Chapter 16 Captive
Indeed, the timing was terrible.
The two of you, an engaged couple, why aren’t you preparing for your wedding instead of coming here one after another?
Zhao Yan walked toward me. His dark eyes were unreadable.
He said,
“I suddenly understood something just now.”
I instinctively asked, “What?”
He smiled slowly, something frantic in his eyes.
“Lu Yinchuan is a useless man, yet he can put his arm around your shoulder and look at you with those eyes.”
“Zhang Ruhua was raised in a strict family and taught to obey her husband. She is the Crown Princess, yet she came to ask you to elope with her.”
I quickly explained, “Your Highness, please don’t misunderstand Miss Zhang. That’s not what she meant. What woman in the world wouldn’t want to marry into the Eastern Palace?”
He laughed coldly.
“I don’t care about her at all.”
“I just want to know—if they can do it, why can’t I?”
His words sent a chill down my spine.
I turned to run, but everything went black before my eyes.
Then I collapsed into Zhao Yan’s arms.
He locked me inside the Eastern Palace.
The next day, Zhao Yan and Zhang Ruhua held their wedding.
I sat in the room, listening to the sound of gongs and drums outside, regretting that I hadn’t just killed Zhao Yan that day.
On the night of the wedding, Zhao Yan came to see me.
He was wearing his wedding robes, looking as handsome as jade.
I remembered clearly that in my previous life, he had also worn a set of red clothes like this.
He looked down at me from above. “Take them off.”
I clutched my collar. “You can’t.”
He smiled. “Then I’ll do it myself.”