Qin Peng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard what Qin Shuhuai said.

She doesn't love him?

Is this what she told him before she died?

What happened to them before they died that made her speak out the truth?

Qin Peng thought about whether Zhao Peng loved Qin Shuhuai, and finally concluded that he probably liked him, but probably didn't love him.

Zhao Peng was too busy at that time. Apart from Qin Shuhuai, Zhao Peng was probably just a safe haven, a playmate, and someone who would treat her well.

There is trust like that of friends, intimacy like that of family members, as well as complex emotions such as gratitude, appreciation, and slight liking, but when it comes to the word love, she dare not say it.

Zhao Peng didn't know what it was like to love someone, but based on her personality, if she fell in love, she would probably do it passionately and never look back.

But when Zhao Peng married Qin Shuhuai, she was forced to do so, and she was hesitant and afraid.

When Zhao Peng followed Qin Shuhuai back to Daqi, he was also forced to do so. He was restless and unhappy.

She had a slight crush on Qin Shuhuai. After all, they had known each other for so many years and had been together for so many years. Moreover, Qin Shuhuai was good-looking and had a good temper. She had no reason not to like him. So when Qin Shuhuai was ten to sixteen years old, she always flirted with him and harassed him.

But she never thought of marrying him.

Even before he married her, she had already tried to promise herself to a young and promising general named Feng Zheng. Feng Zheng had a large army under his command. If she married him, Zhao Yu's throne would be further secured.

She still remembered the day when the emperor called her and Feng Zheng to the palace to discuss their marriage. Qin Shuhuai ran all the way from the school to the palace and stood guard at the palace gate.

At that time, she didn't know that he liked her. She had the emperor's promise and Feng Zheng's nod. Now she was just waiting for the imperial decree to grant her marriage. She came out of the palace happily and saw Qin Shuhuai standing at the door waiting for her.

He was still panting, obviously he had run a long way. She was a little surprised and couldn't help asking, "Aren't you still in school?"

"Have you seen Feng Zheng?"

He came up to her and asked her. She was stunned for a moment, thinking that this person was too quick to tell the truth. Then she thought, everyone in the palace is doing business, who doesn't have a few spies? Seeing that Feng Zheng didn't hide this matter, she nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, I will be giving you a marriage soon."

"Qin Shuhuai," she said in a gentle voice, "Soon, I will have my own home and stand firmly on my feet. What about you? When can you return to Daqi?"

As she spoke, Zhao Peng felt a little uncomfortable. She sighed and walked forward. Qin Shuhuai usually followed her, so she didn't care. She said slowly, "It's okay if you don't want to go back. When Ayu becomes the emperor and I become the eldest princess, I will take care of you. Don't worry."

As she was speaking, she realized that Qin Shuhuai had not caught up with her. She turned around and saw that Qin Shuhuai was shaking all over.

He stood there, his hands clenched into fists under his sleeves.

Zhao Peng felt that Qin Shuhuai was in a bad mood, and she frowned: "What's wrong with you?"

"Didn't you...say you like me?"

Qin Shuhuai seemed to be having a hard time speaking, "You said that before."

Zhao Peng was stunned. She wanted to tell him honestly that she was just teasing him.

She said she liked him when they first met at the age of nine, but how could she take it seriously? She just loved to play for a week, and he was so serious and old-fashioned every day. When she said she liked him, he would blush. She liked him and liked to tease him, that's all.

But she didn't know why, seeing his trembling appearance, she couldn't say anything, so she could only turn her head away and avoid the topic: "Shu Huai, what are we talking about now? Holding the power in your hands is the most important thing, understand?"

"So," Qin Shuhuai turned around and looked at him seriously: "You married him because he has power, right?"

"You marry him," he approached her. Zhao Peng felt a little scared and couldn't help but step back. However, Qin Shuhuai walked towards her step by step, forcing her against the wall, with nowhere to retreat.

He was half a head taller than her at that time. He held her in front of him and said in a low voice, "It's just because he can give you more now, right?"

"Is...right?" Zhao Peng struggled to speak. Qin Shuhuai closed his eyes, calming his anger and jealousy. After a long time, he slowly said, "Zhao Peng, I don't deserve you now, I know. But remember," he slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were firm, "When the day comes that I deserve you, I don't care whether you marry Feng Zheng or Wang Chun, no matter how many times you marry and how many people you love, you have to come back then."

Hearing this, Zhao Peng opened her eyes in surprise. Qin Shuhuai lifted her hand and bent down to kiss the back of her hand.

"You are my wife," he said in a low voice, "Please remember this."

After saying this, Qin Shuhuai let her go and turned away. Zhao Peng stood there for a long time before she suddenly reacted.

Qin Shuhuai likes her? !

The man who made her look sullen every time he saw her actually really liked her?!

Zhao Peng was shocked by the news and was in a daze for a long time. She felt a little unwell the whole day, so at the palace banquet the next day, she was tricked.

That day, after drinking the wine given by the queen, she felt something was wrong, so she quickly asked her maid to take her back. However, when she was halfway back to the palace, two masters suddenly showed up.

She had never thought that the queen could be so brave. At that time, she had no strength left, so she was carried directly to the broken temple in the cold palace. Two people pulled her clothes apart and were about to do something when Qin Shuhuai rushed over to rescue her.

The two men left immediately, and Qin Shuhuai did not chase them. He hurried over to put clothes on her, held her in his arms, and said tremblingly, "I'm sorry I'm late. It's my fault."

"Walk……"

She spoke in a hoarse voice, pinched his arm, and trembled, "Hurry up..."

Qin Shuhuai immediately picked her up and walked out. She had no strength left, her clothes were torn, and her face was abnormally red. She gritted her teeth and trembled all over. However, just as Qin Shuhuai picked her up, the door outside was suddenly slammed open.

Qin Shuhuai's first thought was to protect her, but this action made the people outside more certain of their speculation.

A large group of people came in anxiously, with the emperor, empress, and Feng Zheng walking in the front. When the emperor came in and saw this scene, his eyes suddenly became angry and he shouted, "Everyone get out!" Then he asked the master beside him to pull Qin Shuhuai away.

After pulling it open, they saw Zhao Peng, who was wearing Qin Shuhuai's clothes, crawling on the ground and hugging himself.

Zhao Peng was trembling, his clothes were torn and scattered all over the ground. This scene was very imaginative. Feng Zheng was the first to react. He drew his sword and pointed it at Qin Shuhuai, angrily saying: "Qin Shuhuai, I will kill you!"

Qin Shuhuai rolled on the ground to avoid Feng Zheng's sword. Zhao Peng heard the sound beside him and kept stimulating his palms with his fingernails to make himself more awake.

Now she had to make a decision.

Save yourself, or Qin Shuhuai.

If she admitted that she had a secret meeting with Qin Shuhuai and did such a thing on the eve of her marriage to Feng Zhengci, she would be doomed. She would lose the favor she had worked so hard to gain and would have to marry Qin Shuhuai. Qin Shuhuai was just a hostage, and her marriage was the biggest support she was going to give to Zhao Yu. Marrying Qin Shuhuai meant that she had given up her biggest bargaining chip.

But if she accused Qin Shuhuai of using a trick to force her...

Now that she is still chaste, she still has a chance to turn the tables and marry Feng Zheng. But what about Qin Shuhuai?

A hostage attempted to force a princess of a country, and this princess was the fiancée of an important official who was about to be granted an imperial decree. For Qin Shuhuai, this was definitely a dead end.

Reason told Zhao Peng that she should speak up.

But when she heard the sounds of fighting, heard Qin Shuhuai being captured, heard him groaning as he was pinned to the ground, her mind was of that year when she sent her mother up the mountain, and he stood behind her, holding up the coffin for her; that year when they hid in a deep pit dug by hunters, and he opened his arms and held him in his arms; with his intelligence, he should have known that this was a setup for the two of them, but he still rushed over without looking back, and has not uttered a word to this day.

So she didn't know what she was thinking at the time. She suddenly raised her head, looked at the emperor with burning eyes, and said calmly: "Please, father, marry me to the prince of Qi, Qin Shuhuai."

When these words came out, everyone was shocked. Feng Zheng turned around suddenly and asked: "What did you say?!"

"I have long admired the Crown Prince Qin. Please, Father, for the sake of our long-standing father-daughter relationship, grant my son's wish."

Zhao Peng knelt down and kowtowed deeply. The emperor was so angry that he pointed at her. After a long time, he finally shouted: "As you say! As you say! If you want to protect him, you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

After saying that, the emperor took everyone away. Zhao Peng breathed a sigh of relief. Qin Shuhuai came to her and gently held her in his arms.

"You won't regret it." He seemed to have not expected her choice. He hugged her tightly and said hoarsely, "Pengpeng, what they can give you, I can give you sooner or later. What they can't give you, I can also give you."

"Zhao Peng," he looked up at her and rested his forehead against hers, his clear eyes full of determination: "One day, I will return to Qi and ascend the throne. At that time, you will sit beside me, holding hands with me, dividing the country and sitting above thousands of people."

"In this life," he promised her, "I only have one Zhao Peng."

She looked up at him, listened to his words, and couldn't help laughing.

He is different from her. What she says is always true or false, but what he says is what he means.

But this time, she wanted to tell the truth.

"Qin Shuhuai, what if I just want to save you?"

"What if I don't love you and I just want to save you?"

"Love me or save me," Qin Shuhuai smiled slowly, "You will be my wife in the end."

That was the only time she told the truth. In the days that followed, she always felt that since they only had one life to live with, there might not be anything wrong in telling more lies to make this person happier.

After saying it so many times, everyone believed it, sometimes even Zhao Peng himself believed it.

But what kind of scene made her say this? Or did Qin Shuhuai not believe it from the beginning?

So Qin Peng half squatted down, looked at Qin Shuhuai, and said gently: "Qin Shuhuai, why do you think Zhao Peng doesn't love you?"

As Qin Shuhuai listened to this, a cold wind blew over him, and he became much more sober. He looked at Qin Peng who was looking up at him, and felt that this person was very similar to Zhao Peng.

The way he looked up at him was exactly the same.

But he was sober now, so he could recognize her. So he raised his hands, pressed his temples, closed his eyes, and said as if he had a headache, "Your Highness, the Princess has followed me here for quite some time, right?"

Qin Peng: “???”

How could this guy sober up so quickly?

Then, Qin Shuhuai added: "You have been with me for so long without me noticing. You are really good at it."

"Thank you for the award." Qin Peng was a little embarrassed. He stood up and said hello, "Well, I'm leaving now."

"Standing."

Qin Shuhuai lowered his voice. Qin Peng stopped and turned to look at him. Qin Shuhuai opened his eyes and looked at Qin Peng.

"Miss Jiang," Qin Shuhuai said firmly, "You must have put a lot of effort into pretending to be the fourth princess, right?"

Qin Peng was stunned, and Qin Shuhuai felt a little doubtful. If this person was really Jiang Yi, then she was too scheming and too good at pretending.

After Qin Peng went to the Jiang family cemetery that day, Qin Shuhuai became suspicious.

Qin Peng used to be a crying woman, but now she is both capable of fighting and calculating.

After Jiang Yi died, her body was taken away by Bai Zhi. But now Bai Zhi appears next to Qin Peng, and Jiang Yi's body has disappeared.

Wang Ke is his person, and the only women who know about it are Jiang Yi and Zhao Peng. Zhao Peng is dead, so it can only be Jiang Yi.

All signs point to Qin Peng, who might be Jiang Yi.

Bai Zhi had been a guest at the Jiang family. If Jiang Yi knew that he was going to kill her, she would fake her death and escape, then let Bai Zhi steal her body, come back to life, and then find a way to replace herself with Qin Peng, and rely on Bai Zhi's guidance to imitate Zhao Peng to confuse him, and then use Qin Peng's identity to control him...

If you think from this perspective, many puzzles will become clear.

So Qin Shuhuai was certain that Qin Peng must be Jiang Yi.

However, Qin Peng's reaction at this moment was beyond Qin Shuhuai's expectations. Looking at her expression, it seemed that she really didn't know why he said that.

What confused Qin Peng was that he didn’t think she looked like Zhao Peng, but instead thought she looked like Jiang Yi? ! !

He is not sincere to Zhao Peng! !