Zhuo Lingxiao felt as if the blood in his whole body was about to flow backwards. His eyes began to redden, and his voice turned hoarse with extreme anger.
"It's me."
In the silent room, Feng Jingxuan spoke calmly.
As soon as the words left his mouth, Zhuo Lingxiao threw a fierce punch. It seemed that he had put all his strength into that punch, and Feng Jingxuan immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Third Brother!"
"Your Highness the Third Prince!"
Everyone gasped in surprise.
The Third Princess, who was the closest, rushed forward without hesitation. She protected Feng Jingxuan with her own body and blocked Zhuo Lingxiao's fist that was about to fall again.
"Get out of the way! Don't force me to hit a woman," Zhuo Lingxiao gritted his teeth.
The Third Princess was both shocked and angry. Her slender body stood upright as a ramrod, firmly in front of Feng Jingxuan. She shouted, "Do you think, Your Royal Highness, that you and Princess Yunxi can leave this room unscathed after killing His Highness the Third Prince in the Great Zhou Palace?"
Zhuo Lingxiao held his fist up and glared angrily at the Third Princess.
The Third Princess stared back at him defiantly.
After a long stand - off, Zhuo Lingxiao finally put down his fist reluctantly and turned back to Princess Yunxi's side.
Seeing him go away, the Third Princess heaved a sigh of relief. She squatted down to check Feng Jingxuan's injury. "Are you okay, Third Brother?"
"I'm fine," Feng Jingxuan raised his hand and casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. Looking at the Third Princess, he smiled. "Silly girl, your third brother can handle this minor injury. Why did you run over? Aren't you afraid his fist would land on you?"
Seeing that Feng Jingxuan could still talk so much, the Third Princess guessed that he must be fine. She put her heart at ease and laughed heartily. "Yes, yes. Third Brother is so powerful. How could he be afraid of the fist of the Crown Prince's Heir? It's just that I was being nosy."
In the tense and silent atmosphere of the palace hall, the hearty laughter of the two people squatting on the ground seemed extremely strange.
Princess Mingshu? Interesting.
Bai Zheng watched the two people chatting and laughing from afar. Her eyes became deeper.
"Your Highness the Third Prince seems to be in a good mood," Zhuo Lingxiao sneered. He found the smile on Feng Jingxuan's face extremely irritating.
Hearing this, Feng Jingxuan slowly got up with the help of the Third Princess. He dusted off his clothes and said calmly, "Since things have come to this, what else can I do but accept it calmly? After all, only cowards lose their temper."
"You!" Zhuo Lingxiao's face turned pale. He was about to flare up but then remembered that Feng Jingxuan had just mocked his outburst. He lowered his eyes for a moment and then looked up with a smile.
"Hahaha, right. Your Highness the Third Prince is right. Only cowards lose their temper. A wise man like Your Highness the Third Prince will surely solve this matter properly. Right?"
Feng Jingxuan nodded and replied, "Your Royal Highness, please rest assured. I will surely give you a satisfactory explanation for this matter."
"Good!" Zhuo Lingxiao turned around and looked at Princess Yunxi, who was still pitifully clutching his arm and trembling all over.
"Princess, what do you think?" Zhuo Lingxiao asked for her opinion.
Princess Yunxi was already exhausted from crying. Her timid and scared appearance was in sharp contrast to her previous arrogant one, which made people feel even more pity for her.
She pondered for a while, sniffed, and said, "I heard that in the Great Zhou, there is a saying: 'When a woman marries a rooster, she follows the rooster; when she marries a dog, she follows the dog.'"
"No way!"
As soon as Princess Yunxi's words came out, there were three voices of opposition.
Bai Zheng curled her lips and looked in the direction of the voices.
One of the opposing voices naturally came from Feng Jingxuan himself.
Another came from Feng Linche, which made Feng Jingye and Queen Chu, who had been watching the show, look ugly.
As for the last one, Bai Zheng's smile deepened.
The last voice came from Bai Di, who had finally dressed neatly and squeezed through the crowd to the door of the room.
"Princess Yunxi, you are a dignified princess of a country. How can you condescend to marry here and be the secondary consort of His Highness the Third Prince?" Bai Di's face was still a little pale, but her expression was extremely firm.
Zhuo Lingxiao had just rushed in and didn't know what had happened in the side hall before. The people present didn't dare to make any comments like "You still have the nerve" to criticize Bai Di.
Su Muxiao couldn't help but step forward to expose her, but was silenced by a glance from Bai Zheng.
"Secondary consort? Then who is the principal consort?" Zhuo Lingxiao's cold eyes sized up Bai Di from head to toe. "Oh, this is the future consort of the Third Prince, Miss Bai the Second, who just got engaged to His Highness the Third Prince, right?"
"That's right," Bai Di nodded.
Zhuo Lingxiao squinted his eyes slightly. "I heard that Miss Bai the Second comes from a first - rank general's mansion in the Eastern Zhou? And she is the niece of the current noble consort?"
"That's correct," Bai Di straightened her back.
Zhuo Lingxiao curled his lips obliquely, sneered at her contemptuously, and gradually formed a cold smile. "Just based on these?"
"What?"
"I mean, just based on these, you want to compete with Princess Yunxi for the position of the consort of the Third Prince?" There was undisguised contempt in Zhuo Lingxiao's words.
"You!" Bai Di was so angry that her face turned red.
But Zhuo Lingxiao didn't intend to save her any face. Every word he said was heart - piercing. "What's your status? What's Princess Yunxi's status? Even the secondary consort position should be yours! You haven't even entered the door yet. How dare you spout off about the Third Prince's affairs here?"
Bai Di was so angry that her chest heaved violently. Her face turned various colors, alternating between green, white, and red, but she couldn't say a word.
He was right. Although she always thought highly of herself, especially in front of Bai Zheng. But compared with a legitimate princess of a country, who was she?
What right did she have to compete with Princess Yunxi for this position?
But she was not willing to accept this.
She was extremely venomous. Her eyes stared fixedly at Princess Yunxi, who was huddled in a ball. With just one sentence, Princess Yunxi had completely changed her fate.
"Your Royal Highness is right. The princess has a noble status. She is the legitimate daughter of the main palace in the Western Liang and is deeply loved by His Majesty of the Western Liang. And I am just the daughter of an ordinary concubine of my father. Even the position of the principal consort of the Third Prince would really wrong the princess. How could I let the princess marry me..." Feng Jingxuan said.
"Then what else?" Zhuo Lingxiao impatiently interrupted Feng Jingxuan. "In your Eastern Zhou, who do you think is more suitable for the princess than Your Highness the Third Prince? The Crown Prince, who already has a principal consort? Or the Fourth Prince, who is seriously ill with hysteria? Or should we just let our princess marry your Majesty?"
"Presumptuous!"
Feng Linche was extremely angry. His face turned red with rapid breathing. "Prince Heir Zhuo, watch your words!"
Princess Yunxi's body had been defiled by Feng Jingxuan. How could she enter Feng Linche's harem?
Wasn't that clearly cuckolding him?