TCN: Mei Gongqing

Chapter 166-167

Chapter 166: Wang Hong Issues a Warning

Despite her sinking heart, the girl was unable to stop herself from saying: "Seventh brother, aren't you too incapable?" She continued: "For this woman you willingly carry a reputation of ridiculousness, refused the royal messenger in public, gave His Majesty little consideration, and even killed Eunuch Wu yesterday. You have made the clan very dissatisfied with you, yet you haven't managed to win this woman over. That's really too useless of you."

Wang Hong withdrew his gaze to glance at the girl, lightly replying: "The clan is dissatisfied with me?" He smiled. "They are dissatisfied with me and yet they cannot do anything to me. Isn't that good, then?"

Thus spoke, he flapped his sleeves, pressed down on his hat and went on his way.

The girl laughed to see her cousin walking away without a backward glance. She formed her hands into a speaking trumpet and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Wang Qilang, even if you put on a blue robe and a wide brim hat, they cannot hide your unrivaled bearing."

Almost as soon as she shouted his name, the people coming and going on the streets all turned to look. By the time she finished, there were already widespread cheering and screaming.

Among these voices, someone was shouting: "Qilang is not a ridiculous or unreasonable person, let me go ask him."

In the blink of an eye, the blue figure had been buried behind a swarm of people. Watching her cousin struggling to escape, the girl broke into laughter.

She tilted her head and mumbled: "My goodness, dear cousin. You're having an affair with a nun, no wonder everyone is upset. Tsk, the fairy has fallen, how pitiful." At this juncture, an inadvertent glance led her to see a shadow sitting in an ordinary and unmarked carriage. She stared for a moment and then scornfully muttered to herself: "The ninth princess?"

At this moment the princess was quietly parked in a corner. She lifted the curtain and painfully watched Wang Hong encircled by the crowd.

Her face was ashen, and her lips were pressed together.

The curtain swayed behind her.

"How did it go?" she asked without turning around. As she thought about those eyes, her voice slightly trembled.

"I haven't found out, your royal highness," the other person's voice was low and scratchy. "Our people inside and out of the temple are gone. Even those we have just sent to follow her carriage have also disappeared."

After a pause he whispered, "Could it be the boy from the Sun House in Jiangdong – the one called Sun Yan?"

"Imbecile!" the princess blurted. She clenched her teeth and lowered her voice to say, "Sun Yan only recently arrived in Jiankang. He has yet to find his footing in the Sun family, how could he have had the facility?"

Having said this, she turned to look at Wang Hong, her anger gradually turning into sadness, fear and pain: "This was his doing. I don't want to believe it, but I know it's him... He changed the moment he killed the imperial messenger. He's become frighteningly ruthless; he's no longer gentle and kind."

She closed her eyes and murmured, "I know he is warning everyone that she is his, and no one but him can touch her. Never mind, I should calm down and wait to see how long he will be protecting her... This woman sickens me. As soon as he lets go, you should take care of it. I do not want to see her again." She spoke her words with gnashing teeth and a hint of masked fear... She had woken up this morning to find that a lock of her hair had been inexplicably cut off. So frightened and angry was she that she had ordered the death of her servants in attendance.