Goddess Atlas, Starting from the Queen

Chapter 166 Su Jinhua's Dissatisfaction
After hearing Yuezhi's words, Wu Wanrong frowned. Su Jinhua wanted to marry Su Wanyun into the Cui family?
Su Jinhua had never told him about this.

The Cui family has a Heavenly Pivot, and to her, these Heavenly Pivots are obstacles to her power. She will definitely find a way to bring them all down.

Su Jinhua, who is on his own side, is now actually thinking of marrying his daughter into the Cui family.

When high-ranking officials and nobles marry off their daughters, it's not just about marrying off their daughters; it's a political marriage.

Does Su Jinhua's actions mean that his Su family wants to side with the Cui family?
This is something she absolutely will not allow.

Wu Wanrong understood why Lu Ming had sent someone to tell her about this; it was simply because Lu Ming and Su Wanyun's relationship was inappropriate. However, Wu Wanrong didn't care about that. She had no romantic feelings for Lu Ming, so she wasn't jealous.

At this moment, Wu Wanrong summoned a maid and instructed her to personally go to the Su family with her jade pendant.

at the same time.

Su family.

Cui Min was already preparing Su Wanyun's dowry. She thought to herself that since Su Jinhua had already agreed to marry Su Wanyun into the Cui family, the matter was now a done deal.

Women in this era had no say in their own destiny; they were all tools used by their families to gain benefits.

Just then, Su Jinhua came out of his study, a vague sense of foreboding creeping over him.

After the servant he sent to deliver the message returned, he told him about what happened at the Prince Xiaoyao's residence. When Su Wanyun was reading the letter, Prince Xiaoyao was also present. He was now very worried that Prince Xiaoyao also knew the contents of the letter.

If the Prince of Xiaoyao discovers Su Wanyun's original purpose for entering his mansion, the Su family will likely face some trouble.

Although he used this incident as a threat to Su Wanyun, he also understood the consequences if the Prince of Xiaoyao found out.

Seeing Su Jinhua come out of the study, Cui Min in the courtyard said with a smile, "Master, I have already had the dowry prepared. We just need to find an auspicious day for our two families to get engaged."

Hearing Cui Min's words, Su Jinhua was slightly taken aback. They weren't even engaged yet, and Cui Min had already prepared the dowry. This was a bit too proactive.

However, he didn't care. He knew what Cui Min was thinking; she was just afraid that others would talk about how vicious her stepmother was.

Just as Su Jinhua was about to say something, a servant rushed into the courtyard, "Master, Her Majesty the Empress has sent someone."

Upon hearing this, Su Jinhua was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said, "Please come to my study."

Soon, the Empress's maid, led by a servant of the Su family, arrived at Su Jinhua's study. To avoid anyone overhearing their conversation, Su Jinhua ordered all the servants of the Su family to stay away from the study.

After all, the matter of the real and fake empresses is of great importance. If even the slightest exposure occurs, the Su family will be doomed.

Su Jinhua looked at the Empress's maid before her and said respectfully, "What are Your Majesty's orders?"

The maid said directly, "Her Majesty said that Miss Su's marriage is her own decision. She can choose not to marry if she doesn't want to. In addition, she is not allowed to marry into the Cui family."

Upon hearing the maid's words, Su Jinhua's heart tightened. He hadn't expected the Empress to pay attention to the Su family's affairs so quickly.

He roughly guessed why the Empress would prevent him from marrying his daughter into the Cui family. Tian Shu and the Empress were currently at odds, and the Empress was probably worried that he might try to side with the Cui family and expose her as a fake Empress. Su Jinhua frowned; this was troublesome.

Although she was somewhat displeased, Su Jinhua still respectfully said, "I understand."

The maid then said, "Now that I have spoken, I will return."

As soon as she finished speaking, the maid left the Su residence without saying anything more.

Seeing the departing figure, Su Jinhua's expression became very serious.

In fact, he did want to find a powerful backer through marriage.

Although the Empress is currently overseeing the country, she is still a fake Empress. He used to think that if the Empress could conceive Emperor Zhou's child, then the fake Empress could become the real Empress, and there would be nothing wrong with the Su family standing firmly by Wu Wanrong's side.

However, since Wu Wanrong entered the palace, according to some information he had gathered, Emperor Zhou had not touched her. Moreover, Emperor Zhou was now focused on cultivating Taoism and wanted to abstain from women, so it would probably be very difficult for her to conceive.

Moreover, Su Jinhua understood that although Emperor Zhou had given the position of Empress to Wu Wanrong's sister, Emperor Zhou had no feelings for her. All he wanted was the support of the Wu family. Now that Emperor Zhou was wary of the Wu family's power, Wu Wanrong's position as Empress was merely nominal, and Emperor Zhou would never allow her child to become the Crown Prince.

As for ideas like making Wu Wanrong an empress, Su Jinhua never even considered them.

Wu Wanrong was determined to become empress, but the empress's faction had no such idea at all. They didn't even know that Wu Wanrong had such thoughts. They stood on the empress's side only because they were related to the Wu family.

Now that the Empress has no children, Su Jinhua naturally began to have other ideas.

Su Jinhua understood that if the Su family directly sided with one of the princes, it might anger Wu Wanrong. After all, Wu Wanrong might have children in the future, and her children would also be vying for the position of crown prince. If they were to side with another prince so quickly, it would be a betrayal to Wu Wanrong. He was still on Wu Wanrong's side, so he couldn't do that.

However, Tian Shu did not choose to support any of the princes. He thought that Wu Wanrong probably wouldn't care too much about this matter. After all, the Su family and the Cui family had a certain relationship, and his wife was also a daughter of the Cui family. It was just a marriage between relatives.

However, he did not expect that Wu Wanrong would be so sensitive, and that she would also oppose this matter.

This made Su Jinhua very dissatisfied. He had already given the Empress face by not seeking those princes as backers, but this fake Empress was meddling in everything, even the marriage of their daughter.

But the thought that they were now in the same boat made Su Jinhua feel helpless.

Su Jinhua was unaware that this was Lu Ming's intention; he simply assumed that the Empress did not want to see him change allegiance, which was why she sent someone to warn him.

When Su Jinhua came out of the study, Cui Min was still having people in the courtyard thinking about preparing more dowry items. At this moment, Su Jinhua said directly to Cui Min, "Madam, there's no need to go through all that trouble."

Upon hearing Su Jinhua's words, Cui Min was taken aback, not understanding what Su Jinhua meant.

Cui Min married into the Su family after Wu Wanrong entered the palace, so she was unaware of the relationship between the Empress and Su Jinhua.

Su Jinhua then said, "I just thought about it. Since Wanyun herself isn't afraid of losing face, I'm too lazy to care about her anymore. Let her continue to stay in the Xiaoyao Prince's Mansion."

(End of this chapter)