Chapter 1162 - Chapter 1162 She Believed It to Be a Secret Date!
Chapter 1162 She Believed It to Be a Secret Date!
Chu Liuyue had always been calm. As the Emperor’s eldest son, he maintained his dignified image perfect in every way, and always kept a certain distance from others.
How could he become so emotional at this time?
Even if he had been tricked into coming here, he should have left at this time instead of being entangled with her.
Shao Wanru immediately had a miserable hunch that someone must have seen them like this. So, who was this scene meant for? She took a few more steps back and decisively withdrew from the pavilion.
Qing’er and Yujie stood in front of her.
“Your Highness, I’m afraid you’ve fallen into someone’s trap. I didn’t invite you over. I would never do such a thing, let alone ask you to see me in the name of Miss Zhang. I didn’t know where you were. Besides, we had nothing to do with each other before this, so how could I want to see you?”
Shao Wanru raised her cold eyes and reminded Chu Liuyue.
In the past, Chu Liuyue would have listened to her and left immediately. But now, Chu Liuyue, dominated by inexplicable anger, was pissed off. He felt Shao Wanru was playing hard to get and went too far.
He took a few strides forward to chase after her, forcefully pulling away Yujie, who was an eyesore to him. Then he was about to get Shao Wanru, who was hiding behind another servant girl. His eyes were full of angry flames as he said, “You made a nice speech. Did you mean I came uninvited? But you asked me to come here, saying you had something to tell me!”
Chu Liuyue became more and more annoyed. His hand was pushed away by Qing’er, but he reached out again. His eyes, with anger or excitement, fixed on Shao Wanru’s cherry lips as if they could appease him.
Shao Wanru didn’t expect Chu Liuyue to be so irrational. After retreating again and again, she suddenly stood still and asked, “Your Highness, don’t you think it strange? You have always been calm, but how can you be so furious now? Have you been drugged?”
She stared at Chu Liuyue, her steel eyes without a trace of warmth. Chu Liuyue even spotted a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.
Somehow, he became angrier and felt like rushing over to grab Shao Wanru with all his strength!
“Your Highness!” Xiao Qizi, who was waiting outside, finally sensed something was wrong. He took out something from the pocket before his chest. After two steps forward, he hurriedly reached out to stop Chu Liuyue. Shao Wanru didn’t know what was in his hand. But after he put it in Chu Liuyue’s palm, Chu Liuyue shivered and came to a sudden halt, looking puzzled and uncertain.
“Your Highness, I’m afraid you have been plotted against. Someone must have seen this scene. If you come closer, I’m afraid you can’t bear the consequences!” Seeing him calm down a little, Shao Wanru warned coldly.
Chu Liuyue’s face was still slightly red, and his eyes were gloomy. He took a deep breath to calm himself down. There was a piece of cool jade in his hand. When he held it, his palm became cold. He had asked Xiao Qizi to keep it for him. Chu Liuyue feared he would do something he might regret when he was upset.
Feeling the coldness in his hands, he saw Shao Wanru step back repeatedly, her eyes cold. Finally, Chu Liuyue felt something was wrong. Just now, he was very impulsive, much different from what he used to be.
He looked around. As he chased after Shao Wanru, she kept retreating and reached the rockery. Half of his visual field was blocked by the rockery, and the other half was the tilted corner of the eaves. He couldn’t see anyone else among shades of trees and flowers, but it didn’t mean that others couldn’t see him.
He touched his hot forehead, waved at Shao Wanru, and said with difficulty, “Please go back!”
Shao Wanru nodded, turned around, and left with her two servant girls. Anyway, this was not a safe place to stay for a long time. There must be something wrong with the bunch of flowers at the pavilion door. She saw Chu Liuyue’s change clearly. When he came here, he behaved normally, but later he became abnormal and increasingly furious.
The Xu State was in a remote and undeveloped area. Many things there were mysterious to her, and even Mingqiu Nun might not know these foreign things. If this plant were useless, Princess Yuyan wouldn’t put it here.
If it was just an ordinary bunch of tiny flowers, Princess Yuyan needn’t have spent so much effort to move it here. But there was no evidence for this kind of thing. After all, many things in the Xu State still remained unknown to the Kingdom of Dongcang.
But it was strange that the flower didn’t affect her, the two servant girls, and the young eunuch. Only Chu Liuyue turned agitated. It seemed that he must have drunk, smelled, or taken something before coming here.
The investigation of this matter should start with Chu Liuyue…
The loft faced the pavilion. Zhang Qilan and Infanta Yuan’an sat there and tasted tea while enjoying the scenery. The scenery was charming. Although this place was not spacious, it was elegant and quiet. Some items from the Xu State were placed there. They had never seen any of them in the Kingdom of Dongcang. Zhang Qilan was very curious. She leaned against the rail, talking to Infanta Yuan’an while enjoying the view.
It was a coincidence that she met Infanta Yuan’an. She was wandering around with her servant girl. In the past, she was not very familiar with Infanta Yuan’an. Zhang Qilan was too embarrassed to separate from her when meeting her here.
Both of them were going to marry into the royal family. Zhang Qilan would marry into the Prince Yue’s Mansion first. After that, Infanta Yuan’an would get married. Since they would be sisters-in-law in the future, they could not ignore each other.
After enjoying the scenery together for a while, they came upstairs. They leaned against the rail by the window and chatted while admiring the view.
Suddenly, Zhang Qilan saw Shao Wanru in the pavilion with her two servant girls. She frowned slightly but maintained her composure.
Ever since she heard rumors about Prince Yue and Shao Wanru, she disliked Shao Wanru from the bottom of her heart.
She had thought Shao Wanru was a tender and gentle girl, but now she felt Shao Wanru had been pretending to be a nice girl. She knew Prince Yue long ago, and they had an affection for each other. Prince Yue even went to the Empress and asked to marry her. If Prince Chen hadn’t acted before Prince Yue, Shao Wanru would have been Princess Yue now.
“Then how does Prince Yue think of me? Am I the woman he casually chose when he failed to marry his beloved one?”
Zhang Qilan had heard that Prince Yue took a fancy to First Miss Shao. But no matter how much he liked her, no one had ever heard he officially asked the Empress to let First Miss Shao marry him. It could be seen that this rumor was not valid. Only Shao Wanru was the woman Prince Yue wanted to marry.
For this reason, Zhang Qilan felt very uncomfortable.
Shao Wanru was injured. She had wanted to visit her, but after hearing such a rumor, she didn’t want to go. Later, they all went to the Palace for the Empress Dowager’s birthday party. To show her concern and respect, she forced herself to see Shao Wanru. But somehow, she only hid behind the small tent. Prince Yue, instead of Prince Zhou, visited Shao Wanru in person at that time. Seeing that, she was even more jealous.
He still couldn’t let go of Shao Wanru in his heart.
What did Shao Wanru mean? She was still hooking up with Prince Yue at this time. Did she want to keep this affectionate relationship with Prince Yue? As a woman from a small place, Shao Wanru did not know women should be dignified and decent. Never could they defy female virtues. Since she married Prince Chen, she should live a peaceful life with Prince Chen and not have an affair with Prince Yue.
In Zhang Qilan’s view, Prince Yue still bore her in mind only because Shao Wanru was a cheap woman with loose morals.
Thinking that she had treated such a woman as a friend, Zhang Qilan felt sick. She regretted thinking highly of Shao Wanru at that time. Now, she hated Shao Wanru even more deeply.
“What’s wrong? Did you see anything attractive?” Infanta Yuan’an asked with a smile as if she had just found Zhang Qilan in a daze. There was a proud and self-satisfied look in her eyes, but Zhang Qilan didn’t notice it. It was almost time. Infanta Yuan’an wanted to enjoy the show. But for fear of arousing Zhang Qilan’s suspicion, she had better pretend she didn’t see anything unusual.
“Nothing.” Zhang Qilan looked away calmly. She picked up the lukewarm tea on the table and took a few sips. After calming down, she couldn’t help looking at the pavilion again. There, Chu Liuyue appeared at the small intersection. Seeing this, she clenched the handkerchief in her hand. “As expected, they keep in contact with each other.
“They… They can’t bear to stay away from each other, even in the courtyard of the Xu State Princesses. Does it mean they have been secretly dating somewhere I can’t see?”
Zhang Qilan felt a sudden sharp pain in her chest, as if her heart had been stabbed hard by a knife. She was burning with wrath and fixed her eyes on Chu Liuyue. She watched him enter the pavilion. Without outsiders, they should have stayed away from each other to avoid arousing suspicion!
Due to the hanging gauze curtain around the pavilion, she couldn’t see the whole scene inside. She saw Chu Liuyue sit down and stand up. It seemed that he had walked up to Shao Wanru. They stayed close together and talked, hand in hand. Zhang Qilan bit the corner of her lip hard in hatred. How she wished she could go down and tear off Shao Wanru’s gentle mask right now!
It took all Zhang Qilan’s self-control not to break into a furious rage.
Infanta Yuan’an pretended not to notice Zhang Qilan’s abnormal act. At this time, she was busy picking up the snacks on the table with her servant girl. They put these snacks on the table one by one to see which one looked more delicious.
Seeing that Infanta Yuan’an didn’t notice her, Zhang Qilan looked toward the pavilion again. When she looked around, she found the two of them were gone. She suddenly turned her eyes to another place. From her position, she could only see small parts of clothes outside the rockery. “Oh, they… They hid in the rockery to do something intimate!”
Thinking they might have clung together in intimate postures behind the rockery, Zhang Qilan suddenly jumped up, and her face turned pale with anger.
“Miss Zhang, what’s wrong?” Infanta Yuan’an was shocked and looked up at her in confusion.
“Nothing. I suddenly remembered something!” Zhang Qilan took a few deep breaths to steady her nerves and slowly sat down. In the past, she had been suspicious, but now she saw it for herself. They indeed had an affair. It was no longer her guess. Initially, she felt a little uneasy about this idea. This time, only fury was burning in her breast.
“Shao Wanru, a whore! How could this bitch seduce her husband’s brother? They shamelessly meet secretly in someone else’s mansion, hiding behind the rockery and flirting with each other.” With this in mind, no matter how hard she tried, she could not suppress her anger. Picking up the cup nearby, she gulped half a cup of tea and slammed it down. With envy and hate in her eyes, she decided she would never let Shao Wanru go…