After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

Chapter 473 Clarification

"I love stunning beauties the most. I'm tired of you. Now my heart is entirely focused on Wen Renye."

"I like him, so I can no longer marry you. The engagement has been cancelled. I will set you free, and you should also let me go!"

Zhong Ning sentenced himself without waiting for him to speak.

But she never expected that after hearing all this, Gu Mingzhe did not retreat at all. Instead, he took two steps forward and half-knelt in front of her.

He raised a slightly sad face, his eyes slightly moistened, and asked in a trembling voice:

"Your Highness, are you leaving?"

Zhong Ning's expression faltered slightly, and she said with a guilty conscience, "What nonsense! This is my home. Where else can I go? I just have someone I love and don't want to have anything to do with you anymore!"

"Heh..." Gu Mingzhe laughed bitterly, his face turning even paler.

"Your Highness said before that he would tell me the truth one day. I have waited for so long, but instead of receiving your confession, I have only received your indifference."

"Your Highness is leaving, so you have to stop my thoughts and help Wenren Ye take the throne."

"I understand everything, there's no need to hide it from me!"

Gu Mingzhe spoke clearly and distinctly, but Zhong Ning's heart skipped a beat. "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Your Highness, are you going to continue to lie to me?"

Gu Mingzhe moved two inches towards Zhong Ning, almost half hugging him in his arms. The two were so close that Zhong Ning could even see the delicate and flawless texture on his face, without a single pore.

"Xu Xiaocao... grew up in Kaoshan Village, located in Fengcheng Town, Datong Prefecture. She accidentally disappeared deep in the mountains... She and her fellow villager Shen Yan were both abducted and trafficked here from Shengjing."

"After the incident, the entire Xu family was imprisoned, and the government's household registration for Xu Xiaocao was replaced with Zhong Ning's."

"Your Highness, that's when you came, right?"

"Let me guess," Gu Mingzhe stared at Zhong Ning with a hooked gaze, then opened his red lips and said:

"You are not Xu Xiaocao, your original name is Zhong Ning."

"You come from another world, a world with countless poems, thousands of songs, the five-star red flag, firearms and explosives, and everything you are attached to!"

"So Fang Ping's poems aren't just a dream of another world, but the culture of your time."

"The same is true of the songs Fang Ping sang and the songs you played."

"Otherwise, it's impossible to explain why a child who had been in a mountain village and suffered abuse for years could suddenly learn to read and write and have such a drastic change in his personality."

"You once inadvertently said that when you came here, your biggest fear was being shaped by this era. That's why you needed Fang Ping, because Fang Ping's existence reminds you not to forget your original heart."

"I didn't understand what it meant at first, but later I realized that the world you live in must be very different from the world we live in now."

"Although you have been imitating the people of this era and trying hard to fit in with this world, you have inadvertently shown proper arrangements for the people below you and compassion for the people at the bottom."

"Even the respect for life doesn't seem fake."

"At least, I've never seen a princess who, after learning that Fangyuan's incident involved numerous forces within the court, could still stand up and speak up for a group of injured children."

"I've never seen a royal family not throw a huge banquet for their birthday and then use all the money originally allocated for the palace banquet to convert it into food and supplies to send to the front lines."

"I've never seen a princess who boasts of her love of beauty and her desire to have many male lovers openly refuse to allow a group of noble men to approach her."

"Even I myself took advantage of my family's glory and established my status first, which gave me the opportunity to get close."

"If I guess correctly, I think Master Qi is the same!"

Zhong Ning was being analyzed directly by Gu Mingzhe, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart. It was indeed true. At that time, his martial arts skills were not as good as Qi Yu's.

If Qi Yu hadn't broken into her boudoir and taken her first kiss, she would probably still not have been able to get over that hurdle.

Zhong Ning was about to defend himself, but Gu Mingzhe continued:

"Your Highness, do you know what a true concubine looks like?"

"She's just like the Grand Princess. She doesn't care about meat or vegetables. She won't let go of anyone who looks decent."

"But what about you, Your Highness? You brought Zhou Ge back to your house, but only sent him to school. You were grateful for Shen Yan's kindness, but you placed him above his cousin."

"Even Fang Ping... you've never crossed the line."

"Look, Your Highness, you are so contradictory..."

Gu Mingzhe stood up, his voice becoming clearer. "You're clearly not from this era, yet you can see the hardships of ordinary people, and even more so, the crises lurking beneath this country."

"You mentioned land annexation, the aristocratic families, the imbalance between civil and military officials, and the unification of the world."

"This is not the kind of knowledge that an illiterate peasant girl should have. It's clear that your country must have experienced something like this before, and it left behind a huge hidden danger. That's why you detest it so deeply!"

"Your Highness, am I right?"

Zhong Ning took a deep breath, his mind feeling a little confused.

She thought she had concealed it well and that she was already considering herself a person of this era.

But unexpectedly, as long as I get a little closer to her and know her past, I can see the abnormality in her clearly.

It turned out that she had been exposed long ago.

It's just that everyone is acting with her.

This is the case with Qi Yu, Shen Yan, and Gu Mingzhe.

Zhong Ning twitched the corners of his lips and said helplessly, "You've already said everything. What else can I say?"

"No...it's not over yet..." Gu Mingzhe lifted Zhong Ning from her seat, half-holding her in his arms, and looked into her eyes forcefully and domineeringly, "You recommended Wen Renye, is it really because you like him?"

"Your Highness, don't lie. Although I don't know why you praise him so highly, I probably have a vague idea in my mind. It's because you are afraid."

"If you want to promote reform, you will inevitably have to confront the aristocratic families. Then all the spearheads will be directed at you or the people around you. Assassinations, kidnappings, and assassinations will only become more common from now on."

"So you're scared."

"You're afraid that something like last time, where we were kidnapped, will happen again. You're afraid those people will hurt the people around you."

"So, you want to sever ties with us and support Wenren Ye to take the throne, Your Highness, am I right?"

Zhong Ning's breath was caught.

No, was she that obvious?

How can this person be so smart?

Just by observing myself a little, I can guess so many things, but these things are all true.