In the end, the looks the two who had hurt each other cast at each other were very much like those of "enemies meeting, with a redoubled hatred in their eyes".
This was also the first time Ling Shan had heard Jun Wuyuan scold with strong personal emotions, without any mention of the court situation!
It was as if Ling Shan had committed some huge mistake.
But wasn't it Jun Wuyuan himself who said he liked it?
Ling Shan was just a little palace maid who faithfully obeyed orders. What bad intentions could she have?
She had just brewed and served tea a few more times.
While brewing the tea, Ling Shan started scolding the petty and vengeful tyrant.
When she came back with the tea cup again, she saw Banchun waiting outside the palace. Banchun whispered a reminder:
"His Highness, the Prince of Jing, is here. Be careful."
Ling Shan gave Banchun a grateful look and nodded to show she understood.
Jun Wuhao, the Prince of Jing, was the eleventh son of the late emperor. He was twenty - two years old. His mother, who came from a family of pure - stream scholars, was not favored.
This had developed Jun Wuhao's timid and submissive character.
Although he was a prince, he couldn't hold his own at all.
Most importantly, the late emperor had many sons, and none of them was kind and fraternal to his brothers.
Many princes had died, and those who remained were probably not even as good as Liang Jiusi in Jun Wuyuan's eyes.
Why on earth would this timid Prince of Jing suddenly come to see Jun Wuyuan?
Silently entering the room, Ling Shan heard the slightly timid and fearful voice.
"Your Majesty, I really can't go on like this. I didn't mean to bother Your Majesty. I really... have no other way.
I beg Your Majesty, for the sake of our shared blood, to allow... allow me to divorce Lady Xiao!"
"So, the wounds on your face were all inflicted by the Princess of Jing?"
[Well, not to mention anything else, the wounds are evenly and symmetrically placed. There's actually a bit of artistic beauty in them. Lady Xiao is quite skilled in martial arts!]
Ling Shan: "......"
Jun Wuhao: "......"
If you know, Your Majesty, do you really have to point it out in a curious and appreciative tone?
Won't you really get beaten for this?
Ling Shan was curious. While serving the tea, she quietly looked up at Jun Wuhao.
Just one glance, but it left a deep and lasting shock on her.
There were two very obvious and symmetrical red marks on Jun Wuhao's face, looking as if they were whipped.
The Princess of Jing was truly a role model for her peers.
Regardless of who was right or wrong and for what reason, just because she had the ability and courage to attack a prince, she was truly a heroic woman.
At this moment, Ling Shan didn't care whether Jun Wuyuan would get beaten for speaking like that.
All she wanted now was for Jun Wuyuan to ask more questions in a more annoying tone. It would be even better if he could find out the whole story of how Jun Wuhao got beaten.
After all, it would be foolish not to seize a juicy piece of gossip.
Nothing could stop a gossip - lover from gossiping immediately.
Not even the king of heaven could!
I wonder if Jun Wuyuan could hear Ling Shan's "heart - voice". As she silently urged in her heart, he spoke again.
"Eleventh brother, you say you want a divorce and come to see me with a wounded face. But you can't just ask me to make a decision without telling me anything, can you?"
This sounded like a kind elder brother caring for his younger brother at first glance, as if he would make a decision for him as long as he told the story.
However, Jun Wuhao knew it wasn't like that.
Jun Wuyuan would never have such a "kind - brotherly" thought. He was cruel and tyrannical. How could he care about a half - brother?
Making a decision? He clearly just wanted to hear his joke.
A flash of humiliation and darkness passed through Jun Wuhao's evasive eyes. How could he tell the story?
Should he say that Lady Xiao, that shrew, was intolerant of foolishness, rude and domineering?
Even he, the dignified Prince of Jing, was strictly controlled by her. If his concubines wanted to serve him, they had to watch Lady Xiao's face.
Yesterday, just because Lady Xiao found out about the actors he raised in Shiyuan Garden, this crazy woman had whipped him.
Jun Wuhao had long been fed up with this rude and crazy woman. He was, after all, a prince. How could he be oppressed by such a shrew?
Jun Wuhao was filled with shame in his heart, but on his face, he coyly and briefly mentioned his philandering.
Ling Shan slowly tightened her hands into fists. She endured and endured so as not to give in to the impulse to beat up this scumbag.
This scumbag had a wife who was skilled in martial arts and brave, yet he was still not satisfied and wanted to fool around.
He was so timid and cowardly that he couldn't even beat a woman, and he still had the nerve to come and ask for a divorce with the wounds on his face?
Lady Xiao was not an ordinary woman. She had married a royal prince.
Even if she was strong - willed and didn't care about the gossips outside, if she really divorced the Prince of Jing, she would never be able to remarry in this lifetime.
Maybe Lady Xiao didn't want to marry.
But this was not an excuse for Jun Wuhao to shamelessly deprive her of this right.
In this era, if a woman was divorced, even if Lady Xiao was not at fault,
the world would only pour dirt on her, and even on the entire Xiao family.
On the contrary, Jun Wuhao, this scumbag, was a member of the royal family. Even if he had no outstanding charm, there would still be countless women vying to marry him, whether it was his second marriage or his nth marriage.
It was really unfair!
After Jun Wuhao finished speaking, he slightly lowered his head as if he had suffered great injustice, looking timid and cowardly.
Jun Wuyuan sneered. His peach - blossom eyes, which should have been amorous and gentle, were filled with a not - so - kind smile as he sized Jun Wuhao up and down.
[Humph, raising actors and having fun, and still feeling superior? Do you think I'm a fool?]
Lady Xiao was the legitimate daughter of the Dingyuan General's Mansion. If it hadn't been for the Queen Mother's bestowed marriage,
with Jun Wuhao's timid appearance, having no powerful maternal family and nothing to his name, how could he have married the legitimate daughter of the general's mansion?
It should be known that at first, after the previous "short - lived" emperor on the throne fell seriously ill, the Queen Mother and the Wang family had first chosen Jun Wuhao.
Unfortunately, after the bait of Lady Xiao, the Princess of Jing, was thrown out, the timid Prince of Jing got sick with a high fever for several days and didn't dare to go out after the Queen Mother made it clear.
The Queen Mother and the Wang family had to look for someone else. After the thirteenth prince's accidental "death", their eyes fell on Jun Wuyuan, a prince from the cold palace.
But now, just half a year later, Jun Wuhao came to him to ask for a divorce.
If Jun Wuyuan really issued such an imperial edict, wouldn't he be making an enemy of the Dingyuan General's Mansion?
Moreover, who was Jun Wuhao? Was he even worth Jun Wuyuan's trouble?
Jun Wuyuan would only maliciously watch their jokes and then mercilessly destroy their hopes.
Just like how those "good brothers" had treated him before.