Quick Wear: What to do if you are entangled by the male supporting role of Collapse

"what?!"

Chu Jing racked her brains but could not imagine that Xie Qiheng would actually say that.

Xia Bin was no less shocked than Chu Jing. He repeated Xie Qiheng's words word for word, "It's absolutely true! Not a single word of falsehood!"

After thinking for a moment, he said to Xia Bin, "Third brother! You've clearly fallen into his trap! Even if he said he intended to come and ask for marriage, what does that have to do with returning my hairpin? He's asking for his marriage, and you want my hairpin! It's unrelated and neither of us is at fault!"

After hearing this, Xia Bin immediately understood that this was indeed the case, but he did not admit defeat. Instead, he said to Chu Jinglai, "What about you? Didn't he steal the hairpin from you? And you came back to cry to your father? If not, why would you ask for the hairpin?"

Chu Jing was speechless, thinking that there were things he had not done well enough.

Father Xia gave each of them fifty lashes of the cane. "One was impatient and irritable, and was inconsiderate, allowing someone to take advantage of the opportunity and steal the hairpin. The other was too concerned, distracted, and allowed someone to get away with it. Both are at fault and should be punished! So each of you will have to copy the book ten times! The deadline is half a month!"

Xia Bin had a bitter look on his face: "Father!" He was already so old, but he was still punished to copy books!

Chu Jing tried to get away with it by being cute: "Daddy~" She already has a heavy workload every day, how can she have time to copy books?

However, Xia's father was hard-hearted when it came to education.

If you want to learn, then learn well. If you are half-baked and self-righteous, that is the most dangerous.

The officialdom is like a battlefield. It is easy to dodge an open attack but difficult to guard against an arrow from the dark. If you are not careful, you may lose your head!

This isn't just a small fight.

Xia Bin also understood his father's intentions, so he had to accept the punishment obediently.

But what is more important right now is of course Xie Qiheng’s proposal of marriage.

He looked at his younger sister and said, "Father, what should we do now that Prince Cheng wants to propose marriage?"

Father Xia's face showed no emotion. He said, "Prince Cheng is handsome and dignified, with excellent character. He is both talented and handsome. He is rare in the world."

Once these words were spoken, it meant that he agreed with Xie Qiheng's opinion.

Xia Bin was unconvinced and said, "Humph! He's just an ordinary guy. If he weren't a descendant of the royal family, how could he be so arrogant? He obtained the hairpin by fraud and then took it by force in the street. How can that be considered a good character? He's just a street hooligan!"

Father Xia raised his eyes and glanced at Xia Bin, knowing that Xia Bin was eager to protect his sister and was dissatisfied with the prince. He slowly said:

"To seize what you desire, to take advantage of the situation, to be able to act decisively and decisively is courage. All is fair in war. If you are deceived, it means you were one step behind, your strategy was insufficient. What's wrong with having both courage and strategy?"

"In my opinion, it's very good!" After saying the last sentence, Father Xia looked at Chu Jing.

Chu Jing stood up and retorted, "He said he wanted to marry me, but how can I know if he really means it? What if he's just pretending, just like the Crown Prince?"

Father Xia paused for a moment and said to Chu Jing, "Since he has written a letter asking Prince Cheng to come to the capital to ask for marriage, it will take some time. You can test whether he is sincere. If he is sincere, you should marry him. If he is not sincere, I will reject him."

Chu Jing knew that this was a decision made by Xia's father after careful consideration.

He said this because he really has high hopes for Xie Qiheng.

Now, Chu Jing could only agree, "I understand, Daddy!"

The matter has come to an end, and Chu Jing and Xia Bin take their leave.

After both of them left, Father Xia put down his writing and sat quietly at the table, as if he had a lot on his mind.

After a long time, he suddenly let out another long sigh.

Prince Cheng… what a Prince Cheng! He expressed his loyalty, yet also mentioned that the Crown Prince was eyeing him covetously, hoping to force the Xia family to choose between him and the Crown Prince.

Whether it is a human or a ghost, let’s wait and see!

Although no one knew about Xie Qiheng's robbery of the hairpin that day, the prince still found out that the two met and went to a teahouse for a while.

Later, it was discovered that Xia Bin had gone to Prince Cheng's Mansion. The prince felt very uneasy and always felt that this matter was strange.

He immediately found his younger sister, the Sixth Princess, and asked her to invite Chu Jing to the palace to play.

The Sixth Princess naturally obeyed and immediately sent someone to invite Chu Jing to the Xia Mansion to enter the palace the next day.

Chu Jing received an invitation from the Sixth Princess and had to go to the palace tomorrow.

She knew that this was probably the prince's intention, but it was difficult to refuse. After all, she was a princess after all.

The next morning, Chu Jing packed up and took a carriage to the palace.

When the Sixth Princess saw Chu Jing, she was also very warm. She hugged Chu Jing's arm affectionately and talked about interesting and new things that happened today. She looked closer than real sisters.

"Anyang, you were shooting arrows by the stream that day and lost the hairpin. After you returned home, did you really ask someone to deliver it to Prince Cheng?" She asked with a gossipy look on her face.

Chu Jing put down his cup and chopsticks, thinking, after going around in circles, is it finally time to get to the point?

She shook her head. "Of course not."

How could Xie Qiheng wait until then? He was robbing people on the road, like a bandit.

The Sixth Princess secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said that the Crown Prince was overthinking it.

Anyang obviously likes her brother, the Crown Prince, so how could she give the hairpin to Xie Qiheng?

Don't talk about accepting defeat. Anyang is a little bully in the capital. If she cheats, who would dare to go to her house to rob her?

After getting the answer she wanted, the Sixth Princess turned to talk about other things, which were nothing more than trivial matters in the palace, and the topic mostly revolved around Crown Prince Xie Tingxuan.

Of course, all the words about Xie Tingxuan are complimentary.

It's no wonder that Xia Chujing fell in love with Crown Prince Xie Tingxuan. The Crown Prince was trying to seduce her, and the girls around him praised her every day and brainwashed her. It would be hard not to like her.

"The flowers in the Imperial Garden are blooming recently, they are very bright and beautiful. Why don't we go to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers? It's boring to stay in the palace all the time." Soon, the Sixth Princess suggested.

Chu Jingwu obeyed, "Okay."

The two of them had only been in the Imperial Garden for a quarter of an hour when they met Tingxuan by chance.

The prince was wearing an indigo robe and had a smile on his face, making people feel like they were in the spring breeze.

It’s no wonder that everyone says that the prince is kind and a very good person.

The Sixth Princess ran over with a smile, "Crown Prince!"

Xie Tingxuan smiled and nodded to the Sixth Princess, and touched her head lovingly.

The Sixth Princess called Chu Jing over as well, "It's a pity we're not in our childhood anymore. I still remember that time when Anyang and I were competing to have the Emperor pat our heads!"

Chu Jing saluted the prince politely, without any sign of inappropriateness or intimacy. "When I was little, I was ignorant and made a lot of jokes."

Xie Tingxuan's smile faded a little when he heard this. He said:

"I actually miss Anyang's childhood more. The older he gets, the more distant he becomes from me, the Crown Prince."

The Sixth Princess listened from the side with a look of shock on her face.

Chu Jing naturally pretended to be deaf and dumb and refused to listen.

The prince gradually lost his patience and sent the Sixth Princess away, wanting to talk to Chu Jing alone.

Xie Qiheng, who learned that Chu Jing had entered the palace early this morning, also followed her into the palace.