After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 243
~End of chapter 242
It was hot.
He suddenly used some strength in his hands and easily removed her outer garment.
Still unwilling, Ming Zhu pushed him away.
Zhao Zhi stopped, his dark eyes unfathomable, staring at her face, as he asked, “What’s wrong?”
He grabbed her hand and placed it on his waist, “Don’t tell me you want to avoid me like this for the rest of your life?”
(86.3)
Ming Zhu clenched her teeth and wrinkled her eyebrows, without saying anything.
If it was before, seeing her looking as unwilling and reluctant as she was now, Zhao Zhi would have definitely stopped.
But due to the fact that he wasn’t in a good mood today, he did not have so much scruples.
When he thought about the tears she shed today, it was hard for him not to be angry.
He forced her to look into his eyes as he said, “Zhu Zhu, I’m a normal man.”
He not only liked her, but also felt deep carnal desire for her.
Ming Zhu actually understood his words.
She knew that Zhao Zhi wasn’t a very lustful man, but that he also wasn’t a man without any se*ual desire.
She nodded, her red mouth slightly opened, “I understand.”
The curtain rose with the breeze, the white veil gently caressed her cheeks.
Ming Zhu was forced to tilt her neck, snow-white and slender, her collarbone was half hidden, half revealed, her fingers clutched the quilt with force, her tone was mild as she spat out the words, “You’d better go find someone else.”
She couldn’t.
Zhao Zhi laughed in exasperation, it was only the night before that he had warned her not to do such a stupid thing, but it was like what he said was wind beside her ear, she did not care a bit about the words he said.
He lifted her wrists, his cold eyes looking even more sinister.
Without a word, the man undid the tie around her waist.
Ming Zhu did not move, and just looked at him with her wet open eyes, not making a sound, at his mercy.
But very quickly her eyes overflowed with glistening water that rolled down along the edge of her eyes.
Tears did not take long to trickle down her cheeks, her eyelashes were also stained with glistening, clear water droplets, and her eyes were getting redder and redder.
Zhao Zhi stopped moving his hands and looked at her tears, his heart already in so much pain it was numb.
He extended his hand to cover her eyes, not daring to look into her eyes.
Then he hugged her tightly.
Zhao Zhi whispered in her ear, a few chokes could be heard in his shivering tone as he kept saying, “Zhu Zhu, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
His palm was already wet with her tears.
Zhao Zhi sucked in a breath of cold air, his heart throbbing with pain, “Don’t cry, I won’t force you anymore.”
“Just forget it if you don’t want to.”
“Don’t look at me like this.”
With such a shattered look in her eyes.
To him, it was like a sword quietly and silently dismembering him.
(87.1)
Zhao Zhi’s had clenched his fingers too much, his bent fingers were painful, he helped her tie again the buttons of her lapel with trembling hands, as his dry throat emitted a hoarse voice, “It’s alright now.”
He avoided her eyes, not bearing to see her aggrieved and crying expression as she looked at him, those eyes seemed like they were speaking, silent accusation of his atrocities.
Ming Zhu slowly stopped crying, with waves of glistening water in the bottom of her eyes, her thin pale face turned slightly red from being wiped by the handkerchief, as she silently tightened her belt, making a dead knot. Turning her back, she only let him see the back of her head, as she said: “Zhao Zhi, I do not like it when other people force me.”
In love, it was all about willingness.
He never asked about her feelings, did not care whether or not she was willing.
Zhao Zhi embraced her waist from behind and buried his head in her neck. His cool breath gently swept across the back of her neck. He did not say anything.
When the day just dawned, Zhao Zhi had to get up early to enter the palace, his movements as he got out of bed were very light, and he put down the curtains layer by layer, blocking the light of the day that was striving to get into the room.
Zhao Zhi dressed meticulously, with a cold face, pursed thin lips, and a cold expression through which the majesty of his expression couldn’t be seen clearly.
The maidservants who were serving the crown prince in his daily life were holding their breath, very focused, careful and cautious, not daring to make any unnecessary noise.
At daybreak, Zhao Zhi drank half a bowl of white porridge before he put down the spoon. Before leaving, he coldly instructed, “It’s hot these days, so put more ice in the room.”
“Yes.”
Ming Zhu woke up with swollen eyes. Seeing her swollen eyes, Hong Ling thought that Zhao Zhi had beaten her.
“What, he’s even hitting you ?!”
“He didn’t hit me.”
“Is that so?” Hong Ling thought for a long time and immediately changed her words, “Then he’s also wrong for making you cry.”
Everything was his fault anyway.
“Hong Ling.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Are you going to stay here forever?”
The crown prince’s residence wasn’t exactly a good place to stay, there were many rules, many eyes and ears, and she and Zhao Zhi didn’t get along, so Ming Zhu was afraid that she would suffer grievances.
Instead of staying here and living under other people’s eyes and mood, it would be better for her to move out and live alone in a tranquil place.
The expression on Hong Ling’s face didn’t look natural. Of course she didn’t want to continue living here, but! She was now being hunted and could only hide here to avoid the danger.
She spoke in a veiled manner, “Let’s see what happens step by step.”
Ming Zhu took the money pouch at her waist and placed it in her palm, “Keep more silver with you.”
Hong Ling was embarrassed to take that money, previously in Yangzhou, that pastry shop earned them a lot of money, and when Ming Zhu was taken away in a hurry, all that money went into her pocket.
“Aiya, I can’t take your money anymore, I still have a lot of money I haven’t spent.”
Translator : Laura
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