Ming Lanruo sighed softly: "Your Highness, I think you are really confused. What kind of protection have you given me?"
Shangguan Hongye was suffocated, and for a moment he couldn't remember what kind of protection he had given her. After a while, he reluctantly said: "When you and I get married, isn't it just to protect you?"
Her father didn't like her and even wanted to kill Ming Guogong. He was willing to take the risk for her and hide the news that Ming Guogong was not seriously injured, wasn't he?
Ming Lanruo almost laughed out loud: "Your Highness, that's a deal. Without me, how could you have captured Gujiazhai so quickly and become a major contributor to the pacification of Northeastern Xinjiang?"
Many people in the court have even reported that he, the fifth prince, is the pillar of the country. They say that he is more suitable to be the prince than Shangguan Zhou.
Although she didn't think Emperor Ming would depose the prince so easily, but now that the black market has been destroyed and the prince's influence in the Northeast has been uprooted, the prince is obviously much weaker.
"Aren't all these benefits I gave you after we got married? I don't owe you anything." Ming Lanruo raised her eyebrows.
Shangguan Hongye was silent for a moment and looked at her with hot and bright eyes: "So Ming Lanruo, you and I are a perfect match. As a real couple, what's wrong with having a child for me?"
He took a step closer and looked down at her: "You have the ability to help me achieve my great cause, and I have the ability to protect you. If I succeed to the throne, you and the Ming family will surely be glorious."
Ming Lanruo looked at him expressionlessly for a while, and finally couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Your Highness, how did you say these words so confidently? Do you think that after saying so much, I still want to reject you and welcome you?
Still like you?"
Your father first killed my mother's whole family, and now you are constantly trying to kill my father's whole family. You are so confident that you ask me to use my ability to help you become the emperor, so that you can reward me and my whole family for surviving?
"Why can't you be confident, have the power and money to protect the people you want to protect and get everything you want? As for whether you like it or not...are you like those ladies who read too many words?
Do you think liking someone is such a big deal?"
Shangguan Hongye frowned, as if he couldn't understand Ming Lanruo's choice.
"Why is it not a big deal to like someone?" Ming Lanruo stopped and asked calmly.
Shangguan Hongye suddenly shook his head: "You women like to read storybooks and watch those actors playing love, hate, and hatred. Don't you know that men have written storybooks from ancient times to the present? Those stories are all used to deceive you women.
When it comes to love, family, and children, don’t fight for power with men!”
Ming Lanruo paused and looked at Shangguan Hongye quietly: "Really?"
Shangguan Hongye raised his eyebrows: "Isn't that right? Have you ever seen any storybook from ancient times to the present where a man would give up a good future that is easily available to him for emotions?"
"The troupe in the palace often plays Qin Xianglian in "The Beauty Case", "The Legend of White Snake", and even "The West Chamber"... all of them are heartless people. In the eyes of you women, the heartless people are just because of the gender.
It’s just a different idea.”
Ming Lanruo was speechless for a moment and laughed at herself: "Your Highness is right."
Shangguan Hongye looked at her steadily: "I know that you resent me for taking advantage of you in the first place, but our men, ranging from emperors and generals to traffickers and pawns, have been taught from the moment they were born that fighting for power is a hero."
He paused and continued to say to her calmly——
"When we men choose a wife, no matter how nice we talk, vowing to each other, or sweet words, we will definitely measure whether you are a woman who can meet our bottom line needs. So I was wrong at first, but I didn't do anything wrong.
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"What His Highness said today is quite interesting. Lan Ruo is willing to hear the details." Ming Lanruo found it strange. Did this man tell her the truth today?
When Shangguan Hongye saw that she was willing to listen to him, Cang Qiao had already led those people from Dongchang away again.
He simply asked someone to bring the horse over. He took the lead and crossed his long legs, climbed onto the horse, and nodded the horse beside him prepared for Ming Lanruo: "Actually, for a woman like you, riding in a carriage makes you look tame. Riding a horse seems
It’s more suitable for you, but do you want to ride with me?”
Ming Lanruo smiled and responded: "Okay."
He actually made her a little bit interested. Let's listen to what he had to say.
As she said that, she glanced at Jing Ming and made a gesture, asking Jing Ming to take several carriages and escorts from Concubine Ming's house to go first, while she got on her horse and walked with Shangguan Hongye.
When Shangguan Hongye saw that she was persuaded by him, his mood suddenly improved.
Sure enough, if you can't treat Minglan in the sweet-talking, slimy way a man treats a woman, you should still use the same way a man treats a man.
