The fate was changed, the mistress of the Hou family was slapped in the face and made money to win

Chapter 682: Survival in Desperate Situation

Jiang Suining was wearing a female official's robe, and the green umbrella in her hand was slightly tilted towards Xiao Yue.

"Princess, the spring rain is still cold, be careful not to get sick."

"Sick?" Xiao Yue laughed. "Why should I be afraid of getting sick? If getting sick means I can avoid marrying to Xilin and marrying the old emperor of Xilin, I would rather get seriously ill!"

It’s just a pity that according to what Emperor Xiao meant today, even if I am sick, I still have to get married, and there is no room for maneuver!

"Since Princess knows this clearly, she should take good care of herself. After all, even if you are sick, it won't bring you the results you want." Jiang Suining's tone was calm, with almost no emotional ups and downs.

Xiao Yue looked up at her, water droplets dripping down her wet hair, and asked again: "Jiang Suining, are you also laughing at me in your heart?"

I have been struggling for so long and ended up with such a result. Now in the harem, I am afraid that there are countless people who are laughing at me, openly or secretly.

Jiang Suining looked at Xiao Yue and shook his head, "I did not laugh at the princess."

It's just a simple sentence, without too much explanation or guarantee, but it makes people want to believe it involuntarily.

Xiao Yue lowered her eyes, feeling bitter, "Yes, you may not have laughed at me. To you, you may not have taken me seriously at all. If you didn't want to use me to promote the female official, you probably wouldn't have helped me to become famous. Now I'm a princess who is about to get married, I'm not worth your attention at all, how could you waste your energy to laugh at me."

Not sure if it was because of the rain or because of the chill in her heart, Xiao Yue felt as if she was in a world of ice and snow, with cold wind whistling in every pore of her body.

"I was too naive. I thought I could do something great and change the fate of those women. But in the end, I found out that I couldn't even control my own destiny."

Jiang Suining's tone slowed down a bit, and he began to persuade her: "Princess, marriage is not a dead end."

"But for me, it is a great humiliation. I am going to marry an old man whom I have never met and who has a group of concubines. If it were you, could you accept it?" Xiao Yue said excitedly.

Jiang Suining looked at her calmly, "If this is the only way left, then I will accept it."

"Stop making sarcastic remarks here, you..."

Xiao Yue raised her head and glared at Jiang Suining, but when she met Jiang Suining's gaze, she couldn't say anything else. After a long while, she gritted her teeth and said.

"Jiang Suining, I don't believe you. You are not someone who will accept your fate."

"When there is no other way out, even if you marry, it does not mean you have to accept your fate. After all, as long as you are still alive, there is a chance of turning things around. Moreover, princess, you might as well look outward. There are eight out of ten things in this world that are not what you want. How many people can live completely according to their own wishes? The vast majority of people, especially the vast majority of women, are struggling to survive in the predicament of having no other way out, and trying to earn a way out for themselves."

Xiao Yue thought that it was a humiliation for her to marry the older Emperor Xilin, but how many women in the world were forced to marry by their parents and relatives.

Those who married the superiors as concubines for the sake of family interests were not the most miserable. There were also countless people who were sold to other families as child brides for a few hundred yuan, or even forced into prostitution, and sold by their families into prostitution.

She always felt that Xiao Yue had an extremely strong sense of contradiction.

Although he was in the royal family, he talked about equality all the time and wanted to change the situation of women in the world.

Although he wants to change the situation of women in the world, he seems to have never truly empathized with women in the world.

She could not really understand the situation of women, and all her sympathy seemed to be empty. But at the same time, she had truly shown equality and concern, which was a heartfelt recognition that women should not be oppressed.

So there was a moment when she even had the absurd thought, is Xiao Yue really a person of their era?

Coming back to his senses, Jiang Suining suppressed all the speculations in his mind and continued to speak to Xiao Yue.

"Princess, I don't know why you had the idea of ​​changing the situation of women before, and I don't know why you have such a strong sense of being out of tune with the people around you. But what you have now is what countless women dream of. What you hate may also be what countless people are trying their best to get. Maybe for you, the current situation is already difficult and hard, but it is by no means a dead end. Instead of complaining and blaming others here and being upset, you might as well find a way to change it."

Xiao Yue stared at Jiang Suining in a daze, her lips moving slightly, and after a long while she asked a question.

“Can it really be changed?”

Jiang Suining smiled and said word by word: "Even if you are at a dead end, there are still people who can survive. What's more, the princess is not at a desperate situation yet."

At the horizon, the clouds were blown away by the wind, and the dense raindrops just now gradually became drizzles and smaller.

Xiao Yue and Jiang Suining held an umbrella together and walked back to their own bedroom step by step.

Standing at the door of the bedroom, Xiao Yue turned around and looked back at Jiang Suining.

"Thank you for today..."

"Princess, you are welcome. I will take my leave."

The rain had completely stopped. Jiang Suining put away the umbrella in his hand and turned to leave.

Xiao Yue stood there alone for a long time. After a while, hope rekindled in her eyes. She turned around and walked into the bedroom.

……

On the other side, in the post house where Xilin Kingdom was located.

Murong Yu stood by the window, looking at the streets of the imperial city which were still shrouded in rain and fog even though the rain had stopped, and spoke without any expression.

"There's no need to rush to send a message back to Xilin about the marriage. Let's wait and see."

"Your Highness, do you think there will be any changes in this matter?" asked the guard behind him puzzledly.

As for the marriage, the Beiyang Kingdom has already agreed, and there shouldn't be any changes.

"Whether there are any changes, we will know naturally later. This Beiyang Imperial City is very lively. It's not easy to come here, it might not be a bad idea for us to stay a little longer."

The guard heard this and said nothing more. He just asked hesitantly, "Your Highness, if the other adults ask whether to pass on the message..."

"Then tell them that I have personally written a letter and sent it back to Xilin."

"Yes, I obey."

"And..." Murong Yu turned to look at the guard, smiled gently, his brows sparkling, "Go prepare a gift, this prince wants to visit Shen Yanxi."