"I am very willing."
"Then just wait and see."
...
Lord Zheng, carrying quite a few things, walked through the channel and entered the secret room.
As soon as he entered the secret room,
Lord Zheng caught a scent.
Xiong Liqing sat on the bed, looking at Zheng Fan. When she saw Zheng Fan’s nose twitch, her ten fingers involuntarily gripped the sheets, and her face uncontrollably began to flush red.
Zheng Fan chuckled,
placed the bucket, spittoon, and toilet paper down one by one,
and said:
"It’s natural to have urgent needs, there’s no need to feel embarrassed. No one’s ever said a princess can’t use the bathroom.
Sorry, I didn’t think of this last night."
"I... I..."
Zheng Fan placed the cornbread in front of the princess.
The princess, without hesitation, reached out and began eating the cornbread.
When you’re starving, anything tastes good.
Zheng Fan dragged a chair over, sat down, and watched the princess eat.
Eating too quickly, the princess choked and started pounding her chest.
Zheng Fan pointed at the bucket.
The princess imdiately got off the bed, ran to the bucket, and drank water to relieve herself.
"Ah..."
"Use the water sparingly, use so for drinking, so can be used to flush the toilet."
"Toilet?"
"Spittoon."
"Where do I flush?"
"Anywhere."
Xiong Liqing obediently returned, sat in front of Zheng Fan, but still holding a cornbread, continued to gnaw at it.
"Your proposal last night kept awake all night."
Xiong Liqing nodded, saying, "Did it move you, Lord?"
"It did."
"Standing from my position, I definitely hope that after being moved, you’d take action."
"But I’m afraid I’d lose out, capturing you, then releasing you, and you change your mind, how much would I lose?"
"Lord, I hate my brother, I really hate him, do you know what it’s like to love soone, only for the person you love most to send you off as a pawn to another man?"
"That question is a bit difficult to answer."
"I hate him."
"I know, but after all, you are a Chu princess, and you’re also a woman. In my understanding, won are more emotional; when you’re returned, you might change your mind."
Xiong Liqing pressed her lips together, said: "I won’t change my mind."
Zheng Fan said nothing, waiting for Xiong Liqing to continue.
At present, it’s a buyer’s market.
If Zheng Fan intends to break even, and just take her back like this, she will beco a puppet, a princess not truly recognized in Chu State, and in Yan State, her treatnt might exist, but basically just swaps one cage for another.
And if Zheng Fan would let her go back, and then together with Lord Pingye left on their wedding day, with the intent to fulfill these "immortal lovers" or to simply undermine Chu State’s morale and disgust the Chu regent, the Yan Emperor would be very willing to grant his marriage to Lord Pingye.
Then, she can beco Lady Pingye, potentially facing a series of struggles for favor and cold encounters, but at least she’d hold the title, life shouldn’t be too bad.
Of course, the option isn’t only two; there’s a third: she goes back and then reneges, marrying Qu Peiluo, becos the wife of the Qu Clan’s eldest son, using her status as a princess, she can also beco half the voice in the Qu Clan, no one would dare disrespect her.
Three options: A, B, C. Disregarding emotions and only talking about the treatnt, for Xiong Liqing, option A is the biggest loss, B is bearable, C is the most comfortable.
"Lord, are you afraid of ending up with nothing?"
"A bit."
"It’s a pity, I can’t give you my body right now."
"Hmm?"
"If the lord takes my body, perhaps wouldn’t feel too much loss, after all, I’m a Chu princess; the lord surely doesn’t lack won, but a princess, isn’t easily attained."
"A bit surprising you would say such things."
"Because not only you couldn’t sleep well after, I also thought about it the whole night, Lord, before marriage, the Qu Clan’s matrons will co to inspect my body, so I can’t lose my purity."
"Then why say this to ? Honestly, I’m not particularly interested in you, uh, especially your body."
My family mber is interested in you.
"I just want to be open and honest."
Hearing this, Zheng Fan showed a subtle smile at the corners of his mouth.
Xiong Liqing put the last bit of cornbread in her hand into her mouth, swallowed, and said: "Actually, your willingness to see again shows that you’re moved, you still want to gamble.
I’ve heard the stories about you, Lord, you ventured deep into the Snow Sea and launched a surprising attack. It could be said, if you hadn’t succeeded in the gamble, the wild people and my Chu Blue Luan Army wouldn’t have been defeated so tragically.
Lord, you’re a person who likes to gamble, I think this ti, you can bet again, the outco won’t disappoint you."
"Encouraging people to gamble, struck by thunder."
"One shouldn’t say that; I don’t want to marry Qu Peiluo, I don’t want to be his woman, I don’t even want to continue to stay in Chu State, because for the next ten, twenty, thirty years, as long as I’m in Chu, I’ll hear news of him constantly."
"So, you want to marry ?"
"I think the lord is very interesting."
"Interesting from the slap yesterday?"
"No, I feel you’re the kind of person that makes want to know more."
"Haha."
"I even imagined last night, if I beco Lady Pingye, what would life be like, my children might beco the Chu royal family’s only bloodline in the future."
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