The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

After Mrs. Gu accompanied Gu Yan'er back to her room, she immediately asked the servants to go out, closed the door, and took Gu Yan'er's hand and sat down at the table.

Madam Gu said anxiously, "Yan'er, why are you so confused? Nan Jingye asked you to do something like this, and you agreed? Do you really like him that much?"

Gu Yan'er looked at her mother's anxious expression, hesitated for a moment, and decided to speak her true thoughts. "Mom, I don't like him now. Maybe I didn't like him before, but I just listened to Dad and thought marrying him was a good way out. I didn't think about whether I liked him or not."

When Mrs. Gu heard Gu Yan'er say that she didn't like Prince Qi, she felt relieved. If Gu Yan'er was willing to do anything for Prince Qi just because she liked him and had no bottom line, then she was truly hopeless.

"Since you don't like him that much, why do you obey him? Is it really like you just said, because he threatened you with the position of Princess Qi and my position as Prime Minister's wife?" Madam Gu asked with concern. She only had this daughter and she wanted to know everything about Gu Yan'er.

Gu Yan'er glanced at Mrs. Gu's expression and said "Hmm!" cautiously.

"Hey! My silly girl, don't listen to his nonsense. I have been with your father for so many years, don't I know him? It is said that scholars are noble. A man like him will never abolish the main wife without reason, elevate the concubine, and get a reputation of favoring the concubine and ignoring his wife. So even if I failed to give birth to a legitimate son for him, he never thought of divorcing my wife and setting up another one. Even if your mother occasionally shows a little temper, as long as it is not too excessive, your father will not mind." Mrs. Gu comforted her, fearing that her daughter would do something stupid again.

Gu Yan'er looked up at Madam Gu, "But if I lose my power and cannot become the Princess of Qi, and if Sister Ying'er really becomes the Princess of Qi, then Aunt Liu will be able to ride on your head and bully you. How will your life in the mansion be easy in the future? If your mother lives in hardship, how can your daughter feel at ease?"

When Mrs. Gu heard Gu Yan'er say this, tears welled up in her eyes. She grabbed Gu Yan'er's hand and patted it twice, then said three words in a trembling voice: "Good child!"

After that, she couldn't help but let the tears flow. She quickly turned her face away and wiped away the two lines of tears with a handkerchief. After calming down, she said, "Silly child, mother knows your filial piety. Don't work hard for mother. You are mother's only child. Mother just hopes that you live well and live happily! Don't worry, Ying'er is just a concubine's daughter. Even if the King of Qi likes her, the Emperor and the Queen will not agree to let her be the Princess of Qi. With your father around, Liu will never climb over mother's head. If you really can't marry the King of Qi, mother will at most suffer a few rumors, and they can't do anything to me."

"Okay, mom, I understand. I won't do stupid things again. I won't make you worry about me anymore." Gu Yan'er answered obediently.

Madam Gu stretched out her left hand and touched Gu Yan'er's hair, and said nonchalantly: "Good child, you just said that you didn't understand whether you liked someone or not before, so do you understand it now? Do you have someone you like?"

When Gu Yan'er heard this, she subconsciously shyly turned her head away, not wanting Madam Gu to see her face: "Aiya! What are you talking about, mother? I don't have anyone I like, I just don't like my cousin anymore."

Mrs. Gu chuckled, "Oh? Really?" but did not ask any more questions. She knew that if she asked a little girl like Gu Yan'er about this kind of thing, she would never be able to tell the truth. She could only find out for herself who had seduced her precious daughter's soul.

"Yan'er, since you don't like His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, you should stop calling him so intimately in the future. Don't call him 'cousin' anymore. Just call him 'Your Highness'. After all, his status is there." Madam Gu reminded Gu Yan'er.

Gu Yan'er realized that something was wrong and nodded, "Okay, Mom, I'll remember it."

Then Madam Gu frowned, "Since you don't like the Prince of Qi, what should I do about the engagement I told His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi about today? Do you still want to get engaged to him?"

Speaking of the engagement with the King of Qi, Gu Yan'er also frowned. In the past, it was the King of Qi who wanted to get engaged earlier, but Gu Yan'er felt that she had to wait and see and examine the King of Qi's character. Later, the King of Qi also kept dragging his feet and didn't want to get engaged. Now they probably don't want to get engaged, but with her aunt, the Queen, and her father, the Prime Minister, in the middle, they are in a dilemma. What else can they do? Are they really asking her to disobey her elders?

Gu Yan'er sighed, "Hey! This matter was decided by the Queen and Daddy, I still can't disobey Daddy. Maybe His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi is just talking this time, and it will be forgotten later?"

"What should we do? Just keep dragging it on? You're already seventeen years old, how many more years can you drag it on?" Mrs. Gu said worriedly.

Gu Yan'er shook her head helplessly, indicating that she had no other options.

Mrs. Gu talked to Gu Yan'er for a while before leaving. Generally speaking, Mrs. Gu still loved Gu Yan'er very much and only hoped that her daughter could marry someone she loved and live happily in the future. But she also knew that she could not make the decision, and everything had to be decided by Prime Minister Gu, and her husband would not easily give up the position of Princess of Qi to someone else.

When the Prince of Qi left the Prime Minister's Mansion, it was not too late. He originally planned to go back to the Prince of Qi's Mansion directly, but thinking about what Prime Minister Gu said, if he did not arrange the marriage with Gu Yan'er soon, he would have to go to the palace to find his father and mother in person. His father had always disapproved of his marriage with his uncle, so he might just reject the marriage. So he decided to go to the palace to discuss it with his mother.

After entering the palace, Prince Qi told the Queen everything that happened today. Of course, he also exaggerated and said that Gu Yan'er was jealous, stupid, and did not consider the overall situation. He also implicitly expressed that it was not necessary for Gu Yan'er to marry her uncle, and Gu Ying'er could also be a good candidate.

The queen listened patiently. In fact, she had heard about what happened today a long time ago. There were many people at Lu Yi's birthday banquet and everyone knew about it in a short while.

After the King of Qi finished complaining, the Queen frowned and said, "Ye'er, didn't you like Yan'er the most before? Yan'er's appearance and temperament are all excellent, and she is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Your uncle and aunt trained her to be the queen and wanted her to be the mother of the country. What's wrong with that?"

"But people like her are as boring as wood. We should have been engaged a long time ago. I have hinted to her many times to give herself to me, but she was coy and refused. She is not as enthusiastic and generous as cousin Ying'er." The King of Qi muttered in a low voice.

But the Queen Mother heard the Prince of Qi's words clearly, and was so angry that she pointed at the Prince of Qi's nose with shaking hands and said, "How can you be so useless? You slept with a little vixen a few times and you think she's good enough? How can such a dissolute person be worthy of being the Princess of Qi? Not to mention being the Queen, can she maintain the demeanor of a Queen?"

"But I don't want to spend my whole life with a piece of wood, and my cousin Ying'er is pregnant with my child." The King of Qi said shamelessly.

When the queen heard this, she was so angry that she almost fainted. She picked up the teacup and threw it at the king of Qi, but she didn't dare to really hit her precious son, so she only dared to hit him at his feet. The teacup broke instantly, and the unfinished tea in the teacup splashed everywhere, soaking the hem of the king of Qi's clothes.