23 Angering Him 3

"Oh?" His eyes gleamed with interest.

Hongyue rolled her eyes. If this sort of poison could kill her, would she even dare to eat it in the first place? She felt her toes gradually begin to numb as the poison took effect. Both her leg muscles spasmed violently, forcing her to collapse on the ground. She lamented sadly while she laid paralyzed. While it couldn't kill her, this body absolutely couldn't handle the pain.

Nonetheless, to reach her goals, she was willing to use anything or anyone; even herself. She has underestimated the dosage of the poison. Hongyue knew her second sister must have been prompted by someone to get rid of her quickly. How stupid was this ChunHua? First, she was to be used by someone else and now by Hongyue, herself. Since the mastermind wanted to see her dead, Hongyue will gladly take the bait, only will that pathetic father of this body be willing to let her die in front of a prince? It seemed as he was here to protect her, after all, she was supposed to be marrying into the royal family. It looks like she still had some value. She tsked before she shifted back with a great effort to face the prince. Throughout the entire process, he didn't even appear to be concerned. That was as if he had witnessed scenes worse than this before. What a cold man, she thought.

"You saved me once before, whether it was for your own profit or not, I still want to thank you. I never got your name. I'll compensate you back in the future."

"If you tell me how you controlled your sister's hand and the teapot, I'll gladly tell you."

Oh~

So he noticed.

She smirked coldly.

"Now that I think about it. A name is just a title used to greet a person. Ah, I know. On the account, you snuck into my room while I was unconscious and dying, I'll just call you stone-faced pervert."

The Third Prince's hazel eyes darkened. Although he did sneak into her room while she was unconscious, it was merely because he was interested in her strange powers. How did he get rewarded with the title of a pervert? He fiddled with a nearby teacup nonchalantly as he slowly inquired.

"Last time I checked, your mother was from a clan that focused on martial arts that could null other magic users' attacks. You were 'normal' trash for 10 years since you lost your powers at age 4 to 6. Your personality change is also strangely alarming..."

He glanced up to meet her eyes.

"...so who are you?"

Hongyue laughed dryly.

"Who do you think I am?" She eyed him charmingly, "No, rather I should ask who do you want me to be?"

Seeing that he didn't answer, she continued.

"Tsk, you overlooked that I was also poisoned for those 10 years. Seeing how you know so much, you wouldn't lack this important detail in your reports, would you? I'm just simply a waste who can't produce magic. I was even rejected by the God of Death. After that, well, poison can do crazy things to the mind. If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself."

He didn't speak for a while. However, his fingers tapped restlessly on the stone table.

"Jiayi."

A moment passed before he repeated himself.

"Jiayi."

Hongyue peered at him dully.

"About that, see I like the name I chose better. Stone-faced pervert suits you perfectly."

Jiayi quickly felt his mood plummet.

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The general immediately raced back. He had knocked out both of his daughters to prevent further damage. He couldn't spare any time to question them, he needed to get back to the prince, so he directed the servant girls to send them back into their rooms. He arrived back just in time to see Hongyue laying limply on the ground as though she was dead. He instantly rushed over and grabbed her to examine her body. Even if he actually wanted her dead, this wasn't the right time for it.

His eyes quickly spotted the item she held in her hand. He snatched away the bun and sniffed it. He gaped at the prince in shock.

"Poison."

Jiayi frowned at him, then resumed to fiddling with his teacup.

"She's poisoned."

"This prince wanted to say that be you seem to have beaten me to it." Jiayi finally drawled out.

General Wei stared at the Third Prince in disbelief. "You knew?"

"I may be a prince, but I'm not stupid. Of course, I knew."

General Wei stuttered. "W-why d-did-"

The prince eventually looked up with contempt," Why didn't I stop her? Tsk, I'm a prince. She's your daughter. I'm not her babysitter. I'm just here to supervise how you treat the future princess, not help you. She was hungry. Since you didn't feed her at all; she ate something from the ground; thus she's poisoned."

General Wei stood there, frozen in a state of shock.

"Why aren't you getting the doctor for her? Why hasn't the doctor gotten here yet? Are you disobeying my royal father? You fools aren't caring for Hongyue at all! She's going to die at this rate. This lack of respect must be reported to my father." Jiayi jeered all while lazily fanning himself.

General Wei felt a faint taste of blood coming up his throat. He almost threw up blood from hearing this prince speak. Weren't you the one with her and allowed her to consume the poison? How did it become his fault? What was this change in attitude? He clearly saw the prince acting all protective over Hongyue before but now what was this?!! However, this was the usual cold Third Prince he knew. The general could only dazedly force the doctor to walk faster.