Mercenary Princess - Chapter 176
His chin was suddenly lifted, and a passionate kiss came crashing down on him.
With a dizzying motion, he lifted me up in his arms, lowered the curtains, and we both tumbled onto the wide, soft dragon bed.
With my eyes glazed over, I gazed at his handsome face, watching him worship my entire body with his fiery lips. His devout yet infatuated expression suddenly made me want to cry…
"Cousin, tell me, who am I in your eyes at this moment?" As if possessed, at the very moment we were about to connect, I asked the question I wanted to ask but dared not.
As soon as the words left my mouth, I regretted them.
He jolted, his lustful eyes instantly clearing halfway. He looked up at me with a mixture of surprise and confusion for a moment before suddenly reaching out and tearing the curtains, covering my eyes and blinding my expectant gaze.
Ultimately, she was just a stand-in...
An indescribable sense of shame suddenly overwhelmed me!
With a whoosh, I ripped off the blindfold and shook his shoulders violently, roaring in anguish and madness, "Cousin, look! I'm Liu Rongyue! Not her, not her! She's dead, dead! She'll never come back! Cousin, wake up!"
Smack! A slap shattered the beautiful dream I had woven in my fantasy world.
"If you dare to curse her again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
He grabbed his coat from the screen, slammed the door, and left, leaving me sitting on the dragon bed, utterly disheveled…
I burst into laughter, laughing until tears streamed down my face.
Cousin, if you don't love me, then why do you lock me up in the palace?
Oh, I know, I know what you're thinking. You're hoping that when she comes back, you can be with her forever, right?
But don't you ever think about what I would do if she came back?
It's either her or me, or me or her. Cousin, do you think I'm someone you can do without?
Hehe, maybe you're just hoping I'll disappear soon!
After all, my appearance caused your beloved to disappear without a trace...
The next day, the palace maids brought over the delicacies and fine wines as usual.
Looking at the fine wine and delicacies on the jade table, my eyes flashed with hatred. I strode forward and fiercely overturned those plates and dishes!
The palace maids were panicked and dodged away, looking at me with trepidation as I stared at their gloomy faces, wondering why I was so unpredictable.
Soft beds and fragrant pillows, delicacies from land and sea—these are all just to protect this physical body.
Cousin, if this physical body is gone, do you think she can come back?
Hahaha!
I know I like to go to extremes, but they forced me into it all!
When my cousin learned that I had started a hunger strike, he was both shocked and furious. He grabbed me by the collar and questioned me about why I was doing this.
Why? Ha, he actually asked me why?
Does that mean I should recover my health and then become their bride?
No way!
After a three-day hunger strike, my body was on the verge of collapse.
My cousin's eyes were bloodshot. He grabbed some pastries from the table, forcefully pried open my clenched teeth, and frantically shoved them down my throat, trying to force me to swallow.
Looking at his childish behavior with a mocking gaze, a sense of vengeful pleasure welled up within her.
If I don't want to eat, can you force me?
He vomited up everything that had been forced into his stomach.
He panicked, holding food and kneeling in front of my bed, almost begging me to live.
Ah, cousin, do you know that the more you do this, the less I will do as you please!
Because women are all petty. Cousin, you really don't understand women!
"Lie, what are you doing!" Chu Xuyao roughly pulled his cousin up from the ground, glared at me who was lying on the bed barely alive, and sneered: "Let her die! It's better if she dies! If she dies, Yue will come back!"
A single word awakened me from my dream!
Yes, death might just be what they wanted, and that woman might come back and take over my body!
Yes, I can't die!
I propped myself up and grabbed some pastries, stuffing them haphazardly into my mouth. My will to survive had never been so strong!
My cousin and Chu Xuyao both breathed a sigh of relief, but I, absorbed in my will to survive, didn't notice the change in their expressions. So, from beginning to end, I didn't know that if I died at that moment, that woman would truly never come back...
Since I can't die, I can at least torture this body. Even if she comes back, cousin, would you still want this broken body?
Hehehe...
The Liu family was no ordinary official family; I'd known this since I was very young. After all, what ordinary official family would allow their child to start learning poison and witchcraft from the age of four?
Using the herbs I obtained from the Imperial Pharmacy, I secretly concocted several medicines and began to implement my plan.
I started by seducing the guards at the gate. When that didn't work, I used strong drugs. Watching them reach out their wicked hands to me under the influence of the drugs gave me a great sense of satisfaction!
I refuse to believe that my cousin would care about my ravaged body!