Chapter 157 It Turns Out to Be a Miss
"I will marry no one but her..."
"I will marry no one but her..."
"I will marry no one but her..."
Yan Mu's words were powerful and echoed in the empty hall.
Concubine Zhe was completely dumbfounded. She sat there blankly, not coming to her senses for a long time.
Nanny Gui was also shocked by Yan Mu's appearance and took two steps back. She had never seen the young master like this. In the past, when the empress scolded and punished him, he would blink his big helpless eyes, and his thin little figure would hide behind the pillar, looking at people crying with his eyes wide open.
"Your Majesty..." Nanny Gui turned around and looked at her master with a serious expression.
"Well, well, you're truly a good son to me." Concubine Zhe staggered to her feet, her steps staggering. She was clearly furious. "You bastard! I'd rather have given birth to a stone than you!"
After she finished speaking, she picked up the teacup beside her and threw it hard at Yan Mu.
The porcelain smashed Yan Mu's forehead, and the hot tea spilled all over him, blurring his vision. He looked up in a daze and saw that the woman was like a madman, constantly picking up whatever was handy and throwing it at him.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty!" Aunt Gui realized something was wrong and hurried over to stop him. "Your Majesty, you can't hit him! You can't hit him! His Highness is your only son!"
Concubine Zhe was so unsteady that she almost fell to the ground. She had thrown the blanket covering her away somewhere. She cried and laughed at the same time, on the verge of collapse. "Oh my God, why did you let me give birth to such a useless person with no ambition and no future?"
Her son became alienated from her, and her world almost collapsed. All her hopes and efforts over the years vanished in an instant, leaving only emptiness and dead silence in her eyes.
"Your Highness!" Nanny Gui hugged her as she slid down, looked at Yan Mu in panic, and said loudly, "Third Prince, please admit your mistake!"
Concubine Zhe looked truly horrifying. Yan Mu had never seen his mother like this before. His expression was stiff, and he hesitated as he spoke, "Mother, I..."
Nanny Gui took the opportunity to speak, "Your Highness, please tell me you know you are wrong and that you will never have anything to do with Miss Zhao again!"
Hearing this, the three words "I'm sorry" froze on his lips. Yan Mu was stunned for a moment, and then his face darkened. "Miss Zhao is the best girl in the world. It's only natural that I admire her."
"You!" Concubine Zhe was so angry that she almost fainted.
"Your Highness! Are you going to anger your mother to death?" Nanny Gui was furious and looked at him with disapproval. "With your status, you can have any woman you want. Why are you so obsessed with her?"
Yan Mu remained silent, silently confronting the two of them.
The atmosphere in the hall was tense and no one spoke. At this moment, a cat's cry suddenly sounded.
Yueyaer skipped into the hall, walked around the mess on the ground, and rubbed her head gently against Yan Mu's palm, as if to comfort him.
Yan Mu's eyes instantly turned red, and a tear fell on the back of her hand.
Concubine Zhe's expression grew increasingly gloomy. She glared coldly at the man and cat below her, almost gnashing her teeth to pieces. "Madam Gui, go and drown that beast."
Yan Mu suddenly raised his head and looked at her in disbelief, "Mother..."
"Don't call me mother!" Concubine Zhe was so angry that she was shaking all over, and the coldness in her eyes was piercing. "Madam Gui, what are you still standing there for? It's all these beasts who have ruined Mu'er's personality! If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted as to let him raise such a thing!"
"Yes." Aunt Gui hesitated for a moment and walked straight towards Yueyaer who was leaning against Yan Mu and acting coquettishly.
"No..." Yan Mu hid Yueyaer behind her, her eyes filled with fear. "If you have any dissatisfaction, come to me. Although Yueyaer is a cat, she is also a life. Mother, you..."
"Shut up! A mere cat can make you so concerned. Instead, you are so picky about the mother who gave birth to you and raised you." Concubine Zhe's eyes were cold, with an inexplicable frustration in them. "For you to inherit the throne, I don't care about human life, let alone a wild cat!"
"What are you all standing there for? Catch the cat!"
At Concubine Zhe's command, several confidants standing in the hall took action instantly, suppressed Yan Mu, and snatched the kitten from his hands.
"Yueyaer... Yueyaer!" Yan Mu struggled desperately, but was outnumbered. She watched with her own eyes as Nanny Gui lifted the kitten up and carried it away. "Mother, please, I beg you, I will be obedient..."
Concubine Zhe snorted coldly, not even giving him a glance, "If you don't listen to me, this is the outcome."
Tears flowed out like beads from a broken string. Yan Mu was pinned to the ground by four or five people. His handsome face was pressed against the blue brick floor, causing him pain. His face was pale and his eyes were empty. He seemed to have lost his soul and stared blankly at the palace door.
Concubine Zhe didn't notice her son's strange behavior at all. She said calmly, "Tomorrow night, I'm going on a boat trip with Xie Jieyuan. You must go."
Outside the palace, Nanny Gui was carrying the kitten all the way to the lake. When she saw the lake, Yueyaer seemed to be stimulated by something and suddenly scratched Nanny Gui's hand.
"Ah!" Aunt Gui screamed and subconsciously threw the cat away. She looked down at her injuries. After a moment, when she looked up again, the cat was gone.
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Zhao family
The sky was dark and there was a hint of rain coming. A blue-roofed carriage slowly stopped in front of the door.
Su Cheng slowly got off the carriage, with Cai Lian's chattering voice in her ears. The smile on her lips was helpless and doting. Just as she was about to enter the mansion, a cat's meow suddenly sounded.
Su Cheng subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound and saw a very familiar little tabby cat limping towards him, looking very pitiful.
"Yueya'er?" Su Cheng remembered it and quickly ran forward to hold up its dirty body. "How did you get into this state? Did you... hide in the swill cart and escape from the palace?"
Yueyaer nestled in her arms, crying miserably, as if she was saying something.
Su Cheng frowned due to the language barrier and asked tentatively, "Did something happen to Yan Mu?"
Yueyaer, who had been calling out just now, suddenly stopped making any sound and stared at her.
"It seems that I guessed right..." Su Cheng's expression changed instantly, and he gently held it in his arms.
"This cat seems to like you very much."
A man's voice came from behind him. Su Cheng stood up and looked, and saw Ji Heng's face that asked for a beating.
Ji Heng was wearing a dark red robe with gold-embroidered patterns on the cuffs. His black hair was loosely tied up, a paper fan was resting against his chest, and a playful smile was on his face, making him look like a playful young man.
"It's you?" Su Cheng took two steps back, his eyes full of vigilance.
Ji Heng pretended to be surprised, the smile in his eyes became even wider, and he gently waved his folding fan to fan the fragrance on his body, "Hmm? Young Master...it turns out to be Miss Zhao."
After he finished speaking, he slowly approached Su Cheng and opened his thin lips slightly, "Does your family know that you disguised yourself as a man and sneaked into the brothel?"
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