After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 224
Chapter 224
(79.4)
Just now, when Ming Zhu passed by the corridor, she clearly saw that the courtyard had been rebuilt and looked no different from the old one from the outside.
Zhao Zhi’s hand lightly rested on her shoulder, “You’ll live here, you’re not allowed to go anywhere else.”
There was a momo in the residence specially dedicated to take care of the child, and Zhao Zhi ordered the person to take his daughter to the front yard.
Ming Zhu turned her body sideways, half her face was hidden in the dark, she did not say a word, sitting quietly on the side, as if she was a thousand miles away from him.
Zhao Zhi was afraid that she would disappear again like before, and that no matter how much he searched, he would not be able to find her.
He suppressed the panic in his heart, his voice was clear and cold, “If you want to raise the child by your side, you have to wait for your health to get better.”
Ming Zhu looked at the branches outside the window, with a slightly empty look in her eyes. She did not make a sound, as if she did not want to answer him at all.
Zhao Zhi’s eyes were sore and he hugged her waist from behind, resting his chin in the nook of her neck, smelling the light fragrance of the woman’s hair. He said, “It’s not that I’m not letting you be close to her, I just think you’re too tired.”
Ming Zhu laughed, “Being with you, it’s indeed very tiring.”
Zhao Zhi was caught off guard, and was stabbed again in his heart. But it did not matter, his heart was already full of holes and empty inside.
The blood had already ran dry, and the flesh inside was decaying.
Zhao Zhi swallowed his saliva, his throat was dry and slightly painful. He knew she hated him.
……
The crown prince was about to get married.
This news soon spread everywhere.
Over the years, the crown prince’s marriage had had many twists and turns, his marriage had fallen through several times, and each time it was cancelled at the last minute, as if he was cursed with some evil.
In the restaurants, one could hear people talking about this matter on all sides.
“What do you say, will the marriage also be cancelled this time?”
“It can’t be, the previous two times, it was justifiable, but this time there really isn’t any reason to.”
“I heard that the crown prince brought back a woman from Yangzhou who looks like a heavenly goddess.”
“What heavenly goddess? In my opinion, she is just a wh*re from a brothel.”
The man looked disgusted, “How can you marry a prostitute? It’s impossible.”
“I don’t think it’s possible either.”
Sheng Wenlin had invited Song Huaiqing to drink with him today and happened to hear these words.
He lifted his eyes and asked, “Is it true that the crown prince is getting married?”
Song Huaiqing’s smile didn’t look like a smile, his cold eyes narrowed slightly, and the curve of his mouth looked a bit fake. He hummed, “It’s true.”
Sheng Wenlin casually asked, “Which family’s miss?”
Song Huaiqing tilted his head and served himself a cup of wine, his throat was burning from the strong wine, “The Ming family’s.”
His smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes, “Ming Zhu did not die and played everyone around.”
Song Huaiqing’s heart really didn’t feel good about it.
In fact, there was something that he had been hiding from Zhao Zhi.
He found out earlier than Zhao Zhi that Ming Zhu was not dead, and that she was living pretty well in Yangzhou.
He made trips to Yangzhou much more often than Zhao Zhi. One day, the girl who was living with Ming Zhu, quarreled and fought with someone, and was taken to the yamen bureau.
The other party was the magistrate’s nephew, so in order to give the shrewish girl a lesson, he locked her up in the dungeon, refusing to release her.
Ming Zhu went to the yamen to plead for her, and that was when Song Huaiqing happened to see her.
He was so astonished at that time. He waited for her to come out of the yamen and then dragged her to an unoccupied alley. She was so frightened that her face turned pale.
Song Huaiqing’s unfathomable eyes looked at her face as he threatened her, “Be with me, and I won’t tell Zhao Zhi about you still being alive.”
Ming Zhu gave him a slap.
He had been drinking that day, but he was not drunk.
It didn’t take long for Ming Zhu, that stupid woman, to let Zhao Zhi find out her trail as well.
He couldn’t call her stupid actually.
She was even able to do this kind of thing like hiding and deceiving everyone under the sky.
……
Ming Zhu seemed like a string puppet as she tried the wedding dress sent by the embroiderers, her expression looked weary, as if she hated it very much.
The embroiderers just did their job and didn’t dare to talk too much.
The future crown princess was not happy, they could not open their mouth and ask for the reason.
After the measurements were taken, they retreated from the room in proper order.
Ming Zhu had not been in good spirits since she returned to the capital, she caught a cold, had a headache and was coughing.
Her health was poor, and even after taking medicine, she did not get better.
Once Ming Zhu fell sick, she did not go near her daughter, afraid to infect her, and make her suffer along with her.
She knew that Zhao Zhi was secretly angry, but he didn’t say any harsh words in front of her.
“You don’t have to use your body to vent your anger on me.” Zhao Zhi said.
Ming Zhu felt falsely accused, “I’m not.”
After this day, Zhao Zhi personally watched her drink medicine every day.
Unfortunately, half a month later, her fever seemed to worsen for some unknown reason.
Translator : Laura
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