After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince

Ming Zhu turned her back to him and closed her eyes, ready to sleep.

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Zhao Zhi hugged her from behind, ” Are you already sleepy?”

 

She and he hadn’t been intimate for some nights now, and Ming Zhu had a vague foreboding feeling.
Her back stiffened, slightly nervous, “Mmh.”

 

Zhao Zhi suddenly grabbed her shoulder and made her turn around to face him, his fingers slowly descended from her hair to her lower back as his chilly breath brushed against the nape of her neck.

 

 

 

Chapter 34

(12.3)

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Ming Zhu refused in a gentle voice, “It’s not practical to make the medicine at home.”

A few simple words completely extinguished Zhao Zhi’s enthusiasm.
His eyes gradually cooled, clenching his fingers until they turned white, he said stiffly, “Rest then.”

Ming Zhu had a good night’s sleep, however Zhao Zhi wasn’t in such a good mood the next day.

Before entering the palace, Zhao Zhi couldn’t help but ask Zhang Hui: ” Tell me, is it that she is sad or angry?”

Zhang Hui’s puzzlement could be seen in his eyes, “Your Highness, you’re talking about…?”

Zhao Zhi closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows, “It’s nothing.”

It was probably both.

He hadn’t intended to let her know who he was going to marry, if one cut open Zhao Zhi’s heart, he would find out it was really a little black.
At first, when Ming Zhu was forced to be with him, she was indeed both unwilling, by thirty percent, and unloving, by seventy percent.

Zhao Zhi himself knew that he had some charms, apart from the fact that he didn’t allow her to see outsiders, on every other aspects, he was treating her very well already.
She also wasn’t able conceal her feelings or lie, and adoration very soon overflowed from her eyes.

So, was that jealousy last night?

A jealous girl, he really had never coaxed any.

After the end of the morning court, An Ning wangshizi was walking down the jade-like white stone steps, side by side with Zhao Zhi.
As they were halfway down, he couldn’t help himself: “Taizi, the jade crown you’re wearing today is really a bit shabby.”

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(TL’s note : wangshizi is a title given to the son of an imperial prince)

Zhao Zhi reacted calmly, ” Is it?”

An Ning wangshizi said, “Yes, this jade has too many impurities, it’s not pure.”

“I know.”

Zhao Zhi had seen hundreds of treasures, yesterday when Ming Zhu gifted this jade crown into his hands, he could see that it wasn’t a good quality jade.

But he didn’t care if it was good or bad, if it cost a lot or not, what mattered was her intention.

Seeing that his face was relaxed, An Ning wangshizi understood that the person who gifted him the jade crown had an important position in the crown prince’s heart.

“May I dare ask which lady gifted it?”

“I can’t say.”

Even if the crown prince didn’t say anything, he was already aware, there had been rumors circulating for quite some time now, that the crown prince also did those kind of things like keeping a beauty hidden in a golden house.
It must have been a gift from that beauty.

“Your Highness, how come I haven’t seen you wearing it before ?”

Zhao Zhi didn’t bother paying attention to him and was even a little annoyed, feeling that he was speaking too much.

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Even if no one paid attention ho him,

Wenlin was happy to speak by himself, “This style looks a little out of date, how come you’re wearing it only today ?”

(TL’s note : Sheng Wenlin is An Ning wangshizi, and also Xiangyang junzhu’s brother, as well as Zhao Zhi’s cousin)

Zhao Zhi footsteps stopped gradually, ” Out of date?”

Sheng Wenlin laughed and said proudly, “You’re busy everyday so you may not be clear about the current trending styles in the capital, but this kind of carved or embroidered bamboo pattern was popular a year ago.”

Zhao Zhi didn’t think much of it and coldly replied, “Mmh.”

Just as they came out of the palace gates, Sheng Wenlin happened to run into his colleague.
He greeted the man beside the carriage with great enthusiasm, “Brother Chiyu, what a coincidence ah.”

Wei Chiyu turned around, greeted him back, and looked up to see the man at his side.
After a moment of silence, Wei Chiyu lowered his eyelashes and made a bow with both hands, “Your Highness.”

Sheng Wenlin felt that Wei Chiyu became more and more detached over these past two years.
The two of them had known each other for a few years now.

 

The Wei family was humble, and he was also poor, but he heard that he had a fiancée who was as pretty as a flower.

Sheng Wenlin and Wei Chiyu had studied under the same master in the same school.
In the past, he knew that Wei Chiyu was desperately studying and earning money all in order to make sure that he and his fiancée could lead a good life, and wouldn’t have to suffer a life of poverty, but then someday, somehow, the marriage was cancelled out of nowhere.

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Wei Chiyu also turned a lot more somber.

“Brother Chiyu, I heard that Master has the intention to betroth his young daughter to you, you are really blessed.”

“It’s not true.”

“You don’t have to act in front of me, coincidentally the crown prince is here today, who knows, he might bestow a marriage for you two in the future.”

Wei Chiyu stared into Zhao Zhi’s eyes as he said, “My heart already belongs to another.”

“Isn’t that your previous fiancée? The person disliked that you were poor and favored riches, so why do you still hold her in your heart ?” Sheng Wenlin was also saying that for his own good.

Zhao Zhi snorted coldly, “Lord Wei is really smitten.”

Wei Chiyu hadn’t yet uttered a word.

Zhao Zhi said coldly again: “Shizi‘s words are right, that is, if the person dislikes the poor and favors riches, if you can not give her a lifetime of fabulous wealth, you might as well put an end to your love.”

Wei Chiyu held back again and again, “I thank the crown prince for the advice.”

Zhao Zhi’s chest had been holding a rage that he couldn’t vent and his eyes emitted a chilling murder intent.
After he mockingly said those two sentences, his inner rage gradually calmed down.

Just now, he had lost his temper.
During this one year, Zhao Zhi had never heard “Wei Chiyu”, these three words, in Ming Zhu’s mouth.
The one she liked now was him.