Chapter 20
Jun Qingmo listened to the gossip around him but didn't take it to heart. Now, he was not so afraid of others looking at him.
His marriage with Xu Shuying was also arranged by Princess Anle.
As the future successor of the palace, he has the responsibility of revitalizing the family. Xu Shuying is a noble lady from a prominent family, talented, and a very good woman. Weiyuan Hou is also quite powerful in the court. Family marriage has been a tradition since ancient times.
He had no one in love, so he accepted it calmly.
Later, he was crippled and felt he had let Xu Shuying down. When the Weiyuan Marquisate called off the engagement, he actually felt better. He felt guilty for wasting a girl's life in vain.
However, it seemed that some things were not what he imagined.
"Hey, young man, why do you look familiar to me?"
"Hey! Yeah, yeah, does it look familiar?"
"Huh? You're not, you're not that person..."
"Yes, it's me, Zhen Wu Yu, and I live in the west of the city." Jun Qingmo frowned and changed the subject with a laugh.
"Oh, yes, yes, look at my memory. I go to the west side of the city often. I probably have seen it before but have forgotten it."
In the carriage, Xu Shuying and Jun Chengyu sat side by side.
Xu Shuying did not fail to notice the hand wrapped around her waist, caressing her intentionally or unintentionally, but she was too lazy to say anything. If she refused, this person would do something even more excessive.
To a man, especially a man like Jun Chengyu who has seen countless women, women are just like that. When they can no longer hold back, they will not care about anything else. If they are given a little taste of their own medicine, they can still hold on.
"After all these years, don't you still have to marry me?"
"If you had thought it through earlier, why would you have wasted so many years?"
Jun Chengyu buried his head in the woman's neck and sniffed her body fragrance.
"It smells so good, even better than that crazy afternoon. Shuying, I can't wait."
A breeze blew, lifting a corner of the curtain. Xu Shuying's eyes froze. She, she, seemed to see a familiar figure.
Not wanting to be noticed by the people around her, she tried hard to restrain the urge to lift the curtain to see what was going on.
But Jun Chengyu was hugging her and could see her reaction clearly. He reached out and pulled the curtain, a playful smile on his face.
There was a layer of frost in his eyes, and he said to the carriage outside: "Stop."
"Old acquaintance, why don't you go down and meet him?"
"Oh, meet him? I wish I could kill him." Xu Shuying clenched her fists and gritted her teeth as she spoke these words word by word. She was afraid that she could not control her emotions.
"You loved him so much back then that you couldn't help yourself, but now you're so heartless? This is still the way I like him."
Jun Chengyu fell in love with Xu Shuying the first time he saw her at the palace banquet. As the saying goes, the more you can't get her, the more you miss her.
His mother was favored, and he was also in the emperor's favor. If she married him, she would have a high status and endless wealth and glory. He was still very innocent at that time and felt that he could not use power to force her.
But Xu Shuying found out his thoughts and directly refused. Not only that, the Weiyuan Marquisate soon got engaged with the Anle Princeate, and he didn't even have time to ask the emperor for permission to marry.
After being tricked, he not only lost face, but also lost his lover. From then on, he became a playboy and a dissolute person.
"A piece of trash, a waste of my youth. What I want is the status of a royal relative, to bring honor to the family. A piece of trash who can't even hold the position of Crown Prince, is it still worth my attention?"
Xu Shuying looked at Jun Chengyu, and a bright and charming smile blossomed on her face, which rarely showed any expression. She made him lose his mind.
Xu Shuying has a very charming smile, but she never smiles in front of him.
Her slender, soft fingers grasped his chin domineeringly. "You were once young and ignorant, but now you understand the beauty of power. Your Highness, you must hold on to it."
A soft touch came from his lips, and Jun Chengyu's mind was distracted. Before he could move, Xu Shuying had already distanced herself from him.
She pulled a little further away and sat upright. "If I hadn't misjudged him, I would have already been the Sixth Prince's consort. Why would I have to be mocked and ridiculed by others as an old maid who can't get married?"
"Oh, I really don't understand why you girls like that kind of handsome scholar. When I think about losing to such a weakling, I feel really bad."
The carriage stopped and the people around knelt on the ground, not knowing what had happened.
Jun Chengyu brought his men straight to Jun Qingmo.
When the carriage stopped, the guards cleared the area around it. Jun Qingmo was pushed around uncontrollably and fell to the ground.
"Tsk tsk, who am I? Isn't this the famous Master Qingyan in the capital? Why would a good person like to lie on the ground instead of standing?"
Jun Qingmo didn't have time to lift up the wheelchair, so he had to greet them first.
"Meet the Sixth Prince, Miss Xu."
"Jun Qingmo, Jun Qingmo, everyone liked to compare me with you. I am a prince, and you are a pauper. Are you worthy of me? Bah." Jun Chengyu lifted the man's chin with his toes, as if looking at an ant.
Xu Shuying tugged at his sleeve and said softly, "He's already disabled now, don't bother with him."
"What's wrong? Are you heartbroken?" With a sinister voice, Jun Chengyu kicked the man over.
Jun Qingmo covered his chest and tried not to speak.
Zhang Yunniang was right. A wise man would not suffer a loss in front of him. Today he could only admit defeat.
Jun Chengyu was not a reasonable person. If he resisted, he would suffer even more severe retaliation.
Xu Shuying shook her head. The beautiful girl with a graceful figure spoke words as cold as ice, "He's just a cripple. If you argue with him and the news gets out, you'll lose your status for nothing."
"Rumors? When have I ever been afraid of them?"
His mother was favored, and he could do whatever he wanted in the capital. A poor relative dared to compete with him for her. Although he had vented his anger, he was still furious.
"I know you're not afraid. We're getting married in seven days, and we still have to go and pray today. Why waste time here with a paralytic?"
Jun Chengyu really fell for this. Although he was a playboy and would get hurt even by a single leaf when he walked among a field of flowers, it did not stop him from truly liking Xu Shuying.
"As you say. I'll spare him today. Let's go."
After saying that, he put his arm around the man's waist affectionately. He originally wanted to humiliate the man, but looking at the disheveled figure lying on the ground, which was no longer the gentlemanly and dignified look it had before, he felt it was meaningless to tease an ant.
Xu Shuying turned and followed Jun Chengyu toward the carriage. She finally glanced back at the man sprawled on the ground, his face utterly awful, his face utterly awful. The elegant image she had imagined in her mind would never be seen again.
There was reluctance in his eyes, but after a blink, that reluctance disappeared.
Just before getting on the carriage, Xu Shuying stopped again.
"Your Highness, how about sending him an invitation when we get married? It will be my apology for rejecting you earlier."
"After the worship, let him offer us a sincere blessing in public. What do you think?"
Xu Shuying tilted her head harmlessly and looked at Jun Chengyu, then looked at Jun Qingmo, and then looked away again.
Jun Chengyu scratched her nose with his index finger, his eyes filled with laughter. "Everyone says I'm a jerk, and you're a jerk too. Jerks paired together, a match made in heaven."
"Jun Qingmo, on the day of my wedding, I will send someone to pick you up to attend the ceremony, but don't be late."
The two of them boarded the carriage, which quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Jun Qingmo's emotions were relatively stable. Even though he was ridiculed many times, he didn't feel particularly uncomfortable.
He was extremely grateful at this moment that Zhang Yunniang's devilish actions had continuously enhanced his psychological endurance.
He himself was surprised that he could face what had just happened calmly even though he was humiliated and embarrassed in public.
He didn't know what to feel about Xu Shuying. How could such a good girl say such things?
Perhaps, he said that in order to stop the Sixth Prince from bullying him any further and to coax him away?
It was once joked that a talented man deserves a beautiful woman. Although he had no feelings for his nominal fiancée, they had some contact. Such a good girl shouldn't be like this.
He also found it hard to believe.
As the convoy moved away, the people around it breathed a sigh of relief without the guards blocking them, finally being able to move freely.
Someone came over to help find a wheelchair and helped Jun Qingmo onto it.
"Zhen Wuyu, are you okay?"
"Nothing, I'm fine." Jun Qingmo's face turned red at this moment. He made up a lie at that time because he didn't want to reveal his identity. Now that he was exposed, he felt a little embarrassed.
He can accept malice calmly, but he is a little overwhelmed by kindness.
"Hey, I know you're Zhen Wuyu, from the west side of the city. Can you go back by yourself?"
"I can go back, I can go back, I'll wait for someone."
Seeing him like this, the others gradually dispersed. Only after they had walked a distance did they show sympathy.
When Zhang Yunniang rushed back, she saw Jun Qingmo sitting in a wheelchair in a daze, waiting for her on the street, and she couldn't help but quicken her pace.
"What happened? Is anyone hurt?"
"I'm not hurt. I accidentally fell after leaving the store. I'm fine."
Jun Qingmo straightened his clothes and whispered, "All the pens and ink materials I bought fell down. There were so many people here that I don't know where they fell."
Zhang Yunniang saw that the man looked normal and had no obvious injuries, so she breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good that he's not hurt. If the things are gone, they're gone. We can just go buy more."
"It will cost a lot of money."
Zhang Yunniang smiled complacently, looked around, and pushed the person to a deserted place.
"I was just about to tell you the good news. Our storybook sold for a good price, but the payment is based on the stages. Each stage is five taels, but you need to deposit half. The remaining half will be paid after the final draft is completed, and there will be a reward of twenty taels. If it can meet expectations, the total amount will be forty taels of silver."
A light flashed in Jun Qingmo's eyes. He didn't expect there would be so many. He now understood the lives of ordinary people.
Twenty taels of silver are enough for a farmer to spend for a year. If he can finally get forty taels, it will be enough for ordinary people to spend for two years.
At first, he thought that it would be good if he could sell it for ten or eight taels.
Zhang Yunniang waved her hand and said, "So, I decided to go out to eat today."
Jun Qingmo didn't know why, but he felt at ease whenever he saw Zhang Yunniang.
He let himself be pushed away, and mentally blocked out the incident that had just happened, as if it had never happened.
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