It is said that it is human instinct to submit to the general trend, so those who still stick to themselves in the adverse current are more valuable.

And in just half a month after the incident, Li Yuan never heard a word against her again, which made her lie on her salary for so long, and finally found the dignity and superiority she should have as a princess, so that after being topped by Shen Ruyu in front of her, she laughed angrily: "Do you really think I dare not kill you?" ”

"Don't dare." But Shen Ruyu's expression remained unchanged, she only raised her eyes, and looked at Li Yuan with a clear look, her tone was still calm, and there was even a little innocent look in her expression, "Her Royal Highness the Fourth Empress wants to kill me, naturally there is no need for a reason." It's just that why did Her Royal Highness the Four Imperial Highnesses kill me? ”

Then before Li Yuan could answer, she laughed again as if she had just understood, "Because I opposed you?" ”

The tone was like a joke with an old friend, but it was full of helplessness and amusement as if it was taken seriously.

Shen Ruyu's attitude suddenly made Li Yuan not know how to treat it, she said the real reason herself, but if Li Yuan admitted it like this, she always felt that she was inferior, but if she couldn't find other good reasons, she would be a little embarrassed.

Li Yuan wants to show his majesty, so he wants to be tougher, but he is afraid that it will appear too sensitive and small-bellied, and he has no grace, but if he laughs at it as a joke, he feels that it will appear too weak.

Her rebellion may have been premeditated for a long time, or it may be impulsive, but it can be regarded as a kind of open-mindedness, she wants to completely overwhelm Li Cong, and she also wants everyone to see that compared with Li Cong, she not only does not lose, but must be overwhelmingly excellent.

Therefore, her ideal state is that as soon as her domineering spirit is released, she will surrender from all over the world, the heroes will tie her hands, and Haojie will bow down.

But in fact, Li Yuan is not that good.

Shen Ruyu told Li Cong back then that it was better for Li Cong to be the emperor than Li Yuan, and she didn't say that to comfort Li Cong or to please him. When they were in the palace, Li Cong and Shen Ruyu were still young, so they were often taken by the queen, and Li Yuan had already moved out of the palace at that time, and the queen rarely summoned her into the palace, and she was quickly demoted.

Shen Ruyu and Li Yuan used to be in Beijing together, but this was their first meeting, which shows Li Yuan's cold reception at the queen's place. But Shen Ruyu has listened to the queen's evaluation of her by the queen's side, and even seen her plays, although she has not seen her, she roughly knows what kind of character she is, and she also knows how far she can see from those movements.

The fundamental reason why Li Yuan is now in such a dilemma by Shen Ruyu is because she is not a powerful character in the first place.

Although the parents are all dragons and phoenixes among people, especially the queen, she is simply a genius of power and strategy, but this kind of thing is still talented, not to mention that the queen has always been vigilant against them, and it is impossible to carefully teach them how to win, in a way, several princesses have been deliberately released by the queen to become a semi-finished product, if they are obedient, he doesn't mind raising them, but if they are not willing to be obedient, he is not afraid of how much wind and waves they can set off, On the contrary, Li Yuan, who has always been taken by the queen's side, has learned more and better, otherwise Li Yuan would not have been pressed by Li Cong on the edge for so many years.

At this moment, she was speechless for a while, and Shen Ruyu continued to say with a smile, "If you want to kill people just because you are opposed, it is tyrannical." Even if he becomes an emperor, he is just a tyrant. From ancient times to the present, he is the most promiscuous emperor, and he has never ordered the officials to be silent and the people to keep their mouths shut. I don't think Her Royal Highness the Fourth Empress is such a person. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Li Yuan missed the best opportunity to implement the cruel words of "You really think I don't dare to kill you", but at the same time, she also jumped out of the dilemma, her heart was relieved, but a dissatisfied feeling surged from the bottom of her heart. After all, although Li Yuan is quite deficient in politics and power schemes, she is not a fool, Shen Ruyu's words are very pleasant at first glance, and she keeps calling her Her Royal Highness the Fourth Imperial Princess, but she compares herself with the emperor, and her attitude is not bad, but after thinking about it carefully, she is very cunning - Li Yuan recalled it, and couldn't help but sarcastically say angrily and funny: "So, if I move you, I will be a tyrannical person?" ”

Shen Ruyu smiled at her, but stopped talking.

Li Yuan inexplicably felt like she was beaten by Shen Ruyu, but she gave a sweet date, at the moment she was holding the "date", she was not angry, nor was she angry.

But to her surprise, she looked at Shen Ruyu with a light smile, and found that the dissatisfaction in her heart actually dissipated quickly.

Because this should have been a confrontational dialogue, but because of Shen Ruyu's soft attitude, the atmosphere between them was never cold.

The feelings between people are not traceless, everyone can actually feel the other party's hostility or good impression of themselves, Li Yuan has never felt confrontation and hostility from Shen Ruyu's body, and even feels that the other party is quite understanding and close to her.

In particular, compared with the previous officials who were killed by her, Shen Ruyu has an important status, a special status, and much greater fame and prestige, but she is much gentler, unlike other officials, for the so-called loyalty and righteousness, they will look at Li Yuan angrily as soon as they meet, and scold, as if she is disgusting when she lives, and she makes them disgusted and want to die when she appears in front of them-so Li Yuan let them all die.

However, it was clear that Shen Ruyu had the same attitude of refusing to return to the same as them, but it inexplicably made Li Yuan feel that although she was against it, she was not stubborn - she understood her pain.

Obviously, she is the princess from the Middle Palace! Obviously, the person who sits on the throne now is the real usurper! But these fools are not afraid to die in the face of her in order to be loyal to him! A bunch of idiots! Darn!

Maybe it's because of this, her previous feelings about Shen Ruyu were nothing more than "the daughter of the Shen family", "quite useful", "very famous" and "considering surrender", but now she has a little more sincere appreciation, although Shen Ruyu said that she did not support her, but her gentle attitude gave Li Yuan an illusion of "not very resolute", as if as long as she worked hard, she could reverse her mind.

Thinking about it like this, Li Yuan felt as if she could understand why her younger brother would like such a woman.

Because Shen Ruyu inexplicably gives people a feeling of extreme tolerance - she has a pair of very warm eyes.

She is always calm and indifferent, but she looks at you through a pair of eyes, gentle as water.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, those eyes seem to have pity in them, which makes people feel ...... She was able to understand me.

She understands me, she understands me, she understands me.

Could anyone refuse that respect? Can anyone refuse such tenderness?

In fact, Shen Ruyu is indeed very tolerant.

In the later world, Shen Ruyu has seen too many people of all kinds, some of which were strange in ancient times, and those behaviors are not even out of line in her eyes.

What's more, in the ancient times of the time and space where she lived, the reason why the Confucian system developed was respected by the rulers was precisely because the outline in it drew guidelines for all people, and was regarded as a guideline, like a huge net, on which the relationships of all people were crisscrossed, and almost no one could break through, and once someone crossed the line, all people would oppress this different heresy back.

Because China was too vast, the rulers had to use this method to rule the people, domesticating them all to the same standard as docile and good citizens.

However, after the turbulence of the modern society from the old society to the new society, the original net was shattered under the impact of external and internal forces, and people began to ignore the so-called "how to be the right way", and firmly believed that "I am who I am", thus leading to the consequence of zhì - I don't care what others do, and others are not qualified to care what I do.

Therefore, as a modern person, Shen Ruyu's strong tolerance often comes from the two mentalities of "this is also a thing" and "this has nothing to do with me, you can be happy".

However, Shen Ruyu can indeed understand Li Yuan's mood.

According to the view that men in this era are outsiders and lose money for other people's daughters, under the premise that all three sisters have passed away, Li Yuan is almost the only orthodox heir to the throne.

Li Cong suddenly stepped in sideways...... Come, let's personify the throne as the fiancé who made a marriage contract with Li Yuan, and then describe Li Cong's behavior as - when his sister and brother-in-law were about to get married, he stepped in and snatched his brother-in-law's mistress.

Okay, can you understand Li Yuan's anger a little?

And according to the inertia of men in this era, her beloved "man" is still forced. In a male-respecting society, this is a proper hatred of taking a wife, and for women, the mistress is even more eager to peel off the skin and cramp.

So no matter how much Li Yuan hated Li Cong, Shen Ruyu was not surprised.

But this kind of thing is similar to the relationship between men and women, but it is still slightly different, who grabbed it is justice, no matter how aggrieved Li Yuan is, how justified she thinks, and how firmly she believes that she wants to take back what belongs to her, but she didn't grab the throne at the beginning, and the throne may be hers, and it never really belongs to her.

No matter how many reasons she has, rebellion is to rob what belongs to others, not to herself.

is righteous and reasonable, she actually can't stand it, so she has no choice but to attack the fact that Li Cong is a man, but she looks extremely pale and powerless.

Gender defense sometimes seems important, but when the dust settles, it's not that important.

After Li Yuan paused for a while, she tried to persuade her to surrender for a while, but Shen Ruyu seemed to be negotiable, and her attitude towards her was quite respectful, but she still insisted on respectfully calling her "Her Royal Highness the Fourth Imperial Daughter", and never gave in in the general direction. She had no way to take Shen Ruyu for a while, and she was unwilling to let her go back, so she gritted her teeth, asked the servants to find a free room, detained Shen Ruyu alone, and let two strong women guard her at the door, not allowing her to go out, and not allowing others to come to see her.

Li Yuan may have tried to kill her will—in her years of exile, she probably felt that there was nothing more terrifying, lonely, and maddening than being alone, and living in a cold room—but as I said before, although Li Yuan was a little clever and wise, she was not a hero, not even a hero, and her scheming was completely unqualified as a rebel.

There was once a founding emperor who said: either don't do it, or do it never.

But after Li Yuan imprisoned Shen Ruyu, in addition to restricting her access, she never owed her half a point in other aspects, except that she could not enter and exit freely, and other application specifications were not even worse than when she was in her own home.

If she wanted to persuade Shen Ruyu to surrender, Shen Ruyu was very suspicious of who this approach could persuade her, did she want to use such a not superior treatment to influence her? However, since he did not suffer because of Li Yuan's methods, Shen Ruyu continued to take advantage of it silently.

Shen Ruyu knew that Li Yuan couldn't tear her face with the Shen family now, and she didn't want to be too kind to her so as not to be arrogant, but this exposed her attitude of not daring to be tough at all, which really made Shen Ruyu a little funny, she was under house arrest and couldn't touch anything, so she simply wrote calligraphy every day, and then flipped through the books, practiced painting, and calmed down

Although she couldn't meet Wang Zijun and them, she wasn't too worried in her heart.

Wang Zijun is slightly deficient in terms of force, but Kong Qingyang happens to be outstanding in martial arts. Kong Qingyang's strategy is not good, but Wang Zijun happens to have superior intelligence, and with the two of them, one writer and one martial arts, it is not a problem to protect Mingxi and Wen Ming.

Shen Ruyu thought about it like this, and suddenly felt that she had met Kong Qingyang at the beginning of this ill-fated journey, could it be a gift from God?

But such a peaceful day did not last long, a few days later, Li Yuan's persuasion to surrender was obviously urgent, Shen Ruyu was inexplicable for a while, and soon realized that this must be the unsmooth advance of her army on the front line.

Shen Ruyu heard that many clans south of the Sanshui River had joined the rebel army with their armies, and at first glance it looked huge, but when he thought about it, it looked like a pavilion in the air without support.

Li Yuan's most important title is the only concubine of the first emperor, but many of the responding clans are much older than her, in addition to the aunts who are the same generation as the first emperor, and even many grandmothers who are older than the first emperor, among these people, Li Yuan does not have enough prestige and strength to suppress them and unite them.

These armies are fighting on their own, and they don't obey anyone, and they look like behemoths, but in fact they are just a plate of scattered sand.

Shen Ruyu never thought that Li Yuan could succeed in rebellion, in Li Yuan's impression, Li Cong may still be just an arrogant and willful teenager, or a "little brother" who doesn't know anything, but he is very lucky, because the queen died very close, so he took advantage of the weakness.

But Shen Ruyu knew that Li Cong's ascension was by no means luck or accident, although there was a queen in front of him, sweeping away most of the hard bones who resolutely opposed the male protagonist in the world, but his resistance in the process of ascending to the throne was not as easy as Li Yuan imagined.

The pain he has encountered, the pressure he has endured, and the storms he has experienced, Shen Ruyu knows it. She stood aside, originally just wanted to be a bystander, but seeing him gritted his teeth and insisted, never flinching, she finally felt that she wanted to do something, and silently helped her in the dark.

When the dust settled, gender was not so important, because Shen Ruyu knew that in the process, Li Cong had defeated everything with his actions and won a qiē for himself.

You can say that he is not mature enough as an emperor, but if anyone denies his bloody ups and downs along the way because he is a male emperor, and knows nothing, he is so superficial and disdainful of gender, Shen Ruyu will never approve of it.

That's the person who touched her in the first place.

That's the person she chose to help in the first place.

That's the emperor she chose.