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The empress dowager also didn't give Nangong Waner a seat, so there was no other way. Nangong Waner could only hold in the spasms of his legs and stand quietly at the side as he answered.

On the other hand, the empress dowager waved towards Qin Ruxue with a smile. Qin Ruxue immediately sat next to the empress dowager with great joy and played around with her arms.

Nangong Waner could not tell which act he was playing, and neither could he see nor feel suspicious. He just stood at the side, looking at his own nose and heart.

The empress dowager and Qin Ruxue acted out a show of love for a while, and only then did the empress dowager remember that there was still a Nangong Waner standing by her side. The empress dowager held Qin Ruxue's arm and asked Nangong Waner, ”I heard that your father is a Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Government, and was accepted as an official by the imperial court during the imperial examinations.

”Reporting to the empress dowager, my father came from a poor family in Jincheng County, and my grandmother had lost her husband in the early years, while my father worked hard to help him study. My father was very diligent in his studies, and he obtained a high ranking in the imperial palace. Nangong Waner's answer was filled with authority, neither servile nor overbearing. For a moment, the empress dowager couldn't find any place to tease her.

The emperor, who was playing chess, was suddenly brought up and couldn't help but look at Nangong Waner. He saw that Nangong Waner had the bearing of a heavenly genius, comparable to Qin Ruxue, who was known as the number one beauty in Shangjing City. Looking at Nangong Waner's demeanor today, he was also incomparably gorgeous. When faced with the empress dowager's interrogation, his expression was clear and indifferent, without the slightest hint of fear.

The emperor couldn't help but look at Prince Zhan. He was truly curious, Prince Zhan seemed to be … Smiling?

As if noticing that the emperor was looking at him, the Prince Zhan looked up at the emperor and said one word to him.

The emperor thought he was seeing things. The Emperor was wondering, what kind of bestowal?

Seeing that the emperor had not spoken for a long time, the Prince Zhan looked at the emperor with a cold face. The emperor only felt a cold light shooting over, and his own face was frozen solid. Miss Nangong has been standing there for so long, you should be tired.

The empress dowager's expression did not change, but she still ordered someone to give a seat to Nangong Waner.

Nangong Waner felt that the moment he sat down, he felt as if he had been reborn, ”I'm finally alive, I'm alive”.

”Xue'er, I heard that your aunt was playing a good zither. The Emperor and Prince Zhan are playing chess right now. Xue'er, play a song for the Emperor and Prince Zhan.” The empress dowager looked at Qin Ruxue lovingly, and patted the back of her hand where she was holding Qin Ruxue's hand.

Aunt, Ru Xue heard that Miss Nangong is extremely talented, and now that she is learning under him, Ru Xue really wants to see his grace. How about we let Miss Nangong play a song first? Qin Ruxue sat there and slightly tilted his face to look at Nangong Waner, smiling in an extremely gentle and generous manner.

Nangong Waner's face revealed a smile, but in his heart, he had already paid respects to Qin Ruxue's eighteen generations of ancestors, ”If that's the case, Wan Er will be making a fool of himself.”

Back then, when he had just taken the Elder Xiu as his master, the Elder Xiu had insisted that Nangong Waner was a talented girl, that he had to learn all kinds of Zither, Chess, and Painting, and that the teaching methods of the Elder Xiu were very strange, that each field was dedicated to one work. Thus, Nangong Waner practiced a zither song for three whole days.