Chapter 12, can you be any more disgusting?
“I deserve to die! I deserve to die!”
Realizing the magnitude of her mistake, the palace maid hurriedly knelt on the ground, repeatedly knocking her head, her body shaking intensely with fear.
“You deserve to die.”
Huangfu Wuji coldly snorted, his cold ink eyes devoid of any warmth.
“Someone, take this wretched maid away and give her fifty lashes.”
“Yes!”
As soon as the order was given, two palace attendants hastily entered and lifted the maid who had made the mistake, dragging her away without any mercy.
“Crown Prince, have mercy! Crown Prince, have mercy! I won’t dare anymore! Crown Prince, have mercy…”
The palace maid cried and screamed in a state of panic, her voice filled with despair, sounding both terrifying and mocking, as if mocking Shen Qingmei’s exaggerated cries for help.
Shen Qingmei had only seen such scenes on TV, in those palace dramas where eunuchs and maids were often slapped and beaten. But because she knew they were fake, she didn’t feel much. However, now, the maid was truly being dragged away to receive those fifty lashes. This overly realistic experience made Shen Qingmei feel a bit shocked.
Even if Shen Qingmei had not studied the ancient court’s punishments, she knew that those lashes were not something an ordinary person could endure. Even a healthy man would need to lie in bed for ten days or more after receiving fifty lashes. The maid who had just collapsed with a gentle blow, if she were to receive fifty lashes, she wouldn’t die on the spot, but she would definitely not survive.
This was the royal family, this was the palace, where the distinction between high and low was clear, and human life was as insignificant as grass.
Even as the Crown Prince, if she made one wrong move, she could lose her life at any moment.
Thinking of this, Shen Qingmei slowly began to take this completely unfamiliar and new environment seriously. This place was filled with threats and calculations, not a fun or interesting place at all. It was not as magnificent as it seemed. As a political center, as an arena of power, even if she, as the “Crown Prince,” acted as absurdly and foolishly as possible, she would still be the target of those ambitious individuals, the ones who eyed her with great ambition.
Realizing the dangerous situation she was in, Shen Qingmei’s mind was filled with countless thoughts and words, which eventually converged into a single sentence:
Damn it! Your grandpa’s grandpa!
Regardless of the punishment the maid was receiving, screaming and wailing in the courtyard, Huangfu Wuji remained cold and indifferent. He simply ordered the palace attendant to prepare another dose of medicine and then turned to look at Huangfu Chang’an, who was sitting on the ground crying. When she had calmed down a bit, he squatted down and adopted an unusually gentle tone.
“Are you done crying? If you’re done, get up first, go back to your bed and change out of your dirty clothes. Otherwise, you might catch a cold.”
Huh?
Shen Qingmei couldn’t help but let out a surprised sound in her mind. Was he actually showing concern for her?
Seeing Huangfu Chang’an hanging his head, motionless, still in a fit of anger, Huangfu Wuji’s eyes darkened, his face showing annoyance. He seemed reluctant to pay her any attention. However, after a couple of seconds, Huangfu Wuji reached out his hand in front of her.
“Give me your hand, I’ll help you up.”
“Wuwu…” Shen Qingmei, like an injured little creature, twisted her chubby body and reluctantly reached out to grab his fingers.
Huangfu Wuji held her wrist with his hand, secretly exerting strength in order to lift up the heavy load of a certain someone from the ground.
Seeing his kind gesture towards her, Shen Qingmei couldn’t help but want to disgust him.
This man clearly had no good intentions. Whether it was when he jumped into the icy lake to save her, or when he just punished the maid on her behalf, or even now when he was trying to comfort her… The reason he suppressed his disgust and did all this was probably because she was the “Crown Prince.” For some reason, he couldn’t harm her, so he had to win her over.
Meeting his concerned gaze, Shen Qingmei couldn’t help but feel a flicker in her heart.
It is said that people from the imperial family are all skilled actors, and this statement is indeed true.
If it weren’t for Shen Qingmei’s sharp eyes, honed under the guidance of her godfather, she wouldn’t have been able to detect any flaws in his expression and attitude.
Once Huangfu Wuji confirmed that she had truly lost her memory, he immediately suppressed his doubts and naturally wouldn’t show excessive eagerness. However, compared to his cold and heartless treatment of the maid, his willingness to “lower himself” and show concern for the abandoned Crown Prince was already enough to make one grateful to the point of tears.
The original owner of this body was already a clueless fool, so encountering such an Oscar-worthy actor who could manipulate her in circles was not surprising at all.
Grabbing his wrist and standing up, Shen Qingmei mischievously kicked her little leg and before Huangfu Wuji could react, she suddenly threw herself at him!
Huangfu Wuji didn’t expect her to pounce on him directly and, in a moment of carelessness, he was unexpectedly knocked down to the ground.
Being tackled by a beautiful woman is a great fortune, but being tackled by a chubby and round person like her is a disaster!
The cliché kissing scene that often happens in novels didn’t occur for a couple of reasons. First, it was hindered by Shen Qingmei’s plump and short body, clinging to his chest like a turtle, unable to reach his face. Second, Shen Qingmei didn’t have any intention to take advantage of him or forcefully kiss him, although he was quite handsome. In her current state, she couldn’t bear to kiss anyone…
Shen Qingmei wasn’t afraid that he would vomit on her, but rather that he would slap her to death after vomiting!
So, for the sake of her life, Shen Qingmei had a lecherous heart but lacked the courage to act on it.
With her body pinned underneath his massive weight, his face turning green as a result of her tear-stained, chubby face, with eyes and nose distorted from the pressure, Huangfu Wuji resisted the urge to push Huangfu Chang’an away with a punch. He took a deep breath, as if he had narrowly escaped death.
“Chang’an, get up quickly… You’re too heavy!”
Hehe… I really want to flatten you, to disgust you, let’s see how long you can keep up the act?
While Shen Qingmei mocked him internally, she rubbed against him with her bucket-like waist, at the same time reaching out to touch his handsome face, putting on an infatuated expression.
“Big Brother… Ah… Why do you have to be my Big Brother?! If you were my male pet, it would be so much better… I would definitely ‘love’ you properly…”
“Get lost…” Seeing Huangfu Chang’an about to drool, Huangfu Wuji finally reached his limit, gritting his teeth, “…off!”
Pushed forcefully by Huangfu Wuji, Huangfu Chang’an immediately teared up, crawling over to hug his leg, rubbing his snotty and teary face against his clothes.
“Wuwu… Don’t be mean to me! I just… just like you too much! Even though we’re siblings, even though we have the same father, why do you look so handsome, and I look so ugly…”
If the pre-amnesia Huangfu Chang’an was just ugly, chubby, infatuated, and silly, making it hard for anyone to like him, at least he was relatively obedient and commendable in front of Huangfu Wuji.
However, after losing his memory, the present Huangfu Chang’an, who not only had a lecherous mindset but also delusionally desired him, resembled an octopus, clinging to him with all eight limbs, touching and grabbing him. He was truly disgusting, to the point where one couldn’t help but want to kick him to death!
Having grown up in the deep palace, Huangfu Wuji’s patience was beyond ordinary, but never before had he felt as close to a breakdown as he did now.
He felt the urge to kill!
Just as Huangfu Wuji’s anger was about to erupt, on the verge of turning into a tragic incident, a bright figure floated in from the door, and without any tact, uttered a rather offensive remark:
“Huangfu Chang’an, can you be any more disgusting?”
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