Chapter 17 The Truth Beneath the Clothes
I quickly said,
“I don’t like you. I am not a cut-sleeve.”
“Your Highness, you have a spotless reputation. Don’t ruin it because of me.”
He didn’t care.
“So what?”
With that, he lowered his head and began undoing my clothes without hesitation.
His strength was terrifying.
I shouted at him, “Zhao Yan!”
Then I raised my hand and slapped him across the face.
He wasn’t angry at all. “Mm.”
But in the next moment, his fingers touched something. They froze right in front of me as he stared at me in a daze.
He had touched my chest binder.
The moonlight tonight was exceptionally bright. It poured in through the window, illuminating the shock on his face clearly.
It took him a long time to react. Then he laughed heartily, laughing until tears almost fell.
He said, “You are actually a woman.”
I pressed my lips together, trembling as I straightened my collar.
In my previous life, when I had willingly revealed my female identity to Zhao Yan, he had also been very happy.
But this lifetime’s Zhao Yan.
Was even happier than in the last life.
He paced around the room again and again.
Finally, he stopped in front of me.
“I want to marry you.”
“I will go beg Imperial Father right now…”
I called out to him, “Your Highness, you already have a Crown Princess.”
Zhao Yan froze. “I can divorce her.”
He was the future emperor. How could divorce be so simple? Otherwise, in my previous life, he would have driven me out of the Eastern Palace long ago.
I smiled faintly. “You know very well that it’s impossible.”
Zhao Yan remained silent for a long time.
“I will find a way.”
At this point, he stared at me and asked through gritted teeth, “Since you are a woman, why didn’t you tell me sooner!”
“If you had told me before the betrothal, or even last night… none of this would have been beyond saving.”
“Yet you watched me struggle and fall into despair again and again in front of you.”
“Chu Bingzhi, how cruel you are.”
I said,
“Because I don’t have those feelings for you. Please let me go.”
“Then who do you have those feelings for? Lu Yinchuan?”
“Does he even deserve it?”