I'm reborn, only a fool would spoil you

Public opinion was surging, sweeping across the entire capital city like a raging storm.

The streets were full of discussions about Gao Ni and Fu Yuzheng's broken engagement, and Fu Yuzheng's upcoming engagement to Mu Linghao.

"Gao Ni probably really loves Fu Yuzheng. Fu Yuzheng openly cheated on him, but he didn't have the heart to kill her."

"Most likely."

"Gao Ni is really a man! He endured this!"

"Yes, I thought Gao Ni would get angry and stab Fu Yuzheng, not even leaving her a whole body... Unexpectedly, he just canceled the engagement."

"That girl Fu Yuzheng is blind. It would be great if she could marry Gao Ni. Her husband's family is in the capital. If she wants to go back to her parents' home, she can get there right away by taking a carriage."

"That's right. It's not like marrying to the Mu Mansion in the southwest. It's far away in the southwest. My mother-in-law, Princess Yuehua, is not the prince's biological mother. I will be offended if I marry her..."

"I'm still far away in the southwest. If I get wronged, I can't ask my parents for support..."

When Qingchuan collected this information from the public, Gao Ni himself was shocked.

"After backing off from a marriage proposal," his reputation suddenly rose!

Everyone said it would be good to marry him!

It’s much better than marrying the prince of the Southwest Mu Mansion!

Wow, this is incredible.

Of course, these unfavorable remarks were only circulated behind the scenes among the people, while those who gossiped about them in front of Mu Linghao only spoke flattering words.

In a blink of an eye, the imperial examination reached the "Palace Examination" stage.

Mu Linghao performed exceptionally well. When criticizing current affairs, he quoted from classics, made extensive references, and spoke with great momentum, winning the favor of Emperor Jingde in one fell swoop!

He was chosen as the top scorer in this exam on the spot!

After the palace examination, when Emperor Jingde returned to the harem, he kept mentioning Mu Linghao and praising him non-stop when facing the concubines!

"The eldest son of Princess Yuehua is truly remarkable! At such a young age, only eighteen, he has such a profound understanding of current affairs!"

"It is true that heroes have always emerged from youth!"

This time, when Emperor Jingde was bragging to Concubine Xiang in the Yangxin Palace, Princess Yuehua heard it from the corridor outside the palace.

To be honest, Princess Yuehua felt very upset. How could the bastard born by that bitch be so outstanding?

Why does her royal brother keep praising her?

Ever since she brought Mu Linghao up in her arms eighteen years ago, she has been keeping a close eye on him, fearing that Mu Linghao would become outstanding when he grows up.

——When she was a child, she would kick Mu Linghao when she saw him playing with guns and sticks, causing the six or seven-year-old Mu Linghao to lie on the ground with blood in his mouth. She would then force the little boy to burn all the guns and sticks and not to touch them at all!

Do you want to fight on the battlefield and become a mighty general when you grow up?

no way!

This possibility should be nipped in the bud from an early age!

——When Mu Linghao was eight or nine years old, I found that he loved reading, so I pulled his ears to stop him from reading too much. Under the pretext of doing good for his eyes, if he dared to read more than four pages of a book in one day, he would be punished by not being allowed to eat or by being spanked!

Princess Yuehua even secretly gave money to the teacher so that he didn't have to teach hard and could just let Mu Linghao play in class.

Even if you teach someone to become useless, you will be rewarded with a huge amount of silver.

Who would have thought that, despite such strict defense, Mu Linghao could still stand out from the crowd of candidates and become the number one scholar chosen by the emperor? !

He was even praised by his royal brother as the best in the world!

Princess Yuehua felt like she was seeing a ghost!

Although she was resentful in her heart, Princess Yuehua had to put on a forced smile and entered the main hall, praising Emperor Jingde against her will:

"Royal brother, it is a blessing for Mu Linghao to receive such high praise from you."

Emperor Jingde smiled and said, "It's easy for me to praise him. But it's not easy for you, my sister, to raise him and cultivate him for eighteen years with great difficulty and to make him so outstanding!"

Princess Yuehua recalled the past and smiled: "It was indeed not easy, it was quite hard."

Isn't it tiring to be on guard against him like a thief every day, making sure he doesn't become too outstanding?

It’s much more tiring than giving birth to a child yourself!

The most annoying thing is that in the end, things didn’t go as planned!

Fortunately, she can still make things difficult for him for the rest of his life.

Princess Yuehua smiled and said, "Alas, my royal brother, Hao'er is already old and has a lover. Why don't we take advantage of his success in the imperial examination to arrange a marriage for him, so that we can have double happiness?"

"Oh? Hao'er has a girl he likes?" Emperor Jingde said with a smile, "Whose girl is she? Tell me about it."

Princess Yuehua smiled and said, "It has been spread all over the place a long time ago. Could it be that my brother has not heard about it? It is the daughter of the Marquis of Jingyang, Fu Yuzheng."

"Hao'er really likes Fu Yuzheng?" Emperor Jingde was shocked. That girl is Fu Xiaotian's daughter. Between Fu Xiaotian and the emperor's sister...

Thinking of this, Emperor Jingde glanced carefully at Princess Yuehua's expression and saw that her brows were relaxed, as if... she had let it go.

Emperor Jingde felt comforted and thought this was very good.

So, with Princess Yuehua's help, Emperor Jingde issued an edict to grant the marriage.

There are two imperial edicts in total.

A copy was sent by the eunuch to the Jingyang Marquis' Mansion to announce the imperial decree to Fu Yuzheng.

One copy was placed in the Yangxin Palace, waiting for the "Luming Banquet" at noon, when Emperor Jingde personally announced the marriage decree to this year's top scorer Mu Linghao.

After the imperial edict was drafted, Princess Yuehua personally took the jade seal of Emperor Jingde and stamped it carefully.

The moment the imperial seal was pressed down, the imperial edict came into effect!

Princess Yuehua laughed wildly in her heart!

Tao Ying, Tao Ying, so what if you married Fu Xiaotian?

In the end, your son and daughter...hahaha, it's just a joke after all!

Just wait, after Fu Yuzheng marries into the Southwest Mu Mansion, she, as the mother-in-law, will "love" Fu Yuzheng well!

——Just the rule of “setting rules” is enough to discipline Fu Yuzheng so much that she can’t get any help from anyone!

——After they consummated their marriage and gave birth to a child, she revealed the "truth about her life" at the right time, leaving Fu Yuzheng and Mu Linghao speechless!

The rest of my life will be worse than death!

Hahaha, it makes me happy just thinking about it!

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At noon, there is a deer-singing banquet.

Before the banquet started, the successful candidates from both lists gathered around and congratulated Mu Linghao, who came from a prominent family:

"Brother Mu, you have won the first place in the imperial examination and are now married to the beautiful Miss Fu. This is really a double blessing!"

However, to everyone's surprise, Mu Linghao did not look happy, but rather a little cold.

He even frowned slightly and said, "Everyone, please stop talking about beautiful women. Miss Fu is just like a sister to me. There is no love between men and women."

When these words were spoken, all the Jinshi were shocked and looked at each other in bewilderment.

Someone couldn't help but ask, "Brother Mu, what do you mean by that? Aren't there rumors that you and Miss Fu are in love?"

"And Commander Gao even broke off the engagement because of this!"

Mu Linghao has been acting in front of Princess Yuehua for more than ten years, and his acting skills are absolutely first-class.

He just smiled bitterly, a hint of helplessness flashed in his eyes, and said with a mixture of truth and falsehood:

"It's a long story. For some reason, my mother secretly...used some tricks to ruin Miss Fu's original marriage."

"Even though my father objected, my mother insisted that I marry Miss Fu."

"This, this..." All the Jinshi were dumbfounded when they heard this.

One scholar couldn't help but ask, "What about Miss Fu? Does she have no interest in you either?"

Mu Linghao sighed and said, "She loves Gao Ni, and she only has brotherly and sisterly feelings towards me, nothing else."

At this time, a Jinshi who was on good terms with Mu Linghao suddenly remembered something and said, "But on the day the results were announced, didn't Miss Fu give you an embroidered handkerchief? Her maiden name, 'Zheng', was embroidered on it."

Mu Linghao shook his head upon hearing this and gave an explanation according to Fu Yuzheng's plan:

"That handkerchief was my aunt's legacy, and her name happened to contain the word 'zheng'. I accidentally lost it a few days ago, and Miss Fu found it and returned it to me."

"Alas, Miss Fu was clearly doing a good deed, but she was maliciously slandered and spread as a 'token of love', and in the end it became... so unbearable."

"Anyone who spreads rumors should be killed."

This, this reversal is too unbelievable!

The successful candidates in both lists were all shocked!

In this way, under Mu Linghao's step-by-step guidance, the successful candidates on the two lists gradually came to understand a cruel "truth".

——His mother, Princess Yuehua, was behind the scenes, deliberately breaking up Fu Yuzheng and Gao Ni, and insisting on bringing together "Mu Linghao and Fu Yuzheng" who were obviously not in love!

Why are you so determined to bring them together?

The reason is unknown, but everyone vaguely guessed that a stepmother must have bad intentions!