Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

The Wang family mansion in Taiyuan.

"The young lady is back from her shift!"

The servants of the Prince's mansion who came to greet her called out as they saw Wang Yuyan's carriage return.

However, Wang Yuyan, who usually went to the study to pay her respects to Wang Ming as soon as she returned home, unusually went straight back to her courtyard today, seemingly absent-minded.

"Is the young lady feeling unwell?"

In the study, Wang Ming looked up from a mountain of official business. Beside him, in a teacup, lay a dose of tonic medicine.

Upon hearing the servant's report, he immediately frowned and asked a question.

His daughter was always well-behaved and clever, so he naturally wasn't worried that Wang Yuyan would cause trouble for him or the Wang family outside.

However, the other party was, after all, working for the Crown Prince.

For the sake of the Wang family's future, Wang Ming had to inquire about the other party's activities with the Crown Prince every day, so that he could correct any mistakes in time...

"This... I asked the young lady's maid, but I didn't hear anything about it. However, the maid, Qiu Nong, said that the young lady accompanied His Highness the Crown Prince today and inspected several factories in Taiyuan Prefecture by carriage. During that time, the young lady and His Highness the Crown Prince were the only ones in the carriage."

"what?!"

Wang Ming's eyes widened instantly, and a few ripples inevitably stirred in his heart at this moment.

Even though I kept telling myself to stay calm, that it probably wasn't a good thing, I still couldn't help but keep thinking in that direction.

"I will personally go to Yu Yan's place!"

When Wang Ming hurried to the courtyard where Wang Yuyan lived, he saw his daughter sitting by the window, gazing at the garden in the courtyard, lost in thought.

"Cough cough..."

She cleared her throat lightly, but Wang Yuyan remained sitting there, lost in thought.

The maid Qiu Nong, who was standing nearby, wanted to remind him, but Wang Ming stopped her with a look.

As he got closer, Wang Ming could faintly hear his beloved daughter's sighs.

Suddenly, my heart skipped a beat.

"Yuyan?"

"what!"

Wang Yuyan screamed in fright when her father suddenly appeared beside her.

After seeing who it was, he couldn't help but feel a surge of resentment.

"Father, you've come all this way to make some noise, at least..."

Wang Ming rolled his eyes in annoyance: "Fine, next time I come, I'll ask His Highness the Crown Prince to borrow two people to put that Thunder God Crossbow in your courtyard... What happened to make you so out of control?"

"How could you not have noticed that your father had gotten so close to you?"

Wang Ming looked worried.

She opened her mouth, but finally asked, "But what did you do wrong to the Crown Prince? Did he get angry?"

He heard his father mention Crown Prince Li Chengqian.

Wang Yuyan couldn't help but sigh again, and slowly sat down at the table.

Looking at the glass dressing mirror in front of me.

She had been secretly proud of her snow-white, jade-like skin and her stunning beauty, which, with just a little makeup, was enough to captivate countless people.

However......

"Father, His Highness the Crown Prince composed a poem for me today..."

Hearing the Crown Prince compose a poem.

Wang Ming's face turned pale instantly, and his body broke out in a cold sweat almost reflexively.

"Wh-what?! What...what mistake did you make? How could it have come to this? How could it have come to this?!"

Wang Ming was instantly terrified, and upon seeing her father's expression, Wang Yuyan immediately realized that he had misunderstood.

“Father! It wasn’t that kind of poem… His Highness the Crown Prince praised my beauty and wrote me a poem…”

talking.

Wang Yuyan handed the poem that she had begged Li Chengqian to write down after they returned to Yangcheng Palace that day to her father, who was clearly frightened.

"Yun thinks about clothes and flowers, and the spring breeze blows the threshold of Revlon"

"If not seen atop Mount Qunyu, then met beneath the moon on the Jade Terrace."

"This, this is absolutely stunning! A timeless masterpiece! A timeless masterpiece!"

Wang Ming didn't know whether he was too excited because of Li Chengqian's praise of his daughter, or simply because he was amazed by the terrifying talent of Li Chengqian's poetry.

Holding the book in his hands, written by Crown Prince Li Chengqian in the slender gold script, titled "Qingping Tune: A Gift to Wang Yuyan of Taiyuan," he paced back and forth in the room with great excitement.

"That's wonderful, Yu Yan! His Highness is in love with you! This is the best possible thing ever!"

"Yu Yan, His Majesty and the Empress are currently extremely anxious about the selection of the Crown Princess. Your uncles in Chang'an have written to me several times, saying that Her Majesty the Empress has recently been privately inquiring about young women from various clans..."

"Now that I have been entrusted with an important task by His Highness the Crown Prince, and my Wang family of Taiyuan has made meritorious contributions in the Turkic and New Policies, and now the Crown Prince is interested in you, Yu Yan!"

"The position of Crown Princess is rightfully yours!"

Wang Ming was already so excited that he couldn't control himself.

Perhaps it was because he, as the head of the Wang family, had been under too much pressure lately. It wasn't just the pressure from the new policies, but also his worries about the future of the Wang family that made it difficult for him to sleep day and night.

If it were their own daughter, she would really become the Crown Princess.

As long as Wang Shi behaves herself and does her best to complete the tasks assigned by His Highness the Crown Prince, then...

When the crown prince ascends the throne, the Wang family will become the empress's family, that is...

"Father!"

A sharp rebuke pulled Wang Ming out of his reverie about the future.

Wang Yuyan's eyes were slightly red, and her expression was full of discouragement.

"Father... His Highness the Crown Prince has no such feelings for me; this is what His Highness said himself..."

Wang Ming: "......."

He stared in astonishment at his daughter, then blankly looked at the poem in his hand that was destined to be passed down through the ages.

For a moment, my brain couldn't understand the reason at all.

"But this poem..."

“Your Highness is a man of great talent. This poem was composed on the spot, and I shamelessly begged it from you at Yangcheng Palace before I returned today.”

Wang Ming: "......"

Wang Yuyan sat blankly by the window, looking at her reflection in the mirror on the table, feeling sad and heartbroken.

Wang Ming felt a pang of heartache, but as a man, he couldn't understand it at all.

"Did His Highness say who his heart belongs to? Is it Hou Junji's daughter? Or perhaps, the daughter of Qian Lou, the deputy commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"

Wang Yuyan gently shook her head.

"His Highness's love is not for beautiful women... but for confidantes who can accompany him to achieve great things and establish a glorious empire."

In Xiande Hall, a scroll flew past Kong Yingda's head.

With a loud thud, it slammed onto the incense burner on the side behind him.

"Go to hell! Kong Yingda, do you really think I wouldn't dare kill you?!"

"Now that your Kong family has taken over newspapers and bookstores, and is even involved in education across the country, aren't you very proactive? Why is it that, even after a year, the women's education classic I commissioned you to compile is still being used to fool me with this pile of rubbish?!"

"Kong Yingda! If you don't give me an explanation today, you'll see if your head will even make it back to the Kong family intact!"

The Crown Prince was furious!

He even roared at Kong Yingda, the Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince, whom he had once respected, that he wanted to kill him.

Inside the Xiande Hall, everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

No one doubted the truthfulness of Li Chengqian's words.

Kong Yingda himself knelt down on the ground with a thud.

His old face was deathly pale.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, this old minister has failed in his duty, this..."

"Dereliction of duty? You think you can just brush this off with a single word like 'dereliction of duty,' Kong Yingda?!" Li Chengqian shouted.

He's really angry now.

His conversation with Wang Yuyan today reminded him of the girls' school textbooks he had commissioned Kong Yingda and others to compile last year. Upon returning to Xiande Hall, he immediately ordered the materials to be sent over.

As a result, the so-called women's religious texts almost corrupted Li Chengqian's eyes.

"One year, Kong Yingda! One year! My beloved Master Kong!"

"My trust in you!"

"I entrust this important matter to you, to your Kong family, giving you resources, time, and official positions!"

"You've come up with this... this rubbish to fool me!"

"Do you think I dare not kill you?!"

These books were compiled according to Li Chengqian's wishes, based on the current level of education for women, and divided into grades to serve as the general outline for establishing girls' schools.

Now, however, those idiots from the Kong family have inserted so much so-called Confucian content into it.

"What I need are female accountants! Female engineers! Female designers! Female businesswomen!"

"Go to hell with Kong Yingda! If your Kong family can't survive without those tea-serving and water-pouring servants, I'll have some of them burned for you!"

"Guards! Guards! Drag this old bastard out and beat him to death!!!"