Li Shushu shook his head.
She thought hard about the Seventh Prince in front of her. From the last time she saw him in her previous life to the first time she saw him in this life, it didn't seem like a lifetime ago, but it really was a lifetime ago.
The Seventh Prince is a modest gentleman, gentle as jade. What's more, he is the man who has treated her with special eyes in the past two lives. If she said that she had never coveted him in her previous life, that would be a lie.
It’s a pity that they missed it both in the previous life and in this life.
In both lives, she could not escape the fate of being disguised as a slave and following her elder sister into the palace. In both lives, she became the emperor's secret bed partner - whether it was voluntary or forced.
Now, she only wants that supreme power, to ascend to the throne, to seek revenge, and to protect the people she cares about.
Love? She would never spend the slightest bit of energy to dream about those illusory things again.
"Shushu, are you angry? Are you angry that I left without saying goodbye?" Gu Jingheng took another step forward and stretched out his hand to hug her, "I can explain, Shushu.
I didn't leave without saying goodbye. I just received an urgent order from my brother the Emperor to go to the border to carry out a secret mission. I thought that after I completed the mission and received military merit, I would ask my brother the Emperor for a reward and ask for your hand in marriage. But when I came back, I couldn't find you. I searched everywhere and was driven crazy by anxiety.
The Seventh Prince is a modest gentleman, honest and reasonable. His downfall is that he is too honest and reasonable!
Li Shushu was just a concubine's daughter who was not valued in the prime minister's mansion. He wanted to ask her to be his wife, but he knew it would not be easy because his mother and his brother would not agree.
He had been planning silently in his heart, but he had not revealed a word to anyone. Even Li Shushu only vaguely felt that he thought a little differently about her, but he had never seriously revealed his feelings to her.
Of course he couldn't find it. The prime minister asked his concubine's daughter to be turned into a slave and enter the palace with his legitimate daughter. Such a confidential matter, who else could know about it except for a few people who were involved?
Outsiders only thought that the fifth young lady died young due to illness.
The young lady had already been detained by them.
At that time, Prime Minister Li received the order from the Queen Mother to send Li Xiaodie to the palace, but Li Xiaodie was as determined as if she had swallowed a weight and refused to do so. She even cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to hang herself.
Li Xiang was forced into a corner and had to compromise. He asked her what conditions she wanted before she agreed to enter the palace.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiaodie was actually persuaded. She looked around, her eyes rolling around a few times, and pointed a finger at Li Shushu, who was hiding behind the young lady. "I want her, but I won't agree unless she becomes my slave and comes with me into the palace. Otherwise, my daughter will never agree."
The young lady was shocked when she heard this and fell to her knees with a thud, "Master, this is not possible. Shushu is still so young, she just came of age, and you are letting her follow the eldest daughter into the palace. Once she enters the palace, it will be like entering a deep sea, and it will ruin her life!"
Li Xiang hesitated for a moment.
This fifth daughter was too timid and mediocre in daily life, so he had already given up on her. Now, if she could accompany Li Xiaodie into the palace and make Li Xiaodie please him, it would be considered a merit, right?
So, regardless of how the person on the ground begged, he simply nodded and agreed to Li Xiaodie's request: "Okay, your father agrees to it."
The young lady hurriedly knelt down beside Li Xiang's legs, hugged his thighs and cried, "Master, no, I beg you, I will do anything you ask me to do, but please don't let Shushu enter the palace?"
Li Xiang kicked the young woman away with an impatient look on his face and said, "Come here, drag this annoying woman away and lock her up."
Li Shushu hurried to the little girl's side and stopped those who were dragging her: "Stop, father, father, I promise you, I will do whatever you ask me to do. Please be nice to me, she is weak, you can't treat her so roughly..."
Li Xiang stroked his goatee and nodded with satisfaction: "Well, that's sensible. So, I'll grant your wish. You should be polite to Fifth Aunt."
"Yes," the servants answered respectfully, but they also knew that Prime Minister Li was just putting on a show, and the strength in his hands had not decreased much.
Li Shushu comforted the tearful young lady: "Young lady, don't worry, I will take good care of myself. In a few years, when I am old enough, I will be released from the palace. You wait for my good news outside the palace. Then I will come back and accompany you every day."
The girl stroked her face and nodded silently with tears in her eyes.
They themselves didn't believe this, but they all thought the other party would believe it, so no one exposed it. "Okay, wait for me, you have to be good."
Then, the young girl was "supported" by the servants as she walked out, looking back every few steps.
But she didn't expect that it would be the last time she saw her mother.
Afterwards, when Li Xiaodie got Li Shushu, disguised as a maid, into the palace as she wished, she proudly boasted about what she had been thinking: "Little bitch, you can make that Seventh Prince be infatuated with you, right? I let you be my slave and follow me into the palace. Once there, I'll see how you can still flirt with that Seventh Prince.
Haha, if I can’t get it, you can’t get it either!”
Li Shushu suddenly realized: It turned out that in that life, he had given her the only warmth and sunshine.
However, she also suffered the greatest pain and darkness from him.
He was so innocent, but what crime had she committed?
It's just fate.
Seeing that she had been silent for a long time, Gu Jingheng took another step forward. This time, he didn't care about the distinction between men and women. He just stretched out his two warm palms and held her hands, "Shushu, say something, what's wrong with you?
You don't have to be afraid, don't worry about anything.
Now, I have military merits, and as long as I ask my brother to let her introduce you to me, we will surely achieve our wish."
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