After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 217
~Chapter 216
Zhao Zhi took a deep breath, and said, “Smile at me.”
It was such a simple request, yet Ming Zhu couldn’t do it. She looked at Zhao Zhi’s face and tried very hard to smile at him, but she really couldn’t make a smile.
She couldn’t even act anymore.
The sunlight outside the door folded on her face, illuminating her clear face.
The sunlight was warm and bright, the weather was as good as the day he first saw her.
Chapter 217
(76.4)
Ming Zhu pulled up the corners of her mouth into a very stiff smile.
Zhao Zhi said in a hoarse voice: “Beautiful, smile more in the future.”
Ming Zhu didn’t listen carefully to what he was saying, and didn’t care about what he was thinking either. She eagerly asked: “So you’re going to let him go?”
Zhao Zhi swallowed the bitter water in his throat and spat out an “okay”.
Just as these words left his mouth, he added, “The day after tomorrow I will send a carriage to pick you up, to return to the capital.”
Zhao Zhi’s expression at this time was soft, there didn’t seem to be any feeling of oppression in his voice as he continued to say, “Zhu Zhu, his life is all in your hands.”
“Take your time to think about whether you want to go back with me.”
“I don’t want to force you anymore, but I really have no other way.”
She had already become his weakness, the soft spot in his ribs that was too painful, too painful.
(77.1)
Ming Zhu wanted to curse Zhao Zhi for being shameless, but felt it was a waste of words to scold him. It was unsure how many shameless things he did to her, this debt really could not be counted.
Hong Ling noticed that she had been absent-minded all morning, in a daze and out of her element.
After Ming Zhu finished braiding her daughter’s hair, she let her go play in the yard.
She turned her head and looked at Hong Ling with a serious expression, “Do you still have daggers at home?”
Hong Ling had previously bought two daggers to self-defense, but she was always losing items here and there, so those two beautiful daggers she bought at a high price were now long gone. She asked, “What do you need a dagger for?”
The blinding sunlight was shining on her face, the spring sun was warm, and burning a little bit.
Her cheeks were a little painful from being exposed to the sunlight, it was burning and red, she supported her face with her hand as she said seriously, “I’m planning to die along with Zhao Zhi.”
Hong Ling only realized now that the man with unkind intentions was called Zhao Zhi. His name was quite pleasant to the ears, elegant and refined, “Don’t be stupid! If someones has to die, he should die alone, your life is worth more than his. Besides, you don’t want Xiaoman anymore? I don’t know how to raise a child.”
Ming Zhu was just thinking about it.
Hong Ling was really afraid that she would not be able to think things through, so she began to persuade her earnestly, “There is nothing in this world that can’t be overcome, if he suffers the cold treatment from you a few more times, he may not come again.”
Ming Zhu laughed bitterly, “He wants me to go back with him.”
“What!?” Hong Ling’s tone suddenly became sharp, “He is really shameless, isn’t he already married? And he still wants you to go back to be a concubine?”
Ming Zhu also felt that this was the case. If things went on like this, she would have to go back and be bullied by Ming Ru, pressing on top of her head.
At home, a concubine-born daughter was no match for a legitimate daughter.
Once married, a concubine couldn’t compete with the main wife, not to mention the fact that now Ming Ru was already the crown princess.
(TL’s note : I’m guessing the author made a mistake here, Ming Ru was supposed to become the crown prince’s side consort, and not the crown princess.)
Maybe, Ming Ru and Zhao Zhi even had a child now.
Ming Zhu opened her pair of watery glass beautiful eyes, and asked sincerely, “What else can I do but die along with him?”
Hong Ling thought for a moment, “You can be a bad person! Stir up his backyard so much he’ll never know peace!”
Ming Zhu was speechless for a moment.
Hong Ling looked at her with shining eyes, “Isn’t my idea particularly good?”
She added: “As I see it, he seems to… care very much about you ……, you can do everything to the best of your ability, spend his silver, harm his people, make the life in his family’s backyard difficult, how about that?”
Ming Zhu nodded her head: “That sounds pretty good.”
Hong Ling was very proud, “Evil people need to be taught by other evil people.”
Ming Zhu thought about it, but spending all of Zhao Zhi’s money seemed unlikely. Having her harming other people’s lives, she couldn’t do that either. She could only do some small things like looking for bones in eggs. (TL’s note : meaning nitpicking)
It was quite meaningless.
Ming Zhu thought about it for two days, and on the morning of the third day very early, Zhao Zhi’s carriage stopped at the entrance of the alley as promised.
Ming Zhu did not pack her luggage. She was sitting in the courtyard under the sun, casually sorting out the new cotton that she bought the day before, preparing to make a new quilt. She was sitting under a tree, with her face lowered, half of her face was hidden in the dark where the light did not shine, the look on her face was serene and gentle, as her white fingers were slowly picking and removing the flawed things in the cotton.
Zhao Zhi stood in front of her, and his tall figure blocked the light in front of her. He was wearing a lake blue long gown today, his posture was upright and lean like a bamboo. He placed his hand on hers and slowly asked: “Did you pack your luggage?”
Ming Zhu didn’t even raise her head, “No.”
Zhao Zhi did not seem to be surprised, and his expression did not even change.
Ming Zhu patted the clean cotton balls in the bamboo basket, put the basket on the stone table and stood up. Her wide sleeves were swaying with the wind, her standing posture, like fine jade, had the aura of an ethereal celestial being. She said, “I have no intention to go back with you.”
Translator : Laura
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