As soon as he walked out of the study, he bumped into Cai Yuan who came over with fried ginger tea. Cai Yuan then asked in surprise, "Princess left so soon?"

Mu Qianxue forced out a smile and said, "Your highness still has matters to attend to, so it's inconvenient for me to disturb you any further."

After Mu Qianxue's figure had sunk into the dark snowy night, Cai Yuan still remembered the ginger tea in his hand. Just as he was about to chase after her, an elderly gatekeeper hurried over and whispered a few words into his ear.

Cai Yuan was surprised. "Now?"

The guard nodded: "Yes, we are waiting for them at the gate."

"Alright, I'll go report it to the prince now." With this delay, Mu Qianxue had already disappeared. Cai Yuan had no choice but to pass the cup of ginger tea to the gatekeeper, "This bowl of ginger tea is for you to drink."

As the doorman thanked him profusely, Cai Yuan gently pushed the door open and stepped down on it. Surprisingly, he felt something under his feet, and when he looked down, he saw pieces of sharp and uneven pieces of porcelain. His eyelids twitched, and before he could regain his senses, he heard a cold voice, "Get out!"

Cai Yuan was so scared that his whole body was trembling. With a pale and terrified face, he said, "Prince, Lady Zhao requests an audience."

Dongfang Wenshui's brows furrowed. He slowed down his breathing and asked, "What is she doing here?"

"This servant does not know. Madame Zhao only said that it is a matter concerning her life. She must see the Prince." Cai Yuan relayed the message to the gatekeeper in one breath, then shut her mouth tightly, not even daring to breathe. In her memory, the Prince had never said a harsh word to Princess Xuanji, but this time he was so angry, something big must have happened.

After a moment of almost suffocating silence, Dongfang Gu spoke up again. "Let her in. Let someone else pack up."

"Yes." As if he was amnestied, Cai Yuan quickly left the room.

When Madame Zhao came in, all the large and small pieces of porcelain had already been cleaned up. She knelt down and said, "Greetings, Your Highness!"

"Madame Zhao, excuse me." After giving her a seat to serve tea, Dongfang Gu asked, "I wonder what business does madam have coming here so late in the night?"

"I... "I …" Madame Zhao lowered her head and twisted the handkerchief in her hands, unable to finish her words. While Dongfang Zhi was waiting impatiently, she suddenly kneeled down and said in a tearful voice, "Please have mercy, Your Highness. Save me!"

Dongfang Qin was stunned. He said, "Madam, please get up and talk."

Madame Zhao refused Cai Yuan's support and said with tears streaming down her face, "If Your Highness doesn't agree, I'll kneel here for the rest of my life."

"What is it?" Dongfang Shou questioned her.

Madame Zhao wiped away her tears as she choked with sobs. "Pingqing may have a gentle and gentle personality, but she also has her pride. She definitely won't marry Xu Jingzhi."

"This King knows that this King will see the empress dowager tomorrow morning. Madam, don't worry. Nothing will happen to Miss Zhao." As he spoke these words, he recalled Mu Qianxue's heartless words and her heart throbbed with pain. No matter how much she used up, in the eyes of Mu Qianxue, he was nothing more than a tool.

His words didn't make Madame Zhao smile, but instead made sher sad. "Even if prince could persuade the empress dowager to give up the idea of marriage, he still wouldn't be able to redeem her reputation."

"Madam, you are overthinking it. This matter will not ruin Miss Zhao's reputation."

"The reason why Prince said that is because you simply don't know how much information is passed down outside. Every word is simply a blow to the heart. There are even people who say that it is a clear failure to follow the path of a woman, tick …" seduce Xu Jingjing. " "We all know that these words were purposely spread by the Pingyang Kingdom, but outsiders don't know, so they thought it was the truth. When word spreads, it will spread. Prince, how are you going to conduct yourself after the Pingyang Kingdom is settled?"

Dongfang Gu sighed. "It was this king who implicated Miss Zhao."

It was only after listening to these words that Pingqing killed herself on impulse. After you left, Your Highness, I wanted to go and urge Pingqing to leave, but who knew that she would tell me that once this matter was over, she would leave her home and spend her life with the ancient buddha. No matter how I tried to persuade her, she would not listen.

Madame Zhao replied sorrowfully, "Master Hou and I have only one daughter. The thought of her shaving off all her hair and spending her life in the Buddhist Courtyard makes her heart ache."

"Madam wants This King to advise Miss Zhao?"

"No." Madame Zhao's answer surprised Dongfang Shou, and what she said next made him stand up from his chair in shock.

"Now that things have progressed to this point, there's no need for me to hide it from the prince and clear her out … "I have always admired your highness, and it is precisely because of this that you took the risk of offending Shen Xijun to inform your highness; Pingqing's attitude is very firm this time, even if you are advised by your highness, I'm afraid you won't be able to change her mind. Besides, even if the empress dowager doesn't grant you the marriage, given her character, Princess Pingyang and her character, she still won't let you off. I think and think, there's only one way …" She took a deep breath, gathered up her courage, and said word by word, "That is, you want to invite Prince Ping Qing to be your side wife!"

Dongfang Qin stared at her in disbelief. After a while, he recovered from his shock and tightly knitted his brows. "Madame Zhao, do you know what you're saying?"

"I know this is an excessive request, but other than this, there is nothing else I can do." At this point, Madame Zhao said anxiously, "As long as Your Highness is willing to marry Pingqing, she will definitely give up on the idea of going out on a family. I beg Your Highness to agree."

"No." Dongfang Wenshui rejected Madame Zhao's ridiculous request without thinking. "This prince doesn't have any romantic feelings for Pingqing. How could I take her as my side wife?"

"Your highness, please take pity on me. If Your highness feels that the position of secondary concubine is inappropriate, I'll just …" However, even a concubine is fine. As long as you like it, Master Hou and I will not care about it. " For the sake of her daughter for the rest of her life, Madame Zhao had put aside her dignity as a grandma and had done her utmost to be humble. She had truly pitied her parents.

"It's not a relationship of position, it's …" Dongfang Shan couldn't think of anything suitable to say. After a while, he shook his head and said, "This is unfair to Miss Zhao."

Madame Zhao said mournfully, "Prince, do you still think that you have the qualifications to demand fairness from me?" Without waiting for Eastern Sou's words, she repeatedly kowtowed. "I beg of you, Prince, I beg of you."

Dongfang Yi stepped forward to support her. "Madam, please get up first."

"I've said it before, if Your Highness doesn't agree, I definitely won't get up." Seeing that Dongfang Bing wasn't going to agree, she said sadly, "Is it so happy to see all my hair cut off and my monastic robe wrapped around me, or I am forced to lose my life because of the Pingyang Kingdom?"

"Of course not." Madame Zhao's plea put Dongfang Shou in a difficult position. "I'm afraid I've wronged Miss Zhao."

"Ping Qing wants to stay by your side most of all. It won't hurt. Besides, I can rest easy with you protecting her in the future," Madame Zhao said quickly. She gritted her teeth, looked at Dongfang Zhi, and said, "Prince, you should just be an extra idler in the palace, otherwise …" All of her food and clothing will be taken care of by me and Master Hou. "