Chapter 42: The Crown Prince's Women
Minister Sun frowned. "Why do you care about these things?"
Sun Jiaojiao coughed. "Daughter is not cut out for harem infighting. Such a complicated backyard... I can't handle it."
In truth, it wasn't that she minded the Crown Prince having three wives and four concubines. It was that she was worried that once the fight for favor started, her head would be on the line every other day.
She was not willing to enter a den of women.
Unexpectedly, Minister Sun stroked his beard and said gravely, "No one can figure out His Highness the Crown Prince's thoughts. These past few years, the women of the inner palace have been watching him like tigers. The Empress Dowager, the Empress, the Imperial Consort... none of them have been idle. They've all tried to stuff women on His Highness the Crown Prince..."
Before Minister Sun could finish, Sun Jiaojiao anxiously cut him off. "Did he accept them all?"
Minister Sun saw her childish heart laid bare and shot her a glare. "Look at you, so anxious. You haven't even entered his gates, and you're already worrying about the Crown Prince's backyard? So uncomposed. How can you be the Crown Princess?"
Sun Jiaojiao sheepishly shut her mouth.
Only then did Minister Sun continue unhurriedly, "His Highness the Crown Prince is not weak like the Emperor. Those women sent by the wolves and tigers... how could he accept them? Not a single one even made it through the gates of the Crown Prince's Residence before being sent right back."
"He's not afraid of offending people?"
That's not how it worked in the TV dramas! Weren't the women of the inner palace people you couldn't afford to offend? Weren't they all ruthless characters?
"His Highness the Crown Prince is a smart man. He used the excuse that he is at war all year round, and it would be inconvenient to have too many beauties in his residence, to return the goods. In truth, was he afraid of inconvenience? He was afraid his own Crown Prince's Residence would fall into the hands of the inner palace factions. That would be a true disaster."
"He's not stupid." Sun Jiaojiao was delighted to hear this.
The Crown Prince was at war all year round, and there were no women in his backyard... In that case, marrying him wasn't impossible.
You should have said so earlier! If you'd said so earlier, she wouldn't have gone to all the trouble of annulling the engagement.
"The Emperor has more than twenty sons. His Highness the Crown Prince, who was able to secure his position through military merit, making all his brothers submit, and giving those masters in the inner palace no fault to find... how could he possibly be stupid?"
"Father." Sun Jiaojiao thought of His Highness the Crown Prince's satisfactory performance in bed last night, and of his attitude, which had changed from arrogant to gentle. Her heart stirred. "What's done is done. Let's just... leave it at this. The Emperor can disregard the past and bestow the marriage a second time. But we... we can't go and annul it a second time. That would be too much of an insult to the imperial family's honor."
"Honor is not important. Marriage is a matter of a lifetime. Father asks you... you have seen the Crown Prince. Are you truly willing to marry him?"
Sun Jiaojiao blushed. "Daughter is willing."
His Highness the Crown Prince had a big dick and good skills, and he had no women in his backyard to fight with her for favor. Why wouldn't she be willing?
Besides, there was still half a year before the wedding. She could very well spend half a year living it up, and then rein in her heart and obediently marry into the Crown Prince's Residence to be his Crown Princess. No matter how she looked at it, this was not a losing deal.
Just as the father and daughter were speaking intimately, a servant suddenly rushed in to report:
"Minister, His Highness the Crown Prince is visiting. He says he has an important matter to discuss."
Minister Sun and Sun Jiaojiao stared at each other. The imperial edict had just left on the front foot, and His Highness the Crown Prince had arrived at the Minister's Residence on the back foot, with an "important matter to discuss." What on earth was going on?
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