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"Yilan Palace?" Yu Tingwan smiled half-heartedly, "Didn't His Highness say that His Majesty summoned me?"

"I saw that my queen looked unhappy at the banquet, so I said it casually." Pei Zhi did not feel panic at all when his lie was exposed.

Yu Tingwan was choked up, and he thought the same thing, who would go into it further?

She turned her head and glanced at Qiu Tao and Gao Yue. Pei Zhi said in a leisurely voice, "Your Majesty, my carriage is too narrow to accommodate so many people."

The two men took half a step back and said quickly: "My slave, just follow the carriage."

Yu Tingwan sighed and remained silent after getting in the carriage. Pei Zhi liked to read in the carriage, so the carriage moved slowly on the bluestone road.

She had never felt that this journey was so long.

Seeing that Yu Tingwan seemed to be mute, Pei Zhi thought about what the Dong Palace informants had said, and a smile appeared on his face: "The noble concubine is completely different from the Crown Princess just now."

Yu Tingwan wondered if it could be the same. No matter how vicious the princess was, the tricks she used were just the tricks of the back house, and she could barely cope with it.

But the King of Wei is different. He wears the skin of a handsome gentleman. When he suppressed the chaos in Youzhou four years ago, he became famous all over Youzhou for his murder. The word "Pei Zhi" can stop a child from crying at night.

There was a world of difference between her and King Wei's status, and the man in front of her could kill her without a burial ground with just one word.

Yu Tingwan didn't know what to say for a while. While he was thinking about it, Pei Zhi's words were like thunder on a summer night.

"Your Majesty, if you go to such a banquet in the future, you can borrow my name."

"Your Highness, please don't joke."

"I'm not joking with you." Pei Zhi still looked calm, "Cui Rouyi wants to use this banquet to harm you today. All you have to do is say that you are from the King of Wei and refuse."

Yu Tingwan didn't know what nonsense Pei Zhi was talking about.

Yuan Ziyu is still interested in her, and she still has some value to the King of Wei. When Yuan Ziyu loses interest in her, Pei Zhi will naturally not care about her.

She now says that she is from the King of Wei. The Crown Princess and the others may temporarily stop their actions out of fear, but what if they do so later? It is simply drinking poison to quench thirst.

"I know there is something wrong with today's banquet. The cup of tea in hand contains medicine that can disfigure the face." Yu Tingwan paused and seemed to calm down, "Your Highness, since I have gone, I am naturally fully prepared."

"Que Wen helped you." Pei Zhi leaned forward slightly, showing a playful look to Yu Tingwan for the first time, wrapping around her like a snake.

Pei Zhi has never seen someone like Yu Tingwan. He has a good appearance and is unwilling to take advantage of it. He is unwilling to take advantage of Yuan Ziyu's infatuation. It is completely different from him.

He has always believed that if he wants to achieve eternal fame, the world will be like a ladder to the blue sky.

There are many people who want to seduce the king of Wei. When he was only fourteen years old, he went to Yanzhou with his father. After a few words with a petty official, he prospered in officialdom.

His father once said that the power of a prince is like a sharp sword that is unsheathed and cannot be lent to others at will. Now when Pei Zhi handed the hilt of the sword to Yu Tingwan, she found it too hot and refused to use it.

For some unknown reason, Pei Zhi felt a sense of unhappiness in his heart, which he attributed to his displeasure after being disobeyed.

"He can help you once, but when His Majesty dies in five years, who else can protect you except me."

Pei Zhi talked about the emperor's posthumous affairs as normally as he talked about the weather. For the first time, Yu Tingwan faced the treasonous ambitions of the person in front of him.

"Would His Highness ever say the word "protect" to his staff or generals?"

"His Highness gave me the bright moon to protect me, and I can't thank you enough." Yu Tingwan's tone was calm, but her eyes were sharp, "Because in His Highness's eyes, I am a precious bargaining chip in your deal with Yuan Ziyu. I need it." Take good care of it before it ruins a business.”

Pei Zhi suddenly understood why Yuan Ziyu said that the woman in front of him had Xie Yun's style.

He chuckled twice and said with great interest: "I never thought that the noble concubine would treat my kindness like this."

"As for bargaining chips." Pei Zhi said noncommittally, "Everything can be used as a bargaining chip here."

The world is a chessboard, and no matter whether they are rough or noble, they all exist equally as chess pieces here.

Yuan Ziyu exchanged Yuan's loyalty for Yu Tingwan, so he also regarded himself as a bargaining chip.

Yu Tingwan faced Pei Zhi's ambitious side and knew that he could not convince him.

"Your Highness, you and I are different."

Pei Zhi smiled instead of being angry, and seemed to appreciate it: "When the late king asked your father to serve the Pei family, he said the same thing."

Qingzhou Yu Xin loved the people like a son and was talented, but he was out of place. He talked to Pei Xu about helping the Zhou Dynasty in troubled times. Pei Xu listened to it all day and left in silence.

Yu Tingwan smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly. If his father had agreed to Pei Xu, maybe everything would have been different.

Just like if she had agreed to Yuan Ziyu, she might have lived a comfortable life in Donghai County now. She heard that Yuan Ziyu was not idle in Donghai County and spread the news that he was suppressing his wife. The Zheng family had already planned to break off the engagement.

However, just as her father was unwilling to do something against his will, she was unwilling to commit herself to someone she didn't like and still married as a concubine for the second time.

"Your Highness, my father never regretted it until his death."

Yi Lan Palace has arrived, Pei Zhi nodded slightly, "Then I wish your concubine that she will never regret it."

He watched Yu Ting go away late and told the driver: "Go faster."

The coachman laughed a few times and took off the iron mask on his face, "My lord is angry with the noble concubine?"

"Not at all." There was no emotion or anger in Pei Zhi's voice, "If people see Gu's carriage near Yilan Hall, there will be people who are talkative."

If there were any courtiers here, they would be able to identify the chariot driver as Chen Du, the chief historian and a confidant of the King of Wei.

"My lord, I finally see what the imperial concubine looks like. No wonder Yuan Ziyu is thinking about her."

Chen Du was familiar with Yuan Ziyu and naturally knew about him. Seeing that he was not here at this moment, he said casually: "With such appearance and temperament, no wonder Ziyu likes it and so does I."

Chen Du is obsessed with Buddhism and Taoism outside of official duties. He has two concubines in his house that his mother takes charge of, but he has not yet married.

Pei Zhi's voice was a bit colder, "Have you forgotten what you came to the palace for today?"

"Go to the Zichen Palace to ask His Majesty to issue an order to attack the King of Liang." Chen Du felt guilty, "My lord, I was also curious and said the wrong thing at the moment."

As Chen Du drove the car, he pondered in his heart, and his heart was awe-inspiring, maybe the lord has fallen in love with the noble concubine.

Chen Du was shocked by Yu Tingwan's beauty, and he compared himself to others, thinking that Pei Zhi must be the same, but he was embarrassed to say it.

The eldest son of King Liang was in a hurry to have a child at the age of 16, fearing that there would be no heirs to his inheritance, but Pei Zhi was not in a hurry, which made his subordinates worry and get angry.

The more Chen Du thought about it, the more he felt that the lord must be the noble concubine Xinyue, so he rejected those noble ladies.

When the carriage stopped near the Zichen Palace, he finally couldn't help it and said to Pei Zhi: "My lord, if you like your concubine, just tell me directly."