Lin Jinghan rushed all the way here without even drinking a sip of water. Her throat was about to smoke, so she walked to Sikong Zhan's tea table, poured herself tea, and drank several cups in a row.
Seeing that Lin Jinghan was not only covered in dirt and grime but also dared to touch his personal belongings with her dirty hands, Sikong Zhan frowned in disdain and said, "Go wash yourself clean before coming back."
Lin Jinghan not only did not leave, but also sat down at the tea table and drank another cup of tea. After making sure that there was no one else around, she slowly said:
"I wonder why, Your Highness, you went to so much trouble to marry me? I wonder what it is about me that you like so much?"
This stupid woman, has she discovered the truth and wants to confront him? Sikong Zhan's whole body was cold and stern. He looked at Lin Jinghan with disdain and said word by word:
"You are my princess, and you will always be."
As long as she followed him obediently, he wouldn't mind letting her be his princess for the rest of her life. This woman had better not do anything stupid.
"Oh~" Lin Jinghan turned her head and met Sikong Zhan's gaze. "Then, if I'm not your princess, will you let me go?"
"What did you say?" Sikong Zhan spoke word by word with a murderous aura around him.
Although Lin Jinghan wanted to express her toughness, she was not stupid enough to confront an angry man. In negotiations, she had to put forward her bargaining chips first:
"Your Highness, you went to such great lengths just to get me to help you detoxify. Now, I have done just as you wished, and I've even helped you resolve the crisis here."
"This is your responsibility as the Princess of Jingnan." Sikong Zhan said as a matter of course.
So, he set up a trap to force her to marry him just to order her around? Lin Jinghan's eyes welled up with tears again, this time out of anger:
"Have you asked Jinghan if she is willing to accept the identity of Princess Jingnan?"
Becoming his princess, is that unfair to her? Sikong Zhan's tone became even colder, "Whether you like it or not, you will be my princess for the rest of your life!"
This man is so domineering!
Lin Jinghan closed her eyes, suppressed the anger in her heart, took out the divorce letter from the medical space, and showed it to Sikong Zhan, "Your Highness, there is one thing you agreed to when Jinghan detoxified you."
"What are you writing on?" This letter looked exactly like the one that fell out of his clothes. Sure enough, it was this stupid woman's handwriting!
"I don't recognize the characters you wrote here. They're probably not from the Donglin Kingdom, nor are they from the Xiqi Kingdom, Nanzhao Kingdom, or Beijiang Kingdom. I'll pretend I didn't see this letter, and you'd better not let anyone else see it. Otherwise, if you're caught as a spy from another country, I won't save you."
Lin Jinghan stared at Sikong Zhan, and after a long time she mechanically lowered her head and looked at the divorce letter in her hand: Oh my God, she had never thought that the characters here were different from the Chinese characters she was familiar with!
So, she wrote this divorce letter out of loneliness?
"So, what did you write on it? And how did I promise you?" He couldn't remember what he had promised her, and he had a hunch that this woman must have done something bad!
Seeing Lin Jinghan being humiliated, Sikong Zhan felt a little better. Although his tone was still cold, the hostility around him was much less.
Lin Jinghan finally understood that this man would not let her go easily. The divorce agreement she had obtained was no longer valid. It seemed that she really could not get rid of her identity as Princess Jingnan for the time being...
Since she has to stay here, the nature of her absence for a few days must be defined as beneficial to her, and the nature of the letter in her hand cannot be too excessive.
"I'm going out to look for medicine for the prince, and I'm going to visit my adoptive father and brother. I've asked for the prince's permission. Since you didn't object, I'll take it as your consent and leave a note to avoid any misunderstandings."
He silently put away the divorce letter and laughed at himself, "And you, as expected, still misunderstood me. You sent people to urge me to come back, and you didn't give me any face at all."
She took out a medicine from the medical space, held it in her hand and examined it carefully.
"This is the medicine I found—Gu Bai, Your Majesty. Put this medicine in water and boil it over high heat until five bowls of water become one bowl. Drink it after you take the last antidote pill. Your poison will be completely eliminated. Remember not to use force until the poison is completely eliminated."
After saying that, Lin Jinghan placed the medicine on the tea table, shook her head, and immersed herself in sadness.
This medicine is naturally not the so-called "Gubai", but a medicine that people in this world are definitely not familiar with. Its effect is to strengthen the body.
The name Gu Bai was simply because she thought she was leaving, so she named it goodbye, meaning she wanted to say goodbye to everything in Jingnan Palace.
"After waking up, I found that you had left. I was worried about your safety, so I sent people to look for you." Feeling Lin Jinghan's despair, Sikong Zhan felt panic in his heart, but when he thought of this woman who had just said that she didn't want to be his princess, the soft part of his heart that had just been touched became hard again.
"Since you miss your family, just tell me. There's no need to hide it from me."
"If I didn't go back, how would I know that the prince was so considerate of me that he took my family away, and I didn't know anything about it..." Lin Jinghan's previous sadness was swept away, and she looked directly at Sikong Zhan, with a questioning look in her eyes.
"Given your current situation, if I don't protect them, do you think they can still be safe?"
This woman is so smart, yet she can't even understand such a simple truth? Women are only good at playing tricks, but when faced with big things, they start to act foolishly. Sikong Zhan equated Lin Jinghan with stupidity in his mind, stopped looking at her, picked up his brush, and prepared to review the official documents.
Seeing that Sikong Zhan no longer paid attention to her, Lin Jinghan stopped discussing this topic. It was meaningless and would only increase the rift between them. She drank another cup of tea and asked:
"Your Majesty, you promised me two things before. Do they still count?"
"My words always count." Sikong Zhan frowned, stopped writing, and stared at Lin Jinghan's lips: If she dared to be so foolish as to make some inappropriate requests, he would definitely, definitely...
Before Sikong Zhan could figure out what to do, Lin Jinghan interrupted him:
"My first request is that you, Prince Jingnan, Sikong Zhan, and anyone under your command, must never restrict the freedom of me and my family, even in the name of protecting us."
Just want freedom of movement? Sikong Zhan felt inexplicably relieved and said cheerfully, "Okay, I promise. As long as you don't cause trouble, I won't make things difficult for you. I'll do whatever you want as long as it doesn't harm the interests of the Jingnan Palace. As for your family, they can stay wherever they want."
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