Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

He sent people to Xichen to inquire about the news, but still had no information about her.

The longing for her tormented his heart like a drug addiction. He began to frantically collect all the women who had features similar to hers, brought them back home, and looked at them every day to remind himself not to forget to look for her.

Everyone thought that Prince Gong had returned to his former dissolute days, but only his close confidants in the palace knew that this was his way of venting his pain.

When he saw the woman's back, he really thought Xiaoxue had come back. Various emotions such as ecstasy, excitement, and anger intertwined together, sweeping through his heart like a storm.

But after seeing her face clearly, disappointment overwhelmed him like a flood, pulling him back from heaven to hell.

"It's okay." Jiang Xue suppressed the bitterness in her heart and answered softly.

"I heard from Tieyi that you took the initiative to help our army, so stay in the barracks for a while. Come down the mountain with me tomorrow and head to the border plain." After confirming that the woman was not Jiang Xue, Xiao Zhan was unwilling to say more. He ordered someone to arrange a tent for the brother and sister, then turned back to the tent to continue handling military affairs.

Under Tieyi's arrangement, Jiang Xue and the other person came to the tent assigned to them.

At night, Jiang Xue was in mixed feelings and couldn't fall asleep because Xiao Zhan was so close to her but she couldn't recognize him.

She got up and walked to the pond, feeling the night breeze and looking at the strange face reflected in the water.

"The water is connected with the waves, and the waves are covered with cold green smoke..."

Sadness surged in her heart, Jiang Xue slightly opened her red lips and hummed poems to express her emotions.

"The heartless grass, drinking alone and feeling drunk..."

In response to her poem, Xiao Zhan's low voice sounded from behind, which made Jiang Xue's heart tremble and she slowly turned around to look.

He was seen holding two jugs of wine in his hands, stepping out of the shadows into the moonlight.

Looking at the face with some flaws, he handed over a pot of wine: "It's rare to meet a fellow traveler with similar feelings. Miss, are you willing to drink with me?"

As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw this familiar figure, and he couldn't fall asleep tonight no matter what.

Since he couldn't sleep, he decided to go to the pond and drink alone to relieve his inner sorrow.

Unexpectedly, he saw the unforgettable figure as soon as he arrived, and he could not take his eyes away.

Although he knew she was not Xiaoxue, he still couldn't help wanting to get close to her. At this moment, her poem hit his heart like a heavy hammer. It turned out that she was also a person suffering from lovesickness.

He handed her a jug of wine, hoping she would drink with him.

This was the first time he longed for someone's company since Xiaoxue left.

Looking at the wine he handed over, Jiang Xue paused for a moment, but finally took it.

She opened the lid of the wine flask and smelled it carefully. A smile unconsciously appeared on her lips: "Plum blossom wine."

She has always liked wine with floral scents. When she was in the palace, she often asked Fu Dong to help her brew the wine, and she also asked Xiao Zhan to taste it together many times.

"As long as you like it." Looking at the smile on her face, Xiao Zhan felt inexplicably happy.

He asked Fudong to brew this plum wine, and no one in the mansion liked to drink it except him.

Seeing today that this woman also likes this kind of wine, it feels like I have met a soulmate.

"I'm sorry for being so rude to you, young lady. I haven't asked for your name yet."

Xiao Zhan looked up and took a sip of wine, then sat down, looking at the shimmering pond water under the moon, and asked softly.

"Si Ruoxin." She couldn't think of a suitable name for a moment, so she used her mother's name as a pseudonym.

"Ruoxin, what a good name." Xiao Zhan smiled slightly, "Ruoxin, listening to you reciting such sad poems, have you also lost your beloved one?"

Jiang Xue lowered her head to meet his gaze, sighed softly, and sat down beside him: "I once had a husband who loved me very much. He was very good to me, always thinking of me and putting me first. But later, misunderstandings arose between us, he began to become cold to me, and I also began to resent him..."

Having said this, she paused, remembering the torture they had inflicted on each other during those days, and the divorce letter that almost made her collapse. A bitter feeling welled up in her heart, and she raised her head and took another sip of wine.

The strong liquor slid down her throat, forcibly suppressing the bitterness. She turned her head and looked at Xiao Zhan. Seeing his equally miserable expression, she asked, "What about Your Highness? Have you ever experienced such pain?"

She kept asking him why he gave her the divorce letter and why he gave his turquoise bracelet to Madam Wei.

Wasn't it him who divorced her? Then why did she have to act like she was in agony?

"Alas, Your Majesty... hehe..." Xiao Zhan smiled bitterly and poured the remaining wine into his mouth.

"Your Majesty, I pushed my beloved woman to someone else with my own hands." The thing he regretted most in his life was writing that divorce letter. Although he wrote it to save Xiaoxue, he still regretted it to death.

Sometimes he thought, maybe it was because of the divorce letter that Xiaoxue said on the West Gate Tower that Jun Li was her husband. Those words were like a knife, stabbing deeply into his heart.

"Your Highness, what's wrong with you? You obviously have her in your heart, so why are you deliberately distancing yourself from her?" Jiang Xue's voice was trembling when she asked this. Did he know that she almost couldn't breathe when she saw the divorce letter?

But this question is like a stone thrown into a deep well, there is no echo.

This plum blossom wine was very strong, and Xiao Zhan drank the whole pot in one gulp.

Jiang Xue had just asked halfway when he turned his head and fell into a deep sleep.

Looking at him sleeping, she couldn't help but reach out and gently touch his face.

Six months is not too long, but it is not short either.

During this period of time, she missed him so much.

"Yun Che, can we go back to the way we were before?"

She whispered to herself, but her mind was in a mess, and only time would reveal the answer.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Tieyi saw Xiao Zhan lying on Jiang Xue's shoulder with his eyes closed, and hurried over to take him over.

"Drunk and fell asleep."

She handed the rest of the wine flask to Tieyi and gave him a hangover pill.

"Hey, please ask Guard Tayun to give it to Your Highness. This medicine is specially used to treat drunkenness. After taking it, you should be able to wake up at dawn tomorrow morning and won't be late for military duties." After saying that, she handed Xiao Zhan completely to Tieyi and turned to walk towards her tent.

At the hour of Mao the next day, Xiao Zhan got up on time. As soon as he walked out of the tent, he saw Si Ruochen and Jiang Xue coming back from outside laughing and joking.

His eyes moved slightly. After chatting with her last night, he became more concerned about this girl. It might be because they had similar experiences. Every time he saw her, he always felt a sense of connection.

He walked forward and said, "You two are up so early."