"Can you please change your opportunistic ways? Ever since I became the Princess Consort of Chen, you've apologized countless times, but you still turn around and scheme against me and make things difficult for me. Aren't you afraid of shaking your head off with all this indecisiveness!"
Su Wenyuan rolled her eyes. She wasn't as resolute as Su Lin'er. Su Lin'er had only pretended to seek peace to inherit her family fortune. Apart from that, Su Lin'er had always firmly regarded her as an enemy, a fight to the death.
Su Yuan, on the other hand, is eager to make peace as soon as he sees that he is doing well, but he might not take sides if the wind turns slightly wrong.
"I...I followed the Sixth Prince back then, also for the sake of the Su family..." Su Yuan argued.
"Stop!" Su Wenyuan retorted, "You're only doing this for yourself. What kind of Su family is this? Do you think you're some kind of aristocratic family? You're just a nobody who married a rich girl and only got your current status because of my mother and maternal grandfather."
“You have no sense of family whatsoever. You are a selfish person. My mother, Wang Shi, Su Lin’er, Su Xian, and everyone in the Su family, have you ever cared about any of them? The Su family? Don’t make yourself a laughing stock!”
Su Wenyuan laughed after she finished cursing herself. There had been quite a few jokes about the Su family recently. When they were poor and destitute, a few copper coins, a piece of charcoal, or a piece of clothing could cause a huge uproar.
In the past, Su Yuan would feel ashamed when he was scolded like this, but now he has become thick-skinned and shows no reaction at all.
"I won't explain too much. It was my fault before. Now that Prince Chen has recovered, the next step is definitely to become the Crown Prince. Wouldn't it be good to have another ally?"
Those who came to Prince Chen's residence today under the pretext of visiting him in the hospital basically had the same idea.
It's no wonder that Sheng Zixi lost her composure. Those who were already firmly committed to Sheng Jingyu became even more determined, while those who were still observing the situation from a neutral standpoint stopped observing altogether. Even the wavering fence-sitters started to side with Sheng Jingyu.
With so many people, what gives Su Yuan the right to stand out?
Su Wenyuan leaned back in her chair leisurely and said, "The prince cannot receive guests or attend court now. When he can receive guests, there will be countless people who will want to help him. What can you do to help?"
"You yourself are living such a difficult life, yet you still want to help the prince. It seems I misunderstood you. You're not a fence-sitter; you truly hate me and want to hold me back in this way?"
Seeing that Su Yuan couldn't say anything, Su Wenyuan waved her hand, signaling the servants to see the guest out.
He didn't want to leave, but the servants carried him out.
I just put him by the door and left him there. He started wailing and crying at the door...
It attracted a lot of onlookers, who were filled with emotion and couldn't understand how he had ended up like this.
Su Wenyuan returned to Zhuyue Pavilion, where Sheng Jingyu was eating. Although his right arm was also injured, it did not affect his eating.
But as soon as he saw Su Wenyuan, his arm stopped working properly.
With great difficulty, he lifted it up, but before he could even put it in his mouth, he dropped the chopsticks along with it.
Sheng Jingyu looked pitifully at Su Wenyuan, who smiled slightly and said to Meng Qi, "Do me a favor and feed him."
Meng Qi's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward proactively.
"Get lost." Sheng Jingyu's reply was brief.
Meng Qi excitedly ran up, then ran back as if his life depended on it, and ran straight out of the room, looking comical and funny.
As she passed by Su Wenyuan, she muttered, "Even I can tell she's faking it."
In the blink of an eye, Su Wenyuan betrayed him, saying to Sheng Jingyu, "Stop pretending. Even Meng Qi couldn't fool you. You recovered really quickly."
Sheng Jingyu changed to a new pair of chopsticks and said, "He's only smart at this point. He's recovered quite well. Hua Ling used me to test the medicine, and it worked well."
The results are exceptionally good; the baby can now feed itself.
Su Wenyuan stared straight at him without saying a word.
Sheng Jingyu felt her burning gaze and sighed, "Although I've recovered quite well, there are still some things that are a bit difficult. It's no use looking at me. Let's wait a little longer."
Su Wenyuan was stunned and didn't react for a long time.
After realizing what she had said, her face flushed slightly, and she retorted irritably, "So you admit you can't perform?"
"If that's what you mean, then I can give it a try."
Su Wenyuan lowered her gaze and teased, "You can only move one arm, and you have a wild mind. You'd better not. Getting me covered in blood would be creepy, and Hua Ling would get angry."
Sheng Jingyu's eyes darkened, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "I still prefer the way you look when your eyes are glazed over and you're talking nonsense."
"What are you thinking about?" Su Wenyuan asked angrily, slapping his arm.
Sheng Jingyu hissed and asked, "Then why have you been staring at me like that?"
Su Wenyuan's burning gaze felt like it could devour him whole.
"Let me see what's so good about you, why so many people praise you?" Su Wenyuan said, revealing her true thoughts.
In his view, Sheng Jingyu was simply quite versatile, with many subordinates and excellent information network.
But this is what she saw; others may not know.
Sheng Jingyu put down his chopsticks, thought for a moment, and asked, "Then what do you think of Father Emperor?"
"Him?" Su Wenyuan said disdainfully, "He has no ideas of his own. He thinks everything others say makes sense. As long as someone is eloquent, they can have him completely under their thumb. He is most good at going back on his word."
"To put it nicely, he listened to advice; to put it bluntly, he was really not suited to be emperor; he was too indecisive."
Long ago, Su Wenyuan discovered this characteristic of the emperor: he was easily swayed by others.
Just like today, when the Empress said that Sheng Jingyu was wrong, the Emperor agreed and said that she was right. After Su Wenyuan refuted him, he started glaring at the Empress again.
They were manipulated at will, just like puppets.
Sheng Jingyu nodded in agreement and continued, "That's why the late emperor didn't like him."
Some of the veteran officials had followed the late emperor and witnessed his majesty and were familiar with his decisiveness.
Given the current emperor's indecisiveness, he couldn't help but feel extremely worried.
Sheng Jingyu was personally taught by the late emperor, and his style of conduct and personality traits are similar to those of the late emperor.
The other princes were all thinking about how to please the current emperor, and over time, they became more and more like the emperor.
They were already troubled by having an emperor like this; if another emperor, even worse than the current one, came along, they would go mad.
Su Wenyuan roughly understood and said, "It's not that you're so good, it's that everyone else is so bad. Compared to them, only you are left."
"...What did you say?" Sheng Jingyu glared at her. Su Wenyuan's words weren't exactly a compliment.
Su Wenyuan chuckled, reached out and pinched his cheek, saying, "No matter what, your face is definitely better looking than theirs. Look at your eyebrows, eyes, and nose."
Sheng Jingyu dodged and said, "Did I let you touch me?"
"Can you still resist now?" Su Wenyuan moved closer and placed her hand on his again.
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