"What do you want?" Stopped by someone, the familiar face looked extremely cold.
So... was this how Wei Ying looked at strangers, with such icy coldness?
Chu Qing felt a twinge of fear. All of a sudden, she didn't know what to say.
"If you have nothing to say, get out of the way." Wei Ying continued in a cold voice.
But that word "get out" made Chu Qing shiver all over.
He actually... told her to get out?
Really...
He was tired of living!
Chu Qing tried hard to suppress the surging sourness in her heart. She forced a smile, looked up at Wei Ying and said, "Your Highness, the Prince of Ning, this... girl has admired Your Highness for a long time..."
After saying that, she bit her lips nervously.
Hearing this, Wei Ying raised his eyebrows and even showed a teasing smile. "Oh? Admire... this prince?"
Chu Qing bit her lower lip, looking extremely pitiful. "But... Your Highness already has a princess. Now... you're going to marry the third princess of our Xiliang..."
Hearing this, Wei Ying sneered wickedly and said, "The Princess of Ning? What is she? Once this prince marries your third princess, I'll divorce her. As for you..." As he spoke, Wei Ying sized up Chu Qing boldly.
At this moment, Chu Qing was on the verge of fury. She desperately resisted the urge to slap him in the face. Squinting her eyes, she said, "But when this girl was in Dayan, I heard that Your Highness and the Princess of Ning were very much in love."
"That's just hearsay. This prince and her were just putting on an act." Wei Ying replied slowly.
Fine.
Very well.
Not only did he want to divorce her, but he also said it was just an act?
Was this something a human would say?
At this moment, Chu Qing wished she could pin Wei Ying to the ground and beat him until even his own mother wouldn't recognize him. But since she couldn't beat him and the place she was in was very dangerous, she had to give up this idea.
After saying a few more words to him, Chu Qing casually found an excuse to leave. If she stayed any longer, she was afraid that before she could kill him, she would end up in her coffin first!
So as soon as she turned around, all the smiles on her face disappeared, replaced by a coldness that could cut through flesh and bone!
Wei Sheng, who had been hiding silently beside them, saw Chu Qing coming with a murderous look on her face. Having heard all the conversation, he immediately followed in her footsteps.
"Princess!" Wei Sheng whispered in a low voice.
"Speak if you have something to say."
"..." Wei Sheng, who had been the target of her anger, paused for a moment and then immediately said, "Princess! You must calm down. Just now, this subordinate felt something strange."
"Hmm?" Chu Qing's aggressive steps suddenly stopped.
"Although that person looks like the master, some of his behaviors are completely different from the master's!"
After Wei Sheng said this, it was as if a gap had been opened in Chu Qing's heart. After the gloom just now gradually dissipated through the gap, she also realized something was wrong.
"Let's talk when we get back." At this moment, Chu Qing finally regained her calm.
...
The Hu Yan brothers were already drunk and had lost interest in Chu Qing and the others. When Chu Zhan suggested leaving, the two brothers surprisingly waved their hands in agreement.
After returning to the inn, just as Chu Qing was about to go back to her room, she saw a familiar face sitting in the inn's lobby.
It was actually Nian Chu, the one she had met in the Fengyue Villa.
However, the other party didn't recognize her at the moment.
Although Chu Qing was surprised to see him back in Chuanzhou City, due to the large number of people in the inn, she didn't say anything and went straight upstairs.
But when Chu Qing passed by, the originally lazy Nian Chu's pupils suddenly shrank.
His eyes were dark and unfathomable.
As soon as Lu Luo and Wei Zhi saw Chu Qing come back, they immediately poured her a cup of hot tea.
Chu Qing took it casually. With a solemn expression, she said, "Call everyone here."
...
After everyone gathered in Chu Qing's room, Chu Qing slowly said:
"The Wei Ying in the city lord's mansion may be a fake."
"What?" Wu Ya and Chu Zhan exclaimed in shock in unison.
Wei Sheng also took over and added in a deep voice, "Just now, Young Master Chu told me to follow the princess, so I hid beside them. First, I hid in the bushes not far from the princess and him. If it were the master, he would definitely have noticed my presence immediately. But... he didn't. Second, just now... well... the words he said and the way he looked at the princess were completely different from the master's usual behavior. The master has never been bewitched by women, but just now when he looked at the princess after her disguise, his eyes were full of... that kind of look. The princess was too angry just now and may not have noticed that his legs seemed to tremble after standing for a long time, as if he had suffered some serious injury. But the master has never suffered any serious injury to his legs."
After everyone heard this, they all fell into deep thought.
After Chu Qing calmed down, her mind naturally became much clearer.
Thinking carefully about what Wei Sheng had just said, today's Wei Ying was indeed very different from before.
Moreover, he had been too cold - blooded at the hunting ground.
She remembered that he should have killed two people...
But...
If this one was a fake...
Where was the real one?
Where had the real Wei Ying gone?
"If this one is a fake, is the real Prince of Ning still... alive?" Chu Zhan spoke up at this time, having the same thought as Chu Qing. Then he seemed to think of something and continued, "Moreover, the Hu Yan siblings seem to believe that this one is the real one... In this case, there are two possibilities. One is that they don't know this is a fake either, and the other is... this fake Prince of Ning was found by them. But... if they were to find someone to impersonate the Prince of Ning, wouldn't it be too ostentatious? If the real Prince of Ning showed up... wouldn't all their plans be exposed?"
"So... the reason why they are so unscrupulous, there is another possibility..."
"He is really dead." Chu Qing took over the conversation that was about to reach a dead - end.
Seeing that they had returned to the saddest result again, Chu Zhan couldn't help but say, "Little sister, don't think like this. Maybe... this Prince of Ning is the real one?"
"The real one?" Chu Qing's face suddenly darkened.
If he was the real one, it would be better if he were dead!
"So, to simply summarize. If the Prince of Ning in the city lord's mansion is a fake, there are probably only two possibilities now. One is that someone sent someone to impersonate the Prince of Ning and infiltrated the Xiliang royal family. The other is that the Xiliang royal family themselves sent someone to impersonate the Prince of Ning. The purpose is self - evident. And the potential implication of the second possibility is... the Prince of Ning... is really gone." Chu Zhan summarized, but when he said the last part, he subconsciously looked at Chu Qing.
Chu Qing seemed to sit back on the chair weakly.
"Qing'er?" Chu Zhan walked to her side worriedly.
Chu Qing was silent for a while and finally said slowly:
"None of these possibilities are what I want to see, and I can imagine that the road ahead will be very difficult. Tomorrow we can go and observe what's going on with that Prince of Ning, and then... solve my problem."
Saying this, Chu Qing took a deep breath and then said expressionlessly:
"I don't plan to keep the child in my belly."
Everyone was shocked and stood still. But because it was so quiet, the sudden noise outside the door seemed extremely harsh.
There was no time to ask Chu Qing about her decision. The most important thing now was this!
Just now... someone had been eavesdropping outside the door!
And Wei Zhi and Wei Sheng, who had the highest martial arts skills, didn't notice at all!