Chapter 3 - I Have Every Reason to Choose You (2/2)
Hua Qingxin muttered something to herself by looking to the mirror, “Why… I should have become the wife of Prince Yun Hai…”
She would have married Yun Hai, the sixth prince, but for the sudden trouble befalling her mother, and her elder sister’s mother became the wife of her father.
Hua Qingxin had been the daughter of the first wife of her father for 16 years in the Mansion of the Prime Minister. But she lost everything in a second…
Seeing that her lady was so desperate, Maid Meng felt so sorry for her but there was nothing she could do.
There was a saying that family members of emperors were the most ruthless. Brothers could kill each other for the throne, and they would never give up power and influence for a woman. A prince had to marry the daughter of the first wife of the Prime Minister to get him roped in…
Hua Qingxin knew the principle but refused to believe it.
She thought Prince Yun Hai was an exception.
Maid Meng folded up the quilt and reminded her, “Do not be sad, Beauty. Today is the first day for your conferment. What’s more, you are the only imperial concubine selected this time, and the emperor may stay overnight here with you.”
Ah!?
Hua Qingxin was astonished, and refused immediately, “No!”
“I do not want to be the woman of the emperor. I’m the girl of Prince Yun Hai…” By saying so, she covered her neckline and walked up and down in the room, “What shall I do? What shall I do…?”
Suddenly, she had an idea, “Well, I’m going to the Imperial Garden. If the emperor comes here, you just tell him that I have gone to the Imperial Garden and ask him not to wait for me.”
By saying so, she was running out.
Maid Meng stopped her immediately, “Beauty, I do not know when the emperor will come here. How long will you have to wait if you go to the Imperial Garden now?”
“Right.” Hua Qingxin suddenly turned back.
Maid Meng thought Beauty Hua had given up the poor idea. But then she saw her lady picking up her quilt and pillow and rushing out, “I’ll stay overnight in the Imperial Garden.”
“What!?”
Yun Cang put down the writing brush and stretched himself.
Seeing that it was late, Eunuch Ling could not help reminding the emperor, “Your majesty, you have just conferred a Beauty today. Would you…”
“No.” Yun Cang refused. “Both the Beauty and the military leadership of Prince Yun Hai shall be taken slowly. Haste makes waste.”
“Oh.” Eunuch Ling thought for a while, “Then where do you stay tonight, your majesty?”
Yun Cang stood up and stretched his muscles and bones, “Let’s take a walk in the Imperial Garden first and see where this walk will take us to.”
“All right, your majesty!”