This way.
Ye Qingcheng didn't know if it was because she had developed feelings for Qin Mohan or because the dishes suited her taste, but she didn't refuse the dishes Qin Mohan offered and picked them up to eat.
Qin Mohan was very satisfied with this and was overjoyed.
After all, Ye Qingcheng accepted his advances, which means she has already forgiven him.
Thinking of this.
Qin Mohan's lips curled up: "It seems that the dishes prepared by the kitchen are very much to the Princess's liking."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qingcheng paused, glancing at Qin Mohan, and said, "It's just so-so! I only did this because I didn't want to waste this whole table of food."
"Oh! If that's the case, then I should consider changing my chef."
"Huh? Why change the chef?"
"Didn't the princess say that the taste was just so-so?"
"I meant it's so-so, not that it's inedible."
"Then the princess..."
"Alright, alright, Qin Mohan, what exactly do you want? Just say it!"
hiss!
The servants standing nearby gasped when they heard Ye Qingcheng address Qin Mohan by his given name.
This princess is incredibly bold! She actually dares to address the prince by his given name.
Oh no, oh no, it seems the prince is going to be angry this time.
However, Qin Mohan's next move completely astonished them.
Qin Mohan smiled and said, "Your Highness, do you think I have ulterior motives for treating you this way?"
"Isn't that so? As the saying goes, 'Those who offer unsolicited kindness are either up to no good or are thieves.'"
"Rumor has it that the princess is illiterate, yet she speaks eloquently. Rumors are indeed unreliable."
"You... alright, just say it! What do you want?"
"Your Highness has misunderstood. I simply wish to have dinner with you."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qingcheng tilted her head and stared at Qin Mohan with a suspicious look.
"Are you sure you have no ulterior motive? If not, then I'll be leaving now that I've had my fill."
As he spoke.
Ye Qingcheng then stood up.
Seeing this, Qin Mohan also stood up.
"etc!"
"Huh? Didn't you say you were fine?"
"I have no ulterior motive for sharing this meal with you, but I have something to discuss with you."
"What is it?"
"You may all leave now!"
Qin Mohan did not answer Ye Qingcheng's question directly, but turned around and told the servants to leave.
"Yes, Your Highness."
After all the servants had left.
Qin Mohan then asked Ye Qingcheng to sit down again.
"Speak! What is it?"
"I want to tell you that six years ago, it was not my intention to leave you alone in the cold courtyard."
"Qin Mohan, on our wedding day, you didn't even lift my veil before throwing me into the cold courtyard to fend for myself."
Now you're telling me it wasn't your intention? Did someone hold a knife to your throat six years ago and force you to do this?
It would have been better if Qin Mohan hadn't mentioned it, because as soon as he did, Ye Qingcheng stood up agitated and spoke coldly to him.
"Your Highness is right, someone did force me."
"I don't believe your nonsense. You are a dignified war god prince. You went to the battlefield at the age of twelve and have killed more people than chickens. Who would dare to hold a knife to your throat?"
Don't tell me it's your emperor father! Get out…
As she spoke, Ye Qingcheng became angry and turned to leave.
However, Qin Mohan still managed to stop her.
"open."
"If I said it was to protect you, would you believe me?"
"Protect me?"
"That's right, as you saw, I was targeted by multiple assassination attempts on my way back to the capital."
The day before our wedding, I was drugged at a palace banquet and inexplicably ruined a woman's life.
The king is going to the border again the next day. I am afraid that the woman was arranged by those people.
Secondly, I fear that if I marry you, I will go to the border and no one will protect you. Besides, there were people they had arranged in the mansion at that time.
I was worried they would attack you, which is why I resorted to this desperate measure.
Of course, I also had some suspicions about you at the time, suspecting that you were in cahoots with them and that you were sent to my side to monitor me.
It wasn't until the third day after you arrived at the border that Qinglong discovered you had no connection with those people.
"Is everything you're saying true?"
"certainly."
"Fine, just as you said. Since you know I'm not one of them, why have you kept me in the Cold Courtyard for the past six years without ever asking about me?"
At this point, whether it was the original owner's consciousness or Ye Qingcheng's sadness for the original owner, she couldn't help but shed tears.
Upon seeing this, Qin Mohan felt a pang of heartache and involuntarily pulled Ye Qingcheng into his arms.
"I'm sorry, the border war was intense at the time, and I simply had no time to attend to these matters."
Besides, I was thinking that if I threw you into the cold courtyard, your safety would at least be guaranteed.
Furthermore, I have yet to find the woman I destroyed that day.
They were afraid they would use that woman to get back at you.
And you should also know that on the second day after the wedding, you must enter the palace to pay your respects to your father, the empress, and all the concubines.
Without me by your side, entering the palace would be nothing short of a fiery inferno. With just a little bit of skill, they could prevent you from leaving the palace and even implicate the entire royal household.
Therefore, everything I have done for you is merely a temporary measure.
But I never imagined that my departure would last for six years.
At this moment, Ye Qingcheng was held in Qin Mohan's arms. Whether it was because she had developed feelings for Qin Mohan or because Qin Mohan gave her an inexplicable sense of security, she did not push him away, but listened quietly to Qin Mohan's explanation.
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