Du Yingying approached cautiously, carrying the meal.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she came closer, Cheng Xu's face became sullen and he raised his hand to overturn the meal in her hand.
Almost all the hot soup was spilled on Du Yingying's body, and she was burned until her complexion turned pale. Even so, she didn't care about it and just knelt down with a bang, her body shivering.
Cheng Xu bent down, stretched out his hand to clamp her chin, and asked with a sinister look on his face, "I want to ask you, who was behind your miscarriage and framed Xu Fengmi?"
Du Yingying's body was shaking violently, her eyes were red, and she just said: "What does the prince mean by this? Is it because he suspects that I am framing her?"
"Don't you know whether you framed her or not?" Cheng Xu sneered, let go of her, and took out a handkerchief to wipe her hands: "Do you really think that this king is a coward who doesn't know anything?"
Du Yingying clutched her dress hard and tried to steady her mind: "Didn't the prince have any doubts at the beginning? Why did he doubt me now?"
Cheng Xu threw the used handkerchief on her body and looked at her condescendingly: "Who said that I didn't doubt you at the beginning?"
Du Yingying suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Cheng Xu in disbelief.
"Speaking of which, who is the person behind you?" Cheng Xu sat down.
Du Yingying lowered her eyes again. At this moment, she had basically regained her composure: "I don't know what the prince is talking about."
"If you don't know, then drag him down and kill him to feed the dogs." After Cheng Xu said this, he stood up and told his confidants: "Do as I say."
The confidant looked hesitant. Du Yingying was an old man from Zhennan Palace after all.
"Your Majesty!" Du Yingying turned pale with fright. She grabbed Cheng Xu's clothes and begged: "Please, Your Majesty, please let me go!"
Cheng Xu looked back at her: "If you say so, do you admit it?"
Du Yingying bit her lip until it bled: "It's just that I was possessed by ghosts and framed her using internal methods, but there was no one behind me, and no one was instructing me."
Cheng Xu snorted coldly: "Do you think that I am stupid? If there is no one behind you, how dare you deal with Xu Fengmi like this? No matter how bad she is, she is still the concubine that I am marrying, so you don't have the guts to attack her.
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"I" Du Yingying thought of her mother and sister who were held hostage, and her tears couldn't stop falling.
Cheng Xu raised his chin slightly: "I will give you one last chance."
Du Yingying burst into tears but refused to speak.
The only sound in the room was her sobs. Cheng Xu stared at her for a long time and suddenly said: "Is the person behind you Xu Fengruo?"
Du Yingying almost lost her balance. She thought she didn't reveal her flaws, but Cheng Xu knew better.
Cheng Xu took one last look at her and left with a puff of sleeves.
That day, the sun was shining brightly. Ruan Chulian sent Xu Fengmi a message and made an appointment to meet at Zhenfeng Tower.
"Just the two of us?" Xu Fengmi sat down with her hands folded.
Ruan Chulian sat opposite her and nodded feebly: "I also sent a message to Xiaoqi, but she didn't want to come out, so she refused."
Xu Fengmi smiled: "Aren't you annoyed?"
"If you don't want to, just don't want to. What's the point? I'll just make an appointment next time."
"If you were someone else, she would still make a bunch of excuses." Xu Fengmi smiled and shook his head: "I sometimes ask her out, but she also bluntly says she doesn't want to go out."
"Yes." Ruan Chulian said: "Who wants to go out in such a cold weather?"
"Then why are you looking for me today?"
Ruan Chulian played with the cup in her hand, her eyes a little wandering: "I just thought the weather was nice today, so I wanted to ask you out to meet for tea or something."
Xu Fengmi raised his eyebrows: "Xiao Qi is honest with you, but you are hesitant to talk to me. What's the reason?"
"Oops." Ruan Chulian lay on the table and said dullly: "Li Yue said that if I don't come out, he will go to Ruan Mansion to find me."
Xu Fengmi was surprised: "He is such a person? Why is he different from the Crown Prince I know?"
Ruan Chulian snorted: "I told you, he is just a smiling tiger, not a good person at all, and he is also full of bad intentions."
Xu Fengmi smiled sullenly.
"Who is this?" A frivolous voice sounded. Xu Fengmi looked over, while Ruan Chulian frowned.
The two of them did not ask for a private room, but sat down by the window in the lobby.
A young girl wearing a crimson embroidered silk coat came over. She was very elegant, rich or noble, and her features were somewhat arrogant.
Xu Fengmi guessed her identity at a glance.
I haven't seen her at ordinary banquets, so she must be someone from the palace, or maybe another princess.
The girl approached, looked at Xu Fengmi for a moment, and said calmly and generously: "Are you Xu Fengmi, the eldest daughter of Xu? I am Cheng Danyang. Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times. You first reconciled with Cheng Jiayan, and then with Uncle Jiu.
Now that we're engaged, you're really capable."
Princess Danyang is the daughter of the current emperor's concubine. She is much loved and is the apple of the emperor's eye. However, she rarely leaves the palace, does not like to go to banquets, and has almost no people who are close to her.
Xu Fengmi stood up: "I have met His Highness."
Ruan Chulian also stood up and saluted Cheng Danyang.
Cheng Danyang sat down next to Xu Fengmi: "Do you mind if I disturb you?"
Xu Fengmi saw that she had already sat down, what else could he say.
Ruan Chulian, however, was not used to her: "You sat down and still asked, wasn't this intentional? It's really inexplicable."
Cheng Danyang smiled: "You didn't say you didn't mind, so I'll sit down."
She looked at Ruan Chulian for a moment, raised her eyebrows and said, "Why do you see that you are a little depressed? Are you not happy with your engagement to Li Yue?"
"What do you want?"
Cheng Danyang prepared a set of tea sets by herself. After the maid poured the tea for her, she took a few sips and then said calmly: "Come and listen to it. After I listen to it, maybe I will go when I am happy."
By speaking for you, I think I’m doing you a favor.”
Ruan Chulian sneered: "Is it possible that my marriage is a joke? It's really funny! It's really rare for you to have such a noble body and leave the palace today."
Cheng Danyang: "It's not interesting to stay in the palace all the time, so I thought of going out for a walk, and unexpectedly I met you two."
She turned to look at Xu Fengmi: "Does Miss Xu know that Miss Ruan is suffering in her heart?"
Xu Fengmi said: "Only you can understand the pain in it, others cannot understand it."
Cheng Danyang sneered: "You clearly know Miss Ruan's thoughts, but you are looking away from him. You must be looking down on me as a princess, right? The Xu family is a small family, if it weren't for you and my uncle Ninth
I have an engagement, so I don't bother to sit down and have a few words with you."
Xu Fengmi: "Then please be more diligent, Your Highness, and don't sit down and talk to me."
"You!" Cheng Danyang was blocked by her and had no words to refute, with an annoyed look on his face.
"Something has happened, something has happened!" Someone ran into the teahouse with an excited expression: "The Nanwang intends to rebel. The evidence is conclusive and he has been detained! And the Nanwang Mansion is in chaos right now. I don't know what crime he will be sentenced to."