Chapter 8: The Fierce Princess
Just as Wang Qianqiu was carried away, a white-haired old man appeared in the empty square in front of the palace. He said in a ghostly voice, "Your Majesty, it seems that the eldest prince has been disabled. Do you want the inner guards to punish Prince Xin?"

Wang Hongyuan seemed to have known about this person for a long time. He was not surprised at all and said without turning his head: "It's useless, it's the bastard's own fault!"

The old man nodded and bowed his head in silence.

After a moment of silence, Wang Qianqiu suddenly laughed and said something out of nowhere: "Xu You, didn't you say that the Tang Sect's poison was unrivaled in the world?"

The old man frowned, "The Tang Sect's poison is indeed unrivaled in the world. I don't know how Prince Xin came back to life... Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will personally take action this time to ensure that Prince Xin will die!"

"No need!" Wang Hongyuan suddenly said, "Since he has asked to be a vassal, let him die at the hands of the barbarians. I will not take any responsibility for it!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" The old man remained silent.

Wang Hongyuan stood there for a while, then suddenly walked away and said nonchalantly, "As for that Tang Sect expert who is not doing her job well, let her shut up forever."

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The next day, Duan Ben Gong.

The hall, which was originally decorated in mourning, was now filled with joy, with a large "囍" character pasted on the middle wall.

There was a dim candlelight in the bridal chamber. Wang An, dressed in groom's attire, sat at the table. He looked at the beautiful figure covered with a red veil on the large bed and sneered in his heart.

"This Wang Hongyuan is really impatient for me to leave. He just said he would get married and go to the vassal state yesterday, but today he sent the bride to my room."

"I thought Cao Meng would be so reluctant to part with his precious daughter, and I was hoping that there would be some conflict between them. It seems that he is also a double-minded old fox!"

"Now that everyone is here, let's take a look at what this legendary beauty with both talent and beauty looks like." Wang An drank the wine in his glass, stood up from the table, and strode towards the bride.

In the dim candlelight, the bride trembled slightly when she heard the noise, and then stopped moving.

Just as Wang An reached out to lift the veil, a dagger suddenly slipped out from the bride's wide sleeves and stabbed at Wang An without hesitation.

"assassin?"

Wang An's eyes fixed, and at the moment when the dagger just cut through the coat, he turned around and reached out to grab the bride's wrist.

The original owner had been practicing martial arts since childhood, and he instinctively pinched the opponent's tendons when he reached out his hand, and the dagger in the woman's hand immediately fell to the ground.

With his other hand, he stretched out and grasped the man's throat, pressing his whole body forward.

The two bodies fell on the bed, and the bride's red veil fell to the side.

When Wang An saw the other person's face clearly, he couldn't help but be distracted for a moment.

The woman under him was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with willow-shaped eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a high nose and an almond-shaped mouth. At such a young age, she was as beautiful as a lotus emerging from the water, with a unique kind of beauty that was fascinating.

However, this peerless face was now flushed due to lack of oxygen, and his chest, which had begun to take shape, was rising and falling violently against Wang An's strong chest.

Wang An was distracted for a moment, but he did not relax his vigilance. He just frowned and asked, "Who sent you? Tell me!"

"Cough cough..." The woman tried desperately to grab Wang An's big hand that was strangling her throat, and she looked like she was about to suffocate.

Isn’t this female assassin too useless?
Wang An hesitated, then frowned and loosened his hand a little.

"Asshole! How dare you pinch me?" Wang An just let go of his hand, and the bride under him suddenly opened her mouth and bit Wang An's shoulder.

"Ah~ let go!" Wang An grimaced in pain and instinctively opened his mouth to bite back.

"Ah~ Woohoo, you bastard!" The bride under him immediately opened her mouth, tears in her eyes due to pain.

Wang An came to his senses now. It seemed... not an assassin? Where in the world could there be such a useless assassin?

However, for the sake of caution, Wang An still pressed on the other person, frowned and asked: "Who are you, where did you take Cao Yunmeng?"

"Asshole, didn't you want to marry me? Why, now you don't recognize me anymore!" The bride glared at Wang An fiercely, with a look of deep hatred.

Wang An frowned, carefully looked at the bride, and asked suspiciously, "Are you Cao Yunmeng?"

"Okay, it's me!" Cao Yunmeng still glared at Wang An.

Wang An suddenly laughed out of anger. At this time, he was already sure that the person under him was not an assassin, but should be Cao Meng's beloved daughter Cao Yunmeng.

Otherwise, there would be no female assassin in the world who could bite people!

After figuring it out, he couldn't help but sneer, "I never thought that the daughter of the Duke, who is said to be both talented and beautiful, would be so fierce that she would murder her husband right away. This really opened my eyes!"

"Bah!" Cao Yunmeng spat, "Just because of you, you want to be my husband?"

Wang An angrily said, "Why, as a prince, am I not worthy of you?"

"He is cowardly and incompetent, and he is afraid of death. Even if he is the emperor, I would not look down on him!" Cao Yunmeng sneered.

Wang An was stunned and couldn't help feeling sad for the original owner.

In fact, to be fair, the original owner was not a cowardly and incompetent person. Instead, he was very intelligent and precocious.

In order to survive with her mother Shen Shaozhu in this treacherous palace, she had to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens.

However, in the eyes of others, it is a sign of cowardice, incompetence, and fear of death.

But even so, the saddest thing is that the original owner died unclearly in the end.

"What? You have nothing to say?" Seeing Wang An in a daze, Cao Yunmeng sneered.

"You want to marry me, isn't it so that my father can dispatch troops to save you at a critical moment? As long as you give up this marriage, I will let my father save your life at a critical moment."

"Aren't you afraid of death? Should this condition satisfy you?"

Wang An came to his senses and looked at Cao Yunmeng below him.

"Since keeping a low profile won't save your life, why not be more dramatic!"

Wang An sneered and thought to himself.

Wang An’s expression made Cao Yunmeng feel nervous. She blinked and thought she was hallucinating.

Wasn't it said that the late emperor's posthumous son was cowardly and incompetent? Now it seems that he is not like that. Instead, he is rude to me.

Cao Yunmeng suddenly became angry and said, "Hey, are you deaf? Did you hear what I said?"

Wang An returned his gaze to Cao Yunmeng's face, and suddenly revealed a trace of undisguised sarcasm: "I have always heard that Duke Wei has a daughter who is both talented and beautiful. I thought she would be a gentle lady from a noble family, but now it seems that is not entirely the case."

Cao Yunmeng sneered, "Idiot, you believe everything you hear. I never said I am gentle as water."

Wang An also sneered, "My beloved concubine is also a believer. Have you seen with your own eyes that I am afraid of death?"

"You... who is your beloved concubine!" Cao Yunmeng's pretty face suddenly flushed, and her phoenix eyes glared at Wang An fiercely.

(End of this chapter)