Regardless of whether there are any conflicts inside, they are the same kind of people in the big picture. If Shen Xihe takes the initiative to damage the interests of her in-laws without any reasonable reasons, isn't she afraid that those who follow her will be afraid and on guard
Moreover, she is about to marry into the Eastern Palace and will represent the Eastern Palace in the future. By acting in this way, isn't she afraid of being suspected by others or causing the Eastern Palace to be alienated
Although he had not had much contact with Shen Xihe, he could see that Shen Xihe was calm and intelligent, and definitely not such a rash person. Moreover, she was a loner and did not like to make close friends with others. Such people did not like to be implicated by others, nor did they like to implicate others.
This move would affect the prestige of the Eastern Palace and was not something Shen Xihe should do. Why did she throw all of this aside
This was a very sensitive time. She should have taken action at this moment instead of earlier. How could Xue Qi suddenly offend her
Shen Xihe is a person who never takes the initiative to harm others. If Xue Qi had not violated her taboo, why would she suddenly ignore the relationship between the two families and deal with Xue Qi directly
So what taboo did Xue Qi violate
His intuition told him that it might be related to the Gu family, but his reason told him that this intuition was absurd and ridiculous.
Shen Xihe was such a cold person, she had no relationship with the Gu family, and he said she was doing it for justice. He was not belittling Shen Xihe, on the contrary he admired and praised Shen Xihe, a girl who was as big as a boy and wanted to use the prince to rule the world would not have such an impulse and ridiculous sense of justice.
People like them who are born extraordinary have cold hearts. Apart from those who recognize them, the life or death of others, whether they are wronged or not, has nothing to do with them. If this matter was not about the Gu family, he would have turned a blind eye to it if it was someone else's death.
With suspicion in his heart, Xiao Changqing left the palace, rode out of the city, went to a temple, and went up the mountain from the back door of the temple. There was a secluded manor on the mountain. The manor had a quiet and elegant courtyard with clusters of hydrangeas in full bloom.
He pushed open the door of the courtyard, and saw a slender figure standing silently in front of the hydrangea tree. The sound of the door opening startled her. She turned around and smiled sweetly when she saw him. She was wearing a jade-colored skirt and a green shawl, and she was elegant and charming.
Her black hair was piled up in a bun, with hair hanging down in front of her forehead; there was a red dot between her eyebrows, and her cheeks were rosy when she smiled.
"Brother-in-law." The girl walked up to Xiao Changqing and called him softly.
This person is not someone else, but the only surviving bloodline of the Gu family, Gu Qingzhi’s half sister—Gu Qingshu.
He lost his mother at a young age and was raised by Madam Gu until he was seven years old. He grew up with Gu Qingzhi and was the only relative that Gu Qingzhi treated differently.
That day he noticed His Majesty's intention and had already begun to arrange a substitution. He took over the execution for convenience. He could replace Gu Zhao, but Gu Zhao was unwilling to cooperate with him, and thus missed the best opportunity to rescue Gu Qingshu.
The Gu family was rehabilitated, but it was a serious crime for him to replace the death row prisoners privately when he was supervising the execution, and Gu Qingzhi could not be exposed to the world first. Xiao Changqing did not intend to let her hide like this for the rest of her life. He originally planned to select one or two down-to-earth people in this spring examination, choose a good marriage for Gu Qingshu, let her marry far away, leave Kyoto, no one would know her, then she would have a broad mind and no worries.
Something went wrong in the Spring Examination and the matter was left unresolved. Gu Qingshu was already sixteen years old and he couldn't delay any longer.