Taking the handkerchief from Emperor Mingde, Zhao Shu wiped the sweat that kept getting into her eyes and replied, "Most noble ladies look down on Ajun. So Ajun thought that she must find the best husband in this life. The other day, when I returned home from the palace, I heard people on the street say that there was a man in the suburbs of the capital who was even more handsome than Xu Gong in the north of the city. Ajun thought, why not capture him and make him my husband? Let's see if those people still dare to say that Ajun has no one to marry her."
She abandoned all notions of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame, believing this reason to be the most convincing in Emperor Mingde's mind.
Her words were extremely poignant. Most noble ladies looked down on her, which meant they also looked down on the royal family. To look down on the royal family was to look down on him, the emperor.
Emperor Mingde's eyes were filled with amusement as he gently patted Zhao Shu's head. His heart ached just like Zhao Shu's. Emperor Taizu had a humble background, and now his descendants were being called nouveau riche bumpkins.
Even at a very young age, he harbored great ambitions to change the status quo and become the emperor who ruled the world. However, his family was looked down upon by powerful clans, and he was determined to eliminate these so-called powerful clans.
"My daughter is the best. Don't worry, my daughter. When you come back, I will find you a very good marriage, no less than that of noble ladies. Your royal uncle promises you."
Between people, it's nothing more than whether they are compatible or not, whether they are agreeable or not, whether they are in sync or not, whether they like each other or not. Emperor Mingde thought tolerantly that even if Ajun had lied to him, it didn't matter. Recently, there have been rumors that he would rather marry the daughter of Prince Yong than a daughter-in-law of the Wang family. Such belittling remarks are why Ajun wanted to stand up for herself.
He used to think that his niece was really disappointing. She was pampered by the Empress Dowager and was the only daughter of the Prince's family, yet she insisted on suffering and being bullied by the daughters of noble families. No, now the entire royal family is like that. Liuli, the daughter of Prince Hui, and Nihong, the daughter of Prince Duan, are all trying to curry favor with the daughters of noble families.
In retrospect, Ah Jun's sudden realization came at the right time. He still remembered what that **** had said to Zhao Liuli at the Xie family: "Does this world belong to the Zhao family or the Xie family?"
Zhao Shu kowtowed to Emperor Mingde and said with great determination, "If those people look down on Ajun, let them be. Who needs their respect? If they don't want to marry Ajun, let them be. Who needs them to ask? Ajun's grandmother is the Empress Dowager, her uncle is the ruler of the land, and her father is a noble prince. Whoever she takes a liking to is her good fortune. Ajun has already figured it out. She lives her own life and cannot give up on herself just because others look down on her. But she will definitely make those who look down on Ajun and like to gossip suffer."
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