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Wei Tengfei stood in the distance and saw that the Xiaowan was smiling as he looked up at the sky. More accurately, he was looking at the roof of the Announcement Hall.

He remembered that his family's servant had said that he saw young lady mumbling to himself in front of the door. He believed that his subordinates would never run thousands of miles back to make up such an absurd lie to him.

Wei Tengfei did not doubt that there was something special about the Xiaowan, but he did not want to force her to admit it. If possible, he was also willing to protect her for his entire life.

”General, the Empress wishes to invite you to the side of the Grand Liquid Pool.” Someone from the palace came to invite Wei Tengfei. He nodded, looked at the Xiaowan again, then turned and left.

At this side, Xiaowan also left, bringing her palace maids to familiarize themselves with the Announcement Hall.

From today onwards, what she had to do everyday, was to clean the jade stage before Announcement Hall. It seemed that the Emperor had intended for her to be exposed to the crowd, so that he wouldn't give her any chance to do anything strange.

The people of the palace knew of her relationship with the empress, and were curious as to why her former guest of honor had suddenly come to be the Palace Maid, and whether or not she would change into any other identity in a few days, they were naturally very courteous to the Xiaowan.

Wei Tengfei was brought to the side of the Supreme Water Pool by the palace. The misty sky was like a fairyland, the empress was feeding her daughter the fish and the little princess was smiling happily as she looked at the colorful carp in the water.

He reached out his hand and said, ”Uncle, can I hug you?”

The baby looked at him, not sure if he understood, but he smiled and opened his hand to his uncle.

Siyan said: ”I thought you came this time to bring my sister-in-law here, yet this is the case. When the Emperor first mentioned your feelings for the Xiaowan to me, I still thought that he was being too kind. But now, it seems that the Emperor is really very wise, as nothing can escape his eyes. ”

Wei Tengfei laughed: ”So what? This is not something that can be done on one's own, I do not wish for Xiaowan to be unhappy.”

Siyan said: ”But she only needs to be your wife for a day, her happiness, anger and sadness are all her own business, it's all a man's business in the future. Even to the extent that it's a matter of the deceased Manager Ling, it has nothing to do with you.”

Wei Tengfei disapprovingly said: ”It doesn't matter to me, she is fine with it.”

Siyan said worriedly: ”Do you know that she would be willing to pay such a price?”

Wei Tengfei looked at her, and the tall man revealed a gentle gaze: ”Siyan, you can't just look at everything from my perspective, then who will stand on the side of the Xiaowan? They are the ones who are living a good life, and I want to force them on her. She is already very pitiful, very polite, and very strong.

The Empress replied, ”I am not asking for too much from the Xiaowan.”

However, Wei Tengfei said: ”Siyan, why must Xiaowan follow what we think is correct and live on?”

Siyan looked at her brother helplessly and laughed: ”But I want a sister-in-law.”

Just like this, the Xiaowan entered the palace smoothly and became a Palace Maid who cleaned the Announcement Hall. That night, when Wei Tengfei left the palace, he brought her out as well.

Ershan had already received the Emperor's title of residence, it was already considered respectable for a second in second place house like this one.

The Xiaowan brought them quite a bit of money. Originally, Ershan was not willing to take it, but the Xiaowan said: ”This is what your brother left for you to marry. Now you want to help me take Little Pei, this little guy might eat it.”

Although no one could understand why the Xiaowan wanted to enter the palace to become the Palace Maid, since things had already come to this point, they could only protect her from the side. Ershan said that from today onwards, he would have to go through Announcement Hall and perhaps, he would be able to greet Xiaowan everyday.

The Xiaowan smiled, thinking that since Hubby was able to see his little brother doing well everyday, he must be very happy.

After tonight, Xiaowan would live in the palace. The empress arranged for her to go out of the palace every ten days to reunite with her family. This was a completely different treatment from the other servants in the Palace Maid.

At night, when Xiaowan was bathing his son, the little guy pouted his lips and was unhappy. The Xiaowan coaxed him patiently and said: ”If you want to see mother, can't you come in anytime? You can come to the palace at night and share a bed with your mother if you like. ”

Little Pei teared up, and the Xiaowan felt her heart ache. She hugged the chubby little fellow in her arms and said, ”Mother, I'm sorry, but mother misses him too much. Little Pei, do you still have a thousand years to live? No matter what, I abandoned you at Second Uncle's house, so Mother will let you down. Mother won't dare to beg for your forgiveness, but you have to be happy, okay? ”

”I'm blaming myself for not being able to help my mother. I don't want you to feel sad.” Little Pei sobbed softly, ”Why are they bullying you all? Is it because Father and Mother are good people?”

The mother and son nestled against each other to comfort each other. Xiaowan talked about many things that she did not know whether it was right or wrong, Little Pei finally became happy again and played until midnight before falling asleep.

Just as the Xiaowan had said, the palace walls could not separate them. On that day, Little Pei followed his mother and ”entered the palace”, sitting on the roof of the Announcement Hall, and watched over his mother with his father.

In the blink of an eye, several days had passed and Wei Tengfei had already left the capital to return to the Chuanyu. Beforehe left, she did not go to see Xiaowan, as he did not want him to feel that she owed him.

On the Emperor's side, from time to time, there would be people from the palace reporting Mu Xiaowan's situation.

”She always looks up at the sky.” ”There's quite a few people who've seen it. Mu Xiaowan has always been looking at the sky, sometimes in a daze, sometimes muttering words. But other than that, she's also very obedient and diligent, and doesn't interact much with others.”

The emperor frowned slightly as he couldn't think of what the Xiaowan was looking at. He could only instruct, ”Continue to watch over her and don't let her do anything strange.”

In truth, others thought that the Xiaowan was always looking at the sky weirdly, but Ling Chaofeng, who was being stared at by her everyday, had already lost his patience.

It wasn't that he was angry, but rather, he was at a loss whether to laugh or to cry. This fellow would come by to greet him every morning and ask him if he was hungry. On rainy days, under umbrellas, scouring the stone steps with the other palace maids, she worried about whether the stone statue would be damaged by the rain.

Every day, every day, no matter how long it took, there was no response at all.