The sedan chair stopped outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
Before Yuan Qing could even step onto the steps, Gao Zhong stopped him.
"Prime Minister Yuan, please wait in the Imperial Study for a moment. His Majesty has something to discuss with Miss Yuan privately."
On New Year's Day, I stopped in my tracks and looked back at them.
Yuan Qing raised an eyebrow: "Your Majesty is unmarried, and Yuan Yuan is unmarried. It's probably not appropriate for a lone man and woman to be alone in a room together, isn't it?"
Your Majesty, you are being a bit too hasty.
It's as if they desperately want the whole world to know that Yuanyuan belongs to you.
"Yuanyuan will be my empress sooner or later, what's wrong with that?"
A deep, pleasant male voice suddenly rang out.
Immediately, everyone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation knelt down, saying, "Greetings, Your Majesty."
I was raised with socialist ideology, and I can kneel to heaven, earth, and my parents, but I can't kneel to anyone else.
"Yuan Yuan." Seeing that Yuan Dan was standing still, Yuan Qing frowned and called out to her.
Yuan Dan stared blankly at the man, remaining unmoved.
Fortunately, Xiao Changqi didn't seem to care about arguing with her. The man said calmly, "Get up."
Fearing that Xiao Changqi would punish Yuan Dan, Yuan Qing hurriedly defended her, saying, "Your Majesty, Yuan Yuan, she..."
"I know." Xiao Changqi glanced at him casually. "Prime Minister, you should wait in the Imperial Study first."
Yuan Qing glanced at Yuan Dan with unease, and hesitantly replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, I shall take my leave."
Xiao Changqi turned and went back into the hall, and Yuan Dan followed him in.
"All of you, step back."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After the palace servants left, only Yuan Dan and Xiao Changqi remained in the hall.
Yuan Dan showed no sign of nervousness in front of the emperor. He casually walked a few steps in the hall, then asked with a smile, "Your Majesty, did you sleep well last night?"
Xiao Changqi looked at the woman who had obviously changed her clothes, his expression inscrutable: "It's acceptable."
Yuan Dan nodded casually, sat down at the table without any restraint, and toyed with her teacup, saying, "I heard His Majesty wants to marry me?"
Xiao Changqi said without changing his expression, "Now the entire court knows that I slept with a woman a few days ago, so of course I cannot be a heartless man."
"Throughout history, how few unfaithful emperors have there been?"
Xiao Changqi: "I am different from them."
Yuan Dan scoffed, "You're really narcissistic."
Xiao Changqi remained silent.
Yuan Dan glanced at the man sideways before speaking seriously, "What I told you last night wasn't nonsense. Can you really accept a woman who loves another man as your queen?"
"The one who deeply loves the Emperor is Little Phoenix, not Xiao Yuanyuan."
And the person he wants to marry is not Little Phoenix.
"But Little Phoenix and I are the same person."
Xiao Changqi countered, "Is that so?"
New Year:"……"
Of course not.
She is somewhat different from Little Phoenix.
After all, her thinking still retains traces of modernity.
"Your Majesty, let's set aside who I love for now, and talk about you. Why do you want to marry me?"
Xiao Changqi: "You are the little bird I raised."
"So, you're actually going to marry your little bird, not me."
Xiao Changqi scoffed and said, "That's just sophistry."
Yuan Dan shook her head, her voice soft and gentle: "Your Majesty, you see, you married me only because I was your pet bird, not because you had me in your heart, or rather, not because you loved me."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Changqi frowned but did not respond.
“We little birds demand a lifelong, monogamous relationship. If you don’t love me, it’s best not to keep someone you don’t love by your side. That would be unfair to both of us.” Yuan Dan said earnestly, “You want to marry me now because you can’t bear the thought of your pet bird leaving you. It’s just your possessiveness acting up.”
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