On our wedding night, my wife acted strangely.

Luo Qingyu didn't speak, but just looked at her, her eyes shifting, and finally a sinister smile appeared on her face.

Nangong Ao is interested in me and wants me to be his empress.

Regardless of whether it's true or not, I definitely won't agree to it.

I belong to Ajin in this life, and I will belong to Ajin in the end.

But... but what if Nangong Ao is serious? After all, apart from expressing his love for me, he hasn't officially married yet, and his younger sister Luo Qingwan looks very similar to me, with a pure appearance and a gentle nature.

If I could marry my sister to her, maybe I could control a very obedient empress in the future!

Then I can use my sister to help Ah Jin make a comeback!

Yes, that's definitely possible!

"Wan'er..." She took Luo Qingwan's hand, her voice gentler than ever before, "Sister is asking you, do you want to be the Empress?"

"Become the Empress?" Luo Qingwan was stunned, completely failing to understand what her sister meant. She instinctively shook her head: "Sister, what nonsense are you talking about? How could I possibly become the Empress?"

"Why not? Nangong Ao is the eldest prince, and he doesn't have a principal wife yet! If you're willing, I'll recommend you to him! When he ascends the throne, you'll be the empress, the mother of the nation!"

Luo Qingwan was quite frightened by her words and tried hard to pull her hand back.

"Sister, you're crazy! I won't! I don't even know what the First Prince looks like, how can I marry him?"

"Does it matter what he looks like?" Luo Qingyu retorted sharply. "What matters is what he can bring you! Wan'er, wake up! Our Luo family is finished! Our parents were humiliated by that beast Lin Yi, our family fortune was looted, and now we can only live as dependents, at the mercy of others! Do you want to live like this forever?"

"I..." Luo Qingwan was speechless when asked.

Of course she didn't want to.

But she couldn't bring herself to marry a man she had never met and knew nothing about his temperament or personality.

"Sister, I can't do it... I'm scared..." she said, her voice trembling with tears.

"What's there to be afraid of!" Luo Qingyu looked at her with exasperation. "You're a daughter of the Luo family. What makes you unworthy of him? As long as you're willing to marry him, we'll have a chance to turn our lives around! We can avenge our parents and get justice for our Luo family!"

revenge……

Luo Qingwan wavered slightly.

However, she didn't hate Lin Yi deeply; she hated that fat Wang more.

Since the things in the house were originally given to her by Lin Yi, and Lin Yi didn't kill anyone, it was only that Fatty Wang who humiliated her mother.

"Sister, revenge doesn't always have to be done this way..."

"Then which one?" Luo Qingyu interrupted her with a cold laugh. "Rely on you? Or rely on me? We're just Lin Yi's playthings now. We're useless even in this palace. How can we take revenge? Wan'er, this is our only chance!"

She softened her tone and began to appeal to his emotions.

"Little sister, I know this isn't fair to you. But can you bear to watch our parents never be able to hold their heads high again, can you bear to watch your sister be bullied by that devil her whole life, treated like his plaything?"

Luo Qingwan: ...

To be honest, Luo Qingwan couldn't bear to see her sister suffer.

My brother-in-law is really too fierce. Every time he spanks my sister, her bottom is bright red and there are marks on her neck, but... he doesn't seem to have really hurt her.

That night, he abducted me into his mansion. Everyone thought he was going to do something to me, but he just put me in the east wing, provided me with good food and drink, and never appeared again.

On one occasion, he was so hungry in the middle of the night that he secretly went to the kitchen to find something to eat. He was caught by the night patrol servants, but the servants sent someone over. Not only did they not punish him, they also made sure the kitchen prepared a midnight snack for him every night from then on.

My brother-in-law doesn't seem to be as bad as my sister said.

"Wan'er, what are you thinking about?" Luo Qingyu urged impatiently when she saw that Wan'er hadn't spoken for a long time.

Luo Qingwan snapped out of her daze, bit her lip, and shook her head with difficulty: "Sister, I still can't do it."

"You!" Luo Qingyu's patience finally ran out. She abruptly shook off Luo Qingwan's hand and slapped her across the face.

"Snapped!"

Luo Qingwan was knocked to the side by the blow, and five finger marks instantly appeared on her fair cheek.

She covered her face, staring at her sister in disbelief.

"Luo Qingwan, you've really disappointed me!" Luo Qingyu pointed at her nose, trembling with anger. "I'm doing this all for our family! And you, now that you're all grown up, you don't even listen to your sister anymore! Do you think that beast Lin Yi is nice to you, so you've started having inappropriate thoughts?"

"I didn't!" Luo Qingwan cried out.

"Why are you unwilling? What makes Nangong Ao unworthy of you? He is the eldest prince! If you marry him, you will be the future empress! This is a blessing that countless women would kill for. What more could you possibly want?"

"I just don't want to!" Luo Qingwan stubbornly raised her head, tears blurring her vision. "You can't impose your will on me! My marriage should be my own decision!"

"Bullshit! Don't forget, your life was given to you by your parents, by the Luo family! Now that the Luo family is in trouble, you should step forward! This is your responsibility, this is your life!"

After saying that, she ignored her sister, who was crying in the rain, turned around and walked to the table. She picked up the letter and coldly said to Xiuzhu, who was standing next to her, "Xiuzhu, go and get me a pen and ink."

"Yes," Xiuzhu replied and hurried off to prepare.

"I don't want to! I just don't want to!" After saying that, Luo Qingwan wiped her eyes and ran out crying.

......

Inside the Zichen Hall.

Nangong Xiong sat on the dragon throne with a livid face, while Guo Ao's family below wept bitterly.

Since Lin Yi sealed off the palace, he hadn't had a single day of peace. First, Luo Hongtu's family cried and begged to enter the palace for refuge, and now Guo Ao's entire family had arrived.

What? Do you really think his palace is a shelter? That every family that has a problem will run to him?

"Your Majesty! You must do justice for me!" Guo Ao knelt on the ground, wailing and weeping, "That brat Lin Yi is utterly lawless! He led his troops to ransack my home, killed my servants and guards, and even humiliated the women in my family! I can't live anymore... Waaah!"

Behind him, his wife, Lady Mi, along with several concubines and daughters, also cried and wailed.

Annoyed by what he heard, Nangong Xiong slammed his hand on the imperial desk and yelled, "Enough! All of you, shut up!"

The crying stopped abruptly.

Guo Ao and his family were so frightened that they fell silent and dared not utter another sound.

Nangong Xiong took a deep breath. His years of self-cultivation had been completely destroyed by Lin Yi's anger in just a few days.

Everyone knows Lin Yi is lawless, but what can he do? He can't very well lead the Imperial Guards to Lin Yi's door and fight him, can he? That would be foolish.

What made him even more frustrated was that Guo Ao, this corrupt official, actually found more than three million taels of silver in his home!

More than three million taels!

Even as the emperor, the most honorable person in the world, he only had a few hundred thousand in his private treasury.

A mere Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice is richer than the Emperor himself! How can this be tolerated? He now wishes he could drag Guo Ao out and behead him, and then confiscate all of his family's wealth.

But while I may want to do it, I can't.

Guo Ao was, after all, an official appointed by the imperial court and a member of the royalist faction. If he couldn't even protect Guo Ao, who would dare to wholeheartedly follow him in the future?

"Minister Guo, please stand up and speak first." Nangong Xiong softened his tone. "Rest assured, Lin Yi's actions are perverse and outrageous. I will not stand idly by."

Hearing this, Guo Ao finally felt a little more at ease. He got up from the ground, wiped away his tears, and began to plead again: "Your Majesty, I am now homeless and destitute. I beg Your Majesty to have mercy and allow my family to stay in the palace for the time being..."

He wanted to emulate Luo Hongtu and live in the palace.

It's not that I envy the palace like that minor official, but it's safe here!

Who knows if Lin Yi will try to wipe them out next?

Guo Ao had already given away his widowed sister, and he didn't want to give away his wife and daughter as well.

Even if Guo Fu did it voluntarily.

Upon hearing this, Nangong Xiong's eyelids began to twitch.

I thought to myself, "I knew it!"

You lot are really treating my palace like a shelter!

He suppressed the urge to curse and was about to refuse when Sun Fu, who was standing to the side, quietly gave him a wink.

Nangong Xiong's heart skipped a beat, and he swallowed back the words he was about to say.

Sun Fu then stepped forward and said gently to Guo Ao, "Lord Guo, please don't be anxious. You and your family must be tired from your journey. Let me have someone take you down to rest and have something to eat. His Majesty will make his decision later."

Guo Ao knew that Sun Fu was a favorite of the emperor and dared not offend him, so he could only nod and bow, agreeing: "Yes, yes, I will follow Steward Sun's arrangements."