This is destined to be a very heavy topic. Even Jingrou can't change anything. Not only her, but even someone as powerful as Prince An might not be able to change anything. As for Emperor Kangxi, it's even more impossible. He might have the means, but it's difficult for a single emperor to change the system of male-female relations that has been in place for thousands of years.
Even if he could change things, what right would a ruler have to do so? Ultimately, he is just a cancer in a patriarchal society.
Perhaps all Prince An can do is to carefully select a suitable partner for Jingrou, someone who suits his taste and treats her well, so that he won't let his young lady down.
However, no one can guarantee what kind of person this man is, or whether he will change his mind or do something bad in the future.
As her maternal family, he could provide Jingrou with the greatest support and protection, so that when that man changed his mind, Jingrou would have the confidence to ask for a divorce or live her own life. However, not all family members are so tolerant.
Prince An is definitely one of the very few!
Not only now, there's no guarantee, but even if the world develops for several hundred more years, this issue will still be an unsolvable problem in modern times.
Perhaps one day... after gender equality is achieved, they can sit down together at the table and calmly discuss this topic, and fight for equal rights for men and women. Maybe then this matter can be changed.
But how long can the man's feelings last? Will the equality of power between the two lead him to secretly do something else...?
No one can guarantee the fidelity of human nature. Of course, some might say that men can change their minds, but can't women? Perhaps they can. This is because they were bound by feudal ethics, especially in ancient times. In such a society, ordinary women rarely had contact with men, let alone fell in love with them, while men had many opportunities to come into contact with women, especially in brothels and entertainment venues.
Even with the efforts, sacrifices, and struggles of outstanding modern women over the years, the issue of gender equality remains unresolved, and is still a distant and unanswered question.
"It's all my cousin's fault for suddenly bringing this up!" Jingrou glared at Yinqi. The atmosphere between them was fine until he brought it up.
Furthermore, since Mingxuan and Minghui are probably at the age where they are about to grow up and need to consider marriage, this matter has become even more sensitive.
They are inherently very sensitive to such topics because they might consider their own situation and project such tragic events onto themselves. However, as a princess of the dignified Qing Dynasty, she was far from being subjected to such treatment.
Yinqi's eyes widened. He never expected that simply mentioning a piece of gossip, as usual, would cause these girls to get so angry. Although he was also angry about it, it seemed that no two of them had reacted so intensely...
Men and women see things from different perspectives. Minghui and the others saw more of the woman's hardships, while Yinzhi and the others would certainly despise the man, but they would never truly consider things from the woman's point of view.
"Okay, it's my fault. To make amends, I'll do something else..." He waved his hands repeatedly. No matter what, it was indeed his fault for upsetting them.
He then mentioned a case that had occurred outside the palace, involving the capture of the culprit and the rescue of people. The twists and turns of the case captivated the two men, causing them to temporarily forget about the incident…
The flowers on the estate are quite beautiful. Although they initially came under the guise of flower viewing, no one came specifically to admire the flowers. If it were just about flower viewing, wouldn't it be better to go to the palace? What kind of beautiful flowers doesn't the palace have?
They came here mainly for this kind of enjoyment, and there's a horse stable nearby where they can ride horses. If they have some free time, they might even have a barbecue together! This kind of free and easy lifestyle is something many of them have never experienced before, so of course they find it very interesting and novel!
They put in a lot of effort for this flower-viewing banquet in the palace, making thorough preparations and naturally arranging all sorts of rare and exotic varieties. So, if it came down to a flower competition, they obviously couldn't compete, and could only make up for it in other ways.
This is probably the last time this year that we'll see chrysanthemums so neatly arranged. After a while, these flowers will wither, and then the palace will probably be filled with winter plum blossoms.
By then, they won't be able to enjoy such beautiful flowers anymore; if they want to see them again, they'll have to wait another year.
Year after year, the flowers bloom and wither, bloom and wither again, and time seems to fly by!
Although the alcohol was not very strong that night, some people actually got drunk, the first of whom was the eldest prince who had been drinking silently the whole time.
"Yinreng, I have something to tell you..." He gripped Yinreng's shoulder and mumbled a lot of things, but Yinreng didn't hear him clearly. Yinzhi's eyes were still sleepy.
I don't know when it started, but his feelings for the Crown Prince became very complicated, later turning into a relationship that was both adversarial and friendly, and then to the relationship we have now...
Like brothers in the past, the two of them could drink and chat happily, staying on the estate and getting along so harmoniously, a scene he had never imagined before.
Perhaps it was because as he grew older, he realized that some of the information his mother had told him was quite biased.
He may have only seen that his father treated him worse than the crown prince, and that his father was very unfair in his treatment of the two, but he failed to see that the crown prince had also lost his mother at a young age, while he himself had at least received his mother's care and love from childhood to adulthood...
As for the Crown Prince… under the Khan's high expectations, he had to put in so much effort and hard work to barely meet them, something he himself had witnessed firsthand. Although he sometimes felt resentful about how outstanding the Crown Prince was, or felt that there were areas where he couldn't compare to him, he had to admit that he probably couldn't match the Crown Prince's level of diligence.
This is an unsolvable problem; a single scale cannot perfectly balance everything, let alone average it, especially considering that Han's mother had so many sons…
He remained silent for a moment, then finally murmured, "I like it..." He quietly changed the subject and suddenly said this.
Jingrou overheard everything and felt conflicted. To say the First Prince was a bad person was certainly not true. But as an observer, witnessing his feelings for Wenying, Jingrou didn't know what to say.
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