Leap Forward Comics: Watch How I Become a Villainess

Chapter 118 Crazy Jealousy

"Why must the Crown Prince detain Nie Qing in the palace?"

“Nie Qing must have a way to contact the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince never leaves the Eastern Palace. If it’s not through this method, I’m afraid I’ll never be able to gain the Crown Prince’s trust. How can I infiltrate the Crown Prince’s side?” Lu He said, “We’ve planned it out. Nie Qing will make the Crown Prince believe that he loves him, and then help the Crown Prince bring down the Nie family as a pledge of loyalty.”

“This plan is brilliant,” Li Cen immediately understood. The Crown Prince originally wanted to dismantle the Third Prince’s power, and now Nie Qing could use the Crown Prince to bring down Minister Nie: “I have been reading the military book you gave me these past few days, and it is quite interesting.”

"Haha, what else do you like? I'll go to the sky and get it for you?" Lu He said jokingly. But to Li Cen, it was incredibly romantic, like lovers whispering sweet nothings and wanting to pluck stars from the sky to give to their beloved.

"What's wrong?" Lu He noticed Li Cen staring at her blankly and couldn't help but touch her cheek. "Is there something on my face?"

Li Cen looked away and shook his head, inwardly sighing at his own ridiculousness; liking women was something he could only keep to himself.

"Why are you looking so gloomy again?" Lu He noticed that she had just been smiling, but now she was sighing again after only a few words.

Li Cen simply shook his head and remained silent.

Speaking of which, the Empress has been a nun at Hanshui Temple for ten years, and has not seen her daughter since. One wonders if eight-year-old Li Cen ever cried at night, missing her mother. Even now, she is only an eighteen-year-old girl.

Looking at the Princess, Lu He's eyes were almost overflowing with tenderness. She truly felt sorry for the Princess, who had survived alone in the palace all this time.

"What's wrong with you again? Why are you looking at me like that?" Li Cen felt unbearably hot from that gaze. She had fallen for Lu He, and she couldn't resist those gentle, watery eyes.

"I don't know, maybe it's just heartache..." Lu He remembered that Xia Lan also lost her mother when she was young.

Seeing that she looked somewhat dejected, Li Cen changed the subject: "Does Bai Yu still need to see Nie Qing these days?"

“Yes, let’s go all the way.” Lu He nodded. Bai Yu also had to keep up the act; after all, the Crown Prince’s target this time was still Bai Yu.

Sure enough, within a day, the emperor summoned the eldest princess and asked her to hold a banquet for the women at her residence, inviting all families to bring their daughters of marriageable age to the banquet.

Once these banquet invitations were sent out, the officials naturally knew what was going on; they were undoubtedly looking for suitable women for the Crown Prince and the Third Prince, and the mistresses of each household took it very seriously.

The Nie family was no exception.

This was the first time Li Cen had carefully observed Nie Qing. He had only met him briefly once before when he was at the Nie family looking for Princess Chengde, and had not paid much attention to him.

Upon closer inspection, she was indeed a beauty as delicate as a lotus flower. Lu He noticed Nie Qing and quickly walked over to greet her. Lu He was eager to introduce her to Li Cen.

She excitedly pulled Nie Qing in front of Li Cen: "Your Highness, this is Nie Qing!"

"..." Li Cen's brows furrowed so deeply that they almost twisted into a knot, her gaze fixed on the hand Lu He was holding Nie Qing's. She was already somewhat unhappy when Lu He abandoned her and ran straight to Nie Qing, and now she was actually coming back hand in hand! It was simply outrageous.

Li Cen felt as if her reason was about to be swallowed up by something.

"Greetings, Your Highness the Eldest Princess." Nie Qing bowed, hesitating to raise his head. He wondered why this Eldest Princess was not as approachable as Lu He had described. He felt as if the air around him had dropped several degrees.

"Your Highness?" Seeing that Li Cen's face was getting worse, Lu He reached out to support her: "Is Your Highness feeling unwell?"

Li Cen snapped out of her daze and realized she had just lost her composure. She nodded to Nie Qing: "Miss Nie is so beautiful that I was momentarily mesmerized."

To Nie Qing, these words were a compliment; to Lu He, they sounded sarcastic.

Lu He understood immediately; she realized that she probably hadn't been careful about the boundaries between herself and Nie Qing.

She closed her eyes: What month and day was the eldest princess born?

System: I know what you want to ask, she's an Aquarius.

"Yeah, that's it. When she gets angry, she gets all sarcastic and weird," Lu He exclaimed in amazement.

After meeting with the Princess, Nie Qing returned to his seat at the banquet.

"Mr. Lu's confidantes are all exceptionally beautiful young ladies," Li Cen said with a forced smile.

"Your Highness, you flatter me." Lu He could only pretend not to understand and said in a roguish manner, "Then I can't possibly be confidants with such a handsome and elegant young master, can I?"

Li Cen couldn't help but slap her on the back.