This is the reason why Shen Yingruo was distracted and lonely. His Majesty is just His Majesty after all.
His Majesty asked her to make a choice: to be as strong as her elder sister and just be a daughter of the Shen family in the future, or to be grateful for His Majesty's care over the years and be his caring and sensible niece.
"County Princess..." Tan moved her lips, but she didn't know how to comfort her. In fact, Shen Yingruo understood everything, and now it was a dilemma.
"Nurse, do you know that night when I went to look for my father, my elder sister told me that I was both my father's daughter and His Majesty's niece, and that my father would not treat me well because he did not want me to be caught in a dilemma. This was the only thing he could do for me as a father." Shen Yingruo raised her head and looked out the window, her eyes somewhat dim and lifeless. "At that time, I naively thought that I could really have the best of both worlds..."
With a low self-deprecating laugh, Shen Yingruo said bitterly, "Sure enough, there is no such thing as good things in this world for no reason."
"County Lady, you..." Tan's eyebrows jumped, "You want to..."
Shen Yingruo folded the letter and threw it into the brazier: "Your Majesty, I should repay your kindness."
"County Lady!" Tan raised her voice, then realized she had lost her composure, and whispered again, "Do you know that if you marry Prince Xun, you will be..."
"So it changed from Shen's to Xiao Shen's?" Shen Yingluo lowered her eyes and watched the flames engulf the letter paper. "Isn't my eldest sister also Xiao Shen's?"
"This..." Tan moved her lips, not knowing what to say. The Crown Princess marrying the Crown Prince was her own choice, and it was also the inevitable result of the entanglement between Xibei and His Majesty. Regardless of the Shen family's selfishness or His Majesty's selfishness, it was inevitable for the Crown Princess to marry into the royal family, but Shen Yingruo had a choice.
"I know that my elder sister is marrying for the Shen family." Shen Yingruo raised her head and looked at Tan again, "Nurse, before I met my elder sister, I was still a girl who was ignorant of the world and wanted to get married. But later, when my elder sister came to Beijing, I thought she would be unwilling, she would be angry, and she would vent unscrupulously about the injustice of fate to her.
Later I found out that I was wrong, she was so calm, wise and decisive. She was the eldest daughter of aristocratic families who put the family first, while I only thought about gorgeous clothes, gold hairpins, jade and gold, poetry and songs, and young girls.
Now that I think about it, I am really a little girl. Is love between a man and a woman really that important? Is it worth my whole life to pursue, plan, and scheme for? Even if I can't be as ambitious as my elder sister, why can't I do something else? No matter how long or short my life is, at the last moment, when I look back, I can be proud that I have not wasted my life? "
"County Lady, don't act impulsively." Tan sensed some of Shen Yingruo's thoughts and was a little frightened.
"I am very sober now." Shen Yingruo's eyes gradually became firm, "It doesn't matter who I marry. His Highness Prince Xun is a young and heroic man, both civil and military, and he is the best choice in the hearts of the girls in Kyoto. Not to mention those far away, didn't the second lady of Pingyao Marquis' Mansion also put a lot of thought into it?"
How could Shen Yingruo not see what Yu Sangning was thinking
She was just bored and someone came to please her, to cheer her up and tell her some interesting things about the outside world. She had no interest in Xiao Changfeng and was happy to see Yu Sangning jumping up and down.
"Marriage is a lifetime thing, and you always have to find a lover..."