The autumn market was bustling with people, and the noise rose and fell.
Li Chengyun and Jiang Shuwan walked side by side through the market. His mood was as gloomy as the sky above him.
As he walked slowly forward, he asked Jiang Shuwan if she knew the newly appointed Minister of Revenue.
At this moment, Li Chengyun's expression remained exactly the same as before, still low and suppressed.
The guards behind him looked surprised when they saw this.
His Highness has never liked being close to others, let alone having something taken from him...
The guard glanced at Jiang Shuwan, then lowered his head and dared not utter a sound.
Jiang Shuwan played with the jade pendant she had taken from Li Chengyun, holding it up to the natural light as she walked.
When the light shines through, the color of the warm jade becomes even more transparent and beautiful.
"The new Minister of Revenue? I remember the position had been vacant since the previous Minister of Revenue was dismissed. Now someone has filled the position? What? Do you have a conflict with him?"
Jiang Shuwan's voice was clear and melodious as she spoke and walked forward.
Li Chengyun said calmly, "Today, the Crown Prince invited me to admire the chrysanthemums. The newly appointed Minister of Revenue also went with me. When the Crown Prince heard that he had a daughter who was still young, he wanted to betroth her to me as a concubine. The Minister of Revenue overturned the table on the spot."
"..."
Jiang Shuwan paused for a moment, then glanced at Li Chengyun beside her.
Li Chengyun had an androgynous face, with a beautiful and delicate appearance, and eyelashes like two small fans.
This person is quite handsome, especially his cat-like eyes, which are as captivating as glass when they move.
As they wandered aimlessly down the street, every woman who passed by was mesmerized.
Such a person, born into royalty and handsome, was rejected in public once or twice. No wonder Li Chengyun was somewhat unhappy.
And the Crown Prince is the same; he wants to catch her fish, but he's also casting his net elsewhere. How interesting!
If the Crown Prince knew that Li Chengyun had sold him out in the blink of an eye, I wonder what he would think...
While inwardly criticizing him, Jiang Shuwan glanced at Li Chengyun again.
The other person, holding a paper fan in his right hand, strolled saunter down the street, his cat-like eyes glancing listlessly at the withered trees on the side of the road. Besides resentment, he also seemed a bit lonely.
This is not the normal emotion one would show after being publicly rejected and humiliated... at least it shouldn't be the emotion Li Chengyun should have...
Moreover, why would Li Chengyun be so dejected?
Jiang Shuwan couldn't help but feel doubtful, wondering if she had seen it wrong.
Looking up for a closer look, she realized she had been mistaken. Li Chengyun had reverted to her usual handsome and arrogant demeanor, waving her paper fan and scoffing disdainfully:
"You blind fool! You really think I, the prince, care about his daughter? You even flipped the table and refused the marriage. I wouldn't want his daughter even if she were given to me for free."
Jiang Shuwan: "..."
right.
This is the first mad emperor of the Great Jing that she knows.
Do you know why he refused to marry her?
After walking on the street for a while, Li Chengyun suddenly asked a question. They talked all the way, and before they knew it, they had passed through the bustling market and entered a sparsely populated alley.
Jiang Shuwan looked back and saw Qingxing being pulled by Li Chengyun's guards to stand five steps away from them.
Whether they are fast or slow, they are always five steps apart.
Confused as to why Li Chengyun would ask such a seemingly random question, Jiang Shuwan thought for a moment before replying cautiously, "I heard that your mother was originally a princess of the Zhennan Prince's Mansion, but later the Zhennan Prince's Mansion was wiped out due to a rebellion..."
At this point, Jiang Shuwan paused for a moment, while Li Chengyun said frankly, "In the first year of my father's reign, the Zhennan Prince's Mansion plotted a rebellion and colluded with the enemy. All the thousands of people in the mansion were sentenced to beheading, including my mother. Only I survived."
"However, I was still subjected to the tattooing punishment. But as you know, I am a prince, so how could I have words tattooed on my face? In the end, they were tattooed on my back."
“My maternal grandfather’s family colluded with the enemy and rebelled. Before my mother died, she was demoted to a slave in the Jing Palace. Once a slave, always a lowly person. Nobody respected me.”
At this point, Li Chengyun stopped in his tracks.
He looked down at Jiang Shuwan, who was a head shorter than him.
The girl's pretty face was only lightly powdered, and her eyes were as bright as stars as she quietly looked at him.
A complex emotion suddenly welled up in Li Chengyun's heart.
From childhood to adulthood, everyone hated and loathed him.
"So, why don't you hate me?"
At this moment, Li Chengyun's throat tightened, and his voice became terribly hoarse.
He looked at Jiang Shuwan with a puzzled expression, as if she were something unpredictable and incomprehensible.
"Why don't you hate me?" he asked, staring at her with a mixture of doubt and persistence.
Jiang Shuwan: "..."
Jiang Shuwan was stumped by his question.
"When did I stop hating you? I've always hated you!" Jiang Shuwan was speechless. She thought to herself that this person was really sick. It was obvious that she hated him from head to toe.
"No! It's different!" Li Chengyun stared at her, thinking for a long time before finally saying this.
But he didn't explain, leaving Jiang Shuwan completely confused.
“What’s different? They’re exactly the same.” Jiang Shuwan said unhappily, pointing to her eyes and telling Li Chengyun to look at the dissatisfaction and disgust in them.
"I am absolutely the person who hates you the most in the world!"
Li Chengyun just shook his head and smiled. In fact, he couldn't explain it either, but Jiang Shuwan's annoyingness was different from others.
Jiang Shuwan never looked down on him.
Jiang Shuwan was furious at his behavior when she suddenly noticed a familiar persimmon tree on Li Chengyun's head.
In the golden autumn of October, orange-red persimmons hang heavily on the branches, like little lanterns bending the branches.
Looking down, Jiang Shuwan tied the jade pendant back on for him. "Are you still angry about refusing the marriage? Don't be angry. Didn't the Crown Prince specially send you a piece of warm jade as an apology? This marriage is worth it."
After saying that, he grabbed Li Chengyun's arm and looked around. Seeing that no one was around, he reached out and picked a persimmon from the branch.
Before Li Chengyun could react, Jiang Shuwan, holding the persimmons, turned around and ran outside with Qingxing in her arms.
Jiang Shuwan: "Run! Run!"
Li Chengyun: "..."
He froze for a moment, completely bewildered, when an angry voice came from behind him, "Which heartless bastard dared to steal my persimmons?"
Li Chengyun subconsciously came back, and the old woman holding a pig-slaughtering knife immediately looked at him.
"It's you?" The old woman raised her butcher knife with a fierce look on her face.
Li Chengyun: "...?"
"Miss, will the Fourth Prince be alright? Aunt Zhu cherishes her persimmons so much, no one can pick them for her." Qingxing asked breathlessly as she ran forward, swinging her arms.
"Never mind him. Is he a man who can't even outrun Aunt Zhu? Besides, he has guards protecting him..."
Jiang Shuwan said heartlessly, without looking back at all.
She had been eyeing Aunt Zhu's persimmons for a long time, and today she finally found the opportunity.
As for Li Chengyun, what does he have to do with me?
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