Chapter 146 The One Prince Duan Favors
The next morning, Prince Duan sent someone with a message, summoning Zheng Nianru to leave the palace. However, the weather was scorchingly hot, and Zheng Nianru did not want to go out.
"Commandery Princess, think of it as a chance to clear your mind. The maids have heard that because of the Empress Dowager’s birthday, many Aristocratic Families from outside the capital have returned to Zheng Capital with their children. I hear that Ximen Yuyan, the most talented woman in Zheng Capital, has already arrived in the Imperial City," Xing Yu reported this as if it were fresh news. The thing that was most talked about in the palace was the Shiping Aristocratic Clan. This was one of the most powerful Aristocratic Families in Nanzheng State, standing tall through several dynastic changes and still holding one-third of the government’s power.
Zheng Nianru wanted to go even less. In her past life, she had regarded Ximen Yuyan as a mortal enemy, convinced that Zheng Congyuan would surely marry her, and that during her attempt to rebel, an alliance with Ximen Yuyan could have gained her a lot of support. But Zheng Congyuan did not do so.
She had clearly heard the heartfelt confessions between Ximen Yuyan and Zheng Congyuan and even Zheng Congyuan’s responses. So why had they not formed a marriage alliance?
In her previous life, she had thought that this was divine retribution, punishment for Zheng Congyuan.
But now that she thought about it, she found her past self’s naivety and stubbornness absurd. How could she not have been struck by lightning for being so ridiculous? It was as if the heavens were blind.
"Commandery Princess, why don’t we get up and see what the weather is like outside? If it’s really not good, we can send someone to tell the Prince," Fu Dong suggested ingratiatingly.
"Let’s get up. We’ll decide later whether to go out or not," Zheng Nianru sighed internally. Why bother? She felt it was better not to be with Zheng Congyuan than to have to watch him alive.
In her former life, she couldn’t bear to hear the name Ximen Yuyan for even a second, nor could she tolerate Ximen Yuyan’s presence anywhere near Zheng Congyuan.
But now, to her own surprise, she found herself resistant to that name. Even if Ximen Yuyan later became a main force in the army that rebelled against her, Zheng Nianru could even understand it.
Even the thought that Zheng Congyuan might have a moment of weakness and share an ambiguous and unclear flirtation with Ximen Yuyan, she now felt was not so hard to accept.