Just a few days after Xie Yunji left, someone came to the door. Song Nihuan thought that something had happened to Xie Yunji, and kept telling herself to stay calm along the way.

It was not until she arrived at the inn's wing and saw the old woman's clothes embroidered with gold thread that she realized that this was the treatment only children of royal family could have.

The only royal family member that Song Nihuan could think of was Princess Le Yi.

The old woman had a cold expression on her face and her words were shocking.

"Our princess cut her hair and became a nun. She is locked up in a nunnery all day long. She has gone mad. Do you know that it is your husband who is as vicious as a snake that has harmed our princess to this state? I am an old woman and will not live long anyway. I came from Xiangzhou just to tell you what kind of person your husband is!"

"He had clearly agreed to meet our princess in the palace that day, but it was Prince Pinga who came. The princess even specifically asked me to burn the incense that Xie Yunji gave me. There was something strange about that incense!"

"Your Song family was affected by Prince Qi's case, right? Do you know why the Prince Qi case affected so many people? It was because of your husband's righteous advice in the Golden Palace!"

"Your status was arranged by him. How could he not know that you suffered fertility damage in the brothel? He even said that he deliberately didn't want to have a child with you, and he used this to fool our princess for a whole year!"

"Madam Xie, our princess left Yunjing for more than a year before she realized that she had fallen into Xie Yunji's trap. Unfortunately, it's too late. I came here to tell you this. If you still refuse to change, you will probably be eaten by him like our princess, leaving nothing behind!"

Song Nihuan's face changed drastically, as if struck by lightning. The old woman had been gone for a long time, but she was still standing there.

Pinga floating jade, the waves stop...

Xiao Huang said that Lan Zhi suddenly entered the palace and there was a strange fragrance in the princess's room.

All the things in my mind, which were originally covered with thick fog, have now been blown away.

Song Family, Lan Zhi...

My heart was in so much pain that I couldn't bear it anymore and a mouthful of blood stuck in my throat.

Shuanghua was still worried. Seeing that the old woman had been gone for a long time and the young lady hadn't come down yet, she went upstairs. When she pushed the door open, she saw that the young lady's face was as pale as paper. She hurried forward to support Song Nihuan and called out anxiously, "Young lady..."

Song Nihuan's body swayed slightly, and just as she was about to open her mouth, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

My head hurts, my whole body aches, and I have to use all my strength to breathe.

Her husband...is actually like this.

With Shuanghua's support, she returned to Xie's house. One night was enough for her to think things through.

She sat there for a long, long time, tears streaming down her cheeks, then drying up, and then flowing again.

It was not until dawn that the stiff body moved, and Song Nihuan opened her eyes and raised her head.

From Mrs. Xie to Song Nihuan.

Afterwards, she left home alone and did not return all night. During that night, no one could prove her innocence.

During these years in the Xie Mansion, she has grown into a qualified scholar-official's wife, knowing what to do and what not to do.

There was only one thing she was sure of, one after another, that was Xie Yunji had gone to great lengths to get her, and he would not let her go easily. If she wanted to divorce him, this was the only way.

As a woman in the inner palace, there was very little she could do about what had happened. She was locked in the Chuihua Gate. Although she did not know what position Xie Yunji held in the court, in just four years she was promoted from a sixth-rank Hanlin editor to a third-rank Prince's Secretary and Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, which was an unprecedented promotion speed in the history of Dazhao.

She couldn't control what he could do.

But she can be her own boss.

*

Xie Yunji was stopped as soon as he entered the mansion. After days of running around, he felt physically and mentally exhausted and could only force himself to cope with it.

In the upper room, Master Xie banged the table loudly and glared at her, "She has been childless for so many years, which is already too much. Now she is still unfaithful to her husband! What's wrong with you? Who asked you to come back? Is the matter in Danzhou settled?"

"No." Xie Yunji said, and when he turned to leave, he was pulled back.

"Are you crazy? The emperor sent you to Danzhou to control the floods, and you came back without completing the task?" Mr. Xie said in disbelief.

Xie Yunji said grimly: "If I don't come back, you will gather the elders of the clan to divorce my wife for me!

"So what if we divorce? You are an unfaithful daughter-in-law. You didn't come home all night and I can't explain why. Do you think my Xie family can still want her?" Xie Zhihuan scolded.

A silence.

Xie Yunji slowly raised his eyes and stared at his father. "She only has her son in her heart. She is definitely not the kind of person who would not observe the chastity of a wife."

He hadn't seen her yet, but he knew she would never do such a dirty thing. He turned and walked out, saying, "I'll go ask her, and then come back to talk to my father."

Xie Zhihuan seemed to have heard something very funny and laughed angrily: "Don't you know that she lost her innocence the moment she left Xie's house?"

Xie Yunji paused, the cold moonlight shining on him. He raised his sleeve and pointed in the direction of the main gate of Xie Mansion. There was hidden anger in his calm voice: "She is my legal wife who was brought in through the middle gate with three matchmakers, six betrothals and eight sedan chairs. I have the final say on her innocence."

Xie Yunji walked quickly all the way to the gate of Liufeng Courtyard, but his pace slowed down.

There was a big lock on the gate of the yard, and there were many people guarding outside the yard. At night, the yard was pitch black and there were no lights on.

He picked up the heavy iron chain and said, "Open the door."

The gatekeeper looked behind Xie Yunji and saw no one coming, so he guessed that the master had not said anything. The master was still the boss of the Xie family, so how could he dare to open the door without the master's order?

"Sir, the master has given an order..." the servant said cautiously.

But he was interrupted by Xie Yunji. The young man who was as gentle as jade in the past now had a cold light in his eyes and a solemn and oppressive feeling all over his body.

Xie Yunji's voice was cold and deep: "Open the door."

The gatekeepers knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Sir, please calm down. We did everything according to the master's orders. The master said that the young lady is not a faithful wife..."

The words "unfaithful to one's husband" hurt Xie Yunji. Song Nihuan was his, so pure and beautiful, how could she be associated with these four words!

He could no longer bear it, so he raised the sword in his hand, split the iron chain in two, and kicked the door open.

He stepped into the yard. Without turning on a lamp, he could know the direction of the inner room. In the moonlight, he pushed open the door and saw the lonely figure sitting on the bed. His heart ached, but then he felt briefly at peace.

She was not tied up and her clothes were intact.

He breathed a sigh of relief, walked up to her quickly, held her tightly in his arms, and comforted her softly: "I'm late, don't be afraid, I'm back."

When Song Nihuan heard the noise outside, she knew that Xie Yunji had returned, the man who broke her heart and whom she both loved and hated.

The cold moonlight cast a layer of light on his figure, half bright and half dark.

Before she could see him clearly, he had already embraced her in his arms. His arms were strong and firm, and the scent on him was familiar to her.

But why is he... that kind of person?

He squatted down, held her hand, took a deep breath and said, "Tell me, what happened?"

Song Nihuan bent down and looked at Xie Yunji carefully.

He had handsome eyebrows and fine eyes, and even though he looked a little haggard now, he still maintained a proper demeanor. There was no sign that he was the one who did all those despicable and sinister things.

The room was pitch black, and only Song Nihuan's eyes were burning with horrifying hatred.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you talking? Did they wrong you?" Xie Yunji asked, not noticing her abnormality at all.

Her body was trembling slightly. She reached out to pry open his hand that was on her shoulder, looked at him and said slowly, "I know everything."

He was surprised and asked, "Know what?"

Song Nihuan looked at him for a while, then suddenly smiled. There was a coldness in her black and white eyes that made him panic. "What do you think? How many other things have you done that I don't know about?"

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