The Evil Prince and his Precious Wife: The Sly Lady

Ye Yichen squeezed his sharp eyes and said, “She is here to cancel the engagement!” She was already here so early in the morning, from which he could tell she was really eager to cancel their engagement.

“I know!” Old Prince Jing glared at him, “When you see Xue’er, say some nice words and apologize to her. Make promises to win her heart back, so she wouldn’t mention this again.”

To say some nice words? To apologize? To make promises? Did it mean he had to lay down his pride to coax Mu Rongxue?

A slice of sulkiness flashed in Ye Yichen’s eyes. He said impatiently, “I don’t know how to coax a woman.”

“Then learn to!” Old Prince Jing snatched up the pillow behind and threw it at Ye Yichen, “Aren’t you the God of War of Qingyan Kingdom? You could even sweep away the mighty forces of Mo Bei, but don’t know how to coax a girl? Don’t come back before you nail it.”

Ye Yichen tilted his body and avoided the pillow throwing at him. Looking at his angry father, he frowned and said to himself, “Killing and coaxing are two different things. How could you put them together?”

Besides, the old Murong Xue was soft and adored him heart and soul. He might win her back saying some nice words, “The present her is headstrong. She hates me now and canceling the engagement is the only thing on her mind. She wouldn’t believe a word I say, and may urge me to cancel it as soon as possible...”

“Then what are you gonna do?” said Old Prince Jing angrily while glaring at him. He said to himself, “You messed up such a great marriage now. I’m so pissed off...”

After a moment’s silence, Ye Yichen said, “I’ll ask someone to persuade her to go back first. Then I’ll try to figure it out. Our engagement is still there. I will try to win her heart back.”

The new Murong Xue was arrogant and proud who totally ignored him. He wouldn’t lower his head to coax her.

His father still hadn’t recovered from the old disease. If he disobeyed his father, his father may get infuriated and hurt his body. So he used this as an excuse to comfort his father and then thought about how to solve this problem.

After a moment’s silence, Old Prince Jing said, “I’ll leave it to you then. But, remember one thing. Your wife could only be Murong Xue. And your engagement can never be canceled!”

“I know!” Ye Yichen nodded reluctantly with sharpness flashing in his eyes.

The bright and warm sunlight was shining. Murong was outside the gate of Prince Jing Mansion, walking back and forth slowly, and looked into the mansion now and then...

Suddenly a tall and straight figure appeared on the empty bluestone road. Navy blue robe, cute face, it was the son of the empress of Minister’s Household Xu Tianyou.

He walked before Murong Xue slowly and saluted politely, “Lady Murong!”

“Why is it you?” Murong Xue frowned lightly. She was here to cancel the engagement. It should be Old Prince Jing and his son to exchange their tokens back. Why did they send Xu Tianyou who had nothing to do with this here?

Xu Tianyou smiled, “Old Prince Jing has an old disease. Yichen is taking care of him and has no time to meet you. I’m entrusted to invite you to have some rest in the guess room. When Old Prince Jing wakes up, he will come to see you...”

“When will Old Prince Jing wake up?” Murong Xue pulled her face.

“Urgh...It’s hard to tell.” Xu Tianyou shook his head, looking scarcely serious. “The imperial doctors are still waiting outside. They also couldn’t tell the exact time when Old Prince Jing would wake up...”

Murong Xue was a little surprised, “Is it very serious?”

Xu Tianyou blinked and lowered his voice, “Old Prince Jing has even got severely wounded during the war times. Now he could never go back to the battlefield and has just passed the throne to Prince Jing. This time it is because of his old wounds. Every time it relapsed, it would take half of his life away...”

Murong Xue narrowed her eyes. She clearly knew the condition of Uncle Hui who had served as the housekeeper in her mansion for many years. Those who got badly wounded on battlefields should not get angry or use kung fu too much. Otherwise, when the old disease relapsed, it would be a real torture.

Last night Old Prince Jing’s old disease relapsed and he nearly lost half of his life. Fortunately he took a pill in time. However feeble he was, he should be sober now, “Can I go in and check on him?”

Xu Tianyou smiled awkwardly, “I’m sorry. Prince Jing said his father needs some rest now. Before he wakes up, no one should disturb him.”

“Really?” Murong Xue raised her eyebrows and said word by word, “I’m just gonna take a look. I won’t make any sound, I promise.”

“Lady Murong, this is Prince Jing Mansion. I only listen to the prince. So please don’t embarrass me...”

Xu Tian spoke the perfect reason he had already came up with before he came. When he raised his head randomly, he saw that Murong Xue was staring at him with a faking smile. Her eyes were crystal clear like the stars and also as cold as the ice, as if she had already seen everything through...

Xu Tianyou’s eyelid was twitching drastically. And he could only stop his perfect reason. He curled his lips to make a faking smile, “Well, it’s really hot today. What about we talk inside? Lady Murong, please come with me...”

“No need!” Murong Xue turned him down and then said with a flat tone, “Since Old Prince Jing has an old disease and needs some rest. I shouldn’t disturb him then. I’ll come visit him when he becomes sober.”

Old Prince Jing should be sober now. He just didn’t want her to cancel the engagement, so he made an excuse to refuse to see her.

Jing Prince Mansion was heavily guarded. And those guards in the mansion all had been through numerous wars and owned superb kung fu. When she broke through all those obstacles and finally saw Old Prince Jing and Ye Yichen, Old Ping Jing had already been in “coma” as Xu Tianyou just described, and Ye Yichen was “taking care of him” just like what Xu Tianyou had told him...So she still couldn’t cancel it successfully even if she saw them today...

“It’s late. I should go. I’ll leave these boxes to you then.” Since Old Prince Jing didn’t want to see her, even if she waited till dawn, he still wouldn’t become “sober”. So she wouldn’t wait here under the sun like a fool.

Xu Tianyou cast a glance at those seven or eight big sandalwood boxes behind Murong Xue, and twitched his mouth. Weren’t these the betrothal gifts, New Year’s gifts and festival gifts Prince Jing had sent to her? She took them all back. Did she really want to draw a clean line with Prince Jing?

But Prince Jing told him not to agree with it. So he could never keep those boxes!

“Lady Murong, for the betrothal gifts, you’d better give it back in person. As an outsider, I shouldn’t step in your personal things...”

Murong Xue cast an eye over him and said in a cold tone, “Since Ye Yichen asked you to receive me on his behalf, he would never take you as an outsider. Just a few boxes of betrothal gifts. It doesn’t make any difference to give you or him...”

CommentChapter 119: Returning the Betrothal Gifts

“Well...” Xu Tianyou felt a little awkward, “After all I am not the master here. It’s inappropriate for me to make the decision for them...”

“Then go ask Ye Yichen...” Murong Xue gave him a suggestion: Ye Yichen degrading her to a concubine in front of everyone was insulting her, so it was quite reasonable for her to cancel the engagement. She bet Ye Yichen dare not say no!

“But he is taking care of Old Prince Jing now. I’m afraid he doesn’t have time to talk to me.” Xu Tianyou smiled awkwardly.

“Really?” Murong Xue raised her eyebrows and said casually, “Then I’ll leave them here. You can tell Ye Yichen when he is free. He will ask the servants to take them back...” With guards watching outside the mansion, those boxes wouldn’t get lost.

“People come and go in the street. What if someone accidentally breaks things inside?” Xu Tianyou protested and then raised his voice, “Lady Murong, I suggest you take them back with you...”

“If someone breaks it, I will compensate...” Murong Xue interrupted him: Though every gift from Prince Jing was valuable, but the Marquis Mansion also had numerous pricey things. Even if all the stuff in those boxes were broken, she could still compensate them all...

Of course she wouldn’t leave the love token from Prince Jing Mansion here, because that was the eye of Prince Jing Mansion, only one in this world. If it was broken, nothing could replace it. Thus she would never cancel the engagement then...

“It’s late. Old Prince Jing is badly ill and Yichen is taking care of him. I guess you are also occupied. I won’t bother you then. Bye!” After saying these words, Murong Xue turned around and walked away...

A cool breeze was blowing. The dazzling light that the gold-rimmed buttons on the sandalwood boxes reflected under the sun suddenly woke Xu Tianyou up. He ran after Murong Xue, “Lady Murong, Lady Morong, wait...”

It were all the betrothal gifts Prince Jing had gifted Murong Xue in the boxes. Of course he couldn’t leave them out of the mansion. If so, it meant he failed Prince Jing.

Murong Xue turned a deaf ear to him and got into the cart and left.

“Lady Murong!” Xu Tianyou called her. And the moment he came before her cart, the guards of Marquis Mansion stopped him.

And the moment he was stopped, the cart had already set off and ran away along the flat and smooth road...

The moment the cart made a turn, Murong Xue pulled the curtain open and looked back, seeing that Xu Tianyou was standing there watching her cart. But when she saw those sandalwood boxes, raging fire was burning under her eyes again...

Murong Xue hummed: Those things belonged to Prince Jing Mansion. It was reasonable to give them back. She never wanted to take them back. So they had to accept them whether they wanted it or not...

The sun was rising higher and higher. After coming back home, Murong Xue took a walk on the bluestone road in the mansion, with her lips curled at a perfect angle: She left the betrothal gifts at Prince Jing Mansion, which meant that the engagement was half canceled already...

After she found an appropriate chance to exchange the love tokens with Ye Yichen, she would get rid of him once for all and become free again. For all her rest life she wouldn’t want to have anything to do with him...

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Some harsh sound was heard in the air!

Murong Xue was startled. And the moment she tried to throw a palm, some guards in black appeared from nowhere and threw a pile of boxes before her...

Those were all sandalwood boxes, with gold-rimmed buttons on them, shining brightly under the sun.

Murong Xue was caught in a trance, “Isn’t it the betrothal gifts she has just sent back to Prince Jing Mansion? They send them back...”

The raging fire was burning under Murong Xue’s eyes. She glared at them and said, “You take them back! Now...”

Those guards in black all turned a deaf ear to her. With a light flip on their tiptoes, they disappeared in the dark night...

The clop-clop was gradually going far away. Only Murong Xue was left in there, with all the intact sandalwood boxes on the ground, like a kind of mockery to her...

Murong Xue was furious. She kicked all those boxes one by one. All those precious treasure and silk fabrics fell to the ground. She gritted her teeth and howled, “Ye Yichen!”

Ye had sent a few random guards, broken into her mansion and thrown those boxes in front of her. So he thought she had no bodyguards to take down those burglars? She was pissed off. She was so so pissed off!

“Since the betrothal gifts are already sent back, it’s no use to be angry.” A silvery sound was heard above. Murong Xue raised her head, finding Ouyang Shaochen was reclining on the lounge under the viburnum tree, who was enjoying a glass of wine, with his snow white robe down onto the ground, spotlessly clean.

It smelled pretty good when the fragrance of black bamboo and viburnum were mixed together, which also implied that Ouyang Shaochen had been here for quite some time.

“Since you were here, why didn’t you give me a hand to beat those guards and let them take those boxes away? Then Ye Yichen would never send his people to break in...”

Murong Xue walked to him angrily. She sat beside Ouyang Shaochen and pinched his face with her small and white hand, leaving red marks on that charming face immediately.

Pains were felt on the face. A slice of helplessness flashed under Ouyang Shaochen’s eyes. He seized her small hand which she was using to pinch him and lowered his voice, “Ye Yichen would never accept them. Even if I kicked those guards out of here, they would use other means to send them back.”

On hearing that, Murong Xue frowned. Actually his words were quite reasonable. Since Yi Yichen didn’t agree to cancel it, he would try every means to send back the betrothal gifts. First time failed, he’d try the second time. And if the second time failed, he would try the third time...until he succeeded. Anyway he had countless guards.

“Since you already knew the result, why didn’t you remind me?”

“Didn’t I tell you that Old Prince Jing wouldn’t agree you canceling your engagement last night? Don’t you remember?” Ouyang Shaochen glanced at her, with all despise in his eyes.

“I...” Murong Xue became speechless. She did remember his words. But she never expected that Ye Yichen would send them back in this way. All the things she had done the whole morning were in vain...

Ouyang Shaochen looked at that sad face, with a smile flashing on his face. He held that cup of good wine and started to enjoy it.

Murong Xue darkened her face. She snapped the wine from his hand and said angrily, “No time for a drink now. Help me figure it out. Since Old Prince Jing is back, I want to cancel the engagement as soon as possible. No delay.”

“Old Prince Jing is your elder. If he doesn’t want you to cancel it, he will set a lot of obstacles for you. So even if you want to get rid of Ye Yichen, you shouldn’t jump the gun. You should consider it in the long run...” Ouyang Shaochen lowered his voice, with kind of craftiness flashing in his eyes...