"Is that so... She is not yet your fiancée but neither am I. I am no longer your fiancée", Li Xi Rui just use informal speech to the crown prince.

"But you still shouldn't...", Long Qing walked to stand in front of Li Xi Rui.

Xiao Xi shields her miss. 'Even if you are the crown prince or even the emperor himself, you must get through her first before you could hurt her miss!'.

Tapping Xiao Xi's shoulder to get her attention, Li Xi Rui shakes her head. It is to tell her that she is fine.

Li Xi Rui lifts her veil so she could look straight into his eyes. "As a crown prince, you shouldn't do this. It would not do to make a scene in public. You should think about your reputation", she reprimanded the crown prince.

As Long Qing looked at that hostile eyes he feels bewildered. 'Am I no longer in her heart?', he had been determined at that time to break their engagement. But now, when he looked at the girl he used to favor, he hesitated. So he said something he knew she had wanted to hear from him.

"Fine. I couldn't take you as my Princess consort, but I could take you in as my concubine", he had thought she will be happy like this. Isn't this the case for 10 years? As long as she could be together with him, she will do anything he asked?

But never had he ever predict that the girl in front of him would laugh. "Hahahaha! Your highness must be joking. That is the best joke I have ever heard", Li Xi Rui is so mad that she started to laugh. "Thank you for entertaining this miss, Your Highness crown prince. But why would a prince such as yourself take a lowly crude, a shrew like this miss as his concubine? Surely you could do better than that", she smirks.

"Why would you say that?", he is incredulous.

"That's the truth isn't it? Then crown prince, if there is nothing more, please excuse this miss before we become even more of a spectacle", Li Xi Rui left that shameless man standing outside the main door. She told steward Wang to close the door even when the crown prince is still standing there. She is not a nice enough woman after all.

What can a mere steward do? Well, of course he can close the door in front of the crown prince's face!

Speechless and in disbelief, he walked absent mindedly to his carriage. He believed that Li Xi Rui is deliberately shaming him. But he will not give her the satisfaction she seeks. If she wanted to become his princess consort again, she should prove herself and become better than Mu Jiu Jiu.

Meanwhile in Li mansion, Li Xi Rui is fuming! She could only become a concubine? Has she said something about being a concubine to him? She is not a bad enough woman to become the third person in a marriage. She will not downgrade herself just because of a man!

In Jian Palace~

Long Jie had been drinking 3 pots of water but the spiciness of the chili still burns his tongue. He really regretted eating that 'spicy fruit'!!