Chapter 74 Long Live Your Majesty 10 The Land is So Beautiful
Qi Min had been very tolerant of Liu Yizhou before because her status as a princess did not give her much of a sense of power; she needed a medium to demonstrate her ambitions.
But now that she can personally grasp power, she finds Liu Yizhou utterly displeasing.
Especially since she had previously witnessed how obsequious Liu Yizhou was to the deposed Crown Prince Qi Zhen, but when facing her, he was aloof and unapproachable.
Qi Min's gaze deepened, and her tone hardened: "How dare you, Liu Yizhou, speak to me like this? How dare you be so disrespectful and offend the princess's dignity?"
Upon seeing this, Chunhong Liulv Taoqing immediately called for the guards to come in.
"Someone come here!"
The princess's guards quickly rushed in, drawing their swords and pointing them at Liu Yizhou.
Liu Yizhou never expected that Qi Min, who had previously pursued him so passionately, would treat him like this. His face instantly darkened, and he stared intently at Qi Min.
"Your Highness, is this how you treat me?"
The person who barged into his mansion this morning, begging him to marry her, was Qi Min. Now, the person who came to his door, trying to show off her power, is also Qi Min.
What kind of person does she see herself as?
Seeing Liu Yizhou's burning anger, Qi Min became somewhat interested. She wondered whether Liu Yizhou would continue to put on airs in front of her as before, or whether he would bow down to her...
"This is how I treat you, what can you do about it?"
Liu Yizhou's face instantly turned a deep liver color.
He flicked his sleeve and turned to leave, but the guards immediately stopped him and refused to let him go.
Qi Min's voice came from behind Liu Yizhou.
"Liu Yizhou, did I say you could leave?"
The atmosphere in the hall instantly became tense. Qi Min saw Liu Yizhou's hands, hanging by his sides, clench tightly. He stood there with his back straight, not moving for a long time.
Qi Min clicked his tongue: "Chunhong, what is the punishment for disrespecting the princess?"
Chunhong answered crisply, "Your Highness, disrespecting the princess is punishable by thirty strokes of the cane and ten days of detention, according to the laws of the Daqing Dynasty."
Liu Yizhou could no longer bear it and suddenly turned around to look at Qi Min.
“Your Highness, since you are so determined to humiliate me, then I will kneel before you.”
As he spoke, Liu Yizhou's knees buckled and he knelt down, bowing to Qi Min according to current etiquette.
"Your humble servant Liu Yizhou greets Your Highness the Fifth Princess. May Your Highness live a thousand years!"
The moment he knelt down, Liu Yizhou felt utterly humiliated. His head pressed against the cold ground, and his hatred for Qi Min reached its peak.
She kept saying she loved him, admired his talent, and wanted to make him her husband, but she turned out to be such a bullying person, humiliating him like this just because she was a princess. How awful!
【Well done, Qi Min! I, Liu Yizhou, will never forget this humiliation. If I ever have the chance, I will repay you a thousandfold!】
After Qi Min saw Liu Yizhou kneel down before him, all the radiance that had previously surrounded him vanished completely.
If he were still as upright and unyielding as before, and no matter how much she tried to suppress him, he would never kneel before her, Qi Min might still think more highly of Liu Yizhou.
Just as Qi Min was lamenting that she had been so blinded by greed in the past, she suddenly heard some strange noises.
The voice sounded somewhat like Liu Yizhou's, but it was also slightly different from his own voice.
I'm not sure, I'll think about it some more.
Qi Min's gaze fell on Liu Yizhou, who was kneeling on the ground: "Liu Yizhou, what did you say?"
Liu Yizhou straightened his back, but did not look at Qi Min. Instead, he said indifferently, "Your Highness, I come from a humble background and only want to use my skills to serve the court. I have no time to play around with Your Highness. Please forgive me."
But at the same time, Qi Min heard Liu Yizhou's voice again.
Qi Min, how dare you humiliate me like this? If I didn't need your help, why would I have to be so humble?
[Qi Min, what a fine Qi Min you are! You are treacherous, cunning, domineering, and ruthless. Now you've stopped pretending and revealed your true colors.]
If I ever gain power, I will surely tear you to pieces to avenge this humiliation.
Now Qi Min was certain that what he heard was Liu Yizhou's true feelings.
She humiliated him?
Qi Min found it both ironic and funny.
When Liu Yizhou respectfully bowed to the deposed crown prince, she didn't feel that he was being humiliated. She was the fifth princess and the future crown prince, but he felt that making him kneel and bow to her was an insult to him.
What kind of logic is this?
She had liked him and had feelings for him in the past, which was why she had tolerated his lack of courtesy in front of her. Now, she was only reminding him of his duty as a subject, yet he dared to speak ill of her in his heart.
Do you want to tear her to pieces?
In that instant, Qi Min's goodwill towards Liu Yizhou vanished completely; she had no idea why she had overheard Liu Yizhou's inner thoughts.
However, it was clear that this was a golden finger that Heaven had given her because it didn't want her to be deceived by a scumbag. She wanted to see what Liu Yizhou wanted from her, which was why he had 'condescended' to come and find her.
"Speak, what business do you have with me?"
Qi Min did not let Liu Yizhou get up. Of course, Liu Yizhou cursed Qi Min in his heart again, imagining how to torture Qi Min with all kinds of cruel methods.
After hearing his innermost thoughts, Qi Min felt that even his handsome face had become repulsive.
Qi Min picked up his teacup and took a sip, waiting for Liu Yizhou to explain why he had come despite suffering such a great 'humiliation'.
Then, she heard Liu Yizhou say that a fellow villager was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison and that he wanted to go in to see her, but in his heart he was thinking of tricking her into sending him to the Heavenly Prison so that he could rescue the woman he longed for.
Swallow?
At first, Qi Min didn't know who Yan'er, whom Liu Yizhou was so fond of, was. It wasn't until the deposed Crown Prince Qi Zhen appeared in Liu Yizhou's inner monologue that she realized who the so-called Yan'er was.
Pei Yan, the Emperor's concubine, was also the woman who dared to have an affair with the deposed Crown Prince and was caught in bed with him by the Emperor.
Qi Min felt both disgusted and amused.
Liu Yizhou looked down on her in every way, but in the end, he cherished a woman who had become his father's concubine but had an affair with the deposed crown prince.
It seems his taste wasn't in a pampered princess like her, but rather in a promiscuous, lowly woman.
He even went so far as to drag that slut down with him, doing everything he could to keep her safe.
What a fine Liu Yizhou, what a fine Lord Liu! All her past sincerity has been wasted.
You can't lie about what's in your heart. Listening to Liu Yizhou's disgusting and despicable remarks any longer would be an insult to her ears.
Qi Min was too lazy to waste words with Liu Yizhou, so he ordered his men to break all his arms and legs and throw him into the prison.
"Liu Yizhou, do you take me for a fool? If you want to see your little lover, then go see your little lover in the imperial prison!"
Without saying another word, Qi Min ordered the guards to take action.
Liu Yizhou was unaware that Qi Min had overheard his thoughts. Seeing the guards rushing forward, Liu Yizhou panicked and immediately shouted at Qi Min.
However, Qi Min was unwilling to say anything more to him and simply turned and left.
Liu Yizhou's screams were drowned out by the sound of the guards breaking his legs.
Qi Min returned to his palace, still feeling unsatisfied, and ordered Chun Hong to take people to retrieve all the houses and other things he had previously given to Liu Yizhou.
"Since you look down on me so much and think I'm forcing you to do things against your will, then why do you keep using my things to act like a big shot?"
When Qi Min was pursuing Liu Yizhou, she didn't just talk about love. She showered him with money and gifts. The large mansion Liu Yizhou lived in and the maids and servants he served were all gifts from Qi Min.
Liu Yizhou looked down on Qi Min in every way, thinking that Qi Min was humiliating him, but when it came to using Qi Min's things, he was ruthless.
For him, emotions are separate from things like people and money; things are meant to be taken, but people are meant to be discarded.
He's not even as good as those brothels in the government office; at least those brothels would humbly coax the ancestor who delivered the money after they'd taken it.
Thinking about her past actions, Qi Min felt like she had lost her mind. She took a deep breath and instructed Chun Hong to do as she was told.
"Yes, Your Highness, please rest assured, this servant will handle it properly."
In fact, Chunhong had long disliked Liu Yizhou. That pretty boy only relied on his good looks and a little talent to treat their princess with disrespect, forcing their princess to fawn over him.
He doesn't even know his place. The fact that their princess would even look at him is a testament to his incredible good fortune.
He could either firmly refuse the princess, not accepting even a little bit of her kindness, to show his absolute determination not to marry her.
As a result, while he accepted the princess's kindness, he also gave her the cold shoulder.
The princess had a good temper and cared about him, which is why she didn't punish him. But he just took advantage of her kindness.
Now that the princess has seen through Liu Yizhou's true colors, she has completely abandoned him, and leaving him to fend for himself won't cause any trouble.
So what if you're the top scorer?
The top scholar is chosen every three years. If the princess really likes the top scholar, she can choose another one after three years.
Surely not all men in this world are like Liu Yizhou, the kind who get the benefits and then act innocent.
Chunhong left Liulu and Taoqing to serve the princess in the mansion, while she herself took a group of guards and went to the residence that the princess had given to Liu Yizhou.
Fortunately, Her Highness the Princess had already seen through Liu Yizhou's true colors. The land deeds for his residence and the indentures of the servants in the courtyard were all in the Princess's hands. Taking them back would be an extremely simple matter.
Everything the princess gave them was taken back, and naturally, all the dirty and smelly things from Liu Yizhou were thrown away.
Liu Yizhou's widowed mother used to be incredibly arrogant in front of the princess, acting all high and mighty, just like that vile Liu Yizhou.
Now that the princess no longer cares about Liu Yizhou, Liu Yizhou's mother naturally doesn't care either. She cries and begs for her own house.
However, when faced with the sword drawn by the princess's guards, Liu Yizhou's mother immediately fell silent and dared not make any more trouble.
"Madam Liu, our Highness previously admired Liu Yizhou, which is why he was willing to give you some face. But now that Liu Yizhou has offended our Highness, we will naturally take back everything our Highness gave you. If you feel wronged, you are welcome to go to the palace gate to file a complaint with the Emperor."
Liu Yizhou's mother collapsed to the ground, her expression dazed.
The reason she was so arrogant and domineering before was because she was certain that the princess favored Liu Yizhou. The princess was willing to lower herself to pursue Liu Yizhou and do everything she could to please her, which made Liu Yizhou's mother forget her own identity.
Now that the princess has taken back everything she gave, she finally realizes that without everything the princess gave them, they are nothing.
Chunhong did not conceal her actions; she swaggered through the city, spreading the news of the princess's break with Liu Yizhou.
Those who used to envy Liu Yizhou are now completely at ease.
Liu Yizhou clearly rose to power thanks to the Fifth Princess, yet he always acts as if it's because of his own abilities, refusing to mention the Fifth Princess's contributions at all.
Now that the Fifth Princess has taken back everything, it has fulfilled Liu Yizhou's wish. He can finally act with dignity and rely entirely on himself.
Rumors and gossip spread everywhere in the capital.
But all of this has nothing to do with Qi Min.
After she had Liu Yizhou thrown into the imperial prison, she finally calmed down.
When she actually saw Liu Yizhou's pathetic state as he was beaten and screaming, all her affection vanished.
Qi Min began to think about what to do next.
Regardless, Liu Yizhou was an official appointed by the imperial court. It was true that he had offended her, and she could just give him a minor punishment as a warning. However, Qi Min couldn't swallow her anger.
Liu Yizhou had already mentally devised all sorts of cruel tortures for her, but he simply didn't have the ability to do so. If Liu Yizhou truly had that ability, once he turned the tables, she would be the one to suffer.
Would Qi Min keep someone who is always plotting against her?
Liu Yizhou may be talented, but the Daqing Dynasty is not lacking in talent. What good is a brilliant scholar who has achieved the highest rank in the imperial examinations? A scholar who has achieved the highest rank in the imperial examinations can be produced every three years.
Even if there is no top scholar, there are still second and third place scholars; the court has plenty of capable people to use.
After calming down, Qi Minzai thought it over carefully and then made up his mind to submit his nameplate to the palace.
Her father gave her three days to think it over.
Although she had already said she was willing, her father still made her think it over.
“Taiping, this path is not easy. You are the first female crown prince in history, and you will be the first empress in the future. The pressure you will face is unimaginable to ordinary people.”
"If you are unwilling, I will not force you."
Qi Min has thought things through very clearly now.
She entered the palace and soon met Qi Wang in the imperial study.
"Father, I have thought it through very clearly. I am willing to be the Crown Prince. The deposed Crown Prince is immoral and has caused a great disaster. If other members of the imperial family are adopted, they will probably worship their own father as their late father after they ascend the throne..."
Qi Min calmly analyzed all the pros and cons, and finally, she said...
"Your subject may be young, but Your Majesty is in your prime. With your guidance, your subject should be able to shoulder great responsibilities."
Qi Wang looked at Qi Min, who had made up his mind, and a look of relief appeared in his eyes.
If someone like Pei Yan can become an empress, why can't the princess he personally raised become an empress?
How could someone be worse than Pei Yan?
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