Chapter 83 After you divorce her, I will make you the Crown Prince's Consort
Tan Zhuoyan unconsciously softened her voice: "Lily, don't be afraid."
"Your Highness, what is going on?" Zhou Baili looked at the man in front of her with tears in her eyes.
"I don't know what happened... But don't be afraid, I will be responsible for you. However, I don't have the chance to kick the ugly girl out yet, so I can only let you enter the mansion as a concubine first."
Tan Zhuoyan acted embarrassed, and Zhou Baili's eyes widened when she heard about being a concubine.
Seeing Zhou Baili's resistance, Qin Zhuoyan immediately said, "Of course I won't let you be a concubine forever. Once you give birth to your first son, I will be able to make you my wife!"
"Really?" Zhou Baili's expression eased a little, but there was still hesitation in her eyes.
Worried that Zhou Baili would be unwilling and would make a fuss, Qin Zhuoyan remained calm and tried to persuade her patiently.
"Really? I will not sleep with an ugly woman. As my wife, if she has no children for a year or two, I can use this as one of the seven grounds for divorce and divorce her. After divorcing her, I will make you the Crown Prince's consort."
Qin Zhuoyan had a serious expression and didn't look like she was trying to coax anyone. Zhou Baili hesitated again and again. She was reluctant to be a concubine, but she already had... no choice but to nod in agreement.
"Your Highness, just keep your promise to me." Zhou Baili's tears were welling up in her eyes. Seeing that she had given in, Qin Zhuoyan smiled and coaxed her patiently.
In order not to arouse suspicion, the two left one after the other, just as they had come.
Qin Zhuoyan had always wanted to get Zhou Baili, but she didn't expect it to be so easy. She was very happy and went back to the Marquis' Mansion and told the Marquis's wife about it.
Upon learning that Zhou Baili agreed to become a concubine, the Marquis's wife was very happy. She did not ask about the details and sent someone to Liu Mingyue to pass on the message that day.
"Princess, my lady said that His Highness only has you as his legal wife and no concubines. It would be appropriate for him to take a concubine now, so I ordered this servant to come and tell you."
Mother Duan's attitude was very arrogant, as if to say that she didn't take Liu Mingyue seriously at all.
"Nothing else, I will go to serve the Marquis first." Madam Duan bowed and turned away. The Marquis's intention was just to send someone to inform Liu Mingyue, and she didn't intend to ask for her opinion.
A powerless prince's consort, without the support of her natal family, of course no one would care whether she agreed or not. No one cared about her wishes, and they were not important.
"Did I hear it wrong? Madam Duan said who the Crown Prince wants to take as a concubine?"
Liu Mingyue sat on the rattan chair in a daze, and Huasheng was also a little confused.
It was Guihua who repeated what Duan's mother said: "Your Highness wants to take the eldest lady as a concubine, is it true?"
"Since it was Mother Duan who sent the message, it must be true." Liu Mingyue sat up from the rattan chair. This couldn't be possible. These two people had decided on their marriage like this?
In her previous life, Zhou Baili became his mistress after she became pregnant, and then he pushed her to death step by step.
Why is this life different? Zhou Baihe has become a concubine and will soon enter the mansion. Liu Mingyue found that the development of the situation was different from the previous life, and she felt a little depressed.
However, compared with Zhao Yinlian's mood, Liu Mingyue was in a much more relaxed mood.
Zhou Baili left the restaurant and went back home to take a bath before she dared to see her mother. When she arrived in front of Zhao Yinlian, Zhou Baili hesitated.
Zhao Yinlian had been troubled for days because of the decline in shop sales, and she felt better only after seeing her daughter.
"My son, what do you want to talk to me about?" Zhao Yinlian asked Zhou Baili to sit down, and then ordered the small kitchen to immediately prepare Zhou Baili's favorite fruits and snacks.
"Mother, I have something important to tell you. Can you please let them leave first?"
There were servants inside and outside the house, so Zhou Baili couldn't say anything about the matter.
Seeing that her daughter was worried, Zhao Yinlian dismissed them quickly: "All of you go down."
After everyone had left and the door was closed, Zhou Baili stammered and told them about herself and Tan Zhuoyan.
"Not long after my father passed away, I happened to meet His Highness on the street, and we gradually became familiar with each other."
Zhou Baili didn't dare to say that she had intentionally gotten involved with Tan Zhuoyan. After talking for a long time, she finally talked about what happened in the room today.
"His Highness said that he would let me enter the palace as a concubine first, and when I give birth to a child, he would make me his principal wife."
Zhou Baili spoke very softly because she felt guilty, but Zhao Yinlian, who was sitting in the main seat, felt as if struck by lightning.
The woman felt her ears ringing from her daughter's words. She turned her head stiffly and looked at her daughter in shock.
Not only was she aware of what had happened between them, she was also shocked that her daughter had no ambition or willingness to become a concubine.
"You are so stupid! Concubine! Other concubines are fine, but who is the principal wife of the Dingbei Marquis's Mansion? It's that ugly woman Liu Mingyue. Your mother raised you with good food and drink, and you treat yourself like this?"
Zhao Yinlian was so angry that her eyes went dark. Why did her daughter hook up with Tan Zhuoyan? As a woman, how could she not see what was going on?
She came from a high-class family, so she had always looked down upon such methods and considered them low-class. As a result, her daughter quietly became the type of person she despised the most.
"I have worked hard to save up a dowry for you. I calculated that the Zhou Mansion is not as good as before. If you marry into a family of a fourth or fifth rank official, with your dowry, how can you be looked down upon in their house?"
Zhao Yinlian raised her hand to her forehead. Even when there was trouble in the shop before, she had never felt such a splitting headache.
"Mom! I am not willing to be inferior to others, but what else can I gamble?" Zhou Baili also regretted it. When she was scolded by Zhao Yinlian, she burst into tears.
Things have already happened, and it is too late to say these things, but as long as she can become the Crown Prince's Consort in the future, all the suffering she has endured today will be worth it.
Zhao Yinlian hesitated to speak, and finally sighed deeply. Her daughter had already had physical contact with the prince, so this was the only way.
Taking a concubine is different from marrying a wife, and the process is very simple. In addition, the Zhou family is not as wealthy as before, so most of the family assets were given to Zhou Baili as a dowry. As for the wedding day, it was naturally not a grand ceremony, and only simple arrangements were made.
Zhao Yinlian wanted to give her daughter a grand wedding, but she thought it would be ridiculous to hold a grand wedding for a concubine. The two houses set a date, and five days later, Zhou Baili was hastily taken into the Marquis's house.
It was just a concubine, so the Marquis's Mansion did not hold a banquet for guests. Only the people from the Marquis's Mansion were in the flower hall.
"The new concubine offers tea to the Crown Prince's wife." The voice of the MC rang out loudly in the flower hall. Logically, the Marquis's wife was the hostess of the mansion, but Zhou Baihe was Tan Zhuoyan's concubine, and the principal wife was Liu Mingyue, so the new concubine only needed to offer tea to the principal wife.
Liu Mingyue sat upright, looking at Zhou Baili, who was covered with a light red veil, with a smile on her face. She looked graceful and elegant.
Taking the teacup handed over by the maid, Zhou Baili walked to the futon, pursed her lips, and knelt down, holding back tears, looking aggrieved. Liu Mingyue was close, and could vaguely see her expression through the red veil, but smiled and didn't say anything.
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