The carriage rattled across the grasslands for three days; just ahead lay the Hun River.
Yuwen Junan sprawled inside the carriage. He could not hear the waves of the river, nor did he care about the jolting of the vehicle. He was consumed by sullen resentment, wondering why Pei Yan had insisted on leaving all one hundred elite guards brought from Shangjing to Lu Qingyan.
The betrothal gifts prepared by the Ministry of Rites for the two princesses were identical. These elite guards, handpicked from Shangjing, should have been divided evenly—fifty for each princess. Why, in the end, had Pei Yan given them all to Lu Qingyan?
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