Chapter 262 Concubine
"Your Highness, I thank you!"
Yuan Zitong didn't dare to refuse the wine that Xuanyuan Xiao handed to her personally, so she took the wine cup. She made up her mind and drank the wine with her sleeve covering her lips. However, the spicy taste of the wine made her cough uncontrollably.
"Miss Yuan has a good alcohol tolerance!" Xuanyuan Xiao leaned forward slightly and said softly, "This is strong liquor, Miss Yuan drank it all in one gulp!"
Yuan Zitong's face turned red from choking. She felt a surge of heat rushing straight to her cheeks, and even her eye sockets were swollen and uncomfortable.
"Prince...Prince!" Yuan Zitong was frightened and tears welled up in her eyes.
Xuanyuan Xiao took a sip of wine and looked at Yuan Zitong frivolously: "Sure enough, a drunk beauty is the real beauty."
Yuan Zitong didn't dare to speak. She didn't know what Xuanyuan Xiao meant. After all, Xuanyuan Xiao's reputation as a lustful man had always been well-known throughout the capital. Who in the capital didn't know that the former second prince, now Prince Ning, was a man who liked to sleep with women?
Although she had the intention of climbing up the social ladder, she was a daughter of an official family after all, and naturally did not want to be compared with those women in brothels. Thinking of Xuanyuan Xiao's possible actions, Yuan Zitong broke out in a cold sweat on her back.
"What? Are you afraid of me?" Yuan Zitong's expression could not be hidden from Xuanyuan Xiao. He narrowed his eyes and asked in a cold voice.
"Your Highness...your servant...your servant..." Yuan Zitong was so nervous that she could hardly speak, with a hint of fear on her face.
"Afraid? Or not?" Xuanyuan Xiao continued to ask.
"I'm afraid..." The effect of alcohol made Yuan Zitong unable to think and she spoke out her true feelings.
"You're right to be afraid!" Xuanyuan Xiao smiled coldly, pulled out a dagger from his sleeve, poked Yuan Zitong's chin with the tip of the sword, and looked at her carefully: "Although she is not as beautiful as your second sister, she is still a beauty."
Yuan Zitong was sobered up by Xuanyuan Xiao's actions. When she heard Xuanyuan Xiao's comparison, she felt a little angry, but she didn't dare to show it. She looked at the tip of the sword on her jaw, which was just touching the skin of her neck. She was so scared that her voice trembled: "Prince...Prince."
"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you!" Xuanyuan Xiao looked at Yuan Zitong's frightened face with enjoyment: "On the contrary, I will honor you!"
Yuan Zitong couldn't help but look at Xuanyuan Xiao after hearing this. She only heard Xuanyuan Xiao's voice, but for her, it was like a nightmare: "This king will promote you to be his concubine!"
A concubine is only slightly higher than a maid. To be honest, she is not much nobler than a maid.
Even if Yuan Zitong did not rely on General Yuan's Mansion, she was still a girl from a fifth-rank official's family. She would never be just a concubine. Such an identity could be said to be a humiliation for Yuan Zitong!
More importantly, Xuanyuan Xiao is just a prince and is destined to be a prince in the future. He cannot ascend to the position of the emperor. If she really becomes Xuanyuan Xiao's concubine, let alone Yuan Ziyu becoming the prince's wife or the marquis' wife in the future, even Yuan Ziyu's current status as a daughter of a first-rank official is much more noble than hers!
If so, how can she avenge herself in front of Yuan Ziyu?
Yuan Zitong was unwilling to accept this. She said in a trembling voice, "Prince...Prince, Zitong is the daughter of a fifth-rank official after all. You can't...you can't do this!"
"The daughter of a fifth-rank official?" Xuanyuan Xiao lifted Yuan Zitong's chin with the tip of his sword again. "So what? If you walk out of this pleasure boat today, who will still believe in your innocence? Or do you want me to take action now?"
"No... Your Highness!" Yuan Zitong was terrified. The tip of the sword was pressed against her neck. She didn't dare to move at all. She only begged, "Your Highness, please let me go!"
"What if I don't let you go?" Xuanyuan Xiao asked with a sneer, "Today, no matter how you leave this place, everyone in the capital will know tomorrow that I have an affair with you. Soon I will welcome you into my palace and make you my concubine. Don't even think about escaping."
Yuan Zitong felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave. She was so cold that she couldn't say a word. She could only look at Xuanyuan Xiao in fear.
Xuanyuan Xiao sneered: "Do you know why I treat you like this?"
"Why?" Yuan Zitong was eager to know the reason, and wanted to know why things had inexplicably developed to this point.
"Because..." Xuanyuan Xiao paused, narrowed his eyes and said softly to Yuan Zitong: "Because your last name is Yuan, and because you are General Yuan's niece!"
"No!" Yuan Zitong said hurriedly, "Your Highness, we separated from my uncle a long time ago!"
"So what if we split up? So what if we have bad relations? Who gave you the surname Yuan?" Xuanyuan Xiao sneered, "There's nothing we can do. Just accept your fate!"
Looking at Yuan Zitong's somewhat gloomy face, Xuanyuan Xiao felt a sense of comfort in his heart.
He hated the Yuan family, hated Yuan Qifeng, and hated everything related to the Yuan family. He wanted to destroy anything that had anything to do with the Yuan family and Yuan Qifeng.
As for Yuan Zitong, he naturally knew that Yuan Zitong and Yuan Ziyu were not on good terms, but these two sisters who were at odds with each other were still living in peace until now. He was not happy about this and didn't mind adding fuel to the fire, making Yuan Zitong hate Yuan Ziyu even more!
Haha, the internal fighting between sisters must be very exciting!
"Your sister will marry into the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion in the future and will be the Marquis's wife. I can't touch her, so I have no choice but to touch you. So, if you want to hate her—" Xuanyuan Xiao moved closer to Yuan Zitong, his voice cold and cruel: "Don't hate the wrong person!"
Yuan Zitong's face turned pale. She knew that she was finished and there was no chance of recovery!
Given Xuanyuan Xiao's personality, after tomorrow, the entire capital will definitely know that she will soon be carried into Prince Ning's mansion to be a concubine.
In this case, how can she win the attention and favor of the prince, and how can she use her status to suppress Yuan Ziyu?
She was finished, her future destiny was completely crushed into the quagmire!
But why? Why could Yuan Ziyou live freely, marrying Brother Huo with joy in the future? Living a happy and fulfilling life?
And why did she end up like this just because she was related to the Yuan family?
She is unwilling, she is unwilling!
Xuanyuan Xiao looked at Yuan Zitong's pale face with satisfaction: "My concubine looks absolutely beautiful like this!"
Yuan Zitong didn't say anything, still immersed in her own thoughts.
"It seems that Miss Yuan has agreed, so I won't say anything more!" Xuanyuan Xiao sneered: "Don't worry, I won't get tired of you so quickly. Once you enter the mansion, I will slowly play with you."
After saying that, Xuanyuan Xiao called out, "Someone come!"
"Your Highness!" A servant came in hurriedly and answered.
"Send Miss Yuan back home, no need to hide from others!"
"yes!"
(End of this chapter)
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