"The Imperial Palace is recruiting palace maids to attend His Highness the Crown Prince. My lineage wants me to enter the palace and see if I can win his favor," Su Lingyue said without concealing anything.
"What?! That's going too far! Are they sacrificing you as a bargaining chip?!" Ye Chen demanded, beside himself with rage.
"Lingyue, why don't we leave Capital City together and live somewhere else?" Ye Chen mustered his courage and said.
"No, I won't leave." Su Lingyue shook her head.
"Why? Are you worried the Imperial Palace will retaliate against the Su Family if they find out you left? They've treated you like this, yet your heart still hasn't turned cold? You're still determined to put them first?"
Ye Chen simply could not understand Su Lingyue's decision.
If he had a lineage like that, he would have severed all ties immediately and turned against them.
Under heaven, he was the only one entitled to use others. No one was entitled to use him!
"No! I volunteered. They didn't force me," Su Lingyue said, once again denying Ye Chen's claims.
"Volunteered? Lingyue, I don't understand. Why would you demean yourself like this?" Ye Chen had already envisioned marrying Su Lingyue, having boy-girl twins, and roaming heaven and earth together...
Now he heard that she had volunteered to enter the Imperial Palace and become the personal maid of that Crown Prince who had appeared out of nowhere.
Ye Chen felt deeply uncomfortable.
They called it being a maid, but with Su Lingyue's beauty, Ye Chen hardly believed those pampered royals would merely watch from a distance and do nothing.
From another perspective, if Ye Chen had been born into royalty, he would certainly have indulged in even wilder pleasures.
And this man was no ordinary royal, but the