Chapter 2225: Chapter 2133: Marry Me, Be My Empress (2)

Xia Weibao froze for a moment. "What did you say?"

Lu Hualiang lowered his head and brushed her lips again. "Be my empress."

"You’ve never made me a concubine because you want to make me empress?"

Lu Hualiang’s eyes darkened. "Why make you a concubine? A concubine is just a mistress. Do you want to be a concubine?"

"Of course not! But I... I don’t understand the rules within the palace..."

"You don’t need to understand any rules, and you don’t need to think about status or background. The only thing you need to think about is whether you’re willing to marry me, whether you’re willing to be my empress. I’ll take care of everything else."

Xia Weibao’s chest felt warm. This man always had a way of moving her.

For a split second, she almost agreed.

But reason told her she couldn’t. She didn’t know what qualifications an empress needed, but as a mere Jianghu woman, she definitely wasn’t qualified.

If she agreed, he would face a lot of pressure.

He was already so busy. How could she bear to make him worry even more?

"Let me think about it. Get up first."

Lu Hualiang instantly grew displeased. "Think about what? You don’t want to marry me?"

"I do." Xia Weibao’s face flushed red again.

She answered so fast—would he think she was completely lacking in reserve?

Lu Hualiang chuckled softly. "Since you do, what’s there to think about?"

"I... I’m just a Jianghu woman. How could I possibly be a model empress for the whole realm..."

"You don’t need to be a model empress for the whole realm. You just need to be my wife."

She would be his wife first, and only then the empress of the Great Xia Kingdom!

Xia Weibao was still a bit hesitant. "But I heard the Empress Dowager wants Noble Consort Qi to be empress. If you make me empress instead, won’t the Empress Dowager object? Won’t the court officials object? Wouldn’t that be bad for you..."

Even though she didn’t really understand the palace rules, she at least had basic common sense.

A Jianghu woman with no backing and no support—how could she become the mother of a nation?

She suddenly felt a little powerless.

She’d never really felt she didn’t deserve him before, but now that it came to actually making her empress, she suddenly felt somewhat inferior.

He stood so high above, while she was just someone from the Jianghu: no background, no manners, no courtly rules.

Lu Hualiang’s face sank. "These aren’t things you should be worrying about. You only have to answer me whether you want to be my wife. The rest is my business."

"But..."

"So in your heart, your man is that useless?"

Xia Weibao, "..."

Her face flushed again. What do you mean ’her man’? They weren’t even married yet.

She was so embarrassed.

Her big eyes blinked rapidly, long lashes fluttering up and down like little brushes.

Lu Hualiang felt like they were brushing right against the tip of his heart; his body went slightly rigid.

He almost couldn’t hold himself back.

Seeing her still hesitate, he lost patience and pinched her chin with two fingers. "Marry me or not?"

Xia Weibao, "..."

It felt like she was being forced into marriage...

"You followed me into the palace; in everyone’s eyes, you’re already my woman. Are you really going to stay by my side without name or title? I will never make you a concubine. If I give you a title, it will be empress!"

Xia Weibao’s eyes flickered with struggle. She was a little scared.

"Once you’re empress, no one will ever dare to come after your life again, and no one will dare bully you. You’ll be the one doing the bullying. If you don’t like someone, just beat them up. The Imperial Guards and Imperial Army will all follow your orders. You can pin them to the ground and pound them, and no one will dare say a word."

Xia Weibao, "Okay."

Lu Hualiang, "..."

So the reason you agreed to be empress isn’t because you want to marry me, but because you can freely beat people up?

This is just too heartbreaking!

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