with the other flowers, but nothing can happen to the peonies. Tomorrow is my mother's birthday, and I don't want all the preparations over the past few years to go to waste."

"..."

Su Nuan didn't say anything, but everyone could see that she looked very unhappy.

Seeing this, Mu Yunting walked into the flower garden without hesitation, and Su Nuan pursed her lips and followed him silently.

As they stepped into the flower garden, everyone gasped. What caught their eyes was a field of crabapple flowers, the buds of which had already fallen to the ground.

The further they walked in, the more frightened they became. Everywhere they looked in the flowerbed, there were flower buds everywhere. Moreover, no matter whether they were individual flowers planted in pots or clusters of plants growing on the ground, they all looked listless, and some of their leaves were even beginning to turn yellow.

Just by looking at the flower buds all over the ground, one thing is certain: the flower-viewing banquet at the Prince's Mansion cannot be held this year.

"Xia Qingyan, what is going on?"

Mu Yunting shouted angrily, and everyone in the flower garden except Su Nuan lowered their heads in fear, not daring to make a sound.

A strong sense of oppression made Su Nuan unable to help but take a step back and distance herself from Mu Yunting, but the latter did not intend to do as she wished. Every time she took a step back, he took a step closer.

After Su Nuan took five steps back, Mu Yunting seemed to not want her to retreat any further. He grabbed her shoulders and said in a deep voice, "Answer me, what happened here?"

Su Nuan swallowed and said with difficulty: "Can you let me go first? I can't think when you hold me like this."

Mu Yunting snorted coldly, let go of his hand, and shook it off in disgust.

Su Nuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Your Highness has already seen what happened here, so there is no need for me to say more."

These light words almost made Mu Yunting's expression break.

"Xia Qingyan, this is the Prince's Mansion, not your Xia family's General's Mansion. It's not a place where you can do whatever you want. Do you know that my mother's birthday and this flower-viewing banquet are of great importance to me..."

At this point, Mu Yunting suddenly paused, and then continued: "I am really bewildered. I actually gave you such an important task. Okay, there is no need to say anything. From now on, you are going to go back to Duiyueju. You are not allowed to leave Duiyueju without my permission."

"Your Highness, you haven't even figured out why this place has become like this, and you want to punish me? Isn't that too much?" Su Nuan said with dissatisfaction.

"My Lady Concubine, please stop talking." Lu Zhu said, "You have ruined the flower garden to this state, but His Highness has not punished you severely. If it were someone else, His Highness would have punished you severely."

These words sounded like he was trying to persuade Su Nuan, but in reality they were reminding others that the prince's punishment was too light.

Su Nuan could of course understand what Lu Zhu meant, and said to her, "I really want to know, if someone else messed up the flower garden like this, how would Your Highness punish him?"

Lu Zhu replied: "Of course he will be beaten with a stick and then driven out of the house."

Hearing this, Su Nuan chuckled, "Then please go ahead, Your Highness, beat Zhang Shun with a stick, and then drive him out of the Prince's Mansion."

"Ah?" Zhang Shun exclaimed in surprise, "My Lady Concubine, what does this have to do with me? The flower garden was still in good condition when I handed it to you. Your Highness saw it with your own eyes. Besides, I haven't been to this flower garden for seven or eight days. No matter what, it's not my fault that these flowers have become like this!"

"Enough, Xia Qingyan, I only confined you to Duiyueju and didn't punish you severely. Why do you have to make random accusations against others?" "Your Highness, why do you think I'm making random accusations?" Su Nuan asked unconvinced.

"Just because you are Xia Qingyan!"

"..."

Su Nuan had already thought of many words to refute Mu Yunting, but this one sentence left her speechless.

Yes, just because she is Xia Qingyan, she can do anything!

For a moment, Su Nuan felt extremely aggrieved, but now was not the time for her to be upset. She had to resolve the crisis in front of her first.