Chapter 863 - 766: Cold and Dark (Part 3)

Chapter 863: Chapter 766: Cold and Dark (Part 3)

The Third Prince himself said it was ugly; she said ugly, so she couldn’t be wrong!

The Third Prince squinted and said, "Louder, I didn’t hear it!"

The young girl was startled and hurriedly said loudly, "Ugly!"

"Indeed, ugly, ugly to the point that I dare not look at it." The Third Prince laughed softly. He circled the girl in his arms, his white and slightly cold fingers gently touching her face, as if admiring, as if praising, "Such icy-skinned and tender-boned features are what you call beautiful!"

The girl’s eyes held a hint of joy. Being chosen to be by the Third Prince’s side meant she was undoubtedly a beautiful woman, but to be praised by the Third Prince was rare.

However, before the joy could spread from her eyes to her face, her face suddenly turned bright red.

The Third Prince’s slender fingers, which had been gently caressing her face, had somehow moved to her snow-white neck, and suddenly tightened.

The air in her throat was stolen away, the girl couldn’t breathe, her eyes filled with terror, looking at the Third Prince with a pleading look for mercy, yet the Third Prince’s hand not only didn’t loosen, but actually tightened.

The girl pouring wine beside was terrified with a pale face, her body trembling.

The Third Prince’s brows and eyes were filled with darkness: "Ugly is something you can say? Wretched maid!"

As his hand tightened, the girl’s throat had no breath left. She struggled weakly a few times, then made no sound.

The Third Prince released his grip, and the girl’s still-warm corpse fell at his feet.

He calmly instructed, "Take her away!"

In just a blink, he killed a girl, but it seemed as if he had just stepped on an ant. Two attendants quickly came from outside the door, and dragged away the girl’s body from both sides. The entire process was almost without any extra movement, skillfully as if rehearsed hundreds of times.

The Third Prince’s gaze fell on another girl, and he actually smiled, though the girl trembled with fear in her legs, she dared not speak nor dare to walk away.

The Third Prince leisurely said, "You say, should I marry such an ugly creature?"

The girl knelt down with a thud, how could she dare to answer? She knocked her head repeatedly and said, "Have mercy, my Prince, I don’t know, I dare not speculate about the Prince’s matters!"

The Third Prince squinted at her, his gaze on her head, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably.

The Third Prince slowly laughed, "You’re quite smart! Of course, the Prince’s affairs aren’t something a maid can speculate about. What are you doing still kneeling there? Aren’t you going to pour wine for the Prince?"

The girl hurriedly got up, picked up the pot to pour wine, but her hands were shaking so badly, she nearly spilled the wine. The Third Prince watched with interest, seemingly in a good mood.

The girl presented the wine, and the Third Prince took it, saying with great satisfaction, "That year, I was only seven, Father took me to Nanxia. I knew, in fact, Father intended to leave me in Nanxia as a hostage. At that time, Nanxia was so strong, with elite soldiers and generals, and a powerful nation. As for our East Tang, because Father wanted to seize the throne from my uncle, the two brothers fought and fought, so many people died. By the time Father seized the throne, East Tang was no longer as strong as Nanxia."

The girl could barely hold the wine pot, what with seizing the throne from uncle, what with being a hostage, how could she dare to listen to such things?

She hurriedly placed the pot down and prostrated again.

Yet the Third Prince seemed unaware of her, continuing on, "Father worried that the throne he painstakingly won wouldn’t be seated for long, East Tang would be annexed by Nanxia. To show goodwill towards Nanxia, of course, sending a child as hostage showed the most sincerity. You know why it was me?"

The girl naturally didn’t respond, nor dared to.

The Third Prince wasn’t bothered, self-questioning and answering, "Because he couldn’t bear his legitimate eldest Prince to be sent, after all, he was intended to be the Crown Prince. I, the Third Prince, wasn’t born from a favored woman, so throwing me away was inconsequential, even if I died in Nanxia, he wouldn’t care!"

"Staying in Nanxia, perhaps never returning to East Tang, I was just a child then! In Nanxia’s Imperial Palace, I met that girl. In front of a hall full of people, that girl pointed at me and said, ’Father, don’t leave him behind, he cries ugly!’ "

His lips curled slightly, seemingly smiling, seemingly reminiscing, an eight-year-old child hiding in a corner to cry, unexpectedly seen by a little girl, yet he didn’t notice.

The Third Prince’s smile grew cold, murmuring, "Isn’t it funny? Just because of that little girl’s words, I wasn’t left behind. That girl, she said I was ugly! She actually saw me cry, do you think, should she be punished?"