Mu Yun'an knelt on the ground, with water in his eyes, and said in a soft voice: "Your Majesty is so kind to me, but it's not because I don't want to do it, but because I have bad moral character and is not worthy of His Royal Highness."
Yuan Hao's expression changed when he heard this, and anger flashed in his eyes: "Do you want to resist the decree and refuse the marriage?"
Mu Yun'an lowered his head and said a little aggrievedly: "My daughter dare not."
Seeing this, Queen Yan quickly comforted Yuan Hao: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Princess Huihe is considerate. We are childhood sweethearts with the prince, so there is no reason for us to resist the decree and refuse the marriage."
Moreover, she just said that her moral conduct was lacking. It seems to me that Huihe Princess Xu had some unavoidable reasons."
Yuan Hao raised his eyes, stared at Mu Yun'an who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Tell me, why do you say that your moral character is not worthy of a prince?"
Mu Yun'an sniffed and said with red eyes: "When I entered the palace today, I heard many noble ladies discussing my affairs. They said that I was not clear with the traitor brother, and they also said that I
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She choked and started crying, extremely sad: "They said that I have lost my innocence a long time ago. I am really scared, but I really don't remember anything in the past, and I don't know if what they said is true or false?
In their eyes, I am a sinner who is involved with the rebels. They think that I deserve death, so how can I be worthy of His Highness the Crown Prince?"
Mu Yun'an leaned forward and kowtowed: "My daughter has encountered disasters one after another, and I really don't dare to climb up to the prince and make others jealous."
After hearing what Mu Yun'an said, Yuan Hao's face became stunned. He slammed the table and shouted angrily: "This is simply unreasonable. Who dares to slander and spread rumors to frame you? You said, I will make the decision for you."
Everyone at the banquet saw His Majesty being so angry that they all knelt on the ground in fright, especially those noble ladies who were caught saying bad things about Mu Yun'an. At this time, they were terrified.
I thought this matter had been revealed, but who would have thought that Mu Yun'an would be waiting for them here.
Mu Yun'an lowered his head and said with a somewhat frightened look, "I dare not say anything."
Yuan Hao frowned and said, "You don't have to be afraid since I'm supporting you. I just want to see who is so bold?"
Mu Yun'an straightened up and looked around. The ladies she glanced at were all a little frightened, for fear of being pointed out.
Not long after, Mu Yunan reached out and pointed out one of them: "That's her, the Prime Minister's daughter Su Qing'er."
Su Qing'er was stunned for a moment when she pointed it out, and then she came to her senses and said, "You are talking nonsense. When have I ever slandered you?"
As she said that, she knelt on the ground and shook her head and said, "Your Majesty clearly knows that I have never spread any rumors about the princess."
Yuan Hao narrowed his eyes and felt that this matter was a bit difficult to handle. After all, Su Qing'er was the daughter of the prime minister's house, and he intended to let Su Qing'er marry the prince as a concubine. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen?
Queen Yan knew that Yuan Hao was in trouble, so she asked: "Princess Princess, do you have any evidence that Miss Su spread rumors?"
Mu Yun'an said: "It was said by Wu Xiuxiu, the daughter of the Minister of Rites."
This Wu Xiuxiu was the woman in scarlet clothes who offered up Su Qing'er in the imperial garden.
After Mu Yun'an finished speaking, he pointed to the other noble ladies present at the time: "They can all testify."
Yuan Hao glanced at those people and asked in a cold voice: "Is this the case?"
Although they were noble ladies, they had few opportunities to enter the palace, let alone meet the emperor. Facing Yuan Hao's imperial majesty, some of the timid ones were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground.
Wu Xiuxiu was even more panicked and didn't know what to say.