Chapter 73: Promise yourself to me?

Wanying, who was standing next to him, lowered her head and said, "Prince, there's news from Shengjing City that the Princess has failed."

Sang Yi sneered, and paused playing with the medicine bottle with his fingertips. "Do you want me to say whether you are smart or stupid?"

"Wanying is stupid. I don't know what the eldest prince means." Wanying lowered her head even more. "When the Xijing spies sneaked into the princess's mansion, Su Yunyao was not there. Could it be that she received the news in advance and hid in the palace?"

"Hide?" Sang Yi forced a cold laugh through his teeth, "She's not even in Shengjing."

"Not in Shengjing?" Wanying's eyes suddenly darkened. "If the eldest princess of Daxia went out, how could there be no news at all with so many spies?"

"Wanying, do you still remember the day when you saved my people outside the border?" Sang Yi paused while fiddling with the medicine bottle.

"Are you talking about that young lady from the official family?" Wanying didn't know why the eldest prince suddenly mentioned her at this time.

"A young lady from an official family?" Sang Yi forced out a sneer between his teeth, "She is not a young lady from an official family."

"Then she is..."

"She is the eldest princess of Daxia."

Wanying's expression changed drastically when she heard this. "How did the eldest prince know her identity?"

How to know her identity.

It was the pill she casually gave him that would delay his death.

It was the Soul-Condensing Pill that he personally delivered to Daxia five years ago.

Xijing has always been on good terms with Daxia.

The Xixia marriage lasted for many years.

His father, the emperor, intended to make him the crown prince and wanted to offer him a generous gift to marry Princess Changle of Daxia as his imperial consort to better consolidate his position in the Xijing imperial court.

Five years ago, he went to Shengjing, Daxia, with generous gifts to discuss a marriage.

That bottle of life-saving Soul-Concentrating Pill was one of the generous gifts.

The marriage has been settled, and only the wedding date needs to be set.

Unexpectedly, on his way back, news came from the Xijing Imperial City that the two countries were at war.

The cause was that the second prince massacred the villagers of a village in Daxia when he was on his way to Shengjing City.

The decades-long peace between the two countries collapsed in an instant.

The Emperor of Daxia was furious and sent people to attack Xijing. General Huo and his son Huo Kang successively captured thirteen cities in Xijing.

The Xijing army was in complete disarray, and surrender was the only way out.

Just as he was riding at full speed, he was assassinated on his way back from Shengjing.

He was seriously injured and barely managed to survive and return to the imperial court.

The cynical Second Prince became the hero who annihilated 100,000 elite soldiers of Daxia.

The person who defended the imperial city and forced Daxia to sign an unequal treaty.

Sang Ye exchanged a man who was tortured to death by him for the thirteen cities of Xijing.

Now he is instigating his father to take Princess Changle, who was originally going to marry him, into his own imperial court.

Sang Ye is crazy.

Father is crazy too!

He couldn't understand why his father would allow himself to be manipulated by Sang Ye overnight.

Over the years, he has always been the person that Sang Ye fears the most.

Various assassination attempts against him were commonplace.

He would not let Sang Ye get his wish.

Sang Yi stared at her figure pacing back and forth on the long street and sneered.

It turns out that Su Yunyao never wanted to marry him from the beginning, otherwise why would she deliberately let the painter cover up her edge and pretend to be ugly.

Five years ago, he fell in love with her at first sight in that portrait and traveled thousands of miles to Shengjing to marry her.

But I don't want to.

When I saw her in person five years later.

Just found out.

She looked nothing like her in real life.

First meeting.

She used the Soul-Condensing Pill he gave her that year to save his life.

Doesn’t Daxia have an official language?

There is always God's will in everything.

Is that what you mean?

He originally wanted to capture Su Yunyao and threaten Emperor Su Yunyan so that he could re-establish his authority in front of his father.

And at this moment... he... changed his mind...

Sang Yi sat up straight, and as soon as one leg touched the ground, he felt a heart-wrenching pain in his back.

Wanying was frightened and hurried over to help him.

But when he thought about how the eldest prince hated being touched by women, he quickly retracted his outstretched hand.

"Grand Prince, be careful not to tear the wound when you do something."

Sang Yi seemed to be in great pain. He tilted his head back and closed his eyes. It took him a while to come back to his senses.

From his pale lips, he managed to squeeze out two words, "Nothing."

Watching Su Yunyao enter the teahouse opposite.

He took off a jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Wanying.

"Su Yunyao is in the teahouse across the street. Go give her this jade pendant and tell her I have something to talk to her about and we'll meet here in two days."

Wanying looked puzzled, "Prince, this jade pendant has been with you since childhood, how can you give it away casually?"

Sang Yi's face was as cold as frost, his black eyes narrowed slightly, flashing a sharp cold light. He spoke coldly, his tone bloodthirsty, "You talk too much today."

"I know I was wrong." Wanying bowed her head and walked out with the jade pendant.

At this time, Su Yunyao was sitting in a private room of the teahouse, eating melon seeds, drinking hot tea, and listening to the storyteller telling stories in a vivid manner.

Su Yunyao was listening intently when the waiter knocked on the door and walked in. "Miss, there is a girl who wants to see you."

girl?

Su Yunyao paused while cracking melon seeds.

"What girl?"

The waiter looked embarrassed and said, "Miss, we don't know about this either. The girl just said she wanted to see you, and didn't say anything else."

"Let her in."

Su Yunyao's expression changed slightly, as if she had bumped into the person who came, and she slowed down her movement of cracking melon seeds.

"Wanying greets the young lady." After Wanying came in, she bowed and saluted.

"It really is you."

Su Yunyao didn't seem surprised at all when she saw her come in.

This was her first time in Ximen Town and she didn't know anyone there.

The only thing I can think of is the two people I rescued at Ximen Pass that day.

"Miss, our young master asked me to give this to you as a token of his gratitude for saving his life." Wanying took a step forward and placed the jade pendant on the table. "Miss, our young master asked me to give this to you. We will meet here in two days."

Jade pendant?

Su Yunyao took a glance.

The white dragon-patterned pendant is flawless, the jade is smooth and glossy, with a dragon coiled inside a sleeping dragon in a ring shape, with the dragon's head biting its tail.

Even a poor student like Su Yunyao guessed the true identity of the jade pendant's owner.

Since he had someone send the dragon-patterned pendant over, he naturally had no intention of hiding his true identity.

Su Yunyao narrowed her eyes and said, "Take the jade pendant back. I don't want it."

No...don’t want it?

Wanying was stunned by her words.

"Miss...you said...you don't want it?" She asked intermittently with eyes full of shock.

"Yes, no." Su Yunyao said firmly. After that, she grabbed the melon seeds and continued to crack them.

Looking at Wanying standing there in a daze, Su Yunyao grabbed a handful of melon seeds and stuffed them into her hand.

"Come sit down and kowtow together. This storyteller is saying that a poor prince was saved by the official's daughter. Do you think that the prince will marry her in gratitude for saving her life?"