RPAGF Chapter 291: The Queen's Secret
Chapter 291: The Queen's Secret
Gu Yunran always felt that her childhood was not happy.
Although, in the eyes of outsiders, she is a proud girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
She was the legitimate daughter, but her mother died early, and the concubines who came to power were all plotting against her.
However, because of her father's favoritism, her life was not difficult.
At that age when a girl should be in love, she had never loved any handsome and talented man in the capital.
She once thought that she didn't like love.
Gu Yunran has been well-read since childhood, but her brain is like a "filter" filled with feudal dregs, and she never believes in the theories of female virtue and chastity.
She loves freedom by nature and dreams of traveling around the beautiful land of Dazhao.
She is not interested in love and does not want to have a deep emotional connection with anyone. Perhaps she is just cold-hearted by nature.
Therefore, when she was about to reach the age of marriage, she calmly said to Ping Xuanhou: "Dad, I don't want to be arranged to marry casually. I want to go into business."
Marquis Pingxuan, who had spent his entire life in military service, was used to being reckless. In addition, his guilt towards his mother prevented Gu Yunran from spending too much time lobbying.
But he was very worried about his daughter's attitude towards marriage, fearing that she would be left without anyone to rely on.
When Ping Xuanhou talked about his deceased wife, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
Gu Yunran did not cry. She just hugged her slightly old father and said, "Don't worry, Daddy. We have to live our lives. Instead of finding a bad husband in the future, it is better to concentrate on business..."
Ping Xuanhou wiped the tears off his face and said loudly: "It's okay. If you don't want to get married, then don't get married. Dad will buy you a house! In the future, find a son-in-law with good character, and my son will never suffer in his life..."
Unexpectedly, the fight for succession that broke out immediately disrupted the plans of the father and daughter...
Because of Gu Yunran's family background, she became a piece of "fat meat" in the eyes of several princes.
Gu Yunran struggled and resisted, but still could not break free from the cage of fate. In order to consider the overall situation, she had no choice but to compromise.
The night before entering the Fourth Prince's Palace, the iron-blooded general Ping Xuanhou burst into tears in front of his little daughter for the second time in his life: "Ran'er, if you don't want to get married, your father will go to the emperor to resign. Your father would rather not be a marquis..."
Gu Yunran still didn't cry. She just hugged her father and comforted him, "It's okay, father. I'm going to be a princess, and I'll just be a good princess. It's okay..."
She comforted her father, and the next day, she entered the Fourth Prince's Palace with a full dowry.
When Bo Muxi slept with her for the first time, she looked at this handsome man but did not feel any joy in her heart. She did not love him.
Bo Muxi could probably sense Gu Yunran's feelings, so he was not in the mood to get involved, and the wedding night, which should have been a wonderful one, ended abruptly.
So after that, she seemed to have reached some kind of consensus with Bo Muxi.
During the day, they are close partners, fighting together and advancing and retreating together.
At night, they each arranged their own lives and did not disturb each other, except for those specific days of each month, when Bo Muxi would come to sleep with the princess in order to help her give birth to a legitimate son, as if he was mechanically completing a task.
Gu Yunran once thought that she did not understand love and was born sexually frigid. Otherwise, how could she remain indifferent when looking at such a handsome husband?
Perhaps she had always believed this before she met Shen Zhiyao...
That day, when Shen Zhiyao was framed by a eunuch, Gu Yunran looked down with pity at this woman who had been selfless and submissive since entering the palace, and felt that serving the palace would only add one more heartbroken person who had fallen out of favor.
She has seen this kind of thing many times and has long been numb to it.
As a queen, she doesn't care about the truth, she only cares about helping someone to maximize her benefits.
Unexpectedly, this woman, contrary to her usual behavior, resolved the crisis on the spot with her sharp tongue, which made her look at her with new eyes.
Afterwards, she secretly asked someone to investigate Shen Zhiyao. It turned out that this woman had some similar experiences to hers, for example, both of them lost their mothers at an early age...
During the encounter at Taiye Lake, Gu Yunran saw another side of Shen Zhiyao. She was a little dazed, as if she saw another self in the world.
When they parted, Shen Zhiyao praised her almost frivolously, saying that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in the harem of Zhao State.
That night, Gu Yunran looked at Shen Zhiyao's passionate eyes and felt her heart beating like a drum. Her chest seemed to be filled with vigorous vitality. This was the first time she experienced this feeling.
Gu Yunran couldn't grasp this feeling until one night when Bo Muxi came to Fengyi Palace to sleep with her again as usual.
At the beginning, when Bo Muxi touched her, she still felt nervous and uncomfortable, and had a strong sense of physical rejection.
But when they became one, she looked at Bo Muxi's feminine face flashing seductively under the candlelight.
She just stared at him silently. Gradually, Bo Muxi's feminine face was vaguely blended with Shen Zhiyao's soft face. At that moment, she was in a trance...
Gu Yunran shamefully felt the overwhelming pleasure for the first time while serving the emperor in bed.
That night, she responded to Bo Muxi enthusiastically for the first time.
Under the emperor's surprised gaze, she picked up the bed curtain's straps and gently bound Bo Muxi's almond-shaped eyes.
That was the most unlikeable place... and then, I continued to enjoy it passionately...
It was also during this absurd night that Gu Yunran became pregnant with the Fourth Prince...
It turns out that she is not frigid...
But later, when the emperor was eager to sleep with her again, he was inexplicably rejected and left in anger.
Later, when Shen Zhiyao climbed onto the couch and touched her pregnant belly, Gu Yunran was so excited that she wanted to cry. She wanted to hug Shen Zhiyao, but she couldn't and didn't dare...
What she feared was not that the emperor would find out, but that she would completely lose her friend Shen Zhiyao...
In fact, she couldn't figure out what kind of feelings she had for Shen Zhiyao. It wasn't friendship, and maybe it wasn't love either...
Or maybe she just didn't want to admit that feeling.
She didn't think she should feel that way, otherwise, how could she be indifferent to Concubine Zhuang who had been pestering her?
When Gu Yunran was drowning in Taiye Lake, in the chaos, she seemed to be able to hear Shen Zhiyao's heart-wrenching cry, asking her not to abandon her...
After spitting out a few mouthfuls of water, Gu Yunran's cheeks were filled with tears of excitement after seeing Shen Zhiyao.
Fortunately, the dripping water on my hair provided protection.
She wanted to throw herself into Shen Zhiyao's arms and cry, but due to her status as queen and the presence of many people, she could not do anything out of line in public.
She could only say to her with difficulty: "Don't be impulsive..."
She felt a little aggrieved and didn't know what was wrong with her.
She checked many ancient books and found quite a few records. It turned out that this was not a rare thing.
Gu Yunran thought about it for a long time before finally figuring it out.
It’s not her fault. Shen Zhiyao is not only beautiful, but also has many other things that she can’t describe.
But it probably won't work in this life. If she has another chance in the next life, she will definitely be a reckless person and live the life she wants.
Sometimes, Gu Yunran looked at Shen Zhiyao, the Fourth Prince, and the Eldest Princess fighting with a doting look on his face, his heart filled with a heavy sense of happiness.
Actually, I don’t have much regrets…
Perhaps, what you cannot get is the most beautiful. They stay together until old age, with children around their knees. They will never turn love into hate, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Fortunately, because of her restraint, their friendship survived.
Every day after that, Shen Zhiyao looked at her with extremely sincere eyes, and Gu Yunran felt satisfied just by looking at her.
How precious it is to be appreciated and trusted by such a smart, beautiful and interesting woman!
Gu Yunran thought that the greatest fortune of marrying Bo Muxi was having Shen Zhiyao and the children...
Just continue to be happy like this, so good...