Transmigrated into a vicious female supporting role, reborn as a hostage to the paranoid male protag

For a moment, Qiu Shuang felt that she was stunned. It was not until he reminded her that she came back to her senses, lowered her head and smiled to cover it up.

"It's nothing important. Her Highness the Princess asked me to ask if Prince Chu is feeling better. If he is, I'll go to Hanmo Residence with Her Highness the Princess to study in a few days."

Chu Xingchen felt a flicker of hesitation when he heard this. Zhaoying's reports to him recently were identical to Qiu Shuang's.

Zhaoying said that since he had been secretly following her for the past two months, Su Yingxue had either been studying and doing homework in Hanmoxuan and the inner palace, or practicing archery and riding in the Shenwu Army's training ground in the palace.

When Zhaoying first reported this to Chu Xingchen, he was a bit unconvinced. How could someone who had been unwilling to study since childhood suddenly change his mind and focus on his studies?

It was probably just a whim, a spur of the moment thing, and after a few days, I lost interest and it ended badly. Who knew that I would persist for more than two months.

According to Zhaoying, Su Yingxue couldn't even recognize all the characters of the Dasheng language at the beginning, but now she can read poetry, calligraphy and lyrics without any problem, write policy papers and inscribe on paintings. Even Mr. Qingming, who is well-known in the court, praised Su Yingxue for her extraordinary talent and intelligence.

I just heard that Su Yingxue's riding and archery skills are really not good. I heard that nowadays all the noble ladies in Dasheng Kingdom are good at horse riding and archery.

It was a pity that the princess, who was once a peerless noble, couldn't even mount a horse on her first day. She also couldn't even draw her bow, let alone shoot at a target. So even now, horseback archery was still her weakness.

Although Chu Xingchen didn't know, what was Su Yingxue's intention this time, by giving him books and inviting him to study with his classmates on the Six Arts?

What? Could it be that Su Yingxue, the eldest princess of a great prosperous country, really wanted to train this prince from a neighboring country? To train him to be knowledgeable and polite, to be well-educated and well-mannered, to train him in the six arts, so that he could become an outstanding prince?

Is it really possible that there are people so stupid?

Chu Xingchen didn't believe it, nor did he want to believe it.

The world often treated him, Chu Xingchen, badly, and he, Chu Xingchen, had long been accustomed to it. Sometimes he even felt that perhaps, with his fate, Chu Xingchen, he was not even worthy of meeting someone who was willing to treat him, Chu Xingchen, well.

Chu Xingchen knew clearly that he was the prince of the Great Qi Kingdom. He remembered the quarrels and fights of Qi Sheng.

That year, Chu Xingchen was six years old. He was the son of an unknown maid in a side hall of the Da Qi harem. Even in the eyes of the Da Qi palace, no one truly regarded him as a master.

Because the father of the monarch of Da Qi was dissatisfied with the annual tribute increase from Qi to Sheng, he sent troops to the border city of Da Sheng, intending to capture several cities and use them as bargaining chips to renegotiate the annual tribute regulations with the monarch of Da Sheng.

Chu Xingchen's father, the emperor, had simply overestimated the combat capabilities of the border generals of Qi. He thought that with the right time, right place, and right people, and with Qi being rich and powerful, it would be easy to capture a few border cities.

It was also his father, the emperor, who had been so full of vigor and enthusiasm in provoking the war, but now felt so much regret and self-blame. He blamed himself for forgetting that "a ruler should not raise an army in anger, and a general should not attack in anger."

However, the timing was not right. The fierce fighting lasted for several years. The Sheng State fought stubbornly, and the troops of both sides fought each other, but the war situation always reached a stalemate.

Later, after the war had lasted for two years, the State of Qi suffered a century-long drought. Thousands of fertile fields died due to the drought and lack of water, the land dried up and cracked, and no grain was harvested.

People's livelihoods were dire, and the land was ravaged by starvation. With no corn or rice, no military pay to support the front lines, and no rations to support the advance, Qi was utterly defeated. In just a few months, they lost three cities.

So, when he was six years old, he was respectfully served by palace servants for the first time. He was taught to bathe and fast, to wear brocade and silk clothes that he had never worn before, and even his hair was combed into a crown. The palace servants temporarily taught him the etiquette of meeting the emperor.

Chu Xingchen never forgot that day, the first and last time he walked towards his father's magnificent imperial study in the Great Qi Dynasty with trembling legs. He bowed his head and kowtowed like others, and for the first time, he called out "Father" in a trembling voice.

This was the first time in Chu Xingchen's life that he had an audience with his father as a prince, and it was also the first time he saw his father.

That day, his father gave him a few fine clothes, gold, silver and jewelry, and also held a banquet in the palace, treating him to many delicacies from land and sea.

At that moment, the six-year-old Chu Xingchen even cried with joy. He felt that his previous miserable days were coming to an end. He actually had a father. After all, belated fatherly love is still love, belated care is still care.

But later, it was his father who tore apart Chu Xingchen's ridiculous and absurd dream at that time.

His father, Chu Xingchen, the Emperor Chu Zhewu of Da Qi, made wrong decisions, which led to Da Qi's defeat at the hands of Da Sheng, causing the people to suffer and the country to cede territory and pay compensation.

At the end of the same year, Chu Zhewu signed a 20-year tribute agreement with the Dasheng Kingdom, and paid ten boxes of gold, one box of jewelry and five cities as compensation. He even agreed to the king of Dasheng to send his own prince to the capital of Dasheng as a hostage. This humiliating contract was exchanged for temporary stability.

Before leaving the palace, six-year-old Chu Xingchen had no idea what a hostage was. He only knew that the day before, Chu Zhewu, his biological father, had gently called his name for the first time and given him a smorgasbord of delicacies.

It was not until he grew up that Chu Xingchen realized that the farewell banquet was just to make him willingly board the carriage to the Dasheng Dynasty for the Daqi Dynasty.

Chu Xingchen's face darkened as he recalled the past, his eyes cold. His father, the Emperor, had three sons, and he was the one with the least background, a mere figure insignificant in the Great Qi Palace.

Later, Chu Xingchen, who had adapted to the life of a proton, was finally beaten and kicked by the palace servants one day. He was unable to move. When he fell in the snow and vomited blood, he suddenly saw the brilliant night sky.

At that moment, Chu Xingchen felt endless pain, extreme humiliation and torture, but suddenly he fell in love with that moment. He looked at the starry sky and suddenly believed in his fate.

For the first time, Chu Xingchen discovered that his life was nothing but being bullied and abused in one place after another.

In the Da Qi Palace, Chu Xingchen was the target of bullying and abuse. The same thing happened after he left the Da Qi Dynasty and came to the Da Sheng Dynasty. It was just that he was beaten even harder in a different place.

When did she first become filled with indignation at the injustices of the world? Was it when she was repeatedly beaten to death by those ugly, foul-mouthed palace servants? Or was it when she was faced with endless work, endless toilets, and endless latrines to clean day and night?