Chapter 2 — He Used To See Me As A Decoration, Now He Begs Me Not To Leave

I looked at him and said nothing. My silence seemed to make him even angrier.

“Remember clearly, she is just a decoration.”

He leaned closer to me, every word was cold to the bone.

"Don't hope to get anything. The position of the Princess, the right to be the housekeeper in the Royal Palace, and my heart, you can't have any of it."

He let go and aggressively pushed me away. I staggered and hit the corner of the table, immediately causing a sharp pain in my side. But when he came to look, he didn't even look at me, he just put his hand in his lap, took out an item and threw it at my feet. It was a piece of white jade peace, made of jade, with a tassel tied on top, something he had carried with him since he was a child.

“This is Khinh Nhu's belongings.”

His voice was extremely cold.

"Today I went to visit her. She returned this to me and wished us a happy life together. Look, how kind she is."

“And you, Tan Chieu.” He looked down at me from above, his eyes full of contempt. “She doesn't deserve it.”

After speaking, he turned around and left, slamming the door. In the quiet new room, there was only me and the cold jade pendant lying on the ground. I slowly bent down to pick it up. As soon as the jade pendant touched his hand, he felt a warmth, it seemed to still retain his body temperature. I looked at that piece of jade for a long, long time. Then, I walked to the window and pushed the door open. Outside is the royal garden, in the middle there is a not too large lake. I raised my hand and threw that peace piece far away.

"Boom" a soft sound rang out, the water surface only raised a small ripple, then quickly restored its calm appearance.

Tieu Can Ngon, this is just the beginning. My days at the Royal Palace were even more peaceful than expected. Tieu Can Ngon has never stepped into my hospital again. The servants in the palace are all cunning people. When they saw the Royal Family's attitude towards me, they immediately followed suit. Every day's rice soup was already more than half cold when it arrived. Fallen leaves in the yard and no one sweeps them up.

"Thin Truc Uyen" where we live gradually becomes a lonely island in the middle of the Royal Palace.

I don't care either. I told Xuan Hoa, the maid to follow me as a dowry, to open all the boxes I brought. Mother has prepared an amazingly rich dowry for me. In addition to gold, silver, jewels, brocade and silk, there are also several manors on the outskirts of the capital, a few shops within the city, along with... half a chest of medical books and herbs that have been dried. My father was a martial artist, but my maternal grandfather came from a famous medical family in Jiangnan. Since I was a child, I did not like women embroidering, I only liked to follow my grandfather tinkering with those medicine bottles and jars. Tieu Can Ngon did not know these things. People in the capital only knew that General Tran Quoc's daughter, Tan Chieu, was good at riding horses and archery and had an arrogant and arrogant personality. I opened a yellowed medical book and said to Xuan Hoa:

“Bring me the land deeds and books of those manors and shops.”

Xuan Hoa is a bit worried:

“Miss, right now we… should think about how to please the Royal Family before or not?

I didn't even raise my head:

“What's the use of pleasing him? Can it be considered as food, or can it prevent us from being bullied by others?”

I gently said:

"Xuan Hoa, remember carefully, in this world, the only thing you can rely on is what is in your hands."

Xuan Hoa half understood and half did not nod. In the days that followed, we read books during the day, read medical books at night, and life passed peacefully and fully. I sent the matriarch that my mother left me out, and began to secretly take over the management of my own business. Such days last about a month. That afternoon, I was in the yard rearranging my precious medicinal herbs when a maid came in to report, saying that Miss To had come to visit me.