Ye Yabing sat sideways, seemingly knowing she couldn't resist, so she didn't flinch at all, only keeping her back ramrod straight.
The veil was thrown aside and landed on the ground.
The pink veil on her face was removed, revealing Ye Yabing's complete face—the Prince of Ding was stunned, staring blankly at the scene before him, silent for a long time, his breathing gradually becoming rapid, his chest heaving violently.
He had originally intended to throw the pink veil away, but now it seemed to be stuck to his hand by something, and he couldn't get rid of it at all.
There were no scars on Ye Yabing's face.
It was a flawless face, fair with a rosy glow, and the fine hairs on the skin were faintly visible in the soft morning light.
Just like the first time he saw it, exactly the same as in his memory... No, not exactly the same, even more beautiful than when he first saw it, even more beautiful than in his memory.
There was nothing missing on her skin.
Her eyebrows, eyes, and mouth were also exquisitely beautiful.
This must be what breathtaking beauty looks like.
At this moment, however, the beauty had tears in her eyes, her pearly teeth slightly biting her lip, her expression incredibly stubborn, like a flower standing in the cold wind, blooming proudly despite her grievances.
She grabbed the Prince's hand and pressed it against her face: "Your Highness, can you see clearly? I am not disfigured after all!"
It feels incredibly smooth and delicate, just like a child's skin, without a single flaw.
While feeling guilty, Prince Ding couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Just as he was about to speak, Ye Yabing called Han Yu, who was guarding outside the door, to come in.
"Take this girl down; she has ulterior motives."
Han Yu did as she was told, twisting the maid up and forcing her to kneel before Prince Ding and Ye Yabing.
Ye Yabing's eyes were filled with tears, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall, and instead said coldly:
"Interrogate this girl. Although she looks familiar, I don't know which courtyard she belongs to. Why would she send me a cloak for no reason? She even went so far as to spout nonsense in front of His Highness Prince Ding, saying that I was disfigured by the eldest young lady. Her heart is truly despicable!"
Han Yu pressed her knee against the maid's back, pinning the maid's hands behind her back. With a little force, the maid felt as if all the bones in her body were about to break, and she couldn't bear it any longer, her face turning deathly pale.
With blood dripping from her mouth and looking utterly disheveled, she begged for mercy repeatedly, pleading, "This servant, Yue'er, was responsible for sweeping outside the eldest young lady's courtyard. It was the eldest young lady who told Yue'er that you, the second young lady, have already been disfigured by her!"
"The eldest young lady learned that you were coming to keep your appointment with His Highness today, so she sent me with a cloak to find you and point out your disfigurement to His Highness, hoping that His Highness would despise you and take the initiative to annul the engagement!"
Ye Yabing seemed stunned, muttering, "So it's my eldest sister. I suppose His Highness broke off the engagement with her and then asked to marry me as his concubine. My eldest sister has been holding a grudge and waiting for an opportunity to take revenge."
Ye Yabing raised her hand, signaling Han Yu to take Yue'er away.
Just as Han Yu was about to act, she suddenly pointed at Ye Yabing and exclaimed, "Miss, your face... quickly take off that cloak, it's poisoned!"
Prince Ding looked down and saw a patch of red near Ye Yabing's ear... Was the cloak poisonous?
With a swift palm strike, the force of the blow loosened the loosely tied knot, causing his cloak to billow in the wind and fall onto the floor behind Ye Yabing.
"Did the young lady poison the cloak?" Han Yu tightened her grip again, and Yue'er screamed in agony.
Ye Yabing gritted her teeth, her finger trembling as she pointed at her and questioned, "Even if I hadn't been disfigured by my eldest sister before, she still wants me to be poisoned and disfigured because of this cloak today, is that right!"
"Yue'er didn't know! It was the eldest young lady who asked me to deliver the cloak. I didn't know the cloak was poisoned! Second young lady, spare my life!" Yue'er cried and shouted, her voice filled with anguish.
Ye Yabing said, "You're talking nonsense. You took the cloak yourself. If you didn't know it was poisonous, how could you have used the antidote beforehand, leaving no redness or ulceration on your body? Hanyu, search her body and find the antidote!"
Han Yu immediately searched Yue'er's body thoroughly and indeed found a bottle of medicine.
Yue'er quickly changed her tune: "It was all the eldest young lady who told me to do this. She is the mistress, and I dare not disobey her."
Prince Ding kicked Yue'er away, and Yue'er coughed up another mouthful of blood, falling to the ground as if her internal organs were about to shatter.
Prince Ding snatched the medicine bottle, poured out the pills, and prepared to feed them to Ye Yabing. However, Ye Yabing took the opportunity to give Han Yu a wink.
Han Yu said, "This lowly servant dared to plot against her master. She deserves to die. Miss, Han Yu, take her away and deal with her."
Reaching the deserted stern, Han Yu pressed Yue'er's head down into the water, not allowing her to surface for a long, long time.
In her final moments, Yue'er was still thinking, "The way you told me about this isn't how it's supposed to be done..."
However, her body gradually calmed down, and she stopped struggling.
Inside the room, Ye Yabing took the antidote, and the redness and swelling on her face disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Prince Ding was overjoyed and opened his arms to embrace her, but Ye Yabing dodged away. Tears welled in her eyes as she looked at Prince Ding and said:
"Your Highness probably doesn't truly love Ya Ya, which is why you forcibly removed Ya Ya's veil after being framed by others."
"Ya Ya knows that if this face is truly ruined, His Highness will definitely not want to marry Ya Ya again, and may even want to annul the engagement with Ya Ya!"
"It is clear that Your Highness has always only liked Ya Ya's face, not Ya Ya herself, but Ya Ya truly likes Your Highness."
“If Your Highness does not treat Ya Ya with sincerity, even if we are engaged, Ya Ya would not dare to marry Your Highness. Ya Ya will enter the palace now and ask the Emperor to cancel our engagement. Whatever the consequences, Ya Ya will bear them all!”
Ye Yabing looked deeply at Prince Ding, finally letting a large tear roll down her cheek, then turned and left resolutely.
"Even when she sheds tears, she is so beautiful..." This thought flashed through Prince Ding's mind. When he saw her turn and leave, he was heartbroken and immediately chased after her to hug her.
Ye Yabing struggled desperately in his arms, tears streaming down her face, looking extremely heartbroken.
Prince Ding hurriedly said, "I have you in my heart, otherwise I would not have been willing to be flogged fifty times by my father and break off my engagement with that slut Ye Qingxue, and instead ask to marry you! You cannot doubt my sincerity for you because of a small matter!"
Ye Yabing was still crying, biting her lip and remaining silent, still determined to enter the palace to annul the engagement.
Prince Ding was extremely anxious, and the lingering fragrance around his nose stirred his heart. He grabbed Ye Yabing's chin and kissed her lips...
Prince Ding was not without women, but none of them had ever moved him as much as he was now.
"That vile woman Ye Qingxue actually tried to use a vicious scheme to make me annul my engagement with Ya Ya? She almost caused me to lose such a perfect woman as Ya Ya!"
"Once I've calmed Ya Ya down, I'll teach that bitch a lesson and show her what happens when she schemes against me!"
Let's settle both old and new scores together.
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