Gan Qiongying wasn't stupid; when she heard that the male lead wanted to go to a hotel with her, she felt like the world had turned into a surreal place.
The female lead's mother is still peeking from the corner, and the male lead wants to go to a hotel with the vicious female supporting character. This world has gone mad.
But no matter how crazy the world is, Gan Qiongying has no interest in having sex with the male lead.
Besides, she had already remembered the scene in the story where the male lead acted ambiguously towards the villainous female supporting character!
In the latter half of the plot, the male protagonist needs to kill an old minister of Nanzhao in order to disrupt the situation in Nanzhao. However, he does not want to get his hands dirty, so he has to use the vicious female supporting character.
Princess Duanrong wasn't so easily manipulated; her request was to have sex with the male lead, and Zhongli actually did it!
Of course it's fake!
Zhongli Zhengzhen drugged Princess Duanrong with hallucinogenic and addictive drugs, causing Duanrong to go insane and completely lose her dignity as a princess.
But that was a later part of the story. Gan Qiongying didn't quite understand why the story was brought forward.
Gan Qiongying's expression changed several times, and Zhong Lizheng's expression also became quite interesting because of Gan Qiongying's half-step dodge.
The two of them exchanged glances for a while.
Gan Qiongying had no intention of dealing with changes outside the plot and simply ignored Zhongli Zhengzhen's nonsense.
He boldly raised his hand, pointed to the jade pendant on Zhongli Zhengzhen's waist, and said, "Is this mine?"
Zhongli Zhengzhen lowered his head upon hearing this, then raised it again after a moment and chuckled softly, "Yes."
In order to confuse Princess Duanrong, he specially had one of the trinkets she gave him found and wore it on his body.
She found out, she must be overjoyed.
Gan Qiongying was overjoyed, so much so that her face was flushed and her eyes were shining.
She spoke, but the slight, throbbing pain in her heart that had started after the nightmare didn't worsen, indicating that she could do something extra outside of the main plot!
So, with a genuinely gentle smile on her face, she pointed to the jade pendant at his waist and said, "To be honest, my husband loves jade pendants very much. These days I've been searching the storerooms in the mansion, but I really can't find one that satisfies him."
Gan Qiongying fabricated the whole story, saying, "He threw a tantrum at me because of this, and even went back to the Prince Consort's residence tonight..."
Gan Qiongying said, "As a prince of Jinchuan, His Highness the Third Prince must have seen many rare treasures and would disdain such mundane things."
"How about His Highness the Third Prince returns this item?"
Zhongli Zhengzhen: "..." He slowly clenched his fist, his face twitching slightly with shock and anger.
He asked through gritted teeth, "What did the princess say?"
"I said, give me back the jade pendant, I need to use it to please my husband."
After Gan Qiongying finished speaking, she pressed her chest. Good, no pain!
hapiness!
She didn't look at Zhong Lizheng's true expression and terrifying eyes, and she took back what she had given him. That was really tasteless.
But so what?
How could a villainous supporting character like her have any moral character?
So she stretched out her slender hand, palm up, and asked for the jade ring.
Zhongli Zhengzhen almost trembled as he untied the jade ring and slapped it onto Gan Qiongying's palm!
The voice was full of sarcasm: "I never imagined that Princess Duanrong would be so fond of her husband."
Gan Qiongying felt a slight pain in her palm from being hit, but when she thought about the value of the jade ring, what did the pain matter!
She clasped her hands together, tucked them into her sleeve, and got her things back. With a grin, she said to Zhongli Zhengzhen, "The banquet tonight was very enjoyable. Thank you for your hospitality, Your Highness."
After Gan Qiongying finished speaking, she said to Yinyue, "Let's go back to the manor."
When Gan Qiongying turned around, Zhong Li's expression changed drastically.
Seeing that Gan Qiongying was really about to leave, Zhong Lizheng really wanted to turn around and leave.
He had to admit that he had indeed been drawn to Gan Qiongying's tricks tonight, but he was born a prince of Jinchuan, and even though his father disliked him, no one had ever dared to slight him.
He volunteered to come to Nanzhao as a hostage in exchange for his mother being treated well in the harem of Jinchuan.
In the year since Zhongli Zhengzhen came to Nanzhao, he has already proven his worth with his own strength. He has not been humiliated like this for a long time. He did not expect that Princess Duanrong, who used to want to kneel in front of him, would be so uncharacteristically different today.
Even now, Zhong Lizhen still doesn't believe that Gan Qiongying really wants to leave or is willing to refuse him.
He assumed she was being coy, playing hard to get.
Normally, Zhongli would never have paid any attention to Duanrong again, but not today. During the day, he had already promised Sanjiu that after tonight, they would definitely rescue her from the den of wolves and tigers that was the princess's residence...
Therefore, Zhongli Zhengzhen had no choice but to catch up with Gan Qiongying with a gloomy face and reach out to grab her wrist.
Gan Qiongying had already heard his footsteps. She ran a few steps like the wind and shouted into the void, "Stop him!"
Her visible guards were still nearby, but her shadow guards followed her.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, two burly men in black descended from the sky, forming two walls that blocked Zhongli Zhengzhen's path.
Zhongli was so angry he laughed.
I was genuinely so angry I laughed.
He had been in Nanzhao for half a year, and no one dared to speak disrespectfully to him. Even the princes of Yindu who had been granted titles of kings dared not do anything to him, a hostage.
The court in Nanzhao was in chaos. The regent was colluding with the empress dowager, and the emperor was weak, merely a puppet. As for Princess Duanrong, who seemed to be invincible...
Not only was she not the biological daughter of the powerful Empress Dowager, just like the Emperor, but she was also the child of Emperor Huicheng's younger sister who died young. If Emperor Huicheng had not valued her highly and made her a princess, how could Princess Duanrong have come from Nanzhao?
She is utterly unworthy of the word "dignified"!
Even now, only the emperor takes her seriously.
If it weren't for the great thing Zhongli was truly aiming to accomplish, and the fact that he could use her status to his advantage, why would he even glance at such a woman? And why would he let Li Hua suffer her temper?
Zhongli Zhengzhen's face was cold and stern. He spoke in a deep voice, his tone sarcastic: "Princess Duanrong, are you perhaps planning to attack me?"
Unexpectedly, Gan Qiongying stepped onto the carriage, poked her head out, and clutched the jade ring tightly in her hand, saying, "Oh dear! It's a misunderstanding!"
She had no idea what Zhongli Zhengzhen was thinking about regarding the affairs of the nation and the country. She was afraid that Zhongli Zhengzhen would change his mind after returning the jade ring. If she heard his footsteps catching up, she might get anxious and have someone stop her.
Seeing that Zhongli had truly stopped chasing, he feigned anger and berated the two shadow guards: "Get out of here!"
Then, taking advantage of the half-hearted posture, he said to Zhongli Zhengzhen, "It's late, the banquet is over, Third Prince, please stay, don't see me off any further."
"As for staying at Huishui Inn, let's skip that. The prince consort is very clingy, and if I don't go back at night, he probably won't be able to sleep."
She didn't bother to look at Zhong Lizheng's expression anymore, got into the car and said, "Let's go back."
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