"What I want is to be your wife!"
"Otherwise, why would I do all this for you?!"
"I've squandered my fortune and gone to great lengths just to win your favor, to get your attention, and to make you fall in love with me!"
"And what happened? You just brought back a random woman from the grasslands and said you wanted to marry her!"
"Then why am I here every day, enduring wind and rain, helping these lowly people?!"
The people around who were drinking porridge were taken aback.
Untouchables?
Did I hear that right?
Zhou Yanyan just said they are lowly people?
So all this kindness these days was entirely for ulterior motives?
Was she not genuinely trying to help us?
Was it all just to win the favor of the Third Prince?!
Ye Chen asked immediately.
"What did you mean by 'these people'?"
"Untouchables?"
Zhou Yanyan realized that she had said the wrong thing in her haste.
He said immediately.
"No, Your Highness, please let me explain!"
"Explain what? Explain that everything you did was to change my attitude towards you?" Ye Chen retorted.
"I, I—" Zhou Yanyan didn't know how to respond.
Ye Chen said it casually.
"Zhou Yanyan!"
"It seems I was right not to fall for you."
"You treated feelings as something that could be calculated. You schemed against my sincerity, my feelings, and these ordinary people!"
Do you think I'd even look at you properly anymore?
"Zhou Yanyan, your thoughts are far more vicious than I imagined!"
Ye Chen finished speaking.
He grabbed the palace maid and left without looking back.
Zhou Yanyan chased after her.
"Your Highness, please let me explain!"
However, the guards stopped Zhou Yanyan.
Don't let her get close.
In an instant.
Zhou Yanyan's reputation plummeted.
The entire city of Dayuan was talking about Zhou Yanyan's outrageous behavior.
"So, Zhou Yanyan helped the poor people just to curry favor with the Third Prince!"
"That's quite a clever scheme!"
"She's planning to recoup all the money she's invested after marrying the Third Prince. In the end, her money won't have been wasted; she'll not only get the position of a princess but also gain a good reputation! It's truly killing two birds with one stone!"
Zhou Yanyan never expected that the image she had cultivated would be defeated by the Third Prince's sweetheart!
"Isn't that right? She lost her composure after seeing another woman beside the Third Prince!"
"Fortunately, His Highness the Third Prince saw through her true colors. If he had really married her, wouldn't His Highness have been constantly being schemed against every day?"
Zhou Yanyan didn't know how she got home.
Wei Rong had already heard the rumors circulating outside.
Upon seeing Zhou Yanyan, he slapped her across the face!
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