She looked back at the capital of Great Chu once more, not knowing when she would be able to return. Two lines of clear tears streamed down Wei Yingshuang's face.
"Your Highness." Qingyun called softly to Wei Yingshuang, whose dowry maid also had tears in her eyes.
She never wanted to go to Bei Li, but everything was beyond her control.
"What, is it that the Princess is reluctant to part with Great Chu, or with the Regent?" The Prince Qin naturally saw it too, and a smirk appeared on his lips, his eyes full of mockery.
Upon hearing this, Wei Yingshuang trembled. No matter how reluctant she was, she was now the Princess Consort of Qin, and it was a great taboo for her to still have feelings for another man.
Qingyun knew her master's intentions, but she couldn't let Qin Wang misunderstand at this time, otherwise her master's future days would be difficult.
She hurriedly explained for Wei Yingshuang, "Your Highness has misunderstood. The Princess only has Your Highness in her heart. Going to Beili is a thousand miles away from home, and it is inevitable that she will feel reluctant. I hope Your Highness will understand."
Prince Qin glanced at Qingyun and said coldly, "I never knew that the princess's maid was so eloquent."
Qingyun sensed the chill in Qin Wang's eyes and quickly lowered her head, not daring to say another word.
Prince Qin turned to look at Wei Yingshuang, a smile playing on his lips. “Your Highness, you can rest assured. I will definitely cherish you and make you fall in love with Bei Li.”
"Let's go!"
At the emperor's command, the wedding procession slowly started moving.
After the convoy left the capital, Qin Wang dismounted and got directly into Wei Yinshuang's carriage.
Wei Yingshuang and Qingyun, who were sitting in the car with tears still on their faces, were both startled.
"Your Highness...Your Highness, you..." Qingyun's voice trembled slightly.
Qin Wang glanced at Qing Yun, "Get out!"
"Your Majesty..." Before Qingyun could finish speaking, Prince Qin slapped her hard across the face.
Qingyun's head slammed directly against the car wall after being hit.
"Don't make me say it a second time."
Qingyun's face turned pale. She glanced at Wei Yingshuang, whose face was full of fear, but as a mere servant, she dared not disobey the king's orders. She could only cover her face and get off the carriage.
Before long, Wei Yinshuang's screams came from the carriage.
Now, the entire convoy is led by the Prince Qin, and Wei Yinshuang is the Prince Qin's consort, so who would dare to say anything?
Qingyun could only stay by the car, silently shedding tears, listening to the screams coming from inside.
The maids from Bei Li who were also accompanying the carriage all looked perfectly normal, as if such things were commonplace in their eyes and nothing to be surprised about.
After Prince Qin alighted from the carriage with a satisfied expression, Qingyun hurriedly boarded the carriage to take care of Wei Yinshuang.
Wei Yingshuang's clothes were torn to shreds, and her hair was disheveled as she huddled in the corner of the carriage.
Her face, neck, arms, chest, and legs—wherever her clothes didn't cover her—were covered in horrific bruises.
Wei Yingshuang's lip was also swollen and red from the beating. When she saw Qing Shao come up, Wei Yingshuang cried and rushed towards Qing Yun, her whole body trembling. "Qing Yun, I want to go back, I want to go back, I will die if I don't go back, I will die!"
Qingyun quickly helped Wei Yingshuang up, hugged her tenderly, and let Wei Yingshuang cry in her arms.
From the moment they left the capital, they were destined never to return.
What Wei Yinshuang didn't know was that this was just the beginning of a nightmare.
*
After seeing Wei Yingshuang off, Su Ruojin had no energy left to care about anything else.
She's being dragged around trying on her wedding dress every day now.
Logically, women of the Great Chu would embroider their own wedding dresses before getting married. However, Xiao Yanchu knew that Su Ruojin was not good at embroidery and did not expect her to embroider her own wedding dress. He had already sent the best embroiderers from the palace and the capital to the General's Mansion to embroider Su Ruojin's wedding dress.
With the wedding day drawing ever closer and her wedding dress nearing completion, Su Ruojin had to try it on every few days for final adjustments.
Whenever she had free time, Madam Su would pull Su Ruojin aside and teach her how to be a wife and a mother.
Not long after Su Ruojin returned to the manor, unlike other young ladies from noble families who had learned some household management skills from a young age, Madam Su was worried that her daughter would not know how to manage such a large manor after marrying into the Regent's manor.
Su Ruojin was both amused and exasperated by her mother's worries. If she really didn't know how to manage things, she could just ask Yunniang to arrange a capable person for her.
However, Su Ruojin knew that her mother was thinking of her, so she couldn't refuse and patiently listened to her mother's various instructions.
Su Ruojin only breathed a slight sigh of relief after receiving the invitation from the eldest princess.
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