Chapter 408: Deliberately Misleading Her! _1
Although Li Wuyu felt happy inside, her face showed no such emotions, and she politely said, "Commandery Princess, what Wuyu had told you before was only that Wuyu heard from her father that Prince never returns without victory. However, she did not say whether this news was true or false, and as for the authenticity of ’never returns without victory,’ Wuyu never probed further into her father’s claim and naturally did not know."
"You!" Linghe was so angry that she couldn’t find a way to refute Li Wuyu’s words.
Simply because, originally, all that Li Wuyu had said was that she had heard from her father about Xiao Changyi’s claim of ’never returning without victory,’ and indeed she had said nothing more. It was her own mistake to assume that Xiao Changyi truly never returned without victory, toiling away in the fields for a lifetime. Then, out of fear, not wanting to spend her life tilling the soil, she had hastily returned to the Capital.
But if Li Wuyu hadn’t mentioned ’never returning without victory,’ could she have made such a mistake? Perhaps it was Li Wuyu who had intentionally led her astray!
Thinking so, Linghe’s anger became uncontrollable; in a moment of lost reason, she raised her hand, intending to slap Li Wuyu across the face, "How dare you, Li Wuyu, you clearly deceived this Commandery Princess—"
"Commandery Princess!" Prime Minister Li’s voice suddenly burst forth. Linghe shuddered and her mind instantly cleared. Li Wuyu was the Prime Minister’s daughter; she simply couldn’t hit her as she pleased.
As soon as Prime Minister Li arrived in the backyard, he saw Linghe gearing up to hit his treasured daughter. He immediately called out to the Commandery Princess at the top of his voice, hurriedly walked over, and while protecting his dear daughter behind him, he bowed to Linghe neither servile nor overbearing, "Commandery Princess, might I inquire where my little girl has offended you to provoke the Commandery Princess to strike her? If indeed she has erred, there is no need for the Commandery Princess to take action herself. The official here will surely take his daughter to the Pingjun Prince’s Mansion and apologize to the Commandery Princess in the presence of the Prince of Pingjun."
Not waiting for Linghe to speak, Prime Minister Li continued, "If the error my daughter committed is an unforgivable grievous mistake, there is no need for the Commandery Princess to be so angered. I myself will take my daughter to the Emperor to plead for mercy."