My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

Chapter 258 The Other Side of the King of Chu

King Chu: "If you don't believe me, you can ask my mother. She knows this too."

The corner of Yan Ruobing's mouth twitched: This bastard is so cunning and clever. He knows that I don't like Concubine Ru, so he never misses any opportunity and finds ways to make me visit his mother's bedroom.

Never mind, the Queen is right. For the sake of my son, I have to pay more attention to Concubine Ru in the future. However, I will only pay a little attention to her. That woman, her background determines her knowledge. After all, she is too petty and not presentable. She is not my type.

In Yanqing Palace, before the King of Chu entered the palace gate, he heard the voice of Jinxiu, the maidservant of Concubine Ru, "Your Highness is now a concubine, why do you still want to stay in this dilapidated Yanqing Palace?"

"Alas... I've told you many times, no matter what your position is, it will remain the same as it was before."

"But... I just can't stand seeing Concubine Cheng..."

"Cough cough..." The King of Chu coughed a few times deliberately.

"Zong'er? Is Zong'er here?" Inside the door, Concubine Ru called her son's nickname with joy.

Jinxiu went forward and opened the door. "My Lord, you are here. The Queen knew that you were going back to Beijing to enter the palace today, and she has been thinking about you!"

The King of Chu glanced at her and said in a cold voice: "Just serve me well on weekdays, and don't worry too much about things that you shouldn't worry about."

Jinxiu trembled and knelt down quickly, "I know I am guilty. I have overstepped my authority."

"Good to know. Go down. I want to talk to my mother alone."

Jinxiu bit her lip, raised her eyes to secretly glance at the cold face of King Chu, and quickly retreated.

"Mother..." The King of Chu turned around and faced his biological mother with a completely different face.

He ran over quickly, squatted in front of Concubine Ru, rested his head on her legs, and kept rubbing his head against her, "Mother, I miss you..."

Just like a Husky acting coquettishly in front of its owner.

Concubine Ru stroked his head with a smile in her eyes, "Zong'er, mother misses you too... Hurry, get up! Look at your shameless appearance, you don't look like a prince at all."

"No, I won't get up. I just want to stay by my mother's side. If I don't look like a prince, then I won't look like one. It's enough for me to look like my mother's son..."

"You're talking nonsense again!" Ru Fei smiled and pressed his forehead. "I knew you were coming back, so I prepared your favorite snacks for you."

"No, I don't want to eat. Compared to hugging my mother, eating snacks doesn't taste good at all."

"It was made by my mother herself!"

The King of Chu stood up immediately and said, "Then I want to eat now... No, I want my mother to feed me, like when I was a child. Ah——"

Concubine Ru shook her head helplessly and had to pick up a piece and stuff it into his open mouth.

After the King of Chu had some snacks in his mouth, he sat down next to Concubine Ru and began to rub his head on Concubine Ru's shoulder, with a happy little woman's face.

Concubine Ru looked at him from the side and sighed, "Alas, if those people under you saw you like this, they would probably be so shocked that their eyes would fall out."

"Don't worry, mother. They will never see it. If anyone dares to make fun of me, I will kill him. Ah——"

Concubine Ru stuffed another piece of dessert into his mouth, "Zong'er, you are really notorious now. Sigh, I don't know whether I should be happy or worried."

The King of Chu sat up straight, swallowed the snack in his mouth, and took a sip of the tea beside him. "If I were not so notorious and unpopular in the court, I would have died in the hands of that bitch Concubine Cheng long ago."

"You have been walking on thin ice in the palace since you were young. In the end, it's all because of your mother's incompetence. Your mother entered the palace as a maid when she was young. She has no relatives and is not favored by your father, let alone helping you in any way."

"Don't you think this is the best? If your mother's family is rich and powerful, and I am deeply loved by my father, I will become a thorn in the eyes of some people... Oh, I think Jinxiu doesn't know the importance of things. Do you want to..."

Concubine Ru shook her head gently, "Let her do what she wants. For so many years, my mother has always been at the mercy of others in the harem, and she has been frustrated. Fortunately, she doesn't have any bad intentions. She just thinks that if I get promoted, she can also be proud of myself. It's normal."

"Hmph, his ambition is higher than the sky. We must guard against such people." The King of Chu's eyes turned cold.

Concubine Ru: "You don't have to worry about me. It's better to keep her. After all, I don't need someone too smart around me. Alas, there are only two of us, mother and son. One is so spoiled that anyone would wish you dead, and the other is so weak that anyone can step on her..."

The King of Chu smiled when he heard this, "Don't worry, mother. One day, I will make sure you enjoy the highest honor in the world! I will make your father regret it."

Concubine Ru smiled perfunctorily, "Okay, mother will wait... In fact, mother's greatest wish is just that you are healthy and safe, and I won't force you to do anything else."

The King of Chu's eyes were firm.

He saw how much hardship his mother had endured over the years in order to protect him as he grew up.

My mother is not as good at scheming as other women in the harem, nor will she bow down and scrape to please a man who doesn't like her, and there is no one in the court who supports her.

She had thought about relying on the queen, who was virtuous and would protect her and her son. But she was not good at socializing, and she knew that relying on the queen would make her even more of a thorn in Concubine Cheng's side.

Therefore, she simply did not rely on anyone and remained an insignificant presence in the harem, hardly interacting with anyone.

Her only weapon is to show weakness.

After all, no one would regard such a pair of mother and son as a threat.

If not for this, Concubine Cheng would have persecuted the mother and son to death long ago.

But she also knew that her son had grown up, and if he continued like this, he would eventually become cannon fodder for other princes to seize power.

But this son was extremely smart, and his temperament was more like his father. When he was seven or eight years old, he already understood his mother's painstaking efforts and knew that he should not show his talents too early when he was still insufficiently prepared.

As a result, he lived to the other extreme, becoming a playboy who was hated by everyone.

During this process, he also made his father aware of his abilities from time to time, until he felt that he was capable of protecting his mother, and then his father really began to pay attention to him.

"Mother." The King of Chu suddenly said, "Mother, do you remember the girl I mentioned to you?"

"Are you talking about Miss An from the Minister of Rites of the Real Kingdom?"

The King of Chu nodded, hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "I want to marry her!"

Concubine Ru was silent for a long while, then sighed, "Let's not talk about the fact that she is the daughter of an important official of the Zhenguo Kingdom. As for the matter of feelings, both parties must be in love. If she is interested in you, then find a way to marry her and treat her well. If she is not interested in you, then don't force it, understand? I don't want to see any woman like me back then..."

The King of Chu's eyes turned red, and he covered Concubine Ru's mouth with his hand: "Mother, it's my fault for bringing up your sad past."

"It's okay!" Concubine Ru pulled her son's hand down, patted it gently, and said, "Mother is very calm now, because no matter what happened, God brought you to me after all. Because of you, as long as you are by my side, I feel that no matter what happens, it is worth it. I have no regrets in this life."

The King of Chu's eyes became even redder. "Mother, I dare not disobey your words. Mother, rest assured, I will definitely make her like me. I will go back now and dismiss those women in the mansion."

Seeing his determined expression, Concubine Ru thought to herself: It seems that this boy has really fallen in love this time. However, you are known as the number one pervert in Changguo. Are you sure that a little girl would be willing to marry a jerk like you?

"Find an opportunity to bring this girl into the palace. Mother also wants to see her, okay?"

The King of Chu nodded: "I have the same idea. When her leg injury is healed and she can move around without any problem, I will bring her into the palace... In addition, I told my father that she gets along very well with the women in my house. If my father asks, mother, you have to help me..."

"understood……"

The distance from the imperial palace to the Prince of Chu's mansion was not far, and the carriage only took two incense sticks of time.

But today, the King of Chu asked the carriage to move slowly.

As he sat quietly in the carriage, he recalled what he had blurted out in front of his mother, saying that he wanted to marry An Ran.

He admitted that he acted on impulse.

In fact, he regretted it as soon as he finished speaking, because even if An Ran liked him, she was the woman of the Lord of Wangyou Valley. He would not offend the Lord of Wangyou Valley for a woman.

When leaving Yanqing Palace, Concubine Ru asked him a question: "Even if I ask you to give up fighting for the throne, will you choose her?"

He didn't answer, he didn't know how to answer.

Yes, if he had to give up the fight for the throne, would he be willing to choose her?

If he is determined to marry her, the entire Wangyou Valley will become his enemy, and there will be more obstacles on his way to the top.

But if he gave up fighting for the throne, the help of Forget-Sorrow Valley would seem to be of no significance to him.

He never thought that he would face such a choice.

How could it be that I could not choose between a woman and the throne?

What is a woman?

It's just a plaything. As long as I want, I can follow you wherever you go.

All the women in the mansion wanted to do everything they could to get into his bed.

If he liked the one he saw, he would sleep with him. If he didn't like the one he saw, he would just have someone drag him away and give him as a reward to his men.

This is what a crazy person like the King of Chu in Changguo should do.

But just now, in the palace, he actually made a decision in his heart that he would never touch other women again.

Regardless of whether he could get An Ran or not, he didn't want to touch other women.

Because now he feels disgusted when other women get close to him.

Oh my God, he didn't know when he started to become like this.

At first, he thought he had some hidden illness and was really nervous for two days.

But later, he found that as long as he was close to An Ran, he would become a normal man again.

Yes, this king does have a hidden illness.

Peace is the only antidote.

"Fuck!" The King of Chu couldn't help but curse.

He let the carriage move slowly because he didn't know what to choose.

But walking slowly does not mean stopping.