CH 112

Chapter 112: Weilan’s End Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.

The hunt ended early and the reason was self-evident.

On the way back, Shen Zhonghua was probably worried about Qiqi’s safety so he rode on a horse and kept talking with her older brothers under the guise of chatting, but he was actually guarding Qiqi’s carriage.

Qiqi naturally knew it and several of her older brothers also saw it. Especially old six. After this time of contact, he was quite satisfied with this Prince Xuan.

After returning home, the emperor announced a decree to the world and let Princess Anning choose a day to marry Ge Shuhan.

The peace marriage’s candidate was Anning. Princess Weilan finally put down her heart.

* * * *

Before long, it was Prince Rong and Cui Yanran’s marriage. The Emperor and Imperial Concubine Chen were the hosts. The emperor had always liked his son Shen Zhongming very much. He was obedient and well-behaved. He didn’t fight or snatch. It was also said that this son was the most worry-free among his sons.

At that time Qiqi was talking and laughing with the nineteenth princess, and Shen Zhonghua was standing not far away from her. Qiqi looked at him from time to time and shyly averted it.

That day, the emperor looked at Shen Zhonghua and suddenly said to him: “Your brother is married, you have to hurry up.” He also asked Shen Zhonghua with a smile: “Is there any young lady you like?”

Later, the nineteenth princess told Qiqi what Imperial Concubine Chen told her afterward. On that day, the emperor was like Princess Guantao, reaching out and pointing to several unmarried noble girls waiting for marriage at the wedding banquet and asking Shen Zhonghua: “Do you like any of them?”

After pointing several times, Shen Zhonghua just shook his head and thanked His Majesty for his grace, but when the emperor pointed to Qiqi, the nineteenth princess said to her: “Older brother smiled, he smiled very softly.”

It was just, these were future words.

* * * *

News that the emperor wanted to refer marriage to Prince Xuan soon spread. Now Prince Xuan was gaining power, not to mention his handsome appearance, he had attracted the admiration of noble daughters in the city and also their families and they all wanted to marry their daughter to Shen Zhonghua.

There was a rumor in the palace that His Majesty’s meaning was: which girl Shen Zhonghua liked, he would refer to that girl.

Princess Weilan thought this was a good opportunity. She had admired Shen Zhonghua for so long. Now the emperor was worried about his marriage. If there was no accident, she would marry Shen Zhonghua with her own identity, appearance, and talents. She would be Princess Xuan and then the Empress......

Thinking of this, Princess Weilan started to seduce Shen Zhonghua intentionally and showed him her good.

The other noble daughters were more or less the same.

Strangely, Shen Zhonghua did not refuse.

To be precise, Shen Zhonghua just didn’t reject Princess Weilan. He was indifferent to everyone, but it wasn’t the same for Princess Weilan. Princess Weilan invited him to enjoy flowers, roam the lake, make wine and drink tea, he went to all one by one. Princess Weilan sent him her embroidered handkerchiefs, and shoes, and he accepted all but ignored others.

Liu Yue didn’t understand what was the meaning of that and said: “Didn’t wangye want to be with Miss Su...... why is it with Princess Weilan?”

Leng Xing took a sip of wine, smiled gently, and said to Liu Yue: “Don’t you know what is called courting death?”

That was called courting death.

As expected.

Shen Zhonghua’s different treatment of Princess Weilan not only made her arrogant temperament become more arrogant but also caused others’ jealousy. Soon after, there was news that Princess Weilan was missing......

The whole city was under martial law. Princess Weilan wasn’t found until seven days later......

There was a child playing around and he accidentally bumped into the paper lanterns piled up in the middle of the street......

It was there on that busy street where people came and went, they found the unclothed Princess Weilan......

Naturally, this matter was done by another noble family’s daughter, and of course, Princess Anning and her father were also involved.

It was the so-called grievance report......

The chastity of a woman was especially important. What was more, Princess Weilan was abducted for seven days. Furthermore, when she was discovered, she was naked. What happened during that time? For a while, it became a leisure talk after dinner time.

Rumors were all over the place.

Even if Princess Weilan refused to admit it and she was still innocent, who would believe it?

Gossip was a fearful thing. Everyone said she had lost her innocence.

It was naturally impossible for such a woman to be a Wangfei.

Therefore, in the end, no one thought that Princess Weilan, who had an outstanding appearance and had always had eyes higher than others, actually married an honest scholar. But one heard that during the wedding night she didn’t fall red......

So rumors sometimes weren’t just rumors. The days when she was abducted were indeed like rumors. She let men take turns playing with her.

Later, the honest scholar wasn’t honest anymore. Thinking that she was dirty, he accepted a little concubine and only favored the little concubine. And because Weilan’s body was injured when she was abducted, she was never pregnant with a child and had a miserable marriage......

With that being said, Shen Zhonghua had helped Qiqi out of trouble many times before, all of which were lone men and women. However, considering Qiqi’s reputation, he thought of ways to find other women to be the “fake evidence” so as to keep her reputation and protect the Su family’s reputation. But now Bai Jue was very close to Qiqi. Shen Zhonghua admitted he was jealous.

Yes, he was jealous.

He thought he couldn’t wait to make steady progress anymore......