The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 111
The Empress said to Wu Chenzi apologetically: “Ever since Mohanreturned from his incognito inspection tour, his personality has become more wilful, I hope Lord State Tutor can forgive him.”
Wu Chenzi smiled in response: “The Crown Prince has a genuine disposition, how could this old subject blame the Crown Prince?”
“The Crown Prince is really becoming more and more inappropriate.” The Emperor looked as though he was reprimanding, but his tone held no hint of an intention to blame. The royalguifei‘s eyes shone with cold laughter, and she followed behind the Empress and the others to be seated.
Wu Yuxue clenched her fists inside of her sleeves, and closed her eyes to hide the flames of jealous rage.
If it weren’t for Hei Xuanyi wearing a false skin that day, there would be no way that she would’ve rejected the marriage, and she might currently already be living a perfectly joyous life. As for that cheapman who had no reputation, status or spiritual energy, and had a face prettier than a male prostitute, where would he have had the opportunity to obtain Hei Xuanyi?
The more Wu Yuxue thought of it, the angrier she was and couldn’t let it go.
Hei Xuanyi was meant to be hers, and others shouldn’t even think of coveting him.
Zhi Tao walked over and quietly asked: “Miss, will you still be performing in front of everyone later?”
Wu Yuxue swept a cold glance at her: “He’s already gone, who would I be dancing for?”
She’d originally intended to show off her splendour at the birthday banquet, so that Hei Xuanyi would be enchanted by her, however now she had just been drawing water with a wicker basket.
Once the birthday banquet began, everyone placed the unhappy incident from just now to the back of their minds, and offered their congratulations to Wu Chenzi one after another.
When the birthday banquet was almost halfway through, a manor bodyguard reported that someone had died in the lake of the main residence. According to their investigations, the deceased had carelessly fallen into the lake and drowned to death because they were drunk.
In her heart, Wu Yuxue didn’t think so because this deceased was precisely the person that had thrown a rock at Wu Ruo.
After causing an atmosphere of unluckiness at the birthday banquet, Wu Ruo was currently sitting in the manor that the Crown Prince had bought outside of the palace. He was elegantly sampling the tributary tea that only royals could drink.
Ling Mohan stared at Wu Ruo for a long time, only then did he speak up and ask: “You’re really Wu Ruo?”
“Do I not look like him?” Wu Ruo looked at him with a stare pregnant with meaning: “Then do you want me to tell you where I saved you, how I negotiated terms with you, allowing you to safely come back to the capital city?”
Ling Mohan narrowed his eyes: “Your change is really drastic.”
Wu Ruo placed the teacup back onto the table: “The reason why I used to be so fat was because someone had poisoned me with aguparasite. After the parasite was removed, I naturally lost the weight.”
Ling Mohan dusted off his own ostentatious robes, then sat down: “Then do you still suspect that I’mnot the Crown Prince?”
Wu Ruo chuckled lightly: “I knew from the moment that I saved you that you were the Crown Prince.”
Ling Mohan’s gaze turned cold in an instance.
Wu Ruo cast a sideways glance at him: “You don’t have to guard against me. If I really wanted to harm you, do you think you could still be sitting here and talking to me?”
“Then since you already knew my identity, why did you still make things difficult for me that day? Why were you unwilling to lend me bodyguards?”
“If I had believed everything you had said at that time, you would’ve contrarily suspected that I was someone who couldn’t be trusted. On the contrary, the more I didn’t believe your identity, the more you would’ve assumed that you were safe. On top of that, even if I did lend you bodyguards, the you who was injured might not have safely made it back to the capital.” Wu Ruo glanced at him: “Letting you mix into Wu Yanlan’s entourage would’ve been different, because the ones who wanted to kill you were people sent by the Lord State Tutor and his clique. They never would’ve thought that you would be amongst the entourage of the Lord State Tutor’s great-great-grandson, then you could successfully return to the royal palace in the capital city in a situation where your identity would not be investigated. Isn’t that so?”
Ling Mohan: “…”
Wu Ruo asked: “Crown Prince, do you want to cooperate another time?”
Ling Mohan laughed coldly: “You have no reputation or status in the capital city, nor any spiritual energy. By cooperating with you, what kind of benefits could I receive? Even in Gaoling City, you weren’t capable of producing clouds with one hand and rain with the other.”
Wu Ruo wasn’t upset, and even smiled as he said: “You’re right. I indeed am not capable. Then may I boldly ask someone like the Crown Prince who is so capable why, until now, haven’t you been able to movethe Lord State Tutor even in the slightest?”
“You…!” These words simply hit Ling Mohan’s sore spot dead on.
“I’ll give you a joss stick’s time to consider it. After a joss stick’s time, even if you want to cooperate with me, I will refuse.” Wu Ruo picked up the teacup and resumed sampling the tea.
Ling Mohan: “…”
He had really never been treated like this by anyone before, and he had also never seen the people who cooperated with him displaying such an indifferent attitude. It was truly infuriating but looking at the unbelievably beautiful face before him, he wasn’t quite able to get angry either.
“I want to ask you, did you intentionally fall in front of me just now?”
Wu Ruo’s lips curled into a smile, and he didn’t hide it from Ling Mohan either: “Someone in the Wu family wants to kill me but they want to pretend to be good people, so it’s not convenient for them to act directly. Since they wanted to borrow your hand to kill me, I took the opportunity to fall down in front of you. Otherwise, how would we have the chance to openly sit around here chatting?”
If it wasn’t because he’d done it on purpose, how could the person pushing him have so easily succeeded?
Ling Mohan raised an eyebrow: “Who in the Wu family wants to kill you? Didn’t you and your family just come from Gaoling City? Why would the Wu family kill someone who doesn’t threaten them?”
“It’s Wu Yuxue who wants to kill me. Firstly, it’s because I’m better looking than her. Secondly, she’s taken a fancy to my husband…”
Ling Mohan thought about the man that he’d seen at the Wu estate. He was indeed so handsome that he could captivate all the women in the world: “I remembered that your husband looked… err…”
“That was because he was wearing a fake skin.” Wu Ruo laughed coldly: “That year, my husband’s clanspeople saved Wu Chenzi’s father, and because of that, they had agreed on a marriage. However, when my husband visited them to bring up the marriage, he wore an ugly fake skin, Wu Yuxue despised my husband for being ugly, so she refused the marriage. Wu Chenzi then pushed this marriage to the clan’s side branches. To pander to Wu Chenzi, my great-grandfather directed the marriage to me. A few days ago, Wu Yuxue accidentally caught a glimpse of my husband’s true appearances so she wanted to snatch him back.”
Ling Mohan heard him calling Wu Chenzi directly by name, so he could confirm that this person truly didn’t like the Huangdu Wu family: “So that’s how it is, then you and your husband…”
Wu Ruo thought of Hei Xuanyi and his gaze filled with joy: “We’re doing great. It’s been a joss stick’s time, if you’re not willing to cooperate then I’ll be leaving.”
Ling Mohan said: “I want to ask one last question.”
Wu Ruo raised an eyebrow.
“Didn’t you want to split the family? Why did you still send your relatives from Gaoling City to Huangdu City, and even get the State Tutor to cure them? Isn’t this looking for trouble for yourself?”
Wu Ruo snorted: “Those relatives of mine have always been insatiably greedy. They’ll be like parasitic pests, eating away at the Huangdu Wu family bit by bit. Therefore, on the day that the Emperor drafts the imperial edict, you must fight for them to receive the most benefits, only then will they unscrupulously extort more things from the Wu family.”
Ling Mohan: “…”
He shouldn’t have underestimated this person. Being able to stir the Gaoling City Wu family into a chaotic mess, from behind the scenes, was definitely not something an average person was capable of.
Wu Ruo stood up: “Crown Prince, is there anything else?”
Ling Mohan spoke up: “I can cooperate with you, but what’s your end goal?”
“My end goal is the same as one of your end goals. Exterminate. The. Entire. Wu. Family. Bloodline.” Towards the end, Wu Ruo’s tone of voice was extremely cold and vicious.
Ling Mohan stared at him, stunned: “But you’re someone from the Wu family.”
Wu Ruo beamed, his eyes narrowing into slits, as if the person who had said those words just now wasn’t him: “That’s why, when the time comes, you need to remember to exclude my family members and I.”
Ling Mohan: “…”
Wu Ruo sat down at his seat again: “Since we’re cooperating, then let me tell you something.”
“What is it?”
“The Emperor, which means your imperial father, probably has less than five years left to live. If those people who are harming your imperial father continue to act in the shadows, then there’s a chance that within a year or two, he will definitely return to the heavens.”
Ling Mohan was stunned, then he abruptly viciously grabbed Wu Ruo by his collar: “You’re spouting nonsense! My imperial father’s dragon physiqueis clearly doing perfectly well! It wouldn’t be a problem even to live for 50 more years! How could… how could it be… Wu Ruo, do you know that these words of yours is enough to take the lives of your entire family?”
There were no fluctuations in Wu Ruo’s expression and he continued: “If you don’t hurry and take action, then the royal position that you want will become the second prince’s.”
Ling Mohan stared at him angrily, gritting his teeth: “You…”
Wu Ruo tugged his own collar away from Ling Mohan’s hands: “If you really cared about your imperial father, then you would have discovered the condition of his body long ago. If you were really capable, then you wouldn’t have let those wretches get their way.”
Ling Mohan put his hands down: “My physician examines imperial father’s dragon physique every half a month. There’s no way…”
When he said this, his words cut off, and his expression instantly darkened: “Could it be…”
Wu Ruo’s lips curled up and he smiled: “I’ll have to trouble the Crown Prince to get someone to haul me out.”
Ling Mohan’s expression turned cold, and he pursed his lips. He summoned his personal bodyguards, one to hold onto Wu Ruo’s arms and another to lift Wu Ruo’s legs, they carried him outside of the main gates, and tossed him towards Hei Xuanyi who had been waiting outside the entire time.
Hei Xuanyi caught him and quickly carried him into the carriage.
Wu Qianqing and the others who had been waiting inside the carriage anxiously crowded over: “IsXiao-Ruo alright?”
Wu Ruo did a shushing hand gesture at them.
Wu Qianqing and the others were stunned.
Hei Xuanyi replied: “Let’s talk after we get home.”
Once their horse carriage left, someone stood up from the roof of the building across the street, and ran in the direction of the Wu estate.
After they returned to Hei Manor, Hei Xuanyi carried Wu Ruo down from the carriage.
Only after they entered the manor did Wu Ruo say: “Dad, Mum, I’m fine. The Crown Prince didn’t punish me, the two of you andXiao-Xi should go and rest early.”
“You little brat.” Wu Qianqing sighed; after confirming that Wu Ruo was really alright, he returned to their residences with Guan Tong and Wu Xi. He waited until after he returned to his bedroom, then he said to Guan Tong: “Tong-er, do you feel like there are more and more things thatXiao-Ruo is hiding from us? Just like the matter of the Wu family people not dying…”
Guan Tong comforted him: “Xiao-Ruo definitely must have his reasons for doing so. Just take yourself for example, at the time when you were his age, would you report each and everything to your parents? So, you mustn’t blame him either, he must have his reasons for hiding things from us. There’s no chance that he would harm us, would he?”
Wu Qianqing thought about it and agreed, so he didn’t linger on the matter.
Hei Xuanyi carried Wu Ruo back to their bedroom and laid him down properly on their bed. Without a word, he stripped Wu Ruo bare.
Wu Ruo hurriedly grabbed the blankets and covered the lower half of his body, saying with anger and embarrassment: “Hei Xuanyi! What are you doing?”
Hei Xuanyi’s expression darkened and he said: “Examining wounds.”
Wu Ruo glared at him irritatedly: “Do you have to take all my clothes off to examine for wounds?”
Hei Xuanyi didn’t speak, and directly pulled away the blankets covering his body, examining his body closely from top to bottom. Then, at last, his gaze landed on little Ruoruo.
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