Chapter 860 - 859: Miss Bai, Please Get Out First

Cheng Zhirang endured through a dialogue with Zhu Qi.

"Miss Bai, please have some self-respect."

"Miss Bai" was pushed away, fell sitting at his feet, and looked like she was about to cry: "Your Highness, are you now telling me to have self-respect? What did you say when we expressed our feelings for each other? You said no matter who you became in the future, I didn’t need to worry! And now, just because I married someone, you found a substitute to passionately love, and ask me to have self-respect!"

After speaking, she took a breath and began to cry softly while covering her eyes.

The veins on Cheng Zhirang’s forehead were throbbing. He wondered if this Bai Yueguang was set up by Mu Qiu, as the show crew hadn’t hired a specific actor for this role; it must not have been specified in the storyline to appear.

...What a disaster.

"Miss Bai, the past is the past, yesterday is gone. Now you’re married, and I’m married. Let’s not talk about the past anymore. Besides, it’s okay for me as a man, but you as a married woman, behaving like this will face much slander."

"That’s not slander," Zhu Qi looked up, his face painted in garish colors with a greasy expression, "it’s the truth, it’s my sincere love for you."

"...Consort Bai, please take your sister away." He pushed Zhu Qi’s hand away for the third time, speaking to the Consort Bai beside him.

Let’s quickly end this act.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Qi was determined to clingly stay for a while longer, holding onto his leg without letting go, while crying and bawling.

"Back then, we were so in love! You couldn’t make me your only one, and now you gave that substitute such honor! Your Highness! You have such a cruel heart!"

"Miss Bai, let go of my hand, let go...you’re about to pull off my boots..."

"Your Highness! This time, I won’t let go no matter what! The happiness once within reach is now shattered, I must find the old you and the old me!"

Neither of them could let go after tugging and pulling for a long time, and Cheng Zhirang was losing his calm.

Just then, with a creak, the door of the opposite room opened, and Mu Qiu stood silently at the doorway, watching them calmly.

Standing outside her room, were they really treating her as a deaf person, so loud? If not to add some drama now, when then?

She pinched her fingers hard, controlling the urge to laugh upon seeing Zhu Qi’s face, tremblingly pretending to be calm and asked: "What did she just say? What substitute?"

Cheng Zhirang: "..." His head had already started hurting.

He pushed Zhu Qi away hard, stood up looking at her, opened his mouth, but found that only two lines kept popping up in his head.

"Nothing, he’s talking nonsense, let me explain."

Pale and useless, he finally understood why many male characters in urban dramas always have these two lines.

Zhu Qi looked around, then shockingly questioned: "Is she the shameless one impersonating me?! Your Highness! You actually let her live here!"

"...Miss Bai, please shut up. Qiuqiu..."

"Stop."

Mu Qiu turned around and wiped off her lipstick, pretending to be pale and deeply affected but still forcing herself to be strong: "I’ll listen to your explanation, say it, who is she."

Cheng Zhirang: "He is..."

How should he introduce this?

He looked around and quickly thought he could use lines from a cheating husband explaining to his wife.

"He is a guest, here to visit Consort Bai, just now he mistook someone."

"Mistook someone? More like you mistook your feelings, didn’t you?" Mu Qiu forced out two tears.

"Did you really think I was blind and deaf just because I sat inside and didn’t speak or move?! He and I look so... so alike..."

Help, anyone with eyes would know that she and Zhu Qi’s face had no resemblance at all, what was the crew thinking, why let Zhu Qi play this Bai Yueguang! Who would want to be this person’s substitute, jeez!

She closed her eyes, going against her conscience to continue: "He and I look so alike, and you constantly emphasize your past affairs in your conversation, and the substitute he mentioned, I heard it all clearly! You deliberately chose this place to say these things, wasn’t it just to make me see clearly, to make me know that to you, I’m just a trophy to gloat over! Not important, right?!"

"It’s not like that..."

He really wanted to say that there was only this place to sit, he hadn’t thought so much, but he also knew saying this would definitely break character.

Being a man was tough, being a man in an affair was even tougher.

Cheng Zhirang took a few steps towards her, saying, "I’ll explain properly, please listen carefully? Miss Bai and I did have some contact a few years ago, but it was before I met you, and it wasn’t long before he got married. We met less than five times.

The substitute and past affairs, it’s all his own thoughts, I’ve never admitted to it. Qiuqiu, my heart is only for you, anyone can see it. Whether or not she got married is irrelevant to me, if I really had a relationship with her, she would’ve been here long ago. But now there’s only you here."

This lengthy explanation really exhausted his imagination, but fortunately, he could immerse himself in this role, making an honest declaration wasn’t too hard.

He just underestimated Mu Qiu’s mindset.

"There’s only me here, a married woman to someone else, and you’re proud of it? In the Eastern Palace with a Crown Princess Consort and a Concubine, you still want to take another man’s wife to hide here. What’s hateful is that you’re not ashamed at all, but using this as a reason for confession. You’re really disgusting."

Cheng Zhirang: "......"

He couldn’t carry on, only silence.

He’s out of scenes, but Zhu Qi still had a role.

"How dare you! Speaking ill of His Highness! You’re nothing but a substitute, and you dare..."

"Get lost!"

Cheng Zhirang suddenly got angry, threw the teacup to the ground with a crisp sound, startling everyone present.

Zhu Qi jumped in fright, didn’t need help, quickly got up and pulled Consort Bai to run, actively running, even looked back calling out with deep affection

"Your Highness! I won’t give up, I’m back, only I can stay by your side! I’ll come again tomorrow!"

Better not come.

Finally sending off an uncertainty, Cheng Zhirang instinctively breathed a sigh of relief, took another step forward and called out: "Qiuqiu—"

Mu Qiu turned and walked back, slammed the door of the room shut.

"You better not come in!"

His first instinct was really not to go in.

But how could the plot develop if he didn’t go in?

So he stood outside, paced around twice, then braced himself and pushed the door in.

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ps:

Qiuqiu: (earnestly) Brother Cheng, I’ve emphasized not to go in, that definitely means you need to go in! These inexplicable emphases usually mean the opposite.

Brother Cheng: (serious) Oh, so every time you say you don’t want to kiss anymore, does that mean you want to?

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