Zhu Dan was undoubtedly a good emperor. The Great Zhou Dynasty developed rapidly over the past ten years, far surpassing its three neighboring countries.
The war seemed to have no effect on the prosperity of Shengjing City.
Zhu Yu, Lu Xiaoyun, and Lu Yuyan entered the palace together.
At this moment, in the Hall of State Affairs, civil and military officials gathered together to discuss countermeasures against the sudden attack on the Great Zhou by the Northern Qi and two other kingdoms, which had assembled a million-strong army.
"Your Majesty, His Highness Prince An, Princess An, and Marquis Yongyi request an audience," Chief Eunuch Wei hurriedly announced from outside the palace.
Zhu Dan jumped up from the dragon throne and strode outside, where the person he hadn't seen for ten years was right in front of him.
His first instinct was to look at the jade bracelet on Lu Xiaoyun's hand. The dazzling red light was gone, and Yun'er had returned to her body.
Time seems to have left no trace on the three of them; they look just like they did ten years ago.
These ten years have passed so quickly, so quickly that he has been suppressing his thoughts with a multitude of political affairs every day, forcing himself not to think about her.
These past ten years have passed so slowly, more than three thousand six hundred days and nights. In the dead of night, when I dream of her, it is always her...
"Your Majesty, may Your Majesty live ten thousand years!" The three of them knelt down before Zhu Dan and performed the grand ceremony of emperor and subject.
Zhu Dan's eyes reddened instantly, and she hurriedly stepped forward to help them up: "Fourth Brother, Yun... Fourth Sister-in-law, Ayan, it's been ten years..."
Ten years have passed, and Zhu Dan is now thirty years old, but he is still alone.
Countless civil and military officials in the court have repeatedly urged him to establish an empress and take concubines, but he remains unmoved.
When someone sent him women, he turned around and returned them to them, causing chaos in their own backyard.
Some ministers even privately speculated that the emperor might have some hidden illness, or perhaps he had homosexual tendencies.
Some people secretly sent him young men as gifts, and without exception, those who flattered him in the wrong way were either demoted or dismissed from their posts.
Since then, no one has dared to mention it again.
But the Great Zhou Dynasty cannot be without a successor...
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