The woman's skin was not fair; her healthy wheat-colored complexion only made her delicate features more striking. Her clothing and adornments differed from those of Great Zheng women, carrying an untamed, exotic charm. Prince Shu had originally intended to humiliate her before driving them all out, but upon seeing her, he changed his mind.
Yet when he heard the Ning Kingdom envoy call her a princess again, Prince Shu could not even be bothered to keep up appearances. His face openly showed disdain. "A tribal woman like this is worthy of being called a princess?"
"And these local products are even more useless. Do you think I lack such things? You dare send this as a gift? Are you insulting me?"
With that, he turned hostile and ordered, "Drive this envoy out at once!"
"As for this woman—someone, take her away first!"
The Ning Kingdom envoy was instantly dumbfounded. As the guards surged forward and shoved him out, he finally came to his senses and turned back, shouting, "Since Your Highness is unwilling, then please return our princess!"
The princess sent into Prince Shu's Residence was the pearl of Ning Kingdom. For Ning Kingdom's future, they had endured countless hardships to bring her all the way to the Capital City of Great Zheng. Giving the princess to Prince Shu was also meant to make him treat Ning Kingdom more favorably, forging a good bond. Yet Great Zheng's Prince Shu was so arrogant and rude that the envoy was utterly disappointed. What shocked him even more was that the other side not only showed him, an envoy, no respect at all, but had forcibly detained their princess! If he simply obeyed, they would have sacrificed a princess for nothing!
"Stop shouting nonsense!" With a crack, a whip lashed viciously across the