Dressed as a concubine instead of a concubine

"It is enough that this prince likes you. Who dares to say that you are unworthy?"

There was a tone of repression and forbearance in Xie Junyi's voice.

"Yue'er, you have never been unworthy, it's me who is unworthy of you."

Meng Xiyue's tears rolled down again.

"But everyone says I am unworthy, saying that I am a concubine, and it is a blessing for me to be favored by Prince Qi. If I can become your concubine, I should be grateful."

"But no one ever...regarded whether this was what I wanted."

"I said I would rather marry a farmer than be your concubine, but people said I was hypocritical and that I was playing hard to get."

"Xie Junyi, why has no one ever cared about my wishes?"

Xie Junyi did not answer her, but just hugged her tightly in his arms.

"Yue'er, except for the status of the principal wife, I can give you everything. You will be carried into Prince Qi's mansion in a sedan chair carried by eight men, and you will have the same wedding as the principal wife."

"I take your thoughts to heart, and I will give you whatever you want, okay?"

Meng Xiyue smiled bitterly when he heard this, he still didn't understand.

Maybe he just doesn't want to understand.

Meng Xiyue closed her eyes and said nothing more.

Xie Junyi held her like this until the second half of the night and left Yikun Palace before dawn.

Xie Junyi and Princess Rong'an are getting engaged, and the Queen has a lot of things to take care of.

Meng Xiyue watched as the Queen Mother carried out boxes of treasures from the Yikun Palace. She selected them carefully and then ordered them to be sent to Prince Qi's Mansion.

She couldn't be more satisfied with Princess Rong'an as her daughter-in-law.

After arranging Xie Junyi's proposal, the Queen Mother even gave her several pieces of jewelry as a token of appeasement.

She was in a very good mood, maybe she wouldn't learn the rules today.

Meng Xiyue knelt down to express her gratitude.

Just when she was about to leave, Princess Zhaohua suddenly ran in in a hurry.

Her eyes were red and she stepped forward and grabbed the Queen's arm without even bowing.

She asked in a trembling voice, "Mother, Ningzhu said that my father wants me to go to Nanrong Kingdom to marry a foreign prince. Is that true?"

Marriage for a foreign country? Meng Xiyue raised her eyes and glanced at Princess Zhaohua. It seemed that princesses who were married for a foreign country all had a bad ending.

As the only legitimate princess, does Zhaohua also need to marry?

The Queen frowned slightly, "The Nanrong Kingdom has expressed this intention and sent the Crown Prince Nanrong here, but as to which princess they will ask to marry, or which princess your father will send as the marriage partner, this has not yet been decided."

"As a legitimate princess, can you be more calm? It's disgraceful to always get so angry at Ningzhu's words."

"Mother." Princess Zhaohua felt aggrieved.

"There are only Ningzhu and I who are of marriageable age in this palace. My father dotes on her so much, how could he be willing to send her to marry."

As if she had anticipated her own fate, Princess Zhaohua began to cry loudly.

In this feudal era, women have no control over their own destiny. Even if they are princesses, they are still just tools for those in power to fight for power and profit. Everyone is a pawn.

Meng Xiyue sighed slightly. It would be difficult for anyone to break free from the restraints.

Upon hearing this, the Queen touched Zhaohua with some pity and gently wiped away her tears.

"Don't cry, this matter has not been decided yet. She has your father to protect her, and you still have your mother and my brother, right? We don't want you to marry."

With the engagement today, Xie Junyi's prestige in the court will be further enhanced, and they may not be unable to protect Zhaohua.

"Yes, there is also my brother, I will go and ask him for help."

As if he had found his backbone, Zhao Hua said as he was about to walk outside.

The Queen quickly held him back and said, "Today is the day your brother is getting engaged. Why are you in such a hurry? It will take more than a month to get from Nanrong Kingdom to the capital. We have time to deal with it."

"Can…"

Princess Zhaohua was extremely anxious; she was afraid that she would be sent to marry a foreign prince.

But Ningzhu's words were so certain that it seemed as if her father had already decided that she was the marriage partner. How could she not be anxious?

"Well, everything is up to the Queen Mother and your brother."

The Queen Mother sighed. No one was more opposed to Zhao Hua's marriage than she was.

Ever since she heard that Nanrong Kingdom was sending someone to marry the prince, she had anticipated that since the other party was the prince, they would also have to send a woman of matching status.

No one is more suitable than Zhaohua, the legitimate princess. Plus, the emperor also has this intention, so the matter is almost 60% settled.

Even though she was the queen, she could not stop her daughter's marriage for her own selfish reasons and bring the relationship between the two countries into tension.

For this matter, we can only start from Nanrongguo and see if there is any turning point.

But right now, the most important thing is the engagement between Xie Junyi and Princess Rong'an.

Only with absolute strength can they have the capital to negotiate.

The queen rubbed her forehead which was in great pain and said, "You should go back to the palace first."

"Yes."

Princess Zhaohua left Yiku Palace unwillingly.

Meng Xiyue also followed her out.

"Yue'er, I want to sit in your room."

Zhao Hua didn't want to go back to his own bedroom and looked at Meng Xiyue with tears in his eyes.

She is now full of grievances and urgently needs to find someone to vent to.

"it is good."

The two returned to the room, and Princess Zhaohua couldn't help crying again.

She kept saying that the emperor had favored Princess Ningzhu since she was a child and had never cared about her.

She only has the title of a legitimate princess. Now that she is to be married off, it is really unfair that she is the one to get married.

"Didn't the Queen say that things haven't been decided yet?"

Meng Xiyue didn't know how to comfort her. Zhao Hua was powerless to do anything about this matter, and she couldn't help at all.

"Yue'er, I heard that Prince Nanrong has been fighting on the battlefield since he was young. He has a bandit spirit and an extremely bad temper. Killing people is as easy as cutting vegetables for him. He must be extremely ugly."

Princess Zhaohua fell into deep fear. In her impression, those generals were all burly, with broad faces and square mouths, and they would beat people when they were not satisfied.

"Who said that? Didn't your brother also go to the battlefield when he was young? What he said is completely different from what you said. Maybe this Prince Nanrong is also as handsome as your brother?"

Princess Zhaohua frowned and muttered, "How can Nan Rongzhi compare with my brother? A man as handsome and upright as my brother is rare in the world."

"What did you say the name of Prince Nanrong was?" Meng Xiyue was a little dazed, as if something was wrong.

"Nan Rongzhi? Nan Rong is their national surname."

Princess Zhaohua thought she felt that this surname was rare.

"Which stop?"

"The emperor of Nanrong requires all his subjects to keep their promises and fulfill their promises to the people, so he named his four princes with these four characters."

"Nanrongzhi is the youngest of the four princes, so he got the character zhi."