He slowly approached Xie Qi's ear, his warm breath spraying on the other's ear, "Tonight...you have to give yourself to me."
Xie Qi turned his head abruptly and met Zhan Ze's seemingly calm eyes. Without saying a word, he grabbed Zhan Ze's wrist and walked towards the bedroom.
The corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise: "Then tonight... hehe... you just stay in the palace... hehehehe..."
His laughter was filled with unconcealable joy and anticipation.
Zhan Ze let him pull him forward, listening to the increasingly unbridled laughter, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart.
In the days that followed, the ministers also disagreed with the emperor's decision not to take a concubine, but whenever the ministers mentioned this matter, Xie Qi would bring up the fact that the ministers forced the emperor to apologize to the monster.
This also left those ministers who knew they were in the wrong speechless, and they dared not say anything more, for fear that if they allowed the emperor to take another concubine, he would punish them for deceiving the emperor.
In this way, except for not taking concubines, the emperor governed the country in an orderly manner. Zhan Ze did not choose to enter the harem, and he was still the master of the Shadow Pavilion.
Zhan Ze was also able to enter and leave the palace freely. Sometimes he would stay in the palace for a few days, and sometimes he would stay outside the palace for a few days.
Although the emperor did not say it openly, the ministers guessed the relationship between the two.
After he turned forty, Xie Qi selected a fourteen-year-old boy from among the sons of ministers to inherit the throne.
After abdicating, Xie Qi moved out of the palace directly and bought a spacious mansion with Zhan Ze in the capital to live together until he left the world.
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