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The shadow shifted from the treetop to the entrance of Moon's Passage. She had obviously secretly crossed the eaves and landed in Nan Yang's eyes.

Nan Yang's mother was a small palace maid called Luanying, who had served him in the Hall of Pepper Orchids back then. Seeing that it was her duty to not give birth to the Seventh Prince in the second year of Imperial Consort, and that the palace maids within the Forbidden Palace were inexplicably pregnant, was a serious crime.

Luanying had nowhere to go, but she was also afraid. She ran to the side of an abandoned well at the back of the hall to commit suicide. She never thought that it would be such a coincidence, she just happened to be chasing after Gao Lang, and when she saw Luanying crying, she immediately ordered people to stop her.

The imperial concubine was kind, even though Luanying gritted her teeth and did not say a single word about the father of the child in her womb, the imperial concubine still kept it a secret for her.

In the second year, even the child was born. It was Nan Yang.

Even the name Nan Yang was personally bestowed to her by her highness concubine.

After Nan Yang was born, Imperial Concubine Gao had people secretly bring the mother and daughter out of the palace, and had them be handed over to Imperial Tutor Zhong to take care of them.

Tutor Zhong bought the Rainbow Garden of the west side of the city, and placed Luanying and her daughter here.

It was a pity that Luanying was short-lived, and died of the disease less than a year after living in the Rainbow Garden. Nan Yang was the only one left.

Nan Yang had followed Tutor Zhong from that period of time, and in name, he was Tutor Zhong's adopted daughter. When Tutor Zhong entered the palace to lecture the Seventh Prince, she followed and listened as well.

Gao Lang was someone who was pretending to be crazy and act like he was a little sister to Nan Yang, so the two of them had to be good.

However, there was a difference between males and females in the end. When Nan Yang turned 13 or 14 years old, it wasn't appropriate for her to stay with Seventh Prince for long, so Tutor Zhong finally settled her back into the Rainbow Garden. From then on, the entire garden was under Nan Yang's control.

When Nan Yang left, without a companion from Seventh Prince, Tutor Zhong, in order to find a trusted aide that could accompany him at all times, found a remote family member that knew her ancestral home well.

In Nan Yang's heart, she looked up to Seventh Elder in admiration. Even if Seventh Elder was still silly, he was still treated as a god.

Although he hadn't seen Lord Seven for a long time, when he thought of it, he still seemed to be reading with him. That elegant and handsome youth was also a youth that would amiably ask him if he wanted tea.

How come the first time they met, Seventh Master was cold as ice.

If everyone was treated like ice, she would also feel better. After all, Nan Yang knew that the current Seventh Elder was the real Seventh Elder.

Yet he actually treated Jin Xiaolou like this... Like this... When Nan Yang thought about that scene, her hand that was tightly clenched started to tremble.

”Seventh Elder is a prince, how honorable is that? She, Jin Xiaolou, is just a peasant girl from a remote place, how could he let Seventh Elder carry her?” Nan Yang looked at the Lin'er in Chang An's embrace and felt even more furious, ”Even I have not dared to touch Seventh Elder's sleeves since I was young. Who does she think she is? How shameless! ”

”Shut up!” Chang An rarely gets angry, and he has never gotten angry at Nan Yang before, so he was really anxious right now, ”Nan Yang, you really think too highly of yourself.

When Lin'er saw that his parents had already disappeared, he started making a ruckus in Chang An's embrace.

Chang An could only carry the Lin'er in, and turn his head to say a few words: ”Nan Yang, Seventh Elder once treated you as his little sister, and treated you well, and was kind to you, but you really can't take yourself to be Seventh Elder's little sister. Do you know?”

Finished speaking, she finally carried Lin'er into the garden.

Seeing Nan Yang standing at the doorway for a long time without moving, Wen Mei hurriedly walked over: ”Miss, don't be sad, in my opinion, that Jin Xiaolou is inferior to me, how can she be compared to Miss! It was because she had saved seventh grandfather's life that she was able to get pregnant with seventh grandfather's child. It was because of his son that seventh grandfather had to look up to him! ”

”Be quiet!” Nan Yang was so frightened that her face changed, ”You can't just casually say these words out loud! Wen Mei, I told you this back then, you keep your mouth shut. If anyone else hears half a word, you better not think about living! ”

Wen Mei's expression turned serious as she looked around: ”Don't worry miss, there's no one else here.”

”Miss.” Wen Mei held Nan Yang's hand, ”That farmer's woman, is really well-bred, she can easily grow a belly, don't worry, Seventh Elder only loves children, he will definitely not take her seriously!”

Nan Yang clenched her teeth, ”Relax? Even if you let go! ”

When she thought about how Seventh Elder and Jin Xiaolou were tightly holding hands, Nan Yang stomped her feet in anger and clenched her fists. Only after a long while did she manage to calm her emotions and walk towards the Rainbow Garden.

Jin Xiaolou sat in the Lovers Hall next to Gao Lang.

To the north of the Lovers Hall was a rock garden with a stone cave at the bottom. Thin streams of water flowed out of the cave and into the small pond.