Chapter 223 A Perfect Match, Daggers for Self-Defense

Qingyun had already gotten up from the wedding bed. She was sitting in front of the bronze mirror, letting the maid behind her remove her pearl crown.

Seeing Ji Qingwu enter, she curled her red lips and said, "Fiveth cousin, it's fine if you don't do my makeup, but you're leaving after the ceremony."

Ji Qingwu stood beside the bronze mirror and said, "The ceremony is complete. Does Your Highness expect me to stay and watch your wedding night?"

Princess Qingyun blushed even more and said, "Fifth Cousin, how can you even make such a joke?"

Ji Qingwu thought for a moment. She had seen many women who came to see her for infertility, but it wasn't a physical problem at all. They just didn't know how to have sex or couldn't find the right place.

From a doctor's perspective, she kindly reminded him, "This is no joke. Your Highness should have seen the Fire Avoidance Diagram, right?"

Princess Qingyun acted shyly like any new bride, muttering, "Why is Fifth Cousin so talkative like Mother today?"

Ji Qingwu said, "Okay, I won't say anything more, I'll leave now."

"Oh dear, don't go!" Princess Qingyun called out to her, "I have something to tell you."

Ji Qingwu gazed at the room filled with bright red decorations, along with the dragon and phoenix wedding candles.

He said, "Does Your Highness really have to say it on your wedding night? I dare not waste such precious time."

Princess Qingyun waved her hand, dismissing the maid who was doing her hair, and then said, "I saw how my fifth cousin was looking at me and my husband and sighing."

While they were drinking the nuptial wine, did the princess still have time to pay attention to her? Wouldn't she overthink things?

Ji Qingwu quickly said, "I'm not..."

"I know."

Princess Qingyun took off her hair crown and immediately felt much lighter on her head.

She continued, "Fifth cousin, you're not sighing because of the prince consort, but because you feel sorry for me, right?"

Ji Qingwu swallowed back his explanation: "It's good that you know."

"I'm so happy today," Princess Qingyun said with a blissful smile.

"I was happy to marry the prince consort, but I was even happier when someone truly cherished me from the bottom of their heart."

Ji Qingwu was infected by her smile and also curved his lips into a smile.

"But the princess could have found a better man to spend her life with."

Princess Qingyun looked at Ji Qingwu strangely through the bronze mirror.

"Fifth cousin, you're so naive."

Ji Qingwu retorted, "Isn't the princess naive enough to disregard everything for the sake of love?"

Qingyun took off the earring and said, "The thing that is most easily corrupted in this world is emotion, while the thing that will never change is power."

Looking at her radiant reflection in the mirror, Ji Qingwu, who was in the prime of her life, said, "The prince consort is only after power; he doesn't truly love you. Is this acceptable?"

Princess Qingyun removed her forehead ornament and said, "It doesn't matter who the consort has in his heart. As long as he can act for a lifetime, I will act with him."

"He wants the path to success, and I'll give it to him. But what I want, whether he's sincere or not, is enough if he cooperates and gives it to me."

As Ji Qingwu walked out of the new house and onto the corridor leading back to the front hall, Qingyun's words were still echoing in her mind.

Qingyun was willing to be deceived. As long as that person was willing to deceive her, she would be a princess for a day, and Li Chengxun would have to deceive her for a lifetime.

She once thought that Qingyun was so infatuated with Li Chengxun that she had lost her mind. Now it seems that Qingyun clearly knows what she wants and what she is willing to give up.

Is there a way to have it all in this world...?

Ji Qingwu stood in the corridor, lost in thought, wondering what she truly desired...

"Green Wutong".

A drunken voice came from the other end.

Ji Qingwu immediately recognized the man's voice as Li Chengxun. She quickly took a few steps back to keep her distance from him while keeping an eye on her surroundings to see if anyone was around.

"Qingwu, don't be nervous."

Li Chengxun was swaying slightly. He took a few steps, but when he saw her retreating, he stopped moving.

His voice drifted over on the wind.

I don't regret not choosing you back then.

Whether he could see it or not, Ji Qingwu nodded and said, "It's a coincidence, me too."

Not wanting to get entangled with a drunk person, she said directly, "Princess Qingyun is still waiting for you, Prince Consort, please go back to your room."

Li Chengxun was so drunk that he could barely stand and had to lean on a pillar beside him.

With a sad expression, he said, "In my eyes, feelings are not important at all."

There was only one way to the front hall, and Ji Qingwu couldn't go in. He turned around to see if there was anywhere he could hide.

With a dazed look in his eyes, Li Chengxun said, "Feelings can't save lives that are treated like dirt by high-ranking officials, nor can they bring a way out for students from poor families. They are the most useless things."

Hearing the sorrow in those words, Ji Qingwu had to admit that Princess Qingyun and Li Chengxun were, in a way, a match made in heaven.

Suddenly, a figure emerged from the bushes behind Li Chengxun.

The man held a gleaming dagger and charged straight at him.

Ji Qingwu quickly found a pillar to hide himself.

Who would attempt an assassination during a princess's wedding? The entire mansion is filled with guards; they'll surround us soon enough. This person must be an idiot.

As expected, the guards in the princess's residence were alerted.

Whether it was the assassin's first time attempting an assassination or not, Li Chengxun easily snatched the dagger from the assassin's hand with one hand.

He said to the guards behind him, "No need to come over, she's here to give me a congratulatory gift."

The assassin pulled down her mask and asked, filled with grief and indignation, "Have you forgotten everything you said?!"

Ji Qingwu felt the voice was even more familiar, and secretly peeked out to look. It was none other than Mo Lingling.

With Ji Qingwu no longer in sight, Li Chengxun regained some of his senses.

He said sternly, "Lingling, this is not a place for you to fool around."

He sheathed the dagger in his hand back into the scabbard at Mo Lingling's waist.

"Hurry up and leave now, or if the princess finds out, you won't be able to leave alive."

Mo Lingling looked at the knife at her waist and pulled it out again.

Her gaze was fixed on his handsome, unparalleled face: "Do you remember this dagger?"

Seeing that she was saying things he couldn't understand, Li Chengxun looked impatient.

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

Mo Lingling said sadly, "You really don't remember? You promised me you would overturn my father's case, and you'll use this as proof!"

A look of confusion crossed Li Chengxun's eyes: "When did I agree to that?"

Footsteps came from Ji Qingwu's right rear. Two maids came out of the princess's bridal chamber, seemingly on their way to the front hall to find the prince consort.

If Qingyun finds out that Mo Lingling came to the princess's residence on her wedding day, forget about exonerating her father; the father and daughter will have to meet again in the afterlife.

Li Chengxun also saw the figure in the distance and was about to leave when Mo Lingling grabbed his sleeve.

She said urgently, "You saved me from the bandits' den back then, and even threw me this dagger to protect myself, you..."

Li Chengxun threw the dagger into the artificial lake not far away.

The dagger was made of black iron and sank to the bottom immediately.

He said in a chilling tone, "Mo Lingling, stop making up these stories to bother me! I won't be so easy to talk to next time."

After saying that, Li Chengxun, dressed in a red wedding robe, left the corridor, leaving Mo Lingling standing there, deeply shaken.

The noise in the front hall suddenly quieted down.