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Chapter 804 Fifth Miss Shao, Can I Have a Word with You?

Shao Wanru didn’t come back with Chu Liuchen because they had said what they should say. If they really accompanied each other all the way back, it would be troublesome. There was no shortage of people gossiping in the palace. If too many people saw it, their words would not be pleasant to the ear. After all, the Empress Dowager had not issued the edict yet.

Chu Liuchen didn’t have so many scruples, but when he saw that Shao Wanru was really shy and unwilling, he didn’t insist. He asked someone to find a sedan chair and Shao Wanru got on it and returned to Chuxiu Palace.

She didn’t expect that someone would knock on the door soon after she sat down in her room. At this time, the nanny in charge would allow the beauties to have some free time.

Yujie went to open the door and saw Chu Liuyue standing outside. After being stunned for a moment, she hurriedly bowed her head and said respectfully, “Your Highness!”

“Fifth Miss Shao, are you here? There is one thing that involves Fifth Miss Shao. I’m afraid that I have to ask Fifth Miss Shao to make it clear!” Chu Liuyue said with a hint of coldness.

“She is inside,” Yujie said, and then added, “She just came back from the Empress Dowager’s palace!”

Chu Liuyue nodded and entered the room with his servants. Only then did Yujie see that Qi Rongzhi was also there. She couldn’t help widening her eyes and casting glances at Qi Rongzhi. “Isn’t this First Miss Qi afraid of being close to Miss now? She always hid in a place where Miss couldn’t see. What did she mean by following Prince Yue today?” She wondered.

Shao Wanru, who was in the room, had already heard the movements. She came out and bowed respectfully to Chu Liuyue.

Chu Liuyue looked her up and down and found that she was wearing a plain pleated skirt embroidered with butterflies. Except for a few colorful butterflies on the skirt, the rest was lake-colored, which was not a brilliant choice. But she looked beautifully timid in this skirt.

The long eyelashes that were like butterfly wings fluttered to hide the clamness in her eyes, and her pink cherry lips were quite attractive even if they were closed.

He did not want to miss such a woman! When was he attracted to her? When he first met her in the palace or later?

According to Qi Rongzhi’s words, she ignored the rumors about herself and deliberately came to Shao Wanru’s door to talk to her in person with the excuse of Qi Rongzhi’s affair.

Not anyone can be Prince Yue’s concubine! In fact, Chu Liuyue surmised that Shao Wanru was not qualified to be that person.

Please sit!” Chu Liuyue waved his hand and sat down in the middle seat. Shao Wanru hesitated for a moment and sat down in a chair that was a little farther away from him.

“With Your Highness here, I don’t dare to sit down!” Qi Rongzhi lowered her head and said softly.

“Sit down with me!” Chu Liuyue waved his hand impatiently.

Only then did Qi Rongzhi sit down carefully without hesitation and then smiled gently at Shao Wanru. She really didn’t look like the arrogant and domineering Qi Rongzhi.

Yujie served tea and then stood behind Shao Wanru.

After Chu Liuyue took a sip of tea, Shao Wanru raised her watery eyes and asked, “Your Highness, what brings you here?”

“Miss Qi has something to do with Fifth Miss Shao, so I specially came here!” Chu Liuyue coughed in a low voice. If it weren’t for the Empress suddenly agreeing to his request, he wouldn’t have come straight to Shao Wanru.

At the very beginning, when she mentioned that she had chosen a beauty, the Empress seemed to be very willing to do this. But after that, she kept talking about other things and did not want to intervene.

“Miss Qi, what does she have to do with me?” Surprised, Shao Wanru cast a glance at Qi Rongzhi, who was sitting next to Chu Liuyue. Her eyes kept roaming on the man and Qi Rongzhi, and she seemed to understand something.

Shao Wanru was inexplicably displeased with Shao Wanru’s tacit gaze, so he coughed in a low voice and said, “I heard from her that when you were in Jiangzhou, you had a good relationship with Miss Qi, because you two grew up together.”

Shao Wanru’s face turned serious. She put away her tenderness and said with a little indifference, “Your Highness, I don’t know what First Miss Qi said to you, but I have no friendship with the people of Qi’s Mansion. In other words, I not only have no friendship with them but also have a lot of hatred towards them. Because they almost have destroyed my life!”

Shao Wanru was very straightforward and didn’t deliberately save grace for Qi Rongzhi.

Qi Rongzhi blushed and seemed to want to say something, but she didn’t say anything in the end. She lowered her head aggrievedly and wiped the corners of her eyes. She looked very sad.

If Shao Wanru really had a deep relationship with her, she would probably feel sorry for hurting her old best friends because of what she had said just now.

“Fifth Miss Shao, why do you still care so much about what happened at that time?” Chu Liuyue frowned and said. He liked generous women, and he believed that vindictiveness would not make a good wife.

Shao Wanru was so angry that she almost laughed because Chu Liuyue made it sound so easy. He was not the one who was almost destroyed at that time, so he said that with ease, “Your Highness, what happened at that time is over. I don’t want to say anything more. I just don’t want to hear people say that I have a good relationship with Qi’s mansion!”

Except for Qi Baiyu, she didn’t want to have anything to do with anyone in the Qi Family, and it was not the right time to mention him.

“Fifth Miss Shao, it was my elder brother’s fault at that time. I... I was immature at that time. I was mean to Fifth Miss Shao from time to time because I thought that my elder brother was framed by you.” Qi Rongzhi suddenly stood up and apologized sincerely.

Shao Wanru looked at Shao Wanru, who showed approval on his face, and then looked at Qi Rongzhi, who was obviously aggrieved but still pretended to be generous and decent. She felt bored in her heart. She really didn’t know what these two people were doing here. She wondered what Qi Rongzhi’s affairs had to do with her, and that even made Prince Yue come here.

Ignoring Qi Rongzhi’s affectation, Shao Wanru looked at Chu Liuyue and said, “Prince Yue, please tell me clearly what I am involved in today.”

She didn’t want to deal with Chu Liuyue or look at Qi Rongzhi’s pitiful face. She was used to Qi Rongzhi’s arrogance. She really didn’t think there was any difference between the Qi Rongzhi in front of her and the one in the past. She just felt that her acting was a little too lame.

Qi Rongzhi was embarrassed and looked at Chu Liuyue.

“Sit down!” Chu Liuyue said coldly.

Qi Rongzhi sat down aggrievedly.

“I want to check what happened in Jiangzhou at that time. I heard that the former Heir of Duke Xing had an accident in Jiangzhou. I have some questions about it, so I came to ask Miss Qi first. Miss Qi’s father is the magistrate of Jiangzhou and knows a lot of things. Miss Qi mentioned the Fifth Miss Shao just now, so I came to ask the Fifth Miss Shao.”

Chu Liuyue acted as if he was just his business.

“Your Highness, do you think... something is wrong?” Shao Wanru’s voice trembled unconsciously. She had always suspected this matter and wanted to find out the truth.

Her eyes were no longer calm, and she pursed her lips tightly.

Chu Liuyue was very satisfied with Shao Wanru’s reaction. He knew that Shao Wanru would not care about this kind of thing, and it was best to start with it.

“There is indeed something wrong, so I want to ask Miss Qi and Fifth Miss Shao about something. Fifth Miss Shao, please answer my question clearly,” Chu Liuyue said.

“Your Highness, please ask!” Shao Wanru took a deep breath and said.

“Fifth Miss, when you were in Jiangzhou that day, did you feel that General Qin treated you and First Miss Qin differently?” Chu Liuyue asked lightly.

Shao Wanru thought for a while and shook her head. “General Qin didn’t care much about those trifle things at that time, but isn’t this kind of thing very common? Those affairs are under the charge of Madam Di.”

“Even if those things were managed by madams, can’t the Fifth Miss feel it at all?” Chu Liuyue looked at her and asked again.

Shao Wanru shook her head.

Chu Liuyue waved his hand, and Qi Rongzhi stood up and walked out obediently, leaving Chu Liuyue alone. Shao Wanru’s face became serious as she had a bad feeling.

“Fifth Miss Shao, can we talk in private?” Chu Liuyue looked at Yujie, who was standing behind Shao Wanru and said.

“Your Highness, this is my trusted maid. I trust her with all my heart. If you need anything, you can tell me directly!” Shao Wanru refused.

It was not good now. If Yujie went out again, she would not be sure of what would happen.

Chu Liuyue might not necessarily ask Yujie to go out. Hearing Shao Wanru’s words, he did not insist. He picked up the teacup at hand, took a sip, and said lightly, “Fifth Miss Shao, do you want to find out what happened at that time? Why didn’t something happen to others? Why did it only happen to your parents?”

“Your Highness, do you know something?” Shao Wanru’s eyes fell on Chu Liuyue’s face and her expression slowly calmed down.

She was natural and graceful, without any shyness of a woman, and her eyes were cold. Although there were some emotions in them, it was because of the words she heard, not because of this man in front of her.

This kind of understanding made Chu Liuyue very uncomfortable. “Aren’t those Misses from aristocratic families all shy when they see me?” He wondered.

“I do know something, but I can’t tell the Fifth Miss Shao for free,” Chu Liuyue said in a deep voice.

“Your Highness, what do you want?” Shao Wanru said. She knew that Chu Liuyue wanted something, but she didn’t know what he wanted. He had gone through so much trouble to bring Qi Rongzhi here. He must want to ask for a lot!

“When the former Heir of Duke Xing left the capital city with Infanta Qinghua, they didn’t go to the border. Instead, after picking up a letter on the way, they suddenly changed their direction. The previous direction should be the countryside with mild weather, which is almost the opposite of the direction of the border. Who made him make such a decision that was contrary to the former one?”

Chu Liuyue put down this astonishing news and gazed at Shao Wanru.

Shao Wanru’s heart throbbed and her eyes turned red. She bit her lip and swallowed the bitterness in her heart. No matter in the last life or this life, she didn’t know about it, and no one had mentioned it to her.

After her rebirth, was she really going to find out the truth about what had happened to her parents?