The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 460: complete
Chapter 460 Accomplishment
Dong Tingzhen’s throat rolled over: “My cousin can even go to the battlefield like men. Even though she is a girl… she is still famous among the nations and has become a brave general that is feared by all the nations. This is something that many men want to do but cannot do! I really envy her. My cousin can make decisions for her own life and control her own direction!”
When Dong Tingzhen was a child, she went to the Bai Mansion and saw Bai Qingyan and the King of Zhenguo, Bai Weiting, competing in the yard using bamboo as swords. After coming back, she also used the bamboo to compete, but was scolded by her mother. She wanted to ride a horse… but her mother forced her to learn embroidery. She wanted to practice martial arts but her mother forced her to learn to play the piano.
She has never made a decision for her life.
Even before Prince Liang showed up, she thought her life would be… to master the arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, learn how to manage household chores from her mother, then get married and have children, learn how to get along between her husband and her parents-in-law, and learn how to control her husband’s concubines.
This… is probably the life of most women in the Great Jin State.
Dong Tingzhen smiled and wiped her tears with a handkerchief: “I have already chosen this path, so if I don’t go… how do I know whether this path is right or wrong? Maybe… King Liang is an ambitious person, he is plotting for that high position, maybe King Liang’s cowardice and incompetence are all what he wants others to see, but I haven’t seen these things myself, I will never know!”
Dong Tingzhen stood up and bowed to Bai Qingyan: “If the King of Liang married me for the sake of our friendship, then I won! If he married me to get the support of my second uncle, the governor, and my cousin, the fierce general of Jin, then I will not let him have his way! The Dong family… has always been sincere to others, and I will treat them with sincerity! If someone betrays me, I will perish together with him!”
“Your parents raised you like a pearl, just to destroy you and that inferior creature?!” Bai Qingyan couldn’t control his anger and raised his voice, “Ting Zhen, what I said today can’t stop you from marrying the King of Liang?”
Dong Tingzhen gritted her teeth and said, “Cousin, please indulge me this time! Please don’t tell my parents about this. Otherwise, even if it comes to the emperor, I will only admit that I have secretly married the prince of Liang. By then, the reputation of the women of the Dong family will be affected. I don’t want to go to this step!”
Bai Qingyan clenched his fists, feeling powerless. Even if King Liang was holding Dong Tingzhen’s personal longevity lock, Bai Qingyan could find a way to get it back as long as he could convince Dong Tingzhen.
But if Dong Tingzhen insisted on marrying King Liang, she would be unable to use any of her tricks.
I just hope that the prince can come to the palace and stop it.
She clenched her fist and then unclenched it, calming down and saying, “It won’t be a case of both sides being destroyed! The emperor won’t be so reckless as to grant you a marriage after seeing your safety lock. Your uncle is not an unenlightened person. If you really must have the King of Liang, you can get engaged first. After a year or two, if you still feel that the King of Liang is a good man and can be trusted, then you can marry him! If you find that the King of Liang is not sincere to you but is using you, you can cut the Gordian knot! Ting Zhen… if you degrade your own life just for one act of willfulness, it is the most unworthy thing! Moreover, if you have a child after marriage, do you want the child to watch your parents perish together?”
Since it is impossible to persuade Dong Tingzhen to give up the idea, let Dong Tingzhen confess to her uncle so that her uncle can be prepared.
Even if we cannot stop Dong Tingzhen from marrying King Liang in the end, the worst result is just the engagement, so there is still room for maneuver.
Prince Liang is eager to get that position, but he has never sat on the throne of the crown prince. The emperor is now taking elixirs… Once something happens, the crown prince will ascend the throne. How can Prince Liang not be anxious?
Urgent… the most likely to cause chaos.
“You’re not willing to wait for one or two years?” Bai Qingyan asked again.
Dong Tingzhen shook her head, thought for a moment, and nodded: “I will go find my father and mother right away! Cousin… can you go with me?”
Dong Tingzhen twisted her handkerchief, feeling a little scared.
“Okay!” Bai Qingyan nodded.
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Prince Liang entered the palace and anxiously asked to see the emperor. The emperor, who was listening to Concubine Qiu playing the piano, thought something big had happened.
Who would have known that Prince Liang knelt before the emperor, tearfully telling how he had mistaken Bai Qingyan for the girl he loved in childhood, and that was why he asked to marry Bai Qingyan. Now he had found the girl who had wiped his face with a handkerchief without disliking his dirtiness, but before he could report this to the emperor… and ask the emperor to grant the marriage, the girl was spotted by Imperial Tutor Chen… and the retired wife of the emperor’s tutor, Mrs. Tan Laojun, had been invited to propose marriage for Chen Zhaolu.
When the emperor heard this, he immediately became interested and said, “You’ve been crying for a long time, but I still don’t understand… Whose girl is this?”
“My father… this is the legitimate daughter of Mr. Dong, the Minister of the Honglu Temple, Dong Tingzhen!” Prince Liang hurriedly took out Dong Tingzhen’s personal longevity lock and held it high above his head. “This is Tingzhen’s longevity lock. Tingzhen gave it to me because she was afraid that my father would not believe that we were in love. I beg you to make the decision for me! I will not marry anyone else but Tingzhen in this life! Please, father!”
King Liang kowtowed heavily.
Concubine Qiu, who was standing beside the emperor, sniffed twice at the right time and wiped her eyes with her handkerchief: “Your Majesty, the love between Prince Liang and Miss Dong is so deep that it makes me feel deeply moved. Why don’t you help this pair of lovers to be together?”
The emperor looked at his son, who had always been cowardly, and saw that he could actually come to him for a woman. He squinted his eyes and leaned on the pillow embroidered with dragons and asked, “You and this Miss Dong…did you have physical contact?”
“No, no! Absolutely not!” Prince Liang knelt down and kowtowed in fear. “Father, Ting Zhen is a very polite girl. The reason why Ting Zhen gave her longevity lock to me this time is because I made a mistake in identifying the Princess Zhenguo before, and she was afraid that Father would not believe that we love each other, so she gave me this! Please understand Father!”
“Your Majesty!” Concubine Qiu tugged at the emperor’s sleeve like a spoiled child. “Look how scared you are of His Royal Highness Prince Liang! This shows… His Royal Highness Prince Liang really loves Miss Dong! Your Majesty, why don’t you help His Royal Highness Prince Liang!”
“Father, I am afraid of everything in my life! I hide from everything! But…when it comes to Father and my brothers, I seem to have great courage. Now I feel the same way towards Ting Zhen. I am lucky to have found Ting Zhen. Ting Zhen does not despise me for my incompetence or for being a waste…”
“What nonsense! You are my son… who dares to despise you for being a waste!” The emperor was annoyed by Prince Liang calling himself a waste.
Prince Liang is his son. Even if he is a waste, as the emperor, he can still say that no one dares to despise his son!
“Father…” Prince Liang raised his head and looked in the direction of the emperor, tears streaming down his face. “Those people don’t say it, but they all think so in their hearts!”
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