Chapter 311: Request to Leave the Palace
Ever since Liu Yuetang entered the palace again, she didn't like to perform etiquette. Even when she performed etiquette, it was not standard, let alone such a grand etiquette. It really scared Xiao Heng.
He quickly helped her up: "If you have anything to say, please stand up and tell me. I will answer your call."
Liu Yuetang didn't stand up, but just looked up at Xiao Heng, her usually cold eyes containing a different emotion.
This familiar look made Xiao Heng's heart tighten, and the next moment he heard her say:
"Just now, when the emperor was protecting me, he subconsciously called me Miaomiao. I'm sure you know in your heart that I am Liu Yuetang."
"No! You're not!"
Xiao Heng suddenly grasped her wrist, his voice filled with panic, "I...I just called you the wrong name. You are not Liu Yuetang, you are Zong Zheng Qianyin, my Imperial Concubine Jing."
Liu Yuetang's wrist was gripped so hard that it hurt, but she didn't struggle. She just looked at the panic surging in his eyes. The panic almost dyed his eyes red.
Before, Xiao Heng tried every possible means to make himself admit that he was Liu Yuetang.
But now that she confessed, he was so panicked and scared.
I think he has already understood that she entered the palace as Zong Zheng Qianyin just to be able to leave him easily.
Liu Yuetang smiled awkwardly: "Your Majesty, I'm sure you've guessed it. The reason I returned to the palace this time is..."
"No! I don't want to listen." Xiao Heng interrupted her.
He squatted down, grasped Liu Yuetang's shoulders with both hands, and stared at her fiercely with his scarlet eyes: "No matter whether you are Liu Yuetang or Zongzheng Qianyin, I will not let you go. Once you enter the palace, you will be my woman, and you can only stay by my side."
"What if I insist on leaving?" Liu Yuetang looked at him, her eyes calm but resolute.
"I won't allow it! Liu Yuetang, since you've admitted that you are Liu Yuetang, you can't leave me! You are the second princess's biological mother, you can never set foot outside the palace."
Liu Yuetang's entire body was shaken violently by him. She frowned and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down."
"I can't calm down!" Xiao Heng's eyes were red with paranoia and his voice was trembling.
"I can't calm down at all!"
"Liu Yuetang, do you know that ever since you perished in the fire, my heart also died in that fire, but you came back, and my heart is alive again."
"I have made up my mind. It doesn't matter if you don't remember me. It doesn't matter if you want to be Zong Zheng Qianyin. As long as you are by my side, I will be your husband and start over with you. I will definitely love you well."
"But...but why do you still want to leave me? Why!"
He stared at Liu Yuetang, tears welling up without warning, his heart broken and powerless.
Looking at Xiao Heng, who was nearly on the verge of collapse, Liu Yuetang felt a mixture of emotions. She took a deep breath and said slowly, "Your Majesty, all this is God's will."
She took a step back, allowing Xiao Heng to release his hands from her shoulders.
"If I had really died in the fire that day, there would be no Zong Zheng Qianyin, and I would not have gone to Lanyue Country."
"After arriving in Lanyue Country, I found my family: my uncle, aunt, and many brothers and sisters. They taught me how to ride a horse on the grasslands, how to use a bow and shoot, and they gave me the love and care I had never experienced before."
"There's no such thing as male superiority and female inferiority. I can live my life as I please, without being trapped within these four palace walls, staring at a framed sky day after day. I'm tired of the intrigues in this palace, tired of my own constant anxiety about gain and loss. After twenty years of being forced to live my own life, I just want to live my life the way I want."
After saying this, she leaned forward and said, "I hope the emperor will grant my permission."
Looking at her calm expression, Xiao Heng felt as if his heart was being gripped by an invisible hand, the pain was so severe that he could hardly breathe.
Tears blurred his vision, and even Liu Yuetang's figure was shaking, "Are you so tired of me?"
The last few words were almost squeezed out of his throat, and tears slowly fell from the corners of his scarlet eyes and hit the gold bricks.
The sudden wetness made Liu Yuetang's eyelashes tremble slightly.
Is he crying?
She slowly raised her head, but saw Xiao Heng suddenly look away, leaving only the corners of his eyes wet.
Liu Yuetang stared at him quietly. "No, Your Majesty. I am not tired of you. For the past three years, you have given me grace and status that no one in the six palaces can match. I am moved and happy by your kindness towards me. But after I went to Lanyue, I realized that I want freedom more than power and status. What I am tired of is this palace, the intrigue, and the status of a concubine."
Xiao Heng slowly closed his eyes, his lips trembling uncontrollably.
She didn't dislike him.
But what she hated was all about him.
He could give her countless favors and status, but he could not give her the simplest and purest thing.
Because he is the emperor...
After a long while, Xiao Heng slowly opened his eyes, his voice hoarse as if covered with frost: "It's my fault."
"I...can't even give you the simplest things."
Just as Liu Yuetang moved her lips in surprise, thinking that he would let her go, Xiao Heng said, "But I said, if you return to the palace this time, I will never let you go again."
"Liu Yuetang! You are the second princess's mother, the one I hold dear to my heart. Even if you hate me or blame me, I will never let you go."
He couldn't bear to do it.
How could he bear to let her go? She had finally come back to life and was with him. How could he lose her again?
Liu Yuetang frowned, "Your Majesty, why are you doing this? If you force me to stay in this palace, neither you nor I will be happy."
"I'm happy!" Xiao Heng nodded quickly and looked at Liu Yuetang excitedly.
"As long as I can see you every day, it's enough for me, Miaomiao, really... As long as I can see you every day, it's enough for me."
"Don't leave me, okay?"
His eyes were full of pleading and vulnerability, and he replaced the usual "朕" with "我".
"Even if you are willing to abandon me, what about Yue'er? Can you bear to give up Yue'er? She is the child you carried for ten months and risked your life to give birth to. She is your biological daughter. Can you bear to give her up?"
He knew that the only thing she was reluctant to leave in the palace was her daughter, so he wanted to use his daughter to soften Liu Yuetang's heart and let her stay.
But she never expected that Liu Yuetang would actually say, "Your Majesty, I returned to the palace this time because I wanted to take Yue'er with me."
"She is still young and needs her mother's care. I cannot possibly abandon her."
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