The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

"Jiang Xu?" Xue Zhiyi was a little surprised.

This man died early in his previous life, and was saved by her by chance in this life, but because of this, she knew very little about him.

"You seem to be very familiar with him?" Huo Wuyou asked suddenly.

Xue Zhiyi was dazed: "Not familiar."

Huo Wuyou then let out a long "oh", "If you are not familiar with him, why did you choose to exchange his policy papers at the Spring Festival? What did you whisper to him at the Qionglin Banquet?"

Although he was smiling, his smile was weird.

Xue Zhiyi would never tell him about his rebirth, and only said: "I just thought that maybe one day, he will be the key to our breakthrough into King Cheng's camp."

"No..." Huo Wuyou was very puzzled: "You are not familiar with him anymore, how can you still trust him so much?"

Being asked so many questions, Xue Zhiyi didn't want to explain, and just stood up: "I still have work to do, so I'll leave first, Marquis Lin'an, please do as you please."

She turned to leave, and Huo Wuyou stood up and chased after her, his tone aggrieved but pleading: "You are so heartless, at least you can explain to me what the relationship between you two is."

Xue Zhiyi felt even more annoyed. Huo Wuyou was good in every way except when it came to love between men and women. His brain became as if water had filled it, as if this was the only important thing in the world.

Just as he was about to open the door, Huo Wuyou blocked the door with his hand and looked at Xue Zhiyi with a pitiful face.

Xue Zhiyi wanted to choke him, but he said with a fake smile: "Before there is any relationship between you and me, it seems that it is not your business to ask what my relationship with others is."

Huo Wuyou was stunned and was really choked by these words. He suddenly smiled, and the pitiful look on his face disappeared, and he moved closer to Xue Zhiyi.

He propped his hand on the door, trapping Xue Zhiyi between him and the door: "I vaguely remember that there was something I didn't finish last time. It's just right. Now is the time to have some relationship between you and me."

As he spoke, his bony fingers slowly lifted Xue Zhiyi's chin...

At this moment, Xue Zhiyi suddenly opened the door bolt. Huo Wuyou's hand was leaning against the door. Before his lips could get close to her, he fell forward unexpectedly.

Huo Wuyou fell out of the house and landed hard on the ground, still dazed.

Looking at his miserable appearance lying on the ground, Xue Zhiyi's anger finally subsided.

Huo Wuyou raised his finger and pointed at her: "Poisonous woman..."

……

Another half a month passed, and the Beidi prince's carriage drove into the Sifang Pavilion. Helian You would soon enter the palace to meet the emperor.

Hearing that Helian You was going to enter the palace, Huo Zhiyu had been unable to sleep for several days. Every night she dreamed of the scene in which her mother hanged herself after hearing the news that her father and brother had died for their country, and then she woke up crying.

When Xue Zhiyi went to see her, she always cried as if her heart was broken, and she murmured in a half-awake state: "I don't want to go to Beidi, I don't want to go..."

When the day came when Helian You really came to the palace to meet the emperor, Huo Zhiyu once again returned to Jianzhang Palace crying.

Her eyes were swollen, her face was full of anger as if she wanted to eat him alive, her hands were clenched tightly, and her lips were trembling with anger.

Xue Zhiyi sat down beside her and gently stroked her shoulder: "What's wrong with you, Princess?"

Huo Zhiyu was so angry that she couldn't speak. The maidservant explained, "The princess met the Northern Di prince today."

In Huo Zhiyu's opinion, Helian You was one of the murderers who killed her father and brother. She wanted to kill him for revenge just by hearing his name, let alone the enemy was right in front of her.

The palace maid continued, "Not only that, he also insulted the princess with frivolous words, saying that the princess was bold and straightforward, smart and cute, not like a girl from Dayong, but more like a girl from Beidi, worthy of being..."

The maid was so angry that she gnashed her teeth: "As expected of General Huo's daughter, she is very similar to Mr. Huo, equally stubborn and fierce."

After hearing this, Xue Zhiyi hurriedly looked at Huo Zhiyu. It was no wonder that the princess was so angry. Helian You was not only teasing her with words, but also mentioning Huo Yan and Huo Wuji was a provocation and humiliation.

After all, Huo Zhiyu is only fourteen years old, still a half-grown girl. How could she control herself when encountering such a thing?

Being so angry, she might hurt herself. Xue Zhiyi tried to calm her down and soothed her clenched fist, but he suddenly found that there was a red mark on Huo Zhiyu's wrist.

Xue Zhiyi's expression suddenly darkened: "Did he run into the princess?"

She looked at the palace maid, with a hint of coldness in her eyes.

At this point, the maid became even more angry: "The princess was so angry that she wanted to fight him, but he grabbed her wrist and said a lot of vulgar things in public."

"Where is Helian Youren?"

The palace maid said: "...He has already left the palace. I guess he went back to Sifang Pavilion."

He flirted with the women of the royal family with his words and actions, yet he let the man go.

Xue Zhiyi's back teeth felt a little sour. She put her arm around Huo Zhiyu's shoulders and said, "Don't worry, Princess. The Marquis of Lin'an will definitely help you get relief."

Hearing this, Huo Zhiyu finally regained some of her composure. She looked at Xue Zhiyi with her swollen peach-like eyes: "Second brother?"

Xue Zhiyi nodded and said without a doubt: "You are his sister, he will spare no effort to protect you, and the princess will never be sent to Beidi to marry. Not only that, no one will do that."

Looking at the determination in Xue Zhiyi's eyes at this moment, for some reason, Huo Zhiyu felt that there was a reassuring aura about her, as if the promise she made would definitely be fulfilled.

Huo Zhiyu's eyes finally softened a little: "Sister Zhiyi..."

She cried with her face buried in Xue Zhiyi's shoulder, and cried out with trembling shoulders.

……

Huo Zhiyu was coaxed into submission, but she didn't expect that the emperor and Concubine Ge would suddenly come to Jianzhang Palace in the afternoon, saying that they were visiting the empress dowager. But since the emperor was here, Huo Zhiyu naturally couldn't hide in Yuhua Pavilion and avoid them.

Because of today's incident, the empress dowager had already been angry once, and when she saw the emperor coming, she mentioned this matter as well.

Unexpectedly, the emperor just laughed and said, "The people of Beidi are unrestrained. Helian You's words and deeds were inappropriate, but they were not malicious. It was just a joke between young men and women."

Xue Zhiyi, who was accompanying him, couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

Fortunately, he was the emperor, otherwise if someone else had said this, he would have been beaten.

The Empress Dowager's face turned pale, and Huo Zhiyu twisted her handkerchief, the humiliation and anger in her eyes rekindled, but the one speaking was the Emperor, and even if she was impulsive, she would not speak presumptuously at this time.

Seeing this, Concubine Ge agreed and said, "The princess is so pretty and charming. It's no wonder that the Northern Di prince wanted to get close to her after seeing her."

The Queen Mother suddenly said, "The people of Beidi are unrestrained, but the Imperial Concubine is a lady from Dayong. Is it possible that her words are so rude?"

Concubine Ge's face froze, but the emperor smiled and defended her, "Mother, now is a critical time for the two countries to negotiate peace. Anle is the princess of Dayong and a sensible child. I believe she will not pursue the harmless words of the Beidi prince for her own likes and dislikes."

The implication is that in order to negotiate peace, Huo Zhiyu must endure all kinds of grievances.

This grievance is not only about today's offense, but also about the marriage in the future. Just because she is the princess of Dayong, she has this obligation.

"Everyone knows that A Yu is a princess because her father and brother died for Dayong."

The Empress Dowager reminded the Emperor in a cold voice of the merits of Huo Yan and Huo Wuji, and asked him whether he really wanted to push the loyal and brave orphans out in front of the whole world just for the sake of a marriage alliance.

The smile on the emperor's face froze for a moment, then deepened a bit: "Mother, now that the peace talks are imminent, this is a serious matter. It would be inappropriate to mention the battle again and again. Mother is kind and I'm sure she doesn't want to see the war reignite, and naturally hopes that the peace talks will go smoothly."

In the past, when Dayong and Beidi were at war, the loyalty and bravery of the Huo family were praised by thousands of families to inspire the people.

But now that peace talks are imminent, if this matter is mentioned again and again, it will only make the people of Dayong more aware of the blood feud between the two countries, which is not conducive to peace talks.

Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager's usually kind face couldn't help but show anger: It seems that the Emperor is determined to sacrifice A Yu.