IACF [QT] Chapter 64.4

Shen Shuyao pursed her lips and smiled. Just as she was about to speak, a few people came toward her. They were her Fourth Sister’s group.

“Hey, where did you come from, Second Sister? Why are you carrying so many things like a beggar?”

Shen Shuyao suppressed her smile and stepped aside.

If it were in the past, hearing the other party’s ridicule like this, she might not be able to help but retort a few words, and then she would suffer again.

Although her Fourth Sister was born out of wedlock, she was loved by the Old Madam and her father. Her food, clothing, and expenses were the same as those of the eldest daughter of the legitimate wife.

In the previous life, every time she quarreled with the other party, it was obviously the Fourth Sister who started it, but in the end, she was always the one who was punished.

At that time, Shen Shuyao couldn’t understand why the adults couldn’t tell the truth from the false and always wronged her. Later, she knew that it was clearly partial, and there was no reason for favoritism.

You blame your elders for being unfair. You cry and make a fuss, but all this will only make those who don’t like you hate you even more.

In the previous life, she understood too late. This time, she no longer wanted the love that didn’t belong to her, nor did she want to blindly indulge in self-pity.

Life is short, why live in such pain? If someone doesn’t care about you, you should not care about them either.

Seeing that she didn’t say anything, the Fourth Young Lady snorted, walked through the middle of the road, and bumped into her.

Shen Shuyao staggered two steps before she stood firm again.

When the other party walked away, her young maid complained: “The Fourth Young Lady has everything, while the Young Lady has nothing. Why does she want to make things difficult for us?”

“Let’s go.” Shen Shuyao said.

“If you go any slower, the snacks will get cold.”

***

In the palace, the Emperor was still reviewing the memorials when a eunuch announced that King Rui wanted to see him.

“What a rare guest.” The Emperor said after he entered.

“What wind blew King Rui here today?”

King Rui stood in the center of the hall, tall and straight, and said something expressionlessly.

“What?” The Emperor glared slightly, stood up from behind the dragon case holding the memorials, and stepped forward steadily in front of him with a few big steps.

“Say it again. I want to see if I heard it wrong.”

“I am willing to marry a princess.” King Rui said.

The Emperor was overjoyed. Even the majestic wrinkles between his eyebrows were relaxed. He patted the other party’s shoulders with his big hands and said, “Whose girl is it? I will issue an edict to grant her marriage.”

King Rui said, “From the Duke Anguo’s Mansion.”

“Duke Anguo’s Mansion?” The Emperor frowned and repeated.

He was searching his mind again and again before he found a tiny impression from the corner, “The late Duke Anguo passed away many years ago, right? The current Duke Anguo…”

The Emperor shook his head. He remembered that when he was still the crown prince, he had seen the duke’s heir attending a palace banquet with the late Duke Anguo.

His appearance was enough to make all the young men present look like wooden fools. When his younger sister saw him for the first time, she even wanted to marry him.

Unfortunately, he was a completely frivolous young man with a glamorous appearance but a rotten heart. His true colors were exposed the moment he opened his mouth. He was completely ignorant.

He heard that he was spoiled like that because he was the only son of the late Duke Anguo.

Since the death of the late Duke of Anguo, how long has it been since the court heard of this title?

He guesses there won’t be any outstanding talents in the next generation of this family. In a few years, the court will have to take back the title.

A Duke’s Mansion that has already declined and is dispensable, no matter how outstanding the daughter of that family is, is still not worthy of the dignified King Rui.

But the Emperor felt that he was open-minded, and since it was the first time his nephew had spoken in many years, he should not reject his proposal.

So, he turned his head and asked the eunuch beside him, “De Hai, is there any other daughter in the Duke Anguo Mansion who is still waiting to be married?”

“This…” The Chief Eunuch, De Hai, looked embarrassed.

As a favorite of the emperor, he must be quick-witted. Just when the Emperor was still racking his brains to figure out who Duke Anguo was, he had already gone through the family tree of the Su family from top to bottom. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not find a single unmarried girl.

“As far as I know, this generation of Duke Anguo has two daughters, both of whom are married.”

“Oh? Could it be a girl from a side branch?” The Emperor glanced at King Rui and frowned in his heart.

He suspected that his nephew was afraid that he would not agree, so he deliberately said that the girl from the side branch was from Duke Anguo’s Mansion.

If she was from a side branch, she really didn’t deserve the position of princess. Even a concubine would be flattery.

Of course, if his nephew insisted on marrying, then the side branch would also be fine.

The Emperor lowered the bottom line again.

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