I'm already a concubine, who wants to fight with you?

Chapter 227: Marrying the Princess
Inside the hall, Emperor Xuan and the palace maids and eunuchs were all stunned.

"You want to make Princess Yongning your second wife?" Emperor Xuan's hands were shaking as he said this.

Pei Yuan knelt on the cold floor tiles and asked the princess to marry him in a arrogant tone.

"Your Majesty, I am now the Marquis of Anyuan. Am I not qualified to marry a princess? It is a blessing that she has cultivated for several lifetimes to marry me!"

The corners of Emperor Xuan's mouth twitched suddenly, and the palace maids and eunuchs all had different expressions.

After a long time, Emperor Xuan rubbed his forehead.

"Pei Yuan," he said sternly, with little patience, "Although you are now the Marquis of Anyuan, Princess Yongning is the only daughter of Prince Duan, you..."

"Your Majesty, if I can achieve great things in the future, she can be granted an imperial title if she follows me!" Pei Yuan tried his best to imitate the fake Pei Yuan's tone, which was both arrogant and stupid, and looked like a villain who had achieved success.

Emperor Xuan was annoyed and sneered, "You really don't understand your own identity. You have a wife, and now you want to marry someone as a concubine. How can the Duan Wang family agree to that?"

"Whether you are willing or not is just a matter of your words." Pei Yuan said unconvincedly: "When I am successful, what does the mere Duke Duan mean to me? If his daughter can marry me, she will be rich and prosperous in the future..."

"Enough!" Emperor Xuan knew this man's character and background very well, and although he hated and despised him, he did not think that he had any ulterior motives.

He stared at Pei Yuan and said, "After all, you have a bad reputation. Many prominent people in the capital are unwilling to marry their daughters to you. You should reconsider and don't take yourself too seriously!"

Pei Yuan wanted to refute, but Emperor Xuan was too lazy to listen to him and just ordered people to drag him out.

As soon as he returned to the Marquis' Mansion, Pei Yuan locked himself in the Chaohui Pavilion. Not only was he furious, he also sarcastically cursed the Duan Wang family for being ungrateful, and all the unpleasant words he said spread out.

Xie Fei silently waited for him to scold, then drove away the trembling servants and closed the door.

"Cry," she gestured twice, hinting, "Cry loudly, cry until you collapse, the more miserable the better!"

Pei Yuan's mouth twitched.

You can let him act crazy or throw a tantrum, but if you want him to cry loudly...

Thinking back to when General Pei died, he forced himself to settle his subordinates first, and after making arrangements for everyone, he knelt down in front of his father's body, without shedding a single tear.

If he were asked to throw a tantrum and cry now, he really couldn't afford to lose face.

Seeing him hesitate, Xie Fei said angrily, "The fake one loves to cry the most. You are being 'wronged' now, and you can't get what you want. How can you not cry? Cry now!"

Pei Yuan was helpless. He tried to open his mouth and howl, but the words reached his throat and he held them back embarrassedly.

Xie Fei was anxious and said, "Don't be an idol. Cry as much as you can. If you don't cry, the news won't spread. How can the outside world know?"

Pei Yuan looked back and said suspiciously: "I don't have any baggage."

Xie Fei rolled his eyes.

She changed her mind and suddenly took out a silver needle from her bosom and inserted it into Pei Yuan's acupuncture point without saying a word.

Pei Yuan didn't understand what was going on at first, but the next moment, he suddenly burst into laughter and tears started to flow.

"Haha, hahahaha——"

Xie Fei pretended to shout: "Master, please stop crying, stop crying!"

“Hahaha—Puff puff puff, hahahaha—”

"Master, you will go crazy if you keep crying. Master, even if you can't marry Princess Yongning, you don't have to do this!"

While crying and shouting, Xie Fei threw all the cups on the table to the ground, and kicked over the tables, chairs, wooden frames, etc., making it look like Pei Yuan was venting his anger.

Outside the Chaohui Pavilion, the servants who were driven out looked at each other in bewilderment. Just because he didn't marry Princess Yongning, the master was crying and laughing, going crazy?
terrible!

Soon, the whole capital knew that Pei Yuan was furious in his mansion because he could not marry Princess Yongning, and his words also offended Prince Duan and even the emperor.

Some mocked Pei Yuan for overestimating his own abilities, while others felt a deep sense of crisis, fearing that their daughters would be favored by Pei Yuan, and they all avoided them like snakes and scorpions.

When Prince Duan learned about it, he rushed to the palace immediately and begged the emperor to show mercy and not agree to Pei Yuan's request.

Even if Prince Duan did not ask, Emperor Xuan would not agree to marry Princess Yongning to Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan was away, not only had he suffered from syphilis, but his genitals were also crippled as a result. It was very likely that he would never be able to perform the rites of Duke of Zhou again.

If you marry off a girl in her prime, wouldn't that ruin her life?

In any case, Emperor Xuan would not offend other wealthy families for Pei Yuan.

That afternoon, Xie Fei was summoned to the palace.

She was a concubine's daughter of a fifth-rank official, and it was her first time entering the palace, so she naturally had to behave with fear and trepidation.

The Empress Wen was graceful and elegant, with an extraordinary bearing. Although she was old and much calmer than when she was young, it was still possible to see that she was once a decisive, majestic and domineering person.

Although she looked smiling, Xie Fei had always been a watchful eye for those who spoke in a hypocritical manner, and he always felt that Queen Wen was hiding evil intentions beneath her beautiful face.

She knelt on the cushion with her head bowed, and said tremblingly: "I am Xie, and I am honored to see the Queen."

Queen Wen smiled and said, "You are Pei Yuan's favorite concubine, so you don't need to perform such a grand ceremony. First, raise your head and let me take a look."

Xie Fei slowly raised his head, lowered his eyes, and did not look directly at Queen Wen.

Queen Wen looked at her carefully and found her face indescribably strange.

The facial contour is smooth and perfect, but the facial features don't match each other.

The eyes are beautiful and lively, but the root of the nose is too abrupt, and the tip of the nose is as thick and big as a garlic.

This does not affect the harmony of the whole face, but the lips appear smaller against the nose. Although they are plump and rosy like cherries, they are still an eyesore.

In short, it looks weird no matter how you look at it.

Queen Wen suppressed her doubts and asked, "I heard that Pei Yuan was not able to marry her, and he made a big fuss in the mansion for a few days, and then fell ill?"

Xie Fei said sadly: "To be honest with you, Queen, my master fell in love with Princess Yongning at first sight at the Lantern Festival and has never forgotten her since then. If he can't marry the princess, he will definitely be devastated and fall into depravity again!"

Queen Wen sneered in her heart, implying that a thing of humble origin had replaced the identity of a noble young man and really thought he was something important.

She didn't show it on her face, she just said with concern: "Does he really think so? But Princess Yongning swore to never marry after hearing the news, and my repeated persuasion was useless. Since you are his concubine, you should comfort and persuade her more."

Xie Fei smiled bitterly and said, "I am a humble concubine, how can my master listen to my advice? He is determined to marry the princess, and he doesn't like anyone else."

Hearing this, Queen Wen's eyes became even more sarcastic.

Originally, she and Emperor Xuan had no intention of arranging a good marriage for the fake Pei Yuan, let alone as a concubine.

It was nothing more than picking an inconspicuous concubine's daughter from the family of a factional official and sending her away.

Who would have known that this was a fool without any self-awareness, who was so obsessed with marrying up to the princess, he was so arrogant and ridiculous.

(End of this chapter)