THE USELESS MIRACLE DOCTOR CONSORT IS SPOILED ROTTEN BY THE PRINCE!

Chapter 1219: Chapter 1215: The Empress’s Wisdom

Wang Yun said, tears rushing forth urgently.

She had interactions with Su Yingxue before and knew that Su Yingxue was not a harsh or heartless empress; she was open-minded, magnanimous, and righteous—a woman with a broad heart.

She would not refuse to accept her; she would only occupy a very, very small position in the emperor’s harem.

A little bit was enough.

Su Yingxue helped her up and reluctantly, but inevitably, had to tell her the cruel truth, “Being by the side of someone who doesn’t like you, even if you stay until you age or die, he won’t spare you another glance, let alone… even to be a palace maid, you might not qualify.”

“Empress?” Wang Yun looked up in surprise, “If Your Majesty wishes to keep me by your side to serve, I am willing to learn everything! I can definitely serve both Your Majesty and the Emperor well, just like… like Your Majesty accompanies the Emperor on field investigations, I can also intelligently handle many tasks.”

“You are not a foolish woman,” Su Yingxue praised her, “But you are still young and have experienced too little, and you think too simply about the outside world. The things I do with the emperor are not as simple as you see or hear. Just to take one instance, before Heng’er was born, the Great Cheng Dynasty was still at war with the Qi State. The emperor and I ventured deep into the enemy camp to rescue my brother and were surrounded by a vast army. Wouldn’t you be scared if you were there?”

“A vast army?” Wang Yun’s eyes widened in horror.

The concept still hadn’t formed in her mind.

In her decade-plus of life, she hadn’t even seen a crowd of a thousand people.

Su Yingxue smiled and drew a dagger close to her body, pressing it against Wang Yun’s neck, making her instantly feel a stinging pain; the horror in Wang Yun’s eyes deepened.

When she saw the bloodstain on Su Yingxue’s dagger, she screamed uncontrollably, “Ah! Blood!”

“Yes, it is blood,” Su Yingxue calmly stroked the ‘bloodstain’ on the dagger with her alabaster fingers and smiled lightly, “You are scared even of this, how would you face a vast army, let alone serve the Emperor? The bloodshed the emperor and I have witnessed together is far more intense than this!”

She let Wang Yun touch her own neck; she hadn’t actually cut her, having just smeared some Blood Wither Grass on the dagger beforehand.

Just this alone had terrified Wang Yun.

Thinking about serving by their side as a slave or servant, she truly wasn’t qualified.

Wang Yun, still unsettled, quickly calmed down but continued to bite her lip hard; she even clung to Su Yingxue’s thigh, “Your Majesty, please take me back to the palace! I truly admire the Emperor and want to be with him, but I also wish… to be the Emperor’s imperial consort!”

“You wish to be an imperial consort?” Su Yingxue raised her eyebrows, “That’s quite an ambitious goal indeed.”

Still, she admired her courage to declare such a thing aloud and even plead with her to her face.

“Yes, my family serves as a royal merchant, and I wish to be an imperial consort, like Noble Consort Xiao from the Xiao Family! Even if I cannot rise to her esteemed position, I still long to ascend to a high rank,” Wang Yun’s eyes, steeled with blood-hardened determination, revealed.

It seemed as though, should Su Yingxue not agree, she would continue to plead, even unto death.

Others might not, but Wang Yun wasn’t inherently bad, so Su Yingxue asked her further, “Why do you wish to be a person like Imperial Consort Xiao?”

She felt that although she adored Chu Yihan, she didn’t have the resolve to fight for him to the death or to defend her position in the palace for a lifetime.

“Because… if I do not become an imperial consort, back home I would be at the mercy of others, unable to decide my own marriage or my future! I do not wish to be subordinate to my father or brother.”

Wang Yun pleaded with her head bowed.

Although she had avenged her father and Xiao Hui had been imprisoned, her fate was ultimately still not in her own hands.

Wang Ao found her a businessman nearing fifty and wanted her to marry him as a consecutive wife to seek mutual business assistance.

If she couldn’t follow Chu Yihan, her only option was to marry an old man!

Wang Ao, dissatisfied with her, would tie her up and put her in the bridal sedan regardless of her resistance!

However, by following Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue, if she could become an imperial consort, she would then become the face of the Wang Family!

From then on, Wang Ao would have to look up to her, kneel before her whenever they met, and she would also have the ability to support her own family.

Seeing her frankness, Su Yingxue nodded, “Indeed, a woman with ambition.”

She admired her.

“But this path you are taking, it’s not viable, at least not in the emperor’s eyes. You simply do not hold that value. Imperial Consort Xiao’s ascension was not just because of the Xiao family’s leading wealth, but also because she herself caught the eye of the Imperial family. You, however… the Wang Family are the emperor’s merchants, everything you have is given by the royal family. The royal family could also take it back and replace you anytime. Firstly, you lack sufficient utility value, and secondly, you haven’t caught the emperor’s eye.”

Su Yingxue’s words, reasoned and steeped in the chilling reality, served to instruct Wang Yun.

The impact of these words made Wang Yun feel as if she had fallen into an ice cavern, yet she clearly realized that this path truly led nowhere.

Helplessly, she closed her eyes, bitterly biting her lip, “I don’t want… I really don’t want to marry a man over fifty and end my life like that.”

She was filled with hatred!

Having lost her father’s protection, was she truly powerless to sustain her own life?

She was in deep pain!

“There isn’t just one path of marriage, you have other options, it just depends on whether you’re willing to take them or not.”

Su Yingxue lifted her up and sat her down again in Langzhong.

Eyeing Wang Yun up and down, she reaffirmed that this woman possessed a tenacious spirit, yet her talents…

Su Yingxue, having just reviewed the clinic’s account book, brought up some issues to Wang Yun. Wang Yun responded fluently, easily calculating the profit from the medicinal herbs and what should be received by the clinic, missing not a single detail.

Su Yingxue was secretly amazed; she had to memorize the figures on the account book clearly to have a firm understanding herself.

Yet Wang Yun had not seen them before; she relied solely on mental calculation and memory, without even pen and paper in hand, but could recall deeply everything she was told, demonstrating a flexible mind and a memory and ability not inferior to her male contemporaries.

Su Yingxue then took her to the garden, asking her to look over some accounts under the pavilion and solve some recent problems faced by the clinic.

After reviewing, the numbers and solutions Wang Yun wrote down were much more proficient than Su Yingxue, who was not skilled in business.

After completing these tasks, the tear stains on Wang Yun’s face had dried. Focused, her entire demeanor changed, resembling a student eager for knowledge, looking at Su Yingxue, “Your Majesty, are there any more uncertainties with the accounts or difficulties in running the clinic? I could try further to see if I can resolve them properly.”

Su Yingxue snapped the account book shut, her lips curling in satisfaction, “No more, you’ve resolved them very well and have also shown Her Majesty your capabilities.”

Sitting in front of Wang Yun, she gently guided her, “Have you noticed how well-suited you are to doing business, and how promising your future could be?”

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