Thousand Miles of Bright Moonlight

Chapter 29: Scheming the Seventh Princess

Everyone was dumbfounded.

　　The silence in the study was as still as water, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

　　Wei Ming said with a plan in mind, "Your Highness, the Seventh Princess is a divine beauty, the best in the Central Plains. We only need to let Chief Yelu catch a glimpse of the Seventh Princess and the tribal chief will definitely agree to the replacement, firstly. Secondly, the Seventh Princess is His Majesty's own daughter, and her mother is Noble Consort Xie, of noble status. With her to substitute the marriage, Chief Yelu has no excuse to say nonsense."

　　The others came back to their senses and nodded in agreement.

　　The seventh princess had a beauty that was like a gift from heaven. Although Chief Yelu was a foreigner and old, he was still a man. As long as he was a man, it was a good deal.

　　Li Xuanzhen was stunned for a moment. The scene of meeting Li Yaoying that day at the city gate came to mind.

　　The delicate girl in glamorous dress, riding a Wusun horse in the evening light doused with the fragrance of flowers in late spring, raised her hand to lift the curtain hat's gauze. The sky splashed with golden light fell on her jet-black and rich hair. She faintly glanced at the banners fluttering in the wind at the horizon, and a smile spread across her face.

For a moment, the flowering bushes beside the road were dulled, and the bustling city gates turned silent.

　　The soft spring breeze blew up a strand of hair at her temples.

　　All the people present were itching to reach out and brush away the naughty strands of hair, but they were afraid of disturbing her, this immortal fairy-like figure, and did not dare to make a sound.

　　The three of them, Li Xuanzhen and Noble Consort Xie's two children, were like water and fire. But at that moment, he was also the same as the onlookers, because seventh younger sister's celestial beauty could steal one's soul.

　　If the peony understood language, her beauty would send a state into decline; though she has no sentience, she moves man all the same.

　　A divine beauty was precisely this.

Indeed, unprecedented and incomparable.

　　It was not surprising that Wei Ming, a strategist who disregarded children's feelings, was so confident that her beauty could make Chief Yelu change his mind.

　　Li Xuanzhen was lost in thought for a moment.

　　If Li Yaoying were his own sister, he would not treat her so cruelly.

　　Unfortunately, she was Noble Consort Xie's daughter.

　　The Xie family deserved to die, Noble Consort Xie deserved to die, and Noble Consort Xie's daughter also deserved to die.

　　Wei Ming looked at Li Xuanzhen, who was in a trance, and his expression was slightly heavy: "Your Highness, after much deliberation, only the Seventh Princess's captivating beauty can impress Chief Yelu."

　　Everyone's eyes turned to Li Xuanzhen, waiting for him to make up his mind.

　　Li Xuanzhen's eyes lowered, silent for a long time.

　　Wei Ming's face was getting more and more ugly.

　　Qin Fei scratched his head and spoke out to break the strange silence: "Will the Seventh Princess agree to marry instead?"

　　Which youthful and beautiful princess would be willing to leave the Central Plains to go to the grasslands to marry an old man?

　　The Yelu tribe practically lived a barbaric life of eating raw meat and blood. Furthermore, the custom of inheriting wives went against human decency: father died then married their stepmother, brother died then married their sister-in-law.