"Mother, is something wrong?"
Nanling was timid, and she couldn't help but panic whenever she saw her mother frown.
Her voice trembled slightly.
"Your marriage to Goro should be called off!"
During the days of keeping vigil, Yongchang thought long and hard and finally made up his mind.
"..."
Nanling didn't speak, and timidly lowered her head.
Because of her domineering mother, Nanling never made any decisions.
Marriage and other matters were all arranged by my mother.
She would obediently marry whomever her mother wanted her to marry.
Now that her mother has changed her mind, she won't resist.
In fact, Nanling had barely met the Fifth Prince, let alone developed any feelings for him.
She was only worried about—
"W-Wouldn't this be a bad idea?"
Even if the Fifth Prince is not good enough, he is still a prince, no, that's not right. He was just stripped of his title by the new emperor and is now a county prince.
But a prince is still a king.
Breaking off an engagement without cause could be seen as disrespecting the royal family.
"What's wrong with that? He's become a one-eyed man now, his eye is just a hole, aren't you afraid?"
Yongchang glared at his daughter.
She was always intelligent and capable, yet she gave birth to a timid and useless little boy.
Nanling lowered her head even further; of course she was afraid!
In fact, for the past month or so, she has been having nightmares every night, always dreaming of a bottomless black hole that then completely swallows her up!
"Besides, even if he were perfectly fine, he'd be crippled!"
If he can't become emperor, and is just a powerless prince, what future does he have?
"...Nanling, what do you think of the Sage?"
Helian Jue is also Nanling's cousin.
Moreover, Yongchang was not greedy. She did not want Nanling to become empress. She was content with being a concubine!
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