"You can listen." The emperor looked at her with a smile: "I took the initiative to tell my beloved concubine, so it's not my fault."
"What's more..."
Xu Lingyi was puzzled: "What's more, Your Majesty?"
"Besides, I know my beloved concubine won't tell anyone."
Xu Lingyi nodded quickly, "Of course, I will never betray Your Majesty. I have already entered the palace and am Your Majesty's lover. Your Majesty is my heaven, and I can only rely on Your Majesty to survive."
She described herself as vulnerable and lovable.
The emperor was indeed moved and couldn't help hugging her. He almost cried again that night.
The reason why the emperor said this to Xu Lingyi was that he really liked her. She was young and beautiful. Compared with her, all the other women in the harem looked like unsightly mediocre women.
Besides, her character was sweet and gentle, which pleased him very much, not to mention in bed.
Of course, what is more important is that the Xu family is his loyal ministers. The father and son of the Xu family are loyal to him enough, and they are far away in the frontier. Xu Lingyi is in the palace, thousands of miles away. If she really wants to pass on the message, who should she pass it to?
"I have always been reluctant to adopt a son from the royal family. At that time, the Queen Mother and I had imagined that we could have a legitimate bloodline, but things did not go as planned. I have accepted that I will never have a prince in this lifetime. So now I can only adopt."
The emperor's sadness and reluctance at this time were genuine.
He really regretted that he didn't have a prince.
In fact, if you think about it, the emperor is the master of the world, owns everything in the world, and can dominate the fate of anyone, but he doesn't have his own son.
Many ordinary people have many children and grandchildren, but it is so difficult for the emperor to have children.
How could the noble emperor accept this?
Xu Lingyi could only hug the emperor and comfort him silently. She didn't say anything, and in fact, she couldn't say anything.
She felt that the emperor should be grateful that she had entered the palace. Although she had ulterior motives and entered the palace with a purpose, at least she could help him realize his dream of having a prince.
It seems that in the end, they both gained something.
"There aren't many candidates from the royal family. I'm planning to choose Prince Li Xu."
Hearing the familiar name, Xu Lingyi no longer lost her composure. Her hatred for him reached its peak. When she just came back in this life, she told herself that she would torture Li Xu to death sooner or later. Now she was just sparing his life for the time being.
Besides, wouldn't it be a good idea to give Li Xu the hope of ascending the throne and then completely crush it?
"Li Xu is ambitious, and his abilities and political strategies stand out among the other candidates. Although I am reluctant to hand over my hard-earned kingdom to others after a hundred years, I also don't want it to be destroyed. Li Xu is barely qualified."
The emperor spoke silently, and Xu Lingyi listened quietly.
The emperor was silent for a moment and then sighed: "In fact, I have considered letting my princess succeed to the throne before."
Xu Lingyi was shocked. She didn't expect to hear such words from the emperor.
From ancient times to the present, there has never been a case of a woman ascending the throne, and people have never thought of letting women inherit the family business. This is the case for ordinary people's families, let alone the imperial family.
The emperor knew that the ideas that had once occurred to him seemed too absurd and unrealistic to the world.
But this idea did exist, and he once wanted to implement it.
It's a pity that he doted on Princess Minghua too much, and his only daughter's temper could not be changed. He knew that the princess was arrogant and domineering, but he just couldn't bear to teach her a lesson.
This daughter is his only blood in this life. If he doesn't love her, how can he love some outsiders?
"But this princess of mine is incapable of ruling. Even if I force her to the throne, she won't be able to control the court officials after I'm gone. By then, her death will be nothing but a corpse. That's why I've restrained myself. Unworthy of the throne will surely bring disaster. If she... can give birth to my grandson, then perhaps I can try to raise him..."
The emperor didn't say anything else, but Xu Lingyi was shocked.
These were things she didn't know in her previous life. In her previous life, she and the court officials had never considered Princess Minghua, let alone Princess Minghua's son.
In her previous life, Princess Minghua was indeed pregnant and gave birth to a son.
The child's father was just a scholar from a humble family. A few years after Princess Minghua gave birth to her child.
The scholar's family members seemed to die one after another, and the scholar died not long after he died.
In their previous lives, they seemed to have never felt the emperor's cultivation of his grandson. Perhaps all this was done in secret.
When the emperor died unexpectedly, the child was probably only nine years old. The emperor might have thought that he was in good health and could live a few more years. Who would have thought that an accident would happen?
If the emperor had lived a little longer, would Princess Minghua's son have ascended the throne?
Although these were all guessed by Xu Lingyi from the emperor's words, she felt that they were almost correct.
But considering the emperor's emphasis on bloodline, these are very likely.
In the eyes of the emperor, Princess Minghua is his only daughter and the only person in the world who is related to him by blood.
And Li Xu, perhaps, is just a stranger in His Majesty's heart.
This stranger is coming to rob his property a hundred years later.
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Xu Lingyi began to feel a little anxious.
Li Xu and Princess Minghua are both her enemies, and she will not let either of them go.
She would never let either of these two people have an easy time.
Now she has to be pregnant.
As long as she gave birth to the child, the current situation would change, and the emperor would no longer consider anyone other than her child.
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