Qi Yu'an choked on the wine he had just taken. "Ahem, ahem! Sister, what did you say?"
Qi Yuning said, "Lingling is my biological daughter. I didn't tell you the truth just now because I was afraid you would be angry if you knew I had a child out of wedlock."
Qi Yu'an's coughing subsided a bit as he said, "Sister! How could you be so foolish? You and Lu Ze already have a daughter, so why are you engaged to his brother Lu Yun?"
Qi Yuning explained, "Lu Baozhu asked His Majesty to grant the marriage. When I learned about it, the imperial decree had already been issued. How could I dare to disobey it?"
Qi Yu'an frowned and asked, "What about Lu Ze? He has a child with you, so why didn't he come to propose marriage to you? And he even got engaged to the daughter of the Guan family? That bastard should have been brought to his knees just now!"
A lie requires countless lies to cover it up. Qi Yuning had already prepared: "At that time, Lu Ze and I were young and ignorant and acted absurdly. Later, we separated due to personality differences and only then did I know that Lingling was born. Lu Ze and I have no relationship anymore. Marriage is irrelevant to us."
Qi Yu'an slammed the table and angrily said, "No wonder Lu Ze actually knelt down when you asked him to. He did such a bastard thing to you, he deserves to kneel down!"
Qi Yuning said, "Brother, don't scare Lingling. It's over."
Qi Yu'an said, "Qin Feng, Lin Jiang, and Lu Ze are good friends. It wouldn't be right for you to marry them. I'd better find you another good husband. I can definitely find you a husband who's better than Lu Ze!"
Qi Yuning said, "Brother, my engagement was just broken off, and I don't want to get married now. Is it possible that Lingling and I can't be together in the palace?"
Qi Yu'an continued, "No, this is also your home. You can stay in the palace as long as you want. But, outsiders say you can't get married. Today I heard something about marrying a daughter-in-law, not marrying Princess Qi. Don't you think about whether they are worthy of marrying you?"
Qi Yuning said, "Brother, why are you so angry about those rumors? The rumor that you should not marry Princess Qi was spread by the Guan family."
"Three years ago, when the Guan family first arrived in Shengjing City, they deliberately spread rumors to help their three unmarried daughters find good husbands and not marry Princess Qi. They told the Guan family's daughters to marry instead. This way, even the high officials and nobles in Shengjing knew about the Guan family's daughters."
Qi Yu'an frowned and said, "How dare this happen? How dare the Guan family bully you like this! Who are they? How dare they use your reputation to gild their own reputation? Are you going to let others bully you just because my brother is not in Shengjing?"
Qi Yuning chuckled and said, "The great ones take it easy, the small ones take it easy. The Guan family will get their comeuppance for using such disgusting means. There's no need for me to bother about it. It's just dirtying my own hands!"
Qi Yu'an said, "Three years ago, wasn't it when you first came of age? They wanted their daughter to be famous, but did they ever think about how your marriage would be ruined? You can let the Guan family off easily, but I can't."
"Brother, I'm not going to spare them."
Qi Yuning said coldly, "But the daughter of the Guan family is not even worthy of appearing before my eyes. The best-married eldest daughter of the Guan family is only the wife of a prince of a baron's mansion. The good husbands they got by riding on my reputation are not worthy of appearing before me. It is too cheap for a princess like me to argue with such a family."
Qi Yuning has her own pride, and in her eyes, the Guan family is like a little mantis blocking a car.
If Lu Baozhu knew that I was arguing with a little mantis like this, she would laugh at me!
Qi Yu'an asked, "Isn't the sixth daughter of the Guan family already engaged to Lu Ze? They're stepping on your reputation to get engaged to Lu Ze, and you don't mind it?"
"If Miss Guan Liu could really come to me, I would definitely not let her off!"
Qi Yuning didn't care because the Guan family had a low status and was not even in her eyes. They were not even worthy of being in her presence, so why should she care?
Qi Yu'an said, "Oh, I thought Lu Yun was a jerk enough, but I didn't expect that both brothers of the Lu family are jerkish!"
Qi Yu'an has a fair complexion and looks like a scholar, but after all, he grew up in a military camp and always can't help but say a few dirty words.
Qi Yuning covered Xiao Lingling's ears.
…
In Xianglin Temple.
Bald Lu Yun sneezed several times in a row, and his face turned green as he looked at the table full of green leafy vegetables in front of him.
"Abbot, besides these leaves, can't you eat something else? Even tofu with scallions would be fine!"
"Amitabha, onions are meat. Since you have entered Buddhism, you should enjoy these. These dishes are already excellent. If you followed the princess's instructions, you would have been eating only rice bran and rotten leaves every meal."
Lu Yun: “…”
Lu Yun ate green leafy vegetables all day long without any meat or fish. He felt that his chin had become pointed in just one day, and he felt a little regretful.
Or, just marry Qi Yuning?
"Have you heard? Today, Prince Lu went to the Qi family to apologize, and Princess Qi actually asked Prince Lu to kneel down to her. Prince Lu is a man of great stature, the grandson of His Majesty, and yet Qi Yuning asked him to kneel down. He's truly so arrogant!"
"Did Prince Lu really kneel down?"
"Kneel down! This matter has spread everywhere. Princess Qi is so arrogant. Who would be willing to marry her in the future?"
"No wonder Prince Lu couldn't bear the good life and chose to become a monk. He married a princess like this and made men kneel before her every day. Who could stand it?"
Lu Yun's regret disappeared in an instant, and he felt deeply touched. His elder brother was so good to him.
How could he not know in the past that his elder brother cared so much about him? After this storm has passed and he has returned to secular life, he will definitely find a gentle and beautiful princess for his elder brother.
In the princess's mansion.
Lu Baozhu stormed into Lu Ze's study. "Brother, you actually knelt before Qi Yuning? You're embarrassing me! I've been fighting with her for eighteen years, and now you're kneeling before her. How can I face her in the future?"
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