The Dramatic Crown Princess Wants to Poison Me!

Chapter 390: Knowing Someone Inside Out

Xia Wanqing rushed over, shocked: "What are you doing?"

Huangfu Jingchen reached out to grab it but was still a step too late. He hurriedly said, "Wenjin..."

Xia Wenjin smiled and said, "This pill is refined from the essence of the Ice Moon Poison Lotus. I call it the Ice and Snow Pill. Taking it will make you feel like you’re suffering from symptoms of extreme cold, just more severe. Without the antidote for half a month, you’ll die... Hmm, don’t worry, the Ice Moon Poison Lotus has an antidote, and it’s at the Liangzhou Glaze Pavilion. I said I’d go there, and I certainly will. No one can stop me, unless I’m dead!"

Xia Wenjin’s heart trembled. Since his appearance up to now, he had always seemed calm and steady as a mountain. But at this moment, his breathing was unsteady, and his worry was evident.

Jin’er was getting more and more reckless. She didn’t even care about harming herself!

Xia Wenjin smiled and said, "Let me talk to him alone, then we’ll continue to Liangzhou!"

Huangfu Jingchen’s eyes turned red as he glared fiercely at Xia Wanqing. The person he forced to swallow the poison, who was he showing this worried look to? What good is worrying?

In a hoarse voice, he said, "If something happens to you, I will definitely avenge you! I’ll be back in two quarters of an hour." After speaking, he sheathed his soft sword, stepped aside, and left the place for them to talk alone.

After Huangfu Jingchen left, Xia Wanqing looked at the smiling Xia Wenjin, so angry he could hardly resist hitting her, but he couldn’t bear to. His voice changed as he said, "You’re deliberately trying to drive me to my grave!"

Xia Wenjin sighed and said, "Father, I thought I made myself clear in the letter I left when I came down the mountain. But look what you’ve done? You sent so many people down to capture me, even sent Uncle Bai, and even came down yourself. Do you really want me to marry someone I don’t like, live a life of resentment, and die young and prematurely?"

What she said was so serious, it startled Xia Wanqing, who then earnestly said, "What are you saying? Young Master Yu’s birth chart matches yours perfectly; it’s a marriage made in heaven. You have marital fate, he’s the husband heaven has given you. Besides, what’s wrong with Young Master Yu? He comes from wealth and isn’t yet married. If you marry him, you’ll be a young lady with no worries about food and clothing! Moreover, Young Master Yu fell in love with you at first sight after just a few meetings, he genuinely wants to marry you, I can see that!"

Born wealthy, a gift from heaven? A carefree life? A match made in heaven?

Xia Wenjin laughed. In her past life, didn’t she think the same way?

How affectionate did Huangfu Yuxuan seem in the past life? And how heartless was he in the end?

She looked at Xia Wanqing, "Father, people of Jianghu value loyalty and righteousness. Many love each other for a lifetime, just like you and mother. But do you know how many, after gaining some fame and status, take one concubine after another? Even the people of Jianghu are like this. Have you ever heard of a lifetime monogamy among wealthy families? The richer they are, the more ingrained this mindset is. You want your daughter to share a man with a bunch of other women in the household and expend her lifetime of energy?"

Xia Wanqing: "..."

No, his little Wenjin was only sixteen, where did this tone of world-weariness come from? And this air of having seen through everything? Moreover, what’s she talking about, discussing concubines and the inner residence so casually?

Xia Wanqing hesitated a bit and said, "I’ll ask Young Master Yu. If he has thoughts of taking concubines, Father will drive him away!"

Xia Wenjin shook her head and smiled, a very bitter smile: "Father, this world is inherently unfair to women. Men can have multiple wives, but women must remain loyal to one. Besides, I belong to the Jianghu world, and our ways are different from those of official families. If I marry, and he wants concubines, what can you do? What can I do? Your daughter, being so straightforward, would rather fight to the death, and that would ruin my life. Father, I can swallow the Ice and Snow Pill without a change of face, can’t you see I don’t want to marry him?"

"Then is it for that young man just now? Are you sure that young man can truly care for you?"

Xia Wenjin said speechlessly, "Father, why are you bringing others into my business? I told you, Huang Zheng and I are just friends. We are not in the relationship you think. I just don’t want to marry Huangfu Yuxuan, so I escaped from the mountains. If Father doesn’t change his mind, I won’t return to the mountains!"

But what Xia Wenjin said, he still thought seriously for a moment, his eyes lit up as if he thought of a compromise, saying: "Don’t worry, Father won’t let you be wronged. I’ll make Young Master Yu swear to love only you, and marry only you!"

Xia Wenjin laughed, a clear but slightly bitter laugh: "Father, what are you saying? The hardest thing to grasp in this world is the human heart. It’s a mistake to measure everyone by the loyalty of Jianghu people. Don’t you also know that there are schemes and deceit even in Jianghu? Even worse in wealthy families. What’s the use of vows? If he stops loving, he stops loving. If he turns to someone new, he turns to someone new. I won’t trap myself like that. To marry Huangfu Yuxuan, only over my dead body! No, even if I die, my spirit will stay away from him, I will never marry him!"

Her decisive words stunned Xia Wanqing, and it took him a while to recover: "Is it for that young man named Huang Zheng?"

Xia Wenjin said, "It’s not; I decided this while coming down the mountain. Besides, Huang Zheng and I are just friends from Jianghu!"

Seeing her resolute attitude, Xia Wanqing’s heart softened slightly. However, thinking of that white-haired elder and that poem, and remembering Xia Wenjin’s current age, his heart hardened again. He sternly said, "Wenjin, you’re right; the hardest thing to grasp is the human heart. But does that mean you’ll be lonely for life? Why be so stubborn over possible futures, and not take this step forward? I know Young Master Yu well, his birth chart matches yours, better than marrying someone else in the future!"

You know Young Master Yu well?

Xia Wenjin laughed again, her confident father, Huangfu Yuxuan concocted an identity, and he believed it.

But she also understood, it’s not that Father was gullible, it’s that Huangfu Yuxuan was too cunning.

Back then, when Huangfu Yuxuan mentioned his background, Xia Wanqing sent people to investigate in the Capital City, but Huangfu Yuxuan had already made preparations. What they found out was what Huangfu Yuxuan wanted them to know.

Huangfu Yuxuan’s true identity was only revealed when he needed the support of Haotian Village and wanted to mobilize its entire force, that was when Father realized his true identity.

This time, Father must have investigated too, which is why he says he knows him well.