You break off my engagement and I dig your ancestral graves

"If I tie him up and bring him back, will he like me again?" The little princess asked in confusion, blinking her big watery eyes.

Cui Yingying looked down at her helplessly, she was mostly sober now and her eyes were full of sympathy.

The most difficult thing to force in this world is love.

The wine glass in her hand rolled on the ground and was finally stopped by the table leg. The little princess fell asleep on the couch with a silly smile on her face, tears streaming down her cheeks, carrying endless bitterness.

Cui Yingying burped, staggered off the couch, and began to put on her shoes and socks quickly, leaving the people serving her confused.

It was Nanny Su who stepped forward and bent down to ask, "Where are you going, Princess?"

"Go and bring Liang Heng back to atone for the princess' sins." Cui Yingying said dazedly.

Nanny Su understood what was going on and pulled the person up, coaxing and tricking her into lying on the bed, forcing her to sleep soundly.

She also asked Zhuyu to carry the little princess to bed and cover the two little ancestors with a quilt.

"Should we inform His Highness?" Zhu Yu touched her nose and asked awkwardly. It would be disgraceful if this got out.

The princess and Princess Chaoxi were both drunk.

"Go tell His Highness that the princess will stay at the County Lord's Mansion tonight." Nanny Su thought for a moment and changed her words to a more tactful one.

The two of them understood and retreated.

……

Inside the palace.

The news of Wu Congyu's proposal soon reached the ears of the Queen Mother, and she called him into the palace for questioning.

Wu Congyu stood respectfully in the center of the hall, his attitude so respectful that no one could find fault with it.

"I have heard of that girl," the Queen Mother half-closed her eyes, enjoying the massage from the palace maid behind her while tapping him, "but both her parents are dead, and she has no real power. Your father will never agree to marry her, so it would be better to let her be a concubine."

A woman without a strong maternal family will not only be of no help to her husband if she is married, but will also become a burden.

Her Wu family doesn't need such female relatives.

"You are your father's only son, so don't let him down!"

Wu Congyu calmly explained, "Aunt, you don't know that Yu'er's request to marry her was not an impulse. Princess Chaoxi and the son of the Minister of Revenue are sworn brothers, so Liang Heng will grant her every request."

"Perhaps my nephew can use her to win over Minister Liang?"

"Minister Liang?" The Queen Mother slowly opened her half-closed eyes, raised her hand to dismiss the people around her, and finally looked at him straight in the eye. She said thoughtfully: "She is just a sister-in-law. Can the Liang family still do such a thing?"

"There is another reason," Wu Congyu raised his head and explained with a gentle smile, "If my nephew marries her, it will be a great help to my aunt. His Majesty still has a grudge against you. If my nephew marries her, the civil and military officials will think that my Wu family is sensible and cherishes the descendants of loyal officials."

Given Cui Yingying's current status, everyone would think that marrying him was a high status.

The Queen Mother was a little shaken, but still said cautiously: "Your Majesty, where is it..."

"Your Majesty, you can't just watch your nephew marry a woman of similar family background, right?" Wu Congyu asked back.

That is not a good thing, especially since Your Majesty has always been on guard against the Wu family.

"It seems that this is a good thing. Tomorrow I will go to His Majesty to ask for an imperial edict for you." The Queen Mother already had an idea in her mind.

If she mentioned it rashly, the emperor might not agree, but if she tried another method, it would be hard to say. After all, he was her son. As a mother, wouldn't she know how to deal with him?

Having achieved his goal, Wu Congyu's lips curled up into a barely perceptible smile.

This time he wanted to see how the prince planned to save the situation. Such a deadlocked situation needed someone to break it and shatter everything to create new opportunities.