Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

The fifth princess ignored the sixth princess and continued to ask:

"What about archery?"

"Oh, you are talking about archery? I gave up a long time ago because it's too painful. Archery will cause very thick calluses on your hands, which is very ugly. I had calluses on my hands before, but luckily there were not many. I thought they were ugly, so I cut them off with a knife, and it was very painful. After that, I soaked them in medicine every day, and the wounds were very painful during the soaking. After a month of tossing and turning, they finally healed. Fortunately, there are no scars. You see, if you don't look carefully, you can't see the scars, right?" After saying that, Ling Qiqi stretched out her hand to show the fifth princess and the sixth princess.

The fifth princess did not see any scars on her hands, but she could not confirm that she had calluses, so she asked:

"Didn't you shoot arrows during the autumn hunt? And did you shoot a rabbit?"

"Since it's autumn hunting, I naturally brought a bow and arrow if I had one. I did that purely to respond to my father's call and pretend to be involved in the event. I can shoot the rabbit, isn't it because I'm lucky? Everyone in this palace knows that I'm a lucky star, right?" Ling Qiqi turned around and asked the guards behind her. The guards nodded again tirelessly and said yes repeatedly.

The fifth princess decided to give up and not ask any more questions. The more she asked, the angrier she became. She took the sixth princess and walked out of the martial arts arena without looking back.

Finally, the two plague gods were fooled away. A group of people resisted the urge to cheer and watched the fifth and sixth princesses leave silently.

Lu Cheng whispered to Ling Qiqi:

"How can you just keep saying such nonsense? You sound like it's true. When did you get a cocoon from shooting arrows? I think you're so lazy that you're getting maggots."

"Didn't I say that because I don't want them to come to the martial arts arena? What? Do you want them to come? You wouldn't have taken a fancy to one of them, would you?" Ling Qiqi asked curiously.

"Since I met you, I no longer have any illusions about women."

"You like men?"

Lu Cheng was too lazy to pay attention to her anymore.

Ling Qiqi looked back at the guards and saw that they all looked relieved and happy, and they all looked at her with admiration. She couldn't help but feel a little flattered:

"It's nothing, it's nothing. This princess has always been resourceful and eloquent."

"Is eloquent a good word?" Lu Cheng was disgusted by her.

"It doesn't matter whether the words are good or not, as long as the result is good. How can we allow outsiders to interfere in our secret base, right?"

The guards nodded sincerely and said yes repeatedly.

Ling Qiqi thought that this group of crosstalk performers performed well, and their supporting roles were very accurate. Not only were they sincere and emotional, but they were also well-coordinated, so she praised them:

"Not bad, not bad. We just cooperated very well. We need to keep it up."

The guards nodded their heads as usual and said yes repeatedly.

Lu Cheng felt that these guards were like those who had joined a pyramid scheme, and had been brainwashed by Ling Qiqi. He was too lazy to continue being silly with them, so he turned around and took Mianmian to play with Black Sesame Paste.

As expected, the Fifth Princess and the Sixth Princess never came to the martial arts arena again, so the martial arts arena was still under Ling Qiqi's magical control.

It’s not that the fifth princess has learned her lesson, but because other things have occupied all her energy and she has no time to fight with the seventh princess.

A few days after the autumn hunt, the Ninth Prince took his two sons back to their fiefdom. Although they had returned, the Fifth Princess could not forget the voice and smile of Prince Yi.

Ling Qiqi felt that the Fifth Princess was too young to be thinking about love. She felt that Gongzi Yi was not very attractive except for his face. However, it might also be because she was already in her thirties, so she was not interested in such a half-grown boy.

She just couldn't understand those mother fans who wanted to nurture a young boy. What was their mentality when they were chasing after a star? Isn't it because of the space for imagination? Then what were the mother fans imagining? Did they simply want to be a mother to their son?

Although Ling Qiqi felt that the fifth princess was just beginning to fall in love, she might not dare to think about marriage.

But the Queen was different, she had her own plans as the Queen. She only had the Fifth Princess as her own flesh and blood, so naturally she wanted to keep the Fifth Princess in the capital, by her side.

Moreover, during this period, the queen had been preparing for the marriage of the eldest princess and the second princess. Seeing the two pairs of mother and daughter reluctant to part and sad, she must have felt the same way. Thinking that the fifth princess had been spoiled by her since she was a child and had hardly ever left her side for a day, she would be reluctant to let her go once she got married.

So it was no surprise that the Queen had her sights set on the Ninth Prince's two sons. And the son-in-law she had in mind could not be the handsome Prince Yi, but only the Crown Prince Jing who had already obtained the right to inherit the title.

Among the surrounding countries, the wealthy and powerful countries, except for the neighboring Southern Mirage Country, have no vacant positions for the Queen and Crown Princess. The Queen naturally did not want the Fifth Princess to be a concubine.

Emperor Nan Shen is now nearly fifty years old, and the empress has died for many years. It is said that Emperor Nan Shen is interested in choosing a successor.

The empress naturally did not want to marry her budding daughter to an old widow, not to mention that the late empress had three sons, and the eldest son was already over 20 years old, young and promising, and had already married and had children. He had been named the crown prince a few years ago, and his foundation was already solid. Not only did the fifth princess have to be someone else's stepmother at a young age, but even if she gave birth to a prince in the future, it would be difficult for her to compete for the crown prince position. Once Emperor Nan Shen passed away, the fifth princess's life would be worrying.

If she were to marry into a foreign country like the eldest and second princesses, even if she became queen, she would still have to suffer in that remote, cold and barren place.

Instead of that, it would be better to be a princess of a frontier kingdom. Even if she cannot live in the capital all the time, she can return to the capital often to reunite with her mother.

Moreover, if she had the support of the Ninth Prince's lineage, she could also help the Fourth Prince in his fight for the crown prince position, thus fulfilling her dream of becoming the empress dowager in the future.

When the fifth princess learned that the queen intended to get her engaged to Crown Prince Jing, she had a big fight with the queen.

She had never thought about getting engaged to anyone, and she had never had any unrealistic fantasies about Gongzi Yi, thinking it was just a thought. But if the person she was engaged to was Gongzi Yi's brother, it would be different.

Uncle and sister-in-law, the relationship is so close, yet so distant.

There are three kinds of pain in love: loving but not being able to get, getting but not loving, and having to love.

The fifth princess suddenly suffered at least two kinds of suffering. Why was she suffering so much?

Rather than suffering, it is better to go all out, so the fifth princess insisted on getting engaged to Prince Yi.

Of course, the queen would not indulge her. Although Gongzi Yi was a legitimate son, he was not the eldest son. As long as the eldest son, Shizi Jing, was around, it would be difficult to change Gongzi Yi to the crown prince. If she did not have the right to inherit the title, she would have to rely on others and be an idle marquis. How could the fifth princess marry a powerless man? He was good-looking but could not make a living.

unless......

But killing one's brother and seizing the throne is not as simple as it sounds.

Rather than going through such a big circle and taking such a big risk, it is better to just choose Prince Jing directly.

Neither the mother nor the daughter could convince the other. They argued several times and the dispute became more and more intense. In the end, the fifth princess threatened to go on a hunger strike. It was originally just an internal disagreement between the mother and daughter, but the fifth princess suddenly made it public.

Ling Qiqi felt that the Fifth Princess might have resorted to this desperate measure because she was forced into a corner, but this was really a desperate measure.

Now the gossip about the Fifth Princess was all over the harem. Naturally, everyone didn't know the Queen's fickle mind, so they were all discussing it in private. Some said that the Fifth Princess was unfilial, some said that the Fifth Princess was spoiled, and some said that the Fifth Princess was greedy for male sex at a young age. In short, there was nothing good to say, which made her reputation very bad.