Quick Transmigration: Irresistible Beauty
Chapter 91 - 91: Unloved Daughter of Yue Mansion (45)

The emperor was very excited, and the strategy value has also changed, slowly rising.

When the number jumped to 99, Rong Yu finally let go of Yue Ran, hugged her shoulders, and stared deeply into her eyes.

"Ran Ran, stay with me for a lifetime, okay?" he asked.

"Okay," she replied with ease.

There was no need for Yue Ran to think twice because everything went according to plan.

So far, Ming Chen and Xia Zhan's favorability values have reached one hundred since she jumped off the cliff. Now, only Ming Ze and Rong Yu's favorability values were stuck at ninety-nine.

When Yue Ran turned her head to the audience, everyone was dumbstruck.

The Yue family was dumbstruck.

Was this not their daughter, Yue Ran?

Yue Ran gave her family members a light smile.

Sorry, your daughter has a big life and did not die.

The two parents were terribly embarrassed, but Ning Ying's eyes looked at Yue Ran in disbelief, which then turned into anger and resentment before she forcefully calmed herself down.

How could Yue Ran not die?

This thought coincided with Xue Lu's, as she was staring straight at Yue Ran.

Yue Ran was wearing plain white clothes and jewelry while being hugged into the emperor's arms. Just leaning there quietly, she looked as if all the spring colors and all the beauty in the world were spent on her.

Everything around her dimmed, and only she was colored.

"It is Yue Ran," someone who recognized Yue Ran said out loud.

No one knew who said it, but the once-silent banquet hall turned clamorous because of those four words.

Everyone in the capital knew that "Yue Ran", the only daughter of Prime Minister Yue, had died a few months ago. So how could the supposedly dead Yue Ran appear in front of them this way?

Could this person be fake? But how could a fake have the same exact face and demeanor? Moreover, could anyone just replicate such a beautiful face as they wanted? Impossible!

So the girl in front of them could only be Yue Ran, whose body was not found when she had an accident.

From the screen behind Rong Yu, there was a black and bruised Ming Chen tied up on a chair with a dirty cloth clumped in his mouth. There were also guards tightly guarding Ming Chen from running away.

And thus, Ming Chen could only see everything unfold in his eyes but could not do anything about it, not even when he struggled out of the ropes that had torn his skin.

Anyone who saw this man could see that the wounds on him had long scabbed; some were still fresh, showing his flesh and his white bones. Blood was flowing down his skin and dripping on the floor below him during the struggle.

Yue Ran indistinctively swept her eyes across the screen behind Rong Yu, and Ming Chen struggled more.

Yue Ran, Yue Ran, Yue Ran!

The former crown prince tried to shout as loud as he could, but his voice still sounded very soft and muffled because of the cloth in his mouth.

There was also soft music outside, which Rong Yu purposefully asked the musicians to play in the midst of the tense atmosphere of the banquet so that Ming Chen's voice could never travel out of the screen and into Yue Ran's ears. It was difficult for him to make a sound for help.

Boom, boom, boom.

Ming Chen heard his heart, which was thumping hard like small explosions. His expression looked extremely excited, and his eyes became red gradually because he was too eager.

Yue Ran came back.

Yue Ran is still alive.

Yue Ran, come and look at him.

He is just behind her. Behind the screen. Only a folding screen separated them.

Yue Ran, turn your head. Turn your head.

Yue Ran, you will still like me, right?

He had been tied up for so long and had not eaten for two days, and thus his whole body is extremely weak. But he looked as if he were injected with some kind of drug when Yue Ran's figure was in front of his eyes.

The guards around did not know where Ming Chen's strength came from, but the former crown prince actually moved around so desperately that the chair he was sitting on fell to the ground with a loud thud.

However, the sound turned into a soft thump when it traveled into Yue Ran's ears.

"Brother Yu, did you hear that?" Yue Ran, who was separated from him by a screen, asked the question.

"Mm, hmph…"

Ming Chen tried to shout, but he could only make a sobbing sound.

Yue Ran, Ran Ran, come and save me.

"It is nothing," Rong Yu answered calmly. "It must be the palace guards behind the screen that made some sort of mistake. I will punish him if it disturbs you."

"No need," Yue Ran said with a slight frown. "Is it not just some noise? It is fine."

The two were talking intimately, with the man combing the woman's hair with his hands.

"Let me tie Ran Ran's hair, okay?" Rong Yu murmured on top of Yue Ran's head.

Rong Yu especially liked how Yue Ran was lying in his arms, curling up on him like a docile little cat. Such a Yue Ran looks so harmless to humans and animals.

Yue Ran noticed how Rong Yu's eyes moved to the back for a moment. It was only a few times, so she thought that it was just a coincidence.

She also looked back when answering Rong Yu with an "okay".

Behind them was just a folding screen. It was hand-painted and lacquered into a beautiful and stunning landscape.

Why are there palace guards hiding behind the screen? Perhaps to prevent assassinations?

In the end, Rong Yu tied Yue Ran's lustrous black hair into a simple knot, fixing hairpins and ornaments from a box that he had a eunuch take out.

This box was a present that Rong Yu had originally wanted to give Yue Ran before she jumped off the cliff. Fortunately, Yue Ran was still by his side in the end, and these jewels will go back to their owner.

Thump.

There was a subtle sound as if someone was hitting something, and the folding screen shuddered a little.

Yue Ran turned her head when Rong Yu finished her hairdo.

"Brother Yu, you heard that too, right?" Yue Ran stared fixedly at the folding screen. "Is there someone else behind the screen?"

"How could that be?" Rong Yu lied without changing his face. "It must be that those guards were bored and were playing some kind of game."

Waste, Rong Yu thought.

Even a bunch of guards could not subdue a dying man. How useless.

"How could the palace guards play a game during work?" Yue Ran asked with a raised brow. "This is a dereliction of duty."

"Hmph…"

Yue Ran…

Ming Chen let out a painful whimper. His skin was now a few shades paler because of the loss of blood and lack of energy. He could hardly support his current state any longer.

Yue Ran suddenly stood up and walked to the folding screen.

Just as she was about to go around, Rong Yu said, "Ran Ran, what are you doing?"

Yue Ran turned her head back to Rong Yu with a smile and said, "I am just curious about what the palace guards were doing behind the screen."

"Is it possible that Ran Ran suspects that I am hiding people behind the screen?" Rong Yu asked, and his face paled. "Does Ran Ran not believe me?" His eyes turned red, and his eyelashes trembled, looking extra fragile.

Yue Ran: …?

Why did the main male protagonist suddenly turn into something like this? Is he trying to gain her favor by showing off his beauty?

Well, she eats this set.

"How could that be?" Yue Ran said, and she instantly went back to her seat, holding Rong Yu's hand in hers. "If I do not believe in Brother Yu, who else am I going to believe in?"

"Um, Ran Ran, I will never fail your trust," Rong Yu said solemnly.

"Yes, I trust Brother Yu," Yue Ran answered with lowered eyes. Her bright red lips curled up, and the red peonies on her forehead bloomed with her smiling eyes.

She will be the one to decide if Brother Yu is useful or not. If Brother Yu dares to betray her, then he will most certainly face something deadly.

When Yue Ran turned her back, Ming Chen's head was covered with a sack.

His world turned dark, covering the former crown prince's desperate face.

…

At night in the emperor's palace...

"Brother Yu, I want Xue Lu's identity," Yue Ran whispered in Rong Yu's ears.

Yue Ran's words were very straightforward, but her voice was so soft and sultry that it scratched Rong Yu's heart like a little kitten clumsily patting his heart with soft little paws.

"Xue Lu's identity," Rong Yu repeated.

The two were lying down on the bed, Yue Ran's head on Rong Yu's shoulder. It was a very intimate pose only for couples.

"Yes," Yue Ran said with a nod. There was a smile in her eyes as she continued, "And I want 'Yue Ran' to turn into a nun in a temple on a mountain far from the capital. Make sure to shave off her hair too."

Rong Yu: …

"Why?" Rong Yu asked after a long pause.

Why do things in a roundabout way?