Upon hearing this voice and seeing everyone's expressions, Madam Shen closed her eyes. She felt that the Shen family was doomed!
Fortunately, she has two sons in the north, and their father will protect them so they can survive.
When Shen's father heard this sound, he felt like he was hallucinating.
He thought he just heard his rebellious daughter cursing the prince!
Although his behavior of publicly proposing to Jiaojiao was inappropriate, he shouldn't have been scolded for it!
Shen Changyuan felt as if the heads of the entire Shen family were hanging by a thread.
He wanted to speak up to stop and reprimand Shen Mingzhu, but then he saw the emperor.
"Cough cough!"
Emperor Jingyuan glanced down below, his expression unchanged.
[Hmph! Don't think you're so great just because you're a prince. You don't care about me, and I don't care about you either! You cheated on me while we were engaged and you're still so self-righteous. Who do you think you are? A hypocrite who doesn't uphold male virtue! Rotten cucumber! Dog of a man! You'll be a eunuch sooner or later! I despise you!]
At this moment, Shen Mingzhu shouted in her heart:
Don't underestimate a young woman's potential! My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens! You ignore me today, but one day you'll be begging for my attention! Let's go!
Down with that scumbag fiance!
Feeling the gazes of everyone, especially the eyes of the Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Concubine above, Mother Shen knew that her precious daughter was doomed; this time, she couldn't protect her beloved daughter.
She quickly thought of a solution.
How about we ask Father to hand over his military power? Would that work?
There's still a certificate of merit at home; give it to my little one.
My dear daughter is still young, she can't go to heaven yet!
At this moment, the Second Prince Yan Yunxuan was still a little confused. Was it Shen Mingzhu who was yelling at him?
He simply couldn't believe it.
Does she not want to live anymore?!
Shen Mingzhu scolded him? Is the sun rising in the west?
"Shen Mingzhu, how dare you!"
Shen Mingzhu looked at Yan Yunxuan, who had suddenly gone mad, with an innocent expression on her face.
She timidly and somewhat fearfully got up and knelt down.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Empress, I am wronged! The Second Prince has gone too far. He has been bullying me all this time because he is a prince. I am so pitiful. I beg Your Majesty and Your Majesty to do justice!"
Ministers: ...
She's a real talent!
The adults, especially those who were at odds with Shen Changyuan, were watching with schadenfreude.
We're just waiting for him to get into big trouble.
Suddenly, Shen Changyuan, the father, stepped forward and knelt down.
"Your Majesty, my daughter Mingzhu grew up in the countryside and has been spoiled since childhood. It is my negligence in not disciplining her properly these past few years. I beg Your Majesty's forgiveness!"
Consort Li looked at Shen's father and snorted softly.
She instulted her Xuan'er and still wants to get away unscathed?
Shen Mingzhu watched as her father stepped forward and knelt down, followed by her mother, her two brothers, and everyone from the second branch of the family.
[Guagua, what's going on? Even princes are subject to the same laws! Is the Second Prince really this arrogant? Surely the Emperor wouldn't show favoritism towards his own son without reason?]
[Host, don't be afraid, everything will be alright! Emperor Yuanjing is a wise and just ruler. He is fair and just and will not tolerate his princes bullying his ministers. Especially since your father is the Minister of Revenue, a very important official!]
Shen Mingzhu was relieved to hear this.
That's good, that puts my mind at ease!
She took advantage of the moment when no one was looking and glared fiercely at Yan Yunxuan.
What a scoundrel!
[Guagua, that second prince is really awful! Look what kind of gossip he has!]
[Host, there are indeed several juicy stories about the Second Prince here. Which one would you like to hear first?]
Let's start with something random.
[OK. ]
Emperor Jingyuan was quite pleased to hear the young girl below praising him as a wise ruler. He originally planned to laugh it off, but then he heard about the gossip surrounding the second prince.
He'll wait a bit and listen carefully.
"Eating melon seeds?"
Suddenly, everyone realized that the young lady from the Marquis of Changping's family could still live a little longer, so they decided to have some melon seeds first.
Emperor Yuanjing at the top remained silent, and everyone lowered their heads, pretending to be nonchalant. In reality, however, everyone was craning their ears, afraid of missing a single word.
[Host, actually, the Second Prince Yan Yunxuan and the peasant girl Shen Jiaojiao have already been together. The reason why the Second Prince Yan Yunxuan is so determined to marry Shen Jiaojiao is simply because he feels that he and Shen Jiaojiao are too compatible. In addition, your eldest brother and fourth brother have a deep relationship with Shen Jiaojiao and secretly support her. Therefore, considering that your eldest brother Shen Qinghong will inherit the Marquis's mansion in the future, marrying Shen Jiaojiao would be equivalent to bringing the entire Changping Marquis's mansion into his camp, so he wants to give her the position of principal wife.]
[Holy crap! We have two traitors in our family!]
[Host, don't put it so harshly! Don't forget, your second and third brothers secretly support you. Does that mean they're also traitors to Shen Jiaojiao, given their twelve years of sibling relationship?]
Upon hearing this, Shen Mingzhu immediately retorted.
[What are you saying! Second and third brothers aren't traitors, eldest and fourth brothers are! Humph!]
Shen Qinghong and Shen Qingbo blushed deeply, feeling extremely ashamed, as they listened to Shen Mingzhu's heartfelt words.
This time, in front of the entire court, the two brothers were publicly executed and became "traitors"!
They wished they could disappear into a crack in the ground.
The ministers below listened with great agreement, some even nodding in agreement, and Emperor Yuanjing took all of this into account.
Shen Mingzhu thought for a moment, then casually chatted with the gossip-eating system.
[Guagua, don't forget that I'm biological sibling with my four brothers, born of the same mother. How could they abandon their own sister to support an adopted sister with no blood relation? Aren't they stupid? They're simply brainless!]
Host, they've lived together for twelve years. Twelve years! You'd develop feelings for even a dog by now, so don't worry too much. You still have a loving mother, a grandfather who cares for you, and two brothers fighting on the front lines. Isn't that good enough? You can't expect everyone to like you.]
Shen Mingzhu thought it made a lot of sense and nodded.
That's definitely true.
When Yan Yunxuan heard Guagua reveal the truth about his relationship with Jiaojiao, he realized that he had no choice but to marry her!
Ignoring everything else, he gritted his teeth, knelt down, and kowtowed three times.
"Father, Mother, Consort, your son and Jiaojiao are in love and have long cherished each other. I beg you to grant our wish."
Looking at Yan Yunxuan's expression, Emperor Jingyuan sighed slightly. He was just about to grant his son's wish when he heard Shen Mingzhu's thoughts.
[Pshaw! Eating the forbidden fruit is eating the forbidden fruit. You call it mutual affection when it's an affair without a matchmaker? If people who love each other could just get together, then all those arranged marriages wouldn't exist; they could just consummate their marriages on the spot! Shameless of you to make it sound so pure and innocent, you scumbag!]
Emperor Yuanjing thought to himself that it was indeed inappropriate for Xuan'er to be with the second young lady, Shen Jiaojiao, before their marriage to Shen Mingzhu, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, had been called off.
But Yan Yunxuan was, after all, his son.
He sighed softly and began to speak.
"The second young lady of the Marquis of Changping's mansion, Shen Jiaojiao, is betrothed to the second prince, Yan Yunxuan, as the concubine of the Prince of Xuan. A date will be chosen for her to enter the mansion."
Shen Jiaojiao clenched her fists and closed her eyes in hatred when she heard the words "concubine".
After fifteen years of cultivating a good reputation and image, she ended up as a concubine.
She is not satisfied!
She glanced at her mother in front of her, her bloodshot eyes revealing a hint of resentment.