Chapter 145 Younger Sister? Older Sister?
The prince consort's surname was Han, and he also belonged to a prominent family. However, the most promising branch of his family was wiped out by Gao Yang, leaving no one alive.
Dogtooth initially suspected that Guan Zhiwei was behind it.
Guan Zhiwei suddenly realized why this guy was fearless; it turned out he didn't have nine generations of relatives.
The remaining branches of the Han family, lacking promotion, gradually declined. Han Chun himself was quite capable, studying and relying on past connections, he managed to get into the Chen family's school.
That's how he met Guan Huaihuai.
It wouldn't be accurate to say that the two were in a puppy love relationship, since their feelings were expressed but kept within the bounds of propriety; they had only talked.
When Liu Liu picked out a bunch of people for Guan Nannan to choose from, she hesitated for a moment and then named Han Chun.
In everyone's eyes, Han Chun had just gotten incredibly lucky and climbed the social ladder.
But in his own view, it was not like that at all.
After their wedding night, there was no blood on the handkerchief, and he immediately lost his composure and demanded to know what had happened.
"I knew it! What good could come of a woman like you hanging out with a bunch of men!"
"Reading? You've probably read a bellyful of thieves and prostitutes!"
"I told you, why did you have to come to me!"
"I thought you liked me, but it turns out you just thought I was a sucker!"
"Who is your lover? Who is he?"
"I treated you with the utmost respect, regarding you as an angel, pure and immaculate, and you humiliate me like this!"
Guan Huaihuai lowered her head and murmured, "I told him the truth, but he was still very angry. He felt that it was my carelessness that gave the bad guys an opportunity. If I had stayed at home all day and never stepped out of the house, this disaster would not have happened. It's all my fault. I deserve to die."
Her father, that dead man, allowed rumors to spread in order to compete with the first wife. Her sister believed that she, at the age of eight, had seduced her brother-in-law. That bastard Sui Ying deserves to be torn to pieces!
Who here doesn't deserve to die more than her?!
Guan Nannan could barely stand, pinching her temples. "It's all my fault! Where are that bastard's remains? I'm going to dig them up and feed them to the wild dogs!"
Guan Zhiwei waved her hand, signaling her to calm down, then leaned forward slightly, gritting her teeth: "He hit you?"
"...He choked me and slapped my face."
"Then why didn't you tell me? You should have told me when you saw me!" Guan Zhiwei's voice rose involuntarily. It felt as if a fire was burning in her heart, from her heart to her brain, burning all her peripheral nerves to ashes.
Guan Huaihuai was startled and immediately knelt down, kowtowing and saying, "Your Majesty, please forgive me... I... I'm afraid I've brought shame upon Your Majesty. Please forgive me."
She had no mother, only two older sisters, and lived in the unfamiliar capital city.
She was made a princess, but she had no idea how significant that title meant.
Or perhaps she has a habit of underestimating herself, so she rejects handsome and talented young men from prestigious families and tries to find someone less desirable.
Even though she married down, it didn't erase the stains she saw in the marriage.
Her strategy cannot be said to be wrong.
After all, without Guan Zhiwei, Guan Huaihuai would have been just an illegitimate daughter of a noble family. She would have been sent away for a political marriage, disliked by her husband and despised by her in-laws, and then suffered endless torment day after day, year after year, in the deep confines of the mansion.
If the gate to the courtyard were lower, she would suffer less.
But she just happened to run into a fool.
This fool doesn't realize he got a great deal; instead, he thinks that if you marry me, it means I'm capable.
Since I was able to marry you, I can marry an even better woman.
Since I've married you, we're equals. If you dare to humiliate me, I'll go crazy with anger!
He thought he was worthy, and marrying the princess made him arrogant. He felt he deserved everything in the world. If he hadn't refused to share a wife with a group of men, the empress might have given it a try.
She thinks she's wrong, wrong, wrong. But where did she go wrong?
Guan Zhiwei took a deep breath, her voice trembling: "It's not your fault, don't be afraid, sister..."
She was stunned for a moment. Guan Huaihuai was her younger sister. She was really confused. She blurted out that she should call her older sister.
She was lost in thought for a moment.
Liu Liu took over the conversation, frowning as she asked, "Do the prince consort's parents know about this?"
Tears welled up in Guan Huaihuai's eyes. "The prince consort refused to be close to me. His parents persuaded him, and he told them about it. My mother-in-law said... that I was already very... indecent at such a young age."
"I can't listen to this anymore."
Guan Zhiwei pinched the bridge of her nose. "Let Gao Huan in. Go and call Gao Huan in!"
This was a rather private conversation, with only a few of the older sisters present; even Gao Huan was excluded.
Gao Huan arrived upon hearing the news. Seeing the tense atmosphere in the hall, he already knew what was going on. He cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty."
"Lord Gao, what is the punishment for the prince consort's disrespect towards the princess?" Guan Nannan asked anxiously. "Can we put him in jail? Beat him so badly that he can't get up, that he needs at least six months of rehabilitation."
Liu Liu added, "If we could use some methods, we could make him paralyzed and unable to move in six months."
Gao Huan replied, “The princess is His Majesty’s sister. The distinction between ruler and subject is higher than that between husband and wife. If the prince consort is disrespectful to the princess or disobeys her, he will be violating the rules of hierarchy and should be exiled to the frontier in chains. He will not be pardoned and will basically die there in three to five years.”
The two exchanged a glance and agreed that this was a good idea. In this way, the man would be crippled, the marriage would be called off, and Guan Huaihuai would no longer have to maintain a marriage with that scumbag.
"He despised my sister and injured her." Guan Zhiwei was dissatisfied; he was dying too slowly.
“It’s one thing if he hit the princess. Your Majesty, this is a matter between husband and wife, so it shouldn’t be taken too far. Let the prince consort commit suicide.”
Gao Huan thought for a moment, "Right, his parents didn't raise him well, so let them also order him to commit suicide."
Guan Zhiwei was much more satisfied this time, and she felt an indescribable excitement: "Draft an edict, I want to issue a decree ordering their execution. The princess is of noble birth, how can she be neglected? Write this sentence in the imperial edict, so that for thousands of generations, everyone will know why this family died!"
"yes."
Gao Huan had become quite adept at delivering poisoned wine to people.
He asked, "Princess, would you like to come with me?"
It would be such a shame not to go to such a great event.
Guan Huaihuai was stunned. She hadn't expected that the matter that had troubled her for so long could be resolved so easily. Without even asking the prince consort, he had sentenced the man to death.
She stared at His Majesty in astonishment, tears streaming down her face.
Guan Zhiwei was also looking at her, thinking that she was reluctant to part with that man, and frowned slightly: "You are the princess I have bestowed upon you, you have the right to try and fail. If you like men, then if this one doesn't work out, move on to the next one, and if the next one doesn't work out, move on to the next one. Three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere."
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