Chapter 103 Chu Jichen is no good!
"Yes, yes." The guests nearby listened with great interest, nodding repeatedly: "Indeed, quite a few people know about the Huo family's affairs. I've also heard about Miss Shen's two attempts to kill herself for Huo Yunzhan."
"And then there were those things that happened later. Liu Ruolan pushed Miss Chen down the steps, causing Miss Chen to miscarry. Her only hope, her posthumous child, was also lost."
"Later, it was Liu Ruolan who pushed Miss Shen into the lake, nearly causing her death. Then, it was Marquis Yongning who tried to drug Miss Shen and send her to the palace to be presented to His Majesty!"
"And there's more... there's also the Marquis of Yongning pretending to be his own younger brother, trying to trick Miss Shen into returning to the Huo family mansion."
Someone couldn't help but click their tongue: "Despite all these incidents, Miss Shen still remarried after Huo Yunzhan had finished his hundred-day mourning period. She has already done more than enough."
"I really don't know where the Marquis of Yongning got the nerve to cause trouble at someone else's wedding hall!"
"Could it be... that he still wanted to offer Miss Shen to His Majesty, but Miss Shen chose to remarry the Regent, and that's why he got anxious? Tsk... I never expected that Marquis Yongning would be this kind of person!"
Huo Yunzhan naturally heard everything the others were saying, and his expression grew increasingly worse.
They know absolutely nothing! Shen Qingci is his wife!
Huo Yunzhan gritted his teeth: "Our Huo family has not stopped you from remarrying! But you shouldn't have kept it a secret that you were going to remarry the Regent, should you?"
Shen Qingci tilted her head: "When did I hide it?"
"Didn't I say before? His Majesty has issued an imperial edict of reward."
"But as a woman, it's not appropriate for me to talk about my marriage in public, is it?"
"Didn't I ask you tactfully before? I asked you if it would be possible to place this imperial edict of reward and the imperial edict of my being conferred the title of Lady together in the ancestral hall for worship."
“I was thinking that since I was going to enshrine the imperial decree of marriage in the ancestral hall, you should at least take a look at it.”
Shen Qingci's eyelashes trembled slightly: "But when His Majesty asked me my name and identity when I entered the palace to express my gratitude, the Marquis was anxious to ask me if I had been favored by His Majesty, and did not ask me about the imperial decree at all."
"However, hasn't Your Excellency discovered it as well? The imperial decree bestowing the marriage should be in your hands, shouldn't it?"
The others immediately started whispering again: "Is the Yongning Marquis's residence really this absurd? They don't even bother to look at the imperial edict that's enshrined in the ancestral hall?"
"And it's been enshrined in the ancestral hall for so long, how come they only just discovered it?"
Shen Qingci's beautiful face was full of coldness: "Besides... even if I remarried without informing the Yongning Marquis's Mansion, there's nothing wrong with that, is there?"
"My relationship with the Yongning Marquis's mansion only began after I married Yun Zhan. Now that Yun Zhan has passed away, we have no further connection."
"The Marquis is merely my former brother-in-law. What right does he have to question my remarriage?"
Chu Jichen curled his lips into a smile, raised his eyes to look at Huo Yunzhan, his eyes full of mockery: "Yes, he's just a former brother-in-law, what right does he have to question my princess?"
Former brother-in-law?
Huo Yunzhan clenched his teeth, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
He always felt that Shen Qingci and Chu Jichen looked at him with a strange and meaningful gaze, as if... they knew something.
Got it... what?
Huo Yunzhan's eyes widened, a look of astonishment flashing across them. Could it be that Shen Qingci knew he was Huo Yunzhan, but was impersonating Huo Yunting?
They found out that he was impersonating Huo Yunting and desperately trying to get Liu Ruolan pregnant with his child.
When was it?
Was it after he escorted the spirit back to the capital?
Shen Qingci loved him deeply, and she never confused him with Huo Yunting, even though they looked exactly alike.
On the contrary, Liu Ruolan had apologized more than once...
Once a wave of doubt arises in one's mind, it will quickly surge into a vast ocean.
If that's the case, then Shen Qingci's later change in attitude towards him can be explained...
There's a reason why she remarried so quickly.
She probably just... was angry that he was having an affair with Liu Ruolan, so she deliberately married Chu Jichen, right?
The thought of such a possibility made Huo Yunzhan tremble uncontrollably.
Yes, that's it, that must be it!
She's just deliberately trying to spite him!
She was just waiting for him to explain and for him to coax her.
Huo Yunzhan opened his mouth: "Do you... know something?"
Shen Qingci raised her eyebrows slightly. As soon as she saw Huo Yunzhan's reaction, she knew what Huo Yunzhan was thinking.
Shen Qingci couldn't help but lower her eyes and chuckle. How come she hadn't noticed before that Huo Yunzhan was actually... such a person?
She's really blinded by greed; how could she possibly like... someone like that?
It's also because he acted so well.
"I don't know what you're talking about, my lord. All I know is that today is my wedding day with the prince. You, my former brother-in-law, are making a scene at the wedding for no reason. It's really inexplicable."
“I have no connection with the Yongning Marquis’s Mansion anymore. From now on, I am just the Regent’s Consort. Marquis, please leave.”
"In the future, Your Excellency should refrain from doing such inexplicable things, otherwise, people will think that Your Excellency has gone mad."
Huo Yunzhan immediately glanced at the guests gathered around him, and a hint of joy welled up in his heart. Qingci... was she worried about him? Was she worried that he would cause a scene in front of so many people, making things difficult to handle, and that Chu Jichen would seize on it and lock him up for torture.
She probably did it on purpose, to protect him and prevent Chu Jichen from having a pretext to take him away.
She told him to stop doing such absurd things, otherwise people would think he was crazy. She was concerned for his reputation; she was worried it would be damaged.
That's true... the airport isn't suitable for today.
He couldn't reveal his true identity in front of so many people.
He could wait, wait until he could secretly go to her, explain everything to her, and clear up the misunderstanding.
Actually, thinking about it carefully, it's not a bad thing that Shen Qingci married Chu Jichen.
Chu Jichen wields real power and is also Prime Minister Liu's biggest political enemy.
If he could reason with Shen Qingci and persuade her to stand with him and become a spy for Chu Jichen, gathering and passing on information about Chu Jichen, that would be ideal.
Moreover… Chu Jichen is disabled! He can't perform sexually!
Even if Shen Qingci married him and became the nominal regent's wife, Chu Jichen could not do anything to her.
Even if Shen Qingci remarries, she can return to his side cleanly and without any repercussions.
The more Huo Yunzhan thought about it, the more convinced he became that this was indeed the case; his guess was correct.
He smirked and said, "Okay, okay, okay."
"Since you've put it that way, then forget it..."
“I was just worried that since you never told us you were going to remarry the Regent, it was because the Regent was forcing you.”
"Since it's your own choice, then I... respect your wishes."
Huo Yunzhan took a deep breath. Although he already knew Shen Qingci's plan, he still couldn't help but clench his teeth and speak reluctantly in the end.
On behalf of the Yongning Marquis's Mansion, I wish you a happy marriage.
After he finished speaking, he turned and left.
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