The Choice Queen's

TCQ 15: Queen's Request

Ling Sui's face looked pale. His slightly thin lips were almost blackish in color. Although already wearing lip dye, but the original color can not be disguised perfectly.

He was wearing a white fox fur coat. The crown on his head looked beautiful, but it was in stark contrast to the hue of his current face.

Ling Sui looked even more sick than before.

“Your Majesty, you..”

As his eyes looked at Li Fengran, he smiled. “Come.”

Ling Sui hinted for Li Fengran to sit next to her. Despite the hesitation, Li Fengran walked over.

There were many questions gathered in his brain. The appearance of Ling Sui, the current Queen of Donghao, looked extremely alarming.

Previously Li Fengran had never paid attention to his appearance well, so he was very surprised when he saw him back. Ling Sui was much sicker than he thought.

“Your Highness, you already know I'm coming?” asked Li Fengran. Ling Sui just smiled.

“King asked me to bring you this document. But, I was blocked by the guards until delaying the time.”

“Chu Ming, get me my seal,” Ling Sui said. Chu Ming nodded and took out Queen Donghao's jade seal, then affixed his seal on top of the document Li Fengran had brought.

“They're making things difficult for you, huh? I will give you justice for today's incident,” Ling Sui said after the documents were handed to Li Fengran.

“Your Majesty, all that should be taught is the person who bribed them,” Li Fengran said.

“They are just concubines. Just out of envy, they even dared to obstruct the submission of the King's orders.”

But, again Ling Sui just smiled as if the events of today were a very ordinary thing. Li Fengran could understand, but if they continued to be left alone, then there would be a second, third, and so on.

Ling Sui seemed to have no intention of doing anything or punishing them, and it made Li Fengran realize why his position had weakened after so many years.

Ling Sui's heart might be too tender to punish her husband's new concubines. However, it was different with Li Fengran.

She's not a concubine, she's not a harem member. He had a direct mandate from the King, and he had the right to do something if someone offended him in an unreasonable manner.

“If Your Majesty doesn't want to punish him, then let me do it. The king might not care about them, but I never let the person who offended me be left to me.”

“Miss Li, you are a very honest and open person. You are also very frank. I'm glad there's someone like you next to His Majesty the King,” Ling Sui said.

Despite having only met a few times and not being familiar yet, Li Fengran felt that Ling Sui was not evil. His heart was airy, he could tolerate many things in his life.

Ever since the first time he had met her in the Linglong Hall, there had always been an interest tying Li Fengran to her. Li Fengran pretended not to care, but actually he was very curious about this figure of Ling Sui.

The story in the comics says everything about Queen Donghao is a good thing. But actually, the real figure is very sad.

All his life could only stare at the person by his side without being able to reach him and grasp him even tighter. He still had to let her into the arms of another woman and let go of her feelings as a woman, acting as a wise Queen at the end of her short life.

Li Fengran really did not understand the way this woman thought and the way the world looked at her. He thought no woman really had the heart of the sash. Ling Sui even found her successor, although she was clearly still alive.

“If the rules are not changed, the two women will not be a bullies female fox. I won't be stuck here either,” Li Fengran said.

Ling Sui chuckled. As he expected, the girl from Danchuan was indeed different. From the start, he knew there would be a big change in Donghao after he saw the way Nangong Zirui looked at Li Fengran when he first met on the day of the competition.

“Nona Li, you don't want to settle in the palace?” ask Ling Sui.

“As Your Majesty knows, I am only the adopted daughter of Lord Danchuan who was sent here. At first I thought I could go home, but suddenly the rules changed,” Li Fengran replied. His tone began to sound relaxed and familiar.

“You don't want to be Queen?” Ling Sui asked again. “All women want it. In this capital, thousands of noble girls were hoarding their dreams and doing their best to enter the palace. That does not include girls in the other four prefectures.”

Li Fengran looked at Ling Sui deeply, looking for the meaning of the earnestness of the words that came out of that small mouth.

“But, that prosperity and glory, doesn't it feel so cold?”

Ling Sui was stunned for a moment. His middle hand holding a teacup hung in the air. True, the prosperity and glory that those women craved, indeed felt extremely cold and piercing.

Although Nangong Zirui did not hate him, but since marriage, their interactions were nothing more than ordinary friends. The seat of Queen Donghao he was sitting on right now, was like a chunk of ice that slowly froze his entire body.

“Ah, sorry, Your Honor. I am not a person who is good at keeping my words. Since the rules have changed, I can't keep fighting. Your Majesty, I will bring this document back to the King,” Li Fengran said after he knew the situation had become awkward. He plunged the document into his robe and prepared to leave.

"I asked her to raise them as concubines," Ling Sui's tone of voice was so low, but it was still audible to her.

He who from the beginning understood nothing, increasingly did not understand. The people here were extremely elusive, and Li Fengran did not understand Ling Sui at all.

"The relations of the four regions are straining. If it could unite them through marriage, the King could handle it easily."

Ling Sui stared briefly at Li Fengran who had yet to understand his words, then smiled. "If there's a bond that can be put together, things might get easier."

"Alliance marriage?" asked Li Fengran.

"Yes." Yeah."

"The queen's election competition, is it just a way?"

Ling Sui smiled without answering.

Another political wedding! Li Fengran hated the most someone who used marriage as a tool to make a profit.

This marriage can ruin a person's life. This was what she wanted the most: a royal wedding or a future corporate wedding!

"It has not been easy for the King to sit on his throne until now. Before he ascended the throne, his brothers and sisters looked at the throne with hungry gazes. When the throne finally became his, the four regions began to show rebellion. Miss Li, you can't blame her."

Li Fengran thought, Nangong Zirui's life is so easy. Who would have thought, the golden spoon he had almost went into someone else's mouth. Li Fengran only looked at his dashing but grumpy figure, without knowing what he had already lived in his life before Li Fengran came.

"Does the King know of your intentions?" asked Li Fengran again.

"With his qualifications as King, he would have known."

"Then, why would he agree to it and let you?"

"Being King does not necessarily have to be as he wishes. The king can't be selfish, and I'm sure it's also very difficult for him."

"Even if it hurts you and doesn't make her happy?"

Ling Sui nodded again.

"Then, why was the King willing to marry you back then? The king doesn't seem to hate you."

"In this period, being on equal footing with men is not easy. I took this path in the hope of being able to align with him on matters of state. But, I just realized that I've been caught in a very long delusion."

Li Fengran was stunned. There is another side that he just found out, there are secrets that he knows when others do not know it.

Ling Sui, was probably born with a silver spoon in her mouth and people looked at her as the most talented and noble beautiful woman in Donghao.

However, no one really understood her heart's intention of entering the palace and becoming Queen Donghao. Nangong Zirui might know, but he chose to pretend not to know.

Is the person in this age indeed so shy as to reveal his heart to someone?

"Your Majesty, you are truly a Queen."

"Unfortunately, the King prefers women who are open-minded and simple like you. When I asked her to make you concubines, she refused to lift everything up. He said he could only raise two concubines, and he already had other plans for you. Who would have thought, the plan was to make you his Sword-bearer."

"He raised me only to get revenge because I hit him in the face" Li Fengran snorted. Ling Sui laughed. Nangong Zirui's chosen people never disappoint.

"You'll understand it someday. Miss Li, at the end of my life, I only have a few wishes that sound greedy. I want to see the King find his own happiness and see Donghao at peace. Miss Li, will you help the King make it happen?"

Li Fengran did not know what answer he should give. Currently, his life in the palace was also not necessarily guaranteed.

He had just come here and was still very foreign to this world. He was suddenly involved with a lot of people. Although he was appointed as the Sword Stakeholder, being by the side of a King was also not a safe place.

Ling Sui asked Chu Ming to give her a handkerchief and covered her mouth because her throat was itchy. After coughing, the light blue handkerchief changed color due to the blood coming out as phlegm. Chu Ming panicked, as soon as he grabbed the handkerchief and hid it.

“Your Highness, what exactly is your illness?” asked Li Fengran. The comic never told her exactly what illness Queen Donghao suffered until he had to find a replacement. Li Fengran wanted to know it directly from his real figure.

But, Ling Sui actually shook her head.

“I don't know either,” he replied in a very weak tone of voice.

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