Chapter 282: The Crazy Prince's Entanglement (Part 3)

Daya tried to change the subject by using the Lantern Festival explosion, but the prince eventually came back to the topic.

Daya wanted to say, so what if I have adoptive parents?

To her, they are more important than her biological parents.

However, summer insects cannot talk about ice.

The prince is so cold towards his biological father who is wholeheartedly planning for him, how can he understand his feelings towards his adoptive mother?

This person is cold-blooded, ruthless and suspicious, but he judges others by himself and thinks everyone is the same as him.

"Yes." Daya gritted her teeth and said, "Although my status is low, I am unwilling to compromise on the matter of marriage."

"My concubine is comparable to the wife of Jiang Xuan and his ilk? Stupid!"

"Yes, I am a simpleton, not worthy of serving Your Highness."

"What if I give you another chance?" the prince said playfully, "How about coming to me?"

Daya shook her head without any hesitation.

But before she could speak, the prince said sinisterly, "Can you bear the consequences of rejecting me?"

Daya paused.

"Actually, this isn't fun." The prince stroked Daya's handkerchief and said, "Guess what I was planning to do before?"

Daya's head was almost lowered to her chest.

She repeatedly told herself to hold it in.

"What I was thinking before was, if Jiang Xuan could personally deliver you to my bed, wouldn't that be interesting?"

"Jiang Xuan won't." Daya said word by word, "Maybe in the eyes of His Highness, he is just a warrior, but he still has some backbone."

"Tsk tsk, interesting." The prince said, "I found you interesting today and wanted you to come to me sooner, so I didn't do that. But it seems that you don't appreciate it, Zhao Zhao."

The prince reached out and pinched Daya's chin, forcing her to raise her head.

"Why, do you think you're the only intelligent woman in the world? Believe it or not, I can find countless of you if I want."

"Then why didn't Your Highness go find them instead of making things difficult for me?"

"Because I like to force things." The prince raised his lips in a mocking arc, "Do you like it?"

Daya closed her eyes.

She didn't understand why the prince became like this.

She read history books and found that emperors who were extremely licentious were likely to have extremely licentious children and grandchildren.

But the late emperor and the current emperor were both wise rulers with their merits outweighing their flaws. Why would the prince be like this!

It seems as if he was born with a sinister evil that is deeply buried in his bones.

"Why aren't you talking?" The prince leaned closer, his breath almost spraying on Daya's face.

"Because I'm thinking about how to convince you to let me go." Daya said calmly, "My father and Jiang Xuan, don't you think your Highness has any use for them?"

"Xiao Yan?" The prince laughed sarcastically, "He's just a fool being played around with."

He was talking about Xiao Yan and his original family.

"But my father's great military achievements in the northwest are not in vain," said Daya.

"How do you know that Xiao Yan would turn against me just for you? Who do you think you are?"

Intimidation, suppression, and denigration...

Daya thought to herself, who do you think you are?

If she had not been mature and resolute, she would have been frightened by the prince and allowed himself to be manipulated by him.

"As a family, we have no two sides." Daya said firmly, "As long as Your Highness shows mercy and lets me go, my father and Jiang Xuan will be grateful to Your Highness and are willing to serve you wholeheartedly."

"That's what they should have done. Could it be that just because I wanted you, they'd become disloyal? Let me think about it: are they going to join the Yue King's rebellion, or incite the Yan King to deal with me? Ask that idiot Yan King, would he dare? Even if I slap him in the face, do you think he'd dare to say a word?"

"Your Highness is deeply favored by His Majesty," Daya said, "and the throne will be yours sooner or later. But when you accompanied His Majesty on a private visit to my home last time, weren't you still trying to put on a show in front of His Majesty?"

"You're threatening me with my father?" The prince seemed to have heard something funny. "Do you believe it or not, if I insist, my father will definitely give you to me as a reward?"

"If that's the case, Your Highness, why don't you go directly to the Emperor and seek help from me instead?"

The prince was speechless for a moment.

"Your Highness, you don't truly believe in your position as firmly as you claim, which is why the Lantern Festival incident happened," Daya said. "The Emperor is in poor health, and even with the medication he's receiving now, he won't last more than three to five years. Just bear with it for another three to five years. There's no need to create unnecessary complications. Sometimes, a thousand-mile dam collapses because of a tiny drop of water. What do you think?"

"You are threatening me." The prince said in an affirmative tone.

"Your Highness, you are already trying to force me to take you. Do you really expect me to throw myself into your arms?"

Isn't it natural for her to resist?

"It seems that you don't appreciate it."

"Your Highness, please reconsider. Although we are just ordinary people, it is easy for you to take my life. But you want someone to sleep with you. Do you hope to sleep with your eyes open in the future?"

"Besides, the other princes, as you think, may not be so honest. If you have to choose sides one day, will it be worth it if you lose the big picture for the sake of the small?"

"You think too highly of Xiao Yan and Jiang Xuan. In my eyes, they are not worth mentioning."

"Your Highness thinks too highly of yourself." Daya no longer concealed her sharpness. "I hope that in your heart, as you say, taking the throne is as easy as taking something out of a bag."

What the prince said and what he did were completely inconsistent.

If he didn't suspect that the throne would fall into someone else's hands, how could he risk doing such a thing?

The prerequisite for the supremacy of imperial power is to first grasp the imperial power.

Who does he think he is!

He is nothing more than a giant baby who has not been weaned from the emperor's arms and is self-righteous.

"Also, Your Highness, if you really had no scruples, you could have been more unrestrained at the Jiang residence just now," Daya said. "Now, are you finished speaking? Can I leave now?"

"Zhao Zhao, you are really brave." The prince said with a hint of gritted teeth.

"Your Highness, I will treat today's events as a passing breeze and will not mention them to anyone. You should also forget about them. You still have many important matters to attend to, so I will not waste your time."

Although the prince made harsh remarks, he did not do anything to Daya in the end.

The carriage stopped, and Daya jumped out directly from it. Standing on the roadside, she saluted and said, "Thank you for giving me a ride, Your Highness. I respectfully escort you."

The prince lifted the side curtain with his pale fingertips and smiled sinisterly, "Zhao Zhao, see you later."