NOVEL NEXT Chapter 11: I Want to Rebel
Chapter 11: I Want to Rebel
Two days later, the Sixth Prince moved to a new house and held a banquet for officials as usual.
However, outside the Sixth Prince’s mansion, it was bustling with activity. Officials from the imperial court would send their servants or younger relatives to deliver gifts, but they would leave immediately after, without even entering the mansion.
In contrast, the atmosphere inside the mansion was eerily quiet.
Yun Zheng sat alone in the backyard, pondering his next move. With the gifts he had received today, he should have enough money now.
Next, he needed to gather his own people!
But he couldn’t let others see his ambition, so he couldn’t openly recruit followers, which was a troublesome task.
“Your Highness, Miss Shen has arrived,” a servant girl reported.
“Bring her in,” Yun Zheng said, waving his hand nonchalantly, but his heart was filled with suspicion.
What did Shen Luoyan want?
Was she here to mock him?
Or did she understand that today no one would come, so she had to come?
When Shen Luoyan entered, Yun Zheng dismissed the servant girl.
“Aren’t you going to hold a banquet for all the ministers? Why didn’t you even set up a banquet?”
Shen Luoyan asked, not bothering to show respect, and instead, began to tease Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng shrugged, feigning nonchalance. “Since no one came, setting up a wine table would be a waste, wouldn’t it?”
He was pretending to be carefree!
Shen Luoyan snorted in her heart and said lightly. “You’re stronger than I thought. I thought you’d be hiding alone, crying your eyes out.”
You thought I’d cry?
Yun Zheng’s heart was annoyed, and he asked with interest, “Did you forget that you were hiding and crying when you were bestowed a marriage with me?”
“Y-you…”
Shen Luoyan’s face changed, and she suddenly clenched her fists and stepped forward.
“You… do you want to hit me?”
Yun Zheng stared at Shen Luoyan coldly, “You are a descendant of a general family, but you don’t even understand the principle of marrying a chicken and following the chicken, marrying a dog and following the dog?”
Shen Luoyan’s face turned red with anger upon hearing this.
For a moment, Shen Luoyan really wanted to punch him.
But considering the consequences, she ultimately restrained herself.
“No need for you to remind me!”
Shen Luoyan suppressed her urge to hit him, her voice icy cold. “I’m warning you, I can marry you, but if you dare to touch me, I’ll make sure you become a eunuch!”
“Alright.”
Yun Zheng looked at Shen Luoyan speechlessly, “Are you not afraid of dying from pretending to be fierce?”
Shen Luoyan raised an eyebrow, laughing coldly, “Do you think I’m trying to scare you?”
“Come and sit down, I’ll talk to you slowly.”
Yun Zheng beckoned her with a gentle hand, patting the spot beside him.
Shen Luoyan snorted and walked over.
Just as she approached, Yun Zheng suddenly slapped her buttocks.
Shen Luoyan reacted extremely quickly, catching Yun Zheng’s hand in a flash, her face icy cold with anger, “Are you looking to die?”
Damn it?
Yun Zheng looked at Shen Luoyan in surprise.
This girl’s reaction was so fast!
“Are you also skilled in martial arts?”
Yun Zheng asked, completely ignoring Shen Luoyan’s fierce gaze.
“Are you looking to die?”
Shen Luoyan’s eyes blazed with fire, her face full of ferocity.
“Alright.”
Yun Zheng shook his head and laughed, “I’ll lend you some courage, do you dare to kill me? Not to mention killing me, you don’t even dare to twist my arm!”
This girl!
All bark and no bite!
She’s always shouting and threatening, but does she dare to act?
If she dared, she wouldn’t have tearfully accepted the imperial decree.
“Is that so?”
Shen Luoyan snorted, immediately twisting Yun Zheng’s arm.
Yun Zheng felt pain, but bit his teeth and didn’t make a sound, his eyes fixed on Shen Luoyan.
This coward didn’t even cry out in pain?
Shen Luoyan was slightly surprised, and increased her strength again.
Yun Zheng still didn’t make a sound, just staring at Shen Luoyan.
For some reason, Shen Luoyan felt a shiver down her spine.
In the end, Shen Luoyan still didn’t dare to do anything to Yun Zheng, and reluctantly let go of his hand.
Yun Zheng gently moved his arm, asking, “It seems your martial arts skills are not bad, huh?”
“It’s enough to deal with you!”
Shen Luoyan snorted, still warning Yun Zheng coldly, “Next time, if you dare to touch me again, I’ll twist your arm off!”
Yun Zheng laughed, “Aren’t you tired from making empty threats?”
“I…”
Shen Luoyan’s face turned red with anger, but she couldn’t do anything to Yun Zheng, so she just sat there, seething.
Yun Zheng smiled at Shen Luoyan, asking, “Did you come on your own, or were you called by someone else?”
Shen Luoyan snorted, “If it weren’t for my mother’s illness, I wouldn’t have come!”
She didn’t want to come, but she had to.
Just like her sister-in-law Ye Zi said, this place was going to be her home soon!
Even if it was just a formality, she had to come!
Looking at her reluctant expression, Yun Zheng couldn’t help but shake his head and laugh, “If you don’t want to see me, you can go somewhere else! Or, you can go back home.”
Shen Luoyan heard this and immediately stood up.
However, she didn’t take a step forward.
After a moment, Shen Luoyan sat back down, sizing up Yun Zheng from head to toe.
“What are you doing?”
Yun Zheng asked, confused.
Shen Luoyan stared into Yun Zheng’s eyes, “My sister-in-law said you’re a sly and cunning person who does bad things in secret! Did you intentionally throw yourself off the horse and frame Yuan Kui the other day?”
Hmm?
Ye Zi had actually seen through him?
This woman was not simple at all!
Yun Zheng’s heart skipped a beat, and he said with a straight face, “I don’t call it sly, I call it the behavior of the Sixth Prince!”
He was originally the Sixth Prince, after all!
Naturally, he had to do things that the Sixth Prince would do.
“The behavior of the Sixth Prince? What nonsense!”
Shen Luoyan looked at him, confused, and asked again, “So, you’re admitting that you intentionally threw yourself off the horse and framed Yuan Kui?”
“That’s right!”
Yun Zheng admitted frankly.
“You…”
Shen Luoyan was surprised, “You’re not afraid that I’ll tell the Yuan family?”
“What’s there to be afraid of?”
Yun Zheng smiled lightly, looking around, and then lowered his voice, “I can even tell you that my banquet for the officials today was just a pretext to collect money, and then I’ll use it to raise an army and rebel in the Northern frontier!”
“Create… create a rebellion?”
Shen Luoyan’s eyes widened in shock as she stared at Yun Zheng.
…
Shen Luoyan didn’t even finish her lunch at Yun Zheng’s place and hastily ran back home.
After telling Ye Zi about what Yun Zheng had said, Shen Luoyan excitedly exclaimed, “I must go to the palace immediately and tell the Emperor! If the Emperor executes Yun Zheng, I won’t have to marry him!”
“Okay, hurry up!”
Ye Zi nodded lightly and said, “And prepare a coffin for our family on the way!”
“Ah?”
Shen Luoyan looked at Ye Zi in confusion, furrowing her brow. “But we haven’t even gotten married yet, our family shouldn’t be implicated, right?”
Ye Zi couldn’t help but laugh. “Do you think the Emperor will believe you? The Emperor will only think that you’re slandering Yun Zheng because you don’t want to marry him! You think the Emperor, in his rage, won’t execute our entire family?”
“Isn’t… this… “
Shen Luoyan hesitated, “But this is what Yun Zheng said himself!”
“And then?” Ye Zi raised an eyebrow. “The Emperor will ask you, what is Yun Zheng using to create a rebellion? Can he really create a rebellion with just three thousand soldiers under the Tiger General? He’s just moved into a new residence, and none of the officials have congratulated him; does he have co-conspirators helping him create a rebellion?”
She understood that Yun Zheng dared to say it because he knew no one would believe him.
Shen Luoyan was stunned, unsure of how to respond.
Yes!
What does Yun Zheng have to rebel?
If anyone with three thousand soldiers could rebel, then the Great Qian Dynasty would have been in chaos long ago!
As for forming an alliance to commit treason, it’s even more impossible!
But this is what Yun Zheng said himself!
Who would believe this if it gets out?
“Alright, don’t think about it anymore, you should be happy instead!”
Ye Zi pulled Shen Luoyan down to sit, “Your husband-to-be isn’t as useless as others say. I think he’s hiding his abilities. Let’s find an opportunity to chat with this deep and mysterious Sixth Prince…”
As Ye Zi consoled Shen Luoyan, she secretly thought to herself.
It seems I need to find a chance to talk to this Sixth Prince who’s hiding his true abilities…