By this time, Wei Yao and Wang Zebang had quietly left, leaving only the two of them in the bamboo room filled with the bitter smell of herbs, but the door was wide open, so it was not a secluded room.
“Shou, you casually mentioned wanting to destroy the Ye Kingdom, but you don’t know that this matter concerns millions of people. Do they have a grudge against you? Do I have a grudge against you?” Zheng Quchi asked him calmly, even with a smile on his face.
Her words, though gentle, did not move Yuan Xingzhou in the slightest. Who had ever shown him any pity for his own suffering? Since no one had treated him kindly, why should he pity others?
"The General's wife is righteous and cares deeply for the people of Ye, even knowing that she cannot protect them?" He tilted his head back, leaning back wearily, his dark and serene eyes fixed on her.
"Before anything begins, people can always use their experience and speculation to discern the strengths and weaknesses of each other. But is the outcome necessarily determined by these prior strengths and weaknesses? If that were the case, then there would be no such thing as 'man can conquer nature,' nor would there be any saying that 'man proposes, God disposes.' If you don't try, who knows the outcome?"
Zheng Quchi is just being stubborn. The situation is beyond her control. She can't stand Yuan Xingzhou acting like a domineering CEO from an online novel, so she has to find a reason to stand her ground.
To put it more bluntly, she was just going against him. If he said one, her argumentative instincts would immediately counter with two.
Unexpectedly, her "righteous and awe-inspiring" appearance caused a strange, itchy feeling in Yuan Xingzhou's twisted mind.
His Adam's apple bobbed, and his calm tone betrayed an undercurrent of emotion: "You are truly wonderful, so why don't you... become my Crown Prince's consort?"
His words were so startling that Zheng Quchi was stunned on the spot.
She thought to herself, "As expected of someone who wants to destroy a country, his mind can't be reasoned with by common sense... I think he's sick now, maybe he really is sick."
She didn't quite understand his thought process, but she thought that they would be spending a lot of time together on the journey ahead, so she tried her best to understand him in order to keep up with his thought process.
"Why did you suddenly want me to be your Crown Prince's wife?"
She was not being self-deprecating at all. With her delicate and pretty appearance, she didn't seem like the type to make someone fall in love at first sight.
"I just feel that someone as awful as me deserves someone as good as you so that I can survive."
He spoke so earnestly, as if he were confiding his innermost thoughts to her, but Zheng Quchi got goosebumps all over her body listening to him.
He mentioned her twice, and she regretted that she had been too loyal to Yuwen Sheng and Ye Kingdom, which had attracted the covetous eyes of these perverts.
He's not good, his core is rotten, his life has no meaning. She became the seasoning in his dull world, adding a little sweetness, a little spice, a little salt, and a little bitterness, so that he could live a flavorful life.
He's dreaming of taking her side; did he even ask for her consent?
Although she intended to cultivate a good superior-subordinate relationship with him, she wasn't so desperate as to sacrifice herself.
She changed her expression and told him, "Actually, I'm not good at all. You'll know once you get to know me. I'm afraid of death, I love money, I'm short, and I like to talk nonsense."
“This isn’t exactly a flaw, is it?” He didn’t react much after hearing this; instead, he found it endearing. He wanted to laugh, but his deep sorrow suppressed it: “Murder, arson, robbery, treason, and betrayal—there are countless people like that in this world. What are you compared to them?”
Zheng Quchi: "..."
Once he laid out his standards, she felt as pure as a blank sheet of paper, no wonder he looked down on her minor flaws.
Zheng Quchi didn't know Yuan Xingzhou well, so sometimes she couldn't tell which of his words were true and which were just him joking with a bad taste. But she still had to make her stance clear to him.
She's not a player, and she doesn't play the player's game. Whether he's serious or just saying it casually, she has no interest in playing along.
“Your Highness, I’m a rather stubborn person. Please don’t joke with me. I’m a married woman, and I’m not good enough for you.”
"What if I'm not joking?" His thin lips were dry and chapped, and when he pursed them slightly, they revealed a blood-red color as if they were about to tear apart. She looked down on him and watched him coldly, but he insisted on making her lose her composure because of his words: "I want you. The more you refuse, the more I want you."
Zheng Quchi narrowed her eyes, meeting his deep, lifeless, and empty phoenix eyes, and knew that this time he was going to clash with her.
Indeed, a prince of a nation who desires a woman, even if he initially only intended to tease her, will suddenly find his pride acting up and he'll have to force himself on her if she repeatedly rejects him.
She laughed: "What I said just now was just a polite remark. In reality, I am proud and look down on ordinary people. If I were to remarry, I would not accept a title lower than that of the wife of a general of a country. Unless I am made the Queen of Shangye, I will remain in this position forever."
From a worldly perspective, the Crown Prince's wife is naturally more appealing than the General's wife. However, if we compare Yuan Xingzhou with Yuwen Sheng, even the most blind person would choose Yuwen Sheng, even though everyone is terrified of him.
Because to some extent, he was essentially the dark emperor or local tyrant of the Ye Kingdom.
If Yuan Xingzhou wants her to remarry, that's fine, but what makes her capable of marrying down? If she's so capable, she should marry someone better.
Her main strategy was to make him understand the difficulty and give in.
Isn't Yuan Xingzhou's return this time all for the purpose of destroying the Ye Kingdom?
If Ye Kingdom didn't have it, her request would be an impossible goal to achieve.
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