Hao Shumei stared coldly at the arrow, then sat down with lingering fear. "Can you say that my father and grandfather are still alive?" He stared at the Crown Prince, his eyes seemingly filled with venom.
The Crown Prince had already told Zhao Shu to handle the matter. After hearing Consort Hao's words, he said, "My uncle and grandfather are no longer alive. You can probably guess what they did to me. If you stop now, they can have a grand funeral. Otherwise, I cannot give them any dignity."
Hao Shumei, remembering her reputation, flew into a rage again. "Dignity? My father and grandfather are disgraced, is that what you call dignity?" She wanted to pounce, but was afraid of the arrows that might fly at any moment.
The Crown Prince looked at her calmly. "Even if you become a Noble Consort and there is no longer any possibility between us, I will not deny my heart that once wanted to be good to you. Although you looked down on this kindness and abandoned it, I wanted to do everything in my power to give you a stable life. I will not do anything for you that violates loyalty, morality, or filial piety, and I will not be good to you in the future. But I am still willing to give a peaceful end to those in the Hao family who did not deserve to die, and to give my uncle and grandfather a final moment of dignity." As the Crown Prince said this, the last bit of resentment in his heart faded away, turning into calm and indifference.
"As you said, I despise your kindness and have abandoned it. If my father and grandfather had died at your hands, I would have fought you to the death without you even bothering to let me go. Ha, you've said so much about how good you are to me. If you were really that good to me, why are you speaking to me calmly here now?" On Zhao Shu's birthday, when she first arrived in Guanzhou, she saw the despair in his eyes and almost thought he was going to die. But he came back to life. How could she be at peace if the one who deserved to die didn't die?
“It’s not that you’re determined to fight me to the death because my grandfather and uncle died at my hands. It’s that you’re determined to fight me to the death because I haven’t been angered to death by you. I don’t deny the past, nor do I hate the present. From today onwards, you and I will have nothing to do with each other. From now on, your life, old age, sickness, death, glory, and sorrow will have nothing to do with me. You don’t need to be so indignant, much less so extreme.”
Zhao Shu was too far away to hear the conversation in the pavilion, but seeing that Hao Shumei was quite agitated, she knew that the Crown Prince had the upper hand. Relieved, she said to Xiao Zhuzi, "Go and release that maid."
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