Chapter 49: Rekindling Old Love (1)
Ming Danshu didn't seem to hear Nie Xingji's question, and raised her right hand with tears in her eyes, gently stroking his thin lips and chin. The shallow stubble rubbed against her palm, and her slender jade fingers lingered on it, rubbing it repeatedly.
Nie Xingji brushed her hand away again, and his tone was cold: "Wei Liangyuan can be trusted? β
Ming Danshu came back to her senses and said "um": "She is the person arranged by her father, and she will not betray me." The most we will see tonight is for my father to know. β
Nie Xingji frowned in the darkness: "She also knows the inside story of your arson?" β
"No, I didn't tell her." Ming Danshu's tone implied loss: "She probably thought that this was a trick I played to see you." β
Nie Xingji fell silent and didn't speak again.
Ming Danshu opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but when she saw him like this, she felt the tip of her nose sour: "You have been back to Beijing for twenty days, and you haven't contacted me......
"Now that you are the crown prince Liangdi, should I contact you frequently?" Nie Xingji sneered in a low voice.
Seeing that he was so indifferent, Ming Danshu finally sobbed and said, "Don't be like this...... You know, I didn't want to......"
"Really?" Nie Xingji put away his taunts, and said calmly: "I thought it was the queen who promised you the position of crown princess, and you were moved." β
"But I didn't become a crown princess." Ming Danshu wept and defended.
"So you regret it." Nie Xingji spoke it for her.
Ming Danshu didn't answer, because what the other party said was the truth. Once upon a time, although she entered the palace only a handful of times, she fell in love with the taciturn, resolute and forbearant prince. Every time her mother brought her into the palace to see her aunt, Queen Helian or attend a palace banquet, she was overjoyed, because she could see him often.
She knew that he was interested in her, and they knew each other. Therefore, when he left the palace, she privately accepted his Luan Pei, which was a token of the prince's wife.
In fact, she vaguely knew in her heart that Queen Helian wanted to match her with the prince's cousin, but she was just beginning to fall in love, thinking about the handsome man who was far away in Fangzhou, waiting for his marriage proposal. She thought that as long as she insisted, with her father's favor for her, she would definitely not object.
Later, Nie Xingji really went to propose, but was rejected by his father. Her aunt Queen Helian also summoned her to the palace, reprimanded her fiercely, and asked her to think clearly, does she want to be the crown princess and queen in this life? is still living in Fangzhou, being a lady who is always worried about widowhood.
She went back and thought about it all night, thinking about everything, and finally felt that she had been too naΓ―ve before. It is undeniable that she is indeed shaken by the position of the crown princess, and she also wants to be like her aunt, one day she can enter the Feng Dynasty Palace and stand at the peak of women.
So, she asked her father to return Nie Xingji's Luan Pei, and refused to read the letter he sent.
She demanded herself according to the standards of the crown princess, waiting for her aunt and father to mediate and give her the best future for women in the world. But people are not as good as heaven, I don't know what happened in the palace, when King Yan's will came down, she was just the prince Liangdi.
Liangdi, whose status is second only to the crown prince and concubine, is the third grade, and his father's rank is the same. However, she is an out-and-out concubine.
For the sake of being a concubine, she betrayed the person she liked. She regretted it, and on the day the will came down, she wrote a letter to Nie Xingji, wanting him to ask King Yan to take back his fate. However, he did not reply.
Later, Nie Xingji found Princess Qingcheng, the illegitimate daughter of King Yan, and was ordered to go to Chu to get married. After that, they never contacted each other again. It wasn't until last year that he captured the state of Chu and his prestige was greatly enhanced, and she managed to send him a letter again, which said nothing else but congratulatory words.
The letter was sent, but there was no reply, she waited for more than half a year, and she was about to completely die, but he had a reply in March this year.
At that time, King Yan had just decreed the crown princess, and she was almost desperate for her future, and when she saw that he was willing to reply, she thought that he was willing to come to rescue her. But Thaksin was polite, and the whole thing was a courtesy greeting, and he only mentioned a small sentence at the end, asking her to do a favor.
She agreed, only to learn that he wanted her to set fire to the prince's wedding night.