Transmigrating to a Female-Dominated World: Handsome Men Keep Chasing After Me

Chapter 91

Pei Yundai stood up, steadying his slightly unsteady body, his face resolute.

"Then we should ask what the prince has done!"

"What have I done?"

Nalan Jingwen knew roughly why Pei Yundai had come, but she absolutely refused to accept these unfounded accusations.

Rong Hengyu looked at her coldly with his phoenix eyes, "Even if the prince has done something heinous, His Majesty will punish him. His Majesty has not said anything yet, how dare you be so presumptuous here!"

This was the first time Nalan Jingwen had ever seen Rong Hengyu so angry. What was the reason for this?

Upon hearing this, Pei Yundai frowned even more deeply. She looked at Nalan Jingwen and asked, "Has the Prince not yet told the Prince Consort about what he did?"

"I have always acted with integrity and would never deny it. But now you have trespassed into my palace and even attempted to assassinate me. Does your Pei family intend to rebel?!"

As this charge was brought down, Pei Yundai's pupils contracted sharply, and her fists, hanging by her sides, slowly clenched. It didn't matter if she was in trouble, but she couldn't let the Pei family be implicated. The Pei family had been loyal and virtuous for generations, how could they be insulted by such a charge?

She looked at Nalan Jingwen with eyes that seemed to want to kill her, but she slowly knelt down to pay her respects.

"Your subject, Pei Yundai, pays his respects to Your Highness."

There was no other reason than that she was a subject.

Although they are both subjects, they are ultimately different.

Nalan Jingwen patted Rong Hengyu's hand to reassure him, but the latter shook his head at her and took her hand instead.

Nalan Jingwen did not refuse. They could not show their discord in front of outsiders. Even if it was not a real discord, people would still gossip. Nalan Jingwen, being a woman, did not care, but Rong Hengyu could not.

She called for two intact stools and led Rong Hengyu to sit down.

"Speak, what business do you have with me?"

Nalan Jingwen wouldn't let her get up, so Pei Yundai couldn't get up and could only continue kneeling.

"Take the prince away."

Nalan Jingwen raised an eyebrow. "You just wanted to kill me, but now you're saying you want to take me away. Don't you think that's contradictory?"

Pei Yundai simply looked at her, his gaze firm, defending himself with neither arrogance nor servility.

"I had no intention of killing you."

Nalan Jingwen chuckled softly.

"You didn't intend to kill me, but you want to teach me a lesson, right? Who gave you the audacity? Aren't you afraid I'll report you to His Majesty?"

"I'm afraid, but I don't regret it."

"What a wonderful statement about not having any regrets."

Pei Yundai stared at her and continued, "Please come back to the manor with me, Your Highness."

Give me a reason.

Upon hearing this, Pei Yundai clenched his fists even tighter, took a deep breath, and said, "Che'er... wants to see you."

Upon hearing this name, Nalan Jingwen showed no surprise and remained calm.

"Don't go."

I refused without even thinking about it.

"Why?! Do you know why Che'er did this for you..."

"know."

"then you……"

Nalan Jingwen looked at her with a distant expression and said, "I have already made it clear to him that I do not wish to have any further entanglement with him."

"Nalan Jingwen, do you even have a heart?!"

Hearing her nonchalant words, Pei Yundai felt a surge of anger, wishing he could tear the woman in front of him to pieces!

"So what if I have it? So what if I don't? Do you want me to dig it up and show it to you?"

"Do you know that Che'er has been locking himself in his room day and night for your sake? At first, he would eat a little food, but since he went to see you a few days ago, he hasn't eaten a single grain of rice or drunk a drop of water. He won't allow anyone into his room, and he's been in a daze. He caught a cold but refused to take his medicine. He keeps calling your name. How could you be so heartless!"

Nalan Jingwen's heart stirred slightly. He concealed the expression in his eyes and said, word by word, "From beginning to end, I have been rejecting him. He was the one who took advantage of my unpreparedness to follow me. He was the one who said he wanted to marry me. He has been relentlessly pursuing me. I have clearly rejected him countless times. If I had intentionally been ambiguous with him and kept things unclear without explicitly rejecting him, I would accept your accusations without being able to refute them. But I did not! So what gives you the right to speak of me like this?!"

Although she was a little angry, she still didn't tell anyone that Pei Yunche had climbed into her bed in the middle of the night.

Rong Hengyu simply looked at her without saying a word, and tightened his grip on her hand.

Nalan Jingwen knew he was trying to comfort her, and gave him a faint smile.

Pei Yundai stood there, stunned, feeling that the woman in front of him was completely unfamiliar.

She opened her mouth, then said, "You've been involved with so many men, what good would it do to go see him?"

Nalan Jingwen frowned even more deeply. "Whom I provoke is my own business. What does it have to do with him?"

"Furthermore, what good would it do for me to visit him? Give him hope and then marry him? Or leave him alone in an empty house, living the life of a widow? Or let him watch me revel with others every night?"

The grip on his hand suddenly tightened, and Nalan Jingwen glanced at Rong Hengyu, who still maintained his dignified and elegant demeanor.

Pei Yundai fell silent. What Nalan Jingwen said made sense, but how could she bear to watch her own brother suffer so much?

Nalan Jingwen didn't want to say anything more, so he took Rong Hengyu's hand and left.

"I will have someone take inventory of the things you broke and send the bill to the Pei residence. Remember to pay."

After saying that, he turned and left without looking back.

Walking along the path in the back mountain, Rong Hengyu took a small step behind her, with Hongyun following in the distance.

"Actually, it wouldn't hurt for Your Highness to go and visit Young Master Pei."

"What's the point of reading it? It only adds to your troubles."

She watched as she walked slowly.

Behind the hill, a pond and waterside pavilion are nestled amidst winding corridors. Beyond the corridors lies an artificial hill covered in vibrant green moss, next to which stands a low, vermilion railing. Interspersed among the green pines and cypresses are clusters of lush, abundant flowers, exuding a captivating fragrance.

Even such a beautiful view could not dispel the restlessness in her heart.

……

night.

Rong Hengyu looked at the woman reading on the couch. Although her face was expressionless, he knew that she was not absorbed in the book.

I poured her a cup of tea, walked over and handed it to her, saying, "It's late, go to sleep early."

Nalan Jingwen took the tea but didn't drink it; he simply placed it on the small table.

"I'm not sleepy yet, you should go to sleep first."

Rong Hengyu simply smiled faintly, his plain white inner robe appearing even more gentle under the candlelight.

He took the book from her hand and sat down in her lap.

"Is Your Highness still worried about him?"

Nalan Jingwen shook his head. "No."

Rong Hengyu simply smiled, “Young Master Pei grew up with you since childhood and has been with us for so long. Even if we can’t be husband and wife, we can still be friends. What’s there to be ashamed of when friends worry about each other?”

He turned and looked at Nalan Jingwen, the candlelight flickering in his eyes.

"Your Highness, please go and see Young Master Pei. Consider it as a visit on my behalf. After all, Young Master Pei took care of me along the way, and I haven't had a chance to thank him yet."

Nalan Jingwen stared at him intently, knowing that he was just trying to find a plausible excuse for himself.

Undeniably, she found it very helpful.

Rong Hengyu was just like that, thorough in everything he did.