confusion

Di Shaoze stared at the figure that gradually turned into a small bean. It felt like there was a gust of air stuck in his heart, suppressed inside, and he couldn't find a way to vent it.

But if I really want to vent it, I don’t know what emotion to express. Is it the embarrassment and irritability of being unilaterally abandoned, or the uncontrollable panic and reluctance.

Di Shaoze kept comforting himself in his heart, no, he would not leave him. Counting the past ten years, he had never left him, so how could he be willing to leave him tonight?

"Your Majesty, Fox Princess has been looking for you for a long time."

Fox Princess pounced up from the riverbank, looking very well-behaved, like a red fox wagging its tail. Emperor Shaoze frowned slightly, not in the mood for any intimacy. He ordered his attendants to prepare the carriage and return to the palace immediately.

After returning to the palace, Di Shaoze hurried to the Moon Worship Hall. As soon as he entered the palace gate, he found that the front of the hall had been decorated with gorgeous lanterns. Once inside, he saw the reunion dinner and two bowls of Yuanxiao on the round table. However, these had already gone cold.

Di Shaoze asked, "Where is Lord Lin?"

The palace servants all said that Lin Huai'en had never come back.

He didn't come back. Was he not coming back for a while? Or... was he not planning on coming back at all?

Di Shaoze's chest heaved up and down, his heart suffered a great shock. At this moment, he finally felt a little bit of reality that Lin Huai'en was going to leave him.

"If he comes back, send someone to tell me immediately!"

"Yes."

Di Shaoze's voice trembled a little, but he used his majesty to maintain his momentum so that outsiders would not notice his panic.

Emperor Shaoze glanced at the food on the table, most of which were his favorites. He also saw his personal maid He Qing carefully ironing a golden robe. In the open cabinet behind He Qing, the dragon and phoenix candles that had not been used at the wedding were still neatly placed.

It turned out that Lin Huai'en had always cared about the wedding night that Di Shaoze owed him. However, since he didn't say it, Di Shaoze had always ignored it and never noticed it.

No, it was more than that. Di Shaoze carefully recalled many details after his marriage and realized that he had indeed overlooked too many things...

The straw that broke the camel's back seemed to be the last straw.

Di Shaoze only saw Lin Huai'en's heartbreak that night, but ignored the repeated struggles and torment he had gone through before that night, from hope to disappointment, hope again, disappointment again, until despair...

Braving the night, Lin Huai'en walked all the way to the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion by feeling, curled up against the doorpost, facing the closed door, not daring to step in, but unwilling to go anywhere else.

Only by staying close to home can he feel a little at ease and not feel completely abandoned by the world.

The cool night breeze blew in gusts, like adding insult to injury, weighing on Lin Huai'en's heart. He had only just married at the age of twenty-five, and before a full year had passed, they were about to separate...

Kalah... After about half an hour, the door was pushed open.

Perhaps it was the bond between mother and son that made Mrs. Lin's eyelids twitch tonight, and she kept thinking something bad was going to happen. When she opened the door, she saw her son's lonely back and said, "Piggy, you smelled me from a long way away and dragged me here."

When Mrs. Lin approached, she saw that her son's eyes were swollen from crying, and his eyes were full of heartbreak and despair. Mrs. Lin frowned. Her son had always been strong and rarely cried like this.

"Mom..." Lin Huai'en called out softly, "I... I may... not be able to... live... with Di Shaoze... anymore..." Lin Huai'en cried so hard that he choked and couldn't speak completely.

Madam Lin knew that Lin Huai'en had been sensible since childhood and loved Di Shaoze very much. She would not easily say such words unless she was in dire straits. She comforted him, "En'er, since you don't want to continue living together, then divorce him. It's okay, just pretend that this marriage never happened and continue to live with mother and me."

Mrs. Lin smoothed the back of her son's head with her warm hands.

Feeling his mother's understanding, the bitterness in Lin Huai'en's heart faded a little, but his heart, which had been chilled by the wind, was still difficult to warm up.

Day 1… Day 2… Day 3… Day 4…

Lin Huai'en didn't even come to the morning court.

Emperor Shaoze's eyes sometimes fell on the empty phoenix chair, and sometimes he was deep in thought, his face as dark as a dark cloud. The ministers dared not say a word, and no one dared to say even a wrong word. They went through the whole process with a tense face.

On the eighteenth day, Lin Huai'en finally arrived after all the ministers had left the court, but he also brought two prepared documents - a divorce letter, and a divorce letter.

Di Shaoze stared at the two pages of documents on the chopping board with a sullen face. He then glanced at Lin Huaien and changed the subject, "You've lost weight."

Lin Huai'en's face was a little bitter. Even though he had stuffed some extra white dough into his stomach in the morning, he was still so obviously thin that Di Shaoze could notice it at a glance.

Lin Huai'en turned his eyes away and said, "It's okay."

"For the last time you fell into the water, I promised you that I would demote Hu Ji by two ranks. Also, on the Lantern Festival, I will compensate you." Di Shaoze put down the divorce letter and walked towards Lin Huai'en step by step. "I will accompany you to review documents. I will also come to Baiyue Palace often. I will often send you gifts. I will not handcuff you again. I will not leave you alone on a thunder night again."

Di Shaoze's rather tall figure bullied Lin Huai'en's safe range. Lin Huai'en took a half step back uncomfortably, "I'm not trying to force Your Majesty to divorce. Your Majesty, you don't have to give in for me."

Di Shaoze hugged Lin Huai'en's waist, and with a gentle embrace and a caring tone, he coaxed her, "I promise to treat you well from now on. Don't leave me, okay?"

Lin Huai'en bit his lower lip, forcing himself not to miss Di Shaoze, and forcing himself to recall those times when he was cold, distant, selfish, terrible, and particularly hurtful.

Lin Huai'en forced himself to push Di Shaoze away and said coldly, "I'll give Your Majesty some time to think carefully about the divorce. I'll come back in a few days."

Di Shaoze couldn't help but feel lost after being pushed away. He had never been treated so coldly by Lin Huai'en before, but he didn't want to push Lin Huai'en too hard, so he could only watch helplessly as Lin Huai'en left...

But something unexpected happened here - Lin Huai'en had been unable to eat or drink for many days, and he felt dizzy when he was exposed to the sun. He missed a step and fell straight down the long stairs.

Di Shaoze's pupils shrank suddenly, and his body moved faster than his brain. He instinctively rushed over. Seeing a circle of blood on Lin Huai'en's head, he urgently shouted to the guards: "Quickly call the imperial physician!!"

Half an hour later, outside the tightly closed palace door.

The longer Di Shaoze waited, the redder his eyes became. Many bad premonitions kept coming to his mind, almost driving him to collapse.

The imperial physician opened the palace door and kowtowed to Emperor Shaoze, "Your Majesty, please rest assured. Lady Lin's condition has stabilized. At the same time, I would like to congratulate Your Majesty that Lady Lin is now four months pregnant."

Di Shaoze's heart finally settled down. Fortunately, Huai En was fine, and as luck would have it, they had a child...

The imperial physician continued, "But I have discovered that Lord Lin has developed memory problems due to the impact. He no longer remembers Your Majesty as his husband, but instead believes that General Xue is his husband."

Upon hearing this, Di Shaoze's pupils shrank to the size of needles, and an unprecedented sense of fear filled his heart...