She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 194: He is a Block of Ice, It’s Time for Him to Melt

Chapter 194: Chapter 194: He is a Block of Ice, It’s Time for Him to Melt

Xiang Ying walked out.

Seeing Xiang Qianqian coming over with four slaves.

She ordered arrogantly: "You help me move my things. Sixth Prince said that everything that’s mine, I can take away."

The Acid Scholar and his soldiers stepped forward to stop her.

"You’re a prisoner, what belongings do you have here?"

Xiang Ying walked over from the side and sneered: "Perhaps you’ve come back to look for your own shackles?"

Xiang Qianqian’s face suddenly paled.

She looked at Xiang Ying, a cold smile creeping across her lips.

"How insolent! I am now the Sixth Prince’s concubine; how dare you disrespect me?"

Xiang Ying raised her dark eyebrows, a mocking sheen swirling in her phoenix eyes.

"You’re the Sixth Prince’s concubine, and I am Xizhou’s Princess, so what if I disrespect you?"

With that said, Xiang Ying stepped forward, pushed her, and Xiang Qianqian fell straight to the ground.

She cried out in pain, abruptly raising her eyes to look at Xiang Ying.

"Big sister, I am now with the Sixth Prince. Aren’t you afraid of..."

She couldn’t finish her words before her face was slapped with a clump of mud.

It was Aren who had thrown it.

"If you harass Big Sister again, I won’t be polite to you!" Aren said fiercely, his eyes as sharp and ruthless as a wolf cub’s.

Xiang Ying raised her hand, and Aren understood, retreating behind her.

Xiang Qianqian only saw Xiang Ying walking leisurely over, her silhouette backlit, making her features even sharper.

Xiang Ying looked down, a cold smile playing on her lips.

"Xiang Qianqian, you really are like Lady, satisfied with being someone else’s concubine. But how does that benefit you? Do you think your life will be easier from now on? Following the Sixth Prince, you won’t even get to eat meat. Believe it or not?"

Xiang Qianqian’s face turned a shade paler, stood up from the ground, and dusted off her dress.

She held her head high in pride: "Big sister, it’s the case of the fox who, not reaching the grapes, says they are sour. I have indeed witnessed it through you."

"Don’t try to sow discord; Sixth Prince dotes on me, he surely won’t let me be wronged again. Let’s forget about today’s incident, for the sake of our sisterhood, I won’t tattle. But if there’s a next time, I’ll tell the Sixth Prince about you..."

Xiang Qianqian had just pointed at Xiang Ying when she saw a sharp look in her phoenix eyes.

Frightened, she withdrew her hand and pointed at Tao Xue and the others behind Xiang Ying.

She dropped her threats anew:

"The people around you, they won’t have it easy!"

After saying that, she turned around and left with her four slaves.

Seventh Princess walked to Xiang Ying’s side, staring at Xiang Qianqian’s retreating figure in ridicule: "Has she gone mad? Being just a concubine, yet she struts around like she’s the Empress? Who does she think she is!"

Xiang Ying sneered: "Just watch; her days will be harder than ours."

Because Xiang Ying knew that the person with the Sixth Prince that night wasn’t Xiang Qianqian at all.

It must have been Pan Chu who, to protect her own reputation, had no choice but to let Xiang Qianqian be found in her stead.

Now, the Sixth Prince’s taking of a concubine was nothing but a tiger ride too difficult to dismount.

Once they leave Mei City, Xiang Qianqian’s fate surely won’t be good.

In the evening.

Jie Chen returned, with a grave expression on his face.

He called Xiang Ying alone into the tent.

Xiang Ying lifted the curtain and stepped inside, jokingly asked: "Did you miss me?"

All because of Xiang Qianqian, coming at an inopportune time, afterwards when Xiang Ying returned and wanted to use a drone to see how far along their discussion was, those people had already reached an agreement.

Instead, they were discussing how to arrange for the Imperial Envoy.

Jie Chen looked up at her and said, "I did."

Now it was Xiang Ying who didn’t know how to respond.

How was it that he had become so adept at handling her teasing?

Xiang Ying cleared her throat: "Let’s talk business then."

Jie Chen chuckled.

Xiang Ying was just outwardly tough and inwardly soft, seemingly open yet in fact reserved about these matters.

A glint of fervent heat flashed in his eyes, but reason quickly took control.

"Tomorrow I will send someone to take you and the children away first; there’s no need to venture further into Shangjing."

Xiang Ying was taken aback: "You want me to leave? Why?"

Jie Chen did not conceal the truth and gravely said: "The court has arranged for an imperial envoy to come, along with King Yong, the Emperor’s half-brother, to inspect Mei City."

"Just now, Lu Hong and the Sixth Prince assigned my troops and also put me in charge of the city’s granary in preparation for the imperial envoy and King Yong’s inspection of how the famine was being handled."

Xiang Yingfeng’s phoenix eyes widened slightly: "They’re setting you up?!"

The granary was already empty.

After the Sixth Prince’s own supplies were depleted, he had Lu Hong borrow grain from the city’s granary.

After Xiang Ying had emptied it several times, there had long been nothing left in the granary.

The key point was that most of the grain in that granary was famine relief supplies sent from the Nanyue Court.

Both the Sixth Prince and Governor Lu were aware that once King Yong discovered that the granary of Mei City had long been empty and the famine relief supplies had vanished, punishment would certainly follow.

Thus, Jie Chen was the person they had pushed forward to take the blame, claiming later that he had failed to supervise properly leading to the loss of the grain.

If the situation were serious, the Sixth Prince might even accuse Jie Chen of embezzlement!

Xiang Ying fumed: "Why didn’t you refuse?"

Jie Chen glanced at her and pressed his thin lips together without speaking.

He couldn’t refuse.

The Sixth Prince thought he was unaware of the granary’s pilfering, when in fact he knew—it was Xiang Ying who had taken it.

If he insisted on not accepting this task, he didn’t know whether the investigation might lead to Xiang Ying.

Jie Chen stated indifferently: "Even if I am convicted, I will not die. But it’s different for you."

Xiang Ying grew agitated, grasping his collar.

"Why do you always think of sending me away? Haven’t you considered that I might have the ability to help you too?"

Isn’t it just a matter of filling an entire granary?

Xiang Ying would show them what it means to have the granary brimming overnight!

Jie Chen observed the anxiety in her gaze, her lips parting and closing; he couldn’t help but swallow.

Forcing himself to look away, he turned towards the side.

"I don’t need your help; I have my own arrangements for this matter."

Xiang Ying stared at Jie Chen’s profile and suddenly, she reached out and cupped his cheek.

"I don’t believe it. Look into my eyes, Jie Chen, I’m asking you for the last time. If you insist on sending me away this time, I will never return. You know my capabilities. Since you don’t need my help, then after we part this time, we will never meet again across the vast mountains and seas."

Upon hearing these words, Jie Chen’s eyes darkened abruptly, deep as an abyss.

Xiang Ying asked, "Knowing this, do you still insist on sending me away?"

Under Jie Chen’s narrowed brows, his dark pupils clearly reflected Xiang Ying’s own image.

He did not speak, but his breathing grew increasingly labored.

Suddenly, Jie Chen scooped Xiang Ying up and placed her on his desk, then his thin lips descended on hers.

Naturally, Xiang Ying tilted her head back to relish it all.

Jie Chen’s passion was usually hidden beneath his icy exterior; only when he could not restrain himself would he reveal his wild side to her.

This kiss was like the flickering flames on tent walls, the surrounding dim redness clouding the mind, and the breaths also became entwined in seduction.

At that moment, Skinny Monkey rushed into the tent in a flurry.

"Deputy General..." But what he didn’t expect was to see the two of them wrapped in each other’s arms.

Xiang Ying promptly came to her senses and buried her head in Jie Chen’s chest.

Jie Chen also swiftly placed his large palm on the back of her neck, forcefully covering her with his embrace.

In his eyes churned a storm of fire, and his voice, hoarse and suppressed with anger, asked,

"Do you have a death wish?"

Skinny Monkey was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground.

Xiang Ying felt he was overreacting; it was as if she were not wearing anything.

Tugging at Jie Chen’s clothes, he finally took a deep breath and asked, "What is it?"

Skinny Monkey hurriedly replied: "I really didn’t mean to disturb you and sister-in-law, but King Yong has arrived!"

Jie Chen and Xiang Ying exchanged a glance.

King Yong had arrived earlier than expected?