Dongfang Xunyi shook his head and replied, "I'm not sure, but since you asked me that, it means that the answer needs to be given in this way so that the story can continue."
"Yes, that's right." After listening to his answer, Li Xia nodded, "The answer is correct."
As expected of the male protagonist of the world, his brain works faster than most people.
"Ahem, I'll continue." Li Xia cleared his throat.
"Things took a turn for the worse. It turned out that the girl's nominal brother had noticed his feelings for the girl earlier than she did. He didn't know when things started to change. But he hid it very well. He could only force himself to hide his emotions.
In the feudal era, they were called brother and sister, but they had an abnormal relationship, which was not accepted by the world. He didn't want his sister to be despised by the world, so he tried his best to restrain his emotions. But some things, the more they are suppressed, the darker they are, the faster they grow, just like emotions.
When girls from wealthy families grow up, they will have many things that they cannot control, and the most important one is their marriage. When a girl reaches the age of marriage, she has no control over her marriage, which can only be decided by her family and parents. The better the family background of the girl, the more things she needs to consider in her marriage.
For them, liking or not is never their first choice. Even before their wedding, they have never seen their husbands for the first time. The women of a big family are to bring glory to the family. As women, they cannot escape the marriage of being chosen.
The girl was forced by her parents to meet two young men from noble families. She had already decided in her heart that it would be her turn, and she had no way of accepting anyone else. However, she could not disobey her parents, so for a long time she was in great pain.
The adopted son saw this and felt the same pain in his heart, but other than that, he could do nothing. He knew very well that he was just an adopted son who was not presentable. He could not allow himself to be so selfish and let her bear the stigma for the rest of her life.
The love between the two, which only they knew, was exposed one day. The adoptive father saw a letter expressing his love in his adopted son's study, but the recipient of the letter was his daughter. The adoptive father did not make it public. People in a big family want to save face. He could not afford to lose this person, and he felt that he had not judged the person well and had let a wolf into the house.
From that day on, the adoptive father began to find faults in his adopted son every day. What shocked him even more was that he found out the reason why his daughter resisted those noblemen. He secretly called the two of them together, and angrily scolded them, and kept talking about the misfortune of the family in front of his daughter and adopted son.
The moment the adopted son learned that his father knew everything, his face turned pale. He knelt on the ground and took all the blame on himself. It was also at that time that the girl realized for the first time that her love was not unrequited. She was more happy than afraid of being discovered.
The girl, who had been following the rules for more than ten years, boldly begged her parents for the first time to fulfill their wish. Her parents were so angry that their faces turned green. They immediately ordered the girl to be locked in the boudoir. No matter how the adopted son pleaded, he could not shake the determination of his adoptive parents. He knew that they were forcing him. The adopted son promised his adoptive parents that he would stay away from the girl and would not appear in front of her again.
The maidservant beside the girl always knew what her mistress was thinking. After she got the news, she told the girl immediately. The maidservant didn't understand any big principles. She just wanted the mistress to get what she wanted and be happy. So, she secretly let the girl go without telling the master and his wife.
The girl caught up with her brother who had left the house. When the adopted son saw the girl running towards him, he thought he was hallucinating until he woke up from his dream when he saw her soft and warm embrace. The girl told him that she wanted to elope with him, but the adopted son did not agree. The elopement was for his concubine, and he could not destroy her for his own selfish desires.
The adopted son had his own plans. He wanted to take the imperial examinations. When he was successful, he could change his appearance and ask his adoptive father to marry the girl. When he left the mansion, he signed the document to terminate the adoption. The moment he left the mansion, he was no longer the girl's nominal brother. This was his first step towards the girl.
The adopted son promised the girl that if she waited for him for three years, he would come back to marry her. He would make her his wife in a grand manner, not a concubine without a name or status. The girl wanted to say that she didn't care, but she knew that her brother cared. It was already her luxury that the two of them could communicate with each other.
The girl also knew that her brother had always had a bottom line since he was a child, and admitting his feelings was already breaking his principles. He could make plans and efforts for herself, and she wanted to believe him.
The adopted son sent the sneaking girl back home and set out on the road to Beijing to take the imperial examination. They had beautiful visions for the future, but they didn't know that the gears of fate had already changed.
When the girl was very young, she had a good playmate, but when she was young, the playmate left. When she grew up, he came back and transformed into a noble prince. His purpose of coming back was simple and clear: to ask the girl to marry him.
As soon as the girl's parents saw that he had revealed his identity, they agreed to the marriage for her without her consent. The girl knew she was going to get married when she saw the mansion was full of red silk, and her husband was her playmate, now the prince.
She was planning to escape from her marriage, but she didn't know that her every move had already been monitored by people sent by her parents. Even the servants around the girl were all replaced by people arranged by them. The girl, who was powerless, had no way of escaping.
In the end, the girl was forced to marry into the palace. Her mother threatened with her own life. If the girl dared to commit suicide, it would mean that she, as a mother, had failed to educate her daughter well, and she would have no face to live in this world.
The girl could choose not to live, but she couldn't really kill her parents who raised her. After suffering physically and mentally, she accepted her fate and agreed to marry into the palace, and from then on she lived like a walking corpse. The prince liked the girl at first, but later, when he knew the person the girl loved in her heart, love turned to resentment, and resentment turned to hatred, torturing both of them.
The more Dongfang Xunyi listened, the more he felt something was wrong, especially when he heard about the appearance of a prince in Li Xia's story, and the way they got along after marriage was very similar to that of his father and mother.
Li Xia saw his eyes lowered, a look of deep thought, and she pursed her red lips: "Did you guess it?"
The protagonist of this story is Princess Hong.
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