Chapter 277 Tearing Off Pretenses

Chapter 277: Falling Out

"I am a princess of noble birth, of the utmost honorable status. Marrying into your Duke Rong's mansion would be marrying beneath me. How could he look down on me?"

The more Luo Qianxue thought about it, the more wronged she felt, and she actually pouted and burst into tears.

"I've liked Brother Liuzheng for five years, a full five years. I fell in love with him the first time I saw him riding at the school riding ground. I decided back then that I'd marry no one but him in this life."

"I've waited so long. I'm tired. I don't want to wait anymore. If I don't marry Brother Liuzheng, I'll die."

"So today, no matter what, you must agree to let me marry him, or else I'll die before your eyes."

As she spoke, her eyes swept around, and she spotted a fruit knife on the table.

Luo Qianxue snatched it up, held it to her throat, and used it to threaten Madam Cai.

"If I die, your Duke Rong's mansion will be buried with me. Madam, I advise you to think carefully before answering."

Madam Cai looked at her mockingly. She was disgusted by Luo Qianxue's hysterics.

With a temperament like hers, if she really entered the Duke Rong's mansion, wouldn't she turn the entire household upside down?

She narrowed her cold eyes, her voice calm but authoritative. "Are you threatening me, Tenth Princess?"

Luo Qianxue's eyes were wild with madness. Her hand trembled as she held the knife, yet she still screamed recklessly.

"Consider it a threat if you like. As long as you let me marry Brother Liuzheng, I swear I'll take care of you and Duke Rong just as I would my own mother. What Ji Yuntang can do, I can do too, and I'll do it even better than her."

"So, will you let me marry in, or shall we all die together? Pick one!"

Madam Cai laughed!

She laughed freely, wantonly, with devastating beauty.

She felt she'd heard the greatest joke of her life.

Could someone like Luo Qianxue, threatening suicide, possibly take care of others?

Madam Cai made it clear she didn't believe a word of it.

Luo Qianxue kept saying she liked her son, yet she used such extreme methods to force her consent to marry into the Duke Rong's mansion.

Was this what she called love?

If Madam Cai had previously thought Luo Qianxue was unstable, now she knew she was a lunatic.

A real, extreme lunatic.

Threatening others with your own life is the cheapest act; it'll make you a laughingstock forever.

But what she didn't know was that Luo Qianxue's madness came from boasting to Luo Qingge just now, saying that she was about to marry Xie Liuzheng.

Over the years, though both were princesses, Luo Qianxue always tried to outshine Luo Qingge.

Whenever Luo Qingge had something, Luo Qianxue wanted to take it away.

What she feared most was Luo Qingge's condescending look, as if every glance mocked her incompetence.

Luo Qianxue was fed up!

She wanted to escape this situation and prove that she was better than Luo Qingge.

Didn't Luo Qingge like Xie Liuzheng?

Then she'd take him away!

She wanted Luo Qingge to watch as Xie Liuzheng carried her in a grand sedan chair to the mansion and then led her through the wedding ceremony.

If she couldn't marry Xie Liuzheng, then everything she had just done would be losing face for herself.

Luo Qianxue's hatred churned inside her. Eyes red, she screamed:

"Madam Cai, I'll ask you one more time: do you agree to let Brother Liuzheng marry me, yes or no?"

Madam Cai's gaze turned cold. A wife should be virtuous, and she saw no virtue in Luo Qianxue.

Letting her marry into the Duke Rong mansion to ruin her son was out of the question.

With that in mind, Madam Cai said calmly, "Tenth Princess, why don't you put down the knife? If you hurt yourself, that wouldn't be good."

"Whether you believe it or not, Zheng'er's marriage is beyond my control. Even if I reluctantly agree to let you marry into the Duke Rong's mansion, he still won't lay a finger on you. He might even stop coming home at all. Do you want to be a grass widow for him your whole life?"

"I've said my piece. Think it over, Tenth Princess. I'm leaving now."

Luo Qianxue's hand trembled, the knife shaking. She stared blankly at Madam Cai's retreating back, disbelief in her eyes.

The way she said it was deadly serious; she didn't seem to be joking.

Luo Qianxue felt shattered inside. "No, impossible. How could Brother Liuzheng bear to let me be a grass widow for life?"

"Mother, she was lying to me, she was lying, right?"

In Luo Qianxue's mind, once she married him, she'd be his wife for life.

Even if Xie Liuzheng didn't like her, he'd still have children with her because she'd be his officially wedded wife.

As long as she had a child, she'd be confident she could win Xie Liuzheng's heart.

But now, Madam Cai had told her that Xie Liuzheng would never touch her, not even in death.

This dealt a heavy blow to Luo Qianxue, so much so that she didn't react when Madam Cai left.

Consort Li's eyes darkened. She stood up and, without a word, slapped Luo Qianxue hard.

A sharp slap sent Luo Qianxue's head whipping to the side.

Luo Qianxue's mind exploded. The knife clattered to the ground.

She looked at Consort Li with injured eyes, wanting to ask why she hit her again.

But she saw Consort Li walk to the door and calmly instruct the guards outside:

"Duchess Rong, Madam Cai, is arrogant and disrespectful. Not only has she repeatedly insulted me, but she also struck the Tenth Princess and fled the Weiyang Palace. She is audacious and defies the laws of this dynasty, completely disregarding my authority."

"Pass my order: apprehend Madam Cai and bring her before me. I will interrogate her personally."

After Consort Li finished her orders, the guards outside immediately moved.

She slowly walked over to Luo Qianxue, who stared at her, utterly bewildered.

She was deeply puzzled by the behavior of her mother, Consort Li.

She figured Consort Li would explain, but instead, Consort Li looked at Luo Qianxue in silence for a long time, disappointment clear in her eyes.

After who knows how long, Consort Li finally spoke.

Her voice was much colder than before. "Remember, no matter who asks later, the mark on your face was made by Cai Guiti, and has nothing to do with your mother."

Luo Qianxue's confusion deepened, and she directly asked.

"It was clearly you who hit me, why say that?"

Her face was still burning with pain, showing how hard Consort Li had slapped her.

Luo Qianxue had been about to blow up, but hearing Consort Li say this, she wanted to get to the bottom of it.

"If you want to marry Xie Liuzheng, do as I say. I won't harm you."

Consort Li didn't want to explain to Luo Qianxue at all; she thought her daughter was simply too foolish.

Stupid beyond cure.

Talking to her would be a waste of breath because she wouldn't listen anyway, so it's better to keep her mouth shut.

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