Chapter 202: The Style of My Old Man
Bu Huaicang watched from the side and couldn't help but give a thumbs up secretly. Not bad, not bad. He has the style of me in my old age.
The Third Prince Xiao Yuanming widened his eyes in disbelief: "Princess, didn't we agree..."
"What's the point of saying it? You know your Ninth Uncle is so handsome, so what's your business? I like handsome men, you know. Although you are good-looking, you are far inferior to your uncle."
Bu Ruo threw a fruit core at the princess' head and said, "He's good-looking, but he's still my husband. Women like you who sleep with this man and that man... my husband finds them dirty."
"How dare you! Even if you are his princess, I am the eldest princess of Beining. How dare you do this to me!"
Xiao Yulan was furious when he saw his princess being yelled at. "Princess Beining, so what? You said you're from Beining, not from the Great Zhou. Princess Beining came to the capital of the Great Zhou without permission from the two countries and even helped the Third Prince rebel. Even if I kill you right now, the Emperor of Beining wouldn't dare to say a word."
"Even... I can use this as an opportunity to formally send troops to Beining. Listen carefully, this is formal, not the small-scale fighting we've done before."
Xiao Yuanming's anger was extinguished the moment he saw Xiao Yulan. Although their Ninth Uncle was a few years younger than him, for some reason all the princes were always afraid of him, even with just a glance.
"Ninth... Ninth Uncle, I was wrong. This time, I was wrong and that's why I surrounded the Bu family army. I won't dare to do that again. After I go back this time, I will stay in the Prince's Mansion and won't come out. Otherwise...or I can go to the fiefdom. I promise that I will never have any illusions about that position again. That position belongs to you, the emperor."
"If it weren't for my father poisoning my grandfather to seize the throne and forcing my grandmother to death, you would be sitting on the throne now."
"My nephew is truly wrong. I beg you, uncle, to forgive me this time. After all, we are related by blood."
Xiao Yulan looked at Xiao Yuanming and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. "Blood connection, why didn't you think about blood connection when you led your troops to surround my father-in-law? If it was me who was defeated today, would you have thought about blood connection? Would you have let me go?"
"As for your father's matter, I will take his life myself, so you don't need to worry about it. You should think carefully about how to ask your father to spare your life when you see him in a few days, considering our blood relationship."
"And this eldest princess..."
Seeing Xiao Yulan looking at her, Princess Beining deliberately made what she thought was the best posture...even though she was kneeling.
"Princess, if the Emperor of Beining really values you so much, I wonder if he would agree if I were to trade you for a few cities?"
Princess Beining was stunned. "You...you actually want to trade me for the city? Do you know that if you marry me and make me queen, Beining and your Great Zhou will never go to war again?"
But Xiao Yulan snorted lightly: "Back when our fourth generation ancestor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was young, you Beining said that in order to establish friendship between the two countries, a princess was sent as a marriage partner. However, a princess as a marriage partner could not become the empress, so she did everything she could to sow discord in the harem and killed several of our ancestor's sons."
"And after she became pregnant and the imperial physician diagnosed her with a boy, Beining shamelessly unilaterally tore up the friendship agreement with our country and sent 300,000 troops to attack our Great Zhou border."
"Do you think that our Great Zhou will trust you Beining again? Oh, maybe the emperor will believe it, but I won't."
Seeing that the princess wanted to say something, Bu Ruo just looked at the two people kneeling below and laughed.
"My dear nephew, you tried your best to please the old princess and finally caught her eye, didn't you? You used all means to coax her and finally brought her back to the Great Zhou, didn't you?"
Xiao Yuanming didn't know what Bu Ruo wanted to say, so he could only nod in agreement.
Bu Ruo sighed: "Or else, this person should not do bad things, otherwise look at the sons he gave birth to, each one is more stupid than the other."
"Princess Beining is indeed beautiful, and even to the people of the Great Zhou, she has an exotic charm. But... even if you didn't seduce her, she would have found a way to seduce you. If not you, then another prince."
"Because her and her brother, the Emperor of Beining, want her to disrupt the Great Zhou and eventually help one of the princes seize the throne so she can become empress. In the future, her child will be made crown prince, and then the Great Zhou... will be doomed."
"How could a mere princess, even if she's favored, possibly have so many private soldiers within the borders of our Great Zhou? This wouldn't be something she could accomplish overnight. This plan... must have been prepared and infiltrated for a long time."
"But the former crown prince is already the crown prince. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be the next emperor. Moreover, his mother's family is powerful, so there is no need to take such a big risk to marry the eldest princess of the empire."
"Although the eldest prince's brain is not very good, he has a smart and clear-minded mother. Therefore, from the beginning, he was raised to be a leisurely prince, and he never had the idea of competing for the throne."
"Sixth Prince, you have already made an announcement. It's true that he wants to rebel, but he has no interest in that position, nor in women. So... you are the only one left."
Xiao Yuanming looked at the princess kneeling beside him in disbelief: "Yang'er, tell me that what she said is not true. You are not using me, right? You are sincere to me, so you helped me to seize the throne."
Princess Beining saw that everything was exposed and stopped pretending: "She is right. I want to help you take the throne and disrupt the Great Zhou."
"It's not that I didn't think of Prince Zhan and Prince Su at the beginning. But although I haven't seen Prince Zhan, I have heard that he would never be bewitched by a woman and would never show mercy to enemy spies and troops. Even if I help him seize the throne, he will not be manipulated by me."
"I have seen Prince Su, but he is too old... I can't bring myself to kill him."
"As Princess Zhan said, the only one left is you. But I never expected that after years of planning for you, you'd still be a hopeless loser. I regret it now. I should have chosen that old man, Prince Su."
Bu Ruo chuckled: "You still have the nerve to call others old? You don't seem to be that young anymore. If this princess is not mistaken, your face should be similar to the Heavenly Master's, but not as powerful as his. You must have used a lot of potions."
Princess Beining looked at Bu Ruo with eyes full of resentment: "I particularly don't like women who are more beautiful than me, and I hate it even more when people say I'm old."
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