I will capture the prince on his wedding night and let him lift Qingyan's veil. That would be the most appropriate thing to do, and there would be no regrets.
After I unceremoniously left the prince in Qingyan's boudoir, I locked them inside and guarded them.
"Isn't it incredibly immoral of you to drag the princess's husband, who was supposed to be on his wedding night, to be with another woman?" Ranmo, dressed entirely in black, stood behind me and said righteously.
I glared at him: "Mind your own business! Have you ever been in love? It's obvious you've never had any feelings!"
"Love?" Ranmo scratched his head, seemingly deep in thought.
Then he started muttering incoherently again: "Did I ever love? Did I ever love..."
I've figured it out. Whenever I ask Ranmo a question about when, he starts to mutter and ramble on.
I picked at my ear impatiently, thinking of getting away from him.
But he's like a fly buzzing around you, you can't get rid of him, so I just stopped bothering with him.
He listened intently to the sounds coming from Qingyan and the prince's bedroom.
Through the candlelight inside the room, one could see the prince's figure slowly walking into the room.
But they didn't hear a word from either of them.
He took the wine jar and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth, then smacked his lips.
It seems both of them were stunned?
However, I vaguely heard Qingyan say through her drunken breath, "Looks like I'm really drunk, I actually mistook Ah Hua for my prince!"
"You're not mistaken, it's me!" the prince said directly.
Then, I heard Qingyan's voice tremble slightly with trepidation: "Your Highness, on your wedding night, why aren't you in your own bridal chamber? Why...why are you here?"
"You don't want me to come?"
"Whether I want it or not is not up to me to decide," Qingyan said somewhat defiantly.
"You look beautiful today. I wonder which young master will be lucky enough to have you as his wife..."
"Your Highness should know that Qingyan's heart belongs only to you in this lifetime and there is no room for anyone else." Qingyan finally broke the ice.
"You've had too much to drink, you should get some rest!" the prince said, deliberately avoiding the question.
"If Your Highness were an ordinary person, would you choose me?" Qingyan continued to press.
"Yes!" the prince answered readily.
After the word was spoken, the two remained silent for a long time.
Qingyan then said knowingly, "It's getting late, Your Highness should go back soon, so as not to leave the bride alone in her room."
"Hmm!" The prince gave a casual "hmm" before adding, "But the door is locked from the inside."
His tone was full of reluctance to leave.
A loud crash!
Qingyan kicked the door open without any gentleness.
The prince nodded to her and left without looking back.
"That's it? I went through all that trouble to bring him here, and you're just letting him go like that?"
I stared at Qingyan, whose face was gloomy, with a puzzled look on my face.
"We loved each other and stayed together, that's enough!"
Then Qingyan snatched the jar of wine from my hand and gulped down several mouthfuls.
"This is my wine, don't drink it all!"
Finally, we both got so drunk that we collapsed onto her bed, completely unconscious.
The next morning.
"Splash!" Qingyan and I were woken up by a basin of ice-cold water.
Startled by the splash, I jumped out of bed.
What I saw was Princess Xiangyun with a dark face, leading a group of maids to surround the bed where Qingyan and I were!
"You two vile women, how dare you knock me unconscious on my wedding night and kidnap my husband!" Princess Xiangyun cursed at me and Qingyan with foul language.
"It was I who knocked you unconscious! I kidnapped your prince consort, what are you going to do about it?"
As I spoke, I got up and casually rummaged through Qingyan's wardrobe, pulling out one of her plain-colored clothes. I put it on without any hesitation, while smiling faintly.
After all, we were indeed in the wrong.
"What should we do?" With that, she waved her hand, and the maids behind her surrounded me and Qingyan with fierce expressions.
He raised his hand and slapped Qingyan across the face, and Qingyan didn't even fight back?
I'm always the one bullying others; if anyone dares to bully me, I won't let them get away with it.
But now, for some inexplicable reason, I didn't resist, and several heavy slaps landed on my and Qingyan's faces.
I touched my slapped cheek but said calmly, "Princess, please leave now that you've calmed down!"
"I heard you really cherish this potted plant of yours."
Who knew that this girl would go even further and hold up my most treasured Mountain God Seal in her hand.
Qingyan found this potted plant in the wreckage not far from where I was found in the sea of fire, and brought it out for me.
Princess Yunxiang, however, held up the potted flower with great pride and said, "Unless you two kneel down and beg for mercy."
Oh dear, with my short temper, how could I possibly tolerate him?
They stole my things and then made me kneel down and beg for mercy?
So, like a wolf with bloodshot eyes, I threw the group of people out.
I managed to catch the flower before it hit the ground.
Seeing that they were no match for me, they had no choice but to leave dejectedly.
But after I made a scene, this so-called princess became even more unreasonable and went to complain to her own father.
With war looming at the border with the emperor's forces, the prince desperately needs the princess's troops to help him.
Then the princess used this as a pretext to blackmail him into ordering the deaths of me and Qingyan.
The situation has become this serious.
I thought this prince was a man of courage, loyalty, and righteousness.
But unexpectedly, at this critical moment, he actually cruelly sent over a bottle of poison.
The prince and I exchanged a glance, and I understood. He knew I possessed a secret remedy that could cure all poisons, and he wanted Qingyan and me to fake our deaths to get us away from here.
Since that's the case, I can only play along with him and stage a fake death with Qingyan.
From then on, he and Qingyan parted ways and went their separate ways, forgetting each other in the world.
When Qingyan and I woke up after faking our deaths.
I thought she would resign herself to her fate and leave this place...
But she remained obstinate and insisted on continuing to guard the prince in the shadows.
She said, "His Highness has always been in poor health. With the two countries at war, life and death are fraught with danger. He cannot live without me!"
Well, if she's determined to stay, there's nothing I can do to stop her.
Then I won't force you.
Alright, I'll see this through to the end. I'll stick with her for now.
Who told her she had money to buy me wine?
With my divinely ordained constitution, I can no longer kill living beings.
So he calmly held the wine jar and drank from a distance, watching the fierce battle between the two nations.
A huge, dark mass.
That brat Qingyan really did sneak into the battlefield.
Unfortunately, in order to save her beloved lover, she ultimately took a flying arrow for him.
He was hit by an arrow.
He fell in a pool of blood on the battlefield.
Seeing this, my heart tightened...
They grabbed their weapons and rushed into the battlefield.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com