Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 195 Woman
Xinyue's arrogance was half extinguished. She clenched her fists and looked at her with gritted teeth. Su Qingwan always sat in the main seat and didn't even want to treat her with a cup of tea. Xinyue snorted coldly, sat aside, and waved her hand gently. The people she brought retreated to the door.

"The Emperor granted you and Lu Jing a marriage on New Year's Eve. But now times have changed. The King of the Southwest is trying to murder the heir to the throne. The Emperor wants to reduce the power of the princes. The fiefdom of the Southwest is no longer secure. Your brothers will either be killed or return to Beijing to become idle princes. You are no longer of any use to the Emperor, so this engagement is no longer valid!" Xinyue asked coldly.

Su Qingwan smiled, "Whether the engagement is still valid or not, you should ask the emperor. Why would you ask me?"

Although Xinyue was favored and spoiled, she was not as brainless as Li Xueying, and she did not dare to act unbridled in front of the emperor. On the day of the marriage on New Year's Eve, she hated him so much that she wanted to bite her to bleed, and she did not dare to say a word. She begged the emperor for the marriage for a long time, but the emperor never agreed, and turned around to marry the Princess of Southwest and Lu Jing, which she was very unwilling to accept.

Who would have thought that on New Year's Eve, there would be a palace coup and the King of Southwest would murder the heir to the throne. For Xinyue, this was a ray of hope and she regained hope. She hoped that the Princess of Southwest would be killed in the palace so that she could marry Lu Jing without any obstacles. But when she entered the palace today, she heard the maid say that the Princess of Southwest was in the palace. Xinyue was struck by lightning.

Xinyue has liked Lu Jing for several years and has secretly fallen in love with him. She sent people to inquire about Lu Jing's whereabouts. Lu Jing rarely appears at banquets held by clans in Beijing. But whenever he appears, Xinyue will always create opportunities to meet him. She also sent people to the Jinyiwei to invite Lu Jing. Her love for Lu Jing is rumored among the people in Beijing.

How can I be willing to be intercepted by others midway!
"Xinnan and the emperor are incompatible. Now the King of Xinnan is dead, and your death is not far away. Even if the emperor wants to keep you in the capital as a hostage, you can't marry Lu Jing!" Xinyue said domineeringly, "You will only hurt him."

"County Lady, you are really funny. I am a bird in a cage. I have no choice. The marriage contract is granted by the emperor. I have no choice whether to fulfill it or regret it. I heard that you like Lord Lu. If you don't want me to marry him, first, you go and ask the emperor to cancel the marriage. Second, you go to Lu Jing and express your feelings. Lu Jing will go to regret the engagement. You come to me and put the cart before the horse."

"I..." Xinyue gritted her teeth, feeling very angry. This princess was different from the other clan girls she had met. She was eloquent and she could not refute her. "When the Southwest was in great trouble, it was obvious that you wanted to cling to Lu Jing. It was you who needed this engagement more."

"So what? Survival is a human instinct. What's wrong with me holding onto a life-saving piece of driftwood?"

"You will harm Lu Jing!"

"Then go find Lu Jing and ask him to break off the engagement."

"you……"

Xinyue stood up angrily and rushed towards Su Qingwan. Qingyun frowned and took a step forward. Su Qingwan raised her hand to stop her. In a blink of an eye, Xinyue was standing in front of her, looking down at her.

"Li Xuejiu, you have an ordinary appearance, your father is gone, and your family collapsed in an instant. How can you be worthy of Lu Jing? You are already a hostage, and your situation in the capital is precarious. One more enemy means one less way to survive. Even if you marry Lu Jing and offend me, you will not have a good life in the capital!" Xinyue's voice was cold, "My father is Prince Kang, and I have been raised in the Prince of Yan's Mansion since I was a child. I am the emperor's closest sister. What can you compare with me? If you take the initiative to cancel the engagement, I may let you go, save your life, and choose a more life-saving marriage for you, such as a high-ranking noble in the capital. Even if you want to marry into Prime Minister Lu's family, I have a way!"

Xinyue proposed a very tempting condition. In Dayuan, marrying into Prime Minister Lu's family was equivalent to having a golden medal of immunity from death, which was more reliable than marrying Lu Jing.

Although Xinyue had heard of the great achievements of the Southwest Princess, she felt that the Southwest people were just exaggerating. She didn't take a princess from a remote border with ordinary looks seriously. She thought she would be obedient if she was fooled by a few words. But she was wrong.

Su Qingwan chuckled and said, "County Princess, the emperor is the ruler of the world, holding the power of life and death. Instead of clinging to you, it is better to please him. Why should I settle for second best? Besides, you are a county princess with no real power. What is your basis for empty promises of great benefits? It is the emperor's favor for you. Favor is something illusory. You yourself rely on the emperor to survive, but you want me to disobey the emperor and depend on you. Do you think I am a three-year-old child?"

Xinyue's face turned pale and she was speechless. She didn't expect her to be so difficult!

"What do you want me to do to make you give up marrying Lu Jing?" Xinyue stomped her feet, furious. Threats and inducements were of no use at all. Even her momentum was suppressed. It was really annoying.

"I won't give up marrying Lu Jing."

"Even if you offend me? You don't care? I will make sure that you won't receive even one visiting card from the officials' wives in the capital!" Xinyue said coldly, "A man's battlefield is the officialdom, while a woman's battlefield is the harem. If you are ostracized in the capital, all the clans will avoid you. You will have trouble moving forward, and no one will dare to make friends with your children. Your whole family will be isolated!"

"You've been brought up too naive!" Su Qingwan said indifferently, "The noble clans get together because of profit. When the profit is gone, the people will go. As long as Lu Jing is on the rise, the noble clans will not reject me. Instead, they will be enthusiastic about making friends with me. Wherever he stands in the officialdom, I will stand in the circle of ladies. You overestimate your influence!"

"You..." Xinyue's heart sank. Facing Su Qingwan's calm and composed eyes, she was actually a little afraid and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Su Qingwan asked, "County Lady, besides marrying Lu Jing, do you have nothing else to do in your life?"

"What do you mean?"

"I feel pathetic!" Su Qingwan sat with her chin propped up, her eyes looking at the snow outside the door, and sighed softly, "The county lady has never seen a girl singing in a restaurant for a meal, nor has she seen a woman from a poor family who was sold to a brothel to live on, and she has never heard of the tragic scene of people who even exchange their children for food to fill their stomachs. They were born in the lower class, struggling to survive their whole lives, and marriage was entirely at the mercy of fate. But you, the county lady, were born noble, had a smooth and worry-free life, and could have made great achievements. You can set up a girls' school so that girls can study and learn; you can also go into business and open more shops so that more girls can have a job and make a living with their own hands. You can even use your royal status to do good deeds and accumulate good reputation for the royal family. But you are obsessed with a man who has no interest in you. Even a royal girl like the princess, who was born rich, only knows how to compete with other women for favor and the favor of men. As a woman, it is really sad and lamentable! "

Xinyue had never heard such words before. She stood there in a daze, unable to recover for a long time. A blush appeared on her face, and she felt ashamed.

Was it really wrong for her to pursue Lu Jing wholeheartedly?

(End of this chapter)