I died tragically in my previous life, and I want to be an empress in my next life

After a while, the servant came back holding a box. Xuanyuan Ping opened the box and took out a yellow handkerchief from it. The handkerchief had turned a little yellow and looked very old.

He handed it to Pei Zhixuan, his tone carrying an inexplicable seriousness, "Do you recognize this?"

Pei Zhixuan took the handkerchief with doubt and began to examine it carefully. The handkerchief was soft and had an exquisite Chinese character "Xuan" embroidered on it. Seeing this word, Pei Zhixuan's heart suddenly began to beat violently.

This word "Xuan" was embroidered by her aunt on a handkerchief for her when she was a child.

An inexplicable sense of doubt arose in her heart. How could this handkerchief appear here, and how did it fall into Xuanyuan Ping's hands?

"This handkerchief seems to be an old thing from my childhood." Pei Zhixuan said softly, but her heart was in a mess.

"This is what I got in the palace." Xuanyuan Ping said slowly, "Twelve years ago, I met a little girl in the palace, and she gave it to me."

Pei Zhixuan bit her lower lip tightly. Countless fragments flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but feel an inexplicable panic in her heart. Did she really enter the palace? Why didn't she have any impression of it?

"The first time I met you, I thought you were just too young to remember me. I didn't expect that you had never entered the palace and had never seen me." A complicated light flashed in Xuanyuan Ping's eyes.

At this time, Yin Ping stepped forward, looked at the handkerchief in Pei Zhixuan's hand, and said as if she had suddenly realized something, "I remember now. When the princess was young, she entered the palace without a handkerchief, so Aunt Yun gave the concubine's handkerchief to the princess."

"After the princess returned to Pei's house, she said that she had given the handkerchief to someone else. Aunt Yun was annoyed for a long time, saying that it was a concubine's personal belonging, so how could the princess let others use it casually?"

"Because of this incident, Prime Minister Pei punished the princess to kneel in the ancestral hall for an hour, saying that he wanted her to remember this lesson."

After hearing what Yinping said, Pei Zhiyan and Pei Zhixuan nodded thoughtfully. There was indeed such an incident at that time that left a deep impression on them.

"I still remember that my sister even pleaded for me with my father at that time." Pei Zhiyan nodded slightly and said.

At that time, in order to let Prime Minister Pei see the deep sisterly love between Pei Zhixuan and Pei Zhiyan, Aunt Yun deliberately instigated her to plead for Pei Zhiyan.

Pei Zhixuan also nodded, "Yes, there is such a thing."

"Princess, didn't you secretly tell me that you gave the handkerchief to a little prince in the palace?" Yin Ping added.

Xuanyuan Ping looked at Pei Zhiyan with complicated eyes. Could that little girl be her? !

A concubine's daughter like Pei Zhixuan did not have the opportunity to enter the palace when she was young, so the little girl she met in the palace was definitely not Pei Zhixuan.

There are only two daughters in the Pei family, Pei Zhiyan and Pei Zhixuan. If it’s not Pei Zhixuan, then it must be Pei Zhiyan.

Impossible! How could this be possible?! That little girl was so innocent and kind, how could she be the scheming and cunning woman in front of me?

He smiled bitterly in his heart. Ha, what a twist of fate. It turned out that the person he hated the most was the little girl whom he regarded as his white moonlight.

Xuanyuan Ping put away the handkerchief and left Yuxiangxie without saying a word. He needed time to digest this fact.

Pei Zhixuan stared at him as he walked away, not understanding why, but Pei Zhiyan understood clearly that Xuanyuan Pingding had mistaken his younger self for Pei Zhixuan because of the handkerchief.

Xuanyuan Ping slowly returned to the courtyard, feeling heavy-hearted. He walked into the study alone, staring blankly at the book in front of him. The air in the study seemed to be filled with a dull atmosphere, as if echoing his inner emotions.

He closed his eyes, and the scene of seeing the little girl in the palace that day reappeared in his mind. Her smile was as bright as the sun, and her eyes were clear and bright, as if she could see through all the falsehood. Her innocence made him feel warm.

Thinking of this, Xuanyuan Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly. He actually mistook Pei Zhixuan for her based on just one word on the handkerchief. At that time, he was really blinded by prejudice and didn't distinguish carefully.

Xuanyuan Ping has always had a preconceived prejudice against Pei Zhixuan. He always felt that a woman like her, who came from a prominent family and had a noble status, was mostly spoiled and arrogant.

In his imagination, Pei Zhixuan is the legitimate daughter of the Pei family and has the support of the General's Mansion. She must be a woman who bullies the weak and is arrogant and domineering. She bullies her half-sister all day long. In order to achieve her goals, she will stop at nothing and force a marriage that does not belong to her.

He even thought that after she married into the palace, she would mess up the palace and make everyone's life miserable.

However, after she married into the palace, she seemed not as he had imagined. She was dignified and generous, and she managed the palace in perfect order. She was virtuous and kind, and outsiders praised her highly.

Even in the palace, except Pei Zhixuan, no one seemed to have ever complained about her.

Perhaps, I have always misunderstood her. If I had known from the beginning that she was that little girl, what would my attitude towards her be?

The pain and regret in his heart were intertwined, and he couldn't let it go, for the woman who was misunderstood by him and for his own stupidity.

Three days later, Pei Zhiyan came to Xuanyuan Ping's study. She was dressed in elegant clothes and walked in lightly.

"Your Highness, I pay my respects to you!" Pei Zhiyan smiled and bowed.

Xuanyuan Ping raised his head and his eyes fell on Pei Zhiyan. He looked at her elegant face, and an inexplicable emotion surged in his heart.

He had never looked at this woman carefully, but now he saw that she was not only beautiful, but also elegant and intelligent. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly that he had ignored her before, which was really ridiculous.

"Please stand up, Princess." Xuanyuan Ping said softly.

The two sat opposite each other. Pei Zhiyan gently picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Xuanyuan Ping. The study was filled with a faint scent of ink and tea.

Xuanyuan Ping picked up the teacup and savored the tea aroma carefully, secretly sighing in his heart that this woman was not only beautiful, but also well-mannered and intelligent. It was ridiculous that he had ignored her before.

"Yan'er?" Xuanyuan Ping called out, his voice full of tenderness, "Why did you come here today?"

This was the first time he addressed Pei Zhiyan like this, and it caught her off guard. Pei Zhiyan felt an inexplicable shiver creeping up her spine, and she raised her head slightly, meeting Xuanyuan Ping's eyes full of affection.

At this moment, she felt a wave of nausea spreading in her heart, but she could only try her best to restrain herself and not let this emotion show.