Chapter 148: Chapter 138: Prince Xingyang (3)

“Wuwuwu, how can the poor Princess be helped.”

“My dad can actually exorcise ghosts too, maybe I should go back and let my dad try?”

Shen Jingxian didn’t know that her unintentional actions completely dispelled the doubts in the people’s hearts about her.

The next day, Shen Jingxian, estimating the time, sent a small gift to the civilian who was hurt by “her” words, along with an apology.

Face-to-face apology was absolutely impossible; passing notes was the only way to barely maintain the Royal Family’s dignity.

Hidden Guard said that the fellow became so excited that he ran twenty miles home that night, rolling crazily on his bed, and finally treasured the note the Princess gave him, wanting to pass it down as a family heirloom.

The last words Hidden Guard heard before leaving were: Demons and ghosts, leave quickly!! Protect the best Princess!!

Shen Jingxian stopped halfway through the hearing.

That’s right, she achieved her goal, even better than expected, but what did she get? She got social death.

Shen Jingxian’s logic was simple: if she couldn’t seize this body by herself, she’d borrow external force. She wanted the people to gradually accept that the body had a Demon, and that it was being consumed.

The people stood opposite another Princess for her, and this opposition would eventually leave the other Princess without a reason to remain in this world.

By the 8th day of departure, some of the displaced people started going home, and the evil deeds of the Demon Princess began spreading among them, and would spread further.

On the 9th day, someone claiming to be Prince Xingyang approached the army, proposing to escort the Princess back to the capital.

Shen Jingxian hadn’t heard of the name Prince Xingyang, it was Dark Ten who explained it to her.

There is a difference between a Commandery Prince and another Commandery Prince.

Some Commandery Princes hold military power, commanding fear, first leading troops, and later being titled for military merits, having significant control.

Some Commandery Princes merely hold honorary titles, like caged birds fed on allowances and vanity, without interfering in any local matters, holding revered status but less power than a minor official.

Prince Xingyang was somewhere between the two.

His father was titled Prince for his military merits, commanding tens of thousands, and even after turning in military power to prove loyalty, he still kept five thousand private soldiers allowed to be hereditary by the Emperor.

Prince Xingyang wasn’t very capable, but he had a good father. As the only legitimate son, no matter what trouble he got into, his father was always willing to clean up after him.

He seemed like a typical official’s son, it just wasn’t clear how controllable his character was.

Shen Jingxian thought for a moment, and said, “I wish to personally thank Prince Xingyang for his goodwill.”

…

Prince Xingyang sneaked out.

The letters he left in Xingyang were initially suppressed, and apart from the most loyal ones, no one knew the Prince had already left the land he was supposed to guard.

The Prince’s confidants believed he’d just gone for a quick look and would return soon, but after four long days of waiting, he didn’t return, only a letter arrived.

By coincidence, the letter was seen by a concubine-born son who came to the Prince Manor.

The next day, the Prince’s handwritten letter was plastered on every corner of Xingyang’s streets.

The content of the letter was roughly like this:

Zhiyu (Name of Prince Xingyang’s confidant), this Prince has met the Princess, and her beauty is beyond words. The beauty albums I’ve seen before can’t even depict the Princess’s beauty! Go get those beauty albums and burn them, their existence only tarnishes the Princess.

This Prince is now very happy, seeing the Princess once in this lifetime leaves this Prince with no regrets.

I am forever the Princess’s most sincere follower!! (Sudden dialect shift and several colorful praises omitted.)

Oh, by the way, just say this Prince is unwell for three to four months, this Prince wants to personally escort the Princess back to the capital, to prevent any unscrupulous people from coveting the Princess’s beauty. (This Prince used his unrelenting persuasion to have the Princess agree to let this Prince accompany her, hahahaha)

Readers could feel the Prince’s excitement and joy through his words, as well as his apparent unreliability…

At the end of the letter, in completely different flamboyant cursive, it barely read: Zhiyu, this Prince has high hopes for you～

Shi Zhiyu painfully hit a wall: Sorry Prince, I have failed your expectations, your lifetime of reputation, is about to be ruined!!

Forsaking being a good Commandery Prince, stubbornly wanting to become the Princess’s Guard, now all Xingyang’s people knew, their Prince had gone mad for the Princess on the official path!!!

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