Su Mingyu was about to leave as she spoke, but Gu Ruobai called out to stop her. "I think you should go and have a chat with Qingfeng first."
"You're right." Su Mingyu thought for a moment. "I guess Qingfeng should be at the Ye Mansion by this time. I'll go there."
Gu Ruobai nodded. "Go ahead."
He also knew the place Zhizhu held in Su Mingyu's heart, so he didn't stop her.
The moment Ye Weiguang saw Su Mingyu, he understood what was going on.
He pointed to the roof of his house. "He came back without saying a word. Judging from his full - fledged hostility, I guessed he must have done something."
Su Mingyu told Ye Weiguang what had happened in the Prince Ruixian's Mansion. "I'll go and have a look first."
Ye Weiguang sighed. "Go ahead."
As soon as the words fell, Su Mingyu tapped her toes and leaped onto the roof.
She immediately saw Qingfeng with red - rimmed eyes. Su Mingyu silently sighed, walked up and sat down beside Qingfeng. "I heard you smashed my courtyard?"
Qingfeng glanced at Su Mingyu, then lowered his eyes. "I'll compensate you with silver."
Su Mingyu raised an eyebrow. "The flowers inside were all planted by Gu Ruobai himself, and you crushed them to death. How are you going to compensate me?"
"I'll plant them for you again!" Qingfeng's tone was obviously impatient.
Su Mingyu wasn't angry. She continued joking around. "Those were planted by the prince. Who do you think you are to plant them for me?"
"I!" Qingfeng's face suddenly changed. He glared angrily at Su Mingyu. "So what if I'm a servant? Are servants not human?"
Roared at like this, Su Mingyu wasn't angry. "Are servants human? Servants should serve their masters well and be loyal to them."
"It's a servant's duty to be loyal to the master, but he's still a living person!" Qingfeng stared at Su Mingyu with his eyes wide open in anger. His blood - red eyes looked extremely terrifying. "In places where the master doesn't need him, a servant also wants to live his own life!"
Qingfeng patted his chest, and his anger was almost overflowing from his eyes.
Hearing him say this, Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows. "It seems you know everything."
Seeing Su Mingyu squinting her eyes, Qingfeng finally came to his senses. "You deliberately provoked me just now? What on earth do you want to say?"
Su Mingyu lowered her eyes. "What I want to say, you've just said it all."
Su Mingyu lowered her eyes and looked at him, asking softly, "Seeing Zhizhu with another man, are you sad?"
Qingfeng bit his lower lip and didn't say a word.
Seeing this, Su Mingyu continued, "Do you know what that silly girl Zhizhu told me when I came to find you?"
Qingfeng still shook his head.
Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows before saying, "She said she hoped I wouldn't blame you. That girl is extremely innocent. Even though you've done all this, she isn't angry with you."
Hearing what Su Mingyu said, Qingfeng lowered his eyes. A flash of self - blame passed through his dark eyes. "I... I... I'm sorry for her."
Seeing that he showed signs of repentance, Su Mingyu squinted her eyes. "Yes, I also think you're very sorry for her."
Before Qingfeng could say the words of apology, Su Mingyu interrupted him. "If you really don't like her, or think you can't give her anything, then just let her go completely. Don't show up in front of her anymore. There's already someone around her who can take care of her."
Hearing Su Mingyu's words, Qingfeng felt a sudden tightness in his heart. He looked at Su Mingyu in surprise. "You... You're here to ask me to leave her?"
Su Mingyu nodded. "Since the two of you can't be together, how about just letting go of each other?"
When Su Mingyu said this, her eyes were always fixed on Qingfeng, as if she wanted to see something from his face.
"… I …" Qingfeng frowned and thought for a long time but didn't dare to speak.
Seeing this, Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows. "Are you reluctant? But you clearly know that Zhizhu has feelings for you, yet you've never shown any response."
Su Mingyu looked at Qingfeng and said word by word, "Zhizhu is my maid and my younger sister. I don't want to see her suffer. So... Qingfeng, I want you to stop contacting her. From now on, let men marry and women wed. There'll be no more ties between you two."
After saying that, Su Mingyu took out a small pouch from her bosom, spread her hand, and placed it in front of the two of them. "Qingfeng, this thing is the connection between you two. I'm going to destroy it now."
With that, Su Mingyu took out the dagger from her shoe and directly sliced the pouch into pieces.
"No!" Qingfeng's eyes were blood - red. He pounced on the pouch like a wild beast, but Su Mingyu had already cut it open.
"Don't!" Qingfeng immediately went to pick up the fragments. "You... Why did you do this?"
Su Mingyu looked at him with a solemn expression. "If I didn't do this, I don't know when the two of you would be able to cut things off clearly."
Hearing what Su Mingyu said, Qingfeng suddenly fell silent. He also knew in his heart that Su Mingyu was right, but asking him to just give up Zhizhu like this...
Qingfeng tightly clenched his fists and hung his head, not saying a word.
Seeing this, Su Mingyu thought that her provocation was about enough. So she got up and patted the dust off her body. "Then I'll leave first. In the future, regarding the matters of Prime Minister Mu, you can just report directly to Gu Ruobai."
The implication was that she didn't want Qingfeng to see Zhizhu anymore.
Qingfeng's heart sank. He wanted to say something, but in the end, he couldn't say a word.
When Su Mingyu returned to the Prince Ruixian's Mansion, she saw Tang Ziyan sitting there. It seemed that he was waiting for her.
Su Mingyu walked up to him. "What's up? You looking for me?"
"Did the princess go to see Young Master Qingfeng?" Tang Ziyan pointed to the seat in front of him, indicating for Su Mingyu to sit down and talk.
Su Mingyu walked over and poured herself a glass of water. "Yes. What on earth did you say to him?"
Although Su Mingyu couldn't claim to know Qingfeng 100%, she knew that Qingfeng's wooden and dull personality wouldn't suddenly get so angry. It must be that Tang Ziyan had said something to provoke Qingfeng.
"The princess is really intelligent." Tang Ziyan squinted his eyes. "Actually, I just gave Young Master Qingfeng a little provocation."
Tang Ziyan took a sip of tea and then said slowly, "I told him that a pure and lovely girl like Zhizhu is extremely rare. Even I like her very much."
Su Mingyu couldn't help twitching the corner of her mouth. This Tang Ziyan looked kind, but in fact, he had such a scheming personality.
Looking at Tang Ziyan's good - looking face, Su Mingyu suddenly became a bit interested. "With your intelligence and looks, why are you in a place like Nanyuan?"
A person like him should be a dragon among men wherever he went.