allonlinenovel Chapter 22 Regret Over Calling Out the Engagement
Chapter 22 Regret Over Calling Out the Engagement
Ge spat and cursed, "Why bring up that little bitch? Doesn't she find it unlucky!"
Wei Yonghuai said with a sullen face, "I just want to know why her personality has changed so drastically? Why does she suddenly treat us like monsters? We've been disguising ourselves perfectly, and I'm confident that she didn't notice anything amiss. She even sent me a letter the day before the banquet at the General's Mansion, asking our family to arrive early, but overnight she changed completely. That 'saving Prince Cheng and damaging her reputation' thing is clearly just an excuse for her to annul the engagement!"
Madam Ge frowned and said, "Both Prince Cheng and the Crown Prince want to win over General Zhihe's mansion. Couldn't Prince Cheng be the one to put pressure on Ye Shishu and force her to break off the engagement?"
Wei Yonghuai closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Based on his understanding of Ye Shishu, although she was gentle, she was not without her own opinions. She just didn't like getting involved in trouble, which was why she seemed docile.
She remembered years ago when Gu Shiya, the eldest daughter of the Grand Secretary, falsely accused her of breaking an antique vase. Gu Shiya's maid even testified at the time. Ye Shishu was speechless and had no way to defend herself, so she asked the steward Hao Fu to pay compensation with silver.
She seemed to have given in, but she deliberately made Hao Fu pay double the amount of money, and then smashed another vase in front of the master, telling the master that it was the one she had broken.
One can imagine how stubborn she is.
If Prince Cheng really pressures her, she can tell her father that with Ye Gengxin's position in the court, how could a crippled prince threaten him?
unless……
Wei Yonghuai's eyes suddenly filled with malice, and a thought surfaced in his mind.
Unless Ye Shishu also had the same dream as him!
He knew the idea was absurd, almost like a fantasy. But if he could have such bizarre dreams, why couldn't Ye Shishu have the same one?
Only in this way can we explain why Ye Shishu's personality changed so drastically and why she abandoned their childhood sweetheart relationship overnight!
"Mother, I need to go out for a bit!" He threw off the covers and hurriedly got out of bed.
"Huai'er, where are you going? You've been unconscious for a whole day and night, and you're still not fully recovered!" Madam Ge said worriedly, pulling him back.
But Wei Yonghuai grabbed an outer robe from the clothes rack and hurried towards the door while putting it on, saying, "I'm going to find her!"
Ge Shi, "..."
By the time she came to her senses, her son had already disappeared.
She glared at the servant and snapped, "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and follow! If anything happens to the young master, I'll take your head!"
The servant immediately chased after him.
……
After returning from the palace, Ye Gengxin spoke with his daughter again.
"His Majesty has ordered the Ministry of Rites to prepare for your marriage to Prince Cheng. The wedding date is the 18th of next month."
"The 18th of next month? So soon? It's not even a month!" Ye Shishu was somewhat surprised.
"What's the rush? Prince Cheng has brought your 'memorial tablet' into the Prince Cheng's residence, and your name is now on the Yuchi family's jade register. You are already the Princess Consort of Prince Cheng. The wedding is just compensation. Do you think it will sound good to drag it out?" Ye Gengxin said irritably.
Ye Shishu was both amused and exasperated.
Even a ghost marriage is still a marriage. She belongs to whichever family has the memorial tablet, and even if she wanted to back out now, she wouldn't have the chance.
"By the way, didn't Dongqiao go to Prince Cheng's mansion with you? I heard you sent her to Marquis Yufeng's mansion. What did you send her there for?" Ye Gengxin suddenly asked.
The main reason was that Dongqiao was his daughter's head maid, and she had always been by his daughter's side. Naturally, he had to inquire about Dongqiao's whereabouts.
Ye Shishu chuckled, "It's nothing, I just don't want her getting in the way. I faked my death this time to test the Wei family. She used to be close to the Wei family, and I was afraid she wouldn't be able to act well, and all my efforts would be in vain."
Ye Gengxin thought for a moment and said, "Hao Fu said that in the past, you and Wei Yonghuai communicated through Dong Qiao. Now that you have severed ties with the Wei family, to prevent Dong Qiao from secretly informing the Wei family again, you should dismiss her decisively. Anyway, you own several estates, so sending her to work on one of them is feasible."
Ye Shishu nodded. "Father, I know what to do."
As the father and daughter were talking, Hao Fulai reported, "General, Wei Yonghuai is outside the gate, saying he wants to see Miss."
Upon hearing this, Ye Gengxin immediately frowned. "What's the point of seeing her? Don't you know my daughter is now the Princess Consort of Cheng?"
Hao Fu added, "General, the gatekeeper also advised him to leave, but he insisted on seeing Miss, saying that he would not leave until he saw her and would wait for her to appear!"
Ye Gengxin almost caught fire.
Ye Shishu quickly comforted him, "Father, I haven't seen him since I went to Prince Cheng's residence with him that day. Now that he knows I'm still alive, he must be resentful. To prevent him from bothering me again in the future, let him in. I should make things clear with him so that he can give up on me completely."
After thinking for a moment, Ye Gengxin agreed.
However, he also carefully instructed Hao Fu, "Make sure to keep a close eye on him and don't let him have any chance to bully Miss, understand?"
Hao Fuying is.
A quarter of an hour later.
Ye Shishu met Wei Yonghuai in the pavilion in the outer courtyard.
It had been a while since she'd seen him, and the man she had once longed for seemed to have changed completely. Although he no longer possessed a stunningly handsome appearance, he had once truly captured her heart, captivating her in every way.
What about now?
His complexion was ashen, completely lacking the refined air of a scholar; he looked like a dung beetle that had been soaking in a cesspool, utterly disgusting.
Putting aside the hatred from her previous life, just thinking about how he was keeping two women at the same time and indulging in debauchery made her want to vomit up her dinner from the night before.
“Shu’er…” Wei Yonghuai looked at her with eyes full of sorrow, his lips opening and closing, but he could not utter any other sound except for calling her name.
"What urgent matter does Young Master Wei wish to discuss with me?"
This was their first meeting since the banquet that day. Compared to the day she clamored to marry Prince Cheng, Wei Yonghuai felt that she was now so unfamiliar that it sent chills down his spine.
In eighteen years, he had never seen her with such a cold expression, as if they were not childhood sweethearts and betrothed, but enemies with a blood feud since childhood.
Ye Shishu's indifference and aloofness only strengthened his suspicions.
So he boldly spoke up, "Shu'er, I had a dream last night. I dreamt that you married me, I dreamt that you were terminally ill and dying, and I also dreamt that..."
He deliberately stopped talking, focusing his gaze intently on Ye Shishu's reaction.
Ye Shishu had expected him to say something regretful, and had even planned how to embarrass him, but she never expected him to talk about his dream...
And this dream was exactly what she experienced in her previous life!
Her expression instantly turned cold, and her previously calm eyes were filled with resentment.
Seeing her reaction, Wei Yonghuai rushed forward excitedly, grabbed her shoulders tightly, and asked urgently, "Shu'er, did you also have the same dream? Is it because of this dream that you broke off the engagement with me? Shu'er, it's just a dream, how can you take it seriously?"
Ye Shishu ruthlessly pulled his hand away, looking at him coldly, "Wei Yonghuai, I am now the Princess Consort of Cheng bestowed by the Emperor. If you dare to disobey your superior, don't blame me for being impolite!"
The title "Princess Consort Cheng" further enraged Wei Yonghuai, who roared, "What Princess Consort Cheng? You are my betrothed! We have been engaged since childhood, by the will of our parents and the words of the matchmaker. How can you disobey?"
Ye Shishu suddenly laughed, "Can the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers outweigh the decree of the emperor? Besides, I was born into a distinguished family, the legitimate daughter of a first-rank military family. Do you think you are worthy to marry me?"
"Yes! I am not good enough for you, but my feelings for you are genuine! Shu'er, we grew up together since you were born, eighteen years of friendship, don't you care at all?" Wei Yonghuai clutched his chest and questioned her with heartache, "Just because of an unrealistic dream, you abandoned our years of friendship to choose a man whose appearance is ruined and who is disabled?"
Ye Shishu didn't know how he got into that dream, but since he could be reborn, what was so strange about him having a dream?
It's ridiculous that he uses her dream to question her, as if everything is her fault!
"Yes, eighteen years of friendship." She stared at Wei Yonghuai's gloomy face, which looked as if he had inhaled too much malevolent energy, and asked with a sneer, "How did you manage to poison me? And how did you watch me die?"
"You really did have that dream!" Wei Yonghuai exclaimed excitedly, then immediately explained, "Shu'er, it was just a dream, you mustn't take it seriously!"
"A dream? Heh!" Ye Shishu laughed out loud. "Wei Yonghuai, do you dare say that you and Luo Lixian are innocent? Do you dare say that the child she lost wasn't yours? Do you dare say that her deceased husband really existed?"