The queen is crazy and spoiled, and the tyrant bows to her

At this point, Yun Shang paused and continued, "Your Majesty... the way he looks at me is full of affection."

Yun Shang was speaking the truth. She had been in the brothel for many years and had seen all kinds of men, including many nobles and high-ranking officials.

Even if most men like a woman and are willing to spend money and effort to please her, it is just a spur of the moment and for fun.

They are still strong, cold and self-centered at heart. Face is particularly important to them, more important than any woman.

If a woman makes a fuss once or twice, they may still tolerate it, but if she makes a fuss a few more times, they will completely lose their patience and become disgusted with her.

Not to mention a man like Ji Wuyuan, who is the emperor and has no shortage of women in the world.

But she had never seen or heard of such a way of pampering a woman as he did.

Ever since meeting Jiang Wantang, Yun Shang has sincerely treated her as her sister and her only relative.

In her eyes, Jiang Wantang is the kindest and most beautiful person in the world.

They had lived a lonely and miserable first half of their lives in the deep palace, and the years were long. If His Majesty was truly a caring person, she also hoped that her sister could find a good man and live a happy life.

But Yun Shang could also see that her sister always kept something distance from His Majesty, always being close yet distant, leaving room for maneuver.

There is love in his mouth and eyes, but there is no heart.

She had sealed her heart long ago, so tightly that no man could get in.

She was very clear-headed and insightful, the most clear-headed woman Yun Shang had ever met.

She is also Yun Shang's favorite and most admired woman.

My sister would never think that she is the apple of the emperor's eye just because of a momentary favor, and act recklessly and demand true love from the emperor.

On the contrary, she strikes the right balance.

My sister would act coquettishly to Your Majesty at the right time and say sweet words to Him with seductive eyes, which always made Your Majesty unable to control himself, but he would run to Changle Palace every day.

She would occasionally lose her temper and glare at the emperor in feigned anger, but His Majesty never got angry. He only thought she was cute and interesting, and instead doted on her and indulged her more and more.

When his love was strong, His Majesty would hold his sister in his arms and rest his head on her neck, "Tang'er, will you always stay by my side?"

The situation looked even more boring than that of an ordinary newlywed couple.

Yun Shang looked at the emperor with love in her eyes, which grew more and more intense.

Especially those carefully prepared birthday gifts and today's grand birthday banquet.

His Majesty really gave my sister everything a woman wanted: power, status, indulgence and favoritism.

The love of an emperor is precious, and Yun Shang doesn't want her sister to miss it.

After Yun Shang finished speaking, Jiang Wantang was silent for a long time.

When Yun Shang wanted to say something else, Jiang Wantang looked at her and smiled indifferently.

She rubbed Yunshang's head and chuckled, "Silly Yunshang..."

"Have you ever read the Book of Songs?"

Yun Shang nodded.

Jiang Wantang smiled again and said, "Do you remember there was a piece called 'Rogue'?"

Yun Shang was confused by her question and could only answer honestly: "It's been too long, I can't remember it anymore..."

Jiang Wantang smiled and said nonchalantly, "It's okay, I'll tell you."

She raised her eyes to gaze at the nothingness in the distance and chanted softly, "Alas, dove, do not eat mulberries. Alas, woman, do not indulge in love with men. A man's infatuation can still be escaped; a woman's infatuation cannot be escaped."

When Yun Shang heard the latter sentence, her pupils suddenly dilated.

"A man can still escape from his addiction, but a woman cannot escape from her addiction." She murmured and repeated it several times.

As she thought this, her eyes were stunned for a moment until Jiang Wantang spoke again.

Jiang Wantang curled her lips and continued, "When I read this sentence before, I found it thought-provoking and filled with emotion. Later, after gaining some understanding, I felt that such words should be engraved in the bones of women..."

Yun Shang looked at her blankly: "Sister, I..."

Jiang Wantang didn't care and just smiled: "It's okay, you're doing this for my own good."

"Yun Shang...love is the most unreliable thing in this world. When you want to rely on it wholeheartedly, it is often the most unreliable."

"We women are different from men. When a man is tempted, it doesn't affect him from going further on the path he wants to take. But when a woman is tempted, she often retreats again and again until she loses everything and ends up completely defeated."

"Similarly, if I had treated him sincerely from the beginning, I wouldn't have what I have now. I might have ended up like those concubines who fell from favor in the harem."

Yun Shang's thoughts were complicated at this moment. She thought for a moment and said, "But His Majesty... He treats my sister very well, how could he..."

Jiang Wantang chuckled softly, his eyes looking far away: "Yes, he treats me very well, and he's getting better and better."

"But he is also an emperor. If one day he no longer wants to be kind to me, I won't even have the right to make a comment."

"Everything I have now was given by him, and the only thing I can hold on to is my own heart."

"Are you going to gamble your sincerity against the emperor's true love?"

Yun Shang was slow to speak. She opened her mouth but didn't know what to say.

Jiang Wantang looked at her and smiled. She said, "The stakes are too high. I can't afford to gamble."

"A woman who falls in love can no longer escape unscathed once she no longer feels loved."

"Even though I am in the harem and my body is not free, I still hope that my heart is free."

“When the mind is free from shackles, there is self.”

"Yun Shang, can you understand what I mean?"

Yes, Yun Shang could no longer say any words of comfort.

What she thought was for her own good was not what her sister wanted.

Yun Shang nodded blankly, looking thoughtful.

She was mistaking her thinking. She thought that all women in the world wanted was to find a good partner and spend their life together.

But, where can there be such a good person in this world?

If this is true, why are there so many resentful couples?

When it comes to love, it is easy to fall in love, but the hardest thing is to stay together.

Aren’t she and Lu Jinan the best examples?

If this is the case, why should women trap themselves in love?

Thinking about her own entanglement and distress in the past few days, Yun Shang unconsciously revealed a self-deprecating and relieved smile on the corner of her mouth.

She looked at Jiang Wantang, her expression moved, and said frankly, "Sister, thank you."

"Having you is Yun Shang's blessing in this life."

Jiang Wantang patted her on the back and smiled faintly: "Sister, you are also my confidant."

Later, Yun Shang asked her, "If that's the case, why didn't you ask His Majesty to stay tonight?"

She also wanted to ask, since he didn't care, why didn't he seize this opportunity and act more realistically?

Yun Shang could see that His Majesty still wanted him very much and was looking forward to his sister asking him to stay.

She believed that her sister would be able to see it, but she didn't do so.

From beginning to end, she never asked him to stay...