Mingyou lowered his eyes and looked at her, a hint of confusion in his deep eyes.
Jiang Jingyu gently lifted Mingyou's chin with her fingers and said seriously, "Be my queen and stay by my side for the rest of your life. Mingyou, are you willing?"
Jiang Jingyu looked at Mingyou quietly, almost certain what answer Mingyou would give.
Mingyou was silent for a moment, and a subtle complexity emerged in the depths of his eyes.
He lowered his eyes to look at the pretty face in front of him, letting Jiang Jingyu lightly lift his chin with her fingers.
Under Jiang Jingyu's gaze, Ming You, who had been silent for a moment, opened his thin lips slightly and said, "Master, I... don't want to."
Buzz!
The smile in Jiang Jingyu's eyes disappeared, and her brain went blank.
Mingyou...rejected her? ?
Jiang Jingyu looked at Mingyou in disbelief, thinking she had heard it wrong. She lifted Mingyou's chin with her fingers and applied a little force.
"I didn't hear clearly, please say it again."
Mingyou tightened his hands slightly at his sides, looked into Jiang Jingyu's eyes, and repeated what he had just said.
"Master, I don't want to."
"Not willing?"
Jiang Jingyu heard it clearly this time. She pinched Mingyou's chin and asked, "Really?"
Mingyou nodded without hesitation.
"Okay, I understand."
Jiang Jingyu released the hand that was pinching Mingyou's chin, turned around and walked towards the horse in front without any hesitation.
Looking at her departing back, Mingyou's heart ached, as if something was leaving him.
The hands hanging at his sides loosened and tightened, tightened and loosened, and Mingyou was in a struggle. He pursed his lips and watched Jiang Jingyu's departing back. Finally, he watched her ride away on horseback with his own eyes. His hands were clenched into fists, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging.
Jiang Jingyu rode straight towards the hunting grounds. She had thought that Mingyou, the wooden man, would definitely give her a positive answer, but she didn't expect him to actually refuse.
He refused!!
And without hesitation!!
After all, she overestimated her position in Mingyou's heart.
Perhaps he had always longed for the freedom outside, rather than the shackles of staying by her side.
Jiang Jingyu pursed her lips, raised the whip in her hand, and galloped all the way, so fast that the surrounding scenery became blurred.
It is almost noon now, and the prey hunted today will be everyone's lunch.
Seeing that the sun was almost setting, the ministers mounted their horses and prepared to return.
"Strange, I clearly saw His Majesty coming this way, how come he's gone?"
The Shangshu, who had been following the direction Jiang Jingyu and Mingyou had just left, looked around for Jiang Jingyu in confusion, but she looked everywhere nearby and couldn't find her.
Not to mention His Majesty, I didn’t even see a bird!
The Shangshu's heart sank instantly, and he shouted anxiously in the woods.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, where are you? I—who? Let me go, let me go!"
Before the Shangshu could finish his words, someone grabbed him by the back of the collar, and his body was instantly lifted off the horse's back, and then he was casually thrown to the ground.
"Ouch! How dare you! Who is so blind as to dare to attack this minister?"
The Shangshu was thrown to the ground in a dog-eating-shit posture, and his voice was broken when he screamed in pain.
Ming Youfei mounted his horse, holding a long whip in one hand and the reins in the other, and turned the horse's head to chase in the direction Jiang Jingyu left.
"Stop! Stop right there! Where have you taken His Majesty?!"
When Shangshu raised his head, he just saw Mingyou riding away on his horse, and immediately yelled at his back.
Mingyou turned a deaf ear to the Shangshu's shouts. In the blink of an eye, he rode his horse towards the deep forest and disappeared from the Shangshu's sight.
"Someone, help!"
The civil officials were timid to begin with, not to mention that they were in a deserted mountain area. It would have been fine if they had run out of arrows, but now even their horses had been stolen!
The Shangshu shouted a few times until his voice became hoarse, and finally he saw a familiar figure.
It was the censor and others who followed her later.
When they saw the Shangshu fall to the ground, they were shocked and quickly rode their horses to her.
"Sir Shangshu, why did you fall to the ground?"
The censor dismounted and walked in front of the minister. The minister looked at her with gratitude and was about to speak.
The censor looked around and asked, "Where's the horse? Is the horse okay?"
Shangshu: “…”
Forget it, the words of gratitude were choked back.
——
Jiang Jingyu rode his horse all the way back to the hunting ground, but before he could dismount, he was surrounded by Jiang Jinghe's personal attendants.
"Your Majesty, the Empress invites you!"
The servants were blocking Jiang Jingyu's way, and it was obvious that they had been waiting for her here for a long time.
Jiang Jingyu glanced at the servant, her face gloomy and cold. The servant was suffocated by her innate nobility, and his back felt cold. Finally, he lowered his head with a stiff neck.
Jiang Jingyu had already guessed what the late empress wanted her to do. She dismounted from her horse and walked towards Jiang Jinghe's palace with a serious expression.
"Your Majesty has arrived—"
As soon as Jiang Jingyu appeared in the palace, palace servants shouted to pass the message.
Jiang Jingyu strode into the palace, her clothes fluttering behind her as she walked.
Just as she reached the gate of the palace, a white porcelain cup suddenly fell at her feet.
"You bastard, you're so brave!"
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