On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince’s Hidden Illness
Chapter 424: Completely Crushed

Chapter 424: Chapter 424: Completely Crushed

"Xiaoshan, what nonsense are you spouting?" Eunuch Song Guo scolded softly.

"I know I’ll lose my head if the Crown Prince gets angry, but the Commandery Princess was crying just now, sobbing secretly, and it pained me to see it. I can’t hold these words inside. After all, I have but one head, and if Your Highness wishes to take it, then do so."

No matter what, he had to speak out about the grievances in the Commandery Princess’s heart.

Eunuch Song Guo heaved a long sigh and turned to Ye Yiheng, saying, "Your Highness, the Commandery Princess cried."

Ye Yiheng’s expression turned serious, "I understand."

Immediately, Eunuch Song Guo turned back to Xiaoshan and said, "The Crown Prince and Miss Zheng didn’t talk about anything else, it was all related to the Empress Dowager, the Commandery Princess must have misunderstood."

"Your Highness is gone, Eunuch Song Guo, you should hurry after him. Besides, explaining it to me is no use, the key is to explain it to my Commandery Princess," Xiaoshan burped again.

"Yes, yes, yes." Eunuch Song Guo swiftly turned and trotted after Ye Yiheng.

The master and servant boarded the horse carriage and rushed straight to Marquis Jiangyang Mansion.

By the time they arrived, Leng Yu Yan was in the room, implanting something into Ye Yuan’s hand.

Ji Liancheng and Ji Qingyu, father and son, were waiting outside the room and quickly performed a courteous bow as they saw Ye Yiheng approaching.

Ye Yiheng nodded his head in acknowledgment and sat straight down in an armchair to wait.

Ji Qingyu furrowed his brows slightly, "What brings you here?"

"I’ve come to fetch Yanyan."

Ye Yiheng spoke indifferently, then said no more.

Regardless of how Ji Liancheng and Ji Qingyu tried to converse with him, Eunuch Song Guo replied on his behalf each time.

Inside the room, Leng Yu Yan gently wrapped Ye Yuan’s hand in gauze and instructed patiently, "Try to keep it dry and avoid contact with hard objects; after ten days, we’ll see the results. If it’s alright, we can perform a decompression surgery then."

Ye Yuan nodded with a smile, "Ah Yan, thank you!"

"Wait until the surgery is successful before you thank me," Leng Yu Yan said with a smile.

"You child," Ye Yuan said with increasing joy, "Actually, whether Ah Heng or Qingyu marries you doesn’t matter, but I’m afraid my wish of having you as my daughter-in-law might truly not come true."

She had initially tried to matchmake Qingyu and Ah Yan, largely due to her personal desires, as she wanted such a daughter-in-law.

Now, with the imperial decree for the arranged marriage issued, her wish seemed even more impossible to fulfill.

Leng Yu Yan lowered her gaze to pack her medical kit and spoke softly, "Aunt, you are my elder, our relationship won’t be affected even if we aren’t mother- and daughter-in-law, right?"

"That’s exactly right." While speaking, Ye Yuan took out a jade bracelet and handed it to Leng Yu Yan, "This was passed on to me by my mother; Ah Yan, you’ll look beautiful wearing it!"

"I cannot accept this." Leng Yu Yan declined.

"Just consider it your consultation fee."

"If you really want to give me a consultation fee, silver or a silver note will suffice."

Leng Yu Yan joked before turning to Miao Zhu, who nodded in understanding, took the medical kit on her back, and the two left the room.

Ye Yuan called out from behind, "Ah Yan, please take the bracelet, it’s not that valuable."

Hearing this, Ye Yiheng’s gaze shifted toward the jade bracelet in Ye Yuan’s hand, his eyes suddenly narrowing.

"Aunt, weren’t you saving this jade bracelet for your future daughter-in-law?"

That was when Ye Yuan noticed Ye Yiheng sitting aside and asked in surprise, "Ah Heng, you can see?"

"Didn’t Ji Qingyu tell Aunt?" Ye Yiheng asked blandly, then promptly stood up.

Leng Yu Yan didn’t understand why Ye Yiheng had suddenly come here, but at that moment, she didn’t want to see him; she just wanted to return to the Prince Mansion, so she said to Ji Qingyu, "Qingyu, please trouble you to send me back."

"Of course." Ji Qingyu disregarded Ye Yiheng, extended his hand to Leng Yu Yan and said, "Please, Ah Yan."

Leng Yu Yan nodded and stepped forward.

Ye Yiheng’s handsome brows furrowed, and he stepped forward a few paces to grip her wrist.

Leng Yu Yan struggled, but his hand was like iron pincers, firmly clamping down with no intention of letting go.

She gritted her teeth and whispered in a low voice, "This is not the Eastern Palace, please let go, Your Highness!"

Ji Qingyu took a step forward, "Ye Yiheng, you’re hurting Ah Yan, let go of her quickly!"

"It’s none of your business!" Ye Yiheng’s eyes swept across with a sharp glint, and he said sternly, "Ji Qingyu, know your place. Aunt, put away your jade bracelet and your ambitions. Yanyan is my fiancée!"

With that, he picked up Leng Yu Yan regardless of her struggling, holding her horizontally.

Suspended in the air, Leng Yu Yan’s heart clenched, "Put me down, I can walk by myself!"

She couldn’t understand, the man who just moments ago had been all smiles with Zheng Liqi, why was he looking for her now?

With such a stony face towards her, did he think his face held that much charm for her?

Leng Yu Yan averted her gaze, refusing to look at him, while Ye Yiheng walked towards the gate of the Marquis Mansion with an expressionless face.

Miao Zhu was completely dumbfounded, unaware of Leng Yu Yan’s visit to the Eastern Palace that day. Seeing her standing there in shock, Song Guo pulled her along, "Hurry up, let’s go."

"What has happened?" Miao Zhu couldn’t help but ask, "Why didn’t your Highness tell my lady about returning to the Eastern Palace the day before yesterday?"

"There’s some misunderstanding between His Highness and the Commandery Princess, we should give them time to sort it out."

Song Guo, pulling Miao Zhu, also headed towards the gate of the Marquis Mansion.

Inside the house, the three members of the Ji Family stood in dismay.

Ji Liancheng sighed, "Princess Beilan said she could heal your hand, so just get it healed. What do you need the bracelet for?"

Ye Yuan frowned, "Isn’t this for our son..."

"Don’t do this kind of thing anymore in the future!" Ji Qingyu roared, "Being caught by Ye Yiheng, and with Ah Yan not accepting it, am I not losing face?"

What twisted his heart even more was that he didn’t know what Ye Yiheng would do to Ah Yan now. Earlier, when he saw him gripping her wrist, it had turned red.

"Alright, alright, I’m wrong no matter what," Ye Yuan murmured, "Isn’t it just that I want a daughter-in-law who I like?"

It seemed his son was, after all, not comparable to Ah Heng.

Ye Yiheng carried Leng Yu Yan into the Eastern Palace Carriage.

Once inside the carriage, he still didn’t let go of her, but sat down holding her in his embrace.

Leng Yu Yan was displeased, "Your Highness doesn’t want to see me, and I don’t wish to see Your Highness with a stern face. Rather than this, you might as well go back to chatting and laughing with Miss Zheng; I..."

"You what? Let me leave you to Ji Qingyu’s side?"

He looked at her with a cold face, eyes slanting.

"What are you saying? Ji Qingyu came to the Prince Mansion to fetch me. I asked him to send me back, is there anything wrong with that? Besides, the Eldest Princess’s hand was injured because of you. It’s not wrong for me to treat it, is it?"

"So you’re saying that you treated Aunt’s hand because of me?"

He reached out to pinch her chin, forcing her to look at him.

Leng Yu Yan met his gaze without fear, "Whatever Your Highness thinks, even if you bring countless women into the Eastern Palace in the future, it’s none of my business! I’ve realized that as long as Your Highness keeps our ’deal’ in mind, that’s enough."

She dared not hope for anything more!

Hearing her speak thus, Ye Yiheng was rife with irritation, "Leng Yu Yan, are you heartless?"

If she had a heart, how could she not have noticed his affection for her?

"How am I heartless?"

She had accompanied him through hardships, and he dared to say she was heartless!

Suppressing the urge to cry out of grievance, Leng Yu Yan struggled desperately.

Ye Yiheng held her even tighter, his cool lips pressed down fiercely, giving her no chance to breathe, crushing all his rolling anger passionately onto her soft lips...