I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 166 Abusing power for personal gain

On the mountain road, the sound of hurried running could be faintly heard.

"Let's go!" Song Wei glanced at Lu Mingyang and plunged into the misty abyss.

Lu Mingyang leaned over and saw that the smoke had dissipated from the place where the two had jumped, revealing a deep pool.

"I won't die!" She patted her chest in fear.

Chu Mingzheng angrily pulled Lu Mingyang into his arms and said angrily, "Look at what you can do, Lu Mingyang. If anything happens to my sister, I won't forgive you."

"I didn't ask you to save me!"

"How do you know I won't save you?"

As the two were arguing, Chu Mingxing and Pei Mian came up. Chu Yueling threw herself into Chu Mingxing's arms, pointing her finger at Chu Mingzheng and accusing him, "Second brother, eldest brother... he didn't even save me."

Many people are not afraid of death, but are afraid of the people they care about. The most important thing in their hearts is not themselves. Therefore, those dilemmas, although naive, are brought up again and again.

"I'm watching!" Chu Mingzheng explained, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

Chu Yueling pouted in grievance: "What are you looking at! If there was no mysterious person who saved me, I would have fallen to my death."

Everyone looked towards the cliffs on the west side and saw a black shadow moving between the mountains. The figure was agile and fast as lightning.

Pei Mian's competitive spirit was aroused, and he drew his bow and shot an arrow.

"Zizhao, don't be rude!" Chu Mingzheng stopped Pei Mian and bent down to pick up the object that fell on the ground, a sachet, which was the one that knocked down the masked man's long sword just now.

Chu Mingxing was surprised: "Mine?"

"It's Brother Zhou." Chu Yueling wiped away her tears and explained excitedly, "Brother Zhou is always alone and depressed, so I put some peach blossoms in the sachet so that he can smell them when he's sad. He refused to accept the sachet I embroidered, so I had to give him my second brother's."

As she spoke, she proudly showed off to her second brother and Pei Mian the scene of him saving someone just now.

"That's impossible!" Pei Mian was incredulous. "The sachet isn't a stone. How could he have thrown the long sword from such a long distance?"

Chu Mingzheng patted Pei Mian's shoulder gently.

It was already midnight when the group returned to the palace.

Princess Qinghe rushed into Zhou Yuan's room, spread her hands with joy, her cheeks flushed: "Brother Zhou, you saved me, right?"

Zhou Yuan looked at the sachet in Princess Qinghe's palm, his eyes blank. "Princess, I lost this sachet on the way to the capital. Where did you find it?"

"Ah?" Princess Qinghe clutched the sachet in disappointment.

Pei Mian threw a palm towards Zhou Yuan. Zhou Yuan stood in front of the bed and hit his head heavily against the bedpost, coughing uncontrollably.

"What are you doing!" Princess Qinghe turned and stood in front of Zhou Yuan, looking at Pei Mian angrily, but she said to Chu Mingzheng: "Brother, this is the person you brought out, how can he be so unruly?"

"Excuse me!" Chu Mingzheng bowed to Zhou Yuan to apologize, but he had no intention of letting him go: "Where did Guard Zhou go today?"

Zhou Yuan said: "I didn't go out!"

Chu Mingzheng looked at the boots on his feet and asked coldly, "My sister is missing, and you're just staying in the room?"

"Are you interrogating the prisoner?" Chu Yueling now disliked everything about Chu Mingzheng and retorted, "I don't need to explain to you where my brother Zhou is going!"

"Yang'er, Yang'er!" Lu Mingyuan's voice came from the yard.

Zhou Yuan's body trembled. Through the window, he could clearly see the people in the yard.

Lu Mingyang spoke a few words to her elder sister, then pointed toward Zhou Yuan's room. Lu Mingyuan followed her gaze.

Zhou Yuan took two steps sideways, blocking the view outside the window, and said while clutching his chest: "Princess, my chest hurts, I want to rest."

Chu Yueling immediately angrily drove everyone out.

Chu Mingzheng stood still and watched him act pretentiously.

Zhou Yuan met his gaze and reminded him calmly, "Tomorrow is King Guangcheng's Qiwu Banquet. Your Highness, aren't you going to get busy?"

His Majesty specifically asked Prince Ningyuan to coordinate and be responsible for Prince Guangcheng's military banquet.

Chu Mingzheng suddenly realized.

Even if Song Wei loved Yangyang as much as he liked her, he wouldn't have played such a childish game to drive a wedge between them. So, he deliberately let me go for two days, probably to divert attention and prevent me from worrying about the defense of the Imperial Garden.

So, what does he want to do?

"Why are you still here!" Chu Yueling turned around and saw that her elder brother was still standing there in fear, so she took action and pushed him out.

At this moment, there are still three hours before the Qiwu Banquet begins.

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At dawn, flags fluttered in the Imperial Garden. The Emperor paid special attention to everything concerning Prince Guangcheng. Noble Consort Song, adorned in a regal, multicolored robe with phoenix and pheasant patterns, sat beside the Emperor, her face radiant.

King Guangcheng was dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, a golden crown, and jade hairpins. There were many instances of usurpation, but everyone was tacitly aware of it.

After a brief singing and dancing, King Guangcheng's apprenticeship ceremony began.

There were three teachers responsible for teaching King Guangcheng martial arts. Pei Mian was good at riding and shooting, so he was responsible for teaching Guangcheng riding and archery.

Lu Mingyang sat behind the dining table, watching the little guy toast the teacher politely. His smile froze on his face and his eyelids twitched.

She was forced to sleep on the floor for two days, and last night she went back to sleep for less than two hours. She really couldn't hold on any longer.

Chu Mingzheng held up the head that was pecking at rice like a chicken and whispered softly, "Sleep on my shoulder for a while!"

Ever since Chu Mingzheng rescued Lu Mingyang, they both tacitly agreed not to mention the divorce anymore, but she still felt a little uncomfortable seeing him being so gentle.

Lu Mingyang shook his head slightly and raised his glass to drink.

"Sweet?"

Chu Mingzheng smiled and said, "Seeing that you were having trouble drinking in the palace last time, I specially asked someone to prepare two kinds of wine. You drank the Western Region wine. Did it taste good?"

"Delicious!" Lu Mingyang looked up and saw two wine jugs on each dining table. He smiled and asked, "Your Highness, is this considered abusing your power for personal gain?"

"Calculate!"

Lu Mingyang realized that the doting answer was a bit ambiguous and quickly added, "If Ling'er wasn't here, you wouldn't be so attentive."

Chu Mingzheng stared into her eyes and corrected her wild thoughts: "Ling'er can drink!"

Lu Mingyang: “…”

Thinking that he had been looking for someone for two days and was also responsible for the emperor's errand, and was much more tired than himself, but he still had the mind to arrange these small matters for himself, a strange feeling spread in his heart.

But she didn't dare to delve into it and quickly suppressed it.

Just then, King Guangcheng came over to offer a toast. After toasting the three teachers, His Majesty urged King Guangcheng to learn from his two elder brothers. Chu Minghui then toasted Chu Mingzheng and Chu Mingxing.

It can be seen that King Guangcheng likes Lu Mingyang very much. After pouring a glass of wine for Chu Mingzheng and Lu Mingyang, he raised his own glass to toast them.

He also politely called her "eld sister-in-law".

After paying his respects to Chu Mingxing, Chu Minghui picked up the wine jug and walked towards the emperor. Without warning, the moment King Guangcheng knelt on the flat ground, his legs slipped, and the wine jug flew out.

The wine fell to the ground, stirring up a layer of white.