Gifted Bride of the Sinned Prince

Tianjie hid such a big fact from him, knowing that Jingfei was their sister. Was Jingfei not important to him? Xiaoming questioned him.

“Your Royal Highness, I didn’t tell you about it because Jianjun could have told the King about us. He was threatening Song Jia and it was the only way to stop him. Also, I clearly told Li Jianjun to focus on Sister Jingfei since he would marry her,” Tianjie affirmed.

“Brother Tianjie, how could you think that Li Jianjun is suitable for our sister? He wanted to take Song Jia as his mistress. He wants to marry Sister Jingfei for his personal benefit. Brother Tianjie, I would have helped you if you had told me once,” Xiaoming said with an utterly disappointed look on his face.

“Forgive me, Your Royal Highness,” Tianjie said and kept his head low.

“I am unable to believe that Brother Tianjie decided to be selfish and didn’t consider Sister Jingfei once. Is Song Jia more important than a royal family member?” Xiaoming was so angry that he didn’t realize that he hurt Tianjie.

“Why should I care for Sister Jingfei? Did she ever care for us brothers?” Tianjie turned furious with that remark. He lifted his head and told Xiaoming that for him Song Jia was more important than anyone in the royal family.

“How can Brother Tianjie say this? Sister Jingfei—”

“Brother Xiaoming, she is your sister, not mine. I am not even a brother to her. She has always made me feel low. Why? Because I am the son of a concubine. My mother isn’t the Queen like your mother. I have seen how she has disrespected my mother all the time. Still, I stayed quiet.

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Yesterday, when Jianjun said he wanted to take Song Jia as his mistress, I stepped in because I was angry that he was marrying another woman and then wanted to take a mistress too. I warned him not to do it ever again. What more do you expect me to do? I need to protect Song Jia more than Sister Jingfei. Why? Because she has a brother, who is the nation’s Crown Prince.”

Tianjie blurted his anger out. Xiaoming had already considered Song Jia as an outsider.

“I cannot believe that the person, who married a woman without any social status said this to me, to my woman. He thinks I am selfish, but he doesn’t think that he is more selfish merely for his sister,” Tianjie snickered. At the moment, he didn’t realize that he was in front of the Crown Prince and could even get punished for speaking this way with him.

Tianjie turned and left his chamber in anger. Shi Rang, who was listening from outside, asked Tianjie to calm down when he ignored him and walked ahead.

Xiaoming sighed and decided to leave when Shi Rang walked in. He apologized from Tianjie’s side. Xiaoming didn’t speak a word and left for his manor.

When Xiaoming shared the matter with Jin Yu, she asked him why he said that to Tianjie.

“I am worried for Jingfei. I said that in anger,” Xiaoming said and furrowed his brows together. “I have not expected such thinking for Sister Jingfei in Brother Tianjie’s mind,” he stated.

“Crown Prince, can I tell the truth?” Jin Yu asked him.

Xiaoming looked at her with inquisitiveness. “What kind of truth?”

“Your dear sister’s truth,” Jin Yu replied.

Xiaoming was confused for a second and then asked her to explain what she wanted to say.

“Jingfei is getting what she sowed. She demeans people around her. Forgive me if I have crossed my boundary but it is the truth. When the three princes had gone to Qijiang, Jingfei asked Li Hua to help her in making her talk with Huang Xi. Li Hua asked her brother to do so. However, Xu Zifan didn’t know that Huang Xi loves someone else. Xiaolian told a half-truth to Jingfei and she came to argue with Li Hua. When I stopped Jingfei from slapping Li Hua, she called me a woman with no status.”

Xiaoming was stunned to hear all that.

“I did not tell all this to the Crown Prince to make him against Jingfei. Instead, I want to tell him that Prince Tianjie is not wrong in his place. He was scared that His Majesty would find out about them and it may bring Song Jia into trouble. Jingfei indeed gets arrogant toward people and that’s why Prince Tianjie said that. He must have felt wrong when the Crown Prince told him that he turned selfish over a woman. He has the right to be selfish,” Jin Yu elucidated to Xiaoming.

“I have to apologize to Brother Tianjie. Also, I need to talk to Jingfei. I thought that I would ask Song Jia to come to the palace, but I would not do that,” Xiaoming asserted.

“What does the Crown Prince want to do?” Jin Yu asked.

“I will ask Jingfei to step back from the marriage,” Xiaoming stated.

“What about Li Jianjun?” Jin Yu inquired. “He will be mad. He may try to harm Xu Zifan and Feng Lao,” she worriedly said.

“That will not happen. I have made arrangements for Xu Zifan and Feng Lao’s safety,” Xiaoming asserted and stood up from the chaise. “I will return soon,” he said and left the chamber.

He searched for Tianjie, but he could not find him. He instructed Shi Rang to inform him when Tianjie returned. After that, he headed to see Jingfei and heard her laugh. He clenched his fists because soon, Jingfei would cry to find out Li Jianjun’s true face.

‘It is the only way to prevent her from falling into the trap of the wrong man,’ Xiaoming thought and asked the maidservant to inform Jingfei that he wanted to see her in private. The maidservant bowed and walked in to deliver the message.