I just want to live a good life

When talking about the grudge between Cui Shaoyuan and Xia Qingyan, we have to start with the marriage between the Xia family and the royal family.

The origin of this marriage was twenty years ago, when Xia Lian saved the life of the current emperor Mu Yan. At that time, Mu Yan was just a prince, and Xia Lian was already a famous general of the Nanzhao Kingdom.

After being rescued, Mu Yan promised to marry his children to Xia Lian in order to thank him for saving his life and to win him over.

Because Xia Lian's daughter had not been born at that time, and Mu Yan had both a son and a daughter, the marriage fell on Xia Changxiao, the eldest son of the Xia family.

Xia Changxiao also worked hard. When he grew up, he was not only handsome, but also had good kung fu skills. The emperor was very satisfied with this talented son-in-law.

Just when it seemed that a great marriage was about to be perfect, an accident happened.

Four years ago, Xia Changxiao was accidentally injured on the battlefield, leaving a hideous scar on his face.

This scar scared off the emperor's beloved daughter, who refused to marry Xia Changxiao no matter what. The marriage was put on hold, and the emperor never mentioned it again in the past four years.

Xia Lian didn't want to marry the emperor in the first place, so when the emperor didn't mention it, he naturally wouldn't mention it. In addition, due to his busy military affairs, he gradually forgot about it.

But he never expected that although the emperor didn't mention it, he was already plotting against his daughter in his heart.

The emperor's three sons had long passed the marriageable age, but none of them could marry a suitable wife because of their bad reputation.

The one who gave the emperor the most headache was the crown prince. He had a reputation as a homosexual and was very picky about his marriage. He looked down upon any girl from aristocratic family who was willing to marry him, and he also said he was unwilling to marry any candidate for the emperor's favorite daughter-in-law, so his marriage was delayed again and again.

Seeing that Xia Qingyao, the eldest daughter of the Xia family, had reached the marriageable age, the emperor felt that the time was ripe and brought up the matter of marriage again a year ago. Xia Lian did not want to see his precious daughter suffer humiliation by marrying the prince, so he evaded the emperor while secretly looking for a husband for his daughter. However, everyone in the imperial city knew the emperor's intentions and no one dared to compete with him for his daughter-in-law.

Xia Lian had no choice but to agree to his daughter's marriage with the prince.

But Xia Qingyao was unwilling to give up. She wanted to marry her lover, Mu Yunshu, the eldest son of the Yongping royal family.

However, Mu Yunshu was afraid of the emperor and did not dare to come to the Xia family to propose marriage.

In order to force Mu Yunshu, a month ago, at Xia Lian's birthday party, Xia Qingyao asked Mu Yunshu to have a tryst in the garden, and designed a scene so that people would see the two of them unable to control their emotions, so that she would not have to marry the prince.

After breaking off the engagement with the prince, she can marry Mu Yunshu as she wishes.

In order to make Mu Yunshu submit, Xia Qingyao even tampered with his wine.

Just when the plan was about to succeed, Xia Qingyan secretly saw her administering the drug, and the whole plan was ruined.

The reason is simple, Xia Qingyan also likes Mu Yunshu.

Xia Qingyan secretly exchanged Mu Yunshu's glass of wine with Cui Shaoyuan, and tricked Cui Shaoyuan into going to the garden. She stayed behind to hold Mu Yunshu back and prevent him from meeting Xia Qingyao.

As a result, Xia Qingyao was so nervous and the light was dim in the bushes that she actually recognized the wrong person. So a group of ladies who were watching the moon in the garden saw Xia Qingyao kissing a man in a cluster of bushes.

The emperor's future daughter-in-law had a secret meeting with a man, which made the emperor lose face. In anger, he wanted to severely punish Xia Qingyao.

In order to protect his eldest daughter, Xia Lian had to sacrifice the happiness of his younger daughter and was willing to replace Xia Qingyao with Xia Qingyan to marry the prince.

The emperor's goal is to find a concubine for the prince. It makes no difference to him whether he marries the elder sister Xia Qingyao or the younger sister Xia Qingyan.

But the emperor couldn't pretend that this incident had never happened, so the prince changed from marrying a queen to marrying a concubine.

The most innocent person in the whole incident is Cui Shaoyuan. He was used by Xia Qingyan to ruin Xia Qingyao's reputation. Although he cannot be blamed for this, he still became an unwelcome person in the Xia family.

But Su Nuan has a question, would anyone really commit suicide because of something like this?

Thinking about how Xia Qingyan was murdered and disguised as hanging herself, Su Nuan wondered if Cui Shaoyuan was also murdered and then disguised as suicide?

"Third brother, Aunt Cui said that Cui Shaoyuan was forced to death by our family. Does she have any evidence to prove this? Did anything happen before Cui Shaoyuan died?"

Xia Changze sighed lightly and said earnestly, "You don't have to think too much about this matter. It won't be a problem if your parents take care of it. As long as you live your life well, we will all be at ease. The Prince's Mansion is not like the General's Mansion. In the past, when you got into trouble, we protected you and no one could do anything to you. But in the Prince's Mansion, we can't say anything and can't help. You must be careful in your words and deeds in the future, and never get into trouble again, otherwise even your father can't protect you, do you understand?"

Hearing Xia Changze's heartfelt words, Su Nuan suddenly felt a little reluctant. If he knew that his sister was no longer alive and that there was a strange soul living in her body, he would probably be very sad.

Thinking of this, she said, "Don't worry, Third Brother, I will take good care of myself and won't cause any trouble again."

Hearing Su Nuan say this, this brother who was only three years older than Xia Qingyan actually smiled with satisfaction like an old father.

Su Nuan originally planned to come back to her parents' home today to improve her meals, but no one from the Xia family was there, and she still had some questions about Cui Shaoyuan, and now she was feeling a little sad, so she had no time to think about eating.

After talking to Xia Changze for a while, he found an excuse to leave.

The driver had driven the Prince's carriage to the front of the General's Mansion. The carriage was damaged and there were cracks on the shaft, so it was no longer possible to ride.

In fact, Su Nuan could go back to ask Xia Changze for help and let the general's carriage take them back, but she was afraid that Xia Changze would ask the reason for borrowing the carriage, and then she would inevitably be scolded by him again.

Just when she was in trouble, a carriage came hurriedly from a distance.

"Hey, isn't this the carriage from our Prince's Mansion?" The driver said in surprise, "Look, the one driving the carriage is Zhang Song. This carriage belongs exclusively to His Highness. Could it be that His Highness has come in person?"

Su Nuan felt nervous. She prayed silently that it was not the prince who came. She didn't know how he would react if he knew that she had crashed his carriage. It would be so embarrassing if he embarrassed her in front of the general's mansion. Although face was not worth much, the key point was that she had just told Xia Changze that she would not cause trouble, and now she was slapped in the face.

Soon, the carriage came to the crowd and stopped.

Su Nuan took a deep breath. What was to come would eventually come. There was no point in being afraid. At worst, she could just act pitiful for a while, or pretend to faint again.