Chapter 31 (1/2)
The crown prince had reached his limits with Feng Ruchu.
“Don’t you believe I’m innocent, Your Highness?” Feng Ruchu blinked and asked curiously.
“Of course you are innocent,” Nangong Yan growled, not wanting to waste his breath on Feng Ruchu.
“Why did you ask for me to be dethroned then?” Feng Ruchu asked, even though she knew the answer.
Nangong Yan stared at Feng Ruchu, a sixteen-year-old girl who did not have the physique of someone her age. Instead, she was as thin as a rake and had an unsightly scar between her eyebrows. Nangong Yan always felt upset just by looking at her.
Nangong Yan liked it better when she was mentally retarded; she would chase him around just to cling to his leg and drool then. In his opinion, Feng Ruchu was just rude and cunning when her brain was functioning.
He would feel insulted if Feng Ruchu were to wash his feet, not to mention be his and the kingdom’s queen.
But of course, he could only express his dissatisfaction in his head.
“We are the leader of all four countries. We have lived up to the people’s expectations, and they respect us. People pay close attention to my every move as the crown prince of the kingdom, and I set an example for them. Whoever I marry shall be the queen of the kingdom one day, and she will manage the concubines and be a motherly model of the nation,” Nangong Yan said solemnly and bowed to the emperor again.
“Feng Ruchu might not be retarded anymore, but her spiritual roots are still depleted, and she has been weak and timid since young. How is she going to shoulder the responsibility of being the queen of a kingdom?
“Our people will laugh at us for choosing a good-for-nothing to be the queen of the kingdom, if I were to obey the empress dowager and marry Feng Ruchu. While I don’t mind being a laughing stock to them, I will not allow the dignity of Nanqiu Kingdom to be compromised.”
Nangong Yan’s speech was passionate and righteous, and Feng Ruchu would have applauded his loyalty to the kingdom if she hadn’t known his true colors.