Chapter 178 Regret

A palace maid brought the medicine box and quietly applied ointment to Jiang Jingyue's face. In addition to the unique fragrance of the ointment, a cool layer of it quickly cooled down her hot cheeks.

The palace was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Jiang Jingyue retreated from the palace maid and sat alone in front of the bronze mirror, silently looking at the slightly unfamiliar face in the mirror.

Once upon a time, she was also a fair-skinned and delicate girl with a clear and bright complexion that made people feel full of vitality.

But now this face was so unfamiliar that it didn't look like hers. It was haggard, tired, and pale, and there was even a trace of undetectable aging between the eyebrows and eyes.

Jiang Jingyue sat motionless, her eyes as dead as a pool of stagnant water, and sinister hatred gradually grew in the dead silence.

Time passed little by little.

The look of the woman in the mirror gradually became ferocious and twisted, and the hatred in her eyes grew like vines...

"Hmm!" A muffled groan woke up Jiang Jingyue who was in a daze.

She turned her head to look in the direction of the bed, and the distorted luster in her eyes faded like water.

Mu Xiuhan slept for two hours and woke up at three o'clock.

Jiang Jingyue stood up, collected all her emotions, put on a gentle and slightly worried expression, and walked to the bed.

"Your Highness is awake?"

Mu Xiuhan slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was her red and swollen face, with five clear finger prints on both sides, which made him a little frightened.

Mu Xiuhan frowned: "What's wrong with your face?"

"It's okay." Jiang Jingyue shook her head, swallowing her grievances alone and understandingly, "It will be good if His Highness wakes up. Fang Cai's mother saw it later and she was very worried about His Highness."

Mu Xiuhan closed his eyes, but he was still not in good spirits.

Jiang Jingyue poured water and served him to rinse his mouth. She was considerate and virtuous, looking like a good wife and mother. After he rinsed his mouth, she took out all the toiletries and ordered the maid to come in and take them out to throw them away.

Other maids also came in. One maid brought warm water to Mu Xiuhan to moisten his throat, while the other maid wiped his face and hands.

In order to avoid hurting him, the maids served him carefully, gently and cautiously.

Everything seems to be the same as before.

But Mu Xiuhan knew in his heart that it was different, everything was different.

He closed his eyes and couldn't figure out why the letter was intercepted halfway.

"Your Highness." Jiang Jingyue's gentle voice sounded in her ears, "Does it hurt a lot?"

Mu Xiuhan brushed away the gloom in his heart and said calmly: "What else happened in the palace these days while I was sleeping?"

Jiang Jingyue served him some water and carefully wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "The queen mother asked me to take good care of you. Please leave your highness alone for the time being."

Mu Xiuhan said with a sullen face: "I was stupid. I shouldn't have listened to your brother in the first place."

Jiang Jingyue's expression froze, and the handkerchief in her hand was instantly tightened.

"It is a capital crime for a prince to have an affair with the feudal prince. I am lucky that my father did not kill me." Mu Xiuhan said harshly, with resentment in his tone, "If he hadn't still needed my grandfather, how would I be alive now? exist?"

Jiang Jingyue twitched her lips and smiled reluctantly: "Your Highness, please don't be discouraged. King Yu has also been detained by the Emperor for the past two days. Although I don't know the reason, he must have angered the Emperor. We still have a chance."

"King Yu was imprisoned?" Mu Xiuhan turned his head, "Why?"

Jiang Jingyue shook her head: "I don't know. I just know that King Yu was locked up in the royal study by the emperor that day and scolded him. Then he was ordered to go back to the palace and be confined for a month. He was not allowed to go out at will."

When Mu Xiuhan heard this, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

This is probably the habit that princes have after they reach adulthood, especially princes who aspire to the throne. No matter what happens, they have to think about it habitually.

Thinking is their habit, but whether they can think it through and what results they can come up with depends on whether their brains are used enough and their abilities are strong enough.

"Your Highness." A beautiful palace maid came over with bird's nest porridge and said respectfully, "You haven't eaten for several days, please eat a little."

Mu Xiuhan raised his hand and glanced at her, with a strange color in his eyes.

I didn't pay much attention to it before, but today I discovered that all the maids in the East Palace are prettier than Jiang Jingyue.

Looking at Jiang Jingyue's face again, it was so haggard and dark that people didn't want to take another look.

Jiang Jingyue noticed his eyes, her face stiffened slightly, she calmly took the bowl and spoon from the maid's hand, and said calmly: "You should step aside first."

"yes."

Jiang Jingyue stirred the porridge gently, raised her head, and brought the porridge to Mu Xiuhan's mouth with a spoon, she looked gentle again: "Your Highness, eat slowly."

Mu Xiuhan said nothing and opened his mouth to take a sip of porridge.

He hadn't eaten for several days. At this time, he was in low spirits, in pain and hungry, and didn't want to talk much.

After eating a few mouthfuls of porridge, I started to sweat again.

"Your Highness, I'll ask them to call the imperial doctor over." Jiang Jingyue saw that he was in pain, "Let's see if we can change the medicine to something less painful."

"No need." Mu Xiuhan was bored and rejected her proposal without thinking.

Yan Li's exquisite and refined face appeared in front of her for no reason, and then she looked at Jiang Jingyue's haggard, pale face with red and swollen fingerprints.

Comparing the two, Mu Xiuhan only wondered if he was blind in the first place and chose such a bad luck star.

Suppressing the disgust in his heart, he asked: "Is today the fifth or sixth day of the lunar month?"

Jiang Jingyue said: "It's past midnight, and it's now the sixth day of the Lunar New Year."

Mu Xiuhan frowned: "The day when Uncle Nine Emperors and Yan Li got married?"

Jiang Jingyue shook her head: "The wedding date has been postponed to the eighth day of the lunar month."

Mu Xiuhan was surprised: "Why?"

"An urgent report was sent from the border at full speed, saying that the Kingdom of Jin wanted to marry Princess Nanyang, and was willing to offer nine cities as a betrothal gift, and sign a 20-year truce agreement." When Jiang Jingyue said this, a cold color flashed in her eyes, "The ministers all proposed that Princess Nanyang marry, but the Ninth Prince disagreed. The emperor ordered that the wedding be postponed for two days."

Mu Xiuhan was obviously in a bad mood, but at this time he was still thinking, has Yan Li's reputation spread to the Kingdom of Jin?

They are willing to offer nine cities to marry her?

It sounds incredible, but Mu Xiuhan doesn't know why, but he thought of everything that happened in the past few days.

Since he broke off the engagement, it seems that bad luck has been haunted every day, even though his life was smooth sailing before.

Although nothing lucky happened, it was because he was the prince, and there was no surprise worth his happiness, but at least he lived a good life.

The emperor had high expectations for him, the ministers had no ulterior motives, and the brothers were respectful on the surface no matter what they thought in their hearts.

But since he broke off the engagement with Yan Li, he was either punished to kneel or copy, or scolded by the Ninth Prince, and now he was beaten in court and deposed from the throne.

In just one month, he suffered all the punishments he had never suffered in his life, as if it was all the retribution he deserved after he betrayed Yan Li.

Mu Xiuhan felt indescribably aggrieved.

In the past, he relied on the fact that he was the legitimate son of the Empress and his grandfather guarded the Western Frontier. He never thought about winning over military power. He only thought that marrying a daughter of the Jiang family would win over the students of the Taifu lineage, gain a good reputation, and make the young ministers in the court and future students loyal to him.

But after the breakup, the status of the Jiang family seemed to be getting worse day by day, and even its reputation was no longer as good as before.

Mu Xiuhan lay quietly on the bed, thinking to himself, what benefits can he get from marrying Jiang Jingyue now?

Nothing.

Jiang Tingyi is a brainless person. If he hadn't followed his advice, how could he have ended up being abandoned?

And Jiang Tingyan, although he has a good relationship with students, he has ruined his career. Those students who used to be friends with him will definitely distance themselves from him in order to protect themselves.

The Jiang family has no one to use, and even the most basic reputation is gone.

What benefits can Jiang Jingyue bring to him?

The more Mu Xiuhan thought about it, the more he felt that it was a stupid decision to break off the engagement and marry Jiang Jingyue.

If he regrets it now, just pretend that nothing happened.

Will Yan Li agree?