Chapter 66 Cancel the Engagement

At this time, you could hear a pin drop in Anping Palace.

The princess' slapping of the prince was clearly a crime of insubordination, but no one dared to reprimand Ye Jinshu.

All the palace servants knew how favored Ye Jinshu was in the palace.

If anyone else slapped the prince, he would surely die, but if it was Ye Jinshu who did it, it would be hard to say.

Even Ye Ruoyan was glad that she had been using other people as knives to plot against Ye Jinshu during this period of time instead of confronting Ye Jinshu head-on.

Otherwise, given Ye Jinshu's current condition, Ye Ruoyan had no doubt that she might die on the spot.

People with desires in this world are not actually scary. What is scary are those who have nothing to ask for.

In the past, Ye Jinshu's wish was to become the Crown Princess. As long as she could hold the Crown Prince in her hands, she could indirectly control Ye Jinshu's behavior.

Many times, some of Ye Jinshu's controllable behaviors were deliberately used by Ye Ruoyan to achieve certain goals.

But now Ye Jinshu no longer has that desire.

Ye Ruoyan had no way to use the prince to control Ye Jinshu.

At first, Ye Ruoyan thought that Ye Jinshu's change was a tactic of playing hard to get, and that he was deliberately using a different side to attract the prince's attention. But now, after seeing that Ye Jinshu's slap actually landed on the prince's face with a loud slapping sound, Ye Ruoyan understood that for such a Ye Jinshu, she could only avoid the limelight temporarily.

When Ye Ruoyan first approached the prince, she was out of energy.

She felt that she had nothing anyway, and being rejected and failed by the prince would not be any worse than she was now. But if the prince gave her a chance, then a path for her future would appear.

To put it simply, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

Ye Ruoyan used to be the one who walked barefoot, but now her shop is her shoes. She didn’t want to lose the thing that she had worked so hard to get and that could continue to realize her life value, so she was put in shackles.

On the contrary, Ye Jinshu's behavior now resembles that of the barefoot man.

This is also what makes Ye Ruoyan feel strange. It is obvious that Ye Jinshu has so many things that she cannot get, and it is obvious that Ye Jinshu's life is easy, but why does he still give her a feeling of giving up?

Ye Ruoyan felt that some unexpected changes had taken place in Ye Jinshu. If she couldn't understand this change, she would fall into Ye Jinshu's hands sooner or later.

I can only observe Ye Jinshu's movements more in the future.
Chu Yi was slapped by Ye Jinshu.

But the feeling in his heart was very strange.

She wasn't as angry as she had imagined. She even thought Ye Jinshu was cute when he was having a tantrum.

After all, although Ye Jinshu's slap looked fierce, Chu Yi's body subconsciously dissipated the force in the direction of Ye Jinshu's hitting, so it didn't hurt when the slap actually hit his face.

On the contrary, it was Ye Jinshu himself whose hand was clearly sore from slapping someone, and now he was refusing to learn his lesson.

Chu Yi looked at Ye Jinshu for a long time without saying anything. He was admiring Ye Jinshu, whose expression became extremely lively because of his temper, but others thought that this was a sign of the prince's anger.

Everyone was waiting for the prince's reaction.

Finally, Chu Yi spoke in the quiet panic: "Does your hand hurt?"

Ye Jinshu, who was already prepared for an argument or even a fight:?

Not knowing what Chu Yi was up to, Ye Jinshu subconsciously put his hands behind his back and replied, "What does Your Highness want?"

But it was Ye Jinshu's action that ignited a small flame in the heart of the prince, who was originally in a relatively calm mood. He stretched out his hand to Ye Jinshu: "Does your hand hurt? Let me see." Ye Jinshu thought that the prince's current behavior was sick and did not move: "Your Highness, you can say what you want to say. Jinshu has always been stupid and can't hear any hidden meaning. When you said this, I thought you wanted to slap me again."

But Chu Yi seemed not to hear Ye Jinshu's words. The scene of Ji Yan kneeling on one knee in front of Ye Jinshu and rubbing her hands kept coming back to his mind.

But now, Ye Jinshu was unwilling to even let him look at her.

"Why can common people see it, but I can't?" Chu Yi said as he grabbed Ye Jinshu's hands behind his back and forcefully opened Ye Jinshu's palms.

Seeing that the palm was indeed redder than usual, Chu Yi softened his voice again: "You are in so much pain, but you don't know how to be gentler."

At this time, as a bystander, Ye Ruoyan has already understood that the reason why Chu Yi is making such an abnormal behavior is jealousy.

But from Ye Jinshu's perspective, the prince came over and got angry for no reason, but after being slapped, he was not angry and wanted to look at her hand. When she didn't show him, the prince got angry, but after seeing it, he inexplicably became concerned about her.

This mental state is ten years ahead of the crazy queen in the cold palace.

Ye Jinshu tried to pull his hand away again, but failed. Chu Yi, noticing Ye Jinshu's resistance, suddenly spoke up: "Jinshu, I can pretend that what you did just now didn't happen, but if you don't want that Mr. Huaben to get into trouble, then be a good boy."

This was the second time Chu Yi used Ji Yanqing to threaten Ye Jinshu.

It also made Ye Jinshu realize a problem.

No matter how reluctant she was, she had to let Ji Yanqing leave. If she continued like this, sooner or later, Ji Yanqing would be hurt in the palace.

"Where are the secret guards of Anping Palace? Are they all watching the show?" Ye Jinshu couldn't stay passive all the time. She glanced at Ji Yanqing, who seemed to be frightened and silent since just now, and finally called the secret guards.

Calling out the secret guards would mean that this matter would definitely be reported to the emperor and empress.

And if the emperor and empress knew that everything was caused by Ji Yanqing, then Ji Yanqing would be finished.

The secret guard appeared beside Ye Jinshu after she spoke and freed her hand from the prince's hand.

"Your Highness, I'm offended."

When the Crown Prince saw the secret guards coming out, he did not confront them head-on. He just took a step back and looked at Ye Jinshu and said, "Jinshu, I was wrong not to keep my promise and come to Anping Palace, but I really can't leave now because of things happening outside the palace. As the future Crown Princess, don't get angry because of these things."

Ye Jinshu's patience was exhausted, and she didn't plan to pretend anymore. She said to the prince directly: "Your Highness, it doesn't really matter to me whether you come to Anping Palace or not. It's more important than anything else that you and my concubine sister live a good life."

When Chu Yi heard Ye Jinshu mention Ye Ruoyan, he suddenly smiled inexplicably: "Jinshu, as a prince, you cannot marry a concubine's daughter as your principal wife, just like you, as a princess, cannot marry a commoner."

"You can only be my Crown Princess."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jinshu subconsciously looked at Ye Ruoyan, and suddenly understood why Ye Ruoyan was so obsessed with cheating on the prince. It turned out that the prince had never thought of marrying a concubine's daughter from the beginning.

Then why did he marry Ye Ruoyan later?
Ye Jinshu began to recall, and finally she discovered that every time the prince and Ye Ruoyan were engaged, that is, every time her engagement was broken off, it was when Ye Ruoyan controlled the plague and became famous throughout the country.

No wonder she always loses to Ye Ruoyan. The position of Crown Princess should be held by the capable.

However, does this mean that she is even less capable in this life than before, and that she can cancel her engagement with the prince as soon as possible?

Thinking of this, Ye Jinshu tentatively said to Chu Yi: "Let's cancel the engagement."

　I owe you four chapters! I'll make it up tomorrow! Really!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)