"No." Jiang Yanchuan did not even stop to think.
Sheng Wenli: "???"
"Won't you reconsider?!"
It's me!
The man who's been through life and death with you, Your Majesty!
Not that wretched nuisance from the Zhujin Kingdom!
It's one thing to refuse to give him face, but surely you could give me some!
And here I deliberately copied that fellow's lines, shoehorning them in just to embarrass him, only to-
Bolt upright from my deathbed and discover the clown was me all along?!
"A Qin-Jin Alliance! Marriage would bring our families even closer!" Sheng Wenli widened his eyes, hoping Jiang Yanchuan would see the sincerity in them.
His younger brother had married Great Rui's Eldest Princess, so there had always been this tenuous thread of kinship between their two countries.
With such a successful precedent, he had thought this proposal would be foolproof too. Who would have guessed!
That fellow Jiang Yanchuan refused to give him any face at all!
Infuriating!!
Without a trace of hesitation, Jiang Yanchuan repeated coldly, "No."
"You haven't even asked which Little Princess I mean!"
"No."
Jiang Yanchuan did not need to think to know whom those two had their eyes on.
That boy from the Sheng family practically had his eyes glued to the little one. His intention to spirit her away while she was still young could not have been more obvious.
It was not that he wanted to keep the little one confined by his side forever. She was simply too young to fully understand a situation like this.
He did not want to control her entire life.
Like an irritable fighting bull, Sheng Wenli snorted hard through his nose, then-
Said gently, "Let's discuss this a little more."
Jiang Yanchuan remained unmoved.
The two kept going back and forth, their exchange