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Officials from Chu Xingyuan's faction were happy to see this happen. Chen Ye was just a playboy in the eyes of outsiders, so it would be best if the engagement could be cancelled.

The officials of the Fourth Prince's faction all thought that Chu Xingyuan was a good strategist. On the surface, he and Chen Ye seemed to be in love, but in fact, he had secretly persuaded Chen Ye to cancel the engagement.

As for the conflict Chu Xingyuan mentioned, it was probably just an excuse. If he agreed right away, he would inevitably be talked about.

Chen is not sensible anymore with his current behavior.

The happiest people in the whole audience were the Lu family.

Prime Minister Lu thought that if the engagement was cancelled, his son might have a chance. At that time, the Lu family and Chu Xingyuan would be a perfect match, and the empire would be theirs.

Lu Zhirong felt both surprised and happy. He was surprised that Chen Ye would take the initiative to cancel the engagement, but he was happy that Chen Ye finally canceled the engagement.

Regardless of what others thought, Chen Ye quickly ate a few mouthfuls of food, said goodbye to Chu Zhuang, and left.

Chu Zhuang glanced at Chu Xingyuan who was following Chen Ye, and whispered, "Go ahead and sort things out."

Chu Xingyuan immediately stood up and followed him out.

Chen was not walking very fast. When he reached the garden, he heard steady yet slightly hurried footsteps behind him. Chen did not look back.

The system has not yet prompted that the second main task has been completed, which means that Chu Xingyuan is not in great pain at this moment.

Chen Ye stopped walking as his forearm was grabbed.

Chu Xingyuan forced him to turn around, and stared at Chen Ye with a pair of eyes as deep as the abyss. When their eyes met, Chen Ye said, "Let me go."

Chu Xingyuan looked at Chen Ye's face, as if he had just met him today.

Chen Ye avoided Chu Xingyuan's gaze and said, "Your Highness, you don't have to keep staring at me. What I said at the palace banquet was all true. Your Highness, please tell His Majesty when you get back and ask him to cancel our engagement as soon as possible."

Chu Xingyuan's voice trembled slightly, "Truthfully? What did I do wrong?"

After a pause, he asked again: "Why do you do this to me?"

Why should you trample on his sincerity in public?

In order to make Chu Xingyuan miserable, Chen had to act as if he didn't love Chu Xingyuan and that he approached Chu Xingyuan just to get revenge on him.

Chen Ye shook off Chu Xingyuan's hand and said coldly, "Because I want revenge on you. I will treat you the same way you treated me before. Yes, I loved you in the past, but I stopped loving you when you told me that the engagement was cancelled. I loved you so much before that I pretended to be well-behaved and restrained myself for you, but you didn't even bother to look at me, so later all I had left was hatred for you."

A tear fell from Chen Ye's eyes. Looking at his tearful face, Chu Xingyuan no longer felt excited. He just felt as if his heart was blocked by a ball of cotton, making him feel suffocated and unable to breathe.

"You didn't cherish me when I liked you, so I'll make you like me, and then I'll kick you out, so you can feel how I felt back then."

Chu Xingyuan was stunned for a moment, and after a long time, he asked: "So your love for me during this period was all an act, and you said you would stay with me forever just to make me fall in love with you. You never had any real feelings for me?"

Chen Ye took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I am acting it all out for you."

Chu Xingyuan was silent. It turned out that the love he thought was all fake and Chen Ye didn't love him at all.

Looking back on the past, I was indeed very cold towards Chen Ye and had said hurtful words to him.

But later on he didn't expect that he would fall in love with Chen Ye, even though he had no feelings for her for many years before.

So it was no wonder that Chen Ye treated him like this. He was the one who ignored Chen Ye first. Chu Xingyuan kept making excuses for Chen Ye in his heart.

It must be because he was too mean to Chen Ye in the past, which is why Chen Ye deceived him.

Maybe Chen Ye also likes him. Chu Xingyuan doesn't believe that after being together for so long, everything Chen Ye did was fake.

"I was wrong in the past. I shouldn't have ignored you. I have never loved anyone else and I don't know how to treat you. I hurt you."

The crown prince, who had always been arrogant, humbly admitted his mistake and wanted to win back Chen Ye.

"Now let's consider ourselves even. I won't cancel the engagement."

Chen Ye: "Don't you understand what I'm saying? I don't like you anymore. Now that we're even, I won't keep the engagement anymore."

Hearing Chen Ye say that he didn't like her, Chu Xingyuan couldn't control his emotions. His eyes were slightly red. He took a step closer to Chen Ye, stared down at him, and said word by word: "If you don't like me, then who do you like?"