After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 722 - 721: Support

Su Jin was bewildered.

Xie Jingchen whispering sweet nothings to her?

Is this a joke?!

Xie Jingchen spoke softly, but Su Jin’s voice was not low at all.

The maids around turned red in the face from hearing it.

They had never seen the Young Master so openly ask his wife to whisper pillow talk.

With the temper of the Young Master’s wife, could she really whisper pillow talk as gentle as a spring breeze?

Wasn’t the Young Master afraid that if the wind was too strong, it would blow him straight onto the wall?

The maid’s imagination ran wild, and her cheeks ached from laughing.

Su Jin was carried back into the house in a daze.

Xingxing stepped a foot in too but was pulled back by the collar by the Hidden Guard.

A maid with no sense of occasion.

But with that pull, Xingxing’s heel caught the threshold, and she lost a shoe inside.

Xingxing stood on one bare foot, kicking at the Hidden Guard.

The Hidden Guard, "..."

Inside the house.

Su Jin wiggled her feet.

Xie Jingchen put her down.

Although the Old Madam had passed away more than thirty years ago, they had just buried her.

Xie Jingchen, as the eldest legitimate grandson, although he didn’t have to observe mourning for long, had to mourn for at least one month.

Su Jin looked at him and said, "Did you take the wrong medicine?"

"The Emperor blamed me for not whispering sweet pillow talk to you," Xie Jingchen’s voice floated a bit.

"..."

The Eldest Princess sent a letter to the Empress Dowager today, asking to move back and fulfill her filial duty under the Empress Dowager’s knee, hoping for the Empress Dowager’s help to secure a good position for the Long Prince Consort in the Capital City.

The Long Prince Consort had his eyes on the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

The Emperor was a bit upset when he learned about it.

But more than that, he was angry with Xie Jingchen.

Both are Prince Consorts, look at how well the other Prince Consort whispered sweet pillow talk.

Why couldn’t he learn a bit from that?

He could talk to Su Jin about the many benefits of being titled a princess, having a fief, and another mansion...

Marquis Dongxiang wouldn’t allow the Emperor to recognize Su Jin until the investigation into Consort Yun’s death was clear.

But if Su Jin actively wanted the Emperor to decree her as a princess, that would be another matter.

Of course.

The Emperor’s words were not so obvious.

After all, a grown man being lousy at whispering sweet pillow talk is quite embarrassing.

Especially with the Prince Zhenbei Mansion holding military power, Xie Jingchen is the Princely Heir, expected to inherit his father’s position, and he is a Prince Consort with real power.

Xie Jingchen is not the type of Prince Consort who lives by depending on a princess and acts by watching a princess’s expression.

Whispering sweet pillow talk is something utterly unrelated to him.

But to Xie Jingchen, it sounded like that was the implication.

Su Jin, "..."

Always thought her father, Marquis Dongxiang, had an unusual way of thinking, seems the Emperor is no different.

Even considering going through the back door via Xie Jingchen to title her as a princess...

This definitely seems like picking the softest persimmon to pinch.

An utterly helpless look on Xie Persimmon’s face.

The Emperor wouldn’t even consider how honest Su Jin’s maid is.

If he were to help her, and later that maid told Marquis Dongxiang, he couldn’t handle the repercussions.

In any case, Xie Jingchen had already decided not to involve himself in matters between the two fathers-in-law.

He didn’t care whether Su Jin had a princess title or not.

This topic of whispering sweet pillow talk could not be discussed. What if it actually started happening?

Su Jin decisively changed the subject, "The Eldest Princess? The Empress Dowager’s biological daughter?"

Su Jin always thought the Empress Dowager had only one son, who is the current Prince Qi.

Xie Jingchen had to admit, Su Jin was indeed able to anger the Empress Dowager multiple times to the point of near faint, and yet she didn’t even know the Empress Dowager had a daughter.

Princess Duanhui is indeed the biological daughter of the Empress Dowager.

Because back then, the Flying Tiger Army was annihilated, and Daqi suffered a crushing defeat.

Daqi and Nanliang made peace by marriage, sending a princess for the alliance.

Princess Jiuling was the Emperor’s full sister, and the Emperor was unwilling to send her to an alliance marriage.

The Empress Dowager’s faction demanded peace, so the Emperor wanted Princess Duanhui to marry into Nanliang.

The Empress Dowager disagreed.

There was a fierce conflict between the Emperor and the Empress Dowager over which princess should be married off.

But at that time, the Emperor had only been on the throne for two years, and his foundation was not stable, and couldn’t do anything to the Empress Dowager.

In the end, Princess Jiuling went to marry into Nanliang.

The Emperor always felt guilty about it, and on top of that, disliked the Empress Dowager’s aggressive demands.

Especially couldn’t stand the deep mother-daughter bond between the Empress Dowager and Princess Duanhui, whereas the imperial siblings were forcibly separated.

When Princess Duanhui married, the Empress Dowager pressured the Emperor to grant her a prosperous area as a fief, and the Emperor complied, but he decreed that Princess Duanhui would move to the fief with her husband after marriage.

And in moving, she stayed there for over ten years.

Princess Duanhui wished to return to the Capital every year, but the Emperor refused under the pretext of the Empress Dowager’s good health.

The Empress Dowager’s health was indeed great, though she fell ill several times this year after encountering Su Jin.

This happened to give Princess Duanhui a reason to return to the Capital for filial duty.

There is nothing more regretful in the world than a child wanting to care for their parent, only to find the parent no longer there.

The Emperor had to attend to national affairs and couldn’t care for the Empress Dowager, so her daughter being idle in the fief, could now tend to the Empress Dowager and ease the Emperor’s worries.

Her filial piety, combined with the Empress Dowager’s indeed declining health, left the Emperor unable to refuse.

Thinking of the tense situation between Daqi and Nanliang, while Princess Jiuling was far away in Nanliang...

The Emperor felt suffocated.

After listening to Xie Jingchen’s account, Su Jin felt stifled too.

This was a rhythm of yet another enemy arriving.

...

Front courtyard, study room.

The Prince was busy handling official duties.

Though he was in mourning at home, the Old Prince was not.

All these official duties were being handled on behalf of the Old Prince.

As he was writing, a white dove flew in and landed on the pen rack.

The Prince set down his Purple Sandalwood Wolf Hair Brush, caught the dove, and took the letter from the bamboo cylinder on the dove’s ankle.

The letter was sent from Nanliang.

After reading it, joy flashed across the Prince’s face, and he called towards the door, "Have the Princely Heir come see me."

The servant standing outside quickly went to the Agarwood Pavilion with the message.

Xingxing pressed her ear to the door to listen, but heard nothing, so she knocked and said, "Young Master, the Prince wants you to go to the study room."

Inside the house.

Xie Jingchen frowned, not knowing what his father wanted him for.

"What else could it be, probably calling you for a scolding," Su Jin saw through him at a glance.

During mourning, he’d embraced her so openly, how could the Prince not scold him?

Xie Jingchen’s face darkened, "You’d be so happy to see me get scolded?"

Su Jin, "..."

Was she being that obvious?

Su Jin wore an innocent expression.

Xie Jingchen had lost his temper long ago.

He’d never seen Su Jin wishing him well.

Xie Jingchen went to the front courtyard’s study room.

He really thought the Prince had called him for a reprimand, after all, Su Jin seemed to have a divine favor, and nothing seemed not to go her way.

But this time, it was not what Su Jin had thought.

The Prince had called Xie Jingchen to assign him a mission.

Handing the letter to Xie Jingchen, the Prince said, "You are to quickly take people to meet Princess Jiuling."

Princess Jiuling is indeed the Elder Sister of the Emperor.

Relying on the escort of the Hidden Guard is not enough to ensure Princess Jiuling is safely brought back, so the Prince wants Xie Jingchen to take people along to provide support.

Xie Jingchen scrutinized the handwriting on the letter; it was indeed the handwriting of the Hidden Guard.

But with the tension between Nanliang and Daqi, and the fact that Princess Jiuling was being held far away in Nanliang...

Xie Jingchen doubts whether there’s a trick to this.