Chapter 168 The protagonist's fiancée who has fallen in love with someone else 1
Chapter 168 The protagonist's fiancée who has fallen in love with someone else 1
"Five years ago, sixteen-year-old Zheng Jinheng defeated the previous champion and became the new champion. At seventeen, he fought on the battlefield and repelled the Hunyi people, earning him the title of general. At twenty, he crushed the Hunyi people and signed a ten-year armistice agreement with them, ending the war..."
In the second-floor box, a woman in a light green dress, with her chin supported by one hand, listened boredly to the storyteller's high-spirited speech downstairs.
Now, five years have passed, and teahouses and pubs everywhere are still talking about Zheng Jinheng. There is nothing new.
Qiu Niang, who was fanning herself nearby, saw that her princess was not in a good mood and spoke with concern.
"Princess, are you unhappy?"
Fuling looked down at the pills she had just made and said nonchalantly.
"No, I just find it boring. Every time I come out I hear the same story. There's nothing new."
Dongjiu, who was peeling fruit for Fuling, nodded in agreement.
"That's right. I've been telling the same story for five years and I'm still telling it..."
Dongjiu has complicated feelings towards her princess, her ex-fiancé.
Although everyone says that Zheng Jinheng is a great hero, Dongjiu feels that he is not worthy of his princess and that his princess deserves better.
Zheng Jinheng does nothing but fighting.
The princess would give him gifts during festivals or on his birthday.
From small things like shoes and socks to large things like clothes.
On the other hand, he had never given anything to his own princess.
Even the reply was perfunctory.
Sometimes there is not even a letter for a whole year.
However, people outside who were unaware of the situation praised Princess Wen'an for being lucky enough to have chosen a good husband in advance.
Every time she attended a banquet, the girls who had a crush on Zheng Jinheng would look at the princess with envy and jealousy.
If the princess had not had a high status, she would have been attacked by others long ago.
Fuling raised her hand and tapped Dongjiu on the forehead, reminding him with a smile.
"Don't say these things outside, or you'll be beaten up by a crowd, and this princess won't care."
Fuling had a reason for saying this. In recent years, anyone who spoke ill of Zheng Jinheng had been put in a sack and beaten by Zheng Jinheng's fanatical supporters.
These supporters are also very smart. They know not to show their faces. Therefore, those who are beaten cannot find the murderer and can only blame themselves for their bad luck.
All I can say is that no matter what era, people are crazy about idols.
Dongjiu winked and smiled ingratiatingly.
"Princess, I will just tell you these things."
She was not stupid, and only because her princess was kind and gentle did she dare to say so.
Fuling glanced at her and stopped talking. Her gaze returned to the storyteller downstairs.
The storyteller then continued to tell the story in a vivid voice.
Fuling's thoughts were drawn away.
She came to this world five years ago. Right after arriving, before she could accept her fragmented memories, she received the news that her fiancé was missing...
She first finished reading the plot he gave her, and then after accepting all the memories of the fragments, she lay down completely.
The story he gave was a bit confusing, so she didn't know much, but she was certain that Zheng Jinheng was still alive.
Not only alive, but living well.
Zheng Jinheng was attacked on his way back to the capital when he was defeated, seriously injured and fell into the river. He disappeared without a trace.
His deputy received the news and took a small team to search for half a month, but they only found the sword he carried with him and nothing else.
After so much time had passed, everyone had given up hope that he was still alive.
At first, no one believed that he was dead, because he was a great general who had never been defeated. But gradually, more and more people said that he was dead, and others slowly accepted the news of his death.
But some people don't believe he is dead.
Others don’t know, but Fuling, who is aware of the plot, knows that Zheng Jinheng is not only not dead, but he also got married and lives a happy life!
It is said that with Zheng Jinheng's fighting power, ordinary people cannot hurt him, but he is not afraid of god-like opponents, but he is afraid of pig-like teammates.
He was defeated because he was poisoned, and the person who poisoned him was his military advisor and good brother Fan Youbin.
He was poisoned and fell into the river, but was rescued downstream.
By the time you are able to take action, everything will be a foregone conclusion.
After he woke up, he secretly returned to Zheng's house and saw that the Zheng family was holding a funeral for him with great fanfare. He stood in the dark for a while, thought a lot, and finally turned around and left quietly.
From beginning to end, no one noticed that he had come back.
Fuling sorted out the fragmented memories and wanted to go find him and detoxify him, but from the scattered fragments, she knew that there would be people who would compete to detoxify him, so Fuling did not go to find him.
At the same time, he did not tell anyone else that he was still alive.
Valley Village.
Halfway up the mountain.
Zheng Jinheng, dressed in coarse cloth, sat on a stone, staring blankly in the direction of the capital.
Ran Xiyue came down the mountain skipping with a big bunch of wild flowers in her arms. Seeing that he was in a daze again, she turned her eyes and threw the wild flowers in her hand to the ground. She walked towards him lightly, stretched out her soft hands to cover his eyes, lowered her head to his ear and spoke in a low voice.
"Guess who I am?"
He was startled by Ran Xiyue's sudden action, and swung his fist reflexively, but his fist stopped just a few centimeters away from Ran Xiyue's face!
His speed was too fast, Ran Xiyue had no time to react at all. She was completely stunned and stood there in a daze.
"Ahem~~ Do you know that if I hadn't stopped, you would be dead right now."
Faced with his scolding, Ran Xiyue came to her senses, withdrew her hand, lowered her head and stood in front of him like a child who had done something wrong, muttering softly.
"I was just joking, I didn't mean it..."
"You're just kidding! This is a matter of life and death, and you just brushed it off as a joke... I don't want it to happen again."
If Ran Xiyue had not been kind to him, he would not have been so tolerant of her.
Seeing that she was not convinced.
Zheng Jinheng sighed and shook his head, without saying anything else, turned around and continued to stare into the distance in a daze.
Over the past five years, Ran Xiyue has gotten used to Zheng Jinheng's behavior.
Even though Zheng Jinheng never gave her a good look, she still enjoyed it.
Who made her like Zheng Jinheng?
Yes, she, Ran Xiyue, likes Zheng Jinheng.
But Zheng Jinheng was like a piece of wood, indifferent to her love.
But even so, she still likes Zheng Jinheng.
She held her face with both hands, looking at herself with her big round eyes shining brightly.
"Brother Jin, when are we getting married?"
Ran Xiyue was very excited at the thought of marrying Zheng Jinheng.
This is the general Zheng Jinheng that she has been thinking about.
When she first read the novel, Ran Xiyue felt very distressed when she saw that the high-spirited Zheng Jinheng was betrayed by his friends and abandoned by his fiancée.
I wish I could travel into the novel and save Zheng Jinheng.
Maybe God heard her wish and let her travel to the world where Zheng Jinheng was.
After knowing that she had traveled through time, she was not afraid but very happy.
Especially after hearing the news about Zheng Jinheng, she became even happier.
She began to look forward to seeing Zheng Jinheng, and would go to the river from time to time, for fear of missing any news from Zheng Jinheng.
After waiting for a month, she finally met Zheng Jinheng, the man she had been thinking about, by the river.
When Ran Xiyue saw Zheng Jinheng, who was wet and covered with scars, she felt so distressed.
She asked her brother to carry Zheng Jinheng back home, and begged her father to find a doctor for Zheng Jinheng. It took a lot of effort to finally rescue Zheng Jinheng from the hands of the devil.
As soon as Zheng Jinheng woke up, he struggled to go back.
Ran Xiyue did not stop him, she knew Zheng Jinheng would come back again.
Sure enough, half a month later, Zheng Jinheng returned to Shangu Village with his seriously injured body.
In order to enlighten Zheng Jinheng, she stayed around him every day, and over time, Zheng Jinheng's attitude towards her improved a lot.
But I only treat her as my sister.
She thought that she was still young and was not in a hurry. She prepared to play the role of boiling a frog in warm water and slowly infiltrate Zheng Jinheng's life, making Zheng Jinheng unable to leave her.
As a result, Zheng Jinheng, who returned to Shangu Village, moved out of her house not long after, disrupting her plan.
So much so that five years later, when she was seventeen and of marriageable age, there was still no progress.
She was afraid that someone else would get there first, so she decided to play it straight, hoping that Zheng Jinheng would agree to her confession because she saved his life.
Then she was doomed to disappointment.
Sure enough, the next second, Zheng Jinheng spoke calmly.
"Xiyue, how many times have I told you this? I have someone I like, and I only treat you as my sister..."
Zheng Jinheng had a pretty good attitude towards this girl who was eight years younger than him.
But Ran Xiyue obviously didn't appreciate it.
Upon hearing this, she puffed her cheeks and retorted in dissatisfaction.
"But I like you. It's not like you don't have feelings for me. As for the person you like, he might have married someone else long ago."
When Ran Xiyue was reading the novel at that time, she only paid attention to Zheng Jinheng, so she knew that he had a fiancée who was three years younger than him. However, the two had few opportunities to meet, so their relationship was not good.
This is what Ran Xiyue herself understood.
"Xiyue, you..."
"Brother Jin, you are already 25 years old, it is impossible for you not to get married..."
Ran Xiyue tried to persuade Zheng Jinheng.
Seeing that his words were useless, Zheng Jinheng stopped paying attention to her and continued to stare blankly towards the capital, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the Buddhist beads on his hand.
This string of Buddhist beads was given to him by Fuling in the second year of their engagement.
He loved his fiancée Fuling from the bottom of his heart, and even fought hard every time he went to the battlefield in order to be worthy of her.
He is just a bastard, and if he wants something, he has to risk his life for it.
After the war, he thought he could finally see his sweetheart, but he didn't expect...
He sighed slowly, stood up, picked up the backpack at his feet, picked up the sickle, and walked down the mountain step by step.
Seeing this, Ran Xiyue hurriedly jogged to catch up.
Fuling didn't know what happened in Shangu Village.
Now she is facing pressure to get married.
She felt a little headache looking at the pile of portraits her mother brought.
"Mom, didn't I tell you? I don't want to get married yet."
Ever since she turned twenty two years ago, this kind of urging to get married has come up every once in a while.
Zheng Jinheng's shield is no longer useful.
Princess Jiuye's face was full of disapproval, and she gave earnest advice.
"Wen'an, you're not young anymore. You shouldn't be so willful anymore. Zheng Jinheng has been dead for five years. You should have your own life."
"Mom, you know I..."
Fuling wanted to cry out her feelings for Zheng Jinheng, but she was interrupted by Princess Jiuye just as she opened her mouth.
"Stop it, don't say you like Zheng Jinheng. You are my son, I don't even know what you look like..."
Princess Jiuye saw clearly that her daughter did like Zheng Jinheng, but not much.
She didn't think her daughter would remain unmarried for the sake of Zheng Jinheng.
The reason I say this is probably because I haven’t met the right one.
In the past, she could let her daughter go. After all, Zheng Jinheng had just died, and her daughter married someone else, which would have a bad reputation if it got out.
But five years have passed, and her daughter is already 22 years old. It would be unreasonable for her not to get married.
Fuling hugged Princess Jiuye's arm affectionately and acted coquettishly.
"Mom~~Since you've already guessed it, then I won't hide it. I don't want to get married. Isn't it good for me to stay at home with you and dad?"
Princess Jiuye reached out and poked her forehead.
"You! You're already grown up and you're still acting like a spoiled brat."
Fuling rubbed her face on Princess Jiuye's arm and muttered.
"No matter how old you are, you are still my daughter..."
Princess Jiuye was reluctant to let her daughter get married and suffer, but she didn't want her daughter to regret it in the future.
The mother and daughter chatted for a while.
In the end, the portrait that King Jiuye brought was taken back by her intactly.
In the room, Jiu Yehua, dressed in a blue shirt, was sitting at the table flipping through a book. The sunlight shining on him added a touch of mystery to him.
Seeing King Jiuye like this, Princess Jiuye's eyes softened.
Hearing footsteps, King Jiuye looked up and saw his princess walking in from outside holding a scroll. He quickly put down the book in his hand, stood up and took the scroll from her arms.
"Wanwan, what are you doing?"
Princess Jiuye's maiden name is Liu Wan, and King Jiuye usually calls her Wanwan. The two can be considered childhood sweethearts.
The two have a very good relationship and only have each other.
King Jiuye Chu Zeyi is different from other men in this world. He pursues a lifelong relationship with one person, and he only loves his wife Liu Wan.
For many years, the couple had only one daughter, Fuling.
The emperor and the queen mother also mentioned the idea of taking a concubine for Prince Jiuye, but he ruthlessly rejected them all without exception.
Since his plan didn't work, the emperor and the empress dowager wanted to start with his princess. However, when he found out, he became furious and moved out of the palace with his princess and daughter.
He and the emperor are biological brothers from the same mother.
The emperor loves and hates this brother who has no ambition and only cares about love.
What he loves is that Chu Zeyi has no ambition, which doesn’t make him feel afraid.
What they hated was Chu Zeyi's lack of ambition, and they felt that he was a hopeless case.
Princess Jiuye Liu Wan sat down opposite King Jiuye, poured herself a cup of tea, moistened her throat before speaking.
"Don't mention it, it's still Lingling! Why is she so stubborn? I wonder who she took after?"
King Jiuye moved the stool closer to Princess Jiuye until they were touching. He reached out and held Princess Jiuye's hand before speaking.
"Wanwan, children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Since Lingling doesn't want to get married, then don't get married."
In Chu Zeyi's opinion, no one is worthy of his precious daughter, not even Zheng Jinheng.
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