Should I address you as Your Highness or as Young Master Yang?

Overwhelmed with mixed emotions, Zhen Mi entered the room and stood in front of Liu Wei.

Liu Wei also got up from the bed and walked aggressively to Zhen Mi.

The two were about an arm's length apart, and you could feel their breathing.

Liu Wei did not answer Zhen Mi's question, but instead asked, "Mi'er, would you rather be Yang Wei, the young hero of Zhuojun, or a prince of the Han Dynasty?"

“I don’t want either of them. I just want to live here quietly. You want our whole family to give up this place? I don’t agree.”

Zhen Mi knew she had fallen for the unruly young man, but she stubbornly refused to admit it.

"Heh, only you have the right to talk to me like that!"

"But these things are beyond your control. Even if you hadn't met me, and your father hadn't betrothed you to me, Yuan Xi would still have come to propose marriage."

"If you don't agree, will Yuan Xi allow your Zhen family to live peacefully in Wuji?"

Liu Wei remained calm.

"But you are clearly a prince of the Han Dynasty, so why did you disguise yourself as a commoner boy and come to Zhen Family Village to stir my heartstrings?"

"It's clearly the same person, yet you insist on making me choose. How can you be so treacherous and cunning?"

Zhen Mi clearly blamed Liu Wei for deliberately flirting with her, as he had only wanted to see the Zhen family make a fool of themselves from beginning to end.

"Then let me ask you, if I weren't that prince of the Han Dynasty, but merely a wandering knight from Zhuojun, even if you chose to run away with me yesterday, how could your family have let you go?"

"In their eyes, you are just a political tool."

Liu Wei said coldly, "If it were anyone else, your Zhen family would have been wiped out long ago. I'm only letting it go because of you, by refusing to argue with your father, brothers, and sisters."

"Try to think about the last time I saved your family from a crisis, and now you're so grateful to me?"

"Your father wants to marry you and your sisters to me, and he has offered me countless sums of money and grain, begging me to marry you!"

"I don't need to explain his motives for doing this, do I?"

Zhen Mi's eyes widened; she couldn't bear to listen any longer: "Alright! Please, you don't need to say anymore!"

Her face was filled with conflict and pain, as if she could not accept that her loving family had only used her as a tool to achieve upward social mobility.

"Mi'er, you are the woman who has moved my heart so far, and you have shown me what love is!"

Suddenly, Liu Wei grabbed Zhen Mi's shoulders and stared into her eyes, "No matter what happens in the future, I will always be your Zhuojun Young Hero!"

Zhen Mi's delicate shoulders struggled symbolically for a few moments, but upon hearing Liu Wei's affectionate words, she let out a soft moan and collapsed into Liu Wei's broad chest, her eyes already brimming with tears.

"Young master, I am only your Mi'er!"

"I know you'll have many more women around you in the future, but all I know is that in Mi'er's heart, you are just that young man who stood alone with a knife in front of the manor gate that day, unafraid of a thousand men!"

Hearing Zhen Mi's heartfelt words, Liu Wei couldn't help but hug her tightly, look out the window, and murmur:

"I'm still the same boy I always was, without a single change..."

......

Half an hour later, the entire Zhen family had finished getting ready and gathered in front of Zhen Family Village.

Of the more than one hundred people in Zhenjiazhuang, most were dismissed, leaving only one or fourty or fifty to follow.

Hundreds of horses and more than a dozen carriages, fully loaded with boxes, resembled a caravan.

Accompanied by Zhen Yi and his son, Liu Wei arrived at the front of the line.

Seeing that the Zhen family was moving house, even bringing a bronze mirror and a wooden basin, he couldn't help but frown:

"Throw it away, throw it all away!"

"We need to travel light; such a large and cumbersome force will only slow down our march."

"I want to get to Baiyangdian within a day!"

"Your Highness, this is all we have left. If we lose it all, we'll have nothing left!" Madam Zhen cried, her face contorted with grief.

Zhen Yi was surprised that his wife was reluctant to part with these little things, and immediately said angrily, "Womanly sentimentality, you can't bear to part with these jars and pots."

"Once we arrive in Youzhou, will His Highness the Prince still treat us poorly?"

Liu Wei knew that Zhen Yi was deliberately saying this to him, so he said calmly, "I can grant your Zhen family a business, and in the future, you will be rich and powerful throughout the world."

"As for Zhen Yao, whether he can be recommended as a filial and incorrupt official in the future depends on his own abilities!"

Upon hearing Liu Wei's words, Zhen Yi was overjoyed: "Old woman, did you hear that? Quickly listen to the prince and throw all these things away!"

"This old house was also burned down!"

"Really burning it? Wouldn't it be better to keep it?" Madam Zhen murmured, she really couldn't bear to part with it.

"Burn it! Just take the memorial tablets of our ancestors with you!" Zhen Yi waved his hand in anguish.

"That's unnecessary!"

Upon hearing that Zhen Yi wanted to burn down the house, Liu Wei immediately stopped him, saying, "This is only a temporary departure. We will return in time!"

What!

Zhen Yi burst into tears of joy, having discerned the underlying meaning in Liu Wei's words.

Liu Yu relinquished the governorship of Youzhou to Liu Wei; this was a foregone conclusion, and no one else would dare to accept it.

It should be noted that Liu Wei, in Youzhou, defeated nearly 300,000 rebel and foreign troops with tens of thousands of soldiers.

This battle shook China, and the news had already spread like wildfire in Luoyang.

With such achievements, who would dare to criticize him?

I heard that even General He Jin has become much more restrained, and his voice was noticeably softer when he mentioned Liu Wei.

Zhen Yi also obtained information about Luoyang from merchants who came and went.

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