Chapter 83 Deceiving the Transmigrated Woman

The next day.

Early in the morning, the Crown Prince led Shu Yuwan to the Kunde Palace.

Leaving Palace to the personal maid who served Empress Xiaoxian before passing, and after the Empress died, she volunteered to guard the Kunde Palace.

The Crown Prince treated this maid with great respect, “Madam Zhou, I brought the Crown Princess to see the things that Mother left.”

Shu Yuwan also politely greeted Madam Zhou, “Madam, hello.”

Madam Zhou looked at the Crown Prince with great affection, and when she saw Shu Yuwan, she was also respectful and courteous, with a warm attitude, “Very well, Your Highness bringing the Crown Princess here, Mother in heaven will surely be very pleased.”

She then opened the palace door, “Please come in.”

The Crown Prince led Shu Yuwan into the Kunde Palace.

The hall was very clean, as if someone had been living there.

The Crown Prince explained, “The Emperor often comes to visit, and even stays for a day every year.”

Upon hearing this, Shu Yuwan immediately felt embarrassed, “The Emperor still comes to stay?”

This…

Wasn’t she a bit inappropriate to come here…

The Crown Prince sensed Shu Yuwan’ thoughts and reassured her, “It’s okay, the Emperor only comes to stay for a day once a year, on the anniversary of Mother’s passing, just to remember her, and the Emperor’s belongings are not left here.”

Shu Yuwan still felt somewhat inappropriate, but her eagerness to find answers was urgent, so she didn’t pay much attention to it.

She said, “Then I won’t come next time. Since I’m already here today, let’s take a look first.”

The Crown Prince nodded.

He took Shu Yuwan to the sleeping quarters of the Empress Xiaoxian.

Shu Yuwan looked around the sleeping quarters, then turned her gaze to the bookshelf on one side of the room.

On the shelf were some books, scrolls, and antique vases below.

Shu Yuwan walked over and started looking through the books.

Surprisingly, they were some strange tales, supernatural novels.

Shu Yuwan smiled to herself. This mother-in-law she had never met before actually had the same hobbies as her, truly a coincidence.

She flipped through the books, and in some places, there were annotations. In a story about a talented man and a beautiful woman, where a wealthy woman admired the man’s talent, secretly followed him over the wall, and was later betrayed by the man, leading to an unhappy life, the Empress Dowager wrote on the side: “Love-struck brain!”

Shu Yuwan didn’t understand~

She could barely understand love, probably meaning love or admiration.

But what did “brain” mean?

What does “love-struck brain” really mean? A brain that loves and admires someone?

Shu Yuwan pointed to this annotation and asked the Crown Prince, “Your Highness, do you know what this means?”

The Crown Prince shook his head, “I don’t know either. The Mother’s scrolls, when I was young and when I missing her, I often came to read them, and there were indeed some strange descriptions.”

“Besides ‘love-struck brain,’ there are also terms like ‘Versailles,’ ‘mama’s boy,’ ‘tool man’…”

“I don’t understand either. When Mother passed away, I was only five years old, and in my memory, Mother never told me about these things. Later, I asked the Emperor, and he said that the Mother didn’t tell him either, and asked me not to ask.” The Crown Prince also seemed helpless.

As Shu Yuwan imagined this scene in her mind, she couldn’t help but smile.

She never expected that the Emperor, who appeared dignified and stern, would also be criticized by the Empress behind his back.

Shu Yuwan flipped through other travel logs and scrolls in the sleeping quarters, and indeed, as the Crown Prince said, there were many annotations she couldn’t understand.

After looking around other parts of the sleeping quarters and finding nothing unusual, she left the Kunde Palace with the Crown Prince.

Madam Zhou looked affectionately at the two, reluctantly seeing off the couple.

The Crown Prince smiled, “You see, Madam Zhou hopes you will come often.”

Shu Yuwan thought to herself: Knowing that the Emperor still comes to stay once a year, she didn’t dare to come.

Coming out of the Kunde Palace, Shu Yuwan really wanted to go see Zhao Qing Qing again, but it wasn’t appropriate to leave Palace so frequently, so she temporarily suppressed the thought.

It wasn’t until Jun Liu brought news that there was progress in the gunpowder development, and they had found a suitable fuse that could be used to throw the gunpowder packets.

The Crown Prince asked Shu Yuwan if she wanted to go see it again.

Shu Yuwan readily agreed.

On the way, they went to see Zhao Qing Qing again.

Zhao Qing Qing had been detained for so long and had passed on several messages to her guards, saying she had thought of something valuable to the Crown Prince, but both the Crown Prince and Shu Yuwan had ignored her.

Seeing Shu Yuwan come again, Zhao Qing Qing seemed very excited.

She really didn’t want to be locked up, unable to move freely; it was really uncomfortable.

And she was also afraid that if she couldn’t provide anything of interest to the Crown Prince for a long time, would she be locked up in a dark cell again, or even tortured!

“Shu Yuwan, I’ve figured it out!”

“I will also create a kind of sturdy material for making city walls. It will be several times stronger than ordinary bricks, and using this to build city walls will make it very difficult to breach.”

Zhao Qing Qing thought of cement; she had seen a simple method of making cement online, but she couldn’t remember it. She brought it up first, saying that it was difficult to make, and she would think about it slowly once she was free.

Shu Yuwan was thrilled to hear this! She was overjoyed.

But she appeared indifferent on the surface, casually saying, “Miss Zhao, after all, the Crown Prince has not ascended the throne yet. This thing doesn’t offer much help for the Crown Prince to succeed to the throne smoothly.”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing Qing’s face turned pale.

Indeed, it was temporarily useless.

Shu Yuwan still appeared indifferent, her tone light, “By the way, Miss Zhao, do you and An Shaoyu count as ‘love-struck brains’?”

Zhao Qing Qing’s pupils dilated dramatically!

She was extremely shocked!

Looking at Shu Yuwan, she saw her teasing look and faint smile, as if she had suddenly figured everything out!

“So you’re also a time traveler!! You also come from the 21st century!!”

Shu Yuwan was extremely shocked internally.

Time travel!!

The 21st century!!!

What does that mean???

She still appeared nonchalant on the surface, disdainfully saying, “Miss Zhao, what nonsense are you talking about? I, as the Crown Princess, am definitely not from the 21st century. What’s so great about the 21st century? Here, I am the noble Crown Princess!”

Zhao Qing Qing became even more convinced that Shu Yuwan was also a time traveler like her!

No wonder she could say such things to her the first time they met!

But this woman could hide it! She didn’t even notice!

“Since we all come from the 21st century and meet here, it can be considered fate. Why don’t we help each other and show our skills in this different world together!” Zhao Qing Qing sincerely suggested.

Shu Yuwan chuckled, “As I said before, I am already the Crown Princess. What use do you have for me?”

“I…”

Zhao Qing Qing tried her best to think, “In our time, information is so advanced, everyone knows different things, there must be things I know but you don’t. Isn’t that right?”

“And here, with all these ancient people, they are very backward, you don’t have any common topics with them, right? There are no cell phones or internet here. Aren’t you lonely? Keep me around, and we can still chat together.”

Shu Yuwan listened attentively, trying to remember every word Zhao Qing Qing said.

It seemed she was right; this Zhao Qing Qing was from the future!!

A very distant future!!

That world was very different from this one~

Although she was shocked, Shu Yuwan quickly accepted this fact; after all, she had been reborn, hadn’t she!