Hey! Host! I asked you to have a child, not to have a strategy.

Hearing about her beloved's miserable past, Princess Yunzhu felt distressed and whispered, "Your engagement has spread, and the fake has become real... Why not invite her to the capital and return all the money she spent on you, and then the engagement can be cancelled."

Princess Yunzhu was still somewhat curious about Zhu Baishao, her defeated opponent, and wanted to see what she looked like.

Li Shengjia was deeply moved.

Princess……

It turns out that the true understanding and appreciation between people, apart from language, is mainly through eyes.

Compared to that foolish woman Zhu Baishao, the princess is the one who truly understands him. With just one look, she knows his difficulties and can help him solve them.

The princess is so kind and considerate, delicate and lovable.

Gao Yang no longer had any hope for Princess Yunzhu, so he didn't bother to care whether she embarrassed herself in front of the ministers.

Although it was a loss of face for the royal family, it was more of a loss of face for Princess Yunzhu herself. Every minister in the capital knew about Princess Yunzhu's character. The real aristocratic families had kicked her out of the list of daughters-in-law long ago.

As long as he doesn't care, he won't get into trouble.

After the banquet, what happened between Princess Yunzhu and the third place winner Li Shengjia became a joke and several versions of the story have been circulated.

When the news reached Jiangnan, Zhu's father smashed his favorite set of porcelain on the spot and shouted angrily: "What an ungrateful bastard! What an ungrateful bastard!"

Zhu Baishao was sobbing quietly with tears in her eyes, like a woman who was hurt by her lover.

"Oh, dear baby, don't cry, don't cry, your crying will break your heart."

Seeing Zhu Baishao sobbing, Zhu's father felt heartbroken and cursed the culprit to death in his heart. If Li Shengjia appeared in front of him now, he would probably be beaten to death on the spot by Zhu's father.

Xier was also trying to persuade her, stroking Zhu Baishao's back to help her calm down, her teeth chattering.

Bah! That gigolo has found his way to a rich woman again, and now he comes to bully my young lady!

There is no way. The phrase "all that glitters is not gold, all that rotten is not gold. Like glass on the outside but like grass on the inside" has almost become Zhu Baishao's code name outside. It is really too humiliating.

Zhu Baishao cried while silently asking the system in her heart: "To be honest, he is not that good-looking, but he speaks very nicely. Can you write down the words he said when he praised my beauty? I want to check them from time to time in the future."

System: […? Recorded.]

Seeing that she was just crying with her head down, Zhu's father was so anxious that he stamped his feet and said, "Why don't we not go to the capital? The princess must have no good intentions!"

"How can that be possible! That is the princess's order. If we disobey, it will be disobeying the order and our whole family will be beheaded."

Zhu Baishao raised her face slightly, with traces of tears on it, like a flower covered with dew.

Her eyes were slightly wide open, and the teardrop mole at the corner of her eyes was faintly visible. Her face, which was usually so beautiful that it seemed to be glowing with soft light, was now pale and bloodless, extremely fragile, and yet extremely beautiful.

How could she complete her mission without going to the capital? She had to go to the capital.

"Ugh!"

Zhu's father sighed heavily and looked at his daughter with great heartache. He regretted very much that he did not cut the Gordian knot when he first discovered the clues, and now it has come to this point.

……

royal palace.

The Queen Mother chanted Buddhist scriptures in front of the shrine. She stopped after a while and the palace maid beside her hurriedly helped her up.

"The emperor still hasn't entered the harem?" asked the empress dowager with a gloomy look.

"Yes……"

The Queen Mother sighed. It was because she had failed to take good care of her own prince that Gao Yang was forced by several palace maids to help them relieve their stress. Although they were stopped in time and the palace maids were executed, he was left with a psychological trauma.

"Eight years have passed since he ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, and he has never even touched the hair of the many women in the harem..."

At this point, the Queen Mother suddenly remembered that Gao Yang had also touched a woman in the harem, but he vomited on the spot.

"If he doesn't touch women, there will be no way that a grandson will be born in the harem! What will the world do then?"

A female official who had served the Queen Mother for many years whispered, "Perhaps Your Majesty has not yet experienced the beauty of women, so he avoids them like the snakes and scorpions. If he gets interested in them, he might change."

The Queen Mother paused and sighed again, "The difficulty is that the Emperor feels disgusted even when he meets a woman. His body simply cannot..."

"If it weren't for the fact that his daily records showed that his body reactions were normal every morning, I would have suspected that he had some hidden illness..."

"Your Majesty is here!"

The empress dowager immediately shut up when she heard the eunuch's report from outside. She didn't want her son to hear it and feel embarrassed.

"Mother."

Gao Yang walked steadily, and there was warmth in his cold eyes.

After the most noble mother and son exchanged greetings, the Queen Mother began to persuade Gao Yang: "Emperor, you are already 24 years old, and it is time for you to have a prince. Otherwise, the ministers will criticize you and the country will be in turmoil!"

Gao Yang was silent for a moment. Didn't he also want to have his own child?

It’s a pity that he would feel nauseous whenever he saw a woman, let alone close contact with her.

Didn’t you see that even the people fanning and grinding ink around him were eunuchs?

"Mother, we have worked so hard to gain this throne. If I cannot do as I please after becoming the master of this world and have to be obedient to my subjects' advice, then what is the point of me having this throne?"

Gao Yang's eyes were cold, his face was stern, his voice was low and hoarse, revealing a hint of suppressed madness.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes, suppressed her thoughts, and said, "The Emperor is right, but without an heir, wouldn't it be a pity to hand over this kingdom that we fought so hard to conquer to someone else?"

"What's the pity? After we die, we won't care about the flood!"

Gao Yang raised his lips in disdain. As long as he was there, the court would not dare to be in chaos.

The Queen Mother was silent for a while, twirling the Buddhist beads in her hand, and then changed the subject, "I heard that Yunzhu has been leaving the palace recently to meet a new Jinshi?"

"How shameless! Emperor, you can't control her!"

Gao Yang didn't expect that even the widowed Queen Mother knew about Princess Yunzhu and Li Shengjia, so he had to tell the Queen Mother the news.

The Queen Mother slammed the table, first angry, then happy, and whispered: "Emperor, can Yunzhu be married off this time?"

As she spoke, she began to think again, "The status of the new third place scholar is good enough, and he gets along well with Yunzhu. Why don't you, the emperor, issue an edict to grant them a marriage?"

Princess Yunzhu was the daughter of the Empress Dowager's younger sister. Her younger sister had always been devotedly in love with the late emperor. When she was in danger during childbirth, she insisted on keeping the child, saying it was the fruit of their love. In the end, she died of hemorrhage.