Chapter 45 Chapter 45: Dragon Lady (15)

For so long, he was the only one who could see me. three On Princess Dongting's seventeenth birthday, Empress Wu, the wife of her elder brother Emperor Gaozong, sent a congratulatory gift. The gift was a string of pearls from Siam. The pearls are round and smooth, and each one is about an inch in diameter. The person who gave the gift said that they were picked from the bottom of the South China Sea and transformed from the tears of the Shark God. They are the most precious pearls in the world. What came with Pearl was an imperial edict, and Pearl was a congratulatory gift as well as a gift. Three months later, she would have to marry and go to Siam, a region in the South China Sea.

Like all the princesses in Tang Dynasty, this order caused Princess Dongting to secretly resent.She was Gaozong's youngest sister and the youngest daughter of the great and sage Emperor Taizong. She thought, her brother's new wife, Empress Wu, might want to marry all the princesses in the palace to the border! She had heard many rumors about this woman, and she was willing to believe that her existence was a catastrophe, sent by heaven to punish her warlike and bloody Li family. After the edict was read out, she didn't thank her as usual, but ran out of the palace in a hurry.Many palace people were chasing and calling, but she turned a deaf ear to it. Like when she was a child, she hid herself behind the peony bushes on the rockery.

The footsteps of the maids and eunuchs passed by the peony bushes one after another. I don't know if they were intentional or not. No one saw the princess hidden behind the flowers. She just sat quietly behind the flowers and looked up at the sky. This is the season of midsummer, and the white clouds in the sky are misty. I don't know who said that the floating clouds are the reflection of the world in the sky. She couldn't help feeling sad, why did she marry into those barbaric places?Does the princess of Tang Dynasty only exist for the sake of marriage? A slender hand gently parted the flowers, and when she raised her head, she saw the smiling face of her young and beautiful aunt Qianjin Princess.

Tears still flowed down her cheeks without hindrance, and she said with some anger: "Don't talk to me, leave me alone." Princess Qianjin grabbed her sleeve and dragged her out from behind the flowers, "What's wrong with marrying Siam? It's better than marrying Turkic!" She pouted, "It's all the same, why can't I marry the new champion?" Princess Qianjin burst out laughing, and patted her face lightly, "It's still a year after the test, and you will already be the queen of Siam by then." Princess Dongting was silent, still blaming her brother for listening to the new queen.

Princess Qianjin sighed lightly: "Don't think about these things, follow aunt outside for a walk!" Princess Dongting nodded indifferently, she felt that all people were happy, only she was the saddest. Passing by the market in Princess Qianjin's black carriage, hearing Princess Qianjin's nonchalant gossip, she was listlessly leaning against the window, her eyes casually glancing over the stalls of the hawkers in the market .Before long, she was going to a completely different place, and she didn't know what the market was like in that place.