The emperor lingered at the residence of his ministers every day, causing the concubines to feel jealous and almost poisoned by the people next to them. So I tried my best to persuade Duan Mingzhang: "Since the emperor is bored every day and finds his ministers to relieve his boredom, shouldn't it be better to go to the palaces and ladies to sit and sit?"
"Huaizhen hates me so much? Just doesn't want to stay with me?"
I was speechless and at a loss for words—how dare I do it!
I forced a smile in front of Duan Mingzhang, and when I turned around, I was worried and frowning, and my hair fell out a lot.
September. October. winter moon. twelfth lunar month. The first day of the twelfth lunar month, the second day of the first lunar month, the third day of the first lunar month... the seventh day of the first lunar month, the eighth day of the lunar month, the ninth day of the first lunar month, the tenth day of the first lunar month.
The day I was most afraid of has come.
However, Duan Mingzhang was very happy. This is not only because of his twenty-fifth birthday, but also because the army led by my two brothers is about to return in triumph. He told me as early as the day before: "Tomorrow the occasion is solemn, and Huaizhen should dress more solemnly."
Dressed too grandly it is not suitable for escape! I wore a bitter gourd face, and was numbly dressed in layers of fancy clothes.
Everything seems to be the same as in the previous life, but there is one less smile on the grand palace banquet. I lowered my head and hurriedly followed Leping's steps to my position, until Leping stopped, and I stopped as well. When I looked up... I was dumbfounded.
There must be something wrong with this, right? !
Is Leping in a daze? How could he bring me to the empty seat beside the emperor? !
I was stunned, and everyone in the audience was stunned, only Duan Mingzhang smiled and said Yan Yan. With an intoxicating smile in his eyes, he asked me, "Huaizhen, today is my birthday, what birthday gift did you prepare for me?"
I was startled, and I suddenly broke out in white sweat—it was over, I was busy worrying about how I died every day, but I forgot about it!
In front of everyone's eyes, I shook my head in embarrassment, I was really afraid that the next second would be punished by the unpredictable emperor for the crime of disrespect; after a while, I could only hear him sigh regretfully: "Didn't you promise to give me a birthday gift... Since Huaizhen is like this? Stingy, this birthday gift, I have to ask for it myself. Huaizhen, do you want to give it?"
give give give! Even if it takes my life, I will give it!
"That is really the most satisfying birthday gift I have received today." He stroked his palms and smiled, slowly stood up, and held one of my hands: "I am twenty-five years old this year, and it has been five years since I ascended the throne. Changding, there's nothing left... just a queen."
"… "What? !
I felt that my whole body was slowly splitting from the middle as if struck by lightning, struggling to ask: "Your Majesty... decide who will be the queen?"
He put a finger on the tip of my nose and said, "Do you still want to play stupid? My heart is true, I want you to be my queen."
What? ! !
"Otherwise, why do you think I named you Marquis of Chang'an?"
"..." I felt a shudder all over my body, and I suddenly remembered that it seemed to be the case - according to the laws of the dynasty, if the emperor wanted to appoint a male queen, he must first grant him a title, and then accept the adoption and ask his name...
"This is impossible!"
A woman's sharp scream came from the seat. Concubine Chen stood up with her hair disheveled, her hairpins slanted and she looked like crazy: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, what did you promise my father? Now you are... Even... Do you know—what will happen if you do this? as a result of!"
"If what you said was the 20,000 horses that your father gathered privately to prepare for a rebellion, Concubine Chen," Duan Mingzhang said coldly, "—you might as well look back."
Outside the brightly lit hall, the sound of Jin Ge, the collision of swords and guns, the grinding of iron armor... gradually converged into the sound of uniform steps. Two people walked past the gate of the hall calmly, took off their swords, and knelt down to salute: "Chen Rong Huaiduan/Rong Huaifang is below! Holy High Rong Qi, all the chaotic ministers and thieves have been slaughtered!"
In the midst of the killing in the hall, Concubine Chen fell silently to the ground.
Until I was dragged to the hall by the emperor by the sleeve, I was still in a fog and couldn't understand the situation at all.
He looked at me, and I stared at him. It took a long time before I dared to ask: "Your Majesty, since my brothers are all back, can I go back to the Hou's Mansion?"
"What are you going to do when you go back? Getting married?"
I finally broke free from his hand: "Your Majesty, don't be happy with your ministers anymore."
He looked at me silently for a while, then suddenly said, "Huaizhen, do you remember what you did at that time?"
"… ah?" When
"Do you remember, you kissed me, then knocked me out and stripped me of my clothes."
! ! ! !
I stared at him in shock, but he lowered his eyes: "On the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the fifth year of Apocalypse, we were near a section of the abandoned palace wall. We were chased by the rebels and had nowhere to hide, and we were almost driven into a corner. You suddenly pounced on us. Come here... kissed me, then knocked me out, stripped me off, and let me go."
"… "
"Then, Huaizhen, put on my clothes, climb up that section of the palace wall, and make the rebels mistakenly think that we are going to escape from the palace from there... Huaizhen, does it hurt to be shot by an arrow? In the moat, is it cold?"
My whole body was shivering, and I was forced by him to the wall with no way to retreat, until finally I was pressed firmly into his arms.
He continued to whisper in my ear in a voice that made me tremble: "Huaizhen, I will never let you go."
[END]
The author has something to say:
[The usual nonsense to be long-winded]
I don't know if everyone understands it. Why did the stupid Shou always think he was going to die
Well... because his idea is that if the emperor is in danger again, he must still die for the emperor. just sauce~
I woke up and started writing the emperor's perspective. Ask, why is the emperor's emotional intelligence so low