Jiaojiao is getting married, and the male leads fall for her and fight over her.

Chapter 97 He Pervertedly Locked Her in a Dark Room
Pei Dongzhou stared intently at Shen Shuyi, as if he wanted to burn a hole in her face.

Shen Shuyi felt her scalp tingle under Pei Shizi's gaze.

She forgot that this was ancient times, not modern society.

Her mindset is definitely more open than these ancient men's; here, touching or stroking someone carries serious consequences.

"Given the circumstances, my second cousin didn't do it on purpose. I won't tell anyone about it, and he doesn't need to take responsibility for me. Please rest assured, Your Highness, I definitely won't try to use this opportunity to climb up to you."

Shen Shuyi thought that Prince Pei was worried that she would try to extort Pei Nanzhou, so she quickly expressed her opinion.

Prince Pei, however, still looked at her coldly. He used to put on a smiling face, but now he didn't even bother to pretend. He just put on a cold face and acted like a prince.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, she also stopped talking, otherwise she would seem too noisy.

After that, Prince Pei silently got up and walked to the window. Seeing this, she wanted to leave quietly.

But before she could even take a step, Prince Pei seemed to have eyes in the back of his head: "Has my prospective cousin left?"

Shen Shuyi gritted her teeth inwardly, not understanding what Prince Pei was trying to do. He could just say what he was unhappy about; she had clearly saved Pei Er's innocence, so why was he blaming her?

"Then, cousin, is there anything else you would like to teach me?" she asked patiently.

“Cousin, think about where you went wrong. You can only leave when you understand it. Otherwise, you’ll be standing here as punishment today.” Pei Dongzhou resumed his gentle and refined demeanor.

Shen Shuyi's face wrinkled. She hadn't done anything wrong, so why did he think she had?

Was her mistake in helping Pei Er? But it was a mission assigned by the system, and she had no choice but to save him.

It can't be that she was wrong to plead for Xia Nianchu, right? But the female lead can't leave; if she leaves, the plot of the book will fall apart.

"Cousin, can I go back to Fusang Academy to reflect on my actions?" Shen Shuyi softened her tone.

The male lead is so strange, maybe she can handle him by lowering her stance.

"No!" Pei Dongzhou didn't even glance at her.

Shen Shuyi didn't believe in superstition. She wasn't under Pei Shizi's jurisdiction, so why should she listen to him?
She started to walk out, but before she had taken more than a few steps, Prince Pei was right in front of her. She turned left, and he turned left; she turned right, and he turned right.

She retorted angrily, "Even my maternal grandmother doesn't care about me, so why does my cousin, the Crown Prince, have the right to control me in every way?"

“I’m only disciplining my cousin to prevent her from going astray in the future. It’s for her own good, and she should be grateful.” Pei Dongzhou chuckled softly as he said this. “If she doesn’t listen, I can lock her in a dark room to reflect on her actions.”

Shen Shuyi: ...

Could it be that there really is some kind of dark room in Dongyuan?

No, let her think about it. In the original novel, did Prince Pei like to lock the female lead in a dark room?
Why doesn't she remember such a play?

"Cousin, are you serious?" Shen Shuyi looked at Pei Shizi uncertainly.

The man in front of me had handsome features and a gentle, refined demeanor. He seemed harmless and didn't appear to be a pervert.

"Cousin, you can give it a try." Pei Dongzhou smiled.

His smile only made Shen Shuyi feel colder.

But she wasn't easily intimidated, and she also wanted to know if Prince Pei would really do something like locking her in a dark room, so she raised her chin and said, "Cousin, scaring me won't work! I am an independent individual, and Prince Pei has no right to control me. I want to go back to Fusang Courtyard now, and you can't stop me!"

As she spoke, she walked out. Seeing that Pei Shizi had not made any move even when she reached the bright sunshine, she thought she had escaped a disaster and felt a little relieved. Just as she was about to quicken her pace to leave the East Garden, she suddenly felt a numbness in the back of her neck and lost consciousness.

When she woke up again, she found herself locked in a small room. With the sky dark, it was as if she had been locked in a dark room.

She was very hungry and pounded on the door, shouting, "I'm hungry! I want to eat!"

No one paid her any attention, so she kept patting herself for a while before finally admitting her mistake: "Young Master, I was wrong!"

This young woman is flexible and adaptable, although she really doesn't know what she did wrong or why Pei Dongzhou would be so perverse as to actually lock her up.

The next moment, the door actually opened, and Qingzhu stood outside, looking at her with resentment.

Confused, she said, "I'm the one who's locked up. What's with that look? I've never looked at you with such malice."

She's the victim, okay? Looking at Qingzhu's expression, anyone who didn't know better would think she was the perpetrator.

Qingzhu threatened in a low voice: "Miss, you should know your place. Don't think that just because the young master treats you differently, you have a chance to rise in rank."

Shen Shuyi was furious: "Are you blind? Your cousin, the Crown Prince, locking me up is considered treating me differently? How am I supposed to rise in rank like this? Tell me, how am I supposed to rise in rank in this dark room, huh?!"

Qingzhu's eardrums were ringing from Shen Shuyi's loud roar, and she took several steps back.

Shen Shuyi snorted: "You're really good at turning the tables, I'm impressed. You're like a rotten tree growing from the top! Instead of lecturing me, you should be keeping an eye on your master and teaching him to behave properly!"

Qingzhu was speechless. He only said one sentence: "Miss, you've said so much. I don't know why the young master is so entangled with you. You really don't have the manners of a proper young lady."

Seeing that Qingzhu finally succumbed to her shrewish roar, Shen Shuyi was very satisfied. She strode into the hall with her head held high.

The moment she saw Prince Pei, she shed her previous spoiled attitude and said obediently, "Cousin Prince, I was wrong. I'm starving. Qingzhu was even rude to me just now. Can't you at least control your own people?"

Qingzhu never expected that Shen Shuyi would come to complain.

Seeing the young master looking over, Qingzhu quickly explained, "I only advised Miss Biao a few words, I didn't scold her."

Pei Dongzhou ignored his explanation and ordered gently, "Slap yourself thirty times!"

Shen Shuyi never expected that Pei Dongzhou would believe her one-sided story, and that Qingzhu, who was blindly loyal, would actually slap her.

Seeing Qingzhu's face quickly turn red and swollen, she felt pain just looking at it.

After Qingzhu finished her punishment and left the stage, Shen Shuyi became even more obedient.

She felt she should stop crossing the male lead's bottom line, or she wouldn't even know how she died.

"Cousin, tell me, where did you go wrong?" Pei Dongzhou asked calmly.

Shen Shuyi had no idea what she had done wrong. Before she could figure it out, she said weakly, "I'm so hungry. Can I wait until I've finished eating before my cousin interrogates me?"

She hadn't had high hopes, but to her surprise, Prince Pei actually ordered someone to serve her a meal.

Looking at the table full of delicious food, she remembered that she had just been released from the dark room. Was this a slap on the wrist followed by a sweet treat?

However, Prince Pei seems to be quite easy to talk to.

(End of this chapter)