When it was time for dinner, Xia Qiulian and Ye Zhaoyin bid farewell and left Jingyi Palace. Before leaving, Yan Banting helped the sleepy Concubine Chen to lie down, and originally wanted to leave with them.

But Yan Wanting was afraid that when she left, Concubine Chen refused to take the medicine, so she wanted to stay in Concubine Chen's bedroom until she woke up and took the medicine before leaving.

When Xia Qiulian was about to leave, Yan Wanting smiled and looked at Xia Qiulian by the door, her long and narrow phoenix eyes gleamed under the candlelight that had just been lit.

"I'm a light drinker. I was drunk after drinking two more glasses today. If something offends Qiu Lian abruptly, I hope Qiu Lian won't take offense."

Xia Qiulian raised his eyes and saw Yan Banting with a deep expression on his face, and he understood the meaning of Yan Banting's words in his heart.

Yan Wanting's offense today really made her a little displeased, but now Yan Wanting brought up the old matter, which made her feel a little bit wronged in her heart.

"Since Your Highness knows that he has a low drinking capacity, don't drink too much in the future."

Xia Qiulian's face was cold, and she looked up into Yan Wanting's eyes.

Yan Wanting narrowed his eyes to avoid Xia Qiulian's gaze, lowered his head and raised his lips with a slightly ashamed smile.

"Qiu Lian said so."

When Xia Qiulian and Ye Zhaoyin left side by side, Yan Wanting did not enter the room, but still stood by the door and watched their figures slowly disappear.

Yan Wanting leaned against the door, looking at the direction they were leaving, frowning in thought, his eyes flickering under the candlelight.

Subtle footsteps came from behind, Yan Wanting did not turn his head.

"Xiaoting, what are you looking at?"

Concubine Chen who just lay down did not know when she got off the bed, and walked towards the Yanwan Pavilion step by step, perhaps because she was weak, she walked extremely slowly.

She was wearing a coat on her thin body, her delicate face was pale and delicate, looking at Yan Banting's back, her eyes were filled with deep tenderness.

"I didn't look at anything, I just thought that the emperor will return from Qingzhou in two days, and I have some expectations in my heart."

Yan Wanting turned around and walked to Concubine Chen with a smile, and reached out to support her who was staggering.

"Yes, Changling went to Qingzhou for disaster relief this time, and it has been more than a month since he went there. Don't say you and I miss him a little bit." Concubine Chen smiled lightly and raised her eyes, looking at Yan Wanting's face with bright eyes, He stretched out his hand and gently grabbed Yan Wanting's arm to support her.

"My cousin should go back to the bed and lie down for a while. I'll call Madam Liu to bring the dinner, eat something and drink the medicine."

Yan Wanting broke free from Concubine Chen's grasp of her hand without moving.

Concubine Chen stared at Yan Banting's gentle yet somewhat alienated smile, and was stunned.

"For some reason, I always feel that Xiaoting seems to have changed a lot these days, has he grown up, and he doesn't treat me as close as before."

Concubine Chen said with a bitter smile on her lips.

"How could Auntie think like this? My mother left early. I have been taken care of by Auntie since I was a child. In Banting's heart, Auntie has long been regarded as my biological mother."

Yan Wanting looked at Concubine Chen earnestly, her eyes were serious, and her emotional expression was also respectful.

But Concubine Chen still lowered her eyes in a gloomy manner, and reached out her hand to caress her face in a daze. For some reason, she felt a little bit lost.

"Birth mother? Am I this old now?"

"What did my cousin say? I regard you as my biological mother in my heart, not that you are old. Look at the bronze mirror. We stand together, don't we look like a pair of sisters?"

Yan Wanting lightly smiled, grabbed Concubine Chen's shoulders as if comforting, and turned her to the bronze mirror on the dressing table in the room.

In the mirror, two figures leaning together are vaguely reflected,

Concubine Chen stared blankly at Yan Wanting in the bronze mirror, at her fair and delicate face, with the familiar gentle smile on her familiar eyebrows and eyes, at her gently hugging herself and snuggling up to her side, and then He chuckled and said with a smile.

"I don't know why, Xiao Ting is already taller than me, but I still feel that Xiao Ting is that naughty little girl who refuses to sleep unless I sing or hug her."

The woman leaning on Yan Wanting was thin and delicate, her face was pale but also dignified and beautiful.

"In my aunt's heart, I will always be a child. In my heart, my aunt is not a biological mother, but she is better than a biological mother."

Concubine Chen leaned almost all her weight on Yan Wanting, she was too thin and weak.

As soon as Yan Wanting mentioned the word "birth mother", Concubine Chen fell silent, and the smile at the corners of her eyes became more melancholy.

"Biao Auntie, if you feel bored after lying on the bed for a long time, I will help you go out for a walk, and you may have dinner when you come back later."

Seeing that Concubine Chen was silent, Yan Wanting changed the topic.

"Alright, I haven't gone out for a long time, so it's fine to go for a walk."

Concubine Chen nodded, slightly closed her eyes and gently leaned against Yan Wanting, letting her help her to walk out.

Qingyuan and Lvruan led the way with lanterns on both sides, and the dim candlelight illuminated the way ahead.

Xia Qiulian kept walking in silence, Ye Zhaoyin didn't know what to say to her in her ear, she didn't listen to a word.

Just thinking about the doubts in my heart.

Because she didn't have the intention to pay attention to Yan Wanting and Concubine Chen in her previous life, all she knew at that time was that Yan Wanting and Concubine Chen had a close relationship, so she had no other understanding.

I don't know if she paid attention to it today, but she found that Concubine Chen's attitude towards Yan Wanting was a little different, so dependent and so intimacy.

Concubine Chen has been in poor health and has been lying on the bed all year round. Xia Qiulian knew that Yan Banting would go to Jingyi Palace to visit Concubine Chen every day.

It's just that when she entered the palace for about three years in her previous life, Concubine Chen died of illness suddenly.

Xia Qiulian remembers that at that time Yan Wanting was in great grief, and she lost a lot of weight after Yue Yu, and the smile on her face was no longer light and gentle, but always with a bit of grief. When she slept in her bedroom at night, she woke up in the middle of the night with the skirt on her chest Will be soaked by Yan Wanting's tears.

During those days, Yan Wanting relied on her very much, almost inseparable from her, and couldn't sleep without holding her at night.

Xia Qiulian always thought that in Yan Wanting, Concubine Chen was just like her biological mother, and so was Concubine Chen.

It's just that looking at it today, she actually felt that the relationship between them was not that simple.

Thinking of this, Xia Qiuli felt a little sad in her heart. It turned out that she didn't know Yan Wanting that well.

"Qiu Lian, I have told you so much, but you have heard me."

Ye Zhaoyin seemed to be talking to herself along the way, and after talking for a long time, Xia Qiulian did not respond to her, so she stretched out her hand and pulled Xia Qiulian's sleeve, and asked dissatisfied.

"Sorry, Qiu Lian is a little dazed, but what did Sister Zhaoyin say?"

Xia Qiulian came back to her senses and looked at Ye Zhaoyin apologetically.

"I said, His Royal Highness and the Crown Princess will be returning to the palace in a few days. At that time, I will take you to see the Crown Princess. That would be a very interesting person."

Ye Zhaoyin squinted her long and narrow fox eyes happily, and smiled happily.

"Is the prince coming back?"

In fact, Xia Qiulian knew it in her heart. When she entered the palace, it was His Royal Highness and the Crown Princess who went to Qingzhou for disaster relief. It was more than a month later that she saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Yan Kingdom, Yan Changling for the first time.

That gentle and refined prince who resembled Yan Wanting very much.

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