After moving to the Princess's residence, Li Yao felt more at ease. Every few days, she would visit the Empress and the Emperor in the palace to keep in touch.

After his 16th birthday, the Empress sent him five male concubines of various styles: sunny and cheerful, aloof and handsome, alluring and charming, mature and steady, and robust—all of them were top-notch in appearance and physique.

Princess Li Yao's residence became lively, but for the sake of her reputation, she gave them a mental suggestion so that they would not talk about her to outsiders, nor would they be so jealous as to disregard the reputation of the princess's residence.

In this way, at least history won't say that she was a licentious princess.

With that in mind, Li Yao still selected the steelmaking process, the hunting rifle, the homemade bomb, and the melon grenade and gave them to the Emperor, letting him figure it out himself.

And so, Li Yao began her blissful life, watching five men try all sorts of ways to please her every day. Occasionally, they would throw tantrums and get jealous of each other, and sometimes they would take turns bringing her soup until she felt like vomiting. There were two days a week when she wanted to be alone, but she was also enjoying it.

At this moment, Li Yao seemed to grasp a little bit of the emperor's pleasures, or rather, the pleasures of men in ancient times who had three wives and four concubines.

For a moment, she felt that the problem wasn't the system of polygamy, but rather the system that only men could have polygamy.

After a while, Li Yao went to a restaurant in town and ran into the eldest son of the General Who Protects the Nation. He was 21 years old and still stood tall and straight like a pine tree.

After exchanging greetings, they didn't have much interaction.

Li Yao was having dinner in a private room, her mental energy habitually enveloping the entire restaurant, when she overheard many people discussing the eldest son of the Great General of the Nation after he left.

It was at this moment that Li Yao realized that he had never married.

Li Yao made a gesture, signaling her bodyguard to investigate, and only then did they find out...

Although no one outside knew that the General's Mansion had verbally agreed to a marriage with the Emperor, the General's Mansion was still concerned about the Emperor's words and had not yet arranged a wife for him. They were waiting for Li Yao to get married first, so that they might feel at ease. However, Li Yao also did not get married, and so the matter was delayed.

When Li Yao heard the news, she didn't know how she felt. Perhaps she felt a little guilty, and there was something else she couldn't quite explain.

The General Who Protects the Nation is an admirable hero, and his eldest son is also a fine young man. Moreover, this is not just a matter of finding a wife, but also the issue of the succession of the title of the General Who Protects the Nation's family to the next generation.

Li Yao went to the palace and told the emperor about the matter. The emperor had obviously thought about the deeper aspects of the matter, so he issued an edict summoning the Grand General's eldest son to the palace to question him in person.

The emperor said he wanted to compensate him and asked if he had a woman he liked, offering to grant him a marriage.

To Li Yao's surprise, he said he was in love with Princess Chang Le.

Li Yao felt completely overwhelmed at that moment.

She asked herself honestly, and she was indeed a little attracted to Yang Shengrui's body; he was exactly the kind of person she was attracted to, but she didn't want to have children.

Li Yao didn't hide anything and openly stated that she couldn't bear the pain of childbirth and that she already had five male lovers.

Even after she had said all that, Yang Shengrui remained stubborn, saying that he could forgo children and ask the Emperor to grant him a marriage, so that his younger brother could have children, continue the family line, and inherit the title.

At this moment, Li Yao was stunned. Having lived in ancient times for eleven years, she knew all too well what it meant for a man to give up his title and his offspring.

More importantly, he understood that as long as he spoke, Li Yao had the power to make him keep his promise.