The crown prince is too clever and skilled in martial arts; it seems that there is no one or nothing that can stump him. How can such an overly capable emperor not be frightening?
How many officials in the court are absolutely clean? Who dares to say they haven't done one or two shady things? If this is in the hands of the emperor, who knows how this tough new emperor will deal with these old guys?
However, Xingxing couldn't care less about what those officials were worried about. Anyway, she had retired. Now that she was thirty-three years old, she didn't want to wait until she was old and frail to leave the court.
Alas, in the end, she was not a power-hungry person. After all, her son was the one who succeeded her, and no matter how you looked at it, Yu'er was more capable than her. That's why she abdicated so decisively.
Before the new emperor ascended the throne, Xingxing and Zhulin naturally did not actually leave the capital, but hid elsewhere and did not appear. On the day of the new emperor's ascension, the two were staying at the Zhou residence.
Zhao Guihua was so angry that she cried. She punched Xingxing's shoulder and said, "You heartless mother, you just dump everything on your child like this, without caring about him at all. Yu'er is only sixteen years old and he has to support the entire court. You are not by his side to help him. You even want to leave the capital and live a carefree life. You are too cruel."
Xingxing rubbed her shoulder. Actually, Zhao Guihua didn't use much force. Although she felt sorry for her grandson, she also loved her daughter. She couldn't bear to really hit her. It was just a bluff. Xingxing rubbed her shoulder a couple of times as if she had really been hit and was trying to win the old woman's heart.
“Mother, I was only sixteen when I ascended the throne. We were pregnant at the time. It wasn’t easy for us back then. Those old guys in the court were always trying to make things difficult for me. I suffered a lot back then. Do you remember?”
Reminded by Xingxing, Zhao Guihua remembered this matter. It seemed to be true. Xingxing was still a young girl who had endured tremendous pressure to ascend to the throne. It was not as easy as Yu'er's life. In comparison, Xingxing was more aggrieved.
"Mother is getting confused. People tend to forget things from the past when they get old. We almost forgot the hardships you endured back then. Back then, our family fled from Yegou Village to Quanshuifu. We were chased by men in black all the way, and we almost lost our lives several times. It was truly a difficult journey..." The old woman just couldn't bear to talk about the past. Once she did, she would go on and on.
Zhao Guihua chatted on and on until lunchtime, when her daughter-in-law said it was time to eat. Only then did she come to her senses. "It's lunchtime already. What about Yu'er's coronation ceremony?"
"Of course it's over. The coronation ceremony went very smoothly without any mishaps. Now, Yu'er is the emperor of this world, and I am now the de facto emperor emeritus," Xingxing said, spreading her hands.
In the sixteenth year of the Yongping reign, Emperor Yongping abdicated, and Crown Prince Wang Yu ascended the throne, adopting the reign title 'Yongtai,' which, like Yongping, expressed the hope for eternal peace throughout the land.
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