An unhappily looked at Saiqia, “Saiqia, a woman is beautiful enough, the rest just quietly be like flowers, men will like it.”

Saiqi's expression changed, and she stood awkwardly in place.

Andu didn't care whether she was embarrassed or not, but looked at Tang Xiu instead, "Your Highness, am I right?"

Tang Xiu smiled faintly, glanced at Sai Qiya who seemed at a loss, he didn't particularly like her, but as always, his appearance was elegant and considerate. "It's good for a woman to be beautiful, but if she is also smart, that's amazing."

Saiqiya looked up at him and also expressed gratitude for his rescue.

Tang Xiu merely smiled faintly, "My husband found that I was having a boring conversation with your brother, so he went for a stroll in the garden."

Sai Qiya gratefully nodded towards him, this man was truly thoughtful. "Thank you, Your Highness, Sai Qiya will take her leave now."

Looking at Saiqiya's departing figure, Andou didn't consider Saiqiya's feelings at all. "Your Highness, how is my sister?"

Tang Xiu smiled faintly, and An Du continued to boast, "Her mother is the number one beauty in Xilin. Saiqiya is even more docile than her mother. How about making her your princess?"

"The position of Crown Princess is out of the question," Tang Xiu said coldly.

"Well then, my princess from Xilin marries into your Li Chao, and even a position as principal wife is not enough?" An Du was somewhat angry.

"My father's first choice was my eighth brother. That was for the empress position, but didn't you refuse?"

"This... That's not what we all agreed on, is it?" Prince Ando questioned.

"When did I agree to marry her as my main wife?"

Tang Xiu said coldly, "I only said that she can be taken in as a concubine, but only as a side concubine."

But you don't have a legal wife, do you?

"So what? My position as the empress is not something to be taken lightly. It must be determined by my father himself. How could my father allow a woman from another country to be my empress?"

Tang Xiu laughed, "An Du is too foolish. To truly marry Sai Qiya as his empress, he would be giving up the throne himself. Then the royal bloodline would no longer be pure."

"This... how can my princess of Xi Lin be a concubine? No, no!"

Tang Xiu wasn't afraid of him getting angry. "Then you let Saiqiya be my eighth brother's legitimate wife."

Andu's face was awkward. The eighth prince wasn't much use, and in the future he would just be a carefree prince. He wouldn't be of any help when he took over.

"No."

Tang Xiu raised an eyebrow. "This matter, Prince An should consider it carefully."

"Oh…"

Andu never expected Tang Xiu to have such a plan. Saiqiya's affairs are probably beyond redemption.

But it doesn't matter anyway, she's just a princess. They have lots of princesses in the west, they won't miss one.

>If worst comes to worst, I'll send one to several other countries; surely one of them will be effective.

……

"Damn it, how can't it be cured? Get out of here, you bastard!"

Andu was furious. This was already the twentieth or so jinshi he had seen since coming to the capital.

Everyone says his problem can't be cured. Isn't it said that Li Chao is a very skilled doctor?

Why can't it be cured?

He doesn't want to admit that he isn't a man, so he hasn't asked the imperial physicians in the palace. However, the doctors he found outside are all useless.

He was also getting impatient.

The women of the Li dynasty were truly beautiful, but he could only look and not touch. He had thoughts in his heart, but they were useless there. This was very tormenting.

Finally, An Du still let the emissary go find a physician, saying it was to see Sai Qiya.

Saiqiya takes the blame unreasonably, but it doesn't matter anymore.

The doctor took Sa Qiya's pulse and said there was nothing serious.

Saqiya's words were hard to understand. She seemed fine at first.

Andu seized the opportunity to sit down. "Imperial Physician, please take a look at me. Let me see just how skilled the doctors of your Li Chao are."

In Traditional Chinese medicine, diagnosis involves observing, listening, questioning, and palpating. The imperial physician was unaware of the palace banquet. "Where is the prince feeling unwell?"

"You... can't see it?" Andu drooped his face.

"I... I think I've seen something, but I don't know if it's what you want to be cured."

"Nonsense, of course you have to treat an illness." An Du said.

However, after the imperial physician's diagnosis, it was discovered that this man was not simply suffering from excessive indulgence and physical weakness, but something more akin to being poisoned. However, he wouldn't elaborate, only stating that his expertise lay in treating women's ailments, and if he couldn't cure this, someone else would have to be called.

“Trash, I think they just can't do it. They boast about how great their medical skills are from the past dynasties, but I think they're useless.”

After the imperial physician left, Prince An of Du fumed.

Right now, there's only one way out: we need to find Fu Jiujiu and ask him to undo this.

Find Fu ChuChu, An is happy to oblige, after all, she's a delightful little beauty.

But to make him bow his head, he was utterly unable to do so.

He was in a difficult position here, but Fu Jiujiu over there was having a good time.

After the last adoption, the Crown Princess and Fu JiuJiu got closer. After all, before that she felt there was a big age gap between them and worried they wouldn't get along.

After getting to know each other, Bai Ruozhuang realized she had overthought things. Eating, drinking, playing, and having fun - age doesn't really matter in those things.

As a little girl, she really thought Fu Jiujiu was too likable.

If you treat her sincerely, she will definitely reciprocate with sincerity.

Unlike that Deng Wan'er, she is simply heartless and cruel.

Tang Yan had helped her so much and treated her well, like a real sister. But in the end, she said that she hadn't asked them for help.

It's all voluntary.

Bai Ruozhuang was really furious.

To make matters worse, Old Mrs. Deng still wanted to help her granddaughter and asked the couple to assist her. She said that she wanted Deng Wan'ying to be a concubine to the Seventh Master.

Bai Ruozhuang just thought that the old woman was too old and didn't want to say anything harsh.

As women, who would be willing to share her husband with someone else? Especially since the couple is so good together, she wouldn't want to be the bad guy.

She had seen through them all; there wasn't a sane person in the Deng family.

My own late mother-in-law, I don't know if it was her nature, but luckily she's gone. Otherwise, who knows what annoying things she would have done, being manipulated by the Deng family?

Fu Jiujiu also thought Bai Ruozhuang was a good person, smart and not really at fault. As long as no one harbored ill intentions towards her, she would be willing to work with intelligent people, making things much less troublesome.

Fujujijiu appears to be all about eating, drinking, playing, and having fun on the surface, but in reality, she's never truly idle.

On this day, she made an appointment with Tang Xian to meet. This year's capital city was unusually cold, so she chose not to meet on the rooftop but went straight inside.

As soon as she stepped inside, she was enveloped by a wave of warmth. However, there was no sign of Tang Xian in the room. On the table, though, were two freshly baked sweet potatoes, still steaming with sugary sweetness.

She wasn't polite and directly picked one up, peeled it, and took a bite. It was the taste she liked, roasted a little bit burnt but very sweet.

Tang Xian pushed open the door, behind him was a cold and snowy world, but inside the room it was warm like spring. There was also a pretty little girl sucking on her finger, an image he didn't find unsightly at all, instead he found it rather cute.

First published on the Traditional Chinese Novel Network