Leap Forward Comics: Watch How I Become a Villainess

Chapter 69 Sitting on the sidelines and watching the tigers fight is the best strategy

Midway through the journey, Chao Huaiyuan would always use the excuse of consulting the oracle to go to Lu He's carriage for a while before returning to accompany the princess.

"I didn't know you had become so superstitious and supernatural." After this happened several times, Princess Chengde showed some dissatisfaction.

“Your Highness, this gentleman is truly amazing. I,” Chao Huaiyuan repeated what Lu He had taught him, “I didn’t believe it before, but he has saved me from danger time and time again, so I have no choice but to believe him. By the way, he also asked me to remind Your Highness that he noticed something during our previous meeting and hopes that Your Highness will allow him to tell you in detail.”

"Me?" Princess Chengde's heart tightened. What could possibly be wrong with her? "I'm perfectly fine, what could possibly be wrong with me?"

"Well, the master didn't say, he only said something very important to you." Chao Huaiyuan recalled what Lu He had just told him, telling him to go back and refuse the marriage, but not to be too firm and not to use extreme methods. He wondered what she was up to.

"Stop the car!" Princess Chengde's curiosity was piqued. "Please bring the gentleman over now!"

Lu He was quickly invited over.

Princess Chengde did not invite Lu He to sit down, but instead knelt in the carriage.

"Speak," Chengde said, adopting an air of superiority.

Lu He glanced at Chao Huaiyuan and shook his head: "No, the secrets of heaven can only be told to one person at a time. If there are other people present, it cannot be told."

"So many fussy rules for the poor." Princess Chengde muttered under her breath, then told Chao Huaiyuan to leave.

"Can you tell me now?" Princess Chengde opened one eye and closed the other, looking lazy. She clearly didn't believe her much, but was just curious about this fortune teller.

"Your Highness, it seems you and His Majesty have a tragic past..."

"How dare you!" Princess Chengde frowned, sat up, and slammed her hand on the table: "I think you were sent by Brother A Yuan to chase me away!"

"Your Highness, please calm down, it's a misunderstanding!" Lu He quickly explained, "I have a way to resolve this!"

Chengde, who was still angry, calmed down when he heard her say this, and his attitude softened considerably: "Are you saying that there is a way for Brother Ayuan and me to be together?"

"The divination now indicates that this lord's marriage is entangled with several people, and the outcome is uncertain," Lu He said, trying to mislead people.

"Several people? Isn't each person supposed to have one red thread?" Princess Chengde asked, puzzled.

“No, no, these causes and effects are not so simple,” Lu He said, feigning profundity. “Do you know that even the cause and effect of destiny calculated now can be completely changed by a small change in the original destiny?”

"Sir, I don't understand. How should this be explained?" Princess Chengde was somewhat confused.

"Let me give you an example, Your Highness. If I could calculate when and where my lord would be ambushed by the enemy, resulting in his death, wouldn't the Book of Fate record show that his life would end at that very moment?"

Princess Chengde nodded knowingly.

"If I were to tell the lord after calculating, and he hadn't fallen into the trap and wouldn't have died, wouldn't his fate be altered, and wouldn't he be no longer in that particular time?"

Princess Chengde suddenly realized: "Sir, I understand what you mean. It means defying fate, right?"

"Excellent, excellent! Your Highness is very insightful and understands the will of Heaven." Lu He seized the opportunity to praise her lavishly. Children of this age are all subject to child psychology, so she was bound to be flattered.

Sure enough, Chengde's face lit up with a smile, his lips curving upwards involuntarily. He was so happy to be praised.

"Currently, the divination results clearly indicate three people: Your Highness, and one of the other two is Nie Qing, the daughter of Minister Nie Sheng!"

"What right does the daughter of a high-ranking official have to compete with me?" Princess Chengde was immediately enraged. "And who is the other person?"

“And… the Eldest Princess…” Lu He said cautiously.

"Royal elder sister?" Chengde's face turned pale instantly, showing that she was very afraid of her elder sister.

That's why Lu He is so clever; she checked the system in advance and learned about the storylines of the Eldest Princess and Princess Chengde.

"Does Your Highness still remember the time when you almost drowned when you were five years old?" Lu He continued to try to gain the other party's trust.

"You! How could you know, sir?" Princess Chengde was startled again. Only her mother knew about this, because, because...

"Everyone who knew about this was silenced, right? Well, it was the eldest princess who pushed His Highness, wasn't it?"

"Sir! You really know everything! You! You're amazing! No wonder Brother A Yuan treats you like an honored guest!" For some reason, Chengde's eyes welled up with tears.

She was pushed into the pond by her elder sister, but was rescued in time by a maid. That same night, the maid died for some unknown reason. The old woman who brought the princess to the Imperial Garden also disappeared from the palace without explanation. The guard who was guarding the gate that day was replaced the next day and never appeared again. No one could be found. Everyone who knew that the princess had been to the Imperial Garden that day vanished overnight.

My mother was terrified by this incident and dared not mention it to my father. She fell ill within a few days and it took her a long time to recover. At that time, my mother instructed me that this matter must be kept to myself and not told anyone, otherwise I would not even be able to live.

So, all the palace knew was that when Princess Chengde was five years old, she fell into the water while playing in the Imperial Garden and almost died. The emperor felt indebted to this daughter, so he took extra care of her.