"I'm not leaving!" Wu Yurou casually found a teahouse and sat in. "Can you guys stop following me?"
Wu Yurou felt annoyed just looking at the buck - toothed Third Prince. "I'm just out for a stroll with the Princess Consort of Ruixian. What are you big men following us for?"
"The princess is of noble birth. Naturally, I'm worried when you stroll in the capital. I just want to accompany you. I don't know if the other brothers have the same thought as me." The Third Prince stepped forward first.
Wu Yurou glanced at him. "The Third Prince thinks highly of me. But what you said seems to imply that I won't be safe in the capital? Is the capital so chaotic?"
"No, no, no. Of course not what you mean." The Third Prince was afraid that Wu Yurou would put a bad label on the capital, so he quickly explained. "I just mean that after all, you and the princess consort are both women. It's more reassuring to have men around, isn't it?"
Su Mingyu rolled her eyes. This man's way of speaking was really poor. He was not as good as the King of Yu.
Speak of the devil.
Just then, a cold voice drifted over from afar. "I was wondering why it's so lively. So all my elder brothers are here."
After the voice fell, the King of Yu seemed to have just noticed Su Mingyu and Wu Yurou. He looked a bit surprised. "Why is the princess here, and with the Princess Consort of Ruixian?"
Even surrounded by so many people, Su Mingyu's tone remained calm. "I'm accompanying the princess for a stroll. We just happened to meet these princes. I wonder if the King of Yu has the same purpose as them?"
"I just happened to pass by." After the King of Yu said this casually, he walked over and sat down beside Su Mingyu.
Su Mingyu timely poured him a cup of water. "Your 'happening to pass by' is really a big coincidence."
The King of Yu squinted his eyes. Just as he was about to take a sip of tea, he noticed the gaze beside him.
He raised an eyebrow. There was a flash of suspicion in his eyes as he looked at Su Mingyu. "What's going on? Why aren't you serving tea to my elder brothers? Waiter! Serve tea!"
Su Mingyu looked at his hypocritical look indifferently and pouted. "Since this is a gathering of the princes, it's inappropriate for the princess and me to disturb. We'll take our leave first."
As Su Mingyu was about to leave, the King of Yu raised an eyebrow and stopped her. "I see. Miss Su thinks there are too many of us and we're disturbing you and the princess?"
Then the King of Yu turned to look at the other princes. "Third brother, I remember Father - Emperor asked you to supervise the renovation of the imperial garden. How's it going?"
"And Sixth brother, last time you annoyed Father - Emperor because of the matter of the young heir. Father - Emperor asked you to personally teach the young heir at home. Has the young heir's literary talent improved?"
"Fifth brother... Aren't you supposed to be under house arrest? Walking around so openly in the market, do you want Father - Emperor to know that you're acting against his orders?"
When the King of Yu said these words, his tone was calm, but his deep eyes gave people an invisible sense of horror.
The princes swallowed their saliva and finally scattered and fled.
Wu Yurou watched this scene and raised an eyebrow at the King of Yu. "I remember you."
The King of Yu's black eyes sharpened. "It's my honor to be remembered by the princess."
"Come on. You're not here for me at all." Wu Yurou rolled her eyes. "I may be a bit slow, but your eyes were always on Su Mingyu at the banquet. And when you came in just now, you sat directly beside Su Mingyu. All these tell me that your target is not me."
Then Wu Yurou stared at Su Mingyu with big eyes. "Su Mingyu, I think the King of Yu is quite good. Do you want to consider remarrying?"
Compared with Wu Yurou's look of discovering a big secret, Su Mingyu didn't even lift her eyelids. "I think the princess may not know that the King of Yu married my younger sister. It's natural for the King of Yu to be a bit closer to me. Maybe I look like my younger sister in some ways, so the King of Yu naturally sat beside me."
"Don't lie to me." Wu Yurou tilted her chin at the King of Yu. "Maybe it's because Su Yueyue looks like you that the King of Yu married her."
Then Wu Yurou came in front of the King of Yu, leaned over and pressed against his face, staring straight into his pitch - black eyes. Then she said, "A person's eyes can't lie. The person in his heart is you."
Su Mingyu slowly stood up. Then she imitated Wu Yurou, got close to the King of Yu, glanced at her reflection in his eyes, and then said in disbelief, "There's no way I'm the one in the King of Yu's heart."
Then Su Mingyu raised an eyebrow at the King of Yu. "Right, King of Yu?"
There was not much doubt in this questioning. The King of Yu lowered his black eyes and lifted his thin lips. "Su Mingyu and I just have a bit of acquaintance. If the princess says such things just because we're a bit familiar with each other, then you've wronged me."
Hearing the King of Yu's answer, Su Mingyu sneered in her heart.
She certainly knew that she must have a place in the King of Yu's heart at the moment, but Su Mingyu was even more aware that compared to her, the King of Yu cared more about the throne.
So in front of this princess who could help him get the throne, the King of Yu would never say anything out of line. That was why Su Mingyu forced the King of Yu.
Looking at the unfathomable emotions in the King of Yu's eyes, Wu Yurou pouted disinterestedly. "I don't care if you two are or not. Anyway, I've made it clear. I only have Gu Ruobai in my heart. I don't like anyone else."
Hearing her say this, Su Mingyu shrugged at the King of Yu. "See, King of Yu. It's not that I, as an elder sister - in - law, don't help you. It's that the princess has someone in her heart."
"If I heard correctly, the person the princess just mentioned seems to be your husband, right?" The King of Yu detected the sourness in Su Mingyu's words.
Thinking that this sourness was because of himself, for some reason, the King of Yu actually felt a bit of pleasure in his heart.
Su Mingyu did this on purpose. Su Yueyue hadn't given birth yet. She couldn't let the King of Yu lose interest in her now, or it would be more troublesome to take revenge later.
So playing hard - to - get was the best strategy.
"The princess said that she's willing to be a concubine." When Su Mingyu said this, she deliberately looked at Wu Yurou.
That sentence was originally said by Wu Yurou to deliberately anger Su Mingyu, but now Su Mingyu was using it against her. Wu Yurou's face darkened immediately. "Su Mingyu! You clearly know I didn't mean that."
After all, she was a princess for marriage alliance. Anyway, she couldn't be a concubine. Otherwise, both the face and the dignity of her country would be completely lost.