Chapter 138: The weight of beauty and the world in everyone's heart is...
Xiu Yu had never seen Xuanye like this before. His face was so dark that the hand holding the teacup was shaking slightly with anger.
"Your Majesty..." Xiu Yu walked forward and gently held Xuanye's shoulders: "I am here."
Xuanye leaned gently into Xiu Yu's arms, and after a long while he said, "Yu'er, the prince whom I have devoted all my efforts to train, the child I trust the most..." As he spoke, his heart ached and his eyes became wet.
Xiu Yu gently stroked Xuanye's head, waiting for him to tell his story slowly.
After a long while, Xuanye finally spoke again: "Yu'er, what should I do? How can I be the emperor and how can I be the father?"
Xiu Yu bit her lower lip lightly, and after a long while she said, "Your Majesty, in your heart, is the world the most important thing?"
Xuanye calmed down, frowning slightly as he spoke, "When I was young, my mother-in-law told me, 'If I have the empire, I won't have to worry about beautiful women.' I have always put the empire first."
"Is Your Majesty willing to listen to Yu'er's true feelings?"
Xuanye asked Xiuyu to sit next to him and said, "Go ahead. I want to hear you. You can say anything."
Xiu Yu, like Xuan Ye, frowned. "Yu'er thought that the men of the Aisin-Gioro family were all romantic, from Emperor Taizong to the late Emperor. Actually..."
Xuanye smiled bitterly: "According to you, do I still need to understand Yinreng? Do I need to implicate the late emperor for Yinreng's actions?"
"Yu'er just feels..." Given Yinreng's unique status, Xiuyu actually felt that nothing she said was appropriate, but saying nothing wasn't appropriate either. "The Crown Prince is wrong, but the word 'love' is perhaps truly difficult to explain. Just like, why do you think you're willing to stay with me?"
"How can Zheng Ying'er compare with you!" Xuanye gasped heavily for a long time before he said, "I know what you mean, and I also understand what love is. But, it's all Yinreng's misfortune. He was born in a royal family, and the one he fell in love with was..." Xuanye couldn't say the words 'another woman of his father' no matter what.
Xiu Yu really didn't know what to say, so she just stopped talking.
After a while, Xuanye continued, "Yinreng actually only has two choices. Either he continues to be the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty and lets Zheng Ying'er go where she should be. I can pretend that nothing happened. Or..." He still felt a little reluctant, but he still said, "The Qing Dynasty can also do without him as the crown prince!"
Xiu Yu was of course fully aware of what Xuanye meant. She simply suddenly realized that, as expected, the imperial family was the most ruthless.
At night, in Yikun Palace, Xiu Yu sat on the couch, holding a scroll in her hands, but she couldn't read a single word of what was written in the book. Xuanye was also reading the memorial approved by Yinreng. At this moment, he was really mixed with emotions, and the feeling in his heart was really hard to express in words.
Two people, one reading a book and the other reading a memorial, did not say a word for a whole hour. Perhaps not speaking was a kind of tacit understanding.
At three o'clock in the morning, the candles were weeping. Xiu Yu sighed softly, and finally stood up and walked to Xuanye, saying, "Your Majesty, it's time to rest."
Xuanye closed the memorial in his hand, looked up at Xiu Yu, and said, "Yu'er, do you think I'm too cruel?"
Xiu Yu shook her head gently. "Just now, I've been thinking a lot. I wonder what I would do if I were you and encountered this situation." Her eyelids drooped, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. "There really is no solution. So, I know it's really difficult for you."
Xuanye stood up and held Xiuyu's hand, saying with a wry smile, "I knew you would understand. This time, it's really difficult for me." But no matter how difficult it is, we have to go on... Xuanye took Xiuyu's hand and walked towards the warm room: "I should actually be thankful that the woman I fell in love with happens to be my concubine. I guess God has been kind to me."
Xiu Yu hesitated for a while, and finally said: "But Your Majesty, if, I mean if, if the Crown Prince really chose that Zheng Ying'er..."
Xuanye's brows furrowed even more tightly. "If that's the case, then that's what I said. The Qing Dynasty doesn't necessarily need a crown prince to sit on the throne."
This was exactly what Xiu Yu feared most. She hoped her children would grow up safely and peacefully, without major disasters. However, if the Crown Prince was deposed, a bloody storm would inevitably ensue... Could her three sons truly escape unscathed from this bloody storm? How much would the Emperor endure? Thinking of this, Xiu Yu couldn't help but tighten her grip on Xuanye's hand.
Xuanye and Xiuyu sat down on the bed together, his gaze growing darker. "Yu'er, being a woman by the emperor's side is not easy. You were sent by Heaven to help me consolidate the Qing dynasty. Perhaps Zheng Ying'er was sent by Heaven to test Yinreng. If Yinreng fails this test, it is also Heaven's will. No matter what I face in the future, and what my sons face, we must follow Heaven's will, right?"
How should I answer this question? Xiu Yu gently leaned on Xuanye's shoulder and said, "Yu'er believes that no matter what the emperor chooses, it must be carefully considered. No matter what, Yu'er will always stand by your side. This will never change."
In reality, it wasn't Xuanye who was choosing, but Yinreng. Power or women, the empire or beauty—which should he choose? Yinreng tossed and turned. He had been the crown prince since childhood, truly groomed to be the future emperor. He had called himself "orphan" for years. Logically, a man should have the world in his heart, and compared to women, the world was naturally more important. But if he chose the world, Ying'er would die...
"Ying'er will die!" Yinreng covered his face with his hands. For the whole night, there were only these five words in his mind: Ying'er will die... Ying'er will die... "I can't let her die!" At the moment of dawn, he finally made the final decision.
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