Chapter 76
Chapter 76
A Cold Wind (2)
It’s just that there was not a stir in this person’s countenance; she didn’t know how much he knew.
Cui Wang leaned over and rubbed her lips with his thumb and index finger.
“Do you still have anything to say?”
Zheng Wan blinked.
“Do you want to hear the truth, or falsehoods?”
“The truth.”
“The truth is, back then, you were the one who kissed me, yet kept avoiding me, and I missed you so much. It happened to be Rong Yi’s birthday, so I asked the eldest princess to hold the banquet in Yanchun Gardens.”
“Carry on.”
Cui Wang looked at her with not a flicker in his expression.
Zheng Wan bit her lip. “Then, next……”
“What next?”
She closed her eyes.
“Yes, I did make use of the crown prince to sound out your feelings!”
After saying this, her long lashes became stained with tears. She opened her eyes and tried to blink the tears away, adding urgently:
“Yes, indeed, I am very bad and domineering. I wanted to see you, and I wanted you to care for me, so I used the crown prince to provoke you! I want you to have only me in your eyes and no one else. I want you to get angry on my behalf, to be worried about me, to be nervous because of me!”
Cui Wang looked at her.
“Are you hiding anything else from me?”
He was testing her.
Zheng Wan made herself grow tense. “Yes.”
“Today’s incident had been set up by someone else,” she said. “The Crown Prince had been lured here. Someone wanted you to witness this scene to drive a wedge between us. Cui Wang, don’t fall for it.”
“I know.”
Cui Wang was silent for a long time. Zheng Wan was just about to realise that something was wrong when he finally spoke. “You wouldn’t be so stupid as to leave me for the crown prince at this time.”
“Cui Wang, what do you mean by that?”
Zheng Wan was stung by the meaning in his words; she widened her eyes fiercely, “Do you still doubt my sincerity?”
“You did not avoid a situation that was likely to arouse suspicion; this is the first reason.”
Cui Wang spoke slowly.
“Even if the Crown Prince had been unkind, you turned around and made use of him. You used his affection for you to manipulate my affection. Such means are overly cold and unfeeling; this is the second reason.
“You speak pleasing words in an artful manner, full of falsehoods; this is the third.”
Zheng Wan fell silent.
She finally understood where she had gone wrong; she had used…… the crown prince too much.
The more thoroughly she used the crown prince, the farther she had pushed Cui Wang. In the crown prince, he saw his past self, the one that held a jade pendant, but had received a flogging from her.
Like how the fox mourns the death of the hare, all beings grieve for their fellow beings.
Therefore, he broke the crown prince’s arm and had been waiting for… her to show her kindness to the crown prince, even if it was only a little bit.
She had been wrong, so terribly wrong.
Tears streamed down Zheng Wan’s face.
No, there was still a chance for her to save this.
She wiped her face fiercely.
“Even if I used all my tricks and coquettish words, it was all because I like you too much.”
Cui Wang looked at her tears in silence.
“Xiao Wangwang, hurry, go wipe it for her.”
Someone said in his ear.
Cui Wang did not move; he only felt like he was torn into two halves.
One half had sunk into the depths of the water, examining her coldly; the other half, however, had melted in the flames, and burnt to a crisp by each and every teardrop, wanting to wipe her tears and hold her in his arms.
Half of him wanted to believe her, but the other half was unable to do so.
“Is there anything else that you’re hiding from me?”
Cui Wang asked.
Zheng Wan froze; when she raised her head again, her face was slightly flushed, her two cheeks a little red. She reached out and grabbed a corner of the tablecloth, and said falteringly:
“Yes.”
When something bad happened in families of people of her standing, and they didn’t want it to be known, most would take the initiative to throw out another harmless matter to attract attention.
Zheng Wan thought to herself, she couldn’t let any one of the issues that mattered be leaked out, it would be all over if they were revealed.
“Third Lady Liu’s personal maidservant is one of my people.”
Cui Wang’s lips tightened instantly.
He looked down at the little lady in front of him; her head was hung low, revealing a whorl on the top of her head. It was said that people with such a whorl were naturally born with more guile than regular people.
She was clever indeed.