Chapter 373: Treason
Lu Zhiheng suddenly turned his eyes to look at her.
I was caught off guard and saw that her eyes were filled with sadness and grief that had not yet dissipated.
Lu Zhiheng paused and looked at her. At this moment, the sadness in her body seemed to have substance, turning into sharp blades and wrapping her whole body.
Lu Zhiheng stretched out his hand, but suddenly stopped in mid-air.
He didn't know how to comfort Su Tan.
Just like him now, he didn't know how to comfort himself.
The departure of a loved one is not a rainstorm, but the dampness of a lifetime.
To this day, he still can't control his mood.
Not to mention Su Tan, who faced the death of both her parents and her beloved brother.
In any case, advising others to cheer up at this time is cruel if you think about it carefully.
He just remained silent for a long time, and then handed Su Tan a handkerchief with his hand that was not stained with blood.
"I've kept your words in mind."
"Su Tan, thank you very much."
"Thank you so much for listening to me. No one else has your patience. You're willing to listen to me and keep my secret. Thank you so much."
Su Tan shook his head.
"Everyone has secrets."
"Your Highness, if you are willing to tell me something, it means you trust me. Since Your Highness trusts me, I will definitely not let Your Highness down."
As she spoke, she calmed herself down.
Turning to Lu Zhiheng, he said, "The princess is currently safe and sound, but there's no such thing as being on guard against thieves for a thousand days."
Su Tan's gaze slowly fell on Lu Zhiheng, and he slowly said: "Your Highness, if you want to protect the princess, the best way is to make you stronger."
Power is the best weapon of self-defense.
When he is in a low position, even if he is second only to one person and above ten thousand people, he always has to be on guard against the people above him, who may one day attack him and his family.
But if he is the one at the center of power, above everyone else, no one can restrain him at all, and he can best protect the safety of the year-round.
Su Tan only understood these principles now.
She curled the corners of her lips slightly and her eyes fell on Lu Zhiheng.
"Your Highness, I'm sorry to be presumptuous. For many years, I had a misunderstanding of power. Back then, I always believed that true love was all that mattered to people. I always believed that as a woman, as long as I had money, my life would be good no matter where I went."
"But I was distracted."
Once a woman has only money but no ability to protect it, she becomes a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and everyone wants to take a bite.
She raised her head, and a hint of ambition suddenly revealed itself between her brows.
That has never been revealed to others.
"Power is the best weapon, the most useful self-defense weapon, for both men and women."
"If Your Highness truly wants to protect the princess, you might as well fight for it and snatch it away."
"Some people have already caused Your Highness to lose too many people for that position. Your Highness can't wait until you've completely lost your last loved one before regretting it, right?"
The last time Su Tan died, he died a little early.
She had no idea what the structure of the entire dynasty would be like later.
But Su Tan always felt that Lu Zhiheng would not just sit there and wait for death.
He would not let himself be cornered and forced to death by the current situation.
Lu Zhiheng is a soft-hearted person.
Just like she used to be.
But soft-hearted people, once they reach a critical point, will rise up in resistance and even do extreme things.
For example, in her previous life, after losing Changle, she made the entire Song family be buried with Changle.
Lu Zhiheng lost Sui Sui in his previous life, so he would not just sit there and wait for death. I think he would have made some plans. Maybe in the future, the father and son of the royal family would turn against each other, and Emperor Qinglong would be pulled down from that position.
But these are just Su Tan's guesses.
What is the truth?
Su Tan had no way of knowing either.
But Lu Zhiheng looked at Su Tan in shock. It wasn't because he was surprised that she would instigate him to usurp the throne, but rather—
"You have never taken your father's words seriously, nor have you taken the imperial power seriously. I think you scoff at the imperial power."
He didn't expect that Su Tan would say such a thing.
It seemed that what he knew about Su Tan was just the tip of the iceberg.
Su Tan raised his eyebrows.
"Your Highness is right. I do scoff at the imperial power."
"But when imperial power can become a talisman, I still hope Your Highness can strive to turn the things you hate into your own talisman."
When Su Tan said this, Lu Zhiheng smiled.
"I still don't know you well enough."
He raised his eyebrows slightly, his words tinged with teasing, not caring about the position at all. "But, instead of asking me to fight for it, why don't you try to do it yourself?"
Su Tan: “…”
Su Tan originally thought that his ideas were enough to persuade a prince to fight for power and usurp the throne.
Unexpectedly, Lu Zhiheng's ideas were even more unconventional than hers!
"Your Highness, are you trying to persuade me to become a traitor?"
Lu Zhiheng is the prince of Dongchu.
A prince persuaded others to seize the kingdom of their Lu family.
If this were to get out, Lu Zhiheng's spine would be broken.
Lu Zhiheng raised his eyebrows.
"People always say I'm uneducated and unskillful, that I'm just a dandy who only knows how to indulge in pleasure."
"They also accused me of being a traitor. If it weren't for my father protecting me, I would have died countless times."
In fact, Lu Zhiheng also felt that what these people said was correct.
Why do I say so?
He smiled.
"I've thought about it, and I always feel that this dynasty has never really had anyone's name written on it."
"To call them traitors is simply to see their stance. Didn't the Lu family seize their kingdom from the previous dynasty? If you really want to talk about it, aren't the Lu family also traitors to the people of the previous dynasty?"
Losers are called traitors.
The winner is called the founding empress.
It's just that there is no precedent for a woman to be emperor.
"But I don't think women should live by the rules. Perhaps all this is a shackle deliberately created by others to trap women."
Lu Zhiheng thought about these questions for a long time.
He didn't understand these principles by nature.
It's not that I'm born thinking more than others.
But when he was young, he could never understand it, because his mother was obviously extremely talented and her literary and military skills were not inferior to others.
In fact, in his opinion, his mother was much stronger than his father.
But from beginning to end, his mother could only serve as a foil to his father.
All along, others have remembered his mother, but his father's wife could not remember how powerful his mother was, nor could she remember everything she had done for the country.
But on what basis?
Lu Zhiheng couldn't figure it out.
In order to clarify these questions, he read through history books, but he still couldn't find the answer even after reading all the books.
It was not until later that Lu Zhiheng finally understood.
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