Cheng Zheng coldly looked at the girl in front of him. She looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. When she saw him, there was a flash of fear in her eyes, but she quickly calmed down. She was very brave and did not show disgust and fear towards him like ordinary people.
"Who let you come here?" Cheng Zheng took a step closer to Zhao Rao and stared at her coldly.
Zhao Rao was forced to take two steps back. "I'm here to look for someone. Who are you? Why are you here? "
Cheng Zheng narrowed his eyes at her. Seeing that she kept retreating to avoid him, he only felt that it was funny. She should have come here to look for him, but she actually did not know who he was?
"Stop, don't come any closer." Zhao Rao's back was against the wall. She glared at the ferocious looking man in front of her. Could this person be her uncle's subordinate? "If you dare come closer, I'll tell your general."
"Our general?" Cheng Zheng raised his eyebrows. He stretched out his long arms and trapped Zhao Rao in his arms. "Have you seen … him?"
"Of course I have!" Zhao Rao said. She had seen Cheng Zheng when she was young. Although they had not interacted and had only seen him from afar, she could still vaguely remember that he was a handsome man.
Cheng Zheng lowered his eyes and looked at this girl. She had seen him before? He had no impression of her at all. Was she a maid at home? No, her clothes did not look like what a maid would wear. Then she must be a relative of the family. Could it be that his father wanted to force him to marry again, so he purposely found a girl to get close to him?
"Stay away from me." Zhao Rao shouted coldly at Cheng Zheng.
"What's your name?" Cheng Zheng asked calmly. Smelling the fragrance of a young girl on her body, his blood started to boil. It seemed that he had not had a woman in a long time. It was a pity that he could not touch the women at home. It was more convenient when he was in the army. After venting, he could let those women leave. At least there was no trouble at all.
Zhao Rao calmed down and looked at the man in front of her. If not for the scar on his face, he was a very handsome man, but because of that scar, he looked ferocious and scary. He was wearing a simple straight robe, and there was a faint smell of honey locust. He must have just freshened up … There was no one in the training room, and that was because her uncle didn't like people getting close to him.
Then wasn't the only man who appeared here … Cheng Zheng?
Zhao Rao stared at him in shock. "You … you're Cheng Zheng?"
Cheng Zheng expressionlessly raised his eyebrows. He finally recognized her. He pinched her chin and carefully looked at her. If he had seen her before, he would definitely remember her identity. "When did you see me?"
It really was him!
Zhao Rao didn't know how to describe the surprise in her heart. She really couldn't recognize it at all.
"I … I saw it when I was a kid." Zhao Rao said in a daze. Her chin was pinched so hard that it hurt. She reached out and removed his grip. "Uncle, it seems like you don't remember me either."
Uncle? Cheng Zheng's eyes were instantly covered with a layer of ice. In this world, there was only one person who would call him uncle.
That was Cheng Bing's daughter.
So, this little girl in front of him was Zhao Rao?
"Zhao Rao?" Cheng Zheng released her chin and took two steps back. This woman was not sent by his father to seduce him, but was actually his nominal niece. "What are you doing here?"
Zhao Rao smiled faintly. "Naturally, I'm here to look for uncle."
Cheng Zheng's eyes were cold and distant. "I don't remember meeting you before. What business do you have with me?"
He actually couldn't tell that this girl was Cheng Bing's daughter. They didn't look alike. Zhao Rao looked more like Zhao Yong, especially that pair of heroic eyes. It was normal that he couldn't recognize her.
It was just that he thought that Cheng Bing's daughter would hate him to the bone just like her.
Didn't Cheng Bing point at him and scold him back then? She said that he was born with bad luck, cursing people around his parents. She didn't even admit that she was his younger brother. Even if they weren't biological, his name was on the Cheng family tree. It was probably because of this that Cheng Bing hated him.
"I was looking for uncle for something." Zhao Rao glanced at his scar. "I remember that uncle didn't have any scars on his face before. Were you injured on the battlefield?"
Cheng Zheng said coldly, "What business do you have with me?"
He didn't seem to want to talk to Zhao Rao at all. He didn't have any sibling ties with Cheng Bing, and he was even more unfamiliar with this niece of his. If she came here to look for him, it wouldn't be anything good.
Zhao Rao originally wanted to get close to Cheng Zheng, but seeing his cold expression, she knew that no matter what she said, this uncle of hers would not treat her, his niece, differently. She might as well just directly say her purpose for coming.
"I heard that Imperial Father wants to bestow marriage on uncle?" Zhao Rao asked in a low voice.
Cheng Zheng's lips curled into a faint smile. "So what if it is?"
"Will uncle agree?" Zhao Rao looked at him. "Will you marry the princess?"
"Eldest Princess, are you very concerned about my marriage?" Cheng Zheng asked calmly.
"Yes." Zhao Rao nodded without hiding anything. "Uncle, your marriage is very important to me … to the Cheng family. If you marry Princess Lan, it will be detrimental to the Cheng family in the future, to …"
"It will also be detrimental to the Eldest Prince that you want to help?" Cheng Zheng interrupted Zhao Rao. "Eldest Princess, you are too concerned."
Zhao Rao said in a low voice, "I really shouldn't care about uncle's matters, but … my mother died in such a dubious way that I can't accept it."
Cheng Zheng chuckled. "I don't care about how your mother died. Speaking of which, Concubine De helped me when she was in the Cheng family. In terms of kindness, she is more than your mother. Even if I want to help someone, I will help the Second Prince. Isn't that natural?"
What? Zhao Rao suddenly raised her head. "You are my uncle. Instead of helping me, you want to help the Second Prince?"
That's right. Concubine De used to be her mother's maid, but after entering the palace, she couldn't bear the loneliness and seduced her father. Otherwise, she wouldn't have given birth to a son and a daughter, and wouldn't have harmed her mother behind her back. She just didn't expect Cheng Zheng to want to help Concubine De.
Cheng Zheng looked at Zhao Rao indifferently. He often heard the Emperor mention this Eldest Princess. She was a very smart and decisive woman. The two princes combined were not as smart as her. The Emperor often lamented that it would be great if the Eldest Princess was a man.
It seemed that this smart princess also had times when she was muddle-headed. Was she too eager for revenge, or was she blinded by her desire for power?
"I won't help anyone. The person I am loyal to is the Emperor, not the two princes, and definitely not you." Cheng Zheng looked at Zhao Rao. "Eldest Princess, there are some things that you shouldn't meddle in. You better behave yourself. I won't see you out."
Zhao Rao raised her head and looked at him proudly. "There are indeed some things that I shouldn't meddle in. But you are my uncle. Even if you don't help me, you shouldn't drag me down."
Cheng Zheng lowered his eyes to look at her, "Uncle?"
Her mother had never acknowledged him as her younger brother, and he had never seen Zhao Rao. How could he talk about his feelings for this niece?
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