Chapter 158 Xiao Shu's Wedding
"Madam, let's go."
The maidservant helped Wenxi up, her face pale and her voice trembling, "If His Highness blames me, I'm doomed."
Wenxi glanced at the tightly closed door of the house before turning and leaving.
Before she even got back to her room, Xiao Shu was already waiting for her.
The maid's hand trembled slightly. "Your Highness has arrived."
Wen Xi released her hand. "You can go now."
"Yes!" The maidservant immediately withdrew with a sigh of relief.
Wenxi slowly walked into her room, saying, "This humble servant greets Your Highness."
She paused for a moment, then smiled.
"It has been more than three months since I last saw Your Highness. I was just thinking of visiting my sister at Ruoshui Garden, but Your Highness has come so quickly."
Xiao Shu stood in front of a painting, which he had painted in the capital.
The painting depicts a tiger being hunted; this tiger is still kept in the Princess's Purple Forest Garden.
I don't know where Wenxi found it from.
He didn't move, but just looked at the painting of the man on horseback nocking an arrow and drawing his bow.
"Wenxi, I have always thought you are a smart person. There are some things you shouldn't see. Not knowing and pretending not to know have the same effect."
He turned around and stared at her intently. "This concludes my warning."
Wenxi's lips trembled slightly. "Yes."
Xiao Shu looked at her, then reached out and ripped the tiger hunting picture off the wall.
The drawing paper was torn in half.
"No!" Wenxi rushed forward, but could only catch the half of the painting that was falling.
Xiao Shu gave her a cold look before turning and leaving.
It started snowing lightly again that night.
Yao Shisan sat on the ground, hugging her knees; she had exhausted all her methods.
She couldn't get out, and Xiao Shu wouldn't come to see her.
Miss Meng.
Oh.
She became a pawn once again.
She couldn't understand when Xiao Shu had become so naive.
If he gives her the surname Meng and marries her, will the Meng family be able to be blackmailed by him?
Since no one had ever seen Meng Yushan's granddaughter, he could easily find someone of similar age to impersonate her.
His flawless plan has fallen apart!
Can't he understand such a simple principle?
But she can't see Xiao Shu now!
She faked her death in the capital; is she really going to die here now?
Yao Shisan's hands were clenched tightly, his nails digging into his palms.
what to do……
The candlelight flickered, and her shadow swayed on the ground as well.
She suddenly turned around and looked at the lampshade behind her.
Rather than waiting to die.
If all else fails, I'll just try again...
When I lifted the lampshade, a biting gust of wind blew in, almost extinguishing the candle.
"If you set the fire, you'll have even less chance of escaping."
A sound came from the window.
Yao Shisan was so shocked that he dropped the item in his hand to the ground. "Wen Xi!"
Wenxi stood outside the window, watching the fine snowflakes drift into the room and then melt away.
Her voice was as cold as falling snow, "We've met here again."
As she spoke, she glanced at the unchanging room and said, "Nothing has changed, including you."
Yao Shisan frowned, then his gaze fell on her protruding belly.
"Wenxi, I haven't changed at all. I've never belonged here."
"I don't want to fight you. Just let me go, and I'll disappear from Yuzhou forever!"
Wenxi looked at her and sneered, "Why should I let you go, so that His Highness will take his anger out on me?"
"you……"
Before Yao Shisan could finish speaking, Wen Xi interrupted him, "Madam Jiang, Madam Yao, and now it's Miss Meng."
"I really admire your ability to navigate relationships with men."
"Having already had two children, I can now change my identity and get married as a virgin."
"Wenxi!" Yao Shisan couldn't contain his anger and slapped her.
Looking at this woman who was no longer the same as before, she shook her head. "You've changed. You're no longer Wen Xi; you're just a lady of a royal household."
Wen Xi covered her face and laughed, then her expression turned cold. She suddenly reached out and grabbed her collar, pulling her over the window, while her other hand viciously attacked her neck.
"Yes, I've changed. I'm now the Lady of the Prince's Mansion, and so are you! No one can escape this!"
Her gaze grew increasingly sarcastic. "I truly regret letting you go that time!"
Yao Shisan's breath hitched; he felt like he couldn't breathe and his vision was getting darker and darker.
Her face flushed red. "Wen... Wenxi... if you have the guts... then strangle me right now!"
"Madam Wen." Two figures leaped down from the rooftop.
"His Highness has given instructions that if the future princess suffers any loss, you and the child in her womb will be executed along with her."
Wenxi's face turned pale, and she loosened her grip. Yao Shisan, as if reborn, gasped for breath and coughed.
Wenxi touched her belly with a sorrowful expression, "For her, Your Highness, you actually... abandoned your own child."
Xiao Shu was once poisoned while trying to assassinate a disobedient official for the Empress Dowager.
She barely escaped death, but it was difficult for her to have children.
There were several maids in the mansion, but none of them got pregnant, so no one ever promoted them to concubines.
It wasn't until after she gave herself to the king and became pregnant that she became Lady Wen of the royal palace.
She is now Madam Wen, no longer the former Lady Wen Xiwen.
The two guards did not answer her, but only said two words to her.
"Please leave."
Yao Shisan gripped her clothes tightly, and after catching her breath, she glared angrily.
"What a majestic Madam Wen! Turns out she's nothing special after all!"
Wenxi hugged her stomach and laughed a few times, then glanced at Yao Shisan with a hint of resentment before turning and leaving.
The window was locked again.
Everything returned to calm.
Yao Shisan stood there numbly, her face reddened by the cold wind carrying snow.
The ground under the window was also damp.
These are water stains on the ground caused by the melting of snowflakes that fell in earlier.
Only then did she collapse to the ground, as if all her strength had been drained.
Yao Shisan slowly opened his palm, revealing a small crumpled piece of paper!
It was slipped to her by Wen Xi when she pinched her earlier.
She whispered in her ear as she tugged at her clothes.
"I didn't know how many people were on the roof. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Wen Xi pinched him on purpose; she wanted to force out the hidden guards on the roof.
She wanted to save her.
Yao Shisan opened the note with trembling hands.
The next day.
Granny Ma came in on time, bringing not only food but also ointment.
Wenxi was skilled in martial arts, and her strength was greater than that of ordinary men.
In just one night, Yao Shisan's neck had turned blue.
"Miss Meng, this is Jade Skin Cream. Please keep it safe tomorrow!"
She slapped the ointment off with one hand, her attitude unchanged, "Call Xiao Shu here."
Now even the title of His Highness Prince Cheng is gone.
Granny Ma picked up the plaster. "His Highness has already said that the young lady will naturally be able to see him on the wedding day."
Yao Shisan turned his head away indifferently, without saying a word.
Granny Ma still offered a word of comfort, "Young lady, being able to marry His Highness as his principal wife is something many people would never dream of."
Seeing that she was still unmoved by reason, she stopped talking.
With a wave of his hand, he led the maid out of the room.
In the main courtyard, Xiao Shu's eyes never left the book in his hands.
"How are things today?"
Granny Ma knelt on the ground. "Miss Meng's neck is bruised, and she refuses to take medicine. She won't listen to anything I say, she just keeps saying she wants to see you."
"I ate something today, maybe I was just too hungry to stand it."
Xiao Shu smiled and said, "No need, just eat. As long as you're alive and well for the wedding."
Granny Ma said, "Your Highness, put it down. This old servant will watch over it. Miss Meng won't die."
"Okay, go down."
"yes."
Xiao Shu put down his hand and then looked at Steward Qing, "How is Wenxi now?"
Steward Qing said, "Madam Wen caught a cold yesterday and is unable to speak right now."
"We've already consulted a doctor. The baby is fine, but the lady will have to suffer a bit."
Xiao Shu snorted, "If it weren't for her pregnancy, she would be dead by now."
Steward Qing said, "Madam Wen is a blessed woman; the young master saved her life."
"I suppose Madam Wen has come to her senses by now."
Xiao Shu hummed in agreement, then picked up his book again. "There are still a few days until the wedding ceremony."
Steward Qing said, "There are still three days left."
A smile finally appeared on Xiao Shu's face, with a hint of vengeful pleasure in his eyes.
He once said he would not force her.
But circumstances are hard to change, and he no longer had that much time to let her play the game at her leisure.
Three days.
It will be soon.
His game needs to be sped up.
Three days later.
The Prince Cheng's Mansion was filled with the sounds of gongs and drums.
They even set up a continuous banquet at the entrance of the mansion, following the wedding customs of Yuzhou.
Liu Minghan stood not far away.
"My lord, His Highness Prince Cheng's marriage is too sudden. The wedding invitations were only sent out five days ago, and the banquet is already being held."
Ordinary families take several months to prepare for a wedding banquet, but for Prince Cheng, it only takes five days!
And there wasn't even a wedding procession.
Liu Minghan also frowned, "The ceremony for a prince's wedding is definitely not this simple. Not even the officials from the Imperial Palace Ceremonial Office came."
The servant scratched his head. "There was no report submitted. What is this called, acting first and reporting later?"
Liu Minghan shook his head, "I wonder what His Highness Prince Cheng is up to!"
"Master, are we still going to the wedding banquet?"
"Of course I'll go. I'll go see who His Highness Prince Cheng is so eager to marry, disregarding ancestral rules."
Prince Cheng's Mansion, Ruoshui Garden.
"Your Highness, please open the door!"
Granny Ma knocked on the door, sweating profusely, but it was blocked inside; even the guards couldn't break it open!
"What's going on?!"
Xiao Shu strode over, dressed in a red brocade robe.
"Your Highness, the door is blocked from the inside, and this old servant is helpless."
His eyes darkened. "Let's go upstairs."
"Huh?" Granny Ma didn't react.
The guards behind Xiao Shu leaped onto the roof, drew their swords, and slashed at the roof tiles.
Debris flew everywhere. The guards stomped their feet and punched a hole in the roof before they could get inside.
There was a long-haired figure lying motionless on the bed.
The guard glanced at it only once before walking towards the door, moving aside all the tables, chairs, lamp stands, and long tables that were blocking the entrance.
No wonder no one could break through; the princess is quite shrewd, she even managed to trap them diagonally.
But what's the use? Even if we tear down this house, His Highness can still drag her out.
Xiao Shu opened the door and strode in.
"Hurry up and do the princess's makeup."
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