Chapter 5 He looked at her, and she looked at him!
The hustle and bustle of the street seemed to vanish instantly.
Xiao Qingxuan lifted the curtain of the carriage.
Their eyes met.
He looked at her at that moment.
She was looking at him too.
Qian Yueshu thought to herself, "Sixteen-year-old Xiao Qingxuan still retains a hint of youthful innocence between his brows, but it doesn't detract from his handsomeness at all. He has a high nose bridge and thin, beautiful lips. He truly deserves the reputation of having the bearing of a dragon and the appearance of a phoenix."
On the other side.
Xiao Qingxuan was also staring intently at the woman's face before him.
His eyes were definitely not those of a sixteen-year-old boy.
Qian Yueshu, who had just come of age, wore a light pink ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress) and casually had a silver hairpin in her hair, looking as fresh and elegant as a newly blooming lotus.
The sunlight shone on her face, making her skin look like the finest jade, delicate and flawless.
With delicate eyebrows and eyes, a pretty nose and cherry lips, she is already a little beauty even though she has not fully grown up yet!
"Your Highness? May I go and inform him?" Wang Xi, the personal eunuch standing beside the carriage, noticed that he remained silent for a long time, only staring at the little girl in the distance, and couldn't help but whisper a reminder.
This soft call broke the atmosphere that seemed to stretch back a thousand years.
Xiao Qingxuan's eyes flickered slightly, concealing all outward emotions.
He ignored Wang Xi and got off the carriage.
The hem of the dark brocade robe with gold patterns fluttered in the breeze as he walked step by step toward Qian Yueshu.
Qian Yueshu watched as the man approached her.
He even tried to grab her hand in the street and attempted to hug her forcefully.
Qian Yueshu guessed it instantly.
That scoundrel is seeking revenge for a past life's grudge.
In this life, he plans to humiliate her and wants to make her a concubine in the Eastern Palace.
Otherwise, why would he just suddenly appear in front of me like this?
He even physically assaulted her in the street.
Isn't this ruining his own reputation?
They really didn't show me any mercy.
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At this moment, Qian Yueshu's mind was filled with images of herself being bullied as a concubine in the Eastern Palace.
On the bed, the prince relentlessly tormented her.
She was like a puppet controlled by invisible strings. The prince pressed himself against her, without tenderness or words, only pure torment.
He seemed to be asserting some kind of ownership over her, his teeth biting down hard with a punitive intent...
Just when she was feeling deeply humiliated.
The crown prince then gave another order: "Open your mouth."
She pressed her lips tightly together, trying to preserve the last shred of dignity.
But he had no patience; his fingers roughly pried open her teeth, forcing her to endure it all with a sense of humiliation…
The night of serving the emperor ended.
It is often not a relief, but the beginning of another disaster.
She would be sent back to the secluded side room where the concubines lived, a damp and dark place where there was never enough sunlight.
Often, before she could change out of her disheveled clothes and compose herself from her emotional breakdown, [the police] would...
The women of the crown princes, who were of higher rank than her, began to cause trouble.
The first to appear might not be the Crown Princess, but rather the Crown Prince's concubine or favored concubine.
"Oh, look who's here? You must have had a hard time serving His Highness last night, right?"
She would slap her across the face in jealousy, "You're just a lowly concubine, putting on this pitiful act for whom? Do you think I'm His Highness? Nanny, teach this lowly concubine Qian Yueshu a lesson."
Afterwards, I might be pinched or beaten by that old woman.
In short, they wouldn't stop until they tormented her to the point of near death!
After the favored concubine leaves, it's time for the Crown Princess to appear.
She was better at putting on an act and was more ruthless in her actions, directly ordering the nanny to bring over a bowl of "infertility-suppressing soup": "This is a gift from the Empress, drink it."
That's a contraceptive soup.
Cold and bitter, symbolizing absolute negation.
It's more than just a soup to prevent pregnancy.
It is also an invisible shackle.
Remind her that a concubine is not worthy of having the heir of the crown prince, nor is she worthy of a chance to turn her life around.
She will always be just a plaything, a tool to be used and discarded.
That kind of life, that kind of future, that kind of existence that was trampled upon!
She doesn't want to be a concubine!
Qian Yueshu's fingernails dug deeply into her palm, leaving several crescent-shaped blood marks. The pain made her even more alert.
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Although her reputation in her previous life was also infamous.
But at least on the surface, he always defended himself, even willingly sacrificing his dignity as the crown prince to protect her reputation.
But in this life...
hehe!
First, they started pulling and tugging in the street.
This led everyone to believe that she was an immoral and promiscuous woman.
Then the emblem on the Crown Prince's carriage stopped all the men who dared to propose to her: "This is my woman, do you dare to try and take her from me?"
The most important point is...
Even if the crown prince doesn't retaliate against her.
If she gets entangled with the Crown Prince, she can only become his woman.
Given her current status and position as the daughter of a merchant, she could at most become a Chenghui, which would be considered an ordinary concubine.
Moreover, Qian Yueshu hadn't forgotten what happened before his rebirth.
Xiao Qingxuan vowed to humiliate her and make her the most insignificant concubine!
You need to know about the Crown Prince's harem.
In addition to the Crown Princess, two concubines may also be taken.
Although a concubine is also a concubine, she is considered relatively noble and can be listed in the imperial genealogy.
If the Crown Prince ascends the throne smoothly in the future, the two concubines will likely be granted the rank of Consort, or even Imperial Noble Consort.
Below the concubines were the licentiates, the chenghui, the zhaoxun, the fengyi, and so on...
Below the rank of Fengyi were concubines and such!
Leaving aside the ranks mentioned earlier, just considering the Fengyi alone, according to the specifications of the Crown Prince's harem, there could be twenty-four of them.
Xiao Qingxuan, that scoundrel, actually lets so many women climb on top of him?
That's absolutely despicable.
On the other side.
The crowd gathered in front of the Qian family's house held their breath.
In the capital city.
Even ordinary people are knowledgeable.
The carriage of the Eastern Palace was so conspicuous, and it was on the street.
Many people were quite surprised!
As the esteemed Crown Prince approached Miss Qian, his gaze held curiosity, envy, and speculation.
Originally, Qian Yueshu wanted to please Xiao Qingxuan.
But the moment we met, he insulted me like that.
Her temper flared up immediately.
What kind of flattery?
What is it that we should pursue again?
What about all the tricks she used to seduce him? ...
Anyway, she's her age and has never met the Crown Prince.
Then she doesn't need to respect him.
He dared to pull and tug at her.
Then she would dare to treat him like a lecher and beat him up.
However, she knew that Xiao Qingxuan was highly skilled in martial arts and that a direct confrontation was not an option.
After deciding to launch a sneak attack, Qian Yueshu quickly ran back to her residence.
So she stomped hard on Xiao Qingxuan's instep and cursed, "Bastard!"
Xiao Qingxuan was in pain.
He then realized that he and Qian Yueshu did not know each other in this life.
His actions of pulling and tugging at people in the street were indeed a bit reckless.
While he was in a daze.
Qian Yueshu had already run back to the mansion and closed the gate.
A little dust from the woman's shoes was imprinted on the man's beautiful silk shoes.
Time seemed to stand still once again.
Whether it was the eunuch Wang Xi, the pedestrians on the street, or even the guards who accompanied Qian Yueshu into the mansion.
They were all incredulous.
Did the Qian family's daughter run away after stepping on the Crown Prince?
Xiao Qingxuan belatedly discovered all of this.
His face instantly darkened, and a chill emanated from him.
In her previous life, didn't she say that she fell in love with him at first sight?
What a strange "first meeting" in this life.
Instead of showing any admiration, she glared at him fiercely as if he were her mortal enemy.
Oh, right.
What did she say in her previous life?
Love at first sight, infatuation at second sight, and the determination to marry no one but you at third sight.
hehe.
She's a habitual liar!
At this moment, did Xiao Qingxuan even doubt that she had told him the truth?
If he remembers correctly.
In my previous life.
Her first meeting with him was probably at a flower-viewing banquet.
At that time, the Empress Dowager held a flower appreciation banquet.
The purpose was to select a crown princess and concubines for him, and the daughters of officials of the third rank or above in the capital were invited.
At this time, the Qian family had only recently arrived in the capital, and Qian Yueshu's older brother was just a minor official of the seventh rank.
Logically speaking, she shouldn't be qualified to enter the Hundred Flowers Banquet.
But she still managed to get in, and she was the only female member of the family of the third-rank Vice Minister of War.
Even the two cousins raised in the Vice Minister's household were excluded.
It shocked a lot of people at the time!
You should know that the Vice Minister's family has three sons but no daughters, so these two young ladies were raised as his own daughters.
It was at this time that the people of the capital learned of this.
It turns out that the Qian family, who had just settled in the capital, and the Qian family, who were both officials of the third rank in the Ministry of War, were the same family, and the Qian family, being the merchant family, was the head of the household.
Qian Yueshu's grandmother was the principal wife, and her father, a third-rank official, was her uncle and also her grandmother's eldest son born out of wedlock.
As for why the two Qian families are not on good terms?
It is said that it was because Qian Yueshu's grandmother disliked her eldest son who was born out of wedlock.
Actually, it's not her fault.
Let alone merchant families who already have few rules and etiquette.
Even noble ladies in the capital city disliked sons born out of wedlock, let alone the eldest son born out of wedlock.
If the principal wife has not yet given birth to the eldest son, but the concubine has, it is a disgrace to the principal wife.
Qian Yueshu's grandmother was also an extremely formidable and proud woman.
As soon as her grandfather died, her grandmother separated this eldest son from his wife, showing him absolutely no respect.
Anyway, things got really tense back then.
Moreover, Qian Yueshu's grandmother gave this illegitimate son very little property.
In addition, Qian Yueshu's uncle was not good at business and squandered all his wealth in just a few years.
There's no way around it.
Qian Yueshu's uncle then decided to send his eldest son to the army for training.
It's strange, really.
Although their family wasn't good at business, they were indeed very good at fighting.
Qian Yueshu's eldest cousin first distinguished himself in the army. When he returned to the capital to receive his reward, he happened to save the emperor during the autumn hunt and was awarded the position of Vice Minister of War, a third-rank official.
As a third-rank official with real power, the Qian family, the Vice Minister of War, can be considered a rising star in the capital.
Then the master's family also came to the capital to seek refuge!
However, the rift between them was deep, and the host family paid a heavy price to ease their relationship.
Our second meeting.
At that time, a major flood occurred in Nanzhou, and he was sent to provide disaster relief.
At that time, many merchants took the opportunity to raise grain prices, and the Qian family was one of the three largest.
His opinion of her was not very good.
He provides disaster relief, she raises grain prices; they're practically enemies!
This was our third meeting.
She was being chased that time, and he happened to pass by and saved her life.
But when they learned the reason she was being hunted down, it turned out she was too ruthless, causing other people's families to be destroyed.
He genuinely wanted to throw her off the carriage and let this scourge die as soon as possible.
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