After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 204
Chapter 204
(71.2)
“You wouldn’t be sad.”
Zhao Zhi’s eyebrows moved. His sliding Adam’s apple and stiff face seemed to disagree with what she had just said.
Ming Zhu clenched her hands into fists, and she went on to say: “Or should I say, you wouldn’t be very sad, it would pass after one or two days.”
Zhao Zhi replied with a hoarse voice: “No…”
No, it wasn’t like what she was saying.
Ming Zhu felt that it was really cold tonight ah, it had not been so cold for a long time since the beginning of spring.
Her nose was turning a little sour, but her heart didn’t feel so sad, she was relieved.
“Let us go.” She looked at him quietly with her eyes, “Zhao Zhi, a melon plucked forcefully is not sweet.”
Zhao Zhi searched for a long time to find his dried-up voice, and he said word by word, and paused in between, there was both disbelief and an indescribable pain in his heart, “Let us go…. Who is us?”
Ming Zhu’s eyes somehow looked more and more red, and there was a strong sadness in the bottom of her eyes, she sniffed through her reddened nose, “I have someone I love, can you stop breaking us apart?”
The blurry and faint feelings in her heart she had when she was young, like the wet mist rising in the morning, were annihilated by Zhao Zhi when he kidnapped her by force, before she could distinguish them clearly. At that time, the love she felt was both real and sweet. Her love as a young girl just lasted an instant, it wasn’t very strong, but it was not so easy to forget. Every little bit of those sincere feelings was all worth engraving in her heart.
In the past two years, it seemed like she had returned to the time when Wei Chiyu came to her house to propose, he was like the moon that belonged to her, shining on her.
Ming Zhu had already said it clearly enough, she didn’t believe that Zhao Zhi couldn’t understand, she wasn’t even afraid to make him angry, anyway, nothing could go worse.
Hearing her humble, pitiful request, Zhao Zhi felt like his throat was blocked, unable to breathe. The blade hanging on the tip of his heart did not hesitate to pierce into the soft flesh, stirring it in a circle, spilling a mix of flesh and blood.
He clenched his fists, and no matter how much he was in pain inside, he looked as calm as ever.
“Breaking you apart?” Zhao Zhi frowned, his eyes looked a little confused, he took a few steps forward, his hand grabbed her waist, there was no emotion in his dark and deep eyes, and he confidently said to her, as well as to himself: “But you also love me.”
Zhao Zhi was smart and attentive, and back then, she wasn’t able to hide her feelings from him, her mouth didn’t say it, but the look in her eyes would betray everything.
Unexpectedly, Ming Zhu did not deny it, she nodded her head, “But right now, I really… just want to be with him.”
Ming Zhu finally brought herself to the life she was living today. She couldn’t breathe whenever she thought of the golden cage in the capital that had locked her up for so long.
She slowly pushed away Zhao Zhi’s hand and tilted her head to see his face clearly. This face of his had not changed, cold and beautiful, like an unreachable star.
She spoke softly and warmly, sounding inoffensive, “You wouldn’t really want me to die in your arms, would you?”
Zhao Zhi looked at her face, petite and white, her lowered eyelashes were casting a small black shadow, and her pale pink cherry lips were slightly pursed, unbending, and serious.
He powerlessly removed his hand, there was a humid layer in front of his eyes, as he said with difficulty: “Zhu Zhu, don’t say such things.”
Zhao Zhi really couldn’t hear her pronounce the word “die”, it directly pierced his heart.
Ming Zhu hummed, and then the two fell into a long silence.
Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand, and before he could even touch her, she turned sideways, avoiding him.
His fingers curled into fists and slowly fell to the other side. Enduring the waves of pain, he asked: “You have been hiding in Yangzhou for the past two years, hiding from me?”
Ming Zhu nodded without hesitation, “Yes.”
Zhao Zhi’s eyes oozed blood streaks, “Before I left that day, you said that you wanted to eat sweet cakes, were you lying to me?”
Ming Zhu remained silent.
Zhao Zhi’s mouth pulled up a smile and he asked: “During those days, when you acted coquettishly with me, saying that if you wouldn’t leave me, was that also an act?”
(TL’s note : I don’t remember Ming Zhu saying that tho?)
Ming Zhu raised her eyes, “That’s right. ”
She was just tricking him into letting his guard down.
Zhao Zhi lightly hummed, he clearly wanted to say something gentle to her, he wanted to ask her how she had been doing in Yangzhou for the past two years? Had she been bullied by people? But his bones were too hard, and he couldn’t say those words.
Yangzhou wasn’t safe like the capital, there were more red-light districts, and there were more travelers going north and south. There were also brutal and unreasonable powerful figures, and being a weak woman, she must have suffered a lot of grievances.
Zhao Zhi did not dare to use tough means to compel her now, he was afraid of “the fish dies or the net splits” kind of situation (TL’s note : a life and death struggle) and guessed that threatening wouldn’t work.
He wanted her to be alive and well.
Zhao Zhi said: “I will come to see you again tomorrow.”
Ming Zhu lowered her face, her voice was small, but it was enough for him to hear her clearly, “Don’t come anymore.”
Zhao Zhi pretended not to have heard her words and left with a calm face.
However, he still left someone to guard outside of her courtyard.
Translator : Laura
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