As soon as the door opened, Fu Zhen was still sitting by the bed. Bi Yu rushed in and knelt down in front of Fu Zhen with a thud.
Fu Zhen was startled by her and quickly bent down to help her up. "What's wrong? Get up and talk if there's something."
Bi Yu shook her head with tears in her eyes. "This servant has done something wrong and has no face to get up!"
Fu Zhen paused in her movement and slowly straightened up, looking at her inquiringly.
Since the incident with He Miao, Bi Yu had never made any major mistakes. Now she said she was guilty and stubbornly refused to get up. Could it be that she had really caused a big problem?
"Cu Huan, go and close the doors and windows," she instructed first, then looked at Bi Yu on the ground and asked in a deep voice, "What wrong thing have you done?"
Bi Yu bit her lip. Summoning up her courage, she held the hairpin in her hands above her head. "Miss, this is the hairpin the Second Prince asked this servant to give to you half a month ago..."
She didn't explain the whole story directly, but Fu Zhen understood it the next second.
She suddenly stood up. She was only wearing a snow - white inner garment. The blush on her face from the afternoon nap faded away at this moment. She stared directly at Bi Yu, who was lowering her head and didn't dare to meet her eyes, with an inexplicable look in her eyes. "What do you mean?"
Hiding something was either because she was greedy for money and actually stealing, or because she had the same thought as herself.
Bi Yu, Bi Yu, she'd better not be what she was thinking.
Fu Zhen took the hairpin and observed it. The peach blossoms on it looked as fresh as if they were just blooming. The swaying arc was like the branches swaying in the peach forest that day.
It was obvious what Xie Yan's intention was when he sent this hairpin.
No wonder he had been unusually close to her yesterday and even stared at her boldly in front of Chen Tingfeng.
Bi Yu loosened her hands and slumped down. She kowtowed to Fu Zhen. "This servant knows she has overstepped her bounds and deserves to die. Miss, if you want to beat, scold or even drive this servant away, this servant will accept it! But there are some things this servant must say!"
She looked up. Her eyes were red but she stared at Fu Zhen stubbornly. "Miss Huan Yun is a lesson from the past! If Miss accepts this hairpin, it means you have had a private exchange with the Second Prince. But the Second Prince is from the royal family. He represents not only himself but also the royal family! The methods in the palace are so treacherous. Miss... with your family background, even if you and the Second Prince have feelings for each other, can you be sure that the Second Prince will definitely marry you as his main wife?"
Bi Yu said these words with the determination to die. Cu Huan saw Fu Zhen's expression getting colder and colder. Her heart skipped a beat and she immediately knelt down beside Bi Yu. She looked anxious but hesitated to speak and finally said nothing.
The room was deathly silent.
Fu Zhen had a cold face, making it hard to tell what she was thinking. The two people kneeling on the ground gradually broke out in a sweat on their foreheads, and their backs were also soaked with cold sweat.
After a long while, Fu Zhen finally said, "So, you did this for my own good?"
"Yes!" Bi Yu closed her eyes and said recklessly, "This servant doesn't want Miss to end up like Miss Huan Yun!"
Fu Zhen looked at her quietly for a while, then softened her expression. She bent down to help her up and said softly, "Okay, I understand what you mean."
Bi Yu was stunned. Tears were still hanging on the corners of her eyes. A glimmer of hope appeared in her eyes. "Miss, have you changed your mind?"
But Fu Zhen looked down at the hairpin in her hand. Suddenly, she let out a soft laugh and tightly grabbed it. "No."
She was not Chen Huanyun. Chen Huanyun ended up like that because she was stupid. She misjudged the situation and was too impatient. She rashly gave her virginity to the other person.
She also understood that if she didn't try to get close to the Second Prince, her only fate would be to marry an unknown person and live a mediocre life.
But if that was the case, why did she have to be reborn? How could she be willing?
She was supposed to be a noble lady in the capital. She was supposed to marry the best man in the world with the power of the Marquis Mansion!
Moreover, the Second Prince might not have no feelings for her. So what if his feelings were weak for now? Feelings could always be cultivated. She still had time, didn't she?
Furthermore, if a man truly loved a woman, he would always find a way to clear all the obstacles for her and let her enter his family in a proper and glorious way!
"Miss!" Bi Yu shouted sharply, but Cu Huan quickly covered her mouth. "Bi Yu! If you want to go crazy, go somewhere else. Don't forget this is in front of the master. You're not allowed to be so presumptuous!"
Although Cu Huan seemed to be scolding her, in fact, she was protecting her.
Fu Zhen sighed and stepped forward to help Bi Yu up. She looked directly into her eyes. "Bi Yu, you should understand that I'm nothing like Chen Huanyun. Do you think I'm as stupid as her in your eyes?"
"No, Miss is of course smarter than her," Bi Yu explained hurriedly. "But, but..."
"But you think what I'm doing now is exactly the same as what she did before, right?" Fu Zhen said slowly. Seeing Bi Yu staring blankly at her, she said helplessly, "Where is it the same? Have I ever met him privately? Have I ever lost my head and given myself to him?"
"No, I won't do any of these things," Fu Zhen lowered her eyes and gently stroked the petals on the silver hairpin. "I have neither corresponded with Xie Yan nor met him privately. Even if some things were given, if it ever comes to light one day, who would know it was from me?"
"Could it be that as a prince, he is really so stupid that he would let an unfounded person enter his room and find these things to frame him? And what impact would these things have on him? At most, it can only show that he is amorous. But isn't his reputation already bad enough?"
"Bi Yu, I've thought about all these things you said," Fu Zhen said softly.
Since she decided to try to get close to this powerful person, she had thought about all the consequences. The worst result would be the same as in her previous life, ending up in a miserable death.
Once is strange, twice is familiar. This time, she would die as quickly as possible before the pain became too much.
She was amused by this thought and her expression softened. She said to Bi Yu, "I know you mean well and you're thinking about me, but Bi Yu, sometimes, your good intentions can lead to bad results."
Bi Yu was stunned, but then she heard Fu Zhen say to her, "With my family background, no family in the capital would look favorably on me."
"But I'm not willing," she said word by word. For the first time, she showed her ambition in front of these two maids. "If I'm forced to marry an unknown person and spend my whole life taking care of him mediocrely, I would never be willing even if I died."
"Since I have to get married anyway, why can't I take a chance and strive for this one - in - a - million possibility?" Bi Yu was shocked by her words and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time. Then she heard her say, "I'll be very careful and plan every step. I won't repeat the same mistakes."
The two maids thought she meant she wouldn't repeat Chen Huanyun's mistakes. Only Fu Zhen knew that she meant she wouldn't repeat the mistakes of her previous life.
She would be more secretive and passive than in her previous life, making the other person gradually fall in love with her, toss and turn for her, and rack his brains to get closer to her, just to make her smile.