Chapter 3 — I heard that I had a loving husband and wife, and had many children and grandchildren. He crushed the white jade bowl in his hand.

The other lady Tien was unreasonable and insisted on continuing to speak.

"Sir Tong is being polite. Lenh's love is no longer young, most of the girls of the same age in the capital are already engaged. If this continues, I'm afraid the good families will be chosen by someone else."

Parents did not speak up anymore. Waiting for the Tien family to leave, I immediately rushed out from behind the screen.

“Father, you won't really consider it, will you?”

Father looked at me, smiled, then sighed again.

"Hanh Nhi, it's not that I'm impatient. It's just that your age has come, and there are already a lot of gossips in the capital."

“What gossip?”

He hesitated for a moment.

"Some people say that you are arrogant and picky, I'm afraid you want to marry into the Eastern palace."

My face immediately became hot. Because that is truly what is in our hearts.

"It's just a popular rumor, there's no need to take it as truth." Father reached out and patted my shoulder gently. “But if you really have someone in your heart, you should bring it home soon so dad can take a look.”

I don't answer. The person in your heart? The person in my heart is the future emperor, can I really bring him back for you to see? That evening, Thanh Uyen came to choose jewelry with me. I casually asked her a question:

“What kind of person do you think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is?”

Her hand movements stopped, her eyelashes blinked twice.

“His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?”

“I just asked casually.”

She lowered her eyes, took a few breaths, and then softly replied:

"I don't know much about the matter of His Highness the Crown Prince. But a few days ago, Lady Tien brought her daughter into the imperial palace. After returning, she bragged everywhere, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince treated the young lady of the Co family next to him especially differently."

The earring in my hand fell to the table.

“What's the difference?”

"Speaking of which, while Miss Co was playing the harp, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stood in the hallway and listened to the entire piece of music. No matter how many people called, he would not leave."

A whole piece of music. In his previous life, Tieu Duc hated listening to others play the most. I worked hard to practice the pipa for half a year to play for him, but before he could even sit down for half a cup of tea, he began to recite the chapter. He said he was born without understanding the laws of music. But now, he can listen to a piece of music by Co Van Thu from beginning to end. I took back the earrings and said nothing more. On the day of the bird's nest, the sky was so blue that it looked like it had just been washed by water. I dressed in a white jade suit that I had carefully prepared in advance and led Thanh Uyen into the palace. Along the way, we met many noble ladies. Some people smiled and nodded at me, some people silently evaluated, some people leaned over and talked loudly, there were all kinds of reactions. I was not in the mood to pay attention to them, my mind was all about thinking about what to say when I met Tieu Duc later. But as soon as we entered the back garden, the first thing that caught our eye was the most undesirable thing to see. In the middle of the crowd, there was a young girl also wearing a white jade outfit. The skirt of the dress is embroidered with a sunken apricot branch pattern, and in the middle of her hair is a silk white orchid, so elegant that it looks like a person stepped out of a painting. Co Van Thu. She turned her head to look at me female. Smiling politely, as if looking at someone not too related to you. The surrounding gossip rang out almost immediately.

"This white jade orchid on Miss Co is truly beautiful, elegant and unworldly."

"Why is that young lady of the Song family wearing this color? Her face is too bold, she can't handle such a light color."

"In my opinion, she did it on purpose? Did she want to compete with Miss Co?"

"Competition? Is she worthy?"

I lowered my head and clearly saw the blue veins emerging on the back of my hand. Thanh Uyen stood next to me, her motionless hand gently holding my wrist.

“Sister, don't listen to their nonsense.”

I curled the corners of my lips slightly. It's not that I don't want to compete. But I don't even have the qualifications to compete. Only then did I suddenly remember that in my previous life, in the palace, in Co Van Thu's royal palace, there were all kinds of seasonal flowers, only white orchids were never interrupted.