Princess Ruining then came to her senses and said, "How could that be? It's just..."
She didn't know how to continue.
She was a favored child, she knew it. But the more she knew this, the less she knew how to express her trust and gratitude towards her father.
Emperor Zhenlong sighed again: "Your brother... perhaps I haven't been strict enough with him. Your aunt is soft-hearted, and I've managed to guide him well. He has to fight for everything himself, which is why he's so competitive now, and his methods are inevitably a bit extreme. From now on..."
He initially wanted to say that since they were siblings, they should be more lenient with him. However, he felt that it was really unnecessary. If his son really went too far, it would be a dereliction of duty for the monarch to indulge his daughter. If he punished her, he would inevitably bear the infamy of harming his brother.
The sage simply said, "He did something wrong. Father will handle everything. Just be happy."
To be a happy king? That seemed unlikely. Both understood this, yet it was this father's deepest wish for his daughter.
Princess Ruining asked tentatively, "Does Father know what he did?"
The sage chuckled and said, "What do you know? Do you know that he allowed his subordinates to privately manufacture silver? Do you know that he injured the Gu family to cover it up? Or do you know that he secretly ordered someone to replace the new policy letter from the Flying Dragon Bureau in the small county with the letter from the Goose Bureau?"
At first, Princess Ruining remained relatively calm. In truth, she and Zhao Yang were rivals, so it was best for her not to interfere with Zhao Yang's actions and to have someone else inform her father.
But when her father actually found out, her heart was filled with complex emotions. Was this what a monarch was like? There were only things he didn't want to know, but nothing he didn't know.
Princess Ruining was still shocked to hear that the matter of Feilong Han exchanging Yan Fang Shu was also related to asking Prince Qing. That happened three years ago!
So Zhao Yanghua had already started planning this so early?
"What? You don't know?"
Princess Ruining stammered, "I knew about the first two things, and I was even thinking of secretly sending someone to gossip about them to Father. But the matter of the Flying Dragon Letter in the new policy is something I've never heard of before."
Emperor Zhenlong appreciated his daughter's frankness. She might use harmless little schemes, but she wouldn't keep them from him forever. If she achieved her goal, she would openly tell him.
He said, "It's normal that you don't know. This child is really brave..."
If he hadn't become suspicious and felt that Zhao Yang had been acting rather anxious lately, he truly wouldn't have expected Zhao Yang to be so bold.
Princess Ke Ruining asked happily, "Then can those minor officials brought from the local areas be released?"
Emperor Zhenlong glanced at her: "You mean the Gu family couple, right?"
Princess Ruining nodded somewhat awkwardly.
Emperor Zhenlong smiled and shook his head: "You..."
His first thought wasn't to kick someone when they're down, but to save them. And perhaps that's precisely why he loves this daughter so much.
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