Chapter 205: The White Lotus Cousin in Ancient Chinese Literature (34)

The back of Cui Ling's hand suddenly tensed up, with veins bulging.

Su Yu seemed to hear a small cracking sound and froze for a moment. Her gaze moved very slowly downwards to the cup in Cui Ling's hand and she swallowed quietly.

After a while, Cui Ling sneered, let go of the cup, and called a maid: "You go and tell her how the eldest prince is doing now?"

The maidservant who was called was stunned and a little nervous. She stammered, "It is said that the eldest prince offended the emperor and was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in the deep palace."

"Did you hear that?"

Su Yu couldn't believe it: "How is it possible?"

"I have offended the Emperor and was demoted to a commoner? How is that possible?" she murmured in a low voice.

She looked at Cui Ling fiercely: "I don't believe it! It's fake, right? You are lying to me. I want to see His Highness. He said he would let me into the Prince's Mansion. You are lying to me!"

Cui Ling didn't expect her to be so stubborn.

His patience ran out, and he opened his thin lips slightly: "It seems that what I said to you that day was in vain."

She really should be allowed to experience the eldest prince's methods so that she won't turn back until she hits a wall.

Although he later learned that Su Yu was not in a conscious state that day and most likely did not hear what he said, it did not stop Cui Ling from being angry at the moment.

The eldest prince's fate was too light.

Cui Ling lowered his eyes, thinking calmly and carefully whether there was any way to kill someone quietly in the palace.

He glanced at the maid.

The maid understood and stammered, "Miss, the master did not lie to you. The whole capital knows about this news. I heard it when I went to the city to buy cakes for you a few days ago. Everyone is talking about it."

With a snap—

Su Yu’s dream of becoming an imperial concubine was shattered.

"How could this happen?" She looked stunned.

"Cousin, is this really the case?" Su Yu looked at Cui Ling pleadingly, still holding on to a glimmer of ridiculous hope.

Cui Ling cruelly broke her last glimmer of hope: "Yes."

Following this word, Su Yu burst into tears.

A tear silently slid down her cheek.

Cui Ling's heart felt like it was being grasped by a hand, and it felt sour and bitter.

"What's there to cry about? Is that kind of person worth your tears? Do you like him that much?" His voice was hoarse.

Su Yu lowered her head and remained silent, sobbing softly. More and more tears fell on her clothes. She was not crying for the eldest prince, but for herself. She was crying because all her efforts were in vain.

It didn't stop for a long time.

Cui Ling: "Stop crying."

Su Yu was still crying.

Even though Cui Ling resisted the urge to kill and promised to take her to see the eldest prince once in the future, Su Yu could not stop crying.

In the end, Zi Tong's arrival solved this problem.

Su Yu's eyes were red, like a rabbit, and she looked over pitifully, which made Zi Tong feel distressed.

"Miss."

Su Yu's voice was filled with tears: "Zitong."

"Zitong, I miss you so much."

"Miss, I miss you too."

The affectionate gaze between the sisters made Cui Ling feel redundant.

She missed Zitong, her aunt, and the eldest prince, but not him.

It’s bad enough that he’s not as good as the eldest prince, but now he’s not even as good as a maid.

Beneath Cui Ling's calm expression were surging emotions of resentment, jealousy, gloom, and resentment, which should not belong to Cui Hanzhang, who was once dignified and famous in the capital.

Finally, he took a deep breath and suppressed those dark emotions.

"You guys take your time chatting, I'll come see you tomorrow."

Cui Ling stood up and walked out. If he was a second later, he would not be sure if he could still control his emotions.

Cui Ling was precocious since childhood. When his peers were still playing in the mud, he had already read the classics of sages and could even debate with his father. When his peers relied on family influence to gain titles, he had already caught the emperor's attention with his solid political achievements.

I thought everything would continue like this step by step, but rebellion came so suddenly.

He fell in love with a woman who had someone else in her heart.

He even resorted to various means to keep her by his side.

When he reached the door, he suddenly turned around.

The impulse in his heart made him speak: "Su Yu, you know, your ability to pretend to sleep is really full of loopholes."

Su Yu was stunned, then her eyes suddenly widened and she looked at him.

After Cui Ling said this, he turned and left. Others felt that what he said was nonsense and couldn't understand it, but Su Yu was the only one who knew what he was talking about.

Zi Tong was curious: "Miss, what is the eldest master talking about?"

Su Yu gritted her teeth: "...I don't know either."

After sending everyone else away, Su Yu learned from Zi Tong the reason why she had not returned to Cui Mansion for such a long time and no one had looked for her.

That shameless bastard Cui Ling actually lied to others and said he had found a miracle doctor for her.

'The doctor said that she was born with a weak constitution. She lost a lot of blood when she was injured while blocking the sword that day. Although she recovered, she was suffering from a deficiency of Qi and blood. It is not obvious at ordinary times, but it will affect her life span. She must be taken seriously, so she was left with the doctor to treat her illness.'

It's such a lame excuse, it's a pity others could believe it.

Zi Tong couldn't believe it after learning the truth.

"Miss, are you saying that there is no such thing as a miracle doctor, and that the eldest master is lying to us?"

Su Yu gritted her teeth and nodded.

Zi Tong still felt that her worldview was overturned: "But how could someone like the eldest master lie to us?"

Not only Zi Tong didn't believe it, Su Yu herself didn't believe it at first. She just felt that she was blind before and actually thought that the male protagonist was a gentleman.

Just look at the male protagonists in the previous worlds and you will know that all crows are black and none of them are good people.

Why is she so pitiful? Why can't she meet a normal person? Woohoo...

At night, Su Yu hid in her bed alone, biting the corner of the quilt and crying about her tragic fate.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound from the door frame.

A steady and upright sound of footsteps came from afar, accompanied by the familiar fragrance of pine and bamboo.

Su Yu closed her eyes subconsciously, and opened them suddenly the next moment.

Why is she pretending to sleep when she's been exposed?

She threw back the quilt and sat up from the bed. There was no candle in the room; only the moonlight coming through the window paper dimly illuminated the ground.

With the faint light, Su Yu opened her eyes wide and glared at the "flower thief" who broke into her boudoir at night.

"Not pretending to sleep anymore?"

It was indeed Cui Ling.

Su Yu choked and said in a dull voice: "My cousin already knows everything, why should I pretend?"

She heard the man seem to laugh, then he came over very shamelessly and sat beside her bed like he did last night.

"Aren't you angry?"

Su Yu hugged the quilt and stepped back, her back against the wall.

"I'm angry, but everyone here is my cousin's people. What can a weak woman like me do?"

How pitiful.

Cui Ling lowered his eyelashes, hiding the darkness in his eyes: "You don't want to ask why I came?"

Su Yu looked at him warily: "Why?"

She asked, but he didn't say anything, and instead mentioned another matter: "The eldest prince was deposed."

Su Yu blinked and said suspiciously: "Didn't my cousin tell me everything?"

Cui Ling looked at her and emphasized each word: "He can no longer be the emperor."

Su Yu's heart skipped a beat, but she pretended to be calm: "What do you mean, cousin?"

The moonlight outside the window was suddenly blocked by clouds.

The house was dark. Two cousins ​​in name but not related by blood were staying in the same room.

The two were so close that they could hear each other's breathing.

The elegant scent of pine and bamboo enveloped Su Yu, and she had the absurd illusion that she would never be able to escape.

Cui Ling suddenly reached out and pinched her chin, forcing her to not move her face away. He stared into her eyes and asked, "Why don't you beg me?"

Su Yu was startled and looked up.

"You came to me to beg me because the eldest prince couldn't take that position. I like you and I won't watch you fall into trouble with the eldest prince. Now that the eldest prince has fallen, why don't you come to me to beg me?"

This sentence is so familiar.

Su Yu felt cold all over: "Did you hear everything?"

The next moment, she opened her eyes wide.

The man's body fell over, and Su Yu was forced to lie down. A soft coolness covered her lips, her chin was pinched and she could not struggle, and a strong arm passed through her waist.

The scorching heat reached my mind through the thin underwear.

Su Yu's head buzzed and she was stunned by the scene before her.

She heard Cui Ling ask——

"Su Yu, can I marry you?"