"Your Majesty flatters me."
Mo Shisheng gave a curt reply with a slight smile, which nearly made the Empress Dowager furious.
She pointed at Mo Shisheng and said, "You are the ugliest woman in Qi Kingdom, how can you be worthy of the Second Prince!"
Looking at the Empress Dowager's hand pointing at him, before Mo Shisheng could make any further move, Qi Yufeng pressed the Empress Dowager's hand down first, his brows furrowing slightly, "Grandmother."
"You!" The Empress Dowager choked, unable to utter a complete sentence, her eyes filled with disappointment.
The Empress Dowager has always doted on Qi Yufeng, and he is indeed a key candidate to be cultivated by the royal family. Unfortunately, Qi Yufeng's mind is not on politics at all.
Qi Jingling finally seized an opportunity to get Qi Yufeng to agree that as long as he married Mo Shisheng, the throne would be a place he had to hold firmly.
"Since the Empress Dowager dislikes Yan'er so much, then this old minister will not continue to humiliate himself here."
Shangguan Leiting finally spoke, his steps slow but extremely steady.
When he walked up to Mo Shisheng, his aura was no less imposing than that of the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager swayed slightly, but fortunately Nan Jingxun supported her. After regaining her balance, the Empress Dowager raised her hand to her chest and looked sharply at Shangguan Leiting, "I did not insult your Shangguan family, I was just telling the truth!"
"Guards! Escort the Empress Dowager back to rest!"
After the Empress Dowager uttered these words, Qi Jingling finally couldn't hold back any longer and directly summoned his servants to forcefully send the Empress Dowager away.
Nan Jingxun stood to the side, looking slightly embarrassed, but she pursed her lips and tactfully stepped aside.
Qi Jingling said to Shangguan Leiting with a slightly apologetic tone, "The Empress Dowager is used to being strong-willed. As for the marriage between the Second Prince and Shangguan girl, I and Lord Shangguan can make the decision."
"Then this old minister thanks Your Majesty."
Shangguan Leiting gave a slight curtsy, which was considered a gesture of respect.
"Lord Shangguan, there's no need to be so polite. I watched Shangguan grow up. It was the third son who was ignorant and hurt Shangguan's feelings before."
Qi Jingling and Shangguan Leiting chatted back and forth, even starting to discuss when to hold their wedding.
Upon hearing this, Mo Shisheng finally couldn't hold back any longer. She coughed lightly, and only when all eyes were on her did she slowly speak, "Your Majesty, this humble woman..."
"Shangguan girl, don't worry, I will never let the second prince betray you this time. I have already drafted the imperial decree, and you are now the future second imperial consort."
Qi Jingling cut off Mo Shisheng's next words, not giving her a chance to speak at all.
Mo Shisheng wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she always felt that Qi Jingling seemed afraid that she would regret it, and even the imperial edict had been prepared in advance, leaving her no room to refuse.
If her marriage to Qi Yujin could have ended back then, it would have been entirely because there was no imperial decree.
However, now she and Qi Yufeng are bound by an imperial decree. If she refuses again, it would be an offense against the emperor, or even a defiance of the imperial decree, a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of her family.
Mo Shisheng frowned slightly, pursed her lips and remained silent. At this moment, the first person she thought of was Ming Beiya.
Thinking that Ming Beiya wasn't currently in the capital, she cursed him inwardly: "You damned monster! You didn't like me, but now my family is forcing me into marriage! What kind of person are you to not show yourself?"
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