The Noble Woman's Guide On How to Tease One's Husband

Chapter 109- Choice

Though it was a false alarm, Jungkook was still extremely furious with Meng Chen's attempted assassination on Lisa. Those imperial guards on-guard at Xuande Gate at that time were also severely punished. He had ordered all Meng family members who enter the palace would be subjected to inspections and immediate execution would be enforced should sharp weapons were found.

His bottomline had really been trampled this time. Originally, he wanted to remove the Meng family but now he was unable to do so.

Seeing his discontentment these days, Lisa dared not mention this and merely asked Yue'ya to inquire about the situation outside. She heard that the badly injured Meng Chen had been lying in bed for half a month and kept rambling such incoherent speeches this whole time about why kill her or destroy the Ye family. When Meng Qi came to the palace for an audience later, he was blocked by Zhuo Jin. Unable to meet Jungkook, he then went to Chu Zhenghe's mansion. When he returned home, his whole person was silent and just waiting to marry Meng Chen off to the Zhizi, Wu Lun, after the Spring Festival.

[T/N: 质子 (Zhízǐ) – a prince sent to be held in a neighbouring state as a hostage in ancient China]

By chance it was Hoony's day off on the day of her marriage and he took advantage of it to enter the palace to see Lisa.

Wisps of white vapor were curling from the pot of fruit tea on the round marble table which obviously had just been prepared while the sweet fruity aroma filled the air that inexplicably warmed the heart. Both brother and sister were sitting facing each other on either side of the round table where one dressed in an ink-colored brocade robe while the other was wearing a moon-white palace dress. From a distance, they looked like a plain-colored misty cloud landscape painting that complemented each other perfectly.

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"Elder Brother, you really hide it very well from me."

Fiddling with the plump strawberries in a container, Lisa had no intention to eat it. Instead, she kept glaring at Hoony but Hoony just relaxingly drank his tea without taking her censuring seriously.

"It was because we knew you would stop it that His Majesty and I decided to hide it from you."

Lisa was furious, "Was I wrong to stop it? What if the Meng family instigates the Northern troops to rebel after the killing of Meng Chen? Not only will there be lots of trouble in the capital, the three states in Northern Land will be out of His Majesty's control and should the Yi tribe take advantage of the chaos to invade then the line of defense in the north will be breached where the consequences will be unimaginable! You definitely know these better than me, why don't you dissuade His Majesty?"

"I don't want to." Hoony turned his head to look out the window and a layer of cold frost shrouded his eyebrows, "Because I want to kill her too."

Lisa was completely rendered speechless.

"Lili, I don't know how His Majesty spent those three months but a day seemed like a year to me. I often dreamt of Father and Mother at night, dreaming of the day they left when they steadfastly told me how I should take good care of you and Bam but you were dead at that time and Bam was missing. When I thought of their entrustment, I had an excruciating headache and felt so deeply ashamed to ever see them again in this life, do you understand this kind of feeling?"

"Elder Brother, I ... "

Turning his head back, Hoony stared at her piercingly, "At that time, I blamed His Majesty for your death and I also blamed myself for not doing my best to stop you from marrying him. My heart was full of guilt and regret. Even though I spent the whole day fighting at close quarters in the bloodbath battlefield, I didn't feel tired nor in pain, my whole person was numbed and it was only with this avenging-heart that I persevered to Buriram. Tell me, how could I spare the person who harmed you under these circumstances?"