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Shen Tianyu pinched Rong Jian's arm hard, her smile not dropping one bit . Rong Jian winced but Shen Tianyu whispered in his ear without turning around . "I'll deal with you when we get back . " Rong Jian's face slightly paled but he didn't dare to say anything .

Shen Tianyu continued the conversation as if nothing happened at all . "Then, it's alright for me to take the Cultivator's course, mother-in-law?"

"Of course . I never took any of those stupid etiquette lessons and I'm doing just fine . I don't see why it's required for you . Though, it might be recommended to ah-Jing's fiancee, the Crown Princess . It's still better for her to have knowledge of these things but it's no use if it's forced . " The Empress stroked her chin in thought .

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Shen Tianyu didn't care about some Crown Princess, she was Rong Jian's wife after all, not Kuian Jingguo's . However, she did have one point of curiosity . "From the conversations yesterday, First brother-in-law didn't seem to have anyone he loves . So then, does he have a fiancee?" Where she came from, fiancee was almost synonymous to someone you like and will be with for the rest of your life . Here, however, political marriages were the most common . It was actually rare to find a couple that married only because they liked each other, as the Emperor and Empress seem .

"Well, we do have candidates for his Crown Princess, as a Crown Prince needs a Crown Princess, preferably before he succeeds the throne but we're trying to push it to the last minute . Harem fights are nasty so if we can avoid that by only having one wife instead of a main wife and a favorite concubine, that would be the best . However, if he doesn't find someone he loves before his ascension, then we don't have much of a choice . We can't let him be single for life, or rather, the old geezers prefer him not to be single . "

"Because they want to consolidate more power of their own and because they don't want troubles pertaining to the throne in later generations?"

"Exactly!" Kuian Xiaoli clapped her hands . "See? Those stupid etiquette cla.s.ses are useless, you don't even need to take them to see through others . They don't even teach you that in those cla.s.ses . "

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"Your life is your own . Why should you spend time to become someone that you aren't to marry someone that doesn't truly love you? If you are not yourself, then what's the point of living?" Shen Tianyu responded with her own philosophy .

"Precisely my thoughts! I knew we would get along!" Kuian Xiaoli, the Empress, folded her hands in excitement before she was reminded of something . "Oh, that's right . We have decided on an auspicious day for your wedding! The priest predicted the day of the full moon a month and a half from now would be the best time for you guys! Have you sent out the invitatiosn to the people you want to come yet? Is there anyone you forgot? I can help send them out for you!"

Shen Tianyu shook her head . "No need . I already sent an invitation to all the people that I want to come . Hopefully, they can make it to the engagement celebration too but I doubt it . " Since the wedding was in a month and a half, they had to hold the engagement celebration very soon . And to travel from Yaodu headquarters to Rikui kingdom took a few weeks at best .

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The Empress held her cheek . "Oh dear . You're family is from quite far away isn't it? I'm sorry, we should have waited a bit longer . "

"No need to apologize mother-in-law . " Shen Tianyu lightly shook her head . "It is understandable to be excited as none of your children have shown any signs of spring(1) . "

"Guoliang and my requirements aren't that high . As long as they were a live person, even if it was a man, it would be fine as long as the two loved each other . How come they haven't found someone even with such non-constricting requirements?" The Empress sighed . Rong Jian almost choked on his saliva, coughing several times to regain his breathing .

"Perhaps it's because it makes the selection pool so broad that's why they can't choose? Too many options can also confuse a person and delay decisions . " Shen Tianyu replied as she handed her untouched cup of tea to the coughing man next to her without looking at him .

"Is that so? But we don't want to distress them in case they found someone outside of the requirements to fall in love with . Though we are leaders of a country, we are also parents, we want our children to be happy . We've discussed this before and we decided that the best way to do so was to let the children have their own free will instead of making them an extension of us . That's why we didn't give any restrictions on their love interest since they were children, though their views were still shaped by their peers and the other people they've interacted with . "

"It's good that you have such smooth communication with your husband . He seems hard to understand to me . After all, he didn't say much yesterday and merely watched us . "

"Well . That man speaks with actions more than words . He treats words like treasures unless he's in court but his actions convey his intentions well enough . And I've learned to read his body language thoroughly so I don't have a problem understanding him, generally . Nowadays, whenever we talk, it's mostly just me talking . If other people heard without seeing, they'd think I'd gone crazy and was talking to myself, it's actually somewhat depressing really . "

Shen Tianyu laughed . "That's indeed troublesome . I'm glad Ah-Jian didn't take after his father . Otherwise, I'd be troubled too . "

"It's strange really . Guoliang is like that yet none of the children treasure words like he does . There were some unpleasant rumors flying around at one point too . " The Empress frowned upon remembering those times .

"Perhaps they took after you? I think you probably spend more time with them and children tend to soak in the qualities of the people they are closest to or interact with the most and that sticks with them for life . And perhaps they thought your husband was frightening because he didn't talk much and didn't want to cause trauma to others of the future generations?"

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