The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 182 Asking for retribution

Qian Zixu stood there, still a little dazed. He looked left and right, unable to adapt to the rapid change of the scene.

He looked at King Xuan.

King Xuan sat as firm as a mountain, without any emotion at all. Not to mention the anger, displeasure, and loss of face...

Does Princess Xuan know how to cast poison?

Qian Zixu turned his head with a headache and looked at the dancing girl on the other side.

The dancers were trembling and didn't understand what was happening. They just hugged each other and sat down next to each other.

Qian Zixu simply ignored it and stood aside silently with his head lowered.

"Greetings to His Highness Prince Xuan." A female voice was heard.

The voice was of a young age, and it sounded pleasant even if it wasn't sweet.

Qian Zixu followed the sound.

I saw a young woman in a white dress, holding Mu Li in her hand, standing there with a graceful figure.

She was dressed plainly, only wearing a bun and a light-colored hair tie.

The headband moves with the wind.

There is a kind of fragile beauty.

This is Lu's daughter.

Qian Zixu's heart suddenly became calmer.

That woman was Lu Shuyi.

Just listen to her say again: "Your Highness doesn't seem to be surprised at all that I appear here."

King Xuan did not answer her words, and only said: "Where is the old friend's talk?"

Lu Shuyi lowered his eyes and smiled bitterly: "His Highness and I have met three or four times, and we met once more that day at the Xu family's flower viewing banquet. Doesn't it count as...an old friend?"

"Are you reminding me that you saved the princess by speaking out?" King Xuan's tone was lukewarm.

"How dare you ask for repayment? I just thought that maybe the princess needs me..."

When she mentioned the word "princess", she felt a little uncomfortable.

She never expected that Xue Qingyin would take this position so quickly.

"Your Highness should know that someone with my background has been brought up in the way of a high-ranking mistress since childhood. And in the princess's family... Xue, no, Mrs. Xu has never been good at this, and everyone in the capital knows it.

"I'm not saying this to be mean to Mrs. Xu, I'm just thinking that the princess may need someone like me to help her." Lu Shuyi continued to speak sincerely.

She has really lost a lot of weight in the past few days, and her beautiful face looks a little more pitiful.

She raised her eyes to look at King Xuan and lowered her body very low.

"She doesn't need to learn this." King Xuan's voice sounded.

Lu Shuyi looked stunned.

Even Qian Zixu couldn't help but turned his head suddenly, thinking no wonder Princess Xuan was so wild.

"Why..." Lu Shuyi reluctantly found her voice, "If His Highness really loves her, shouldn't he carefully consider his plans for her?"

"She doesn't like it." King Xuan only said four words.

Lu Shuyi smiled helplessly: "Your Highness, do you know that your indulgence will also harm her?"

"What is connivance? What is conspiracy? There are many people in this world who are doing things that make them sad in the name of good for others." King Xuan's eyes were slightly cold, "You are out of line."

Lu Shuyi knelt down with a plop, but still said: "Has His Highness asked her? Maybe she also wants to be a better princess?"

"What? I am the one who sleeps with you, so I don't know her as well as you do, right?" King Xuan's tone was cold, and he was really angry now.

Qian Zixu wonders, you seem to be jealous in the wrong place!

"Shu Yi doesn't dare." Lu Shuyi said in a deep voice.

But there was still a bit of stubbornness clearly written on her face. It seems that he is determined to finally take a gamble for himself.

"You were born in the Lu family, you have seen all the wealth, splendor, power and status, and you think you are smart. You can't see that among the high walls and red tiles, there are rules and shackles that bind people, and they all end up in the same shape. You like it, she doesn’t like it, and I don’t like it either.”

"How can it be a restriction?" Lu Shuyi argued excitedly, "Since the sages wrote Zhou Zhou Rites, the distinction between scholar-bureaucrats and common people has only been established in the world. Only then has the way of a gentleman been established, and only then can there be etiquette that can be followed."

Qian Zixu had a weird look on his face and couldn't help but listen attentively, as if he wanted to know who said the "right way".

Prince Xuan just gave Lu Shuyi a cold look and asked her, "Why don't you want to be a Taoist nun?"

"I……"

"These are the rules imposed on you, why don't you abide by them?"

"I...I didn't know that I made a mistake from beginning to end. I didn't make a mistake, but I ended up like this. Naturally, I don't accept it..."

"What are rules? When they are in the hands of others and they say you are wrong, you are wrong. Don't you understand this truth?"

Lu Shuyi looked stunned and was speechless for a moment.

"You yourself are unwilling to admit defeat, but on the contrary, you want to cut off other people's pride and ask others to accept the same discipline as you. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Lu Shuyi was completely speechless.

I just felt like the skin all over my body was tingling.

"There is only one Princess Xuan. Whether she is arrogant or naughty, she does not need to be groomed by anyone." Prince Xuan seemed a little impatient, so he stood up and went to pick up Xue Qingyin.

"But the world...can it tolerate her?"

"If we can't tolerate that day, I will be dead."

Lu Shuyi's figure suddenly weakened, and she did not speak again.

King Xuan didn’t say anything either.

They all underestimated Xue Qingyin.

Even on the day he died, she would probably only be obedient on the outside, but inside she would be a living light. That light will never blend into this world.

King Xuan walked forward, and when he reached the gate of the garden, he paused and said indifferently: "There is one more thing. After the flower-viewing banquet of the Xu family, I ordered people to bring rewards to the Lu Mansion and told the mansion that if you like other young men in the capital, you can ask Lingxi Taoist to change your fate and grant you a Taoist marriage. ... But today, it seems that no one in the Lu Mansion has told you about this."

Lu Shuyi stayed there, moved her lips, but still couldn't say anything.

She knew her parents and relatives too well.

They loved him, but they loved this huge family more.

He didn't tell her, but thought that she still had some fate with King Xuan and there was still room for conspiracy.

But no one expected that the emperor would issue an order to make Xue Qingyin the main wife so quickly.

Lu Shuyi was not the only one with complicated feelings at this moment.

Gan Zixu secretly bit his back teeth and cursed a few dirty words in his heart.

... King Xuan was still a romantic?

How to deal with this?

What to do!

When King Xuan went to the door, Xue Qingyin arrived late.

The officials knelt and bowed: "Greetings, Princess Xuan."

Xue Qingyin poked her head out and said with a smile: "I have been to many states and counties, but I have never been greeted so warmly by you?"

After hearing this, everyone felt dizzy, their faces turned red, and they felt guilty.

Alas, they just said that they had met so many people, but they were so stupid that they didn't know how to live or die and messed with the old friends of the dancing girl.