Having many children brings many blessings; the struggle for power begins with marriage.

As evening approached, a ray of red sunset light streamed into the room through the window, illuminating people's backs.

Lu Chen leaned against Wu Junwan's back, their fingers intertwined, and placed Wu Junwan's hands on either side of her head.

After a long silence between the two, Wu Yunwan finally spoke first: "I'm very curious, Your Highness, what kind of cultivation technique do you practice?"

After being tormented for so long, Wu Junwan finally came to her senses and realized how terrifying Lu Chen was.

Lu Chen not only possesses the ability to heal people's wounds, but he can also help someone improve their strength. Lu Chen infused her with a lot of power, which directly enabled her to break through and become a Grandmaster.

She had never heard of such methods before.

Lu Chen said with a smile, "I already told you, you should think of yourself as an empress."

Upon hearing this, Wu Yunwan recalled everything that had happened from last night until now. She snorted coldly, "Your Highness truly has a wicked sense of humor!"

She finally understood why Lu Chen had prepared a phoenix robe for her and treated her like an empress. This little man simply had a special fascination with the identity of an empress. No wonder Lu Chen told her last night that he was interested in the empress.

"Is Your Highness truly not afraid that doing this will ruin your reputation?"

Lu Chen took a deep breath, nestled in Wu Junwan's disheveled hair, and then said, "Didn't I already say that my reputation is bad enough, there's no room for it to decline further?"

"If you go down the street in Yancheng now and grab any random person and ask me if I'm lecherous, they'll all say I am."

"It's perfectly normal for me to possess a dignified and elegant mature beauty like Your Majesty."

Hearing this, Wu Junwan was speechless. Lu Chen's current attitude was like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water; he didn't care at all.

Wu Yunwan said coldly, "Your Highness has quite the unique taste, even liking a woman like me who is more than ten years older than you."

Lu Chen whispered in her ear, "So what if you're more than ten years older? I like mature women like you."

Wu Yunwan fell silent.

What's done is done; there's no point in saying or doing anything now.

Moreover, she didn't suffer any loss; at most, she suffered a moral loss, since she hadn't even gotten married yet, and her innocence had been ruined.

But for someone like her who values ​​power, physical purity is nothing. In the royal family, some princesses are far more promiscuous than her, keeping countless male concubines. Some even refuse to let their husbands sleep in the bed and insist on being served by their male concubines.

She treated it as if she had been served by a male concubine for a whole day and night.

As people get older, their sense of morality decreases, and Wu Junwan didn't have many inner constraints.

Most importantly, she experienced those special sensations for the first time, and her cultivation level was even elevated to the Grandmaster level because of this, which was something she had never expected at first.

People in high positions like her are most interested in the gains and losses of interests. From a purely profit-driven perspective, sleeping with the Northern King would be a sure win for her.

Seeing that Wu Yunwan remained silent, Lu Chen blew a breath into her ear and asked, "What's wrong? Why did you suddenly stop talking?"

Wu Yunwan asked, "How does Your Highness intend to deal with me?"

Lu Chen asked in confusion, "Dispose of? Why do we need to dispose of them?"

Wu Yunwan said, "The fact that Your Highness dared to do such a thing to me, a hostage, proves that Your Highness no longer takes Da Wu seriously. This also shows that Your Highness has already made plans to annex Da Wu."

"If Your Highness doesn't want this matter to leak out, either place me under house arrest and prevent me from meeting with the people of Da Wu, or secretly kill me."

Lu Chen chuckled and then said, "You really have a knack for making connections. How could I possibly do such a thing to my woman?"

"No matter what happens in the future, and no matter whether the Northern Kingdom and the Great Wu will ever go to war again, your fate will be to bear my children in the Northern Kingdom."

At this point, Lu Chen gently bit Wu Yunwan's ear, then continued, "I really like your body, how could I bear to kill you?"

Hearing the young man's words, Wu Junwan felt a strange sensation. She didn't know what it was, but it was a complex feeling. She felt sad, yet also a little joyful.

Wu Yunwan chuckled and said, "So the rumors from the outside world were true all along. You really are a lecher. I used to think you were just pretending to be lecherous for the sake of the bigger picture. How ridiculous."

"Has Your Highness ever considered that, throughout the history of various dynasties, lustful emperors never met a good end?"

People generally associate lust with the word "incompetent," so in people's minds, lustful emperors often lead to the downfall of their country or the loss of power, leaving the country in chaos.

In any case, none of the emperors in the present day are lustful; of course, this is just Wu Yunwan's opinion.

Lu Chen then said with a smile, "There are no emperors in this world who aren't lustful, or more accurately, no men who aren't lustful. Look at the emperors of the major dynasties today; which one of them didn't have dozens or even hundreds of women in their harem?"

"Take your father, for example. Do you dare say he wasn't lustful? If he wasn't, how could he have had so many children?"

Wu Junwan wanted to refute Lu Chen's words, but she didn't know how to say it.

Lu Chen continued, "You want to be the empress so badly, isn't it all for the power that an empress holds? Haven't you ever thought about what you would do if you had that power?"

"Could it be that you became a ruler simply to spend your entire life in your study handling state affairs, neglecting everything else and devoting all your energy to politics?"

"I'm not the kind of selfless person. I want power for my own selfish desires. Now that the Northern Kingdom has defeated the Great Wu under my leadership and brought you, a beautiful woman, to the Northern Kingdom, do you expect me to play the gentleman and not enjoy myself? Yunwan, do you think I'm a saint?"

"If it were your father, the emperor, who defeated a country and brought its princess or empress to Da Wu, do you dare say he wouldn't do anything to them?"

Wu Yunwan was speechless.

Because Lu Chen was right. Although his father seemed to have spent his whole life fighting and expanding his territory, he also often took beautiful women from defeated countries into his harem.

Although he appears to be working diligently to govern the country, it would be impossible to say that he was wholeheartedly devoted to the Great Wu Dynasty.

Seeing that Wu Junwan had fallen silent, Lu Chen smiled slightly and then said, "I will not stop the people of Da Wu from seeing you, but I hope you understand that the major dynasties will one day be unified, and your dream of becoming empress can only continue in the Northern Prince's Mansion."

"Did you experience the joy of being an empress last night? There aren't many women in this world who can be personally served by me."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Wu Junwan, who had been silent, sneered, "Your Highness is really joking. You've taken my body, yet you act like you've been taken advantage of."

Seeing that Wu Yunwan spoke again, Lu Chen said with a smile, "I didn't say that I was at a disadvantage. After all, this is the first time I've met a woman who can actively control her meridians and tense her body even after her power has been sealed."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, Wu Junwan, who had calmed down, felt extremely ashamed. She had initially thought that she could use this method to prevent Lu Chen from continuing, but she never expected that it would instead benefit this scoundrel.

The "dog" here isn't an insult; he really is no different from an animal. She's over thirty years old and knows a thing or two about relationships, and she's never heard of a man like Lu Chen before. (End of Chapter)