Gifted Bride of the Sinned Prince

313 A good-looking man

Li Hua informed Liu Jin Yu that she had to leave because it was lunch time. She thanked Li Hua for teaching her to brew tea. Li Hua rushed to the manor, wondering if Lóng Wei had arrived or not.

She stopped near the door when he heard Lóng Wei getting angry on a woman whom she didn’t recognize.

“Your Highness, why are you angry?” Li Hua asked as she approached Lóng Wei, who smiled to see her. She glanced at Cha Ying and realized that she was a nobleman’s daughter.

“Nothing. Let’s go inside,” Lóng Wei answered and held her hand. He asked the maidservant to show the way out to Cha Ying.

“Your Highness, I am here to apologize to the Prince with whom my brother did wrong. I am Kang Cha Ying,” She introduced herself to Li Hua and bowed to him. Before Lóng Wei could speak, Li Hua told her that she should not have to come to apologize.

“I will be guilty if I do not apologize,” Cha Ying replied.

“I believe the matter is between His Highness and your brother. You are not supposed to come to the Prince. The pain my husband inflicted while staying in the cold palace cannot be eliminated with a simple apology,” Li Hua stated. Lóng Wei smiled to hear his wife’s words. She was speaking out about his emotions. His heart fluttered with happiness.

“You should return,” Li Hua said.

Cha Ying lifted her head and gazed into the eyes of Li Hua. “Then, what should I do to get forgiveness, Your Highness?” Cha Ying was curious to know.

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“Nothing. The person who must apologize to Prince Lóng Wei is Kang Huijuan. You do not need to lower your head over the mistakes your brother made. Miss Kang shall return to her residence,” Li Hua stated. Cha Ying bowed and walked away.

Lóng Wei hung his arm around Li Hua’s shoulder and took her inside. “His Highness shall be polite while speaking to someone. He is now the Governor, yet he behaves like a child,” Li Hua reprimanded him and unbuttoned the robe from the left side of his shoulder.

Lóng Wei extended his arms, and she pulled out the robe. She handed it to the maidservant, who bowed and walked out.

“I was polite. She started to eat my mind, so I turned harsh,” Lóng Wei affirmed.

“Will His Highness like it if someone says to me that he will kick me out?” Li Hua inquired and walked out of the dressing room.

“I will kill the person if he disrespects you,” Lóng Wei stated, and walked after her.

“I didn’t ask if he would kill the person or slap the person. I asked if he would like it or not,” Li Hua clarified her question to him before turning to him.

“I will not like it,” Lóng Wei answered.

“Then, don’t use such words for the person before you. If His Highness is a gentleman, then he must treat everyone with humbleness,” Li Hua proclaimed.

“I am a gentleman for you only. For others, let me be arrogant and Prince. If I am humble, especially around ladies, then they may fall for your husband,” Lóng Wei said with a teasing smirk.

Li Hua arched her brow in confusion. “Why would they fall for His Highness?” She asked.

“Do I need to explain that to you? A good-looking man is always the first choice of women,” Lóng Wei asserted. “I don’t get humble easily around people. One who irritates me, I warn them so they will not repeat the same mistake anymore. Kang Cha Ying did the same,” he explained to her.

“Tell me, would you like it if any woman tried to seduce me?” Lóng Wei asked, while being curious.

“Of course. I might pull her hair if she tried to get close to His Highness,” Li Hua stated. Lóng Wei laughed to hear her and pinched her cheeks.

“Wifey, you are so cute,” he said with a smile and lowered his hands. He called in the servant and asked her to bring lunch meals for them.

“How was His Highness’ first day at work?”

“It was good,” Lóng Wei said, and he brought her to the floor table. He asked her to sit first and then he took his seat. “I got an assistant. His name is Zhai Liang. I met many officials today. It is tough to run a government and then look after so many events,” Lóng Wei affirmed.

“What about you? Where were you?” Lóng Wei inquired.

“I went to teach Liu Jin Yu how to make tea perfectly and then also taught her how to walk like a noble lady,” Li Hua replied.

“Hmm. Do not be too hard on yourself. She can learn with the appointed court ladies,” Lóng Wei stated. He was worried about Li Hua thinking she might tire out her body in his absence.

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The maidservant quickly served the meals to them. The two started eating, and after a while, Lóng Wei opened his mouth to speak.

“Xin Jue also lied to me,” Lóng Wei asserted. “She wanted to marry Kang Huijuan from the beginning. She gave him an aphrodisiac drug in the food in the late night and then all that happened.”

Li Hua was shocked to hear it. She thought it was all Kang Huijuan’s fault, but it wasn’t.

“Why do people lie? I am unable to understand it,” Lóng Wei said.

“She might have been scared,” Li Hua stated.

“She portrayed that Kang Huijuan was at fault entirely. Indeed, he should not have tried to kill her, but Xin Jue started it,” Lóng Wei pronounced.

“Umm... Xin Jue made a mistake by putting an aphrodisiac in Kang Huijuan’s food. However, after that, Kang Huijuan made some heinous mistakes. He lied to everyone till the end. He could have told the King about aphrodisiacs in the Court. But he hid that fact, instead he knitted a lie which trapped him.”

“He didn’t tell anyone about aphrodisiacs because he himself wasn’t sure about that night. He had forgotten about that,” Lóng Wei stated.

“Then, how did His Highness find out about this?”

“I asked Xin Jue. Gao Bing told me that she looked happy with the King’s decision and was excited to marry Kang Huijuan. So, I met her before coming here. She should be punished for the wrong she did,” Lóng Wei stated, “but I cannot punish her at the moment.”

“If Kang Huijuan recalled it, then?” Li Hua asked him.

“He will expose her,” Lóng Wei stated, and furrowed his brows together. “I will let him do that because Xin Jue must bear the consequences of the wrong she did.”