EBE Chapter 207 Seeing that he had a child, I gave up
Chapter 207 Seeing that he had a child, I gave up
Shen Ruolan stopped and looked in the direction of the voice. She saw a handsome man about 26 or 27 years old, looking at her cousin with disdain.
She was about to explain to the man her relationship with her eldest cousin, but Shen Ziqian spoke first: "What happened to me has nothing to do with others."
After saying that, he supported Shen Ruolan and said, "Ruolan, you get in the car first."
Shen Ruolan looked at the two people who were full of hostility, hesitated for a moment, and still got into the car with her child. She was not afraid of anything, but she was afraid that the two would fight and accidentally hurt her child.
After Shen Ruolan got on the carriage, Shen Ziqian said to Mu Jin, who was driving the carriage, "Wait for me at the city gate first."
Mu Jin naturally had no objection. She didn't want her wife to be used by him.
Shen Ziqian waited until Shen Ruolan's carriage left before he said to Shan Mingyuan: "General Shan, the Seventh Princess is a good girl. I hope you will treat her well in the future."
Shan Mingyuan snorted at Shen Ziqian and said sarcastically, "Oh? Really? Is she the kind of good woman who thinks about others all day long?"
Shen Ziqian looked at Shan Mingyuan and frowned, saying, "General Shan, if you don't want to marry the Seventh Princess, you can ask the Emperor of your Xia Kingdom to reject this marriage. There is no need to ridicule an innocent woman."
Xia Weiwei was a pawn being used in the power struggle, but he believed that with the current status of the Shan family in the Xia Kingdom, as long as Shan Mingyuan was unwilling, the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom would be helpless against him, and this marriage was not necessary.
Shen Ziqian's words made Shan Mingyuan sneer at him and said, "Mr. Shen, you made the emperor sound so easy, why don't you go to Xia Country in person to meet our emperor and let him help you two?"
Shan Mingyuan originally had no feelings about the marriage arranged by the emperor. He just wanted to marry a woman. However, he did not expect that this woman actually had another man in her heart and was reluctant to marry him. This made him very unhappy.
Although he could go and plead with the emperor to revoke his order, this would be exactly what the emperor wanted, giving him an excuse to attack their Shan family in the future.
Therefore, for the sake of the millions of lives in the Shan family, he could only endure this humiliation and marry the woman whose heart was filled with other men.
Shen Ziqian said to Shan Mingyuan: "My Shen family does not marry into the imperial courts of other countries."
After saying this, he left Shan Mingyuan without looking back.
No matter whether others called him unfaithful or selfish, as the eldest son of the Shen family, for the sake of the Shen family's inheritance, he, Shen Ziqian, could only suppress his reluctance and follow his ancestors' teachings.
Shan Mingyuan's subordinates looked at Shen Ziqian's departing back and said to him, "General, do you want us to deal with him?"
Shan Mingyuan raised his hand and said to his subordinates with a sullen face, "No need."
As a military commander, he was well aware of the importance of medicinal herbs. Their Shan family had everything except medicinal materials, which few people were involved in. If he really offended Shen Ziqian to death, it would be very detrimental to his future plans.
Fu Xing listened to his master's words, he bowed his head and replied respectfully: "Yes"
After saying this, he glanced at Xia Weiwei who had fainted beside him and continued to ask, "Master, the princess..."
Shan Mingyuan interrupted his subordinate and said, "Let her do it."
After Shan Mingyuan finished speaking, he turned around and left without even glancing at Xia Weiwei.
In the courtyard, after Xia Weiwei woke up and regained consciousness, she quickly stood up and said, "Ziqian, wait a minute, I'll leave with you."
When the maids who were guarding outside heard what Xia Weiwei said, they hurried in to persuade her, "Princess, Mr. Shen has left. You should just forget about him."
When Xia Weiwei heard that Shen Ziqian had left, she felt as if all her energy had been drained out. She leaned lifelessly against the head of the bed, muttering, "Why did he leave so soon? I still have so much to say to him!"
After she finished speaking, she couldn't stop her tears from falling. She looked so pitiful that made people feel distressed.
The two maids, seeing their master like this, were anxious to comfort her and said, "Princess, maybe Master Shen is busy and has no time to come to see you. Would you like to open up a little?"
Xia Weiwei slowly shook her head and said with a sad face: "I haven't seen him for three years. I didn't expect that his child has grown up so much. He really forgot about me."
As Xia Weiwei finished her words, she felt a sharp pain in her chest, and suddenly she spit out a large mouthful of blood with a "puff".
The two maids were terrified. They looked at Xia Weiwei with a panicked face and shouted, "Princess, what happened to you?"
Xia Weiwei raised her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth. When she was about to answer the maid, she saw Shan Mingyuan suddenly walk in from outside. She paused for a moment and asked Shan Mingyuan expressionlessly, "What are you doing here?"
Shan Mingyuan also ignored Xia Weiwei's attitude. He stopped in front of Xia Weiwei, looked down at the blood on the ground, sneered at her and asked, "The princess is really a love-struck girl. I just don't know if Master Shen knows about it?"
Xia Weiwei said to Shan Mingyuan: "If you have anything to say, just say it directly. There's no need to be sarcastic here."
Shan Mingyuan snorted coldly at Xia Weiwei and asked, "Seventh Princess, my fiancée, I have been waiting for you for three years. When do you think we should get married?"
When Xia Weiwei heard Shan Mingyuan mention marriage, she moved her lips and wanted to say that it was impossible to marry him, but when she thought about her mother's instructions, she took a deep breath and said to Shan Mingyuan with a cold face: "Just do it as you see fit."
After Xia Weiwei finished speaking, she felt like her heart was bleeding. The scenes of her and Shen Ziqian together kept appearing in her mind. At that time, he picked herbs and she picked flowers. The two of them went up and down the mountain every day and were inseparable.
She was really happy during that period, and she originally thought that such days would continue forever. Unexpectedly, one day three years ago, she suddenly received an imperial edict from her father from afar, asking her to return to the capital and get married.
She would never forget the scene when Shen Ziqian knew her true identity. After he found out that she had deceived him, he looked at her with reluctance and anger.
Finally, he turned all his reluctance and anger into a long sigh, left a wish for her happiness, and disappeared.
In the past few years, she has been looking for him, trying to explain to him that she really did not mean to lie to him, but she has never seen him again since he left that time.
Unexpectedly, when they met again, his children had grown up already, which made Xia Weiwei very sad.
Shan Mingyuan saw that the woman who had always preferred death to marrying him finally agreed to marry him. He raised his eyebrows and looked at her, mockingly saying, "What? Are you giving up after seeing that he has a child?"
After Xia Weiwei heard Shan Mingyuan's words, she suddenly looked up at him and said expressionlessly: "Shan Mingyuan, since I have agreed to marry you, I will let go of all the past and live a good life with you..."