With just a few words, he completely denied the value that patriarchy has given to women. It is simply heresy!
Because in today's world, women are dependent on men. Women, who are tightly bound by the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues" and "Female Training and Female Discipline", have become vassals of patriarchal society. How can they have equal status? How can they deserve equal status
Mu Lin understood this. She couldn't completely change herself in this life, but she would still try her best to fight for it.
Compared to being a mortal, she still prefers to cultivate immortality, not being dependent or soft, and taking steady steps, trying her best to control the illusory fate in her own hands. In the underworld, the immortal world, and even the five realms including demons and gods, strength is respected, and there is no difference between men and women.
Take Lianyou Xianjun for example, a typical example of someone who relies on her beauty to commit crimes. She has many predecessors in the fairy world, and still has no fixed fairy partner. Some male fairies criticize her for being frivolous, while female fairies despise her for being unfaithful. But in public, everyone has to respectfully address her as Lianyou Xianjun.
Because she is the most powerful female fairy in the entire fairy world except for the Fairy Queen, and she is the master of Lu Mengze, who is in charge of the dreams of all mortals in the world.
Qin Zishu fell silent after hearing her powerful words. He had ten thousand reasons to criticize and refute her, but he knew that this would not shake her ideas.
He never thought that she would be such a rebellious woman. No, in fact, he should have thought that since she disguised herself as a man to study in a men's college, she would not be content with the fate of being a weak and dependent woman.
Likewise, she would not be willing to depend on him.
Really, I feel inexplicably depressed.
"Yizhen, if you were a woman, what kind of husband would you want to find?"
At this moment, Mu Lin suspected that her gender had been exposed. Seeing Qin Zishu's calm and natural expression, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She said casually, "Like my cousin."
Qin Zishu: “…”
As a member of the royal family of the Great Qin, he was quite familiar with the nobles of the other two empires. Tan Yizhen had only one cousin - the current Emperor Ming of Jingsheng, Tan Xun.
In his opinion, all the emperors of Jingsheng were sick. Take the current emperor Tan Xun as an example, all of them were infatuated with each other in the world of emperors.
Those who are the rulers of a country almost never have a large harem or many children. Not only are their children few, but they also have very few daughters. Therefore, they all love their daughters to death.
In fact, he had always guessed that the "Tan Yizhen" in front of him was Emperor Jingming's eldest daughter, Princess Jingxuan, Tan Yining.
Princess Jingxuan is the first legitimate princess in Jingsheng's history to be titled after the country's name. Although she has never appeared in public, she is well-known among all countries. Her favor is enough to make any other princess envious.
Qin Zishu and his staff analyzed and suspected that Emperor Jingming might be planning to train his daughter to be a princess.
He ate and lived with her every day, not just because he had romantic feelings for her, but because he kept observing and guessing, and combined the information collected by the spies in Jingsheng to guess her identity.
The education she received was indeed the best in the royal family, which was something that Prince Yan's second son, "Tan Yizhen", would never have access to, not to mention that Tan Yizhen had died long ago.
Qin Zishu had just returned to Daqin when he received news from Jingsheng that the two spies he sent had "disappeared" in Jingsheng's capital, as if they had never existed.
Being able to quietly kill two top-level secret agents carefully trained by the Qin Dynasty in Kyoto was not something that Prince Yan could do, otherwise Emperor Jingming would have doubted the loyalty of his cousin.
Who will make the move? The answer is obvious.
Because the only royal girl who is old enough to be taken seriously is Princess Jingxuan.
She is also the only bloodline of Emperor Jingming, a healthier bloodline than the little prince, and is likely to hold power in the future.
Tsk, he would rather her status was lower.
It is much more difficult to kidnap the daughter of Emperor Jingming than to kidnap the daughter of a clan relative.
Mu Lin saw that Qin Zishu was not going to sleep, and she was not sleepy either, so she simply sat up and chatted with him.
"Brother, do you think that the attitudes of our Jingsheng emperors towards love are... very special?"
Qin Zishu: “…” What an accurate guess.
Mu Lin understood from his expression and said with a smile: "Let me tell you a story too."
"I'm all ears."
"The name of the story is 'The Curse of the Founding Queen'."
Mu Lin said slowly: "In a chaotic world with wars, droughts, wars everywhere, warlord separatism, and people's livelihood, a young man named Tan Ying, who thought he was extremely intelligent and wanted to make a big career, came down the mountain.
Unfortunately, he was born a commoner and penniless, so it was not easy to start a rebellion. Tan Ying served in the army for three years, and with his martial arts and strategies, he became a grain escort officer. At this time, his encounter with a girl became a turning point in his life...
Miss Shen is the eldest daughter of the general who guards Qingzhou. She fell in love with Tan Ying at first sight and was determined to marry him. The general's family was open-minded. After several tests, they saw that this young man was a man of great talent. Not only did they promise their eldest daughter to him, they also decided to help him succeed... "
At this point, Qin Zishu already understood that she was talking about the deeds of the founding emperor of the Jingsheng Tan family. These long-standing secrets were probably only known by some of the Tan family's relatives.
"Ms. Shen is courageous and resourceful. She spared no effort to give advice to her fiancé and became a great help to him. After marriage, although Tan Ying did not have much romantic feelings for her, he respected her very much and fulfilled the promise of being together for life.
With the help of his wife's family, Tan Ying fought for more than ten years and finally established a kingdom in the chaotic world, which later became the prototype of the Jingsheng Empire. The story should have ended here. These clichés would be boring if we didn't talk about what happened next. "
"Tan Ying was crowned emperor and ascended the throne. His wife was named Empress Shen and his eldest son was named Crown Prince. At this time, the founding emperor began to pursue love..."
Men in the world who have a little power and wealth will rarely care about the affection between husband and wife and will never give up pleasure. Mu Lin's expression was very sarcastic, and he said lightly:
"Twenty years ago, Tan Ying fell deeply in love with a girl named Jiang. Jiang was from a prominent family. She had been married more than ten years ago and returned to her parents' home to be a widow ever since. The two met by chance, and their love was better than anything else in the world.
Jiang, who was about 30 years old, was extremely beautiful and kind-hearted, and the founding emperor was immediately attracted to her... It just so happened that Jiang belonged to a prominent family, which he wanted to win over, so he happily brought Jiang into the palace and made her a noble concubine.
At that time, the queen was pregnant with her third child and was unaware of the emperor's past. She compromised and tried to win over the noble families, but she saw that the emperor was being gentle and kind to Concubine Jiang, while he was becoming increasingly cold to her. At this time, Jiang "accidentally" told Queen Shen about her past, and Queen Shen collapsed.
The husband who had been with her through thick and thin for decades had changed his mind and had never loved her. Empress Shen was deeply shocked and had a miscarriage. The daughter she had been expecting for many years died young. Empress Shen was grief-stricken and questioned the emperor. The emperor just gave a perfunctory answer and cleared Concubine Jiang of all charges.
Secretly, the emperor had long been dissatisfied with the powerful family of the royal family and was wary of the wise queen. He had long been slowly making plans to eliminate the family of the royal family and make the imperial concubine the queen.
The Emperor was even more delighted when the Imperial Concubine was pregnant. Empress Shen was distraught and angry when she learned on the same day that the Imperial Concubine had given birth to a daughter, the Shen family was destroyed, and the Crown Prince and his youngest son were imprisoned. However, she had fallen out of favor and was imprisoned. Although she was not immediately deposed, she was powerless to fight back.
Empress Shen's foreign mother was a saint from the Miao region, who taught her the art of cursing. In the end, she decided to use her own life to curse the emperor, the imperial concubine and her daughter.
In the forbidden palace where no one ever steps foot, Empress Shen cuts herself to pieces with a dagger, hoping that the curse will work. She curses that the emperors of all generations will be short-lived for being fickle, and that all illegitimate princesses will die young. In the bloody smell of the palace, the Empress, who died in agony or from excessive blood loss, becomes a royal secret.
Not long after, the imperial concubine's daughter died, and the children she conceived one after another all died in the womb, leaving only a young son who passed away. The emperor's health deteriorated, so he had to pass the throne to his eldest son, and he died soon after.
Compared with the story of Ehuang and Nuying, Mu Lin obviously prefers Queen Shen's deep love, unrestrained hatred, and her ruthlessness in not forgetting to drag her enemies into the water even when she died.
Since that man betrayed her, let's go to hell together.
Qin Zishu understood what she was thinking. The little princess had a strong temper, pride burning in her blood, and she had an extreme demand for loyalty in love.
"I don't know if the curse took effect, but emperors of all dynasties have never had concubine princesses, and not every generation has had legitimate princesses. In the past 170 years, only eight legitimate princesses were born in Jingsheng. The two most famous ones were the Princesses of the State, who held power and were very powerful for a time. Of the other princesses, two died young, one married to Tianlan, and the other two married down."
That’s the end of the story.
Qin Zishu looked at her, "Who else?"
Mu Lin shook his head, "Princess Jingxuan is still young and doesn't know the way home."
There was no flaw in her reaction and her answer was flawless.
"Have you ever seen the famous Princess Jingxuan? What kind of girl is she?"
Mu Lin was surprised and asked, "'Famous'... Is she famous? I can only see her in very grand occasions. From a distance, she is just an ordinary girl."
"Is that so..." Qin Zishu finally found the flaw in her words. They were both attending classes in the imperial study, so how could they not be familiar with each other
Mu Lin picked up a cup of hot tea from the table, just in time to drink it.
"Yizhen thinks that Senior Brother can ask to marry Princess Jingxuan?"
“Poof! Cough, cough, cough… cough…”
Mu Lin spat a mouthful of tea onto his lapel, and then started coughing violently, apparently choking accidentally.
Qin Zishu didn't care about his wet shirt, and quickly bent down to pat her back, helping her to calm down.
"You are so old, and you can still choke when drinking water..."
Mu Lin was choking on her tears and glared at him angrily, "Brother, you are just joking, otherwise I wouldn't have choked on the tea!"
Qin Zishu smiled, "How do you know that Senior Brother is joking? Do you think Senior Brother is not worthy of the princess?"
Mu Lin waved his hands and said helplessly, "That's not what I meant. Senior Brother is a top-notch man in the world. What girl wouldn't want to marry him? Moreover, Senior Brother is a noble of the Qin Dynasty. Although his status is not clear, it must be extraordinary. It's not a bad match for the princess. But Jingsheng and the Qin Dynasty have a tense relationship most of the time, and there are constant border conflicts. How could there be any intention of marriage?"
"The situation between countries will always change. Moreover, there are no eternal enemies."
Only eternal interests.