Chapter 15: Beauty and intelligence

Ye Jinshu looked at Chu Yu with the look of a fool again.

Being able to ask such a stupid question, she seemed to understand why she always lost before. She asked Chu Yu to be her advisor, and whoever came would die.

Chu Yu looked at the way Ye Jinshu looked at him and felt as if he was inexplicably humiliated.

"Ye! Jin! Shu!" Chu Yu gritted his teeth.

He now truly understood that Ye Jinshu had changed. After being stimulated, she transformed from the resentful woman who could not get the love she wanted into a complete lunatic who did whatever she wanted.

Don’t want it? It’s a waste.
If such words could come out of Ye Jinshu's mouth, then what about her previous deep obsession with the prince?
Chu Yu began to become curious.

He wanted to know whether Ye Jinshu's current state was real or just an act.

If his previous interest in Ye Jinshu was based on her dependence on him and his desire to test the bottom line of the Emperor and Empress' tolerance for Ye Jinshu, now his interest in Ye Jinshu has risen to Ye Jinshu herself.

He began to be curious about Ye Jinshu.

Can a person really let go of someone he or she has been pursuing for so many years in less than a month?
The answer is of course no. Ye Jinshu is just an ordinary person among ordinary people. She does not have a very strong willpower, nor does she have outstanding abilities in certain aspects like Ye Ruoyan, so it took her five lifetimes to completely let go of the prince and her obsession.

But Chu Yu didn't know all this, so he began to become interested in Ye Jinshu himself because of the abnormalities he discovered in Ye Jinshu.

At this time, Chu Yu did not think that from the moment he had this thought, he could not turn back.

Chu Yu met Ye Jinshu's extremely calm eyes, and the slight waves in his heart were slowly suppressed by him.

Chu Yu and Ye Jinshu looked at each other for a long time, and finally bowed down. He sighed: "Can you please stop looking at me like that?"

Ye Jinshu:?

"What kind of look is that?" There was no mirror in front of her, so how could she know what kind of look she had.

Chu Yu:
Chu Yu tried to use his eyes to hint to Ye Jinshu so that she could understand what he meant, but it was of no use. Chu Yu could only choose to tell the truth.

"You can see in my eyes: How could this person ask such a stupid question?"

When Ye Jinshu heard this, he covered his mouth in surprise: "Did I say it?"

Chu Yu:.
"Your eyes tell it."

Ye Jinshu understood again. So that's what it was.

She asked why the prince and Ye Ruoyan were always able to discover her plans quickly in the past. It turned out that her eyes betrayed her!
She usually treated her kindly, but she never expected that he would do such a thing behind her back.

Forget it, even if her eyes betrayed her, she still had her loyal mouth, and her mouth would always fight for her.

"Okay, I won't use eye contact next time."

Chu Yu was just wondering how the crazy Ye Jinshu became so easy to talk to, and the next thing he heard was Ye Jinshu saying, "I'll just say it directly."

At this moment, Chu Yu actually had a feeling that it was as expected.

After listening to what Chu Yu had to say, Ye Jinshu found that it was all nonsense and she didn't have the patience to chat with him at the door anymore. She was very busy, although sometimes she didn't know what she was busy with.

Ye Jinshu turned around and was about to go back to Anping Palace, but was stopped by Chu Yu: "Ye Jinshu, what do you want in exchange for removing my name from this?"

Ye Jinshu paused. Chu Yu had betrayed her, and he betrayed her when her life was at stake.

She had thought about a question before. It is said that ignorance is not a crime, but is ignorance really a crime?
Whether he knows it or not, the crime has been committed, and someone has been harmed because of his crime. If the criminal is innocent because he is ignorant, then where can the injured person seek justice?

Chu Yu had betrayed her and made all her plans come to naught, but now Chu Yu didn't know that he had done these things. In his opinion, they could still sit together happily, play some little things, and talk about the troubles of young girls.

But, just because Chu Yu doesn’t know, does Ye Jinshu have to bear the real pain alone?
If it were in the past, when Ye Jinshu heard someone discussing that ignorance is innocence, she might have stood in the shoes of this ignorant person and thought whether it was too harsh to blame him. But when the incident happened to her, she would only consider herself and she didn't care about Chu Yu at all.

"Unless you can be both beautiful and smart, I will cross your name off the sign." Ye Jinshu said his conditions calmly, but Chu Yu immediately felt like he was facing a formidable enemy. Why did Ye Jinshu suddenly mention beauty and intelligence at this time? Could it be that Ye Jinshu was stimulated by his elder brother and shifted her target to him?

Maybe even writing his name as the first one on the wooden sign was just a trick used by Ye Jinshu to attract his attention.

It was normal for Chu Yu to have such thoughts. Although he was not as popular as the prince, he was more popular among the noble ladies in Shangjing.

Many girls from aristocratic families said that if they had to choose between the second prince and the crown prince, they would choose the second prince who was more pleasing to others.

Chu Yu speculated for a while. Considering that Ye Jinshu's temperament had changed drastically, he did not speak out his guess immediately. Instead, he looked at Ye Jinshu's expression tentatively and said, "Compared to my brother, I am not as smart, but my appearance should be considered outstanding."

Ye Jinshu shook his head when he heard this: "No, no, no, what you need is not appearance nor intelligence, but both."

It took Chu Yu a while to realize what Ye Jinshu meant, and his previous fantasies instantly vanished.

He rarely felt a sense of relief. Fortunately, no third person knew what he had just thought about, otherwise he would never be able to raise his head in front of Ye Jinshu in his life.

"Ye Jinshu!"

Ye Jinshu turned his back and walked directly towards Anping Palace.

Chu Yu knew that if he didn't finish his words now, he would have no chance. If he continued to make noise like he did just now, he might be thrown out directly by the guards that the Emperor and Empress had given to Ye Jinshu.

"Ye Jinshu, if I bring what you want, can I go in?"

Ye Jinshu turned around and said, "Of course, I wrote it on it."

Chu Yu then took another look at the wooden sign, and sure enough, he saw a sentence at the bottom saying "Except for helping with farming."

In other words, anyone whose name is on the wooden sign can enter Anping Palace as long as they help with farming.

Chu Yu was really so angry that he laughed.

"Okay, I'll bring you what you want."

Ye Jinshu ignored the gnashing of teeth in Chu Yu's words and smiled, "That's good."

Chu Yu finally left.

He planned to go back and get some slop and then argue with Ye Jinshu.

On the other side, Ye Ruoyan was playing with the jade hairpin that the prince had just given her today.

Ye Ruoyan was very clear about her situation. With her status, she would definitely not be able to obtain such a valuable item. But the prince was able to give it to her openly today, which could only mean one thing, Ye Jinshu also had it.

Wearing this kind of thing will only make people hate you.

Ye Ruoyan cursed the prince in her heart for always doing things like provoking trouble, while she looked for a box to put the hairpin away.

She couldn't wear this hairpin, but she had to pretend to cherish it very much. After all, it was a gift from the prince.

The moment the hairpin was put away, Ye Ruoyan's tears flowed unconsciously.

What did she do wrong to end up in such a place?

This is an era when it is difficult for women to make any progress, especially for someone like her who has ambitions.

Every moment.

It's all purgatory.

(End of this chapter)