Chapter 178: Was Lin Qingyue's Secret Discovered?

Dongfang Yan saw that Princess Ling Xue was indeed moved by him, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart:

Naive girl, really easy to fool, just a few words of concern can move her. Although I don't like you, I like your noble status—enough to match me.

"That jewelry shop looks good, this Princess wants to go shopping, but I don't like idlers around."

Princess Ling Xue arrogantly put forward her request, wanting to test whether Dongfang Yan was really good to her.

"That's easy."

Dongfang Yan gave a look to the guards behind him, and the guards under him rushed into the "Zhenbao Pavilion" next door like bandits, shouting loudly:

"Prince Jin and Princess are here, all idlers must avoid!"

The guests in the Zhenbao Pavilion dared not offend Prince Jin and immediately retreated sensibly.

In the blink of an eye, there was no one else in the entire shop except the manager.

Princess Ling Xue smiled and took the initiative to hold Dongfang Yan's arm: "Brother Yan, you are so good."

She just liked the feeling of being pampered in the palm of someone's hand.

Compared to Dongfang Qi's coldness and ruthlessness, Dongfang Yan was making her more and more satisfied.

She chose a pile of things in the Zhenbao Pavilion, and Dongfang Yan bought them for her without blinking.

After buying and buying, Princess Ling Xue's mood cleared up, and she felt very comfortable.

After coming out of the Zhenbao Pavilion, Princess Ling Xue was just about to go shopping in other shops when she suddenly saw a figure squeezing out of the crowd, shouting: "Husband!"

Dongfang Yan looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the person who appeared before him was a disheveled woman with a bulging abdomen.

He ordered coldly: "Colliding with this Prince is a capital offense, drag her away and beat her to death!"

The woman shouted at the guards who were about to take action against her: "I am Prince Jin's secondary consort, who dares to be disrespectful to me?"

As she spoke, she hurriedly pushed aside her messy hair and said to Dongfang Yan: "Prince, it's me! I am Lin Ruzhen, your beloved Zhen'er! Look, I am already pregnant with your child, this is your eldest son!"

Dongfang Yan recognized the person and was simply furious: it turned out to be her, the bitch who ran away after sleeping with him!

For the past two months, he had almost turned the Imperial City upside down and still couldn't find her.

Unexpectedly, she ran out at this time, and he didn't know what tricks she wanted to play.

Thinking that he had just won Princess Ling Xue's favor, he absolutely could not let this bitch ruin it.

So he suppressed the urge to kill and said: "I don't know you, stop talking nonsense. Men, this woman is impersonating a noble, send her to the government office to be questioned!"

"Wait!" Princess Ling Xue walked a few steps closer and looked Lin Ruzhen up and down.

Dongfang Yan hurriedly said: "Sister Axue, this person has ulterior motives, don't get close to her, and don't listen to her nonsense. I don't know her at all, I don't know who instructed her to bite like a mad dog!"

Ling Xue ignored Dongfang Yan and asked Lin Ruzhen: "Speaking requires evidence, you say you are Prince Jin's secondary consort, do you have evidence?"

Lin Ruzhen said: "There is a mole on my Prince's buttocks; if we hadn't had skin-to-skin contact, I wouldn't know."

This commotion had already attracted many onlookers, and as soon as these words came out, it attracted countless discussions:

"It seems she really is the Prince's consort, otherwise she couldn't know."

"So the Prince also has a mole, it seems he is no different from ordinary people!"

"But why would the Prince's woman be in such a sorry state? I just thought she was a female beggar. And looking at that Prince, he doesn't want to acknowledge her at all."

"She's quite pretty, why doesn't he acknowledge her? Could it be that she cheated and gave the Prince a green hat?"

Seeing that there were more and more onlookers and the discussions were getting uglier, Dongfang Yan gave a look, and the guards immediately drove away all the onlookers.

Dongfang Yan could no longer sit still and slapped Lin Ruzhen in the face: "Bitch, how dare you humiliate me like this, you're looking for death!"

Ling Xue sneered: "It seems it's true. Prince Jin, you are indeed a sentimental person."

After speaking, she turned and left, and the favor she had just felt vanished.

"Sister Axue!" Dongfang Yan shouted, but couldn't call her back, knowing that all his efforts tonight had been in vain.

Lin Ruzhen climbed up from the ground and pitifully tugged at his sleeve: "Prince, listen to me..."

Dongfang Yan had never hated a woman so much, and he grabbed Lin Ruzhen by the throat.

The gnashing voice was hateful to the bone: "Lin Ruzhen, you actually dare to come back? Do you know that I dream of strangling you to death!"

"Prince, I am pregnant... pregnant with your..."

"Even if you are pregnant with my child, so what? If I don't acknowledge it, it's a bastard, and you are just as deserving of death!"

Dongfang Yan's fingers exerted force little by little, wanting to strangle her like a chicken.

"I know... Lin Qingyue's... secret! She... she..."

Hearing the name Lin Qingyue, Dongfang Yan's palm loosened slightly: "What secret does she have?"

"Let go... I... will tell you."

Dongfang Yan threw her on the ground and said coldly: "Speak. If you dare to play with me again, I will slice you into a thousand pieces!"

Lin Ruzhen lay on the ground and gasped for a while before slowly recovering.

Her voice was still a bit hoarse, but her eyes were bright—she won the bet, she knew that as long as it concerned Lin Qingyue, Dongfang Yan would be interested!

"Lin Ruzhen, my patience is limited." Dongfang Yan didn't have much patience to wait, but concerning Lin Qingyue, he couldn't help but be curious.

Lin Ruzhen slowly climbed up from the ground, and although her appearance was still disheveled, the expression on her face returned to the tea-like appearance of the past.

"Prince, have you never doubted Lin Qingyue's identity?"

"What do you mean? Don't tell me you appeared today to tell me that you are actually the real daughter of the Lin family, and Lin Qingyue is a fake?"

"That's right, she is a fake!"

Dongfang Yan sneered: "Is that all you have to say?"

Even if Lin Qingyue's background was problematic, she was now Princess Chaolan, and had won the Crown Prince's favor; whether she was the daughter of the Lin family or not was no longer important.

Lin Ruzhen said: "But what if she is not human, but an evil ghost wearing a human skin? Can an evil ghost be a Prince of Qi?"

Dongfang Yan laughed: "I thought you really knew something. Unexpectedly, you made up such a ridiculous lie! Don't you know that Lin Qingyue is from the Xuanjing Division?"

"Although the Xuanjing Division is a rabble, they do have some skills. It's impossible they wouldn't see through Lin Qingyue's identity."

"Lin Ruzhen, even if you want to frame her, make up something believable!"

Lin Ruzhen said eagerly: "That only means she is not an ordinary evil ghost, and her ability is so great that even the people of the Xuanjing Division can't discover it!" ===== CHAPTER 179 =====