Hong Yin pushed the door open and closed it again, then approached cautiously, "Miss, Master Qin sent a letter. It's tonight."
Tonight? Shi Mingyue was stunned for a moment before finally realizing that today was the day she and Qin Zheng were going to elope.
She wouldn't go this time. Shi Mingyue's voice was filled with determination: "Go tell him, I'm sorry, I won't go with him."
Hongyin looked at Shi Mingyue in surprise. Miss Mingyue obviously liked Master Qin very much, so why didn't she elope with him?
"Miss?"
Shi Mingyue was very calm: "I thought about it, I can't be so selfish. If I run away from the marriage, what if His Majesty blames me? I can't implicate my parents and brother." After running away from the marriage in the previous life, the eldest prince and His Majesty did not actually hold the Shi family responsible, only because the eldest prince was kind-hearted.
Hong Yin said anxiously: "But the eldest prince is blind!"
Shi Mingyue knew that he was blind, and was born blind with white pupils. Therefore, there were many rumors that she ran away from the marriage because she didn't want to marry a blind man. Otherwise, who would leave the prince and elope with someone else?
But at that time, she certainly hadn't discriminated against the eldest prince because he was blind. Using someone's inherent flaws as a topic of conversation to mock and belittle them was deeply inappropriate. She had simply eloped with Qin Zheng out of affection. But over the past ten years, the genuine and simple feelings they had felt for each other, and for each other, had long since worn away.
She couldn't repeat the tragedy of her previous life. In that life, the eldest prince, presumably hurt by her escape from marriage, remained alone for ten years, never remarrying. She couldn't continue to hurt him in this life. She had more to do, like Wu Tan and Tang Nuan. Tang Nuan had hurt her terribly in her previous life, and even if she hadn't done anything to him in this one, she couldn't let him go. Tang Nuan was a spy for Wu Tan, a man of unbridled greed and brutality who had repeatedly violated Zhao's borders and torn up the peace treaty between the two countries. It was truly excessive.
Shi Mingyue had been in Xinzhou for ten years and was familiar with all the battles, big and small. She had made up her mind that since God had given her the chance to start over, she must cherish and seize it.
Seeing Shi Mingyue's firm attitude, Hongyin had no choice but to leave the room.
After washing up, Shi Mingyue hurried to the dining room for dinner. Only her mother and brother were there, waiting for her even before they started eating. Her father had gone to Jingzhao Prefecture early in the morning and wouldn't be eating at home. Seeing them, she was startled, a mixture of emotions welling up within her, but she didn't dare show it too much. She sat down sullenly and began to eat.
Mrs. Shi looked at her daughter with pity. Her daughter had been unhappy ever since the imperial decree of the arranged marriage came down.
Shi Mingji looked at his sister, a complex expression flashed across his eyes, and he lowered his head to eat.
That night, Shi Mingyue was sitting in her room in a daze when the door suddenly opened. She thought it was Hongyin, but Hongyin was not so ignorant of etiquette. She looked up and saw that it was Qin Zheng!
"Qin Zheng, you?" Shi Mingyue was shocked. How dare he barge in so openly?!
Qin Zheng, dressed in the official uniform of the Shaoyin of Jingzhao Prefecture, had an upright figure, a youthful and handsome face, and dark eyes that were so bright that it was hard to look away. He walked directly towards Shi Mingyue, his voice a little aggrieved, "Mingyue, why don't you come with me?"
Shi Mingyue didn't want to see him. She had decided at her death that she would never meet him again in the afterlife. In her previous life, he hadn't done anything excessive to her; he had simply ignored her, so much so that it was as if he and Tang Nuan were the master and mistress of the mansion, and she was just a transparent figure lying in the dark, cold house in the backyard.
"Go away, I won't go with you." Shi Mingyue turned her head away, trying hard not to let the tears flow out. Thinking of the past, she just felt that she was stupid and not worth it.
Qin Zheng was also filled with mixed emotions. He thought he could elope with Mingyue just as successfully as before, but Hongyin told him awkwardly that she wasn't going. His first thought was, had something gone wrong? In her previous life, she had clearly agreed to elope with him, so why had she suddenly changed her mind?
When he died of plague at the border and opened his eyes to find himself back to the age of eighteen, he could hardly help but kneel down and kowtow to God, thanking him for giving him the chance to be reborn.
On the day Mingyue died in his previous life, he fought a bitter battle against the Wutan army at Kongque River for a whole day and night, finally succeeding in killing the Third Prince, who led them. When he rushed home, Tang Nuan, holding Zilong's hand, told him that Mingyue was dead. For him, that moment was like the sky falling. Being reborn at the age of eighteen allowed him to be with Mingyue again. He would never let Mingyue suffer a single ounce of harm again. He would protect her and love her wholeheartedly.
But at this moment, Mingyue, who clearly loved him, turned her head away, unwilling to look at him, and even said that she would not go with him? Qin Zheng was completely confused about what was going on: "Why? Didn't we agree on this?"
Why? Shi Mingyue thought it was ridiculous to ask her why now? She turned her head and looked directly at Qin Zheng, saying firmly: "Because I don't like you, I won't go with you. Please leave my room."
At this moment, Qin Zheng realized that Shi Mingyue's eyes were full of pain and resentment when she looked at him. An amazing idea popped up in his mind: since he could be reborn, why couldn't Mingyue?
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