They are all concubines, so of course they choose the future emperor.

Chapter 198 Letting go

Jiang Wanyue bit her lower lip, looking embarrassed, but didn't say a word.

When Li Ce saw her like this, he thought of something and waved his hand, asking the other palace servants to leave.

"Did something happen at your home?"

In Li Ce's opinion, only if something happened to the Jiang family would Wan'er be in such a difficult situation.

Jiang Wanyue quickly raised her head, glanced at Li Ce, and slowly shook her head.

"It's not home, it's..." She frowned, then relaxed her brows, and finally sighed, "It's Xiuchun."

After saying Xiuchun's name, she seemed to have finally made up her mind and continued speaking.

"Xiuchun has been hiding something recently, and I don't know whether I should question her."

Li Ce raised his eyebrows.

"She is yours, so why can't you ask her? If you are worried that she won't tell the truth, I will ask the inner guards to ask her."

The Internal Guard includes people who are good at interrogation and torture.

Jiang Wanyue seemed startled and quickly waved her hands and shook her head.

"That won't work. Xiuchun and I grew up together. How can I let her be tortured and interrogated?"

"You are just too soft-hearted." Li Ce disagreed. "Although she grew up with you, she is just a maid after all. As a maid, she must follow the rules. If you indulge her too much on weekdays, they will only get more aggressive."

As he was talking, Li Ce suddenly thought of Rong An, and his expression became a little unhappy.

But he quickly shook off these emotions.

"If you really can't make up your mind, just let her leave the palace and marry someone else. Anyway, you don't lack people to serve you. If you lose Xiuchun, I can find you Xiuxia, Xiuqiu, and Xiudong. Can't you find someone who suits your taste among all the servants in the palace?"

This was already considered extremely tolerant for Li Ce.

If there was anything unusual happening to people around him, Li Ce would directly hand them over to the inner guards, just like Rong An did before.

Li Ce said this because he subconsciously felt that Jiang Wanyue had no secrets and it would not have any impact if the people around her were released from the palace.

He didn't know what Jiang Wanyue had asked Xiuchun to do.

Jiang Wanyue looked out the window with some melancholy.

The words that Aunt Sun had said before emerged in her mind.

Perhaps, leaving the palace is the best choice for Xiuchun.

This night passed quietly.

The next morning, after Jiang Wanyue finished dealing with the palace affairs, she asked someone to invite Aunt Sun over.

"Godmother, I have thought about it carefully, and I still think what you said makes more sense."

Aunt Sun looked at her in surprise.

"You agreed to let her out of the palace? I thought you wouldn't let her go!"

Jiang Wanyue gave a bitter smile.

"Is this how I am in my godmother's eyes?"

Aunt Sun was a little embarrassed: "That's not what I meant, I just felt that you couldn't bear to part with Xiuchun."

"I can't bear to part with her, but there is no other way at the moment."

Jiang Wanyue said this in a low voice, looking melancholy.

Aunt Sun looked at her suspiciously, wondering, what happened? Are there any grudges between these two? Could it be that Xiuchun did something stupid?

Jiang Wanyue didn't say anything, but quickly adjusted her mood and asked someone to call Xiuchun over.

When Xiuchun came in, she was stunned when she saw the expressions of the two people in the room.

She stepped forward and saluted.

"My Goddess, do you want to talk to me about something? Or is it my Goddess who wants to talk to me?"

Jiang Wanyue calmed herself down and then spoke.

"Godmother wants to take you out of the palace, and I have agreed."

This simple sentence was like a bolt of thunder exploding in Xiuchun's mind.

Her face was filled with shock and confusion in her eyes, she didn't understand what was going on.

"But my lady, I never said I wanted to leave the palace!"