On that day, Yin Jin'an suddenly felt irritable and restless. After finishing reviewing the memorials, he was exhausted and lay down fully clothed.
Suddenly, he saw Xie Zhaozhao smiling as she approached him, saying, "Yin Jin'an, I've come to see you!"
Yin Jin'an hurriedly got up to pour her some water, saying, "Why did you come alone? Why didn't you tell me beforehand?"
"Yin Jin'an, there are a few things I want to tell you. The first is that I will be entrusting this to you in nine days."
"good."
"There's one more thing. I've never dared to look at you like this before, but now I want to."
Yin Jin'an removed the mask from her face and said, "Look."
Xie Zhaozhao looked at him seriously and said with a smile, "If Jingchen saw this, he would probably be jealous again."
Yin Jin'an suddenly said, half-jokingly, "Xie Zhaozhao, could you consider me in your next life?"
Xie Zhaozhao laughed: "No, Jingchen has already made a reservation."
"You promised him?"
"Um!"
"In that case, the next life... let's not have a next life."
Xie Zhaozhao stood up with a smile and said, "Yin Jin'an, I hope you and Jiutian are both doing well. I'm leaving now."
He stood up and drifted away.
Yin Jin'an was a little anxious. Why did he just leave like that?
With a sudden effort, I woke up with a start, only to find it was all a dream.
A thin layer of sweat appeared on my forehead, and my heart was pounding like a drum.
He was extremely uneasy and summoned Wang Can, saying that he needed to go to Yulong Kingdom immediately to check on Emperor An, as something might have happened to him.
Wang Can was worried, so he ordered Gu Bahuang to escort him to the Jade Dragon Kingdom.
Upon reaching the border of the Jade Dragon Kingdom, they happened to encounter an envoy from the Jade Dragon Kingdom delivering a letter of state via express courier, informing them that Emperor Chen and Emperor An had both passed away on the same day, the Shangsi Festival.
Moreover, the entire Yulong Kingdom was in mourning. To prevent any accidents, the imperial court ordered the borders of Yulong Kingdom to be sealed off for three months, allowing foreigners to leave but not enter.
Yin Jin'an sat silently facing east for a whole day before returning to the palace.
Within two months, Yin Jin'an dreamed of Li Yunmu, Gu Zhongjin, Ren Jialin (Lin Hansu), Yunyang, Yunyuan, Yunyao, Yunhe...
They came to "visit" him one after another with great care and sincerity.
He also carefully "sent them off" one by one.
Three months later, Jiutian returned.
Unexpectedly, upon entering the palace, they were greeted by a vast expanse of funeral banners.
Wang Can knelt down and cried, "Princess, you've finally returned?"
Jiutian saw Yin Jin'an being refrigerated in the ice room.
He has been gone for a month, his face is lifelike, his lips are smiling, and he is not in pain.
In his study were two sealed wooden tablets, sealed using his unique method of sealing insect eggs.
Aside from the Nine Heavens, no one else can access it.
After the Nine Heavens opened, one document was "The Edict of Succession to Princess Longxiang," and the other was "Past Life and Present Life."
The first edict was quite simple, entrusting the Qi Kingdom to Jiutian. He didn't trust anyone else with the responsibility; even Zhou Qiheng was unreliable, let alone anyone else who might be wary of Jiutian. So, he simply made Jiutian the highest authority. It was just a pity for his most beloved young child.
In the second letter, he said he had a secret to tell Jiutian…
On the sixth day of the sixth month of the twenty-fifth year of the Qi calendar, the State of Qi announced to the world that the late Emperor Aotian had passed away at the age of forty-two.
In the same month, Princess Longxiang ascended the throne, adopting the reign title Aotian, and was historically known as Empress Aotian, or Aotian II.
Someone asked, "Empress Aotian, you are the younger sister of Emperor Zhang and the Jade Dragon Kingdom. Will the Qi Kingdom become a vassal state of the Jade Dragon Kingdom?"
In response, Empress Aotian replied, "The Kingdom of Qi was founded by Emperor Aotian and will forever belong to Emperor Aotian!"
The Second Prince of Aotian was even more diligent than the Emperor of Aotian, and the Qi Kingdom gradually caught up with the Yulong Kingdom, even showing signs of surpassing it.
A century later, the Qi Kingdom became the strongest nation on the Tian Sheng Continent.
Those who thought that Empress Aotian would eventually bring the Qi Kingdom back to Yulong never saw the Qi Kingdom change its name, even until they entered their coffins.
Those who always thought that Empress Aotian would get married and that Qi would change its ruler, have long since seen no sign of her getting married, their graves overgrown with weeds.
The Xiao family royal family had been waiting for Jiutian to select an heir within the Xiao family for so long that even their grandson had passed away, but there was still no news of Aotian II establishing a crown prince.
Those who thought she was old and frail and would be foolish in her later years, and those who remonstrated with her to the death to establish an heir, gradually turned into fanatical worship.
Time seemed to have slipped away nine days, and she remained forever in her most beautiful bloom, a dignified, wise, and shrewd twenty-year-old, just like Yin Jin'an was before she left.
For a hundred years, the Nine Heavens reigned, the Qi Kingdom prospered, and the world praised Emperor Aotian Yin Jin'an for a hundred years.
While the economy developed rapidly, religion also flourished like never before. Taoism, Buddhism and other religions took root throughout the State of Qi, and monks and Taoists from all over the world came here to teach the people and preach Buddhist teachings and moral principles.
Living Buddha Yuanji shuffled along in his shoes as the ethereal and otherworldly Yu Chanzi arrived in Daqi. The two walked and talked.
"Having completed his mission in the human realm, I wonder if the Holy Buddha will ever return?"
"Then let's see when a red fish falls from the sky!"
The two laughed heartily and left together.
In his first hundred years on the throne, Jiutian announced the selection of a successor throughout the entire Qi Kingdom—the Third Emperor Aotian.
After the imperial edict of abdication was read out, Jiutian passed away in the palace where Yin Jin'an had lived.
Before she passed away, she burned the book "Past Lives and Present Lives," saying as she burned it, "I've waited for you for a hundred years but you haven't come. I'd better go find you myself."
Walking through the summer streets, I still want to hold your hand. I long to hear a warm greeting.
I've loved you for more than just a couple of days; I think of you countless times every day. I'm still not used to lonely streets and crowded places without your embrace.
Loving you isn't something that happens in a couple of days; my heart can settle in the blink of an eye. Do you miss me? Or are you just making friends with loneliness?
I worry that you're not living well, and I'm also afraid that you've already forgotten me...
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