Chapter 159 Treat you well as before
After leaving Ye Rushui, Jiang Lan went to the greenhouse, thought for a while alone, then left with a pot of flowers, looking very happy, as if she had finally gotten the answer and was no longer troubled.
"Once the high priest is released from confinement, he will calculate the wedding date for Your Highness and will definitely choose an auspicious day for Your Highness, both in terms of time and location."
"Don't worry, there are plenty of good days."
"Your Highness is right. Then I will not bother you any more."
Qi Wuhan had the eunuch An Zhong escorted away. When he turned around, he was stunned. The palace door in front of him was opened, revealing Jiang Lan's face.
She looked at him with a calm expression, but her eyes no longer had the same brilliance as when she came. Instead, they were gray and dim, as if covered by a layer of mist.
After standing there for a while, he walked towards her, a smile on his lips as he stood in front of her, as if nothing had happened. He asked softly, "When did you come?" He reached out to touch her face, but she dodged him. His eyes darkened for a moment, and he said in a casual tone, "Did you hear everything?"
"I heard it." Jiang Lan replied, her tone was too calm, as if she was trying hard to suppress her emotions. She looked up at his face, a faint hope flickering in her eyes, "Didn't you disagree before, right..." She wanted to ask him if he had any difficulties, but looking at his indifferent face, he didn't seem to want to explain at all, as if it was an insignificant matter and he didn't care at all. Only she felt a mess in her heart as if the sky was falling. Since he could act as if he didn't care, then she could too, even if she had to pretend.
"Congratulations..." She couldn't utter the word "happiness" after the "congratulations". She simply stopped pretending and let out her anger. Don't put yourself in a difficult position. "Asshole! Unfaithful man! Fickle! Abandoned after having sex with another man!..."
After she stopped, Qi Wuhan asked, "Are you done scolding?"
"A beast in human form, a beast in human clothing."
“…”
After cursing with all the four-character idioms she could muster, Jiang Lan turned to leave, but he put his arm around her waist and carried her over his shoulder into the bedroom.
Jiang Lan lay on his back and beat and hit him. As soon as Qi Wuhan put her down, she kicked him. She turned around and ran, but he hugged her from behind. She struggled to shake him off, but he hugged her even tighter.
"Calm down and listen to me." He whispered in her ear with a commanding tone.
Jiang Lan turned her head to the side, not wanting to listen to his sweet talk.
Qi Wuhan grabbed her shoulders and forced her to turn around and face him, but Jiang Lan still tilted her head and didn't look at him, so he pinched her chin and forced her face to turn around so that she looked at him.
"Even if I marry someone else, I will still treat you well in the future."
“.…..”
He looked confident, as if he felt that this explanation would surely appease her.
Jiang Lan just thought it was ridiculous and absurd. What did he mean by saying he would treat her the same even if he married someone else? Did he think she was an innocent little girl who could be fooled by such a lie?
"I don't need you to be nice to me. I will find someone who is nice to me."
Qi Wuhan's expression darkened. He lifted the hand that was pinching her chin and asked her to look directly into his eyes. His eyes were cold and terrifying. "Say it again."
Jiang Lan glared at him angrily, her eyes slightly red, and sneered, "The governor is allowed to set fires, but the people are not allowed to light lamps? Since you want to marry someone else, then write a letter of divorce first. In the future, you and I will be free to marry each other."
Qi Wuhan's face grew darker and darker, his brows thick with gloom. Jiang Lan, like a demon, was determined to continue provoking him, daring to say all kinds of cruel words, as if she was stuck in a dead end and couldn't turn around. "It's okay if you don't write it. You don't remember anything anyway. Just pretend we never met."
He was so angry that he almost lost his mind. A dangerous emotion was growing wildly in his heart. He wanted to destroy everything, wanted to wipe out everything... After calming down a little, he found that his hand was pinching her neck. He immediately withdrew his hand. A trace of self-blame passed through his heart. He glanced at her neck again. There was no mark left on it. The force used should not be too strong. He felt a little relieved.
The next moment Jiang Lan rushed over and punched and kicked him. Qi Wuhan did not fight back. Instead, he felt a little happy in his heart. It was better to lose his temper with him than to sulk.
Even after beating his hands so hard that they hurt, she still wasn't satisfied, so she grabbed his hand and left a row of teeth marks on the back of his hand.
"Can you listen to me now?"
Jiang Lan raised her hands to cover her ears.
“.…..”
Qi Wuhan forcibly took her hand away again, "I need a legitimate Crown Princess."
Just one sentence successfully pissed off Jiang Lan. She bumped her head against his chin and ran away while he was in pain.
If he needs the Crown Princess, he has to go. Anyway, she will never share a husband with another woman. If he wants to trick her into becoming a concubine with all kinds of lies, it's impossible!
Qi Wuhan called Ling Feng in and asked when he arrived.
"Madam is here to give flowers to His Highness."
“.…..”
When Ling Feng reminded him, he realized there was a pot of flowers on the windowsill. It was the pink Phalaenopsis orchid he had seen yesterday. What he didn't know was that in addition to giving him flowers, she was also going to finish the story she hadn't finished telling him before, at least to help him remember a little bit...
Looking at the pot of flowers, Qi Wuhan was a little absent-minded.
"I just saw Madam running out crying. Did Your Highness upset Madam again?"
“…”
Qi Wuhan regained his indifferent expression and said, "I've noticed that you've been talking more and more lately. The weather is nice today, let's go to the martial arts field and run fifty laps."
Ling Feng accepted the order and left.
After standing at the door for a while, he went to the study.
In the evening, he went for a walk to the greenhouse. Jiang Lan was not in the greenhouse, so he left.
"Cousin, you should go back and pack up quickly. We'll leave tomorrow."
Jiang Lan tied up the last bundle and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Xie Yun poured her a glass of water and asked cautiously, "Did you and your brother-in-law have another fight?"
Jiang Lan drank the water in one gulp, put the cup on the table, and denied it categorically: "No."
That must be the case. He said before that he would stay for another half a month but now he is in a hurry to go back. It seems that there is a big problem.
"We have finally come here, why don't we stay a few more days before going back? We will still have enough time." Xie Yun persuaded.
Jiang Lan slowly sat down on the stool, lowered her eyes and said nothing.
"Even if we want to go back, shouldn't we make some preparations? And shouldn't we tell Brother Ji about it?" Xie Yun continued to persuade.
Jiang Lan slowly leaned over the table, staring at the teapot in front of her in a daze.
At this moment, the door was pushed open with a bang, startling both of them.
Seeing the person standing at the door, Jiang Lan immediately turned her head to the other side. Xie Yungang called him brother-in-law, but when Qi Wuhan glanced at him, she gave him an awkward but polite smile.
"Get out." Qi Wuhan glanced at Xie Yun.
Xie Yun turned his head to look at Jiang Lan, then went over to him and whispered, "Be more considerate of Sister Lan. Be a man and don't be petty." Qi Wuhan glanced at him, and Xie Yun reminded him again, "Talk nicely and don't get angry." After that, he left.
When Qi Wuhan came over and sat down opposite her, Jiang Lan stood up to leave, but he reached out and held her back. He took her hand and led her to him, saying softly, "I will treat you well as before."
When she heard about the past, Jiang Lan's expression moved slightly, and a glimmer of hope ignited in her heart. When she met his tender gaze, she thought for a moment that he remembered everything, but her intuition told her that he didn't, and that glimmer of hope dimmed again.
"Are you really going to marry her?" She lowered her eyes and looked at him holding her hands, a trace of bitterness lingering in her heart.
Qi Wuhan held her hand tighter and said firmly, "No matter who I marry, I will still treat you well as before. No matter what you want, I will give it to you."
Jiang Lan wanted to laugh but couldn't. She could only squeeze out a bitter smile that was uglier than crying. When she raised her head and looked at him, a beautiful smile appeared on her face again. "Then can you let me be the Crown Princess?" Qi Wuhan was silent for two seconds and gave the same answer as before, "I will treat you well."
Jiang Lan slowly pulled her hand out of his palm, lowered her eyelashes and said, "No need."
Her tone and expression were calm, and a trace of panic passed through his heart.
He reached out to hold her hand, but she turned her back.
"It's getting late, Your Highness, please go back."
It was the first time he heard her address him as "Your Highness" so unfamiliarly. A trace of irritation rose in his heart, and when his eyes glanced at the bundles piled on the bed, he became even more irritated.
"If you dare to run, I will break your cousin's legs."
After saying that, he walked away coldly. Before one foot stepped out of the door, he was hit on the back by a fruit. He looked back and saw her raising her hand to hit the second fruit. He curled the corners of his lips slightly and walked away.
At night, Jiang Lan tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Two voices were fighting in her head, one asking her to stay, the other asking her to leave...
After turning over countless times, she sat up and prepared to go out for a walk. Just as she moved to the edge of the bed and was about to put on her shoes, she suddenly saw a pair of feet on the ground. She was startled and immediately shrank back into bed, reaching under the pillow.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is about to marry the Second Miss of the Ye Family. If Madam behaves herself and allows the Second Miss of the Ye Family to become the Crown Princess smoothly, I will spare your life. However, you will have to stay in Northern Desert from now on."
"I am his legitimate wife, why should I give up the position of Crown Princess to someone else?"
"So, Madam doesn't agree?"
A hint of murderous intent spread in the darkness.
"Wait, you can't kill me."
"Why?"
"Because...I'm pregnant!"
Hearing this unexpected news, the other party was distracted for a moment, and a sharp whistle sounded in the darkness.
The next moment, there was a thud and the man fell to the ground.
Jiang Lan immediately jumped out of bed and prepared to call for help, but a hand grabbed her ankle and pulled her back hard. In a panic, she pulled out the hairpin and tried to stab the other person, but she didn't expect it to go through at all, just like hitting an iron plate. Little did she know that the other person was wearing a piece of gold silk soft armor.
"You're looking for death!" The hand tightly strangled her slender neck.
At the critical moment, a figure broke in through the door and the other person immediately jumped out of the window and ran away.
Jiang Lan coughed violently a few times, and then heard Ling Feng's voice.
It was the whistle that brought him here.
"lady!"
Before she could catch her breath, she said to him, "It's Wei Ping..."
Qi Wuhan came over immediately. After listening to Ling Feng's report, he carried Jiang Lan back to the bedroom and asked her to stay there quietly. Then he led his men away from Ganyue Palace.
Wei Ping hid behind a rockery. He first took out the silver needle stuck in the Baihui acupoint on the top of his head, then touched the back of his neck. He still felt a slight tingling and numbness, as if he had been bitten by something.
When he came out from behind the rockery, he saw a fire chasing him from behind, so he quietly retreated back behind the rockery and left in another direction.
When Qi Wuhan arrived at Qinglong Garden, it was already late at night.
When the eunuch An Zhong came to see him, he said that an assassin had entered the palace and was heading towards Qinglong Garden, and he wanted to go in and search.
"Your Highness, please wait a moment. I will go and report first."
About half an hour later, An Zhong returned and said, "His Majesty has rested. Your Highness, please come back tomorrow. Your Highness, rest assured, the garden is heavily guarded, and the assassin will definitely not be able to get in."
"Since the assassin can't get in, I'll look somewhere else."
"Your Highness, take care."
After An Zhonggong saw Qi Wuhan off, he had the garden door closed again.
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