The cold emperor reigns supreme, the arrogant empress begs for a truce.

Chapter Seven: I Mind!

"Why are you so fixated on me?" Leng Yuling asked, looking at Mo Zhen.

She and Mo Zhen had only known each other for a few days, but this man insisted on making her his empress, which really baffled Leng Yuling.

"Isn't your purpose in coming to the Southern Chu Kingdom to become my empress?" Mo Zhen squinted at Leng Yuling, seemingly waiting for her answer, yet also seemingly neither in a hurry nor needing her answer.

Leng Yuling was stunned for a moment.

She came to the Southern Chu Kingdom with Mo Xuan simply because she was jilted as soon as she transmigrated there. She was furious, and since someone dared to take her away in front of the Emperor of the Northern Desert Kingdom, why shouldn't she go too?

She admitted that when she first saw Mo Zhen's sleeping face, she really thought that maybe marrying him, becoming his empress, and living a life of power and influence in the palace seemed like an optimistic way to live.

Who would have thought that Mo Zhen was such a cold-hearted person? She didn't want to spend her whole life embracing an ice cellar!

Leng Yuling stared at Mo Zhen, hands on her hips, looking like she was about to start a fight at any moment. Mo Zhen, on the other hand, remained calm, as if nothing could bother him.

Seeing how angry she was, yet he remained as calm as a mountain, Leng Yuling's anger flared even more.

"Mo Zhen, don't even think about making me your empress. Even if I agreed, the Northern Desert Kingdom wouldn't!" At this moment, the only way she could think of to get rid of Mo Zhen was to reveal her identity as the daughter of the Prime Minister of the Northern Desert Kingdom, hoping that Mo Zhen would fall for it.

After she finished speaking, she heard a low chuckle from the side. Looking in the direction of the laughter, she saw Mo Xuan bent over laughing.

Leng Yuling looked at him coldly and displeasedly: "What are you laughing at?"

"You've been in the Southern Chu Kingdom for so long, besides a letter, what else have you brought?" After pausing, Mo Xuan continued, "An abandoned legitimate daughter, do you really think you're important in the eyes of Prime Minister Leng or the Emperor of the Northern Desert Kingdom?"

"It's not important!" Leng Yuling quickly replied in her mind.

Whether it's important or not doesn't matter to her.

but!

This doesn't mean she has to tell the truth!

Because she was unwilling to stay in the Southern Chu Palace. The world was vast, and she refused to believe that she, a new human from the 21st century, would starve to death in this era.

"If this were in the Northern Desert Kingdom, it wouldn't matter who I married, but this is in your Southern Chu Kingdom. A Northern Desert Kingdom empress who was just jilted one day is now marrying the Southern Chu Kingdom emperor the next. Is that reasonable? Is that reasonable?" Leng Yuling looked at Mo Xuan, but her words were meant for Mo Zhen.

Mo Zhen remained expressionless upon hearing this, but Mo Xuan's eye twitched involuntarily.

"Then what do you want?" The one who asked the question was not Mo Xuan, nor Mo Zhen, but Princess Ruikang, who had been quietly standing by without saying a word.

“Of course I want to…” Leng Yuling was about to speak when she stopped herself, changing her words to, “Of course I want Mo Zhen to think this through. This concerns the friendship between our two countries. It’s not worth it for me alone, don’t you think?”

Leng Yuling switched to a roundabout tactic, but it didn't seem to work on Mo Zhen, who remained expressionless.

“I think that since my brother the emperor said he wanted to marry you, he wouldn’t care about these things.”

Hearing Princess Ruikang's words, Leng Yuling was stunned. Princess Ruikang was actually speaking up for Mo Zhen; was she trying to persuade her to marry Mo Zhen?

“I’ll talk to you.” Leng Yuling walked up to Princess Ruikang, touched her forehead, swallowed, and asked, “Are you running a fever? Aren’t you at all bothered by me marrying your emperor brother?”

"I mind," Princess Ruikang said, looking at Mo Zhen.