"Do you think that this king is infatuated with you?"
I like it a little bit, but considering the overall situation, it doesn’t matter.
Chu Muchi chuckled playfully.
Is he sick? I never said that!
Jiang Mingzhi felt depressed. She lowered her eyes to hide her surging emotions.
"Chu Jincheng is eyeing you covetously, and the situation in the court is on the verge of breaking out."
"What gave you the illusion that you could rest easy as long as you married a scholar?"
"You have to know that some things can't be stopped halfway. If you stop halfway on a broken pedestrian bridge, you'll end up dead. Then..."
Chu Muchi stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes gloomy.
"Can we just let it go so easily after the entire Zhou family was executed?"
"ah?"
Jiang Mingzhi took two steps back and met those sinister gazes, and his scalp went numb.
Is this a test?
Or did he piece together the truth?
She said nothing, her fingertips clenched tightly.
"You don't have to be surprised. There is no impenetrable wall in this world."
Chu Muchi extended an olive branch, "Marry me, not for love, but to pursue a great cause, each of us gets what we need."
As if he had guessed what Jiang Mingzhi would say, Chu Muchi sneered.
"You have no choice. Looking at the entire court, I am the only one you can trust."
Jiang Mingzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, and his gaze became sharp.
Chu Muchi was not throwing her an olive branch, this was clearly a piece of white silk.
If she wasn't careful, she would be strangled to death.
Chu Muchi is such a jerk, he’s treating her as a living target!
Their eyes met, and a sharp gleam of calculation flashed through their eyes.
"The wedding will be on the sixth day of next month."
"So urgent?"
“A little.”
Jiang Mingzhi was speechless.
But now, she really has no choice except Chu Muchi.
When I first wanted to find a scholar to marry, I was blinded by desperation.
Now that I think about it carefully, if I just randomly find a scholar to marry, I'm afraid I'll end up wasting my life.
She rejected the good intentions of the nobles in the palace and the olive branch of becoming Princess Yi. So no matter who it is, as long as they don't have tremendous power, who would dare to easily form an alliance with her?
Those scholars just want to climb up the social ladder, they are not stupid!
This Prince Yi really deserves to die!
Jiang Mingzhi was feeling upset, and Prince Yi, who was walking in the palace at the time, couldn't help but sneeze.
"Who is cursing me behind my back?"
Chu Linyi rubbed his red nose and saw Prince An beside him smiling.
"why are you laughing?"
"I don't."
"Am I blind?" Chu Linyi was displeased.
"That should be it." Otherwise, why would he not want to marry a beauty like Jiang Mingzhi?
Chu Linyi had never been looked down upon like this before, and he wanted to kick someone.
But when his feet were stretched in the air, he suddenly remembered that the Prince An in front of him was the son of Concubine Duan, older than him, and that Concubine Duan was backed by the richest family, the Wen clan.
Chu Linyi was immediately deflated.
Prince An is not like those unpopular princes who allow Chu Linyi to vent his anger.
He didn't even bother to look at Chu Linyi and left him far behind.
There was a loud rumble of thunder, the wind swept the ground, and leaves filled the sky. When Jiang Mingzhi came out of Prince Yong's Mansion, dark clouds covered his head.
Ping'er glanced through the half-lifted carriage curtain, feeling a little uneasy.
"Girl, it seems that the capital is about to change."
At the gate of Jiang's house, a carriage blocked the way to the corner gate, and Jiang Mingzhi's carriage had to stop.
"Miss, this is the carriage from Prince Jin's Mansion."
Jiang Mingzhi's face darkened. Why did Chu Jincheng come here?
"Miss Jiang, my prince has something to ask you."
A maid's voice was heard outside the curtain.
Jiang Mingzhi frowned. Ping'er lifted half of the curtain and saw a young girl standing outside.
Seeing Jiang Mingzhi's expression of surprise, Ping'er scolded: "If there is something, you should have sent a letter to inform the elders at home. My daughter is not married yet, so it is not appropriate for Your Majesty to meet her in private."
The little maid had a smile on her face and was quite pretty.
Jiang Mingzhi only took two glances and felt a tightness in his chest.
This little maid looks about 50% similar to her. To be more precise, she looks a bit like her former self, the Princess Jin who "died" long ago.
As if she had not expected to be rejected, the little maid also got angry.
"My prince is a noble, if he needs to be summoned, your daughter should come without delay. How dare you find fault with our master?"
"Chang Huan."
Chu Jincheng's somewhat unhappy voice came from the tall carriage.
Then he got off the carriage.
Chu Jincheng looked much more haggard, with dark circles under his eyes, as if he had not slept for several nights, and his body was also thin.
It's like I'm seriously ill.
Jiang Mingzhi's heart tightened. She didn't care about Chu Jincheng. She hated this face in her past and present lives.
She pulled down the curtain, blocking Chu Jincheng's sight.
"Your Highness, if you have anything to say, please speak here. I am out alone now, so it is inconvenient for me to meet you."
I thought that given Chu Jincheng's personality, he would definitely argue for a few words, but unexpectedly he didn't get entangled.
"I heard you're currently looking for a date, and you've chosen a poor, weak scholar. Why are you treating yourself so badly?"
Before Jiang Mingzhi could say anything, the sound of horse hooves approached in the distance and someone jumped off the horse.
"Your Highness, the concubine said that the Crown Prince accidentally slipped and fell into Chengxin Lake and drowned. Please return to the palace as soon as possible to check on him!"
Ce'er!
Jiang Mingzhi hasn't asked about Ce'er for a long time. After all, Bai Hui Niang is her biological mother, so she will not treat her unfairly.
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