12dz Chapter 370 Princess Rouan 20
Chapter 370 Princess Rouan 20
Wang Suizhi was consumed by jealousy every day, his heart gnawed away by his inferiority complex.
He wanted to wear a suit that matched her, yet he felt inferior because he could never have that perfect body.
He had seen His Highness casually toss away a jade hairpin with a broken corner.
So, will he, with his imperfections, one day be rejected by the princess and become the hairpin that is thrown away?
What would he do then?
Will it shrink back into the stone skin, or be shattered to pieces?
The unease in his heart was buried beneath a detached expression, but it only took a spark to ignite it.
Ling Yi's seemingly random remark became the spark that ignited his imagination, leading him to openly express his own thoughts.
Ling Yi listened as the person behind her struggled to dissect his inner thoughts, as if he had committed some grave error, telling him all his inferiority and self-abandonment.
She gripped his hand tighter and tighter.
It's somewhat ridiculous, but she had been busy all day without any worldly desires, yet now she was starting to get restless.
Insecurity is a man's best dowry, and also his most alluring quality.
Taking a deep breath and calming her restless thoughts, she looked back at Wang Suizhi's slightly reddened eyes and finally made her first promise to him.
"My heart is like yours, and I will never betray your love." She intertwined her fingers with Wang Suizhi's, their hands clasped together: "If you do not betray me, Wang Suizhi..."
"You will always be my bedmate, and no other prince consort or anyone else will ever enter our world."
This promise weighed a ton, leaving Wang Suizhi stunned for a long time.
After a long while, he slowly pulled Ling Yi into his arms, making sure she couldn't see his expression. His voice was gentle yet firm: "Your Highness, there will be no one else by your side."
Looking at her gentle husband in the mirror, Wang Suizhi saw her own scheming reflected in his watery eyes.
What he just said was very sincere, but there was also a hint of calculation in it.
Wang Suizhi's experiences destined him to be no weak person, and also destined him to not give his tender heart to others to trample on without any defense.
If he had not noticed the princess's affection, if he had not noticed her true feelings, Wang Suizhi would have taken all his thoughts to his grave even in death, and would never let anyone know his humility or have the opportunity to trample on his self-esteem.
But his princess loved him, and he could sense her pity for him.
So he took advantage of her softness and made her make a promise to him.
His Highness's love for him was genuine, but the promises he made were lies.
His Highness is too busy, and her heart is filled with too many things. He must first occupy a small space so that she can forever keep him in her heart.
He gently kissed the princess's hair, his lips filled with tenderness.
His princess made such a promise without any warning, how could he dare to betray her?
The warm touch made Ling Yi, who was awkwardly burying her head in Wang Suizhi's arms, yawn slightly.
After a long day at work, I still have to come back and act. It's just too tiring.
But who told him to be insecure and want a commitment?
Since they're all his stuff anyway, it doesn't matter when I give them to him.
In this game of strategy, both sides used some tricks, but it's unclear whether the final winner will be the one who thinks they've won, or the one who binds the other to a lifetime with a promise.
A promise can instantly ignite a surge in emotional connection.
During that passionate night, their hearts drew closer than ever before, and even the briefest glances between them were filled with the sweetness of honey.
The next morning, Wang Suizhi boarded Ling Yi's carriage, and they headed towards the palace together.
Since dozens of young people couldn't all be crammed into the emperor's bedroom, a separate palace was set up in the front courtyard for them to work in.
When Ling Yi and Wang Suizhi arrived together, there were already more than a dozen young men waiting in the room.
Among these young men, there seemed to be one who was not very sociable.
What is the Imperial Censor, an old man, doing hiding among the young people?
Do you think the emperor wouldn't recognize you, or do you think your gray beard can blend in with that of a young man?
The Imperial Censor looked at Ling Yi with a complicated expression, as his authority included handling memorials to the emperor.
Even when imperial power declined, the emperor might not even see the memorials anymore, as they would all be reviewed and approved by the Three Dukes.
The emperor's sudden establishment of a separate secretariat outside of the Imperial Censorate is undoubtedly a division of his power.
He shouldn't be able to tolerate this kind of thing.
But when he sought an audience with the emperor, he was met not with advice, but with a series of memorials from the emperor.
The summary and comments above deeply pierced the old man's heart.
Before a memorial could enter the palace, it had to be screened. For example, those memorials that were sent in multiples due to the long distance, those that were rejected by the emperor but kept bothering him, and all sorts of useless memorials were all blocked by them.
Even a simple greeting letter that reaches the emperor can have some effect.
After all, His Majesty can't be unfamiliar with even the high-ranking officials on the frontier; it's necessary to occasionally connect with them and chat casually.
After all, politics is politics, and political games are political games. There's no such thing as you issuing a task and everyone unconditionally carrying it out.
It depends on the cooperation of the officials. The Imperial Censor did not think there was anything wrong with his method of division, and in fact, there was nothing wrong with it.
What did Ke Lingyi do?
He reclassified the memorials sent to him into different grades, wrote summaries and comments, and even wrote on the memorial that was sent one after the other to establish a relationship: "I have already liked the first one, old man, why bother writing two? It's too much trouble!"
That's not a polite way to put it.
How many people could possibly provoke the emperor to act rudely?
He could imagine how happy the official must have been when he received the two replies from the emperor.
This is one of the values of the secretariat.
This would save the emperor's energy and allow him to address any shortcomings in what had happened previously.
This could also be something his secretariat was able to do but failed to do.
If you don't seize the power vacuum, someone else will, especially since this is newly developed vacant land.
Therefore, although he was somewhat angry because his power had been diminished, he wasn't that angry.
He was just a little puzzled as to how this princess, who had been unknown in the past and had nothing but the emperor's favor, could be so clever and think of getting involved in the power struggle.
In particular, it fell into his hands as soon as he got involved.
"Gao Gong?"
Ling Yi waited for a long time, but the old man who had been staring at him didn't say anything. Instead, the young men who arrived later were frightened by his strange gaze and dared not enter the room.
The old man came to his senses after being called by Lingyi.