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Chapter 194 Face
"You?!" Zhu Cheng couldn't believe his eyes. Looking at Zhu Yu, who was dressed in a Taoist robe and bowing to him, his originally round eyes suddenly widened to the extreme, almost to the point of bursting. "Why are you here?!"

Zhu Yu was mentally prepared for this. Based on her understanding of Zhu Cheng's character, she knew that as a daughter who was sent to Jin State to get married by imperial decree, she should never set foot on the land of Shuo State again in her life, otherwise she would undoubtedly cause trouble for Shuo State.

Sure enough, before she could explain, Zhu Cheng's face had already darkened. He glanced at Yan Daoxin beside him with some doubt, as if he felt that no matter how Zhu Yu mixed with the Taoists of Shanqing Temple, he had to give face to this miracle doctor in the end.

"Steward, it's getting late. Please arrange for meals to be delivered to the Taoist priests. Don't let our distinguished guests go hungry." He suppressed the anger that had risen up in his heart and turned around to give instructions to the steward outside the door.

The steward responded quickly and hurriedly asked the servants behind him to go to the kitchen to pass on the message.

Zhu Cheng then turned around and looked at Zhu Yu, almost gritting his teeth as he squeezed out a voice: "Master, may I have a word with you?"

"If the prince feels that it is inconvenient for us outsiders to talk to his own daughter, we can avoid it." Yan Daoxin said to Zhu Cheng in an "understanding" manner.

When Zhu Cheng heard this, his face suddenly darkened. Thinking about how much trouble Zhu Yu might cause him by coming back in such an inexplicable way, he became furious and didn't care whether he was a miracle doctor or not.

"What are you doing?!" He frowned, pointed at the other people, and asked Zhu Yu, "The emperor issued an order, ordering our family to choose a daughter and send her to Jin Kingdom to marry the King Xiaoyao.

We handed this honor over to you back then, and what instructions did we give you before we left?

Didn’t I tell you that you must not act recklessly in Jin Kingdom, and you cannot return to Shuo Kingdom without the emperor’s order in this life?

What the hell are you doing now! You've disobeyed the imperial edict, donned a Taoist robe, and disguised yourself as a Taoist priest, then inexplicably ran back to Shuodi!

I don't know what kind of trouble you got into outside or for some other reason, and I don't want to know how you convinced these Taoist priests to help you conceal your identity and get away with it.

For the sake of our relationship as father and daughter, I will just remind you: don’t forget that you still have a mother living in Prince Shuo’s Palace!
If you still have some filial piety, if you still want your mother to live a peaceful life in the palace, it is best not to drag down the Shuo Palace because of anything.

Did you understand what I said?!"

Yan Daoxin frowned.

He is similar to Lu Qing, both of them lost other relatives when they were young, but even if they haven't eaten pork, they have seen pigs run. Zhu Cheng's attitude when talking to Zhu Yu clearly does not show any father's concern or worry for his daughter.

Zhu Yu didn't react much to this. Before she got married, she had always been like air in the Prince Shuo's Mansion, but no one paid any attention to her, and she was rarely seen.

After several years of this kind of life, she was no longer naive enough to expect Zhu Cheng to develop some fatherly love for her, a concubine's daughter, after she got married.

Faced with Zhu Cheng's words, she was not angry at all, but found it a little funny.

How could this "honorable" arranged marriage, as he was now talking about, have happened to him if Princess Shuo hadn't treated Lu Qing, who had a bad reputation, like a piece of trash and was reluctant to let her own daughter marry him? Saying this bluntly now would definitely embarrass Zhu Cheng, but Zhu Yu had no such intentions.

Lu Qing was still present. Regardless of whether he cared about the outside world's evaluation and rumors, at least such words should not come out of his mouth and reach his ears.

Zhu Yu knew exactly how much praise and support Lu Qing had given him over the past few months.

She would not do such a thing that would hurt the enemy ten thousand times and herself eight thousand times.

So she just smiled faintly and said to Zhu Cheng: "Father, you are worrying too much. I have not caused any trouble in Jin State, and I will not drag anyone down for no reason because of my reckless behavior.

This time, my daughter came back in disguise for only one purpose: to warn her father not to make mistakes without realizing it, which would bring trouble to her and make her life as the Princess of Jin Country uneasy."

What she said really made Zhu Cheng lose face.

Any other father would feel ashamed and embarrassed if his married daughter talked back to him like this, not to mention that Zhu Cheng had never believed that a woman could achieve anything, let alone an insignificant concubine's daughter.

As a result, this inconspicuous concubine's daughter accepted the hot potato of the arranged marriage and got married. After a few months, she suddenly came home and even put on airs with me!
What’s even more outrageous is that it happened in front of outsiders!

Zhu Cheng was so furious that even his breath felt like it was burning. His back teeth were gritting and he pointed at Zhu Yu, "Don't put on airs in front of me!
Don’t think that I can’t control you just because you get married and become Princess Xiaoyao!
As long as you are on the territory of Shuo Nation, as long as you are in front of me, if you dare to speak rudely and cause trouble again, don't blame me for punishing you according to my family rules!"

"Ha ha……"

As Zhu Cheng finished his angry rebuke, a chuckle with obvious contempt came from behind Zhu Yu.

Zhu Cheng looked over and saw that it was the Taoist priest who came with Yan Daoxin. He was also handsome, and looked even taller and more sturdy than Yan Daoxin. He had an awe-inspiring air about him. He was looking straight at him with undisguised contempt in his eyes.

"Who are you?!" Zhu Cheng was furious at the moment and had no intention of thinking about the miracle doctor or the Shanqing Temple. Even if it was a huge Taoist temple, the Taoist priests could not ride on the head of him, the great King Shuo. So he asked angrily, "Why are you laughing here?!"

"I'm laughing at King Shuo's arrogance," Lu Qing said with a cold smile on his lips. He slowly stood up, took a step forward, and stood behind Zhu Yu. "As the saying goes, all under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are his subjects.

Whether it is the land of Shuo Kingdom, Jie Kingdom or Lan Kingdom, it is still the world of the current emperor.

I didn’t know in the past that King Shuo was so majestic and powerful that even the princess who was personally married to King Dajin Xiaoyao by the current emperor dared to be so disrespectful and rude to him, and even threatened to use family rules?
It seems that King Shuo is indeed concerned about his own face, but he doesn't care about the face of the current emperor at all."

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