Seeing Lu Chen staring at her without speaking, Ji Yunng asked, "Why does the gentleman look at like this?"
Upon hearing Ji Yunng’s voice, Lu Chen quickly snapped back to reality and said awkwardly, "Apologies, Your Highness, I suddenly thought of sothing just now."
Ji Yunng asked, "Oh? What is it that makes you so absent-minded even when eting ?"
Lu Chen said, "I was just thinking that bringing to your chambers might harm your reputation, so I should leave."
Ji Yunng replied indifferently, "The court is in chaos now; no one cares about what I’m doing."
Saying this, Ji Yunng glanced at Lu Chen. His handso face, silver hair crown, and white attire exuded an otherworldly aura, resembling a young master from a wealthy family.
Ji Yunng asked, "May I know your na and where you’re from?"
Lu Chen replied, "To Your Highness, I’m Lu Chen. Other than my na, I rember nothing. Perhaps I hit my head when falling from the sky and lost my mory."
Ji Yunng didn’t doubt Lu Chen’s words, as amnesia is a minor issue for soone falling from such a height.
Ji Yunng continued, "What plans do you have next, sir?"
Lu Chen fell silent, deciding to follow his system’s guidance since he couldn’t figure out the system’s true intentions, yet it was his only reliance.
However, Ji Yunng is the Grand Princess of Dazhou, and for a commoner like him to beco her man is not easy.
Even though Ji Yunng is an uninitiated princess, a princess is still a princess, and he, as a commoner, could only beco her man unless Ji Yunng willingly chose him.
Seeing Lu Chen not answering imdiately, Ji Yunng said, "I will have soone search for your family. Until then, you can stay at the Princess Mansion with ."
Lu Chen, puzzled, asked, "Princess Mansion?"
Ji Yunng said, "I have been titled, and His Majesty allowed to establish a mansion outside the palace."
This...
Lu Chen thought, usually, a princess moves out to establish a mansion when she is about to marry. If she isn’t getting married yet, she typically stays in the palace.
Unless the princess is especially favored by the Emperor, which allows her to leave the palace without marrying.
But Ji Yunng didn’t seem like a favored princess; otherwise, she wouldn’t be unmarried and untitled at the age of twenty-three.
The fact that she hasn’t married could be because the Emperor doesn’t want her to leave the palace so soon, but being given a title only now is inexplicable.
Lu Chen asked, "Dare I ask, are you establishing a mansion because His Majesty has arranged a marriage for you?"
Lu Chen was most concerned about this because if Ji Yunng married soone else, it would be even harder to make her his own woman.
Ji Yunng replied, "It’s not so. His Majesty promised autonomy over my marriage."
Hearing this, Lu Chen felt relieved.
Lu Chen then bowed and said, "I am willing to follow Your Highness to the Princess Mansion!"
Ji Yunng glanced at Xiao Qi and Chen, then said, "Alright, prepare quickly. The Holy Decree will arrive at the Smoke Cloud Hall soon."
Just as Ji Yunng finished speaking, a eunuch’s voice ca from outside, "Holy Decree has arrived!"
Upon hearing the Imperial Eunuch’s voice, Ji Yunng imdiately led the maids of Smoke Cloud Hall and Lu Chen to the grand hall entrance.
When Ji Yunng appeared, the Imperial Eunuch promptly opened the decree and began reading.
"By the will of the heavens, the Emperor decrees, Ji Yunng of the Ji clan, nurtured in the deep palace, gentle and respectful in nature, wise and virtuous, I, following the celestial order, hereby confer upon you the title of Princess Yun’an, grant you a golden book and golden treasure, and permit you to choose an auspicious day to establish a mansion, hoping you will..."
After the Imperial Eunuch finished reading the decree, Ji Yunng imdiately accepted it before the eunuch departed.
As soon as the eunuch left, Ji Yunng declared, "The Princess Mansion is ready; we will move there today."
Hearing this, Lu Chen was once again stunned. The decree had just been issued, yet Ji Yunng’s Princess Mansion was already built?
Moreover, wasn’t moving usually done on an auspicious day? Was Ji Yunng being too hasty?
Ji Yunng offered no further explanation to Lu Chen. With her command, the maids and eunuchs of Smoke Cloud Hall began to move.
anwhile.
In the harem, Changle Palace.
A beautiful woman dressed in a dark red robe with phoenix embroidery lounged on a soft couch, her robe loosely hung, the neckline slightly open revealing a snippet of jade-white skin, her hair ornately styled with gold accessories, exuding nobility. Currently, a slender leg crossed over the other, the hem slightly parted, revealing her long jade-like legs, her delicate hand rested on the edge of the couch, her fingers tapping rhythmically as if contemplating sothing.
At this mont, a eunuch knelt in the middle of the great hall and spoke, "Madam, the Grand Princess has likely received the decree by now."
Hearing this, Pei Shuhua chuckled, "I thought my dear son had devoted himself to cultivation and no longer concerned himself with worldly affairs, yet he still cares for soone."
Pei Shuhua was not the real mother of Emperor Zhou. However, the biological mother held a low status and died quickly, thus her son was placed under Pei Shuhua’s care. Marrying the forr emperor when she was quite young, and the emperor already gravely ill, Pei Shuhua remains a virgin empress dowager to this day.
Yet as a Spirit Martial Artist at the mid-stage Xuan Realm, Pei Shuhua’s life expectancy is several millennia, so although she is over two hundred years old, she appears only in her thirties.
Originally, the throne was not Ji Mingxuan’s to inherit. However, with the Pei Family’s significant influence in Dazhou, they supported Ji Mingxuan’s ascension.
Upon becoming Emperor, Ji Mingxuan imrsed himself in cultivation, but Pei Shuhua knew this was re pretense. Thirty years ago, he unexpectedly erged, instigating various intrigues, marrying many consorts.
Ji Mingxuan’s children were born around that ti, but shortly after, he returned to his Long Life Hall, remaining quiet for another twenty years.
Not only are there no titles for the princesses, even the princes had none, until today’s sudden bestowal to Ji Yunng.
Pei Shuhua looked at the kneeling eunuch and inquired, "Why do you think His Majesty suddenly did this?"
The eunuch replied, "Perhaps His Majesty feels indebted to Ming Fei and believes it’s ti for the Grand Princess to marry, hence granting her a title."
Back then, Ji Yunng’s mother, Ming Fei, took a sword ant for Ji Mingxuan, sacrificing her life. If not for Ming Fei’s intervention, Ji Mingxuan would have long perished.
Thus, many in the court believe Emperor Zhou’s granting the title to the Grand Princess is entirely due to Ming Fei’s life-saving grace.
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