September 17th marked the tenth day of Xie Yuan's coma.
The entire palace was shrouded in thick, dark clouds, as quiet as a dead city.
Not to mention the palace maids and eunuchs, even the Empress Dowager and the imperial concubines were all trembling with fear, as if walking on thin ice.
The few people who still dared to speak up were probably the four little ones and Xie Zhen.
The four children were still young, so Xie Zhen stood in front of Helian Jue and said, "Brother, please don't do this. It will make your sister uneasy."
Xie Zhen addressed Helian Jue as "elder brother" with the same affection as when he had just left the capital.
Sure enough, upon hearing the familiar address, a hint of relief flashed in Helian Jue's bloodshot eyes.
His voice was hoarse, but he didn't take Xie Zhen's words to heart and greeted her, "Oh, it's Zhen."
Seeing Helian Jue's calm expression but terrifying eyes, Xie Zhen clenched her fists, desperately telling herself: Don't be afraid! This is my brother! It's not someone else!
“Brother, before my sister fell into a coma, she said that if anything were to happen to her, she would ask you to take good care of yourself and never do anything foolish!”
"My elder sister has said countless times that you are destined to become a wise and virtuous ruler of a prosperous era, whose name will be remembered for all time. Under your rule, the Great Zhou Dynasty is destined to become the most glorious and brilliant chapter in history."
She hopes you will be like a dragon soaring through the sky, forever roaming the peaks of the clouds—
Xie Zhen had not yet gone through puberty, and her voice still had the clear, childlike quality of a child.
But his words carried weight.
Helian Jue was stunned. "A Yuan doesn't want me to go with her?"
What happened to the promise of sharing life and death?
Xie Zhen didn't quite understand these adult love stories, but he still truthfully told Helian Jue the few words his sister said before she fell into a coma: "My sister said that she loves you, so she wants you to always be well."
“Even if she’s gone, you have your own grand ambitions and your children, including Aping.”
Helian Jue's heart was touched.
But soon, it was overshadowed by madness: If A Yuan leaves, what use is this world to me?
As for children?
Well, it's the child Ah Yuan gave birth to for him, so we can't really just ignore it.
Helian Jue thought he would make arrangements: the Crown Prince would ascend the throne, and Empress Dowager Xiao and the Fourth Prince would serve as regents.
Several ministers in the Council of State could also become regents.
After several days of "retaliation," Helian Jue purged the powerful and influential families time and time again.
With the Black Armor Army and the Silver Armor Army, the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Embroidered-Robed Envoys... Helian Jue left Crown Prince Helian Ye with too many trump cards.
Even if he is still a child of a few years old, he will have plenty of time to grow up and secure his throne.
Back when he and A Yuan were exiled to Lingnan, they would always come back to fight.
As the eldest son of Helian Ye and A Yuan, Helian Ye possessed so many trump cards yet still couldn't be a good emperor; he deserved a tragic end.
"Okay! Zhen, I understand!"
"By the way, didn't you want to become my Marquis of Champion? I can allocate an army to you, and you can command it well—" while protecting the Crown Prince.
Although Xie Zhen is still a child, twelve or thirteen years old is quite good!
Helian Jue had great confidence in the child he had raised himself.
Those who think Xie Zhen only relies on having an empress sister and is actually very easy to fool, haha, they can go ask Yuwen Hao in the underworld.
Yuwen Hao, who was captured by Xie Zhen, will tell those people the answer!
Helian Jue believed that if he and A Yuan were gone, Xie Zhen would definitely take good care of the Crown Prince and the other children.
Xie Zhen suddenly raised his head, his eyes, which were remarkably similar to Xie Yuan's, fixed on Helian Jue. "Brother?"
The sage's words are extremely ominous.
It even had a hint of arranging his final affairs.
Helian Jue didn't say anything more to Xie Zhen. He waved his hand, and two shadow guards instantly appeared.
The guards, half respectfully and half forcibly, "invited" Xie Zhen out.
In the vast palace, only Helian Jue and Xie Yuan remained.
"...Ah Yuan, are you really not coming back?"
"Very well, then I'll give it a try and see if I can travel to your world!"
In the past few days, Helian Jue not only asked the monks and Taoists to find a way to awaken Xie Yuan, but also asked them to set up some kind of magic array to send the person whose soul had left the body to another world.
The monks and Taoists: ...The emperor is driving us crazy!
Where would they get such skills?
They didn't even know what the "other world" the emperor was talking about was.
However, once the emperor gave the order, they had no choice but to obey.
otherwise--
The imperial prison was a place where prisoners were not selected.
Even those who become monks or nuns are not truly able to escape the shackles of worldly life.
Throughout history, there have been quite a few emperors who both revered and suppressed Buddhism.
If they don't handle things properly now, Helian Jue, this tyrant who has lost his mind, could definitely wipe out all the monks and Taoists within the Great Zhou Dynasty!
So even if it was an act or a deception, they still managed to create a formation.
As for whether it would be effective, and whether the emperor would drag everyone to their deaths after discovering it was ineffective, they no longer cared!
We'll get through each hurdle as best we can, and live as long as we can.
"Waaah, Your Majesty, please wake up soon!"
The monks and Taoists pretended to set up the formation while praying frantically.
Not only them, but countless people inside and outside the court and throughout the capital were praying to Heaven.
Perhaps I had too many wishes, and it seems that God heard them.
On the morning of September 18th, Helian Jue sat by the bedside again all night.
Several days of sleepless nights had left him looking both haggard and terrifying.
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