Chapter 94: Weak, yet soft
After all, it was not as excessive as the day before. The water was called a little earlier today.
Qin Yurong followed the maid in and picked up the dirty clothes.
As soon as Cheng Nianying saw her face, she couldn't help but suspect that the prince seemed to have deliberately chosen this time to consummate the marriage.
But the man was brought by the Marquis to stay with her.
As a personal maid, doing such a thing seemed blameless...
She sighed softly.
This can't go on!
Cheng Nianying kicked the quilt, thinking that she could just have a low fever and get away with it.
Unexpectedly, Fu Yi stretched out his hand from the side and tucked the corner of the quilt tightly.
"It's hot." Cheng Nianying complained softly as she struggled to break free.
Fu Yi did not force her to do anything. He immediately sat up and called the maid, "Make the stove hotter."
Cheng Nianying's plan was declared a failure.
Wake up the next day.
Cheng Nianying opened her eyes and saw that she had bumped into Fu Yi's arms without knowing when.
Fu Yi also held her injured hand to prevent her from getting hurt again.
The two of them were pressed skin to skin, which was also different from before.
I always feel close to you, deep in my bones, and it makes me feel hot.
Cheng Nianying quickly jumped out of his arms.
Without opening his eyes, Fu Yi asked in a low voice, "Does it still hurt?"
Cheng Nianying's physique was so good that she didn't feel any pain at all. Instead, she felt her muscles and bones stretching.
But he still responded vaguely: "Yeah."
Fu Yi then slowly sat up: "Someone come here."
The maids heard the noise and filed in, helping the two to get up. Fu Yi called Qin Yurong alone, "Go and apply the medicine to the Princess."
Qin Yurong looked like she had lost her soul and could only nod.
Fu Yi left.
The others also retreated.
Qin Yurong finally got a chance to be alone with Cheng Nianying. She was about to collapse: "Or you can...you can just continue to live like this with the prince?"
"I...I want to go back to the Marquis' Mansion." Qin Yurong murmured.
They made love every night, and she was required to witness the mess that followed. In the daytime, they saw them being so intimate again.
It was a great stimulation for her.
Cheng Nianying gave her a strange look and said, "No."
"Don't you like the splendor and wealth of the Prince's Mansion?" Qin Yurong blurted out, then realized she had said something wrong.
This statement sounds too much like an accusation of the other person's character.
Cheng Nianying's expression didn't change at all. She just said, "I just don't want to pretend to be someone else anymore."
She had played too many people in the past.
She really wants to be herself.
Even if Qin Yurong offered to give up the title, she was unwilling to live with someone else's name for the rest of her life.
Qin Yurong said awkwardly, "Well, okay then."
Cheng Nianying suggested to her in return: "If you don't like the prince, I can find a way to get you out of this relationship, and then we won't stay here anymore."
Qin Yurong smiled bitterly: "Father and Mother are counting on this marriage with the Duke, how could they allow me to do whatever I want? If they could be compatible, I wouldn't have to commit suicide long ago."
"You can fake your own death."
"Faking death... isn't that easy." Qin Yurong didn't say it, but she took Chu Zhen's words to heart. "From now on, I won't have a legal identity, so I'll have no choice but to hide. Do you know what the consequences will be for a woman living among the common people, without the protection of her family?"
Qin Yurong said bitterly: "The daughter of the Marquis's Mansion must sit in the position of the Princess of the County. That's what my father said."
That doesn't sound...good.
Since she didn't have the chance to talk to Chu Zhen, Cheng Nianying asked Qin Yurong directly: "What kind of person is father?"
Qin Yurong was stunned: "What did you call him?"
Cheng Nianying was silent for a moment: "Didn't Madam Hou tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
Cheng Nianying told Qin Yurong what Chu Zhen had said.
Qin Yurong's expression almost broke: "You are my sister? You are my sister! Then how could mother send you to replace me..."
She jumped up and angrily smashed the porcelain vase in her sleeve.
"What is that?" Cheng Nianying asked.
Qin Yurong's face was filled with shame and indignation: "It's...it's the contraceptive medicine."
Cheng Nianying said "Oh" softly, then squatted down to pick it up.
Qin Yurong immediately rushed over and knocked the pill out of her hand: "What are you doing?"
Cheng Nianying raised her eyes: "It is useful."
Qin Yurong was stunned. She looked at Cheng Nianying's calm face and thought of what her mother said.
She, she seems to be much calmer and more rational than me.
"Don't you feel sad?" Qin Yurong asked in a daze.
"No." Cheng Nianying paused, "But I'm a little disappointed."
"disappointment?"
"The Marquis loves you very much."
Qin Yurong's tears fell. "Mother, she...she is just like that! In fact, she doesn't love me that much. She always...always puts her own interests first. Don't be disappointed."
"Is that so?" Cheng Nianying felt even more disappointed.
She could understand that the Marquis loved Qin Yurong more. But if she didn't love Qin Yurong that much...
Is such a mother still good?
The look in Jiang's eyes before her death flashed through her mind, and a feeling of suffocation suddenly arose in her chest.
Jiang's love is too strong.
It was so strong that she couldn't forget it after just one look.
Qin Yurong wiped her tears and asked, "Where did you live before?"
Cheng Nianying was stunned again.
Because she found that the Marquis's wife had never asked her such a question.
"Well, someone adopted me and raised me with many other people."
"Is life hard?"
“…It’s still good.”
"That's not good."
"It's still good."
"It's not good! Look, you accept everything so calmly. Even when I gave you the contraceptive pills, you didn't get angry. For you, it's still good. In fact, it's very bad, very bad!" Qin Yurong said anxiously.
Only then did Cheng Nianying take a closer look at this "sister".
She is too weak and soft.
Cheng Nianying said softly, "The prince is a very good person."
Although he seems to like manipulating people's hearts.
But Qin Yurong didn't even have a single ulterior motive, so it didn't matter.
"What are you talking about..."
"After I leave, you will probably fall in love with the prince and become his wife."
"I……"
"Your former lover must be the current Prince Rui. He is only the emperor's nephew, not his son. He is very evil. He is involved with you in order to plot against the crown prince. You should forget about him as soon as possible."
"You'll be fine."
Qin Yurong interrupted uncomfortably: "But I think mother has overlooked one thing..."
"What?"
"I think the prince likes you very much."
Cheng Nianying was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said, "Because he will treat his princess well, whether it's you or me, it's all good."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah." Cheng Nianying counted on her fingers, "Everyone in the mansion is very nice. Nanny Shi is very nice, and Lord Fu, the prince's cousin, is also very nice..."
"I heard that Master Fu is a cold and cruel person... Mother also told me that when he came to pick up the bride, his eyes were so high and his gaze was so high and so frightening."
"That's not true. You'll know when I take you to see them. ... They are all very nice. Not to me, but to the Princess." Cheng Nianying emphasized to her.
Qin Yurong was slightly distracted by what she heard.
Did she really do something wrong from the beginning? Is the Prince's Mansion really the best destination?
"Princess." The sound of a maid knocking on the door was heard outside.
"The prince is waiting for you to have breakfast together. Is your place okay?"
"Okay." Cheng Nianying stood up and took two steps, then turned back and applied the ointment on Qin Yurong's fingertips.
"This is?"
"Otherwise, once you show up later, the prince will know that you didn't apply the medicine to me."
Qin Yurong's throat tightened.
Her sister is smart and calm. Are all the people who treat her well really just because of her status as a princess?
Qin Yurong was still in deep thought.
Cheng Nianying had already strode out.
When she sat down in front of Fu Yi, Cheng Nianying picked up her chopsticks and whispered, "I want to go to Prince Kang's Mansion."
Fu Yi didn't even ask why he was going there. He just asked, "Aren't you going to write today?"
Cheng Nianying's heart was moved.
But I still refused.
Sooner or later she would reject everything in the Prince's Mansion.
"Let's do it another day." Cheng Nianying said softly.
My heart ached slightly.
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