I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 171 I like you

"It's something a woman should wear, what's the point of giving it to him?" Concubine Jin laughed and said, "I didn't expect that what I asked for was a string of pearls. It really suits you."

Lu Mingyang explained awkwardly, "My Lady Consort, there's one thing you might not know. The princess His Highness wants to marry isn't me."

This kind of thing should naturally be given to the beloved girl. She understands this rule.

Concubine Jin was slightly stunned, and for a moment she couldn't figure out what was going on between the two of them, but she didn't ask, and said affirmatively: "He is my child, I can see who he truly loves in his heart."

Is it me?

Lu Mingyang looked at the man outside the pavilion and heard the voice of Concubine Jin again.

"Child, I want to ask you for something."

See, I said this gift is not so easy to get, Lu Mingyang smiled and nodded: "You say!"

Concubine Jin held Lu Mingyang's face in her hands and choked out sobs after a long moment, "Please, never abandon him."

Lu Mingyang had not expected such a sentence, and for a moment he could not tell whether she was talking to himself or to his past self.

"Mother, let's go!" Chu Mingxing came over and helped Concubine Jin as they walked towards the convoy of Prince Jin's Mansion.

Next to the official road convoy, Chu Yueling was still confirming Zhou Yuan's choice: "Brother Zhou, are you really not going to the Yueqi Camp?"

Zhou Yuan said softly, "Princess, you have asked me many times."

"I thought someone as righteous as you would want to realize your ambitions." I want to make you happy. Chu Yueling smiled: "Since Brother Zhou doesn't want to go, then let's go back to Jinyang. No matter what you want to do, I support you."

The warm and sincere smile made Zhou Yuan look away timidly. He looked at Chu Mingzheng in the pavilion, met Chu Mingzheng's gaze, nodded slightly, and drove away.

The convoy of Prince Jin's Mansion gradually disappeared into the vast sky.

Chu Mingzheng turned his gaze away and naturally took Lu Mingyang's hand. "What did mother say to you?"

Qin Miao also looked over curiously, looking nervous.

"Nothing!" Lu Mingyang stepped back and dodged, subconsciously hiding the mahogany box in his sleeve.

It turned out that Concubine Jin hadn't given her anything. Qin Miao smiled, put one hand on Chu Mingzheng's arm, and touched the gold-threaded white jade gourd earrings on her earlobe with the other hand. She asked delicately, "Brother Zheng, these earrings that Mother gave to Miao'er, do they look good on Miao'er?"

"It looks good!" Chu Mingzheng didn't raise his eyelids, his eyes passed over Lu Mingyang's hands, and he pulled Qin Miao towards the carriage.

Lu Mingyang looked at Qin Miao's earrings and silently tightened the wooden box in his sleeve.

Chu Mingzheng personally helped Qin Miao into the carriage, but he did not get in. He said gently: "Miao'er, go back home first, I still have some things to do."

As he was speaking, Lu Mingyang stepped past him and got into the carriage.

Chu Mingzheng secretly pulled her sleeve and winked at her.

"What for?" Lu Mingyang didn't understand.

Chu Mingzheng coughed lightly and said sternly, "Miao'er is sleepy and needs to sleep for a while. You can take that carriage!"

Lu Mingyang was speechless. Why would she be sleepy so early in the morning? But she didn't bother to argue with him and walked towards the small carriage in the back. That was the small carriage where she and Mudan were sitting.

Qin Miao was a little disappointed at first, but when she saw Brother Zheng let her use the eight-horse carriage all to herself, she was immediately overjoyed. She thought that the servants forgot to tell her the departure time that morning, and that Brother Zheng didn't want to bring her along.

It seems that Brother Zheng went to her courtyard a few days ago only because Princess Qinghe was there.

In front of the carriage, Lu Mingyang stepped on the horse stool and bent over to get in. Mudan ran over to get something and rudely pushed her away. She thought she did it on purpose because Mudan turned around and gave her a smug smile that really deserved a beating.

It’s just riding in a spacious carriage, what’s there to be proud of!

Lu Mingyang sat in the cramped carriage, fanning herself with her hands, feeling nauseous. Suddenly, the carriage door opened, and a powerful force grabbed her wrist and dragged her out.

"Ah...uh..."

"Don't shout!"

Lu Mingyang elbowed the person holding him hostage from behind, and then he heard Chu Mingzheng's deliberately lowered voice.

At this moment, she leaned in his arms, he held her waist, and they galloped on horseback through the fields.

The man's scorching heat penetrated through the fabric of his clothes and penetrated his heart and lungs. Lu Mingyang felt a little awkward and asked, "Your Highness, what do you want to do?"

What she actually wanted to ask was, why are you taking me here?

Chu Mingzheng said: "I'll take you to a place."

"Where?"

"You'll know once you go there."

"Oh!" Thinking of how Chu Mingzheng had just avoided Qin Miao, Lu Mingyang teased, "Just go, why are you hiding? Taking me with you, are you worried that your cousin will be unhappy?"

"What are you thinking about all day?" Chu Mingzheng explained, "I'm worried that she'll pester me and insist on going back with us."

"Isn't that different?!" Lu Mingyang's cheeks flushed.

"What is it?" Chu Mingzheng reached out to touch her sleeve. Before Lu Mingyang knew it, the small mahogany box was already in Chu Mingzheng's hand.

"What did my mother give you?" he asked.

Lu Mingyang felt guilty: "I didn't mean to keep it. I was planning to give it to you when I got home. There were too many people there just now."

"Since it's for you, why are you giving it to me?" Chu Mingzheng gestured for her to open it.

Lu Mingyang opened the mahogany box, and the light of the Seven Treasures Necklace shone on her face, unable to hide her timidity.

"Your mother said that this is the marriage stone she and your father went to the temple to ask for you, and asked you to give it to your... beloved girl!"

At this moment, she was sitting in his arms. When she looked up, she could see the fascinating face, but she didn't dare to look. She held her breath and waited for his answer.

"That's for you!"

Chu Mingzheng took out the Seven Treasures Necklace and put it on her. She was wearing a light blue double-breasted blouse with no embellishments on her neck, which matched her perfectly.

"Your Highness!" Lu Mingyang touched the necklace around his neck and reminded him again: "I asked you to give it to... your beloved girl!"

"Yangyang!" Chu Mingzheng's brows were filled with displeasure and a little bit of trepidation. "Why don't you believe that I like you?"

Lu Mingyang smiled and reminded: "Your Highness, you said it yourself!"

Chu Mingzheng: “…”

He cleared his throat and asked solemnly, "If I tell you now that I like you, will you believe it?"

Lu Mingyang thought about it and gave him an affirmative answer: "I believe it."

She was not a fool, and she saw all the good things he did for her. But she also knew that he liked Qin Miao more, and he had also had sweet moments with those women who were obsessed with him.

For a prince like him, women are nothing more than embellishments for his clothes, rare treasures to admire, entertainment to relieve boredom, and the continuation of the family line.

For him, it has another function, which is a tool to win over forces.

It was too funny and ridiculous to tell him those words about being together for life.

After all, what she thought of as love was different from what he thought of it.

But she didn't expect that, did she?