Chapter 261 I’m so angry

Hearing what Ye Jiayao said, Ah Ruan hummed and said, "Okay, I won't be polite with you."

Ye Jiayao wanted to ask several times, but failed to do so. She decided to ask Xiaoman later.

After sitting for more than half an hour, Ye Jiayao said goodbye and made an appointment to send her a cook in three days.

Ah Ruan sent her to the door, but Ye Jiayao stopped her: "Let Xiao Man send you. You should go back quickly! It's very sunny outside."

"Well, you must come in three days!"

With that reluctant and expectant look, Ah Ruan must be so lonely. Ye Jiayao nodded heavily and said with a smile: "I will definitely come. When did I break my promise?"

After leaving the main courtyard, Ye Jiayao asked Xiao Man, "Xiao Man, tell me the truth, how does the prince treat the princess?"

Xiao Man looked embarrassed and said hesitantly, "The prince is very busy."

Ye Jiayao smiled bitterly in her heart. Being busy is such a good excuse. It can be applied everywhere, from ancient times to the present...

You're newly married, and you're so busy?

Suddenly, I saw a tall figure in front of me walking through the corridor and leaving through the other side.

If not Prince Yu, then who else could it be? He walked in a hurry.

Ye Jiayao asked: "Where is that?"

Xiao Man said in a low voice: "That's where Concubine Lin lives."

Ye Jiayao suddenly became angry, her heart was like a fire burning. When did Prince Yu take a concubine? She didn't even know. Great, busy, busy, it turned out that he was busy with another woman.

Ye Jiayao's face darkened: "Xiao Man, you know that I am the only friend the princess has in Jinling, is there anything you can't tell me?"

Xiaoman's eyes immediately turned red.

Ye Jiayao motioned Qiao Xi to pay attention to the surroundings and lowered her voice, "Princess, what is your situation? Tell me quickly."

Xiao Man choked up and said, "The princess didn't have a good life at all. On the wedding night, Concubine Lin came in. The prince left on the pretext of being drunk and afraid of offending the princess. Later, we learned that the prince went to Lin's place. The prince seldom came to the princess's place, and all the affairs of the mansion were handed over to Lin. Lin relied on the prince's doting on her and didn't take the princess seriously at all. Second Young Madam, you know that the princess' heart is not here at all, so she is too lazy to fight for anything. But the more this happened, the bolder Lin became. Sometimes the prince would come to the princess's place first after returning to the mansion, and Lin would immediately send someone to invite him, finding all kinds of excuses to call the prince over..."

Ye Jiayao was so angry that her hands were shaking. This was too much. It was already unreasonable to take a concubine on the wedding night, and she also handed over the affairs of the mansion to Lin. What about Ah Ruan? Did they really think she was just a painting on the wall to be hung?

"Second Young Madam, the princess has repeatedly told me not to tell you. The princess said that this is really a good thing, so, just pretend you don't know!" Xiao Man said while wiping her tears.

It's good, what a fart, Ye Jiayao is almost smoking. If it's really good, why would Aruan be so thin? Aruan is just an empty title of a princess, being neglected and ignored. Is she going to live a stagnant life like this? What's the difference between this and a concubine who is banished to the cold palace?
Did she think that if she didn't want to fight for anything, she would be able to be quiet? Little did she know that she was guilty of possessing a treasure just because she was a princess. Could she guarantee that Lin had no ambitions? The easier it was to bully, the harder they would be, and life would only become more difficult.

The more Ye Jiayao thought about it, the more unwilling she became, so she turned around and walked back.

Xiao Man panicked and said, "Second Young Madam, if the princess knew that I told you, she would not forgive me and would send me back to Nanyue."

Ye Jiayao paused. Yes, what should she say now? Say to Ah Ruan, you can't go on like this, you have to fight for it, what for? The favor of Prince Yu, the rights that the princess should have? Ah Ruan would definitely not listen.

But she really couldn't bear to watch A'ruan wither away like a flower that had lost the moisture of the soil and the water it irrigated.

Okay, let's think of another way.

"Xiao Man, you serve the princess well. If you have any problems, come to me." Ye Jiayao sighed silently and finally left.

As soon as Ye Jiayao left, Ah Ruan sat there in a daze. Now, the most common thing she did every day was to be in a daze. She didn't know what was going on in her mind. She didn't dare to think about the past because it would make her sad. She didn't want to think about the future even more.

She used to be a happy little bird in the mountains, free and loved by so many people. Before coming to Jinling, she had prepared for the worst, thinking that it didn't matter if she married someone she didn't like, because everything was for Nanyue. But she didn't expect that she would meet Xiao Jing and fall in love with such a person, and then everything changed.

Creaky, Xiaoman pushed the door open.

A Ruan asked slowly, "The Second Young Madam didn't ask anything, right?" Xiao Man lowered her head, afraid that the princess would notice her red eyes.

"I asked, and I replied according to your instructions."

Ah Ruan laughed at himself and said, "She definitely doesn't believe it, right?"

Xiao Man said: "The Second Young Madam said that if there is anything in the future, I should look for her."

A Ruan glanced at her indifferently, and then stared out the window in a daze. She didn't want to make Sister Yaoyao worry about her, so from now on, it would be enough for them to see each other occasionally.

Ye Jiayao returned to the Marquis' Mansion with a lot of anger. The servant said that the Young Master had returned. Ye Jiayao asked Qiao Xi not to follow her in, and she went in to question Chunyu herself.

"Chun Yu, do you know that Prince Yu has taken a concubine?" Ye Jiayao asked straight to the point.

Xia Chunyu had been waiting for her and wanted to tell her something. When he heard her footsteps, he immediately looked up and wanted to call her, but she angrily questioned him first.

Uh...how did she know?
"Come on, tell me, do you know?" Ye Jiayao had no patience at all. Seeing him stunned, she urged him anxiously.

Xia Chunyu cleared his throat and patted the seat beside him: "Sit down first, I'll tell you slowly."

Ye Jiayao walked over, sat down, and said unhappily, "Hurry up and tell me."

Xia Chunyu grabbed her hand and held it, saying guiltily, "Weren't you sick at that time? I was afraid that you would be worried and it would be bad for your health, so I kept it a secret and wanted to find a suitable opportunity to tell you."

Ye Jiayao glared at him fiercely: "So you knew that you couldn't tell me when I was sick, but it's been half a month. In this half a month, you couldn't find a chance to tell me?"

Xia Chunyu wanted to say that she had been so happy over the past half month and he didn't want to ruin her mood, but she wouldn't agree with this reason.

"Yaoyao..." Xia Chunyu licked his dry lips and said with difficulty: "I'm afraid that you will be angry and sad, right? But this is a fact that no one can change. The emperor asked the third prince to marry Aruan, but the third prince was unwilling. It was the emperor who promised him to marry Lin Wanyin at the same time, and then the third prince nodded."

"Bah! How can they bully people like this? Are the royal family so great? The third prince is a prince, and A'ruan is still a princess. Where does A'ruan stand when they do this? Where does Nanyue stand?" Ye Jiayao always thought that the emperor was a benevolent monarch, at least on the surface, and the emperor was not an unreasonable person, but this matter was too unfair.

"Speak softly, speak softly." Xia Chunyu hurriedly tried to stop her from speaking. Criticizing the royal family was a serious crime.

Ye Jiayao bit his hand hard.

Xia Chunyu felt pain: "Hey, hey, hey, please be gentle with your words..."

"I hate you so much. You watched A'ruan jump into the fire pit without even warning her. I was still so full of expectations and tried my best to organize the wedding banquet, hoping to give A'ruan a happy start. Xia Chunyu, I hate you so much." Ye Jiayao burst into tears. She felt so distressed when she thought of A'ruan's thin appearance.

"Don't cry..." Xia Chunyu hadn't seen her cry for a long time, and this crying made him panic.

"Yaoyao, even if you knew it earlier, what could you do? Persuade Aruan not to marry? Is it possible? Because you really care about Aruan and treat Aruan well, so you will feel angry and find it hard to accept, but in the eyes of others, Aruan is just a chess piece, a chess piece used to maintain diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the eyes of the emperor, letting Aruan become the Princess of Yu is not a bad treatment. In the eyes of the King of Nanyue, it is good enough for Aruan to become the Princess of Yu. The goal has been achieved. It is not uncommon for the main wife and the concubine to enter the palace on the same day. Moreover, in order to save Aruan's face, the emperor did not have any ceremony to accept the concubine. She was just carried into the palace in a sedan chair..."

"Yaoyao, A'ruan knew about this in advance. She didn't tell you because she was afraid that you would worry and be sad." Xia Chunyu said with a sigh.

Ye Jiayao slowly stopped crying, but her tears flowed even more violently. She was just a chess piece. Such words really made people sad. However, why did Ah Ruan make such a big sacrifice, give up the one she loved, and marry someone who didn't love her at all? She still expected to be treated with respect, but who knew that they were treated with coldness. The man's power and conspiracy required a woman to make sacrifices. How shameless.

"Okay, okay, stop crying. Prince Yu is not a man without sense of propriety. Although he likes Lin, I believe he will not treat A'ruan unfairly." Xia Chunyu coaxed.

Ye Jiayao really wanted to yell, "Bullshit!"

"What do you mean by being sensible? On the wedding night, he left A'ruan and went to be affectionate with Lin. A'ruan was the princess, but he let Lin take care of the household chores. It's been more than half a month since they got married, and he has only entered A'ruan's room a few times. And each time he came and left in a hurry. Is this what you call being sensible? Haven't you seen how thin A'ruan has become..." Ye Jiayao sobbed.

Xia Chunyu was stunned. No way, Prince Yu was too...

Xia Chunyu didn't know what to say. He was silent for a while and said, "I think this is only temporary. Ruan is a smart woman..."

"No matter how smart a woman is, if her heart is dead, what's the point? Ah Ruan is dead now. She doesn't want to fight for anything, and she doesn't want anything. She is just trapped in that gorgeous cage with the title of princess, playing her role as a chess piece." Ye Jiayao couldn't stop her tears from flowing down, feeling endless sadness in her heart: "I only now know how much she loves Xiao Jing."

(End of this chapter)