Chapter 245: Bo Qiaohui 57
Dou Yifang didn't expect that even after she had said so much, Liu Wu still refuted her. She thought that this child was stubborn and frowned, and was about to scold him.
Qiao Hui, who was currently arguing with Liu Qi about her feelings, coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention. "Young people are naturally attracted to young women, and this feeling is supposed to be pure and beautiful. But, Your Highness, Prince Liang, some relationships are like this; they are not meant to be, and can only end in vain."
Her slightly sentimental words perfectly matched Liu Wu's literary and artistic mentality at the time, and he swallowed the words he was about to refute.
"But isn't this also beautiful? You couldn't achieve a beautiful love before, but you have such pure memories and emotions, and now you have a more eternal relationship, right?"
Bo Qiaohui gently walked over and took Liu Wu and his nephew's hands. "You share the same blood, conceived by the same mother. This is a blood bond that can never be severed. She can't be your wife, but she will always be your sister."
Liu Wu's eyes were filled with growing struggle, and he placed a trembling hand on the back of his nephew's. Although he had been in love with her since the first sight in the sea of flowers, this was only the second time he had touched her. It was also the first time, since he had expressed his feelings, that his nephew had not rejected his approach.
Liu Wu, who had been unable to calm down after knowing that his niece Bo was his sister, seemed to be comforted by this warm palm. In the end, he did not say anything else, but with tears in his eyes, he refused to call her "sister" from beginning to end.
Nie Bo was also surprised. When she learned that the high and mighty Prince Liang was actually her own brother, she felt a sense of intimacy. This intimacy made Nie Bo want to pick up the sword that her fourth brother had just given her and beat this adopted brother up.
Damn, after suffering for so long, you turned out to be my brother?
It was so absurd that she felt that all her struggles and plans for so long had become a joke, so she couldn't help but tighten her hands.
Liu Wu felt a sudden pain in the hand he was holding, and then he secretly looked at her with red eyes. He happened to see the bloodshot eyes of his nephew, and thought that the other party was not completely heartless to him.
My heart ached even more, and I kept thinking, It's too late, too late. We are brother and sister now, destined not to be together.
He even began to think about how to persuade her to stop being obsessed with their love and not to be sad for him.
I really want to slap him in the face! But he’s the King of Liang… but I’m his sister! But there are a lot of people watching here… but I’m his sister! But what if he blackmails me again… but I’m his only sister!!!
Just when Bo Nie was about to convince him and was secretly trying to grab Liu Wu to prevent him from escaping, Liu Wu showed a look of sorrow and regret:
"Sister, let go. It's impossible for us to..."
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Nephew Bo: ...Ah? ?!
Sometimes she felt helpless when she was alone in the big room.
Bo Nie didn't want to understand the other party's meaning at all. Her breathing became heavier and heavier, and her hands clenched into fists uncontrollably. On the other side, Liu Wu, with a look of clear stupidity on his face, was trying to persuade his sister to give up his good brother and find a good man to marry in the future.
"Why don't you come out? If you don't go now, your good brother will be beaten. I think your nephew can't bear it anymore." Bo Qiaohui whispered to Liu Qi and poked him with her hands.
Liu Qi dodged without leaving a trace, curling his lips indifferently when he heard this: "Why bother with him? I don't know how many beatings his good brother has received since he was a child, and this is the only one he got. What's there to help him with?"
Although he said so, seeing that this matter had turned from a state affair into a family one, Liu Qi's attitude visibly softened. He chuckled and walked over, taking Liu Wu in his arms and smilingly saying to his nephew Bo, "I didn't expect that we're all family. Since this is the case, the marriage is naturally off."
Everyone had to give face when the emperor spoke. Liu Wu and his nephew Bo didn't say anything more. Dou Yifang finally felt relieved. Then she felt dizzy, staggered twice, and was about to fall.
Liu Qi and the others rushed to help her, but Dou Yifang came over slowly with the help of a cane and waved to them: "I'm fine, it's just that today's affairs have been too stressful and I'm a little tired."
"I am an unfilial son and have made my mother worry about me." Knowing that he had misunderstood the queen mother, Liu Wu also took a step back and admitted his mistake with some guilt. Naturally, his nephew Bo next to him also apologized.
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "You don't know these things, so misunderstandings are inevitable. No need to apologize. Well, I need to go back and rest. Could you please see me off, Queen?"
"Your Majesty, your words really embarrass me," Bo Qiaohui followed up Dou Yifang's words with a joke, and hurried over to support the empress dowager, and the two slowly left the palace.
Along the way, Empress Dowager Dou, who originally said that she was tired, never mentioned the sedan chair. Instead, she pulled her for a long time until the surrounding area gradually became sparsely populated.
"Did my nephew really mean what he said in the palace? Did her mother really agree to send her to the border?"
Dou Yifang was leaning on a crutch with one hand, but her misty eyes were fixed accurately on Qiaohui's face.
"Of course not. Mother would never agree to it." Qiao Hui didn't want to hide it from the other party. Seeing Dou Yifang asked, she said, "She figured it out herself."
"That……"
"It's all true. If you hadn't rescued her today, she would have either committed suicide or disfigured herself and gone to the border alone."
"Nonsense! Are you just going to let her do whatever she wants?"
Facing Dou Yifang's questioning, she also smiled, raised her head and looked at her calmly: "You are not a fish, how can you know the joy of a fish? She chose this path herself. She said she would never regret it, so I am willing to help her."
"As for right and wrong, it's naturally her responsibility."
"But going to the border means a life-or-death experience. If she really commits suicide, won't you regret it for the rest of your life?"
"Yes, I will be tortured by my conscience every day and have no peace of mind," Bo Qiaohui admitted decisively, but her answer shocked Dou Yifang: "But so what?"
"Just to avoid bearing the responsibility for their potential tragic future, to avoid the questioning of conscience in the future, can we do nothing and let them fend for themselves?"
"Empress Dowager, I am willing to give my nephew the opportunity to choose, even if she chooses a path that others cannot understand."
Bo Qiaohui looked at her seriously, and her words almost made Dou Yifang's heart tremble: "Sometimes, having choices is more important to people than right or wrong."
Empress Dowager Dou Yifang, who had been swept along all her life and had relied on her own intelligence and caution to get to where she is today, and whose life was full of helplessness, fell silent.
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