CH 48

Chapter 48

(17.2)

Sheng Ling clenched her fingers tightly, “What are you stuttering about! Just say what you have to say.”

The young eunuch thought inside his mind that whether he stretched his head or shrank his head, he would still meet the same end, he couldn’t avoid it no matter what, thus he tightly closed his eyes and knelt down, “His Highness the crown prince just entered the palace in a big fit of anger and he took miss Ming Zhu away.”

Sheng Ling’s face turned blue and then white as she gritted her teeth and said, “She really had it easy.”

Having just knelt for less than an hour, her pair of knees couldn’t be crippled with just that.

The young eunuch never expected the junzhu to be so vicious, and began to stutter again as he said, “His Highness also ordered someone… ordered someone…”

“Speak clearly, he ordered someone to do what ?”

“He ordered someone to go to Xiangyang to intercept the decree granting marriage.”

As soon as the words were spoken, the surroundings fell silent and still.

Sheng Ling stared at him with wide-opened eyes as her pair of hands clutched the maidservant beside her with a deadly grip. The blood on her face vanished in an instant, leaving her complexion ghastly white. The vision before her eyes seemed to have turned black, her feet stumbled back and she collapsed after two steps. In disbelief and out of breath, she asked, “What did you say?”

The young eunuch didn’t dare tell lies, “The crown prince wants to cancel the marriage.”

Sheng Ling shook her head repeatedly, unwilling to believe it, her mouth kept mumbling, “Impossible, it’s impossible.”

What Zhao Zhi just did was, without a doubt, putting her face on the ground and then stepping on it with his foot. Such a thing like cancelling the marriage was a great humiliation to her, let alone the fact that he was doing it for such a cheap concubine?

For a moment, everyone’s eyes were turned toward her, watching her.

Sheng Ling felt humiliated by these astonished and pitying gazes. Her eyes turned instantly red, both sore and swollen, they were filled with wet glowing water, but she stubbornly raised her face and forced her tears back, “I’m going to see the Empress Dowager.”

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Ming Zhu was just feeling a little dizzy, but hadn’t really fainted from kneeling. The man’s strong smell surrounded her whole body as hands that were firmer than pincers held her firmly. His keen sharpness was exposed in its full intensity and his entire person looked a little terrifying.

Ming Zhu stayed quietly in his arms, and when she was carried inside the carriage, she instinctively curled up into the corner.

Zhao Zhi was so angry his head hurt. He rubbed the center of his eyebrows as his cold gaze glanced towards her. There was no expression on his face, “The junzhu ordered you to enter the palace and you really entered the palace, if tomorrow she orders you to die, you’ll also obediently die?”

His tone was extremely cold, it was bland and devoid of fluctuation, but it sounded a lot more terrifying than when he was usually angry.

Ming Zhu endured the stabbing pain in her knees, slightly lowering her eyes, she said softly, “She is a junzhu.”

Zhao Zhi was choked by these words, his face became even more dreadful, his five fingers were clenched into fists, the veins on his wrists were bulging, he coldly said: “I should have kept you locked up in Wangyue Pavilion.”

Ming Zhu was feeling very aggrieved, she was just thoroughly humiliated by his future wife, and now she was being lectured by him in a such a harsh manner.

She lowered her eyelashes to shield her reddening eyes and stopped talking.

Zhao Zhi was still angry and his face still taut. When he arrived in a rush, he saw her frail body half-kneeling on the ground motionlessly and she wasn’t making any sound. It seemed like she had passed out, but it looked even more like she was without breath.

“Don’t you know what type of place the palace is? And don’t you know what type of person Sheng Ling is?”

“I know, she is your crown princess.”

“I’m not talking about that.” Zhao Zhi took a deep breath and gradually calmed down, “Forget it.”

She had never been in the palace either, so he couldn’t blame her.

Today, if he was so furious, that was because, in the end, he cared and was afraid that if he had entered the palace too late, she would be gone.

The reason why Zhao Zhi agreed to marry Sheng Ling, of course there was her family status but more importantly, because she knew when to advance and retreat and had methods.

But Zhao Zhi never expected Sheng Ling would use her methods on Ming Zhu so quickly.

Ming Zhu hugged her knees and shrank in the corner of the carriage, with her head down. Her long black hair covered most of her face, and he couldn’t see the expression on her face.

Zhao Zhi’s heart softened and he sighed slightly, “Raise your head.”

Ming Zhu was unwilling.

Zhao Zhi leaned forward, his thin and strong finger bones caught her chin, forcing her to raise her small face.

Her face was soft and white, she looked both pretty and pitiful.

Zhao Zhi helplessly said, “I’ve only lectured you with two sentences, how come your eyes have already turned into those of a rabbit ?”

Ming Zhu shook her head and said, “I’m fine.”

Although she did feel very sad in her heart, she didn’t want to tell Zhao Zhi about it.

Was her status only despised by Xiangyang junzhu and those noble girls who were watching the show today ? Zhao Zhi was also the same.