When Sun Yun saw Huo Danlan's angry face for the first time, she was furious and embarrassed, but she was not afraid. After so many years of ups and downs, did Sun Yun need to be afraid of anyone?
She stepped forward. "Since you know about Ah Jun's mother, go ahead and tell me. But before you do, I have to correct you on three points. First, it's not that he wants to marry me, but that the Empress Dowager wants him to marry me, and I have to marry him. Second, it's only nuns who remain unmarried for life. He has never been married, so why can't he marry again? Third, what's the use of your high regard for him? Can he live forever or ascend to immortality? Don't think too highly of yourself!"
"She probably never imagined that a woman would be so humiliated by your second wife." Huo Danlan ignored Sun Yun and went straight to Prince Yong. The 'she' in her words naturally referred to Jiang Ying.
Zhao Shu was furious. Jiang Ying was her mother, yet she was standing right there watching someone use her mother to hurt her father and friends.
This is absolutely outrageous!
She pushed aside the branches and was about to rush out, but Wei Tingsi stopped her. "Don't be impulsive. Let your father handle this. If you do it for him, he and Sun Yun will both feel bad."
He was strong, and Zhao Shu struggled several times but couldn't break free, so she turned her head and buried herself in his arms, refusing to look at the three people in front of her.
"If you're angry, take it out on me. Don't involve others." Prince Yong pulled Sun Yun behind him. "I thank you for treating A-Jun well all these years, and I also thank you for caring about Ying'er. If you really know what happened back then, please tell me in detail. I will be extremely grateful."
"If you still have her in your heart, don't marry another woman." Huo Danlan seemed not to hear his words, and kept talking about feelings, as if she would not stop until she portrayed Prince Yong as a heartless man.
Sun Yun was furious. Without saying a word, she stepped out from behind Prince Yong and said indignantly, "Since you know what happened back then, why did you wait until now to tell me? Shouldn't he have married someone else and lived a lonely life? Is there no justice in this world? Besides, what right do you, an outsider, have to talk nonsense here?"
"Shut up!" Huo Danlan shouted impatiently, then stared at Prince Yong with a mocking look, as if Prince Yong was the one who abandoned his wife, and she was the righteous person who would wash away all injustices.
"I have said before, if you are angry, take it out on me, not her. She knows nothing. If you truly know about Ying'er's matter, I beg you to explain in detail. If you are just looking for an excuse to call me here to vent your anger, then please leave!"
Prince Yong did not yell or curse, but gave a very courteous warning. His upbringing did not allow him to shout at women, nor did it allow him to fail to protect his women.
"You've completely forgotten, forgotten the promise you made back then, so you turned around and married someone else. Now that you've married someone else, does it matter whether the truth of the past is revealed to the world?"
Huo Danlan was heartbroken to see Prince Yong protecting Sun Yun. If Prince Yong never married, she didn't care if she didn't marry him. She would be content as long as she occasionally got some special attention from him through Jiang Ying's shadow.
Because she knew that in Prince Yong's heart, she could never surpass Jiang Ying.
But if he's going to marry her, why Sun Yun?
Why is there such protection before they've even officially married?
If it weren't for Sun Yun, she would be the most special woman in the world to him. But with Sun Yun, who is beautiful, young, and intelligent, no less so than Jiang Ying, it's foreseeable that very soon, very soon, Prince Yong will fall in love with this intelligent woman.
So what about all the efforts she made back then? A joke?
Prince Yong never expected her to be so unreasonable. She used to seem like a well-educated and reasonable girl, but now it seems he had misjudged her.
“You just tricked me out here, and you don’t know what happened back then?” Prince Yong frowned, his words filled with suppressed anger.
He respected the dead and would never allow anyone to exploit Jiang Ying's case!
"I only want to speak to you, and I don't want anyone else waiting," Huo Danlan said coldly, having calmed herself down.
"Your Highness, let her speak. I won't be angry." Before Prince Yong could react, Sun Yun immediately said, "Outsiders can be made difficult, but why should we make things difficult for our own people?"
She is very sensible.
Prince Yong was surprised by Sun Yun's understanding and immediately said with relief, "Go there and wait for me." He pointed to a place not far away, where people could be seen but the two of them could not be heard talking.
Sun Yun felt a warmth in his heart, gave Huo Danlan a cold snort, and left quickly, showing no sign of being unable to climb the steep slope. His words just now were clearly intentional.
"Alright, Miss Huo, you may now speak?" Prince Yong said after watching Sun Yun leave.
Huo Danlan regretted it at this moment. If she had known that he would protect Sun Yun so much, why would she have suffered humiliation here?
But she was unwilling to leave just like that.
After gathering her thoughts, she slowly paced back and forth. "Does the prince really intend to marry her?" She didn't even want to mention Sun Yun's name anymore.
"Miss Huo, you summoned me with Ying'er's poem. If you have nothing to say, I shall leave?" Prince Yong's tone was much colder than when Sun Yun was there.
Huo Danlan's eyebrows twitched, and tears welled up in her eyes before falling. "Go to the palace to annul the engagement, and I will tell you."
She finally cried. No matter how much she imitated, she was not Jiang Ying. Jiang Ying would not cry and beg a man, would not pester a man she had rejected, and would not threaten someone she liked.
"It seems you were just deceiving me. My feelings for Ying'er have become a weapon in your hands. I'm sorry to Ying'er. You should leave. Considering that you treated A-Jun fairly well back then, I will plead for you in front of her."
He knew that Zhao Shu had a powerful intelligence network, and that today's events would surely reach her ears. She would not tolerate what Huo Danlan had done today, but Huo Danlan had indeed been good to Zhao Shu back then.
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