Chapter 654 (1/2)

Marriage? (1)

On the tenth month, Vermilion Bird Empire, Dragon City…

Within the city center, there was a cluster of very imposing buildings, probably more… wait, this looks like part of the palace.

“Longji, how are your uncle and aunt?” asked an aristocratic lady, concern in her eyes. Her question was sincere.

In this palace, there was only one girl named Longji. This girl was Princess Longji. And there were very few who could call her name like this--- this person was the empress dowager.

“They’re very well, though they have so many events to attend… You know that even if they weren’t related to us, they’d still attract a lot of attention,” said Princess Longji.

Princess Longji already owned her own territory, that was why she had her own residence within Dragon City. This time, Ye Chengtian and the rest were staying within her residence.

This was a returned favour. The last time she visited Soaring Sky, she had lived in their Ye Residence. Now that they were here, they lived at her place.

This was also because they rejected the empress dowager’s invite for them to live in the Vermilion Bird palace. Ye Chengtian and his wife felt that it was inappropriate so they refused.

Initially, they planned to look for their own place. She had been in the city so naturally, she invited them into her home.

The couple finally agreed.

They had met the empress dowager and emperor once when they arrived, though not after. That was why the empress dowager asked Princess Longji about them.

“They won’t be able to avoid those events, they’re not ordinary people…” The empress dowager smiled. She had already anticipated this.

At this point, everyone wanted to be friends with the Ye family. With their neutral attitude and Ye Lang’s peculiar position, everyone wanted to form a relationship with them.

Even if they could not merge their family with the Ye’s, at least they could form a friendly tie. Usually, the Ye family would be in Ye City so they did not have a chance like that. Now that they were here, all the Vermilion Bird palace officials and aristocrats took the chance to invite them to events.

Many people knew about Long Anqi’s identity here too, that was why they tried their very best to impress.

In the past, perhaps they would consider the empress dowager’s feelings since no one really knew what went on between Long Anqi and the empress dowager.

Now that everyone discovered the empress dowager intended to maintain contact with Long Anqi, perhaps even a good relationship, they had to get in on this.

However, even if the empress dowager did not like long Anqi, there would still be people both in broad daylight and in the dark who would want to form close ties with Long Anqi. Ye Chengtian was a powerful force.

[Auntie (Ah-Yi) = a vague term to greet any lady older than yourself]