The Crown Princess Is a Bit Ugly - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

That voice came again. She had brought her plan with her, telling us word by word that she would make her move tonight.

Tonight, I’ll get the Crown Prince drunk first. Once they’re sound asleep, I’ll sneak into their room, stab the Crown Prince to death, then cut off his thing and feed it to the chickens!

The voice was so vicious it gave Liang Qi a huge fright.

He instinctively covered himself with one hand. When he saw me looking at him, he calmly moved his hand away as if nothing had happened.

The voice went on describing how she would make the Crown Prince die a horrible death, how she would frame me as the one who caused it, and then how she would kill me too.

When the plan was over, I couldn’t help staring at Liang Qi and asking, “Did you do something awful to make someone hate you this much? You and your… thing?”

Hearing the suspicion in my voice, Liang Qi flew into an embarrassed rage. “I don’t know! I haven’t done anything!”

I didn’t believe him.

Under my continued probing gaze, his face and neck flushed scarlet, like a startled little bird. “I really haven’t done anything bad. That person is a pervert. I’m actually still untouched.”

I gave a long, drawn-out “oh,” then stopped looking at him before he could explode.

Because we were too far away, Liang Qi and I couldn’t tell whose voice it was. All we knew was that the person trying to harm us was a woman-and an older one at that.

Liang Qi and I sat at the desk, holding brushes as we crossed out names one by one, but we still couldn’t come up with anything useful.

In the end, we decided to pretend to be drunk.

That night, Liang Qi came back. He staggered over to the bed, and the moment he saw me, he pounced like a tiger spotting a rabbit.

I was horrified. One look and I knew he was genuinely drunk, because he called me… his wife.

“Wife, why… why aren’t you saying anything?”

Pinned underneath him, I couldn’t speak at all. He had lunged at me so suddenly that I nearly died of fright, okay?

I took a moment to recover, then braced my hands against him. “Get up.”

I couldn’t budge him. He even lowered his head, his drunken eyes hazy, and traced my brows with his fingers. “Huh? You’re so pretty. You’re not that ugly hag I married today.”

He was still calling me ugly? What happened to happy cooperation?

Fuming, I slapped him across the face, hoping to sober him up a little.

He froze. Clutching the side of his face that had been hit, he swayed to his feet and stood by the bed, looking at me warily. “Who are you? Are you here to kill me?”

Helpless, I slapped the other side of his face. “Can you sober up already?”

My hand went a little numb. That slap had been a bit heavy, and his face swelled up instantly.

If I let him keep acting crazy like this, then when someone came to ambush him, I would probably die right along with him.

No, thank you.

This time, Liang Qi really was slapped awake.

He shook his head. The instant he looked at me again, his eyes were clear. “Mm. I’m sober.”

His hawk-like gaze swept sharply around the room. His guarded expression made me nervous too.

Suddenly, he grabbed me and let out a solemn shush.

My heart pounded. I asked softly, “Is the person coming?”

He was silent for a while, making the tense atmosphere climb another notch.

I clutched his sleeve tightly and looked around warily with him.

Liang Qi tightened his grip on my hand and said leisurely, “Wife, did you count the wedding gift money? How much was there?”

…

This beauty was speechless.

If he wasn’t pretending, then he was truly drunk beyond saving.

I gave him a beating and knocked him out cold.

The way he was acting, even if that person came to assassinate us, he would only be dead weight.