Chapter 272 Willing to Admit Defeat
After dealing with the Li family, it will be the turn of the Li Guogong Mansion.
Xie Chen sat on the couch for a long time and then moved to the imperial study.
He personally issued an imperial decree, stripping Duke Li of his title and exiling all of Duke Li's first branch of the family to the northwest.
Pei Tingyue was shocked when he saw the imperial edict.
This punishment was a disaster that would wipe out the entire Li family, and there was no mercy at all.
But it is extremely beneficial to her.
In this way, the matter of King Xuan beating someone was easily resolved. The Duke of Li's mansion was gone, and the matter could only be left unresolved.
After Xie Chen finished writing the imperial edict, he did not move for a long time.
Pei Tingyue knew that he was upset, so she took his hand and tried to comfort him, "Your Majesty, do you think the punishment you gave to the Duke of Li's Mansion was too much?"
Xie Chen shook his head: "No, the crime of deceiving the emperor is punishable by the death of all nine generations of the clan. I have shown them mercy by giving them a chance to live."
Pei Tingyue asked again, "Then does the Emperor think that if the Duke of Li's mansion is dealt with, the late Emperor and Empress Li will not rest in peace in the afterlife?"
Xie Chen also shook his head. "No, my mother is a person who knows right from wrong and is also very open-minded. She would be heartbroken by the actions of the Duke of Li's Mansion, but she would be relieved to see me punish her in this way. She won't be troubled by this matter and lose her peace."
Pei Tingyue squatted down and asked softly, "Why is the emperor so depressed?"
Xie Chen hugged her to him and sighed, "I'm just a little melancholy. I've already thought of such a good path for them, but they were greedy and ended up like this."
Pei Tingyue comforted him and said, "They should regret it. They failed to meet the emperor's expectations. The emperor shouldn't be the one feeling depressed."
Hearing this, Xie Chen smiled faintly, "Yes, Tingyue is right, it's me who is causing trouble for myself."
Pei Tingyue looked at him and said seriously, "Put aside these emotions. Your Majesty should think about how to appease the Third Prince. You can't hide the fact that his mother was sentenced to death. You must tell him tactfully."
Xie Chen sighed: "Wait until tomorrow when the court is dismissed. I will go to my mother's palace and explain this matter to Yu Shi."
Pei Tingyue stroked his eyebrows with her fingertips: "I will go too. Tomorrow morning, I will take Yuzhou and Axun to the Cining Palace. Our comfort may not be of any use to Yushi, but I know that Yushi actually likes Yuzhou, Axun and the others very much. With them around, Yushi may feel better."
Xie Chen held her hand, placed it on his lips and kissed it, "How can I thank you? First you pointed out my dilemma, and then you tried to find a way to comfort Yu Shi."
Pei Tingyue put her arms around his neck, tilted her head and smiled, "I did this not to ask the emperor to thank me, but to make the emperor happier and more relaxed."
This...
Xie Chen once said this to her.
Now the situation has reversed, she said to him.
When Xie Chen said this, he didn't think there was anything wrong. These were all sincere words.
But when I heard it, it felt completely different.
He only felt that his heartbeat under his skin was getting faster and faster like a drum, almost breaking his eardrum and rushing out.
Xie Chen took a deep breath, and those complicated, wild, and unfamiliar emotions turned into a sigh.
He gave up completely.
He said, "I love you so much."
Pei Tingyue never thought that he would mention the word love at this time.
She thought it would be on her birthday, or his birthday, or on an important day in the future.
But on such an ordinary day, he said these words.
When Pei Tingyue heard this, his heart tightened and his emotions were not calm. At least his heart skipped a beat.
She opened her lips and responded.
After a while, she developed a greedy and delusional thought and ordered, "Don't say that."
Xie Chen was puzzled, with doubt in his eyes. "Is Tingyue unhappy when I say this?"
Pei Tingyue snorted twice: "It's not that I'm unhappy, it's that I'm dissatisfied."
Xie Chen still didn't understand: "Huh?"
Pei Tingyue held his handsome face in her hands and said fearlessly, "You said you love me very much."
Xie Chen didn't understand at first.
What he said is the same as what he just said.
Later I understood and said, "I love you so much."
Now Pei Tingyue was satisfied.
She couldn't suppress the corners of her lips anymore, so she hugged him and kissed him.
Xie Chen naturally wouldn't let her go.
The two exchanged a passionate kiss.
After they separated, Xie Chen asked, "What's the difference?"
Pei Tingyue said, "Our status is not equal. When you said that before, it was the love that the emperor bestowed upon me. When you said that later, it was the love between us that was equal."
Xie Chen didn't know where she came up with this theory, but in his opinion, there was no difference.
But seeing that she obviously liked the second one, he said it twice more and received two more kisses.
Xie Chen liked the kiss at first, but he became dissatisfied later. He turned her face and said, "Since Tingyue said it's equal, then I have said it, and Tingyue must say it too."
Pei Tingyue wanted to gloss over it.
Xie Chen just looked at her straight.
Pei Tingyue said: "Talk about it, make preparations."
Xie Chen narrowed his eyes dangerously: "You used to come here casually when Tingyue said so, but now you have to prepare? Do you not love me as much anymore?"
Pei Tingyue rolled his eyes silently in his heart.
She thought, I lied to you before, so she just blurted it out.
Now...
Now she doesn't want to lie anymore.
However, she only dared to complain in her heart and did not dare to say it out loud.
Even if she told him now, nothing would happen to her. This man would just cry for a while and be possessive, and he wouldn't be willing to do anything to her.
So why bother saying it?
He was crying. Although she felt a little excited when she thought of that scene, she still felt sad. So she let it go.
Pei Tingyue suppressed these emotions and prepared to say that sentence.
Without the pressure she had imagined, she said it very naturally, her eyebrows curved into crescents, and she whispered, "I love you too."
Xie Chen felt that what she said this time was more touching than the previous times.
He attributed it to the fact that he hadn't listened for a long time.
After being satisfied, Xie Chen said sadly, "It's not equal."
Pei Tingyue was about to explode.
Xie Chen easily smoothed it out.
"It was me...I, who lost to Tingyue."
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