Chapter 120 Rumors are harmful!
Shen Qingci laughed out loud: "General Huo is too amusing. Does General Huo think that your impersonation of Huo Yunting and my remarriage to Chu Jichen are the same?"
“Your impersonation of Huo Yunting is not just a matter of moral depravity; if you are discovered, it will be the crime of deceiving the emperor, which is punishable by death.”
"What's wrong with me remarrying? Huo Yunzhan is dead, and everyone knows that."
“I observed a hundred days of mourning for Huo Yunzhan, and after the mourning period, I married Chu Jichen openly and honestly. Why should I expect you to overlook this?”
Shen Qingci tilted her head, her eyes dark and brooding: "Oh, you just said that you did all this just so that I could enjoy wealth and luxury without doing anything and have everything."
"But now, if I marry Chu Jichen again, won't I have everything?"
Huo Yunzhan hurriedly said, "That's different, you don't like Chu Jichen!"
"Moreover, Chu Jichen is crippled! He can't have sex!"
Shen Qingci almost laughed out loud; rumors are harmful.
Everyone said that Chu Jichen was impotent. So everyone assumed that the rumor was true.
But how could Huo Yunzhan have the nerve to bring this up?
Shen Qingci's gaze slowly moved down from his face and landed on a certain spot.
Huo Yunzhan noticed her gaze and felt his face burning: "I'm different from him! His impotence is permanent, mine is only temporary!"
"The doctor said that as long as I rest and recuperate properly, I can be cured."
"Moreover, although Chu Jichen is now the regent, His Majesty dislikes him, and His Majesty is on the same side as Prime Minister Liu. They are both targeting Chu Jichen, and it's only a matter of time before Chu Jichen gets into trouble."
"At that time, how will you, as the Regent's wife, conduct yourself?"
“If you promise to treat me well, I won’t hold your marriage to Chu Jichen against you, and I won’t require you to divorce him now! Chu Jichen is a madman. If you divorce him right after getting married, he will definitely not let you go.”
"You can stay by Chu Jichen's side for now. If something happens to Chu Jichen, I can help you and save you!"
Shen Qingci laughed out loud: "It sounds like it would be entirely beneficial to me. So, General Huo, what do you want?"
Huo Yunzhan lowered his eyes, his gaze trembling slightly: "All you need to do is tell me everything Chu Jichen does."
"His Majesty dislikes Chu Jichen and wants to rule personally. If I can help His Majesty, I can get what I want even without relying on Prime Minister Liu and Liu Ruolan."
"And we'll get what I want soon, and then we can get back together. Wouldn't that be a happy ending for everyone?"
What a happy ending for everyone!
Doesn't Huo Yunzhan think that what he said is rather ridiculous?
Shen Qingci just looked at him with a cold smile and didn't say anything.
Huo Yunzhan's gaze fell on the top of her head, and he lowered his voice: "Are you reluctant to part with the jewelry that Chu Jichen bought for you?"
Are you resentful that I didn't buy you these things before?
“I was just the second son of the Marquis of Yongning before, my status was different. Now I am the Marquis of Yongning, and I will definitely be able to go higher and further in the future. When that time comes, I can buy you anything you want!”
He hurriedly said, "Do you think Chu Jichen married you because he truly loved you?"
"Do you know that after the Shen family's incident, there were rumors that your father left behind a private army, which was extremely powerful, capable of traveling a thousand miles a day and invincible in battle, and that the order to mobilize the troops was with you?"
"Chu Jichen must have heard these rumors as well. He must have married you for this troop mobilization order."
Shen Qingci's expression suddenly changed: "Where did this rumor come from?"
Huo Yunzhan's mind raced as he observed Shen Qingci's reaction.
Judging from Shen Qingci's reaction, the matter of private soldiers must be true.
She probably believed it too, right?
She believed that Chu Jichen only married her for the sake of his private soldiers.
The faint sound of a wheelchair could be heard outside the door.
Huo Yunzhan's expression changed abruptly. He glanced at Shen Qingci quickly and hurriedly hid behind the screen.
"Your Highness?" Chu Jichen's voice came from outside the door: "It's been half an hour, Your Highness, are you still not dressed?"
Shen Qingci glanced at the screen before turning around and opening the door: "I was dressed, but I didn't think it looked very good, so I had someone change it."
"Don't you like it?" Chu Jichen asked with a double meaning. "Then let's change it."
Shen Qingci nodded: "I'm a little hungry. Can we go get something to eat first, and then come back to buy it?"
"No need for trouble. I'll have the shopkeeper make a set of everything except this one, using the best fabrics, and then send them directly to the Regent's Palace."
Shen Qingci's eyes widened: "How many pieces would that be? I can't wear that many, and they'd be very expensive, wouldn't they?"
Chu Jichen smiled and straightened the hem of Shen Qingci's dress, saying, "My princess naturally deserves the best."
"Let's go, Your Highness. Since you're hungry, I'll take you to get something to eat."
Shen Qingci agreed and pushed Chu Jichen away.
After leaving the Ni Chang Pavilion and getting into the carriage, Chu Jichen finally lifted his eyelids and asked, "How did your secret rendezvous with your ex-husband go, Princess?"
"..." Shen Qingci sighed, this person.
"It's nothing. Just as we expected, he does know that I already know he is Huo Yunzhan."
"It was indeed because of the rumors outside about the prince's impotence that I lowered my guard against him, allowing me to stay by his side and gather information for him without having to divorce him."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but look at Chu Jichen again: "Why are there so many rumors outside that the prince is impotent?"
He clearly can do it.
"I sent it." Chu Jichen lowered his eyes, his expression calm and composed.
"Hmm?" Shen Qingci had considered countless possibilities, but this was definitely one she hadn't thought of.
Is it from Chu Jichen's biography?
Is he spreading rumors about his own incompetence?
Chu Jichen nodded: "I had just become regent when countless people started to covet my position as regent's wife."
"Putting people around me was the least of my worries; back then, some people were even deliberately trying to give me all sorts of aphrodisiacs."
"But after they drugged me and tried to put women in my way, I remained unmoved, and that's when they started to get suspicious."
“I think it’s good to let them think and doubt like that, as it can save a lot of unnecessary trouble. So I simply arranged for someone to spread some rumors myself.”
"Most people like to hear this kind of thing. As the regent, I am even more of a focus of attention, so the rumors have spread and become common knowledge."
Chu Jichen lifted his eyelids, his gaze calm and unwavering: "What they think, what they say, is not important."
"Whether I'm capable or not, my princess knows best."
Shen Qingci gritted her teeth; she knew all too well.
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