When Ah Man and her cousin arrived at the palace gate, the envoys from Bei'an had already entered the palace gate.
“Cousin, we are late.”
Ah Man leaned against the horse's head, staring at the closed palace gate, her face full of frustration.
"A'man, we have tried our best. She and I are destined not to be together." The disappointment on her cousin's face was even greater than A'man's, because her lover had already met the emperor of the Great Zhou as a princess. The matter was a foregone conclusion and there was no turning back.
"If we are not destined to be together, you won't even meet." Ah Man couldn't stand seeing her cousin's dejected look, and spoke with a bit of annoyance.
"Chu Nanfeng, you backed down because of this little difficulty. You deserve not to marry the Imperial Sister Jinxiu."
While speaking, Ah Man began to look around. She wanted to enter the palace. Only by entering the palace could she change the established facts.
"A'man, don't do anything rash. This is the imperial palace of the Great Zhou." Chu Nanfeng of course knew what his cousin was planning and hurried to dissuade her.
Although he was weak, he understood that he could not allow the princess to climb the palace walls of another country.
"I just want to take a look, I don't want to climb." Ah Man said angrily and continued searching. She didn't believe that there was not even a single hole in the palace wall of the Great Zhou.
However, the result still disappointed Ah Man. She circled the Great Zhou Palace half a circle but did not find any loopholes.
Ah Man was shocked. Compared with the heavily guarded palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty, their palace in Bei'an had so many loopholes that it could be used as a sieve.
Looking at the sun setting in the west, Ah Man felt that he might not be able to help his cousin.
"A'man, stop looking. The guards of the Great Zhou Palace were personally arranged by the regent King Qingtian of the Great Zhou for the comfort of the Empress Dowager. There can't be any loopholes." Chu Nanfeng finally couldn't help but remind her.
"Cousin, I..."
"What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet a girl here."
A gentle voice suddenly sounded in their ears. Ah Man and Chu Nanfeng couldn't help but look back. Not far behind them stood a young man in white brocade clothes.
The boy had a fair complexion, a high nose bridge, and a pair of bright black eyes that looked at the person in front of him with warmth.
"Who are you? We don't know each other."
The young man in front of him gave Ah Man a sense of déjà vu, but after searching his mind, he couldn't remember who he was.
"My lady, are you pretending not to know your husband because you abandoned me?"
"Who are you... , is it you? Is your leg healed?"
The word "madam" successfully evoked Ah Man's memories. She looked at the man in front of her in surprise. He had a handsome face and was completely different from the dirty-faced blockhead at the mass grave.
"What are you doing here? You want money? Not only do you not appreciate my life-saving grace, but you are also blackmailing me."
Ah Man instinctively thought of the time when they parted and this man shamelessly called her "wife" and asked her to leave some money for him.
"I'll repay you for saving my life, okay?"
The young man looked at Ah Man's ferocious appearance and asked with a smile.
"You were thrown into a mass grave, and you're still repaying me?"
It must be said that the boy's words reduced Ah Man's hostility a lot, but she still didn't believe that a boy who couldn't even protect himself could help her enter the palace of the Great Zhou.
"Yes. I can take you to the palace."
The young man spoke slowly, and when he looked at the girl, his eyes were full of warmth.
"Just brag if you want."
"There is a dog hole in that corner." The young man moved his legs with difficulty, walked to Ah Man, and said in her ear.
His words were warm, and when they fell into Ah Man's ears, they made people's hearts tremble for some reason.
"No other choice?"
A princess of a country crawling through a dog hole? Ah Man still hoped that this was not the only option.
"have."
Ah Man stared at the young man with his star-like eyes. The light of hope was like dazzling pearls.
"The main entrance, break in."
The young man answered in all seriousness, shattering Ah Man's hopes into dust in an instant.
(End of this chapter)