"Master Cheng." Yu Qizhe stopped his horse ten meters away from Cheng Ying and asked, "What are the conditions for the peace talks?"
Cheng Ying stared at Yu Qizhe coldly in the darkness, his eyes full of undisguised disgust: "Edict of Zhu Kuang's abdication, or a white silk ribbon to send him off so that Liu Ziqi can legitimately ascend the throne, in exchange for one person."
After hearing this, Yu Qizhe felt bad and asked, "Who is it?"
"Yu Jiao." Cheng Ying's tone left no room for rejection and no room for bargaining.
Yu Qizhe's eyebrows turned cold in an instant. He did not show any shock or surprise. Instead, he felt as if it was as he expected. The huge rock that was pressing on his chest finally fell down, despite the fact that the exchange proposed by Cheng Ying was incredible.
Yu Qizhe's lips were pursed into a straight line, his eyes were like a cold pond, he restrained and calmly asked: "Why?"
Cheng Ying looked at him, her eyes filled with sarcasm, ridicule, as well as hidden resentment and jealousy.
"If you accept the terms of the peace talks, you must write the divorce letter yourself." Cheng Ying did not explain, or perhaps he deliberately did not explain. Yu Qizhe would never be able to participate in the past between him and Jiaojiao.
Yu Qizhe still asked persistently: "Why her?"
Cheng Ying smiled and finally responded to him: "Because she is Jiaojiao."
The veins on the back of Yu Qizhe's hand bulged as he gripped the reins. The name "Jiaojiao" came out of Cheng Ying's mouth with a natural intimacy, as if he had recited this name on his tongue millions of times.
He even caught a glimpse of an inappropriate emotion in Cheng Ying's strange and calm eyes, which was dazzling and absurd.
"If I remember correctly, all the eunuchs who were registered had to be castrated by the Ministry of Punishment, let alone the position of the Chief of the Imperial Household Department." Yu Qizhe spoke slowly, with a hoarse voice that concealed a bloody smell of forbearance. "So, may I ask Chief Cheng, why would a eunuch covet someone else's wife?"
Cheng Ying's expression paused, his smile turned cold, and his aura immediately became fierce.
"Eunuch..."
He rolled out the word eunuch on his tongue and sneered, "Of course, eunuchs can't compare to Lord Yu's success in the imperial examinations! Not everyone is as lucky as Lord Yu, who can effortlessly get what others can't even get with all their strength or even their life."
Many times, there is no fairness. He and Jiaojiao are always a step late due to some coincidences, but Yu Qizhe can always meet her at the right time, or even send her to him. Otherwise, why did he try every possible way, spend all his efforts, and wait for several years, but Jiaojiao's soul was transported to Qingyu Village when Meng Yujiao came to get married.
Not a step early, not a step late.
If fate is an invisible big hand that controls the universe, then it is pushing Jiaojiao and Yu Qizhe together, but deliberately separating him and Jiaojiao.
"Coveting someone else's wife?" Cheng Ying sneered, "If you don't have the actual relationship, you can't be considered a couple, right? Lord Yu, don't worry. A eunuch can also have the same relationship. I will always make her happy."
The expression on Yu Qizhe's face broke for a moment, and he could no longer maintain that calm mask. His knuckles were crackling from being pinched. He wanted to kill him, kill this eunuch who coveted and despised Jiaojiao.
"I have firearms in my hands. No matter how many troops you bring, you can't capture Xianyang." Cheng Ying's expression was dull, his eyelids slightly raised, and his narrow and long phoenix eyes looked at the other party with a feeling of arrogance. He deliberately poked Yu Qizhe's sore spot and said, "Whether you agree or not, she is by my side now. As long as you fail to capture Xianyang, she has to stay with me."
Seeing Yu Qizhe's face becoming increasingly ugly, Cheng Ying felt relieved. He squeezed his horse's belly and said, "If you still want a career in politics, tell Liu Ziqi my conditions honestly." The person he wanted to negotiate a deal with was Liu Ziqi, not Yu Qizhe.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
