"Father, does mother look good?"

"Well... ahem, Madam's beauty and talent are rare in this world. I didn't mean to offend you."

"It's okay. Everyone loves beauty."

Chu Yuening felt relieved when she heard the emperor's frank apology.

She is not a narcissist.

The emperor has three thousand beauties in his harem, so it is impossible for him to fall in love with a married woman.

What's more, how could a great emperor in history covet someone else's wife like Cao Mengde?

Maybe he was just temporarily fascinated by her beauty.

Although she thought so, Chu Yuening still picked up her daughter and said goodbye in a hurry.

She always kept A Zheng and Qin Shi Huang distinct.

One is a lover who shares the same joys and sorrows.

One is a stranger you met by chance.

In order to avoid suspicion, it is better to keep your distance for the time being.

Anyway, the plan has been given out, so next I will stay in the palace and wait for Zhaozhao to come back and go home together.

The other side.

Qin Shihuang looked at the woman's back as she left without any reluctance, and a trace of bitterness rose in his heart.

Is she so shunning me like the plague?

Obviously she was so gentle and affectionate towards her other self...

The candlelight danced, and light and shadow intertwined on the emperor's mature and handsome face, half like a god and half like a devil.

Thick ink was swirling in those phoenix eyes that were as deep as the sea. Deep in the eyes that could not be seen through, there was a paranoia and possessive desire that was determined to obtain.

The emperor picked up the teacup opposite him, and gently stroked the rim of the cup with his rough fingertips, as if he could smell the faint fragrance and touch the heart-swaying warmth.

After a while.

He called the Shadow Guards in a deep voice and gave orders.

"Try to delay Wu Anjun back to the palace, but do not hurt him."

"...As you command, Your Majesty."

The emperor noticed that the Shadow Guard was hesitant to speak, but he still had no intention of changing his mind.

He knew that he was too irrational, and could even be said to have been blinded by lust.

He was nothing like the wise, calm and intelligent monarch he usually was.

The funny thing is that he didn't even understand the reason for his impulse.

Perhaps it was because of the inexplicable feelings in his heart, perhaps it was because of her talent in governing a country, or perhaps he couldn't bear to leave his three well-behaved and caring children...

There are many high-sounding excuses.

But, none of this matters.

The true nature of the emperor is plunder.

What he always wants is to fight and grab, just like this world.