Chapter 641 The King of Chu Proposes to Marry Wenxi
In the Yongchang Marquis's residence, Lady Wen slowly awoke.
"Grandmother!" "Grandmother!"...
Upon seeing that she had woken up, everyone gathered around her bedside.
Madam Wen glanced at everyone and gestured for someone to help her sit up.
Before the maid could react, Li Sanqi stepped forward and gently and skillfully helped Madam Wen to her feet, even thoughtfully placing a cushion behind her.
Lady Wen shook Li Sanqi's hand with satisfaction and said thank you, "Thank you for your trouble, Princess."
Li Sanqi replied with a smile, "Grandmother, you're being too polite. For Huaiyang, this is nothing more than a small favor. I used to serve my grandmother in the palace all the time, so I'm quite skilled at it!"
"Good child, you're so thoughtful." Madam Wen patted Li Sanqi's hand again, feeling somewhat comforted.
"Please sit over there, I have some questions for them."
After speaking, he turned to look at the people standing in front of the bed, his face no longer showing the gentle and kind expression he had when speaking to Li Sanqi.
"Grandma, don't worry, there's a solution to everything. Don't get angry, and take care of your health!"
Li Sanqi gently comforted her, then tucked the quilt tighter around Madam Wen before stepping aside to find a spot with a good view and sitting down gracefully.
Lady Wen sat on the bed, glanced at the King of Chu, Wen Jue, Wen Xi, and the Lady of Yongchang who had arrived later, and finally fixed her gaze on the King of Chu.
Compared to Wen Jue's proposal to marry the Qiao family's daughter, the matter of the King of Chu breaking off his engagement with the fourth daughter of the Yongning Marquis's family was clearly more important.
"Your Highness, what are you really thinking? Do you realize the responsibilities you bear? Do you know what breaking off your engagement with the fourth young lady of the Yongning Marquis's mansion means?"
Madam Wen spoke in a harsh tone, her words filled with disappointment and frustration.
Hearing Lady Wen address him with such respect, the King of Chu felt his heart tremble slightly.
He looked at Madam Wen with fear and said uneasily, "Grandmother, please don't talk to me like that, I'm not used to it."
Is this the point? Is this the point? Shouldn't the point be her questions?
Madam Wen sighed deeply and closed her eyes wearily.
Thinking of the deposed crown prince, Madam Wen forced herself to open her eyes again and asked calmly, "What are you thinking? Why are you so determined to break off the engagement with Miss Yu?"
King Chu glanced at Lady Wen's expression, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Miss Yu is too domineering, I don't like her!"
After thinking for a moment, he added, "It's impossible for her to be the only woman in the Chu Prince's mansion. If she's so domineering, how will the other women in my mansion survive?"
Seeing Lady Wen's increasingly dark expression, the King of Chu's words became almost a soliloquy by the end, his voice so soft it was like a mosquito's hum.
Madam Wen's anger, which she had just suppressed, suddenly flared up again.
She pointed at the King of Chu in disbelief and scolded him, "For the sake of those women in your harem, you're going to break off your engagement with Yu Huanzhen?!"
"Do you even know what Yu Huanzhen represents? You dare to break off the engagement with her?"
The King of Chu frowned, unconvinced, and said, "I know she is the daughter of the Marquis of Yongning's family, and she represents the power of the Marquis of Yongning's family."
"If I marry her, the Yongning Marquis's mansion will support me in becoming the crown prince."
"Knowing all this, you still dared to break off the engagement in public?" Lady Wen stared at King Chu in bewilderment.
The King of Chu, tired of standing, walked to the bedside and sat down before continuing, "Grandmother, you only know that if I marry Miss Yu, the Yongning Marquis's Mansion will support me to ascend to the throne."
"But do you think Father Emperor would be happy to see me marry Miss Yu Si?"
"You know that the Yongchang Marquis's Mansion needs to break ties and sever all ties with the Qiao Mansion, which is involved with the Enping Marquis's Mansion. How can I possibly have the best of both worlds?"
“The Yongchang Marquis’s family and I are blood relatives, and this kinship cannot be severed.”
"Therefore, I could never choose the Yongning Marquis's residence under any circumstances."
A strange light flashed in Madam Wen's eyes. "You came up with all of this yourself?"
The King of Chu nodded and said seriously, "Grandmother, it is wise to break off the engagement with the Marquis of Yongning's mansion at this time. Rather than hoping that the Marquis of Yongning's mansion will support me to ascend the throne, it would be more useful to act in accordance with Father's wishes and win his favor."
"As long as my father favors me as the crown prince, whether or not there is a marriage alliance with the Marquis of Yongning's family is irrelevant."
Seeing that his words were reasonable and well-founded, Madam Wen's expression softened slightly. "What you said is not without merit."
Indeed, she was being greedy. On one hand, she was trying to figure out the Emperor's intentions and actively opposing the Marquis of Enping's mansion, while on the other hand, she was hoping to win over the Marquis of Yongning's mansion.
Think about how the Crown Prince was deposed. Didn't the change begin after the death of the former Crown Princess, when the Crown Prince went against the Emperor's wishes and insisted on marrying Lady Zhong?
The deposed crown prince originally thought that by marrying a woman from the powerful Zhong family as his crown princess, and with the support of the Zhong family, his position as crown prince would be as secure as a mountain.
But what was the result?
The crown prince was deposed for treason, but the Zhong family abandoned him at the crucial moment and escaped unscathed.
Well, in the matter of the Crown Prince's rebellion, the Yongchang Marquis's family wasn't much better than the Zhong family; both were the ones who actively betrayed the Crown Prince.
However, this cannot be blamed on the Yongchang Marquis's mansion.
Back when the former Crown Princess was still alive, her family was incredibly arrogant; they didn't even put the Yongchang Marquis's mansion in their eyes.
But what about the Crown Prince? He stood by the former Crown Princess from beginning to end! He didn't care at all about the reputation of the Yongchang Marquis's family, his maternal family.
Forget it, it's all in the past, there's no point in thinking about it.
Lady Wen regained her composure and heard the King of Chu continue, "Grandmother, my cousin Wenxi is gentle and virtuous. I wish to marry her as my principal wife."
"What did you say?" Madam Wen thought she had misheard.
Then the King of Chu said cheerfully, "Grandmother, don't you want the Marquis of Yongchang's mansion to produce a Crown Princess, and then an Empress in the future?"
"You, you want to marry Wenxi?" Lady Wen looked at the King of Chu in surprise, then at Wenxi.
The King of Chu smiled and nodded, his attitude clear, and it didn't seem like a spur-of-the-moment decision.
Wenxi looked at the King of Chu with a shy expression, clearly having had this intention all along.
Almost instantly, she realized the problem. "When did you two start having this idea?"
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As if remembering something, Madam Wen looked at Wen Xi in shock, "So, you deliberately targeted Yu Huanzhen today? Was that Miss Zhao from the Zhao family also arranged by you?"
So that Yu Huanzhen would lose his composure in public, and also so that the King of Chu would have a reasonable excuse to publicly annul the engagement?
Wenxi glanced at the King of Chu, and seeing him nod, he gritted his teeth and honestly admitted his plan.
Everything was just as Madam Wen had thought. Whether it was Miss Zhao taking Yu Huanzhen to the bamboo forest, or Miss Lin deliberately using Qiao Ning to provoke Yu Huanzhen in the waterside pavilion, it was all at her behest.
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