After transmigrating into the villain's daughter, I lie down and win

The candidate for the Crown Princess has not been decided yet, but Jin Yan, the sister-in-law, has moved into the Crown Prince's Palace first.

Zhang An accompanied her for a walk in the palace, and finally found her second brother and cousin to discuss things with the prince. Knowing that they were all busy, Jin Yan found a pavilion to read alone. As she read, she felt sleepy and fell asleep.

As the sky gradually darkened, the prince and his two companions came out after discussing important matters, only then did they learn that Jin Yan had come to see them.

In the pavilion by the lake, the curtains around the pavilion had been let down at some point, swaying gently in the breeze. Jin Yan fell asleep leaning against the railing, wearing a thin but soft cloak.

"Your Highness."

Seeing the three people, Zhang An lowered his head slightly and greeted them in a low voice.

The prince signaled for everyone to be quiet, and then used his eyes to ask Zhang An how long Jin Yan had been sleeping.

Zhang An whispered, "Half an hour."

The prince frowned slightly, his face darkening, but he didn't say anything.

But everyone knew that it had already been half an hour. If they let Jin Yan sleep like this, what if he caught a cold?
Zhang An did not argue.

Even though Jin Yan warned him not to disturb the prince and his companions when they were talking.

The prince stepped forward and picked up Jin Yan along with his cloak. His movements were gentle, and Jin Yan was so sleepy that he did not wake up for a while.

Xiao Quji asked him, "Where are you going back to?"

Mother's side, or Yan'er's own palace?

The prince said without hesitation: "Just stay here."

After saying that, he gave Zhang An a look, meaning that Zhang An should go back to Princess Jinyang first, and he would go there in person later.

After Zhang An left, the prince sent Jin Yan back to her room and asked the imperial physician to check on her to make sure she was fine before he felt relieved.

"You're just going to fall asleep like this, and you won't wake me up to have dinner before going back to sleep?"

Zhong Xing asked.

The prince had someone carefully serve her in the palace, and the three of them left. He said, "She is busy for several days or half a month without rest. When she is very tired, she will fall asleep and don't want to get up. If you wake her up in the middle of the night, she will be angry."

Xiao Quji was dissatisfied with this and argued: "Yan'er won't be angry. She knows she should be sad when her elder brother said that."

The prince immediately said, "It's my fault."

Zhong Xing burst out laughing.

The two brothers looked at him at the same time, with unfriendly eyes, as if asking him what he was laughing at and what was so funny.

Zhong Xing coughed lightly, "Even if Yan'er is angry, it's because you spoiled him!"

Xiao Quji snorted coldly, "Cousin, don't you feel guilty for saying this? You speak as if you have never spoiled her. When we were hostages, Grandfather strictly forbade Yan'er to worry about state affairs, but you always secretly communicated with her and carried out her orders in secret."

Zhong Xing: “…”

The prince also said, "As for the things that happened in the family in recent months, how many of your little actions were Yan'er's ideas? Do you want me to point them out one by one?"

Zhong Xing: “…”

So everyone knows this?

He knew he was in the wrong and that he couldn't win against these two people alone, so he gave up arguing.

After a pause, he suddenly asked, "What do you think of Yan'er wanting to return to the North?"

The prince paused.

Xiao Quji also looked at him in surprise.

Going to the North?
Seeing the two people's reactions, Zhong Xing thought to himself, this is not good. Could he be the only one who knows about this?
He tried to leave in a hurry, but was stopped by the two brothers.

"What are you going back to the North for?" "Revisiting the old place or governing the fiefdom?"

They were unaware of what even their cousin knew, and they didn't notice any clues.

Zhong Xing glanced towards the hall with a guilty conscience and whispered, "Please keep your voices down, the two of you. Yan'er didn't say it clearly. I just guessed her thoughts from her governance plan for the North. I don't know what it is exactly."

But the fact that he said this was enough to prove Jin Yan's heart.

The prince hesitated and said nothing.

Xiao Quji also frowned.

After a while, Xiao Quji snorted coldly, "It seems that Wang Wu is still too kind. He shouldn't let those people go so easily."

Prince: “It’s not enough.”

What is not enough, what is kind?
Zhong Xing thought for a moment before realizing that the two were talking about the things that happened at the beginning of his accession to the throne. Obviously, they thought that Jin Yan didn't tell them such an important thing because he was hurt by the rumors and slander, and had a rift with them.

Zhong Xing didn’t know whether the noble family was wronged or not, but he knew that Jin Yan was wronged.

He said quickly, "Don't be jealous. I know a lot, not because Xiao Yan'er is closest to me. Aren't you three brothers the ones she trusts closest to? It's just that I do a lot of work for her and we spend more time together, so I can see some clues."

The prince glanced at him and said in a lukewarm tone, "Cousin, there is no need to be so modest. In Yan'er's heart, you are her biological brother just like us."

But the premise of this statement is that he agrees with Zhong Xing's words and assumes that he is the brother his sister is closest to and trusts the most.

Zhong Xing: “…”

It’s impossible to say no to the relationship, and it’s impossible to say close to him. How come his temper has become so unpleasant after he became the crown prince?
Then Xiao Quji said, "If Yan'er heard what my cousin said, she would be very sad."

Zhong Xing: “…”

Is this considered showing off?
Or is she hypocritically comforting him like the prince?
Ah.

They are indeed brothers, equally bad!

He looked sarcastic, but the prince ignored him and said, "No matter what Yan'er thinks, you should pretend you don't know about it, and don't show any support for her in front of her, otherwise not only me, but also my father, mother, and even my great-grandfather who is far away in the north will come to talk to you in person."

After my father ascended the throne, my eldest grandfather was named the emperor emeritus, but he claimed that he was just a military man and the battlefield was his world, so he led a large army to garrison in the north to guard this hard-won territory and world peace.

Chang'an is not a good memory for my grandfather, but he will not come back once he leaves. He still has time to come back and fight someone!
Zhong Xing: “…”

There were so many times of silence that day that Zhong Xing finally began to wonder if he was born mute.

……

Just as the prince said, Jin Yan slept till the next day and woke up at noon.

After having lunch with her family, thinking about those alchemists in the mansion who would blow up the house at any time, Jin Yan felt that if she didn't go back, the princess's mansion might be razed to the ground by those people, and then she really wouldn't be able to find where the door was.

When leaving the palace, he met Wang Wu again.

After finishing the case, he came back and went to the palace to report to the emperor. When he left the palace, he saw the eldest princess's carriage and went with her.

Jin Yan: "I heard that the Marquis solved another old case and caught the murderer who had been on the run for more than ten years. The people all praised the Marquis as a great and honest judge."

Wang Wu had naturally heard of this title before, but he was not arrogant. Instead, he said, "I don't deserve such praise from Your Highness. I just did my part."

Jin Yan said: "If everyone in the officialdom was like the Marquis, and just did their own 'job', there wouldn't be so many unjust, false and wrong cases in the world, and there wouldn't be so many people who were dissatisfied."

Hearing the deep emotion in her words, Wang Wu immediately said: "Everyone has their own aspirations. Your Highness does not need to feel sorry for this, but Wang Wu can swear here that as long as I am an official, I will not let such a thing happen before my eyes."

He would clean up the bureaucracy and make those greedy, ambitious and bloodthirsty beasts tremble with fear and lose their souls when they heard his name, so that they would have to pretend to be human beings all their lives.

If that doesn't work, then kill them all. (End of this chapter)