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Looking at her exaggerated appearance, he even felt that it was a bit funny.

"Thank you, imperial sister-in-law. You are the best."

Liu Ruoqing didn't realize that her exaggerated acting had not been trusted by anyone else other than the empress dowager. Yet, she was so pleased with herself and thought that she had lied to everyone else.

After comforting her, the empress dowager turned her gaze back to Yan Yuan and said with a stern expression, "Lao Jiu, previously, you already owed Tian Xin. From today onwards, you must treat her well and not bully her, understand?"

"imperial sister-in-law ?"

Yan Yuan frowned, he did not mind being lectured by imperial sister-in-law, but Liu Tianxin was clearly pretending, could imperial sister-in-law really not tell?

"Forget it, imperial sister-in-law, don't make things difficult for the Prince, blame it on Tian Xin's life, the one who marries is not a human, who let us daughter's family, we can only listen to our parents, on the matter of marriage, we can't make our own decisions, blame it on Tian Xin's life, we can't get the Prince's favor ?"

Liu Ruoqing deeply sobbed, and said this in a timely manner.

She couldn't possibly think that she could make Yan Yuan suffer a grievance in front of the imperial sister-in-law.

The Longevity Palace could hide from him for a while. When she returned, she would still have to stay in the Prince Jing's Mansion. It would be better if she didn't offend the boss of the Prince Jing's Mansion too much.

Seeing her current state, Yan Jue and Yan Shuo both raised their eyebrows. They did not intend to reveal her at all, they only leaned on the side in a good mood and enjoyed the wonderful scene in front of them.

After all, as a Prince Jing, he had never suffered such a loss before. It was rather interesting that he suffered such a setback in front of his wife.

Their gazes carried schadenfreude as they looked at Yan Yuan. However, they saw that a certain someone's lips were lifted into a horrifying sneer, and the two couldn't help but shiver. They looked worriedly at Liu Ruoqing, who was still feeling proud of himself, and broke out in a cold sweat for her.

Difficult to live? Married not a person? She felt that marrying him, Yan Yuan, was impossible?

The corner of Yan Yuan's lips curled up into a ridiculing smile. Did she not see how her father, Liu Chenghe, wished for him to marry her?

The empress dowager consoled Liu Ruoqing with a pained heart as she said to the servant standing beside her, "Meixue, go to the Wailing Home's sleeping hall and bring out the thing that Wailing Home asked you to take out in the morning."

"Yes, Majesty."

After the servant left, she quickly took out a high grade redwood box and placed it in front of Yan Yuan.

"This is what the mother gave the Wailing Home before he died. He said that he would give it to your wife after you get married, and now that you have returned to the capital, the Wailing Home will return it to you."

The empress dowager took out something from inside and handed it over to Yan Yuan. The mother she spoke of was the empress dowager's mother-in-law, Yan Yuan's biological mother, the First Empress Mother.

Liu Ruoqing stood at the side, pretending to cry. However, when she saw the thing that the empress dowager took out from the box, her eyes immediately lit up.

"heartlock."

She completely forgot what she was doing and reached out to grab the things in the empress dowager's hands, but Yan Yuan was a step faster.

"Tian Xin, you recognize this heartlock?"

The Empress Dowager had just heard her clearly pronounce this name, and there was some surprise in her eyes.

This heartlock was handed over to her by the First Empress Mother, she had always been well-preserved and had not been seen by anyone. Tian Xin was even a princess from the xieqing, how could she recognize this?

"That's right, it's because of it that I ?"

Liu Ruoqing's words, just as they reached his mouth, he realized that he had leaked his mouth, and immediately covered it with his hands.

Crap!

She knew that something was wrong, and indeed, when she saw Yan Yuan's squinted eyes looking at her from top to bottom like a searchlight.

Her calm eyes were as sharp as a knife as she mercilessly cut them open.

She felt a little guilty, and her eyes couldn't help but shift to the side.

"What happened to you because of it?"

This time, it wasn't the empress dowager who spoke, but Yan Yuan instead. He felt more and more that the Liu Tianxin in front of him wasn't as simple as he seemed.

Especially her current drifting eyes, it was obvious that she was feeling guilty.

What was this woman playing at?

Yan Yuan squinted his eyes, which carried some danger, and felt more and more goosebumps all over his body as he looked at Liu Ruoqing.

"I ?"

She tried her best to find an excuse that could be used to lie to Yan Yuan, even though the Yan Yuan in front of her didn't look easy to deceive.

"I... I mean, that's why I got married. "

"Oh?"

This point was rather novel.

The empress dowager raised an eyebrow in interest and continued, "Do you know that the Wailing Home has heartlock here?"

"This ?"

Liu Ruoqing pretended to be embarrassed and smiled slightly, then said blindly: "imperial sister-in-law, to tell you the truth, previously, Tian Xin had a dream where an old man showed him something in a dream. He said that thing was called heartlock, and the old man also told Tian Xin that Tian Xin's husband would be someone who would own a heartlock. There really is one. "

As she said that, she pretended to look at Yan Yuan bashfully, but her true focus was on the heartlock, so much that her eyes started to shine.

When the empress dowager heard her words, she didn't doubt them in the slightest. Instead, she covered her mouth and chuckled twice, with an unknown and profound meaning to her voice, "Looks like fate was preordained for Tian Xin and the Ninth Brother."

"Haha, that's right, fate ?"

Was it fated to be a calamity?

Liu Ruoqing added on in his heart, he really did not think that he would actually see a heartlock here.

This thing was the main culprit behind her teleportation here.

At that time, when she was preparing to teleport after getting the heartlock, she did not expect the heartlock to appear here.

In other words, the tombstone that she stole at that time was most likely Yan Yuan's?

The heck, did she really dig his grave?

No wonder this fellow disliked her no matter how much he looked at her.

Liu Ruoqing retorted in his heart, his entire mind preoccupied with the heartlock.

Since she had teleported here because of the heartlock, maybe she could also rely on the heartlock to teleport back as well.

Thinking about it this way, Liu Ruoqing's eyes blossomed with an even brighter light.

The story Liu Ruoqing made up could fool the empress dowager, but it wouldn't be that easy to fool Yan Yuan.

This woman was obviously after the heartlock, what other secrets was she hiding?

Yan Yuan squinted his eyes, seeing Liu Ruoqing not saying a word, his gaze seemed to become deep, causing Liu Ruoqing to feel uncomfortable.

Ever since the heartlock appeared, Liu Ruoqing had been eating in a rather absent-minded manner, and was completely focused on how to take the heartlock from Yan Yuan's hands.