allonlinenovel Chapter 315: No Choice (Part )
Chapter 315: No Choice (Part )
"You feel inferior but also proud. You want me to coax you, Ruoxiang, do you think it's possible?" There was no prayer in the Fifth Prince's voice. "Just like what you did to your ninth sister-in-law, you knew you couldn't compare but you still wanted to take advantage of your sister-in-law. You still think it was your ninth sister-in-law who did something wrong and you didn't do anything wrong. You are so kind!"
"Yes!" The Fifth Lady was also angry. She felt aggrieved. "Even if I was wrong about the matter of my ninth brother's wife, so what if you come to coax me, sir? How did my ninth brother coax his sister-in-law? My ninth brother didn't marry his sister-in-law before, and I wasn't interested in them. I just wanted to be a normal couple with you. We met on the streets of Beijing. I have liked you since then, and I know that I am not worthy of you. I am very happy to marry you. But then on the second day of the wedding, Liu Jia acted up and didn't care at all?" The Fifth Lady sat up on the bed, saying that she felt aggrieved.
"Why is it my job to manage it? Isn't that something you should be in charge of?" The Fifth Prince's eyes widened. Is that something a human should say? Isn't the backyard managed by the wife?
"That was the next day. I hadn't officially taken over the power of housekeeper yet. How could I be in charge of the backyard if the master didn't give me face? That was Liu Jia's show of power to me. From that day on, everyone in the backyard knew that the owner of the backyard was not me, but Liu Jia!" The Fifth Lady finally roared out her grievances.
Nanny Yujin outside had some worry on her face. She just stood outside the door obediently and sighed softly. Fu Jin also felt aggrieved. If Fu Jin lost even the last bit of pride in her heart, she would really have nothing left and would be just an empty shell!
"Don't I want to coax you? How do you want me to coax you? Your attitude is clear. How can I be so shameless as to do something seductive like a concubine? The reputation of a woman from my Nara clan will be publicized by Liu Jia the next day. Do you think I dare?" The Fifth Lady wiped away her tears. "You know that you favor your concubine and neglect your wife. You know you are wrong. I don't think I am wrong, but I was wrong about my ninth brother's wife. I brought the habits I formed in our mansion to my ninth brother's wife, and I took revenge for many years of grievances in our mansion and treated my ninth brother's wife with a floating mentality. I was wrong!"
The Fifth Lady looked at the Fifth Prince, "My Lord said that I didn't feel that I was wrong these days. No, I know that I was wrong, but I will never regret our scheme against Liu Jia and Hong Sheng. Maybe I should regret not taking ruthless action earlier. Without destruction, there is no construction. If it were earlier, I, the Lady, could have become a real Lady, not a puppet!"
"Don't you want to hear the truth, Master? This is the truth. Now and in the future, I will not be soft-hearted towards anyone in the backyard. Anyone who makes a mistake must be punished. Anyone who dares to break the rules of the backyard will be executed or sold, and no one is exempt! Unless one day, Master abolishes me!" The Fifth Lady's face was cold. She looked at the Fifth Prince who sat up. Tears flashed in her eyes as she laughed out loud, "Are you satisfied, Master? I don't have to come to the main courtyard once a month. You and I are disgusted with each other. In the past, you had mixed feelings of love and hate for me. You wanted to hate me but couldn't completely hate me. Now you only have disgust for me, just like how you look at me!"
"Don't worry, as long as the backyard is safe, I won't do anything to them. I will only live for the Nara clan in the future and repay them for their years of raising me!" The tears in the eyes of the Fifth Lady gradually disappeared, "Hehe... Are you satisfied, Master? Are you relieved?"
The Fifth Lady thought of what Wen Yao said, that she would never be able to win over Liu Jia. It turned out... it was true. She really lost!
Even if Liu Jia died, she won!
The Fifth Prince sighed inwardly. His own wife still didn't understand. "As a wife, the second day of the wedding is your time to establish your authority. Only in this way can you temporarily take charge of the family. That was a game between the wife and the concubines in the backyard. You lost, and I asked Liu Jia to withdraw. It's not my fault that I should punish her. After we come back from paying our respects, you should punish Liu Jia!"
"You are my wife. Since you are so proud, you should use the means of a wife. What are your means?" The Fifth Prince took a few deep breaths. "You can't even establish the rules for the backyard, but you keep talking about my rules. You didn't answer what I asked you just now, and you are still avoiding me. Ruoxiang, are you really right? You asked me if I was satisfied? I am not satisfied, and I am very disappointed. I regret not having the courage to refute the emperor. This is my fault!"
"Ruoxiang, if you don't calm down, there's really no need for us to continue talking. In the future, I won't have a deep conversation with you like we did tonight," the Fifth Prince didn't want to always watch someone who couldn't see herself clearly saying nonsense. He didn't have the time to suffer that!
The Fifth Lady paused, and her anger subsided a little. Thinking about what her mother had taught her before, could it be that she was really wrong?
"Tomorrow night I will answer your question today about whether I was wrong or not, okay?" The Fifth Lady looked at the Fifth Prince who was already lying down. The anger in her heart slowly subsided and turned into confusion. Was she really wrong?
The Fifth Prince was lying on the bed, looking at his own wife, and he spoke slowly: "Okay, I can't love you, but I think we can understand each other. Your family background is low, so among all the brothers, I am better off than the Seventh Brother. We can be considered as sharing the same suffering. Ruoxiang, do you know that when I knew you were his wife, I felt inferior and arrogant, so I was so angry?"
"Your parents are from the Guoluo clan, and you were raised by the Empress Dowager. How could you be the same as me?" The Fifth Lady calmed down, thinking that she was comforting her, "Sir, don't comfort me. It was my fault just now. I shouldn't have been so uncalm."
"It's okay. You've been wronged. I made it very difficult for you to do things. There's nothing wrong with you feeling wronged. Since you'll tell me about this tomorrow night, let's not talk about it tonight." The Fifth Prince's anger had just subsided. "You're confused as to why I say you and I are similar. Ha, if I'm not raised by my mother, she'll stay away from me. But if I'm raised by the Royal Madam, she doesn't have the power!"
"Mother and the Guoluo family rely on my ninth brother. Behind me is Khorchin, an existence that the emperor has always been wary of. Isn't my position awkward?" The Fifth Prince has really reflected on himself during this period. His seventh brother is right. The mistakes of others are their own, but is there nothing wrong with myself?
You must first understand where you went wrong before you can make yourself better. Otherwise, you will fall into the abyss little by little!
"But the master is proficient in both civil and military affairs, and he has done a good job in the Ministry of Justice. The master is very capable," said the Fifth Lady with surprise on her face. She really didn't expect that her own Fifth Master would also have an inferiority complex?