palm order

Chapter 161
After Huaiyang Prince's son left, only Mu Huangwu was left by Princess Huaiyang's side.

"Yesterday your grandmother let you into the house. Apart from mentioning the marriage, did she mention anything else?"

"Grandmother kept looking at the portrait of my grandfather, crying and saying I'm sorry for my grandfather, my grandmother asked someone to secretly draw... that portrait."

"It's not my own. It's useless to follow her. Did I embarrass her?"

Lost and heartbroken, King Huaiyang grabbed Mu Huangwu's hand, choked up and said, "I can't count on your brother, he was fascinated by that little vixen Yunwei, he spoke nicely, but I don't believe he can win Mu Yang."

"Brother is not stupid, so he may not be able to compete with Mu Yang."

"You don't understand, you don't understand."

Princess Huaiyang hesitated to speak, her tears kept falling, and the whites of her eyes were red like blood from crying, "Your grandmother asked Yunwei to marry your brother...she agrees with my thoughts."

Mu Huangwu really wanted to break free from her mother's hand, and said stubbornly, "I don't want to marry Prince Jing."

"It's not whether you want to, but you have to fight to marry him. Yunwei ignores her, you are her hope.

"In the past, you were afraid that Mu Yang would lose, and that he would disregard his wife and children. Now the relationship between him and Concubine Yang has eased, and Concubine Yang also likes you. After you marry him, Mu Yang and Concubine Yang can completely reconcile."

Princess Huaiyang's tearful eyes held down Mu Huangwu's wrist: "Besides Mu Yang, who else can you marry in your capacity?
"Your father doesn't want our mother and daughter anymore, he said that day, he wants to make peace with me!
"Although the Empress Dowager loves you, it is because of your father's face. Once I can't persuade your father, and leave the empress, your father said that you and your brother will follow me."

"Why? Why is father so unfeeling? He doesn't even want me and my brother?"

King Huaiyang is not as concerned about her as an outsider. Her elder brother became a monk in the end and lived alone all his life. His father never visited him.

Princess Huaiyang just wept.

Mu Huangwu asked excitedly: "You don't want me to explain clearly, I...I will never plan to marry Mu Yang."

"Women's life is so hard, mine is especially hard. In fact, I know that I am not the daughter of the Marquis. After she brought me back, I have been doing what she wants her daughter to do."

Princess Huaiyang was in extreme pain, her embarrassed appearance was reflected in the mirror, strange yet familiar:

"I don't like the color of the clothes, but she likes it, and I can only like it. I don't like reading the books she chose, I don't like the teachers she hired for me, and I don't even like to follow the etiquette she insists on as a woman of the family.

"I don't like everything! However, I dare not say or refute. Mrs. Jiang has acted in front of Mrs. Tai for more than [-] years, and I... I have also acted in front of her for so many years.

"Ms. Jiang is better than me. She insisted on herself in the end, with a gentle face, and she never lost the things or people she liked.

"And me?
"I can't find myself anymore, and I have completely become what she wanted me to be. The things I didn't like once were deeply rooted in my bones, and the only wayward thing I did was to marry Landlord Mu!

"I would rather go on a hunger strike than die and marry him.

"She asked me why? I said Landlord Mu was good-looking. In fact, I envied him that he could live so comfortably. Facing Young Master Yang's argument and being ridiculed for being poor, he was still able to leave poems at the literary meeting, even though he didn't have any money in his pocket. For a few copper coins, he still smiled recklessly.

"I want... I want to be like him, so I want to marry him. Even if he was unhappy when we got married, he will fall in love with me in the future.

"I am a well-trained daughter of an aristocratic family. I have learned so many etiquettes that my mother said are very important to women. No one is as good as me. Even the daughter of the Yang family back then is not as good as me."

"But father has never fallen in love with you, and now he plans to make peace with you. Has he told the emperor's grandmother?"

Mu Huangwu's heart tightened, the relationship between her parents was extremely bad, this was something she couldn't figure out, and it was unexpected.

"...I begged him with my last face, begged him, he promised to give me another year, he promised to leave the throne to your brother.

"But without him, your brother's throne cannot be kept at all, even if he made contributions with the eldest prince this time. King Huaiyang is the landlord Mu, not your brother. The emperor is very stingy with titles, especially the prince."

"However, your brother can still enjoy wealth and honor. What about you, the person I can't let go of is you!"

Princess Huaiyang choked up and said, "I know it's not good to force you, but if you don't marry Mu Yang, it's even worse for you! Without status, you will not be able to bear the sudden drop in status."

A bad premonition flooded into Mu Huangwu's heart. It seemed that there was an answer to something she hadn't thought to understand. She said hoarsely, "Who am I? Whose daughter..."

Princess Huaiyang blocked Mu Huangwu's mouth, her eyes flickered coldly, and she whispered in her ear: "If you leak half a word, we can't live anymore. You are the daughter of Landlord Mu, remember this."

"His Royal Highness, the prince is here."

The maidservant at the door revealed a bit of joy, "My lord has come to see you."

Princess Huaiyang was delighted at first, and quickly got up to meet her. Mu Huangwu's expression was dull, she shouldn't have pressed her mother.

This house is really messy.

The mother was brought up under many rules by the grandmother. The grandmother looked down on the shopkeeper Yu, and faintly disliked the remarriage of the Jiang family. The mother was... even worse than the Jiang family.

King Huaiyang is tall and graceful, but there is no smile on his face. He is so cold that it seems to be able to scrape off a layer of frost. To meet Princess Huaiyang's enthusiastic and expectant eyes, he slowly said:
"Did I save face for you too much? Don't take my tolerance for you as your unscrupulous reliance."

Princess Huaiyang's mind was buzzing, and she asked tremblingly: "What did the prince say? I have been..."

"Have you been discussing with your children how to plot against Mu Yang?"

King Huaiyang stepped in, closed the door with his backhand, and said to the outside world: "Get out, don't allow anyone to come near."

Mu Huangwu looked along the window, only seeing a few afterimages.

King Huaiyang walked to the table and sat down, his eyebrows became more serious: "I don't care about your business, but it doesn't mean I don't know your plan."

"You... you put eyeliner on without telling me? Where do you get someone to follow you?"

Princess Huaiyang's face was pale, what was more terrifying than being followed by King Huaiyang was that she had never really understood Landlord Mu!

"You didn't listen to your son's advice. It's a pity that you raised a fairly smart son for nothing. This kid gave me a little surprise."

King Huaiyang put the well-written and Li Shu on the table lightly:
"I used to think that I trusted the people around me. They taught me a profound and extreme lesson. Since then, I have been wary of the people around me, especially the Huaiyang Palace. After all, this is my home. For you... I have never been completely relieved."

(End of this chapter)