Chapter 97: Volume 1, Chapter 97: The Child Was Bullied, Seeking Support!

"Im... Imperial Uncle..." Crown Prince Xuanyuan Qi looked at Ye Lanjue in disbelief. His face was deathly pale, his eyes filled with terror, but even more so with forbearance and unwillingness.

He was the dignified Crown Prince of a nation, the future sovereign, yet he was being forced to kneel in front of so many people, and all because of an ugly woman. How was he supposed to face others in the future?

He felt hatred, yet he was helpless.

The current Ye Lanjue was someone he simply could not shake.

Gritting his teeth, Xuanyuan Qi prepared to stand up.

"Did this King give you permission to rise?" Just as Xuanyuan Qi's knees left the ground, Ye Lanjue's icy voice rang out.

With a "thud," Xuanyuan Qi's knees hit the ground heavily once more. With new injuries added to old ones, the pain made him grimace.

Yet, Xuanyuan Qi had to suppress his humiliation and pain, struggling to say to Ye Lanjue, "This—this Crown Prince misspoke just now. I ask Imperial Uncle to forgive me."

While his mouth was yielding, his heart was thinking, 'One day, I will definitely get this back, definitely!'

As Xuanyuan Qi thought this, he clenched his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging slightly, his fists tightly balled, his heart full of suppressed rage.

Ye Lanjue looked at Xuanyuan Qi's appearance with nothing but indifference; he didn't take Xuanyuan Qi seriously at all.

Shifting his gaze, Ye Lanjue's eyes landed on Yun Qiyue.

Seeing that the woman had the look of someone watching a play that had nothing to do with her, Ye Lanjue frowned slightly.

This heartless woman, shouldn't she be happy and grateful that he was venting her anger for her? What was this about treating herself as an outsider?

Thinking of this, Ye Lanjue finally spoke, "The person you should be asking for forgiveness is not this King."

The cold words were directed at Xuanyuan Qi, but Ye Lanjue's gaze remained on Yun Qiyue.

Wanting to watch the show? Wanting to stay out of it?

Then he would drag her into the play, and see how she performed.

The look in Ye Lanjue's eyes as he watched Yun Qiyue was unfathomable.

After hearing Ye Lanjue's words, Xuanyuan Qi was slightly stunned, feeling somewhat incredulous.

Imperial Uncle was—asking him to apologize to Yun Qiyue?

To ask for forgiveness from a fool he had once looked down upon? Especially since this fool was his former fiancée.

No, he couldn't do it!

He had his dignity and persistence as a Crown Prince; if he truly apologized to Yun Qiyue today, wouldn't he become a joke in the eyes of others?

Xuanyuan Qi was full of resistance.

Seeing Xuanyuan Qi's face full of resistance and unwillingness, Yun Qiyue couldn't help but curl her lips coldly.

Resistance? Unwillingness?

Heh, did he think this matter could just pass like this?

What about what the original owner suffered back then?

In this world, there was never such a cheap deal.

The next moment, Yun Qiyue looked at Ye Lanjue with a wronged expression, "Imperial Uncle—" Her voice was deliberately drawn out, sounding somewhat affected and a bit coquettish.

Hearing this form of address and this voice, Ye Lanjue felt a chill run through his entire body.

Damn woman, could she not be so disgusting?

Clearly, the answer was no.

Because Yun Qiyue continued, "Imperial Uncle, look, the Crown Prince is unwilling to apologize to me—"

She had the look of 'the child was bullied, seeking support,' but that voice made Ye Lanjue's heart tremble, and he even had the urge to strangle Yun Qiyue.

However, when his icy gaze met Yun Qiyue's innocent eyes, Ye Lanjue's cold aura shifted back to Xuanyuan Qi, "Crown Prince."

The voice was cold, deep, and calm, devoid of any emotion, yet it was the kind that made the onlookers tremble in fear.

The crowd: "..." Has the Regent gone mad?

He was actually supporting an ugly woman just because she acted coquettishly?

Although she looked pleasing to the eye with her veil on, who didn't know that the face beneath the veil was ugly?

The crowd imagined Yun Qiyue acting coquettishly with her ugly face, and they couldn't help but shudder.

It was truly... too painful to watch.

As for the Crown Prince, he felt the powerful pressure being exerted on him, his chest feeling stifled and painful, and a metallic, fishy taste rising in his throat.

Forced by necessity, Xuanyuan Qi had to compromise, saying to Yun Qiyue, "Just now... I was abrupt, I ask—Miss Yun to forgive me..."

It took several deep breaths for Xuanyuan Qi to finish the sentence.

But, although the words were directed at Yun Qiyue, Xuanyuan Qi didn't actually look at her.

Because Xuanyuan Qi was currently in a kneeling position; without Ye Lanjue's permission, or as long as Ye Lanjue didn't leave, he couldn't stand up.

And if he looked at Yun Qiyue while saying those words, it would make people feel like he was kneeling to her.

This last bit of dignity, as a dignified Crown Prince, he had to protect.

Xuanyuan Qi thought to himself, deceiving himself.

However, after these words, Yun Qiyue remained silent for a long time, which made the manic rage in Xuanyuan Qi's heart unbearable. He looked up and glared fiercely at Yun Qiyue, with a look that said, 'If you don't say you forgive me, I will definitely make you pay.'

Yo! He dared to glare at her at a time like this?

Did he really think she was a pushover?

Yun Qiyue raised an eyebrow.

Then, the next moment, Yun Qiyue changed her expression.

No longer looking at Xuanyuan Qi, she looked at Ye Lanjue with a wronged, terrified, and panicked expression, "Imperial Uncle, the Crown Prince is so fierce, Yueyue is so scared—"

Fierce?

Yueyue?

Scared?

The onlookers were almost driven into a frenzy by these reduplicated words, and were on the verge of vomiting on the spot.

Although they couldn't see Yun Qiyue's ugly face, in everyone's eyes, Yun Qiyue was that image of ugliness that one couldn't bear to look at.

Therefore, with such a voice and such words coming from such an image, the people present couldn't help but roll their eyes.

Those women who admired the Regent, after hearing Yun Qiyue's words, felt like vomiting blood, and their anger was about to burn away their rationality.

Couldn't this damn ugly woman Yun Qiyue be a bit stronger? And have some self-awareness?

Didn't she know what she looked like? To be able to say such disgusting words with that ugly face, did she have no shame?

In short, even though Yun Qiyue was now Ye Lanjue's fiancée, no one was willing to associate Yun Qiyue's ugly face with the noble Regent.

In fact, many people were shouting in their hearts: Your Highness Regent, hurry up and deal with her!

Just as everyone held their breath, waiting for Yun Qiyue to suffer, Ye Lanjue, the person involved, calmed down after his temples throbbed wildly.

Then, everyone heard their noble Regent, after hearing Yun Qiyue's words, look at Xuanyuan Qi, who was already deathly pale, with that gaze like the Grim Reaper.

"If the Crown Prince doesn't know how to apologize, this King doesn't mind teaching you." It was still that light, indifferent tone, tinged with nobility.

The Regent would teach him?

Was the Regent such a kind person?

This was absolutely impossible!

Everyone knew clearly that if the Regent really took action to teach him, Crown Prince Xuanyuan Qi would definitely lose a layer of skin.

Even Crown Prince Xuanyuan Qi himself felt the same.

But, why?

Why did the Regent insist on protecting Yun Qiyue?

Could it be that the Regent was truly different towards Yun Qiyue?

But, she was an ugly woman, ah ah ah ah ah—