Chapter 45 Seducing him and breaking him up with her!
If he wins her over, he will have the right to seize the throne!
After all, with money, one can bribe officials and cultivate one's own power base.
Su Zhirou lifted her head from his embrace, looking at him with teary eyes: "Your Highness, it's so hard for you. Your Highness's situation is already difficult, and you still have to work so hard for me!"
"We have no one to love us, we have to fight and struggle on our own." The Sixth Prince Xiao Qingchen helped Su Zhirou sit down in the pavilion, his voice low.
Su Zhirou keenly sensed the hidden meaning in his words and asked softly, "Does Your Highness have something to tell me?"
Xiao Qingchen remained silent for a moment, his gaze sweeping over her pale face, before finally making up his mind: "I've decided to marry the daughter of the richest man in the world, so that I'll have a constant supply of money and medicine to help you recover."
Su Zhirou's body stiffened, her fingertips digging deeply into her palm.
“How can she, a merchant’s daughter, be worthy of him?” Su Zhirou hugged him and cried fiercely. “Your Highness is so good that even I, the legitimate daughter of a third-rank official in the Court of Judicial Review, feel unworthy of you.”
These words were partly out of jealousy, and partly out of sincerity.
She was in poor health and feared she would have difficulty conceiving, so she felt unworthy of the Sixth Prince.
The thought of him marrying someone else still makes my heart ache so much I can't breathe.
Xiao Qingchen cupped her face in his hands and gently wiped away her tears with his thumb: "I'm willing to do anything for you."
He gazed at her with deep affection, his eyes filled with genuine love.
Su Zhirou lowered her eyes, tears still clinging to her long eyelashes: "Then... will Your Highness like her?"
Xiao Qingchen chuckled softly, a hint of bitterness in his voice: "In this world, besides Rou'er, who else could I possibly love?"
Back then, Su Zhirou was poisoned by her father's most favored concubine; it was a very potent poison.
It has been impossible to raise it for so many years, and it often needs precious medicinal herbs to keep it alive.
Although the sixth prince was not favored, he was still a prince.
He once risked his life to test poison for Su Zhirou, just to obtain half of a precious thousand-year-old medicinal herb from the palace.
From then on.
Su Zhirou secretly fell in love with the Sixth Prince.
Her love was both humble and passionate.
He realized that Su Zhirou had begun to accept his marriage to the daughter of the richest man.
The Sixth Prince looked at her very seriously: "Su Zhirou, actually, besides wanting wealth, I also want that position when I marry her. That way, I can use the palace treasury and the power of the world to find a life-saving medicine for you!"
She suddenly staggered, then revealed a determined look in her eyes: "Your Highness, since you are determined to vie for the throne, I am willing to lend you my assistance."
"Zhirou, what do you mean by that?"
“Since Your Highness is willing to marry a merchant’s daughter for my sake,” she threw herself into the Sixth Prince’s arms and cried uncontrollably, “then I can also try to win Xie Jingxing’s heart for Your Highness.”
"Your Highness, may I kiss you tonight?" she cried, tears streaming down her face. "Because starting tomorrow, I'm going to seduce him and tempt him."
"How could you be so foolish!" he said in a low, hoarse voice, with just the right amount of heartache and helplessness.
"I would do anything for Your Highness!" Su Zhirou's voice choked with emotion.
The sixth prince lowered his head and kissed him fiercely.
The kiss carried an undeniable force, yet subtly revealed a deliberate tenderness.
Su Zhirou closed her eyes and responded wholeheartedly, as if she wanted to melt into the kiss.
Tears streamed down her cheeks, a salty taste spreading between her lips and teeth.
Just as she was lost in her reverie, the Sixth Prince's lips curled into a triumphant smile.
Sometimes, you just have to make a woman do things willingly!
The Qian family mansion.
"Cousin, I slept with that Xie Jingxing." Qian Yueqiu rushed in like a gust of wind.
The sound of teacups clattering against the coffee table had not yet completely dissipated in the hall.
Qian Yueshu slowly raised her eyes: "You... say it again?"
She laughed carefree: "Cousin, I did the task you gave me, I slept with that Xie Jingxing!"
"Asleep?" Qian Yueshu's voice trailed off with a barely perceptible pause.
Qian Yueqiu picked up a pastry from the table, her excitement tinged with the eagerness to share a secret: "Yes, asleep. Asleep...asleep...hahaha!"
Qian Yueshu still doubted that she had misheard.
She has been busy with charity work lately because news of the floods in Nangong has reached Kyoto, and food prices have started to rise.
So she took advantage of this time to try to gain as much positive publicity as possible.
At that time, the grain can be sold at a high price.
That's why I haven't paid attention to her and Xie Jingxing for about ten days.
How did my cousin and Xie Jingxing get to that point?
She still remembers those ten days or so.
How did my cousin report on her pursuit of someone?
"...Cousin, you have no idea how hard it is to win over Xie Jingxing! He returned the pastries I sent him untouched!"
"...Cousin, the jade pendant I carefully selected cost several hundred taels of silver, but Xie Jingxing didn't even glance at it before having it returned!"
"...Cousin, Xie Jingxing was avoiding me, so I blocked his doorway, haha...I even put a stool in front of his door...hahaha!"
In the past few times, my cousin never got angry; she always seemed carefree.
Report as if you're having a chat with her.
But one day, my cousin suddenly puffed out her cheeks in anger: "Cousin, that Su Zhirou is so annoying. She went boating on the lake with Xie Jingxing today."
At the time, Qian Yueshu was checking the accounts. Upon hearing this, she simply smiled faintly and did not take it to heart.
After all, it was my previous life.
Su Zhirou is Xie Jingxing's beloved wife, so there's nothing wrong with them going boating on the lake together.
Compared to Liu Yu.
Qian Yueshu hoped that Xie Jingxing loved Su Zhirou.
certainly.
Qian Yueshu didn't expect her silly cousin to actually succeed.
She just wanted to cause some trouble.
Even if we can't destroy them, knowing some of their traces and secrets is still good.
But can anyone tell her what's going on?
"Asleep?"
The two words, spoken lightly by Qian Yueqiu, struck Qian Yueshu's reason like a thunderbolt.
She even absurdly wondered if her cousin had some misunderstanding about the word "sleep".
For example, you might have just accidentally taken a nap in the same room or on the same bed?
She picked up her teacup again, trying to make her voice sound calm: "How did you sleep? Tell me in detail."
When Qian Yueqiu saw that her cousin had finally shown interest, she immediately perked up.
"It was last night! I heard that Xie Jingxing was invited to some kind of poetry gathering, and Su Zhirou was going too, so I... I secretly followed him. Didn't you tell me to keep bothering Xie Jingxing?"
Qian Yueshu nodded.
Her cousin is very obedient.
Even if she suffers all kinds of grievances and torment at Xie Jingxing's place, she will still go after him!
My cousin twisted her sash a little sheepishly, "But halfway through the poetry gathering, I noticed Xie Jingxing seemed to have drunk too much, and Su Zhirou helped him into a private room to rest. I originally wanted to go and break them up..."
Speaking of which...
Her voice suddenly became angry: "But I found out that Su Zhirou actually dared to drug me, so I ambushed her and knocked her unconscious... and slept with Xie Jingxing in her place!"
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