Chapter 152: Will They Divorce?

Mu Yuanzhi saw their impatient expressions as normal; even though Pei Shangyan and Xiao Yichen had seen it often, they couldn't get used to it, and inevitably felt hurt.

Xiao Yichen glanced at Pei Shangyan and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, please step aside; I have something I want to say alone to Ah Zhi."

Pei Shangyan naturally wouldn't let go of the hard-won opportunity; he objected, saying, "I also have matters to discuss with Ah Zhi; Prime Minister Xiao, please step aside first."

Neither would yield to the other; both refused to compromise.

Mu Yuanzhi didn't want to hear any of it: "How coincidental, I also have matters to attend to, I'm busy."

She said that and walked straight away.

At this point Xiao Yichen didn't care whether Pei Shangyan was there or if it was convenient to speak; he rushed over and said, "Ah Zhi, listen to me: Pei Yunxi's pregnancy is an accident!"

His anxious attempt to explain was really funny; Mu Yuanzhi also laughed: "What does that have to do with me?"

What a joke—do you really think she'd care just because someone is carrying his child?

At this point, you're still trying to save face!

Xiao Yichen felt a sting in his heart, he suppressed his sadness and continued: "I just don't want you to misunderstand; it was Pei Yunxi who deliberately gave me soup laced with an aphrodisiac, which is how we ended up with this child."

This is very much like Pei Yunxi, Mu Yuanzhi thought.

Pei Shangyan, listening on the side, widened his eyes in disbelief.

What is Xiao Yichen saying? He actually doesn't want to consummate the marriage with Yunxi?

Moreover, Yunxi actually wants to use such methods to force her prince consort to consummate the marriage with her?

Pei Shangyan still thought that once they were married, they were married; he didn't expect this couple to be so outwardly together but inwardly estranged.

Whether this marriage will head toward ruin, Pei Shangyan really can't say for sure right now.

He then thought of his own engagement and couldn't help feeling a bit wistful.

Will his relationship with Qi Shian also end up like this?

Seeing Mu Yuanzhi only raise an eyebrow, with no other reaction, Xiao Yichen couldn't help feeling sorrow well up; from beginning to end, only he cared, she truly didn't care at all.

He came rushing to explain, hoping she wouldn't misunderstand.

He knew full well this would be the result, yet he was unwilling to accept it.

Mu Yuanzhi: "Finished talking? If you're done, get lost—good dogs don't block the road!"

She called him a dog?!

Xiao Yichen couldn't say whether he felt sad or angry, or more like unwilling to accept it.

How good she used to be to him, how wholeheartedly she cared; now she's just as indifferent and heartless.

"Ah Zhi, I will divorce Pei Yunxi!"

I don't know if it was a spur-of-the-moment impulse or what, but when Xiao Yichen said that, even he startled himself.

But if it weren't his true feeling deep down, how could it have slipped out?

Exactly, he had never wanted to marry Pei Yunxi in the first place; his greatest regret is not stopping this marriage in time.

Previously he would worry that divorcing would anger the emperor and affect his career, but now he realizes he truly doesn't want to spend his life with Pei Yunxi, forcing himself to live with someone he dislikes or even hates—what meaning would such a life have?

"What are you saying, Xiao Yichen?!" Pei Shangyan's pupils constricted.

"Xiao Yichen!" that shout came from the other side.

It was Pei Yunxi!

She didn't know when she had arrived, now looking at Xiao Yichen with a face full of shock.

"I'm carrying your child, and you say you want to divorce me?!"

Pei Yunxi felt a suffocating pain in her chest; this time it wasn't an act, she truly felt her whole body, even her stomach, uncomfortably abnormal.

Does he even know what he's saying?!

She's carrying his flesh and blood, the eldest legitimate son of the Xiao family!

Thinking about it, Pei Yunxi's face flushed with anger as she glared at Mu Yuanzhi, pointing and shouting: "Mu Yuanzhi, why do you keep trying to seduce my prince consort? Seducing a married man?!"

Here we go again, she's sick!

Mu Yuanzhi coldly met the furious face of Pei Yunxi: "You can't even keep your foolish husband in check, so don't come here shouting like a shrew; it's ugly, Pei Yunxi."

"Yunxi! Don't cause trouble!" Pei Shangyan sternly rebuked Pei Yunxi.

Pei Yunxi felt as if she had suffered a great injustice, and instantly burst into tears: "Crown Prince Brother, are you also going to help Mu Yuanzhi?"

Upon hearing that, Pei Shangyan's face darkened further: "It's you who inexplicably targeted your sister, then turned around to blame me?"

"If it weren't for Mu Yuanzhi, how would Brother Chen have said he wants to divorce me?!" Emotionally unstable, Pei Yunxi had lost her usual composed facade; she was on the verge of madness, driven mad by Xiao Yichen.

"If you keep causing trouble, go back to your Xiao family!" Xiao Yichen also spoke up, scolding Pei Yunxi.

Pei Yunxi's crying stopped abruptly; she stared blankly at Pei Shangyan and Xiao Yichen standing left and right of Mu Yuanzhi.

This scene stabbed her eyes with pain.

It was as if they were Mu Yuanzhi's guardian envoys, while she was the target they were guarding against.

Why has it become like this?

When did it start becoming like this?

Shouldn't it have been the opposite before? The Crown Prince Brother and Brother Chen should have stood by her side to protect her, to stop Mu Yuanzhi from harming her!

She's pregnant, after all! Their wife's younger sister is pregnant!

Pei Yunxi glared at Mu Yuanzhi with malice, her viciousness undisguised.

Pei Shangyan was startled by Pei Yunxi's gaze, as if he had never known this sister before.

She had become strange, becoming someone he could not understand.

Pei Shangyan suddenly recalled a scene from earlier in the Imperial Garden, where Lao Si and they had a strange interaction, and Yunxi was kneeling on the ground begging Lao Si for forgiveness.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt Yunxi wasn't as simple as she appeared; perhaps he had never really known this sister of his.

Pei Shangyan now deeply regrets that he once actually distanced himself from Mu Yuanzhi because of Pei Yunxi's duplicity.

Whenever he thought of the words he had said, he blamed himself terribly.

Pei Yunxi unwillingly turned her gaze to Xiao Yichen; even though he had just said he wanted to divorce her, she still hoped he was merely speaking impulsively, but in fact he still couldn't bear to leave her and the child.

"Chen-ge, say something! Do you really want to divorce me?!!" Pei Yunxi shouted angrily.

When Xiao Yichen's gaze turned to Pei Yunxi, his eyes darkened slightly, and he parted his thin lips: "Let's talk about it later."

Talk about it later? That meant she still had a chance!

Pei Yunxi thought humbly, she also despised herself for always yielding, but who made her love him so much!

"Chen-ge, let's go back." Pei Yunxi suppressed her unhappiness, put on a smile, and reached for Xiao Yichen.

Who knew Xiao Yichen would be completely unmoved, stepping back a few paces and saying, "You go back first; I still have something to say to A Zhi."

A Zhi? Pei Yunxi gave a bleak smile.