Nangong Yu, after listening to her mother's words, bit her lip and cried silently for a while. Then she lifted her head, her tear-soaked eyes gazing forward, and said, "Mother, the matter I ask of you is not to marry Brother Zi Qi, but rather to agree to the Xianbei King's proposal. I want to trouble you to inform Brother Zi Qi and ask him to escort me to Xianbei for the wedding..."
"Absolutely not!"
Empress Dowager Mo refused her outright without a second thought, saying, "Yu'er, why put yourself through this pain? Even if you marry someone else, he will never turn back and regret it. To stake your entire life on such a gamble—is it worth it?"
