Gu En asked curiously, "Third Sister, what would you do if you met a man who treated you better than Brother Yuan someday?"

Gu Xin replied without hesitation, "Impossible! Apart from my family, there is no one in this world who treats me better than Brother Yuanyuan. He would even risk his life for me."

Gu Shouxin sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation. That bastard Lu Zheng still held a place in his daughter's heart after all!

Gu Nian was somewhat envious of Gu Xin. In fact, she also hoped that she could have such a pure, unadulterated, resilient, and unique love.

Unfortunately, fate played a cruel joke on her.

...

That day, Zhang suddenly noticed that everyone seemed to be packing up their things. She was a little puzzled and wanted to ask Cai Xiaolian, but Cai Xiaolian had gone to the Chen family next door. So she had no choice but to ask Grandma Gu.

Zhang is a person who can be hateful when she's not doing well, but she also has many good qualities, such as asking questions when she doesn't understand something.

Grandma Gu was also puzzled when Zhang asked this question: "Didn't the eldest son tell you?"

Zhang: "What did you say?"

I always have this feeling that my whole family is about to do something big behind my back.

Grandma Gu sighed, "This eldest son is such a troublesome and unreliable person."

Grandma Gu told her that the second son might be going to serve as an official in a local area, and the whole family would have to go with him. She had already told the eldest son about this.

Before Zhang could even be moved that the second son's family took the eldest son's family with them everywhere, she angrily went to find Uncle Gu.

In the palace, after a night of deliberation, the Empress Dowager decided to tell the Emperor the truth, so she sent someone to wait for him after court.

After the emperor finished his court session, he rushed over, thinking something important had happened. His grandmother hadn't sent anyone to wait for him after court for many years.

As a result, he heard news that shocked and delighted him upon his arrival: "Grandmother, can I resign from being the emperor and wander the world with the empress?"

The Empress Dowager glared at him, annoyed: "If you don't become emperor, who will? You not only want to be emperor, but you also want to make sure I sit firmly on this throne!"

The emperor felt wronged: "Grandmother, my uncle has already returned. Father, Mother, and I all agree that the throne should belong to my uncle."

The Empress Dowager looked at him sternly: "Have all the things I've taught you over the years gone to waste? You think you can just abdicate the throne like that?..."

The Empress Dowager gave the Emperor a severe dressing-down.

The emperor was completely baffled. All he wanted was to return the throne to his uncle, right? All he wanted was to be a carefree prince, right? All he wanted was to take the empress on a sea voyage, right?

He genuinely felt that being an emperor was exhausting! Look at his father, who died of exhaustion before he was even forty; he didn't want to die young! His grandmother was over seventy and could still go out and have fun; he wanted that too!

Seeing the aggrieved emperor, the Empress Dowager couldn't bear it and sighed, "Your Majesty, this is all fate! You've been a good emperor, and the people of our Great Zhou support you, which shows you have the talent. You can't be selfish and only think about your own enjoyment."

The Emperor looked at the Empress Dowager with a wronged expression: "Grandmother, if I may say something disrespectful, I am selfish, but you are even more selfish, thinking only that your uncle's family will have less trouble and more ease, so you make me do everything!"

The Empress Dowager was so angry she wanted to throw a teacup at him. The emperor she had strictly disciplined over the years was actually a playful person?

Didn't you play enough when you were a child?

Having been emperor for so many years, he was not greedy for power at all. Who in history has been like him?

What kind of weirdo did she raise?