Starting with choosing a wife, creating the most powerful Xia

After a long while, the door was finally opened.

Seeing this, Chu Xuan smiled slightly. Although Chen Xuening's attitude was lukewarm, her willingness to open the door meant that he had a way out.

At this moment, Chen Xuening was dressed in simple white clothes, looking clean and tidy, but her face looked somewhat haggard, and her eyes were slightly red.

Chu Xuan didn't wait for her to speak before walking straight in, closing the door, and sitting down in a chair.

Seeing him like this, Chen Xuening felt both annoyed and amused.

I originally thought he was coming to apologize to me, but now he seems more like a boss.

At this moment, Chu Xuan suddenly took out a cloth bag from his pocket, opened it, and placed it in Chen Xuening's hand.

Inside was a sesame seed cake that had long since gone cold.

Chen Xuening was taken aback: "What is this?"

"I just grabbed this at noon today. I knew you were angry with me today and probably wouldn't eat properly, so I saved it for you in advance."

Chu Xuan smiled indifferently: "No matter what, it's your own body, so you should take better care of it."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuening's already slightly reddened eyes became even more moist, and a warm feeling welled up in her heart. This feeling of being cared for made her momentarily at a loss.

"Still angry with me?"

Chu Xuan smiled and looked at her.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuening turned her face away and avoided eye contact.

Oh, so you're a tsundere?

Chu Xuan smiled helplessly: "I know you feel wronged, but from my perspective, this is the only way."

"So you're putting me down because of other women?"

"Jealous?"

Who's jealous of you?

Hearing Chen Xuening's soft nasal tone, Chu Xuan reached out and rested his head on his hand.

"Actually, in my eyes, there is no difference between the three of you. Once you enter this courtyard, you are all one family."

“I know you are proud and competitive in everything you do, which is a good thing. But you shouldn’t use that competitive nature on your own family. Ling’er is gentle and can endure anything, which is her strength, but you can’t take out all your emotions on her just because of that.”

"I'm just... feeling uncomfortable."

Chen Xuening said in a low voice.

After returning to her room, she realized she had done wrong, but her proud nature prevented her from speaking to Chu Ling'er, and she didn't know how to face her in the future.

Everyone is Chu Xuan's wife. Because Chu Ling'er was the first to be chosen, her rank is even higher than Chu Xuan's. Whatever Chu Ling'er does with Chu Xuan is her right. No matter what Chen Xuening says, she has no reason to criticize her.

"Don't worry, Ling'er isn't petty and won't hold a grudge against you. Find an opportunity to apologize to her tomorrow and it will be over. Xue Ning, you are all very important to me, there is no difference in your importance, understand? My ambitions are huge, and without any one of you, I'm afraid all my efforts will be in vain."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuening immediately became interested and raised her eyebrows.

"Isn't your ambition to expand your territory and divide it with the Great Xia Kingdom for rule?"

"Divide and rule? Ha, that's too easy on them."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xuan scoffed, a disdainful look on his face.

"Do you know why I robbed the mountain bandits? It's not just about eliminating the bandit problem and winning people's hearts. It's also because I need manpower."

"manpower?"

Chen Xuening murmured the two words, as if she had thought of something.

A look of shock immediately appeared on his face!

"you want……"

"Yes."

Chu Xuan nodded in affirmation of her idea: "I want to build a private army."

"The reason I chose the nameless mountain for my territory is because there are countless iron ores that can be refined, as well as a lot of the materials needed to make gunpowder."

"Iron smelting, army expansion, and gunpowder are all things I prepared for my private army."

Chu Xuan's eyes were resolute, and he spoke eloquently, a carefree smile playing on his lips, which momentarily captivated Chen Xuening.

"I know that forming an army is a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of my family in the Great Xia Kingdom, but it doesn't matter."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Xuening, who was momentarily stunned by the firmness in his eyes.

“You, me, Ling’er, and A’Leng are all people that the Great Xia Kingdom and the Chu family look down upon. More or less, we have all suffered humiliation at their hands. I, Chu Xuan, am not the kind of person who would endure humiliation. Do you know why the Chu family gave us, the collateral branches, territories? It’s just because they think we are in their eyes. They’ve exiled us to a place where our lives or deaths are none of their concern.”

"I lost both my parents when I was young and suffered cold looks and oppression in the Chu family. As I grew up, I was treated like this again. So I vowed to use my own methods to give the Chu family and Da Xia a little shock. Then I will stand in front of them in a glorious way and laugh at them for being blind."

As Chen Xuening listened to Chu Xuan's story, a smile gradually appeared on her lips.

Actually, these words are quite corny, carrying the feeling of a small person being dissatisfied with the status quo and fantasizing about soaring to great heights.

But Chen Xuening just liked him that way.

"You're really bold, but I like it. After all, I'm a traitor to my country."

Chen Xuening sat next to Chu Xuan, holding his wrist, and quietly recounted her experiences over the years.

She was one of the few members of the cabinet from a poor family, and the only woman among them. She entered the cabinet before she was twenty-three years old, and her future was promising.

However, she discovered that the forty-eight vassal kings of the Great Xia Dynasty were outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant, secretly seizing land and suppressing farmers. When the south of the Yangtze River was flooded and the north of the Yangtze River was plagued by locusts, these vassal kings made a fortune from the national disaster, disregarding the lives of the people. Unable to bear it, she wrote a memorial to the emperor, listing the crimes of each king and prince.

They claimed that the court had given these people too much power, which had shaken the foundation of the country, and requested the emperor to reduce the power of the vassal states.

He offended forty-eight kings and nobles.

She was framed by them, and at that time the Northwest region was at war with the barbarians. Several families joined forces to accuse her of colluding with the barbarians on trumped-up charges.

Without a word, the emperor suppressed him, and he eventually ended up as a slave in the Chu family, chosen by others.

It can be said that he fell into the mortal world in a single day.

At this point, Chen Xuening's previously calm eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger.

"I still remember what the Chu family said to me back then. They said they knew everything, but they didn't want to bother with me, an ant. It would be too easy for me to die, and it wouldn't be interesting. So they wanted me to be a lowly slave so that they could slowly appreciate my despair."

Chen Xuening, who was always strong-willed, almost couldn't hold back her tears in front of Chu Xuan.

After all, she was still a young woman, proud and arrogant by nature. How could she bear such humiliation? If she hadn't met Chu Xuan, she probably would have lost all hope and committed suicide long ago.