Seeing this, some veteran officials shook their heads helplessly. This young man's temperament and talent were truly innate, what a pity!
She was actually a woman!
If it were a man, he would surely be exceptionally talented, and becoming a high-ranking official would be no problem.
"Meng Jiu has deceived the emperor and is imprisoned. He will be dealt with later."
Should we deal with this later?
It's inevitable that some people are dissatisfied with the emperor's handling of the situation. Is there any room for maneuver?
Shouldn't he be executed immediately?
The emperor didn't care what these people thought; he had his own plans.
Thus, Meng Jiujiu fell from a high-ranking official to a prisoner overnight.
Prison labor.
Meng Jiujiu was still wondering if this matter would implicate the Meng family.
I think so!
All the efforts of my father and the clan elders have probably been in vain, and I don't know how the emperor found out.
To be honest, life in prison was far from pleasant, but Meng Jiujiu found herself unusually comfortable.
Perhaps it's because they no longer need to carefully conceal their identity, nor do they need to navigate the officialdom with trepidation, nor do they need to bear the burden of their family's rise and fall.
So much so that she felt that her time in prison was the most peaceful period of her life.
But the peaceful days were soon shattered.
The emperor's decision will come to a conclusion sooner or later.
However, what she received was not the emperor's order, but the emperor himself.
The emperor dismissed everyone; now, only he and she remained.
Meng Jiujiu looked at him, somewhat puzzled. Why such a big fuss? Why not just kill them all?
But to her dismay, the emperor looked at her with a tenderness and said, word by word, "Meng, wine, wine."
Meng Jiujiu looked up instantly and stared straight into his eyes.
"Aren't you curious about how I knew?"
The emperor smiled, seemingly in a good mood, and said, "Let me put it this way, the Meng family sold you to me."
Then he looked at Meng Jiujiu with a leisurely air.
Meng Jiujiu felt a tearing pain in her heart for a moment, but it wasn't unbearable.
With her intelligence, she should have thought of this long ago, but she simply didn't want to think about it. She couldn't accept that her family was really so heartless.
She had done her best for her family, yet they could betray her to others. Ha!
However, making a deal with an emperor is no less than asking a tiger for its skin.
Father has really made a foolish decision this time!
They've probably been blinded by the wealth and glory before them.
"what you up to?"
He must have had his reasons for doing this, and what he promised to the Meng family must have been no small matter.
The emperor looked at her with admiration. As expected of the person he had chosen, she calmed down so quickly.
"I want you."
Meng Jiujiu was startled; he used "I" instead of "I, the Emperor".
But this was not a good thing for her; it was the last thing she wanted to see.
Women are ultimately different from men.
She never expected that her king would have such feelings for her.
She couldn't be mistaken; that look in her eyes was definitely not the look a monarch gives to a talented person, but rather the look a man gives to a woman.
Meng Jiujiu actually laughed and replied to him word by word, "No, impossible."
Even if she dies, she will never enter the palace as a concubine and submit to him.
It wasn't a matter of love or lack thereof, but rather, for her, it was a humiliation.
Having witnessed the heights of the imperial court, how could someone willingly confine themselves to the inner palace, scheming and plotting against a man?
If she weren't a woman, given her talent, everyone would feel this was an insult to her!
However, if she were not a woman, this incident would not have occurred.
The emperor, however, was not in a hurry, as if playing a game of cat and mouse, knowing that the mice would eventually escape his grasp.
“Miss Meng can take her time to consider this. I can give you time. However, you must know that you have nothing left. Your parents and your family have all betrayed you. Only I can help you.”
Before leaving, he said, "Don't keep me waiting too long."
Meng Jiujiu sneered inwardly. What did he take her for? One of the women in his harem?
Using this method to deal with her?
She will never give in.
But a deep sadness welled up inside her. Having come this far, what did she have left?
He's right, she has nothing.
Family, huh, do they count too?
She needs to keep her distance from everyone, so how can she be friends?
And as for lovers, that goes without saying.
She had nothing left but an empty shell, and she had been sold off.
As for the so-called ideals, they have become nothing but empty talk.
Her identity has been exposed, and she has been imprisoned. How can she return to the court? Would those people allow a woman to return to the court?
The answer is obviously no.
Even though she possessed worldly talents, she could only remain confined to the inner quarters of the house.
Look, isn't this emperor just trying to take her into his harem? Shouldn't she be grateful to tears?
Meng Jiujiu cleared up all her thoughts.
In the end, it was nothing more than a transaction: to exchange her for the Meng family's supreme glory.
But what if she dies?
Given the Emperor's temperament, having schemed so much yet gained nothing, he would surely be furious.
The Meng family will surely suffer a loss; having lost even her, their only promising member, the Meng family is now truly finished.
And this is the best revenge against them.
"Clang!" The jailer who brought the food was so frightened by the scene that he dropped the bowl. He had been instructed to take good care of this former Lord Meng and not to neglect him.
But now, can he still keep his head?
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