comeback [rebirth]

Hearing this, Yan Xuan moved his fingertips, and raised his right hand almost imperceptibly, but he put it down the next moment, and even put his hands behind his back.

To make it clear, he hummed heavily, looked away and said, "I'm going to Nanting Division."

The Nanting Division is the place in charge of guarding the palace in the Southern Army. It is located in the southwest corner of the palace, facing two directions from the palace gate.

Coincidentally, the main purpose of Cen Yuan's entering the palace today was to meet Jiang Zhaoyi, and the concubine's bedroom was located on the west side of the palace.

He hurriedly said: "I'll go find my concubine, let's go together."

Yan Xuan hummed.

In order to avoid the sun, the two deliberately walked around the corridor.It's just that while the corridor roof blocks the sunlight, it also shortens the width of the road, so that Cen Yuan is only half an arm's length away from the opponent.Occasionally, when someone from the palace walked by, he could almost feel a slight resistance to his sleeve from time to time - it was rubbing against Yan Xuan's sleeve.

The numbness just now spread from the limbs again.

Cen Yuan unconsciously licked his lower lip, and asked without any warning: "How did you know that I was assassinated at that time?"

Yan Xuan moved her lips when she heard the words, but was interrupted by Cen Yuan before she could speak.

"Don't say it's because the palace sent an imperial doctor." The latter said, "You should know, Lou Yuanbai told me."

Yan Xuanfu pursed her lips again, and after walking for several steps, she said, "I have arranged someone in your residence."

Cen Yuan replied indifferently: "Oh."

At this moment, Yan Xuan took the initiative to look at him: "Your Highness is not annoyed?"

Cen Yuan asked back: "Then if I say that I have no manpower by your side, would you believe me?"

Yan Xuan didn't answer, but her expression gave a clear answer.

"That's fine." Cen Yuan said in an indifferent tone: "Since it's about each other, why should I be annoyed? Besides, if I really want to be angry, why don't I just do it directly, and waste my tongue here with you ?”

Yan Xuan said: "Why do you ask about something so tacitly understood?"

Cen Yuan opened his mouth to answer, but suddenly froze.

—Yes, why would he ask?

As the other party said, they and even the Holy Majesty are well aware of the matter of placing people in each other's mansions, so there is no need to ask so bluntly.

Then why is he doing this?

Cen Yuan didn't answer for a long time, and asked Yan Xuan to throw him a sideways glance.He looked back subconsciously, and saw the sunlight slanting into the corridor falling on Yan Xuan's body, covering his slender eyelashes with a hazy halo, almost allowing people to see the softness in the deepest part of his eyes.

Cen Yuan suddenly became enlightened.

Originally, he thought that all his bewilderment, restraint, and embarrassment today, including this inexplicable meeting and asking questions, all came from this marriage with Yan Xuan, who hadn't written a word yet.

actually not.

He just didn't want to be a stranger to Yan Xuan anymore.

After rebirth, he didn't want to follow the old path of his previous life, and decided to do whatever he wanted, so he didn't deliberately avoid Yan Xuan anymore, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the street with such a big fanfare yesterday to ask someone to question him directly.

But even so, he seems to have forgotten one extremely important thing - Yan Xuan is not obliged to be kind to him all the time.

Yesterday, Yan Xuan took a step back after giving him the medicine and kept floating in front of his eyes, and then the other party stood far away at the junction of darkness and light, with a vague expression on his face, revealing something he had never seen before. Strange, as if the two are not separated by tables, chairs and screens, but wide enough to span several years of estrangement and the gap between life and death.

He had felt this kind of distance too many times in his previous life, and this time, he didn't want to be so alienated from Yan Xuan again.

Cen Yuan smiled suddenly, turned his head to look, and saw Yan Xuan also quietly waiting for his answer with sideways eyes.

He looked at Yan Xuan's long eyelashes that fluttered from time to time, and had to admit that this person was really too good-looking.But this good-looking is not the enchanting and soft beauty of actors and actresses, it is more like the finishing touch, adding some immortal demeanor to the masculinity that belongs to generals. It is obviously two kinds of charms that repel each other, but they are perfect on Yan Xuan's face blended together.

He said, "Because you look good."

"..." Yan Xuan still thought that he would reply with some serious words, but now when he heard the other party's words, he immediately looked away, strode forward, left Cen Yuan behind in two or three steps, and turned the corner .

"Hey, why are you walking so fast!" Cen Yuan couldn't hold back the smile in his tone, he hurriedly trotted to keep up, and he clearly noticed that Yan Xuan slowed down when walking side by side.

Walking out of the long pavilion and stepping into the garden, half-covered by white clouds, the just right sunlight lightly falls on the trails in the garden, and the sight suddenly opens up.

Along the way, the two of them coincidentally did not talk about the marriage at all, Cen Yuan thought for a moment and said: "Yesterday, the emperor announced me into the palace and asked me about the marriage."

Yan Xuan's movements suddenly slowed down, and his gaze unconsciously swept towards the other party, his eyes were clear.

Cen Yuan was just relieved at this moment, so he didn't notice it, he just said: "I rejected Royal Father, I thought he didn't intend to do it anymore, I didn't expect that I would openly raise this idea in the hall today."

Yan Xuan: "..."

He was silent and did not respond.

"Looking at today's situation, I am afraid Father has not given up on this idea completely." Cen Yuan said to himself, "I will find another opportunity to clarify this matter with Father later, so you don't have to worry, this marriage should not be granted."

Yan Xuan: "..."

The abacus in Cen Yuan's mind was pounding, but he didn't get a response after a long time.He looked around suspiciously, only to see that Yan Xuan's face did not become clearer, on the contrary, it became more unpredictable.

"?" He said, "Isn't it right?"

Yan Xuan opened his mouth subconsciously, and then quickly pursed his lips, as if he put what he wanted to say back into his heart, and then slowly opened his mouth again.

"..." He said in a deep voice, "Did His Majesty ask you some other questions yesterday?"

Cen Yuan was startled when he heard the words, and then twitched the corners of his mouth: "I knew that when my father played chess with me yesterday, he specially asked people to open the door, but didn't let people back down. I guess he deliberately let this news spread."

He paused for a moment: "I'm afraid that people who have heard the news now think that I am about to enter the Eastern Palace."

Yan Xuan frowned, and there was almost imperceptible displeasure in his eyes.

"Then haven't you thought about it?" Yan Xuan said, "If you and I get married, His Majesty will no longer make you the crown prince, and you will just—"

When his words stopped suddenly, Cen Yuan slightly raised his brows when he saw this: "What about me?"

Yan Xuan was silent for a long time, until a fork in the road gradually appeared ahead - to the left was Nan Tingsi, and going straight was Jiang Zhaoyi's Jin'an Palace.

Just when Cen Yuan thought that Yan Xuan would not answer again and was just fooling around like this, the other party suddenly said, "You don't have to worry about being confined within this palace wall."

A strong wind suddenly hit, blowing the flowers on both sides rattling.

Cen Yuan stamped his feet, his eyes fell on Yan Xuan's calm and generous back.And that figure from the back also stopped and looked at him: "What's wrong?"

Cen Yuan shook his head as if waking up from a dream, "It's nothing."

He hurriedly followed a few steps, disapproving: "But how do you know that after we get married, Father will completely cut off the idea of ​​making me the crown prince."

What he said was arrogant and ambitious, and if someone listened to it, it might lead to some rumors.

But he knew that Yan Xuan would not be this "careful person".

Yan Xuan wanted to say: "Your Majesty..."

"Hush——" Cen Yuan immediately interrupted his words, made a gesture of silence, but the corner of his mouth curled up, and said softly: "How can you speculate on what the Holy One means?"

Yan Xuan pursed his lips to silence, but there was still no trace of fear on his face.

"Come again..." Cen Yuan took a few more steps, passed the other party, and stopped at the fork in the road, leaving only Yan Xuan a back view, "Don't say you know me so well, how do you know that I don't like life in the palace wall? ?”

Yan Xuan didn't answer, her thin lips were tightly pressed into a straight line, and she stared at the man with burning eyes.

Cen Yuan looked in the direction of the palace wall, and said casually: "Wealth and glory, wealth, and three thousand beauties, all the people outside want to have all their lives, but here it is easy."

He paused, and then added in his mind: As long as life is hard enough.

And behind him, Yan Xuan's face was watery, obviously disapproving.

"Okay, okay, if I continue talking, I really don't know where my head should roll." Cen Yuan looked away, turned around and said, "Aren't you still going to the Nanting Division?"

Yan Xuan glanced in the direction of Jin'an Palace, and let the other party take the topic off: "Yes."

"The southern army guards the imperial palace, and the northern army guards Chang'an City. The lieutenant in charge of the northern army is surnamed Duan. Father is going to use your family to suppress the Duan family." Cen Yuan said, as if he completely forgot to stop it just now Yan Xuan "randomly guessed" who it was.

But after he finished this sentence with emotion, he sighed and waved his hand at Yan Xuan: "Let's leave here."

After finishing speaking, he walked straight to Jin'an Palace, and within a few steps, he heard a voice behind him: "Cen Yuan."

——I am afraid that he will call the second prince by his name directly in the palace. Apart from Shengshang and Jiang Zhaoyi, this is the only person.

For some reason, when Cen Yuan was thinking about this point, he suddenly lowered his head and smiled silently, and when he raised his head again, he had put away the snickering.

He turned around and asked, "Huh?"

Yan Xuan stepped forward in two steps, and said with a suppressed voice: "The incident in Jingxing Hall yesterday must have spread, and I'm afraid someone will follow you, and even hurt the people around you."

"Yeah." Cen Yuan's voice was a little low, "I know."

"In the next few days, I will ask Fu Jianxin to lead people to wait near the Jin'an Palace." Yan Xuan said, "If you encounter any situation, tell him directly."

Originally, Cen Yuan thought that the other party was just a kind reminder, and he was stunned for a while when he heard this, before he realized what the other party said.

Immediately, he approached with a smile and said, "Just after taking office, the new official has been using public affairs for personal gain, little general, isn't that bad?"

Unexpectedly, Yan Xuan frowned, with a serious face: "Cen Yuan, I'm not joking."

"Got it." Cen Yuan smiled deeper, and bowed to the other party, "Then I will thank the little general for his kindness on behalf of my concubine."

After that, he turned around and waved his hands: "Let's go!"

There was no voice calling to stop him from behind, but a gust of wind blew up a few petals that were half-fallen beside the road, and one of them happened to float in front of Cen Yuan, and he stretched out his hand to cut it off and put it in his palm.

Unexpectedly, before he could think of another way to replace the staff near Jin'an Palace, Yan Xuan proposed it on his own initiative, what a coincidence.

But to say it was a coincidence, the source of the marriage was not because Emperor Ning suddenly proposed this marriage.

The smile on Cen Yuan's face gradually faded.

Just now Yan Xuan said that he hadn't thought about it - if he agreed to this marriage, Emperor Ning would not consider making him the crown prince just because he was concerned about the Yan family.In this way, the Duan family's concerns about him can be weakened, and the threat to the concubine mother can also be reduced.

He can desperately agree to get married in order to get himself out, so what should the other person do?

For Yan Xuan, wouldn't it be difficult for the strong?

It is true that the treacherous situation above the court is like an intricate chess game. As long as you are in the court, no matter who is playing the chess, everyone will inevitably become a pawn in the chess game.

It's like Emperor Ning's proposal to marry the two of them, like Jiang Zhaoyi who died for no reason in the previous life.

None of them can stand alone in this game of chess, but at least...

Cen Yuan thought to himself, but at least Yan Xuan should not be a pawn to him.

Starting over in this life, he doesn't want to be a stranger to Yan Xuan again, and he doesn't want Yan Xuan to be someone he uses.