Chapter 81 Return to the Capital with Me
The wedding took place at the Chen residence.
But Chen Chi, the groom, was dragged out of the bridal chamber and knocked unconscious in his own family ancestral hall.
Chen Chi left, and after the door slammed shut—
Sang Ji lowered his eyes and stopped moving.
He glanced indifferently at Liu Jiao, whose clothes were disheveled, whose fair skin was slightly exposed, and whose face was flushed.
He quickly looked away and got up without hesitation.
He loosened the hands binding her and pulled away.
There will be a rift between Chen and her.
"Pack your bags, we'll set off tomorrow."
Sang Ji straightened his robes.
After the marriage was stopped, he still had a lot of mess to clean up.
"Where to? Why should I listen to you?"
The springtime in Liu Jiao's eyes had not yet faded; she clutched her collar tightly, like a stressed little animal.
"Since this is Huajing, we haven't divorced and need to live together. Even if you don't agree, the soldiers have to forcibly take you back according to the law. There's no other way."
"No way! You corrupt official—" Before Liu Jiao could utter her angry words, Sang Ji stuffed a piece of pastry into her mouth.
"Alright, get some rest. There's no point in resisting."
"Have you been starving all day? This Chen Chi is inhuman; your stomach is growling and he still won't give you anything to eat."
Liu Jiao's incessant chatter was silenced by chestnut cake.
"Even if we go back to Huajing, I don't want to live with you. I'll live with Wangyoujun." Liu Jiao angrily took the pastry out of her mouth and continued to gnaw on it while resisting.
"We must live together; we can't see anyone else."
"I have prepared a separate residence for you, so you don't need to worry about the Sang family disturbing you. You will stay quietly in the residence and are not allowed to go anywhere."
Sang Ji's face turned cold, his brows furrowed, and he looked fierce.
Liu Jiao mimicked his cold laugh, revealing the expression in her sketchbook that conveyed "two parts mockery, four parts indifference, and four parts nonchalance":
"What, is Lord Sang trying to jump on the trend and keep a mistress in a gilded cage?"
Everyone knows how to act aloof sometimes!
"How interesting. You don't even like me, so why are you putting on this show?" Liu Jiao said sarcastically.
Since Chen Chi left, Sang Ji has become calm and indifferent.
He didn't refute Liu Jiao's statement that he didn't like her. Seeing her resistant expression, Sang Ji explained in a distant tone:
"Miss Liu is overthinking it."
"We brought you back to the capital only because the princess still needs you."
"What do you mean?" Liu Jiao, who was initially indignant, was taken aback.
Sang Ji was already fully dressed. As he fastened his belt, he began to explain: "You are the daughter of the Gu family patriarch. The new emperor's position is not yet secure. The princess asked me to keep you here so that the Gu family would support the new royal family. Secondly, you are Li Du's sister."
Liu Jiao still didn't understand: "Li Du? I am indeed Li Du's sister, but so what?"
Sang Ji casually said:
"I almost forgot, Miss Liu should still not know Li Du's identity?"
"Li Du is the current imperial son-in-law and the heir of the Li family."
"He wanted to avenge you, so he took his anger out on the princess."
Even though Liu Jiao had remained calm these past few days, she still felt as if she had been stabbed in the heart.
She thought that the current situation meant she didn't want him anymore.
She had already suffered too many injuries; she had no energy left to dwell on it.
I only wish to leave the past behind and live peacefully with Sang Ji, each finding our own happiness.
She's already ready to let him go and marry someone else.
He led his troops to sabotage and disrupt her wedding.
He deliberately put on an act to create a rift between her and her groom.
Just for one sentence:
"The princess needs it."
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