"What? Your Highness is familiar with Master Huairang?"
Qi Xiuyao looked at the temptation in her expression and couldn't help but laugh softly. His face was gentle and his tone was doting, and he said: "No, I have never met Master Huairang. There is nothing false in what I said."
He knew that she was testing him like this because she doubted him.
However, Qi Xiuyao did not feel any discomfort at all under suspicion. On the contrary, he was still in a happy mood.
Her testing like this means that Ah Yue cares about him. He is not afraid of her testing, but is afraid that she will just stay away from him and ignore him like before.
That feeling was very unpleasant, and Qi Xiuyao couldn't control his violent emotions.
Yu Shuyue saw him staring at her with extra seriousness, and her face suddenly heated up. Now she finally realized that her wrist was still being held by him, and she subconsciously wanted to withdraw her hand.
Before she could make a move, Jiang Ming's urgent voice came from behind.
"Who are you? Let go of my cousin Ah Yue."
Jiang Ming stared closely at Qi Xiuyao's hand holding Yu Shuyue's wrist. He hurried over and wanted to pull Qi Xiuyao away, but he didn't expect that Hua An stopped him before he got close.
"Be presumptuous and don't be rude to His Royal Highness."
"Prince..."
Jiang Ming was stunned for a moment when he heard that it was the prince, but when he looked at the unsightly big palm on Yu Shuyue's white wrist, his eyes flashed slightly and he continued without being humble or arrogant: "Jiang Ming is cousin A Yue's cousin. See you.
Your Highness, even if you are the prince, you cannot touch a woman in broad daylight. Please let go of my cousin."
Qi Xiuyao stopped Hua An's movements. He held Yu Shuyue's big palm a little tighter and pulled her towards him without hurting her. A playful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth and his eyes
Wei Leng stared at Jiang Ming who was shouting at him and said calmly: "Do I need your permission to hold my fiancée's hand?"
"Not...fiancée?"
Jiang Ming was stunned on the spot. He looked at Yu Shuyue in disbelief, trying to get a negative answer from her.
Yu Shuyue didn't even bother to look at him and just ignored him.
"Young Master Jiang has read the books of sages and sages. I think he still understands the most basic etiquette, justice, integrity, benevolence, righteousness and morality. He should take back those unscrupulous methods."
Qi Xiuyao's words made Jiang Ming's face turn pale. He quickly realized what he said and said, "I am stupid and don't understand what His Highness means by these words."
"Master Jiang will understand."
Qi Xiuyao just curled his lips and smiled. His smile did not reach his eyes. He looked away and looked at Yu Shuyue tenderly. He smiled at her and then took her wrist and led her to the carriage.
"Your Highness, I will leave by myself."
"good."
Qi Xiuyao said yes, but he didn't let go.
Yu Shuyue couldn't help it, so she let him lead her. Anyway, she reached the carriage in just a few steps. Seeing that her friend was still stunned, she couldn't help but call her softly.
The thoughtful expression on Liu Ruoxi's face went away, she responded and took one last look at Jiang Ming, who had an extremely ugly face, before leaving.
Jiang Ming stood there and watched the carriage of the group of them go further and further away. His hands hanging by his sides were clenched into fists, and his expression became increasingly ugly.
When did Ah Yue actually have an engagement with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? How come he didn't know about it!
"Sir, it's getting late. If you don't go back to the city, the city gate will be closed later..."
The young man from the Jiang Mansion saw his young master standing motionless with a dark face. Seeing that it was almost time to close the city gate, he had to remind him.
"puff--"
"Sir, are you okay?"
Jiang Ming suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, unable to stand and half-kneeling on the ground. The boy was so frightened that he panicked and quickly helped him.
"Nothing, let's go."
Jiang Ming was so angry that he became much weaker after spitting out a mouthful of blood. His face was pale and his eyes were unwilling.
"Go back and help me inquire about the marriage between my cousin and the prince."
"Yes, I'll ask when I get back. I'll help you get on the carriage and go back to the city first."
Jiang Ming leaned on the carriage, closed his eyes tightly and frowned, feeling bitter in his heart.
After learning that Yu's father had been recalled to the capital, he had been lobbying his grandfather to expand the Jiang family's industry to the capital.
He wanted to get closer to her, so that it would be easier for him to compensate her and make up for the mistakes he had made before.
It took him a year to finally convince his grandfather. Unexpectedly, he had only been in the capital for more than a month, and now he would hear such a thing that was hard to accept.
No matter how capable he is, what can he do about the royal engagement?
This was the reason why Jiang Ming was so angry just now. He seemed to have predicted the fate that he would never get in his life.
He murmured to himself the twelve words he had said to his grandfather last time, "If you do it, it will come soon. If you keep doing it, you can look forward to the future."
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly in a mocking arc.
He brought it upon himself. He still remembered the year when he first met Ah Yue. The little girl was only eight years old. She was as fair and fair as those girls who grew up in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. There was no trace of the girl who grew up in the windy and sandy sky.
I grew up in Saibei.
He was thinking that he had a sister and he must pamper her well.
In the beginning, he tried his best to be nice to Yu Shuyue, but when his grandfather, father and mother, who had only been around him in the past, all treated her well, he gradually felt strange emotions in his heart.
At that time, he was just a half-grown child who had been pampered by adults since childhood. His thoughts were too superficial and simple. Coupled with the encouragement of some people around him, he transferred all the imbalance and resentment in his heart to
Yu Shuyue did something that he regretted for the rest of his life.
After the incident, he was very upset and regretful, but the incident had already happened, the damage had been done, and Yu Shuyue's disgust for him had already arisen.
No matter what he does next, it will be in vain.
Jiang Ming thought he still had time to take his time. He who had never liked studying started to study hard every day because of his grandfather's words, just so that one day he could be named on the gold medal list and cross the class from merchant to scholar, so that he and Ah Yue could be together.
The distance is smaller.
Everything he planned was shattered today.
But, do you just accept your fate like this?
No, he was unwilling.
Jiang Ming opened his eyes with a sigh, and his eyes were filled with darkness. He would not give up just like that. As long as Ah Yue and the prince were not married, everything was possible.
Jiang Ming swept away the decadent look just now, and his eyes were filled with fighting spirit again.
When he returned to the city and heard the news of the boy's return, his previous depression was swept away, and he gradually gained some confidence in his heart.
The prince was ill at work, and suffered from the disease when he came out of his mother's womb. The imperial doctor declared that he would not live to be twenty-two years old, and he was not favored.
With such a prince, Jiang Ming felt that he could compete with him. It was not certain who Ah Yue would marry in the end.
However, although he now has the status of being a civil servant, his family are all business people. If he wants to fight the prince, he alone cannot do it.
Jiang Ming waved his hand to ask the boy to leave, and began to close his eyes and think about how to find allies. This chapter has been completed!