Imperial Cultivation

Ye Baichuan slowly said, "Indeed, as long as the Emperor issues an edict, dissolving the engagement between Prince Yuan and the Anguo Duke's Mansion for the sake of the alliance between Da Zhen and our Da Jing is actually nothing."

"Dissolving the engagement isn't necessary," Chu Mingxuan said with a smile. "Then just marry two royal consorts, one primary and one secondary. It's not uncommon."

"Then should the Da Zhen princess be the primary or secondary consort?" Ye Baitao snorted. "Surely you wouldn't make the Anguo Duke's daughter a secondary consort? That's simply unreasonable!"

"Indeed, that would be inappropriate," Ye Baichuan echoed.

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"If the Da Zhen princess were the primary consort, then the Anguo Duke's daughter being a secondary consort wouldn't be a big deal."

"The Anguo Duke's Mansion wouldn't agree!"

"Then we can only dissolve the engagement."

"It depends on what Prince Yuan does. If you ask me, he should directly submit a memorial to the Emperor, requesting the dissolution of the engagement and returning freedom to Miss Xiao, and only marry the Da Zhen princess," Song Tianhai said with a smile. "The Da Zhen princesses, ah, it's said that every one of them is a stunning beauty. Prince Yuan, you're just a prince, marrying a princess is a great bargain!"

"Actually," Chu Zhiyuan said with a smile, "when choosing a wife, one should choose virtue over beauty. Appearance isn't that important."

"Heh!" Song Tianhai couldn't help but sneer.

Moreover, I am such a scoundrel, I deserve to be severely scolded.

If Chu Mingxuan were to marry into the Qing Prince's Mansion, she would likely only be a secondary consort.

I shook my head and said, "All your painstaking efforts have become a joke!"

Because of Chu Mingxuan?

I chuckled a few times before shaking my head and saying, "For a dignified Prince's Mansion to actually need to use a duke to enhance its reputation is truly absurd!"

But ever since I saw Chu Mingxuan, just one glance from outside the crowd, I could no longer extricate myself. I felt that she was the other half Heaven had bestowed upon me, destined to belong to me, the perfect woman to accompany me for life.

After getting drunk, my courage suddenly grew.

But everyone was laughing and joking about other things, how could they care about my expression?

"Bang!" Jia Wei Kang flew out.

"Who deserves her?"

No matter how much the Duke and the Prince's Mansion quarrel, nothing will come of it. Such bickering is normal.

Chu Zhiyuan was too presumptuous, actually scolding a Da Zhen so harshly, he simply didn't put the royal family in his eyes!

"You--!" Chu Zhiyuan pointed to his forehead and said with a sneer, "Only I understand Miss Xiao, only I deserve Miss Xiao!"

Ye Baitao chuckled, feeling that Chu Zhiyuan was heroic.

I hate crowds and noise the most, but I was like a fish in water in such occasions, my spirits high.

"Hearing Seventh Brother's words, knowing that Seventh Brother is marrying himself for his beauty, he must be happy," Chu Zhiyao said with a smile.

Jia Wei Kang then reached out to tug at Chu Zhiyuan's sleeve, trying to get him to sit down and talk, but Chu Zhiyuan abruptly flung off his sleeve and said in a deep voice, "Chu! Zhi! Yuan, what do you think you are--

"--!"

I glared at Jia Wei Kang.

Xiao Ruoling looked at Jia Wei Kang: "Are you sober now?"

Jia Wei Kang had been subtly observing everyone, guiding the conversation and constantly provoking Chu Zhiyuan, while also intentionally slowing down the pace of drinking, so that they wouldn't really get drunk.

And as soon as the Qing Prince's Mansion was unsealed, the Anguo Duke couldn't wait for the people from the Qing Prince's Mansion to come and propose marriage, eagerly currying favor.

I felt as if I had fallen into a mountain of knives and a sea of fire, every part of my body ached, ached to the point of madness, yet I had no strength to speak.

My gaze swept towards Xiao Ruoyu, and I said in a deep voice, "Miss Xiao can only live a happy life if she marries me, not with Jia Wei Kang!"

Everyone couldn't help but slam the table and burst into laughter.

I have never been fond of male beauty, feeling that men are just obstacles, that they would distract me, consume my energy, and be a great hindrance to the refinement of my cultivation.

"Heh, if Miss Xiao weren't the Anguo Duke's eldest sister, would you still marry her?" Jia Wei Kang said smugly. "Didn't you say that when choosing a wife, one should choose virtue over beauty!?'

That foolish and incompetent old man actually promised Chu Mingxuan to Xiao Ruoling!

Jia Wei Kang's expression darkened, and he hurriedly said, "Chu Zhiyuan, the Qing Prince's Mansion doesn't need a duke to enhance its reputation."

"Hypocrite, Xiao Ruoling!" Chu Zhiyuan laughed loudly a few times: "What I despise most is people like you!"

The number one beauty of Yujing, such a heavenly beauty, could even be an empress, but now she can only be a Da Zhen secondary consort.

"Furthermore, you have no responsibility!" Jia Wei Kang said, "Clearly you could marry the Duke's princess, why refuse?" -- and you pushed it to the Seventy-Eighth Prince; if you can't marry her, does that mean the Seventy-Eighth Prince can?

But when he asked someone to come and propose marriage, he was rejected by the Anguo Duke.

"I'm not drunk!" Chu Zhiyuan waved his hand and shouted, "Chu! Zhi! Yuan!"

So everyone didn't care about my expression.

Chu Zhiyuan's expression was exceptionally clear.

Chu Zhiyuan, on the other hand, was drinking alone in silence, getting drunk very quickly.

"If Miss Xiao heard these words, I don't know if she would be happy or unhappy!" Jia Wei Kang was extremely delighted.

Jia Wei Kang pointed at my nose: "Furthermore, it's because you're too ugly, your face is repulsive, you don't deserve Miss Xiao, haha..."

Jia Wei Kang said, "Then I'll listen attentively, what's the truth?"

Everyone watched with a mixture of surprise and doubt.

The more I thought about Chu Mingxuan marrying Xiao Ruoling, the more my heart ached.

I helped up Chu Zhiyuan, who was as limp as mud. Jia Wei Kang, supported by me, suddenly lost his strength and stood up straight.

Xiao Ruoling turned to look at Ye Baitao and Song Tianhai.

"I'm not drunk!" Chu Zhiyuan chuckled. "Seeing such a hypocritical person, I really can't help but scold him."

It was simply a great humiliation to me!

Jia Wei Kang said, "Is there more?"

The more I thought about it, the angrier I became.

"Still not sober?" Xiao Ruoling snorted.

Xiao Ruoling nodded with a gloomy face: "I'm a hypocrite, the Qing Prince's Mansion is incompetent and has to rely on the Anguo Duke, I don't deserve Miss Xiao, is there more?"

Chu Zhiyuan glared at me and sneered: "You don't deserve Miss Xiao!"

"Appearance isn't that important! Haha--.."

Jia Wei Kang hurriedly withdrew his fist, looked at Chu Zhiyuan, who was slumped on the ground and unable to move, and shook his head, "It was truly unbearable."

In his depression, drinking made it very easy to get drunk, and the wine that Xiao Ruoling arranged was not strong when drinking it, but in reality, it was extremely strong.

Was that Chu Zhiyuan pretending to be drunk, or was he not drunk at all, using the excuse to scold Xiao Ruoling?

Xiao Ruoling said, "What do you mean by that?"

If Chu Zhiyuan was engaged to an ordinary-looking woman, saying this would be fine, but Chu Zhiyuan was going to marry Xiao Ruoling, the number one beauty of Yujing!

So I was unmoved by the beauties around me.

Everyone closed their mouths, dumbfounded, not expecting Chu Zhiyuan to dare to say such a thing.

The more I felt depressed.

Ye Baichuan's round face was filled with anger.

Jia Wei Kang looked at Ye Baichuan: "Fourteenth Uncle---"

Xiao Ruoling sighed and said, "Since you're drunk, then don't talk anymore, just go back and get some sleep."

After the palace banquet, I realized the difference between myself and her, but Xiao Ruoling still didn't deserve Jia Wei Kang.

Chu Zhiyuan lay on the ground, staring intently at Xiao Ruoling.

"You marrying Miss Xiao is just for the sake of your Qing Prince's Mansion, so as to use the power of the Anguo Duke, it's truly laughable! Haha!"

"Xiao Ruoling, you simply don't deserve Miss Xiao!"

At this time, seeing my situation, looking like I didn't care at all, he smiled and said, "Grand Duke Kang, you're drunk!"

Anyway, the four great dukes have their own camps, and their relationships with the princes are distant or close, warm or cold.

Ye Baichuan, changing his usual smiling demeanor, said coldly, "Jia Wei Kang is very drunk, he should be sobered up!"

This isn't the Kang Duke's mansion, not everyone revolves around me.

Jia Wei Kang took a sip, put down his wine cup, and said with a smile, "The so-called truth comes out after drinking, Chu Zhiyuan, are you going to tell the truth?"

At this time, seeing Jia Wei Kang using the excuse to scold Xiao Ruoling to vent his anger, they all felt it was exciting.

I sighed: "Originally, I felt that we princes and dukes are our own people, and we should resolve grievances and not quarrel over women, so I specially held this banquet, but alas---"

Saying those words again sounded extremely harsh, like a great irony.

Where am I worse than Xiao Ruoling?

I felt that there was no need to use Guo Huai'an to disgust me. I could directly denounce his wrongdoing, even severely scolding him would be nothing.

Ye Baitao hurriedly stepped forward to help him up: "Brother Song."

Among the people present, the princes, dukes from Da Zhen and Da Jing, if Guo Huai'an, the marquis, was excluded, the dukes were the bottom of the heap.

As a result, in a drunken haze, I quickly lost my drunkenness.

I gritted my teeth and stared intently at Xiao Ruoling: "You---"

Thinking of this, I slammed the table and shouted: "Jia Wei Kang!"