RPAGF Chapter 250 Why Are You Afraid of Me?
Chapter 250 Why Are You Afraid of Me?
"Uh...uh..."
Lu Mingyang stepped back and struggled to avoid it, but the kiss followed, going deeper and deeper into her body, determined to drain her entire soul and make her lose control.
Her waist bumped against the dressing table, and Lu Mingyang found her rouge box and smashed it on the crazed man's head. Chu Mingzheng's movements finally stopped, and Lu Mingyang hurriedly pushed him away, groping for a candle.
"Your Highness, our affairs have nothing to do with others, please let them go!"
A red candle lit up, its bright flame illuminating the woman's face and her ill-fitting coarse cloth. Chu Mingzheng looked at her, coldly mocking himself: "If it weren't for those two girls, would you have planned to never see me again?"
"Your Highness, at this point, what's the point of us talking about this?"
"Then tell me, what works?"
With a roar, the red candle flickered. Chu Mingzheng's figure descended again.
Lu Mingyang slammed into the wall and pretended to be calm: "Your Highness, I like Brother Qing!"
"I don't believe it!" Chu Mingzheng's veins popped out. "I don't believe you would like a coward who would break off an engagement for ten taels of silver."
Lu Mingyang looked up in shock. She had never imagined that he had actually investigated her. She felt even more ashamed and choked out, "Your Highness, that's not ten taels of silver. That's a terrifying and helpless future, and Brother Qing's life will be changed by it."
"Yangyang, I know you don't really like him. You just feel guilty."
Chu Mingzheng smiled and coaxed softly, "There are many ways to compensate someone. You don't need to do this. I'll give him money, land, and find him beautiful women all over the world. If you think these are not enough, I'll make him a marquis, a marquis with ten thousand households, and the family will be his for generations. Aren't these worth less than a leg?"
Lu Mingyang shook his head expressionlessly.
Chu Mingzheng panicked, "Lu Mingyang, you think too highly of yourself. You're not that important to him."
"What about you?" Lu Mingyang asked with a smile, saying the most hurtful words: "Your Highness, I am not that important to you. I am just a tool for you to rebel against the emperor. You don't care about me, you just care about losing."
"Hahaha……"
Chu Mingzheng stumbled back, laughing at himself. After so many days of hard work, so many days of trying to please her, in the end, in her heart, he was still the same person she thought he was.
"Lu Mingyang, you've wanted to leave me for a long time, right? The Tian Qing incident just gave you a good excuse."
"So what?" He knew her too well, and she couldn't lie to him.
Chu Mingzheng slammed his fist on the beam, his voice piercing his heart, "Yangyang, what did I do to make you so scared of me? Just because you can't control me?"
"You can't control this complicated world, but how can I? Don't I live in fear and trepidation every day, walking on thin ice?"
"Even if I could one day reach the summit of the world, I still wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted. The world is vast, the universe is boundless, and it's beyond human power to comprehend. A flood can overturn acres of fertile farmland, an earthquake can cause buildings and farmhouses to collapse in an instant. The living can die at any moment. What can you control?"
"Everyone in the world, from the emperor to the peddler, lives in fear and anxiety."
"Why do you have to control me?"
"You're not worried that your eldest sister will abandon you, and you're not worried that your younger sister will betray you, so why are you so certain that I will definitely let you down?"
"Do you have to wait for me to become a waste like Tian Qing before you can rest assured? But if I really become a waste, will you blame me for not being able to protect you?"
He thought about this for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out. He could only follow her, indulge her, and give her the power to protect herself. But he couldn't give her the power to control herself.
She pondered these things for a long time, but couldn't figure them out. But the desire deep in her heart overcame her fear. Even if it meant getting bruised and bloodied, she was willing to bravely walk with him, even if it meant losing miserably.
But Tian Qing's incident changed the course of everything.
Lu Mingyang's eyes blurred as he spoke without hesitation, "Yes, you're right. I'm just scared, and I just want to control you. But am I wrong?"
"Everything in this world is beyond our control. But don't you still want to control more, even if it's just a little bit more? Otherwise, why would you insist on seizing the throne?"
"I just want to take control of everything I can see, think of, and solve."
"You asked me what I was afraid of. Well, I'll tell you now. I don't want my man to sleep with another woman. I don't want my man to have children with another woman. No matter who he is."
"If he is a prince, my child is the crown prince; if he is the emperor, my child must be the crown prince; if he is a traitor, only my child is qualified to wear mourning for him."
"I don't want to have to please and scheme against the person next to me for the sake of my child one day. I'm afraid."
As she spoke, Lu Mingyang began to sob: "Why can I only have one man, while you can have countless women?"
Chu Mingzheng's eyes lit up again, and he smiled innocently, "It's just Qin Miao, why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have chased her away right now."
With that, he strode away.
Lu Mingyang had blocked the door earlier, "Your Highness, don't you understand yet? The problem isn't Qin Miao, but that as long as you want, you can have countless Qin Miaos at any time."
The light in Chu Mingzheng's eyes faded, leaving only helplessness: "Yangyang, how do you know I can't do it? You can't sentence me for something that didn't happen. It's unfair to me!"
Lu Mingyang asked back, "If I can't have children, won't you let another woman bear children for you? If all I give birth to are girls, won't you let another woman bear children for you? If the child I give birth to is an idiot, won't you let another woman bear children for you?"
Chu Mingzheng was stunned.
Lu Mingyang smiled and said, "Your Highness, as you said, I don't dare to think too highly of myself. You don't need to compromise yourself to meet my ridiculous demands. I can't love you without any reservations when you have other women by your side. Why don't we just let each other go?"
"No, let's talk about those impossible things after they happen." Chu Mingzheng angrily grasped the woman's shoulders and said fiercely, "I won't let you leave. If you dare to marry someone else, I will kill him."
Lu Mingyang met his gaze and said resolutely, "If you dare to kill him, I will be buried with him."
"Lu Mingyang!"
"Chu Mingzheng!"
Lu Mingyang interrupted Chu Mingzheng and pleaded, "Your Highness, I'm tired. I just want to live a peaceful and stable life. Please, grant me your wish!"
As she spoke, she thrust a dagger into his hand and ran out.
It was the dagger he used to summon the secret guards.
Chu Mingzheng watched, slumped to the ground. Something poked at his chest, causing him great pain. He pulled it out of his pocket, smiled, and threw it away.
The small porcelain bottle shattered, and the tiny bitter pills inside were scattered all over the floor.
That’s great, I don’t have to eat it anymore.
……
The next morning, Ruying and Rushu returned to the Chengyang Marquis' Mansion with Lu Mingyang's dowry, accompanied by Zheng Hao.
Seeing Lu Mingyang, Zheng Hao hurriedly explained: "Princess, Your Highness did not intend to kill the two little girls. It was my own decision. It was a bad idea. Please don't blame Your Highness."
"I know!" Otherwise, she wouldn't have just left last night. Lu Mingyang smiled and said, "Zheng Zongguan, please don't call me Princess anymore. I'm not one anymore."
"You will always be the princess in my heart." Zheng Hao said, almost crying: "Princess, please love His Highness again."
Lu Mingyang smiled and asked, "Is this the dowry that His Highness asked you to bring?"
Zheng Hao nodded.
Even though he knew the outcome, looking at the mahogany boxes filling the yard, Lu Mingyang still felt a sharp pain in his heart. "Your Highness has figured it out. There's no chance for us anymore."
"You are such a chatterbox!" Zheng Hao bowed and left.
"You guys go and rest first, there's no rush for these things." Lu Mingyang instructed the two little girls, turned around and went back to the house, and saw Lu Mingyuan standing at the door.
They both laughed.
Lu Mingyuan said, "You get some more sleep. I'll go find Tian Qing and her son."
"No need, elder sister!"
"What do you mean by 'no need'?" Lu Mingyuan interrupted sharply, "I can listen to you on other matters. But on this matter, you must listen to me. My sister has finally returned home, and I will never let you leave me again."