I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Lu Mingyang threw down the towel he was using to wash his face and looked coldly at Lu Mingqin who was questioning him with confidence.

"Who told you that? How dare you tarnish the prince's innocence?"

Lu Mingqin covered her mouth in fear, tears streaming down her face, "How could you hurt me!"

"I'm hurting you? Fifth sister, you're flattering me." Lu Mingyang replied, using the words she had once taught her, "How can we women presume to discuss our own marriages? If we are fortunate enough to be granted marriage by His Majesty, we should be grateful for the emperor's grace. Fifth sister, are you crying like this because you're dissatisfied with His Majesty?"

"You!" Lu Mingqin's lips turned pale.

Aunt Liu hugged her daughter with heartache, her hands trembling, and her fingers poked Lu Mingyang's face.

"You shameless vixen, I shouldn't have taken you back in the first place. I made you live a miserable life in the countryside."

Lu Mingyang slapped it open and snorted coldly, "Yes! I should thank Aunt Liu for letting me endure fifteen years of hardship. I just wonder if Fifth Sister has another fifteen years of hardship to endure."

"You, you..." Aunt Liu widened her eyes in horror and pounced on Lu Mingyang frantically, muttering, "I'll strangle you to death."

The door opened from the outside inwards, Yang Nian'er ran towards her second sister and pushed Concubine Liu away. Concubine Liu hit the wall and slid to the ground like a rotten loach.

"mother!"

Lu Mingqin ran over and hugged her mother, crying uncontrollably.

The aunt in charge of the marriage stood at the door, watching the scene, and said coldly, "What a disgrace! Hurry up and pack up and follow me to Xiangguo Temple."

"My dear lady, my dear lady!" Aunt Liu crawled towards the head aunt in panic, "Please save Qin'er. I will go in her place. Although I am old, I still have some beauty. I can serve men."

Look, everyone knows that those who marry into a marriage alliance and receive dowry live a life worse than that of a prostitute.

Lu Mingyang felt upset, but when he thought about how she was so righteous in asking him to marry in place of her daughter, he turned his gaze away indifferently.

The head aunt coldly pulled away the hand that was tugging at her clothes. These days, every maid accompanying her was crying. At first, she'd offer some words of comfort, but then, out of frustration, she'd order the eunuchs to beat them, and only then did things quiet down.

I didn't expect it to start again now.

"Alright, you don't have to. The higher-ups have ordered you to go with the princess as a maid in her dowry."

Lu Mingyang suddenly looked up. She was wondering why Nian'er suddenly came back.

"Isn't it her?"

Aunt Liu pointed at Yang Nian'er in shock. Although she cried sincerely and wanted to speak for her daughter sincerely, she was still terrified when she heard the news suddenly.

"My aunt is also weird."

The ordinary maids who accompanied them were also gifts prepared for the Huns. There were as many as two hundred of them, all of whom were young and beautiful unmarried women.

The head aunt shook her head in confusion: "Why did the Xiongnu specifically ask for you? Is it because of a good mother's style?"

It turned out that it was really his order.

Lu Mingyang held Yang Nian'er's hands, her heart finally at ease. Ever since she came back, she'd been worried that Jin Yiluo was just being perfunctory or forgetting this little thing. Unexpectedly, he not only remembered, but also did it so quickly.

"Women's lives are worthless, just floating duckweed." The head aunt kicked Concubine Liu, who was lying on the ground, and urged coldly. "Hurry up, you can't afford to miss the deadline."

Lu Mingqin helped Aunt Liu back to her room tremblingly.

Turning a corner in a long corridor, Aunt Liu suddenly stopped and said, "Qin'er, didn't she escape this disaster by sleeping with a man? You can do it too."

"Aunt, how can you compare me with an uneducated country girl like her? I am a lady from a noble family, the daughter of a marquis." Lu Mingqin looked at her mother angrily.

Aunt Liu didn't dare mention it again and accompanied her daughter back to the room to pack clothes.

After packing half of the clothes, Lu Mingqin took small steps towards Aunt Liu and asked, "Mother, is it easy to find a man?"

"What man?"

"That's...that's..." Lu Mingqin's lips trembled, "You just..."

"Oh!" Aunt Liu came back to her senses and quickly grasped her daughter's hands, comforting her: "That's right. Although your reputation will be damaged, it's better than going to the Xiongnu and being tortured to death. I still have some private money. I will find you an honest and reliable farmer and you can live a stable life."

"Madam Liu, you are so confused!"

Zhong Bo came to deliver something. Upon hearing this, he hurriedly pushed the door open and said fearfully, "Your Majesty didn't punish the Fourth Miss because the fault lies with Prince Ningyuan. If the Fifth Miss dared to do it, her family would be confiscated and her entire clan would be exterminated, and she would be drowned in a pond. You must not be foolish."

"Stop trying to scare me here." Aunt Liu rolled her eyes in disdain.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You only consider your wife's children your masters, and have never looked down on my daughter, Qin'er. You're just afraid that the bad reputation of the Lu family's women will spread, and your daughter will be bullied by her husband's family. My daughter is dead, so why should I care about how others live?"

Aunt Liu rolled up her bag and took her daughter away.

However, after this incident, His Majesty ordered the Duke of Song to take strict precautions to prevent further accidents. The Duke of Song sent guards to strictly guard the Xiangguo Temple, not allowing the woman who was to be married to the emperor to enter or leave freely, let alone meet with men.

Princess Jinghe and Lu Mingqin were accompanied by eunuchs who followed them around the clock, leaving Concubine Liu with no opportunity to make any arrangements. As a last resort, she set her sights on the monk.

However, the women in the palace and the monks in Xiangguo Temple lived in different areas and could not communicate with each other at ordinary times, except for the abbot who presided over the chanting of scriptures every morning.

Concubine Liu knew that the abbot would not dare touch the woman who was to be married off, but she was not a virgin. She used all her tricks to seduce the abbot and lure him into having sex with her, planning to lure the eunuch away and replace him with her daughter.

It’s a pity that the abbot fled in panic, muttering “Amitabha” over and over again.

With no other options left, Aunt Liu took out a wooden stick wrapped in soft cloth in the dead of night and walked towards her sleeping daughter.

"Qin'er, don't be afraid of the pain. I've taken your virginity, so you've been no longer a virgin."

Lu Mingqin covered her head in embarrassment, "Mom, you are confused. I had a medical examination the day I came to Xiangguo Temple."

"Yes!" The wooden stick in Aunt Liu's hand fell to the ground.