Chapter 1298 - I Do (1/2)

Jun Xiqing thought nothing of this. People of power always had to live with restrictions due to their status.

When her parents had still been alive, they had held her often and told her that they only wanted her to be a free and happy child.

But she had chosen this path instead.

It was likely that she would be trapped in this palace for the rest of her life, but she knew that she wouldn’t regret it.

She would take big strides forward.

At this moment, someone knocked on her door and a maid’s voice floated in from the outside. “Your Highness.”

Pingping looked at Jun Xiqing and said, “Your Highness, I’ll go take a look.”

“Alright.”

Jun Xiqing took off her clothes and undid her green hairpin. Her raven-black hair tumbled freely down her back.

From today onwards, she would have it up.

At this moment, Pingping came back. “Your Highness.”

Jun Xiqing glanced sideways at Pingping who looked like she had something to say. “What is it?”

Pingping observed Jun Xiqing’s expression carefully and said hesitantly, “Your Highness, Country A just announced that His Highness will be marrying the Holy Lady Dongfang Ruoli at the end of this month and make her the Empress.”

Jun Xiqing’s bright eyes suddenly froze. He was getting married? He had just been crowned and was about to get married too. This really was double the happiness.

Nodding in acknowledgment, Jun Xiqing only said, “Help me prepare a wedding gift for him. I want you to get…”

Jun Xiqing trailed off as she lowered her long lashes and smiled, “Forget it, he hasn’t even invited me. It’s too one-sided if I give him a present…”

“Your Highness,” Pingping prompted her.

Jun Xiqing walked over to the window and reached out to open the window, letting the cool air blow into her beautiful face. Her long dress billowed out behind her gracefully.

He wanted to marry Dongfang Ruoli?

Her mind suddenly flashed back to a certain memory.

That day in the palace when she had seen him caress Dongfang Ruoli’s face, she could tell that he didn’t love Dongfang Ruoli at all, it was just that her face looked like Elder Sis Mo’er.

Jun Xiqing’s heart sank again as he thought back to how indifferent he had been the day she left.

She knew all along that he loved Elder Sister Mo’er but had no idea that he didn’t even have a sliver of her in his heart at all. In his heart, she was even less than Dongfang Ruoli.

Her youth was a tragedy. She had offered up her body and her heart only to be discarded in the end.

On the day that she had left, she had choked out the words “I don’t ever want to see you again”, to which he had just replied coldly, “I’m sorry.”

Maybe it was due to that horrible farewell that she still couldn’t let him go. No matter how elegant and powerful he was, in her eyes, he was just a b*stard who had bullied her.

Pingping had followed Her Highness for a long time now. The 20-year-old was calm and intelligent and even though she was a girl, ten men couldn’t match her. This was the first time Pingping had seen her so upset.

‘Your Highness…” Pingping said hesitantly, “If the Crown Prince of Country A wanted you back by his side, would you go?”

Jun Xiqing didn’t reply.

After a long while of silence, she said, “Nothing is set in stone in this world. I don’t have a reply to that.”

…

The next day.

Jun Xiqing overslept and was two minutes late to her morning meeting, which made the senators extremely unhappy. Did she think that she could be late just because she’s a female president?

Without any change in expression, Jun Xiqing looked sideways at the senators, startling them. She stuck her tongue out at them in her mind

“Your Highness.” At this moment, Pingping walked over with a wedding invitation and said, “The Silver Mask King from Country A is extending his invitation to you for his wedding to Shi Xiaoxiao in two days.”

What?

Jun Xiqing’s heart skipped a beat and she asked, “Who did you say the Silver Mask King was marrying?”

“Your Highness, he’s marrying Shi Xiaoxiao.”

“…”