Chapter 168 - Regain Her Memory

Qu Yuebai tried to stop Mo Junyang fearlessly.

Mo Junyang wasn’t blinded by the beauty at last and he pondered for a minute with a cold expression. But soon, he said politely and distantly, “I am sorry. I am busy now and I’m afraid that I can’t talk with you two. Please go back to the embassy first, and I will come to apologize another day.”

Mo Junyang said that, and it was obvious that he took Zhao Haoran and Zhao Niaoniao as friends.

But it was humiliation in Zhao Haoran’s opinion who was spoiled and respected by everybody since childhood.

Zhao Haoran was furious. He held Zhao Niaoniao’s shoulder with one hand and pointed at Mo Junyang with the other, cursing, “Mo Junyang, who are you? It’s your luck that Niaoniao loves you. It’s fine that you didn’t refuse her but let her love you in the past. Now you even dare to abandon her. Do you think the princess from our country can be bullied easily?”

He didn’t refuse her but let her love him… He abandoned her…

Qu Yuebai almost burst into laughter after hearing that. Mo Junyang stayed celibate and abused himself. Except for Shi Qingxue, nobody could attract him.

Zhao Haoran even described Mo Junyang in this way, and he was just imagining. However, Mo Junyang didn’t get mad, and he was really a gentleman.

Even when Shi Qingxue curiously asked what “abandon” meant, Mo Junyang ignored Zhao Haoran’s provocation or anger and explained patiently, “It means that you love somebody in the beginning but don’t love him later.”

The brother and sister looked shocked as if they saw a ghost. Was it a joke? Mo Junyang who always thought highly of himself and refused to say anything useless would answer such a stupid question. It was so weird.

“Oh!” Shi Qingxue was suddenly enlightened and nodded, showing that she understood.

She turned to Zhao Haoran and Zhao Niaoniao and stretched out her index fingers to pull her eyelids. She made a face and stuck out her tongue, expressing in rage, “Junyang loves me in the beginning and still loves me. He didn’t abandon me. You are talking nonsense!”

Zhao Haoran was speechless at Shi Qingxue’s reasonable statement and wanted to retort, but he couldn’t find a word.

At last, he felt ashamed and angry, yelling at Shi Qingxue resentfully, “Are you stupid? I am the third prince of the Zhao Country. I said that Mo Junyang was wrong, so it was his fault.”

Zhao Haoran spoke like that just to retort Shi Qingxue initially, but as soon as he finished, he and Zhao Niaoniao looked at each other and noticed something wrong from each other’s eyes.

This woman seemed to be abnormal. How could a normal adult not understand what abandon meant? And she spoke and behaved weirdly, like a child…

Both Zhao Haoran and Zhao Niaoniao showed a surprised expression and then with disdain, as if they were looking at an idiot.

Mo Junyang’s eyes turned cold and he didn’t give Zhao Niaoniao another chance to humiliate Shi Qingxue. He stood in front of Shi Qingxue and howled with killing intent, “Get out of here.”

It was Zhao Niaoniao’s first time to be treated cruelly by Mo Junyang. She couldn’t accept it and covered her mouth, running out while crying.

Zhao Haoran got more furious to see that and strode to Mo Junyang. He tried to lift Mo Junyang, but the latter dodged easily. He had to glare at Mo Junyang and spoke ruthlessly. “Mo Junyang, how dare you make Niaoniao cry? I won’t let you go. I will fight against you.”

Shi Qingxue blinked and interrupted in doubt, “Why will you fight against Junyang?”

“Of course I do it for my sister that I love!” Zhao Haoran replied subconsciously.

Afterward, he was confused as why he answered Shi Qingxue’s question. Then he shut his mouth and showed that he was annoyed.

Shi Qingxue understood and nodded. Then she also raised her chin and stated, “Then let me fight against you.”

Zhao Haoran’s eyes widened. “Wh…why?”

“Didn’t you say that you will fight for somebody you love? You fight for your sister, and I fight for my Junyang. So I should fight against you,” Shi Qingxue reasoned boldly.

Zhao Haoran was astonished and couldn’t figure out why a weak woman could challenge him and take it for granted.

The big man Zhao Haoran looked Shi Qingxue up and down with his picky eyes and then refused with disdain. “You are too weak. I won’t fight with you.”

“No. You are wrong. You have never fought with me. How do you know I am weak?” Shi Qingxue retorted.

Zhao Haoran could say nothing. He thought there seemed to be something wrong with Shi Qingxue’s words, but why couldn’t he refute her?

He felt depressed. At this time, Shi Qingxue raised her brows at him and asked casually, “Are you afraid of me? You don’t dare to compete with me, so you made excuses to cheat me, right?”

“Are you kidding? How would I cheat you? Just fight!” Zhao Haoran was provoked and responded immediately, accepting Shi Qingxue’s challenge for no reason.

Shi Qingxue’s face lit up with pleasure and then she smiled at Mo Junyang flatteringly, trying to ask him to praise her. She seemed to say, “I am awesome, right? I do it for you.”

In fact, Mo Junyang also thought this competition was weird, but his sweetheart was in a great mood. Of course he wouldn’t mind letting Qingxue practice and get back at them.

What? What if Shi Qingxue couldn’t defeat Zhao Haoran?

King Rui’s heir who was skilled in dirty tricks wouldn’t let something like this happen.

Shi Qingxue who was in high spirits led Zhao Haoran to the royal training ground and wanted to compete with him at once.

On the way, the wind made the third prince from the Zhao Country finally realize that it would be something humiliating if he fought against a woman.

If he won, he won a weak woman. If he lost, he would be embarrassed.

Zhao Haoran regretted a lot but couldn’t go back on his word. He had to come to the training ground.

Shi Qingxue looked at the ring and then at Zhao Haoran, asking, “Shall we fight in the ring?”

Zhao Haoran heard that and showed an awkward expression.

As the third prince of the Zhao Country, he always enjoyed wealth and honor and was puffed with pride. He never took the outsiders seriously, but at the same time, he was upright. He could cope with Mo Junyang mercifully, but he would never hurt Shi Qingxue who was delicate.

What if he injured her?

Zhao Haoran shook his head immediately and pointed at the archer’s field. “It’s boring to fight against each other. Let’s compete on shooting. We will shoot ten arrows for each. The one who shoots more arrows in the center of the bull’s-eye would win.”

He couldn’t help but look at Qingxue’s fair-skinned and tender fingers again and thought this young lady looked like his sister who had servants all the time and never did anything. It was beyond her power to shoot arrows.

Then he generously gave her some advantages. “As for you, I allow you to stand in the place thirty meters away from the bull’s-eye.”

Generally, the competitors should be 100 meters away from the bull’s-eye.

Zhao Haoran made the decision because he sincerely considered for Shi Qingxue.

Unfortunately, Shi Qingxue didn’t understand the prince’s good intention and asked in confusion, “Shouldn’t the competition be fair? If I stand closer to the bull’s-eye than you but I shoot more arrows in the center, then who will win?”

Zhao Haoran was stunned and thought this girl was too confident or too ignorant. She actually thought she could win him.

But he had done what he should. Since Shi Qingxue was ungrateful, he didn’t insist but received the bow and arrows from a servant and stated heroically, “Then let’s wait and see. I will go first.”

Zhao Haoran stood in the right place and took out a long arrow.

He put it on the bow, aimed at the bull’s-eye and shot in one breath.

The long arrow left the bow and was shot to the bull’s-eye.

Zhao Haoran hadn’t got used to it as he shot the first arrow, and it didn’t hit the center of the bull’s-eye, but it was on it.

He turned to Shi Qingxue automatically and saw her staring at him with no distractions, so he was complacent.

He raised his brows and showed off in front of Shi Qingxue proudly. “See? This is the real ability.”

He took out another arrow and then shot it.

As he focused, he shot more smoothly and the arrows were closer to the center. The last three arrows were in the center of the bull’s-eye.

When it was Shi Qingxue’s turn, Zhao Haoran expressed generously, “If you say that you will quit, I won’t stop you.”

What a generous offer!

But Shi Qingxue looked confused and asked, “Why would I quit?”

Zhao Haoran was unable to say a word.

The third prince gritted his teeth in secret and believed this woman was brainless.

However, when he saw that Shi Qingxue walked to the place where he had been and learnt from him to grab the bow and lift the arrow, he found that her posture was almost the same as his, and she even did more accurately for some tiny movements…

Zhao Haoran looked serious and stared at Shi Qingxue with his inquiring eyes.

While Mo Junyang and Qu Yuebai who stood behind Shi Qingxue all the time also paid attention to her.

Qu Yuebai frowned and gazed at Shi Qingxue for quite a while. Then he turned to Mo Junyang and whispered seriously, “Junyang, have you found that Shi Qingxue has changed these days?”

Nobody knew since when Shi Qingxue was not as ignorant as she had been when she just woke up. Except for being choosy in food, which was Lady Qingxue’s bad habit as Xia Mang said, she could almost “take care of herself”.

Apart from that she would behave like a child sometimes, she was more like a normal person to understand and act. Moreover, Shi Qingxue was less than sixteen years old and her face looked young. She looked as if she was merely fourteen or fifteen, so they couldn’t find something unusual when they talked.

More importantly, when Qu Yuebai saw that Shi Qingxue shot the first arrow to the center of the bull’s-eye, his face changed.

He shouted in a low voice doubtfully, “She, she regains her memory!”

Mo Junyang’s eyes were deep and nobody knew if he heard Qu Yuebai’s words. He just stared at Shi Qingxue and watched her shooting the arrows one by one.

All the long arrows were shot in the red center and some even replaced the former ones on the same position. She shot them much more accurately than Zhao Haoran.

After shooting the ten long arrows, Shi Qingxue slowly turned her head to Mo Junyang and showed a bright and elegant smile.

She looked like the dazzling Lady Qingxue as before.