After rebirth, the abstinent prince wants to marry me every day

"Empress Dowager, the little princess has fallen asleep. Let's put her down." Palace Master Guan looked at Yi Yi, who was nestled in the Empress Dowager's arms, with a loving expression.

The Queen Mother reached out and gently squeezed Yi Yi's little hand in her arms, then gently picked her up.

The Queen Mother was no longer young, and her body became slow while she held Yi Yi. However, the Queen Mother carried Yi Yi to the bed without any trembling, took off her shoes herself, and then covered her with a quilt.

She just sat by the bed, looking at Yi Yi with love in her eyes.

Guan Gong Ling looked at the scene in front of her and suddenly said softly, "This scene is so familiar. I still remember when the Empress was little, you, the Queen Mother, also watched her fall asleep like this!"

The empress dowager seemed to be lost in memories, especially when she saw the faces in front of her that looked so similar to her mother's. She seemed to see the well-behaved Zhu Qing'an who needed her company to fall asleep.

"Yes, in the blink of an eye, Qing'an's children have grown up to this age, and I have also grown old! Do you still remember what I looked like?" The Queen Mother sighed.

"How could I not remember? Your Majesty, you were the most outstanding and unique among the noble ladies!" Palace Master Guan recalled.

It was obviously something that happened a long time ago, but in Guan Gongling's mind, it was extremely clear.

She is the current empress dowager, the only woman in power in Xuanlong Kingdom, no, in the world, and the only empress dowager who can sit in the court with the emperor.

Her name is Zhu Lingyao!

But no one knew that her name was not actually Zhu Lingyao. It seemed like that was a thing from her previous life.

Her original name was Liu Huian, and she was not from here either. She came from the distant 21st century.

She was once just an ordinary college student, but one day she had an accident. When she opened her eyes, she found neither hell nor heaven, but a completely unfamiliar era.

She became a five-year-old girl in the Marquis Wen'an Mansion. She felt that she was not only reborn, but also traveled through time.

Perhaps because she had watched many similar TV dramas and novels, she found it unbelievable at the beginning, but then she slowly accepted her new identity.

She once felt fortunate to have been reborn as a daughter of the Marquis of Wen'an, where she had no worries about food and drink, and was surrounded by countless servants. Her father and mother were extremely loving and doted on her.

She wondered if God felt that she had suffered too much in her previous life, so he came to compensate her.

But this idea changed when she was seven years old.

From the age of five to seven, she gradually adapted to her identity as a child and everything in this dynasty. She seemed no different from ordinary children, just a little smarter. Fortunately, there were so many smart ladies in aristocratic families, and she was not the most outstanding one.

When she was seven years old, she attended a banquet with her mother. It was also her first time to attend a palace banquet.

But she never expected that the women she met were all walking slowly in small steps. She looked up in confusion and asked her mother why these sisters walked so slowly.

At that time, her mother touched her head and said lovingly, "That's because these sisters are still binding their feet. Now that they are just starting, they naturally walk slower!"

This one sentence made Zhu Lingyao feel as if she was struck by lightning.

She looked at the girls who were only a few years older than her. They were obviously gritting their teeth in pain, but they were still walking step by step.

The young lady walking in front of her had bloodstains on her pink embroidered shoes, and with every step she took, the bloodstains seemed to get deeper.

At that time, she looked up at her mother and asked worriedly, "Mom, do I have to bind my feet too?"

Zhu Lingyao had read reports about foot binding. It was an inhumane and deformed aesthetic that required women to wrap their feet layer by layer while they were still growing. The feet would be trapped in layers of long cloth all day long. Over time, the feet would not be able to grow and would become deformed like tumors.

She never thought that one day she would witness with her own eyes those girls being treated like this.

I still remember that my mother touched her hair bun and said in a helpless yet compromising tone, "Of course, our Yao'er also needs to have her feet bound. Only in this way can our Yao'er find her ideal husband!"

It was then that Zhu Lingyao realized that foot binding had become something that every woman had to go through. However, the thought of having her feet bound, looking at her ugly and disgusting feet in the future, and even feeling like every step she took was like walking on the edge of a knife.

"No, I don't want it!" Zhu Lingyao told her mother firmly.

Her mother just tapped her forehead and said, "Don't worry, Yao'er. It doesn't hurt that much. Look, isn't mother fine now?"

Zhu Lingyao still shook her head. This was the first time she felt resistance to the era she lived in.

Then, she saw that the noble ladies, who thought they were as precious as gold and jade, were like fish waiting to be chosen in the palace. Just because the emperor at that time took a second look, he would choose a young girl as his concubine.

But it is obvious that His Majesty is old enough to be someone's grandfather.

Zhu Lingyao saw clearly that the noble lady was unwilling, and even her eyes were red.

But the family members around her secretly pinched the soft flesh of her arm, and the girl forced a smile and pretended to be overjoyed to express her gratitude.

It was then that Zhu Lingyao realized how helpless women were in this era.

It was also from that time that Zhu Lingyao began to slowly walk out of Wen'an Marquis Mansion and pay attention to the difficulties faced by women in this era.

But if you don’t pay attention, you won’t know. Once you pay attention, Zhu Lingyao will gasp and even feel extremely sad.

She had always known how low the status of women was in ancient times, and how difficult it was for women to survive in ancient times. But when she actually saw it with her own eyes, she realized that those records could not describe the injustice that women had suffered.

Women have to bind their feet from a young age to satisfy men's perverted aesthetic tastes.

Apart from reading books on the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, women were not allowed to attend school, and could not even study like men.

Women are not allowed to go out at will and must be accompanied by family members when going out.

Even from high-ranking officials and nobles to common people and peddlers, it was a man's world, and no woman could walk out of the cage or leave the small house.

Women can be cured if they are sick, but if the disease requires them to undress for treatment, then they can only be treated by female doctors. Unfortunately, there are very few female doctors in the world, so women can only endure it on their own until they die.

Not to mention, girls have to get married and have children when they are only fourteen or fifteen years old. Many girls lose their lives while still children because of giving birth.

But when those girls who are as beautiful as flowers lose their lives while giving birth, their husbands’ families will not only not be sad, but may even think it is unlucky, and then quickly marry another young girl.

If a woman is treated unfairly in her husband's family, whether it is beatings or harsh criticism, she can only endure it and suffer injustice for the rest of her life.

If a man is not satisfied with his wife after getting married, he can write a letter of divorce and let the woman live a peaceful life.

What makes Zhu Lingyao feel even more frightened is that when it comes to having children, people all hope to have a boy, as if having a girl is an extremely shameful thing.

But it just so happens that, whether boys or girls, they are not all born by women. It is precisely those men who are born by women at the risk of their lives that become the sharp knives that stab women.

The more she understood, the more uncomfortable Zhu Lingyao felt, because the women who were suffering at this time were not recorded in the book, but the living people around her.

What's more, Zhu Lingyao herself is a woman, and she knows that she will also experience the pain and unwillingness that those women have experienced.

Even if her child is a girl in the future, she will have to go through this.

It would be fine if Zhu Lingyao was a local girl, but she is a highly educated woman. She was born in a country where men and women are equal, and she knows that women can hold up half the sky.

If she didn't change, she wouldn't be able to study like boys, and she would even have to bind her feet, making every step difficult. She would even have to marry and have children at the age of her first period.

So, what is the meaning of her life? Is she here just to fulfill all the man's fantasies?

No, this is not what she wants. Not only does she not want to suffer this, she also doesn't want the girls around her to suffer this.

From that day on, Zhu Lingyao began to change.

Her initial idea was actually very naive. She would disguise herself as a boy and go to school with her brother. Her age and experience made her a leader, and Zhu Lingyao absorbed all the knowledge like a sponge.

She continued to change day by day and transmit her own thoughts. Both her father and mother gradually learned to respect her and even let her do what she wanted.

Even her brother admired her, and she even made some good friends, including Xu Si. She helped and encouraged Xu Si to go to the battlefield, and she also supported her friends around her not to marry blindly.

She thought she had done a good job.

However, when she once again witnessed with her own eyes that there were still countless women without books to read, and saw women oppressed to the point of being unable to stand up straight, she suddenly realized that what she could do was too little.

Although she is the legitimate daughter of Marquis Wen'an, she is just a decoration. She has no real power and can't change anything.

It was when Zhu Lingyao felt most helpless and confused that the late emperor, then the seventh prince, found her.

She and the Seventh Prince had known each other since childhood, and she also knew the Seventh Prince's aspirations and ambitions. After all, which prince would not be tempted by the throne?

But the Seventh Prince told her to cooperate.

She even went to the Wen'an Marquis Mansion to serve the Seventh Prince, who married Zhu Lingyao as his princess and would later become the empress.

These were not enough to move Zhu Lingyao. What moved her most was the words of the Seventh Prince. He told Zhu Lingyao, "This prince knows that you have a deep understanding of your heart and your ambitions. If you can help me ascend the throne, then you will be the heir of this country. You can do what you want and even change the current situation of women!"

The Seventh Prince's words moved Zhu Lingyao's heart. She knew too well how difficult it would be for her, who had no power, to help the woman. It was as difficult as climbing to the sky.

But what if she were the queen? She would be a role model for all women in the world. She would have endless power and would be able to do a lot.

Even though she didn't love the Seventh Prince and was even resistant to using herself as a bargaining chip, Zhu Lingyao agreed for the sake of countless women.

When she married the Seventh Prince, the Marquis Wen'an's Mansion gave her all its support. She herself had countless advanced ideas and strategies in her mind, and she eliminated the Seventh Prince's powerful enemies. After just two years, the Seventh Prince was named Crown Prince.

The Seventh Prince also agreed, and Zhu Lingyao became the Crown Princess.

After becoming the Crown Princess, Zhu Lingyao began to support women's education, and even privately funded women who were abused by their husbands to escape. She helped young girls who were about to be sold into brothels by their families so that they could learn knowledge and do things that men could do and women could do.

After Zhu Lingyao obtained the rights of the Crown Princess, she realized that power is a good thing. It can help Zhu Lingyao do what she wants.

But this is not enough, because above the Crown Princess there is the Queen, and she needs to keep everything secret, otherwise she will be scolded.

Afterwards, she worked diligently and helped the seventh prince ascend the throne.

Everyone around her was advising her to win the emperor's heart. After all, the husband she had chosen had a beloved imperial concubine, a childhood sweetheart, Concubine Chun, and countless concubines. Not only that, he also had several princes and princesses.

But Zhu Lingyao didn't care about all this. From the beginning to the end, she had no intention of wasting her time on a man. She would always remember the real reason why she married His Majesty.

Later, during this period, she allowed women to divorce, allowed women to go out and work, allowed women to study, and even abolished the bad habit of foot binding for women. There are countless other things she did.

At the beginning, there was a lot of opposition in the court, even from His Majesty.

Perhaps because he became emperor, he began to reveal his hypocritical face like an ordinary man.

That same night, Zhu Lingyao stood before her so-called husband, the former emperor, and said with a smile, "I, Wen'an Houfu, helped Your Majesty become emperor. I, Zhu Lingyao, have stood up to countless conflicts and schemes for Your Majesty over the years, and yet Your Majesty has made it so that I will never have a child of my own!"

Just one sentence made the former emperor, who had already ascended the throne, look guilty and flee in panic.

Zhu Lingyao knew, she had always known.

She knew that her talent and thoughts made her partner wary of her, not to mention that her family was prominent, so when a bowl of sterilization medicine killed her offspring, she felt a little regretful but not sad.

Having a child with a man she didn't love was not what Zhu Lingyao had hoped for.

Perhaps out of guilt, the late emperor indulged Zhu Lingyao in the following days, and even fanned the flames to allow her to promulgate a series of laws.

The late emperor loved pleasure, so many court affairs were handled by Zhu Lingyao. She was also the only empress who could review memorials.

Later, the previous emperor passed away and she became the empress dowager who held great power.

The journey seemed easy, but only Zhu Lingyao knew how much hardship it involved. She even nearly lost her life several times.

But no matter how difficult the journey was, she always remembered her ambitions when she came here.

"Imperial Grandmother?" At this moment, Yi Yi opened his eyes in a daze and threw himself directly into the arms of the Imperial Grandmother.

The Queen Mother came back to her senses from her memories and suddenly smiled, "Yi Yi, do you still remember what the Imperial Grandmother told you about what kind of country she hoped our Xuanlong Nation would become?"

Yi Yi clenched his fists and rubbed his eyes, then spoke word by word, "I know. Let the weak not be afraid, the strong not be arrogant, the powerful not be arrogant, make the country fairer, make the wicked afraid to do evil, make the good safe, and make men and women respect each other!"

"My Empress Dowager believes that even though Xuanlong Country may not be able to do it now, we will eventually be able to realize it in the future..." The Queen Mother said, holding Yi Yi in her arms.

And Yi Yi in her arms will also become the first empress of this era.