Chapter 102 She is his wife! He cannot remarry!
Chu Jichen subconsciously turned his head to look at Shen Qingci. Although he didn't say a word, Shen Qingci immediately realized what he wanted to ask.
“Go, I’ll go with the Prince to see too.” Shen Qingci glanced at Chu Jichen with a half-smile, her lips curving into a smile: “The Prince came early to lift my veil and had the steward tell me that from now on I am the mistress of the Prince’s mansion and can go wherever I want. Isn’t it all for this moment?”
Chu Jichen lowered his eyes and chuckled softly, "Oh no, Qingqing found out."
Chu Jichen suddenly changed his way of addressing her, calling her Qingqing...
Shen Qingci inexplicably felt as if a feather had suddenly brushed against her heart, giving her a tingling, numb sensation.
Chu Jichen was the first to call her that.
Previously, people either called her Qingci or Aci.
When Qingqing spoke, it sounded like a lover's whisper, carrying an indescribable sense of intimacy.
Shen Qingci bit her lip, not wanting Chu Jichen to affect her state of mind. She turned her eyes away and whispered, "Didn't Your Highness release Huo Yunzhan today so that he would know that I married you?"
"His coming to cause trouble is probably exactly what the prince wanted, isn't it?"
"In this way, once I go out with the prince, the whole capital will soon know that the prince is getting married today and that I am the one he is marrying."
Chu Jichen smiled and said, "Yes, I want everyone in the capital to know as soon as possible that Qingqing and I are married."
The steward silently withdrew his ghost-like expression, shuddered, and thought to himself: Good heavens, no one told him that their prince was married and looked like this! Who will save him?
"Let's go," Chu Jichen said, extending his hand to Shen Qingci.
Shen Qingci's gaze fell on his hand. After a moment of silence, she placed her hand on it, and Chu Jichen immediately grasped it.
When the two arrived at the wedding hall in the front yard, Huo Yunzhan was still shouting, "Go and call Chu Jichen out! I want to ask him who he's marrying today!"
A guest nearby whispered among himself, "Has this Marquis Yongning gone mad? He's actually calling the Regent by his given name!"
"Why is he so agitated? Who exactly is the prince marrying?"
"Could it be... his wife?"
"That can't be right, can it? Even though Your Highness is reckless, he shouldn't be capable of forcibly taking another man's wife, right? Besides, isn't his wife Liu Ruolan? Liu Ruolan's appearance isn't particularly outstanding, is it? Your Highness... why?"
"However, speaking of which, the Regent's Consort whom the Prince is marrying today is indeed quite mysterious."
"Indeed, even though we've come to this wedding banquet, we still don't know who the Regent's wife is."
"Could it really be..."
While everyone else was watching and discussing, a servant's voice suddenly came from behind: "The Regent has arrived! The Regent's Consort has arrived!"
The others quickly turned around and saw Shen Qingci, dressed in a wedding gown and with exquisite makeup, appearing hand in hand with Chu Jichen behind them.
Almost everyone only saw the true face of the new regent's wife at this moment, and their eyes all showed amazement.
No wonder the new regent's wife is so beautiful...
"She is very beautiful, but this one is clearly not Liu Ruolan."
Some people, unaware of the situation, speculated: "Could it be that the Marquis of Yongning is keeping her outside..."
Before the whisperers could finish speaking, someone next to them grabbed their sleeve: "What nonsense are you spouting? This Regent's Consort... is Shen Qingci! The widow of the late General Who Conquers the West! She is... the former sister-in-law of the Marquis of Yongning!"
"Ah! So she's just his former sister-in-law? Seeing how crazy Marquis Yongning is, I thought...it was someone else of his."
Huo Yunzhan had already spotted Shen Qingci.
He stared intently at Shen Qingci, his eyes bloodshot.
So... Shen Qingci looks so beautiful in her wedding dress!
When he married Shen Qingci, he was constantly being forced to drink alcohol. By the time he returned to the bridal chamber, he was almost unconscious. He carelessly lifted the veil and completely lost consciousness, unable to even remember what Shen Qingci looked like that day.
Unexpectedly, the moment he truly saw Shen Qingci in her fiery red wedding dress, her stunning beauty captivating all who looked at her, was when she married someone else.
She's clearly his wife!
How could you marry someone else!
Huo Yunzhan stared intently at Shen Qingci: "You cannot marry someone else."
Before Shen Qingci could speak, Chu Jichen couldn't help but let out a cold laugh: "Your words, Marquis, are quite domineering!"
"Why can't my queen marry me?"
"I have married you through proper channels, and the imperial decree of marriage has already been issued. It should be in your hands, right?" Chu Jichen had already seen the imperial decree clutched tightly in his hand, and his eyes became even more mocking: "Why can't you marry me?"
Why? Because, of course, it's because Shen Qingci is his wife! She was pregnant with his child!
But he hadn't completely lost his mind. Those attending Chu Jichen's wedding banquet today must all be prominent figures in the capital...
Huo Yunzhan's throat tightened slightly: "Naturally, it's because she's my younger brother Huo Yunzhan's wife!"
Shen Qingci scoffed, her eyes cold and sharp, silently cursing in her heart: Coward!
If he dared to admit in front of everyone that he was Huo Yunzhan, and that he had impersonated his own brother in order to obtain the title of Marquis and Liu Ruolan, the daughter of the Prime Minister, she might have thought a little more highly of him.
But he dared not.
Shen Qingci raised her chin slightly: "Yes, what the Marquis said is correct. I was indeed married to General Huo Yunzhan, the General Who Conquers the West. I was his wife!"
"But... Huo Yunzhan died in battle, and I became a widow."
“When he first died, I couldn’t accept his sudden passing and attempted suicide twice, wanting to follow him in death.”
"But later, everyone advised me that Yun Zhan had already passed away, but I should live well."
"I chose to remarry because I wanted to use another person to cover up the traces of him in my life."
"So when the prince sent someone to propose marriage, I agreed."
"But I have always insisted that I must observe a hundred days of mourning for Yun Zhan before I can remarry."
"And I did it, even if..."
Shen Qingci lifted her eyelids and looked at Huo Yunzhan with a mocking look in her eyes: "Even after I became a widow, I suffered all kinds of humiliation and hardship in the Marquis's mansion. In the end, I even chose to leave the Marquis's mansion because I couldn't stand your bullying. However, I did not get married during the mourning period. Instead, I insisted on observing the mourning for the full hundred days."
"I have done everything I could to be kind and righteous to Yun Zhan. What more could you possibly want from me, Marquis?"
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