The sunlight gradually disappeared from the horizon, and before we knew it, it was dusk.
Zhao Jing sat there, not moving for a long time.
He guessed everything, except that Jiang Tian couldn't have children.
From the very beginning, she had no hope of having children.
The imperial physician's words still seemed to echo in Zhao Jing's ears, but he was still confused and had a terrible headache.
The medicine used was too toxic, and the patient was too old, so the toxins had penetrated deep into the body. Completely removing them would be as difficult as climbing to the heavens.
Having a child... is perhaps just a pipe dream, unless a miracle happens.
He wanted to use the child to keep Jiang Tian tied down, but the news he received completely destroyed his plans.
No wonder Jiang Tian remained as indifferent as ever, always watching him work hard with a mocking look.
It turned out that she had known his plan all along, and also knew how ridiculous his actions were.
No one dared to disturb the emperor; the palace servants, seeing that he wouldn't come out, could only stand guard outside.
He sat there in a daze, while Jiang Tian had already gone back to sleep.
After she woke up from her nap, she felt much more refreshed.
She lifted the bed curtains, drank a cup of tea, and then turned to look at Zhao Jing: "You know everything now, so you should let me go."
Zhao Jing's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at her: "You...aren't you sad?"
In today's world, one can imagine how miserable life is for an ordinary young lady without children to rely on.
Jiang Tian understood the unspoken meaning in his words and smiled indifferently: "I've been used as a pawn in other people's exchanges of interests, and I've been passed around several times. If I had a child, I would only be trapped in a cage. Only without a child can I have the courage to give up everything."
She strolled up to Zhao Jing and spoke in an unusually gentle tone: "Your Majesty, your grand ambitions are about to be realized, and beautiful women have all entered your harem. You will not lack children in the future."
"I'm just a passerby in your life. All the grudges and grievances will be nothing once I leave. Just let me go."
She was as gentle as water, her goal being to get him to let her go.
That's ridiculous.
Zhao Jing suddenly stood up, put one arm around her, and pulled her into his arms. The two looked at each other face to face.
“I won’t let you go. Whether you can have children or not, I won’t let you go. Instead of pinning your hopes on me letting you go, you should think about how to improve your health so you can have a child for me.”
Zhao Jing's tone was stubborn and crazy.
Jiang Tian's face turned completely cold. She looked at Zhao Jing and said, "I can't have children, and I don't want to have children for you. If you want to imprison me, then try it."
Zhao Jing suddenly grabbed her waist, and from her few words, he gleaned a certain signal.
He grabbed her chin: "If you dare to try to kill yourself, I'll take care of Pei Ziye and Jiang Yuqin."
"So you still care about those two people after all." Jiang Tian smiled.
Zhao Jing did not deny it.
Those two people were rare talents in the court, but in his life, they were like two thorns stuck in his heart, causing him immense pain every time, yet he could not remove them.
After all, it was he who left Jiang Tian in the capital.
He made a mistake that caused their relationship to plummet to an irreparable state.
"You don't need to care about them. They and you are all compromises I made to survive. Even if you were to execute them by slow slicing, I wouldn't say a word against it."
Jiang Tian's voice was calm, yet tinged with a certain desolation: "You're just like them. I wouldn't even blink if you all died in front of me."
Zhao Jing felt as if someone had squeezed his heart tightly, and then he fell to the ground.
Are they all the same?
The look in Zhao Jing's eyes became even more terrifying.
He kissed Jiang Tian frantically from her brow to her neck, his tone filled with barely suppressed fervor: "How can we be the same? I am your husband, we are husband and wife, we are different, different..."
Jiang Tian tilted her head back, her voice cold: "No, you're wrong, you're all the same."
Zhao Jing suddenly looked up at her, his eyes reddening, his face as cold and hard as a knife: "It's different!"
The next moment, as if he were bewitched, the two of them were about to do it while they were sitting there.
Only when he realized that Jiang Tian had no reaction and was letting him do as he pleased did Zhao Jing gradually stop.
When he looked up again, he was met with a pair of cold eyes.
Even though she was barely clothed, Jiang Tian still looked incredibly elegant and beautiful.
Zhao Jing couldn't understand why they had ended up like this. He had tried for a long time, but he still couldn't get Jiang Tian to open her heart to him.
The way she looked at him was cold, indifferent, and showed no concern whatsoever.
He pulled his clothes up, buried his face in Jiang Tian's neck, and after a long while, whispered, "I'm sorry..."
This time, he finally tasted the bitterness of regret.
If they hadn't abandoned her in the capital to mislead the foolish emperor, would they have ended up in this state?
He thought he would never regret anything; what's done is done, and there's no need to look back.
But as for Jiang Tian... he truly regretted it.
His rare display of genuine emotion did not move Jiang Tian in the slightest.
Seeing that his grip loosened, Jiang Tian pushed him away, ignoring the dampness Zhao Jing left on her neck, and went straight into the inner room.
Before long, the palace servants outside heard Jiang Tian's summons; she said she wanted to take a bath.
The palace servants entered cautiously and saw the emperor sitting there, his expression indescribable.
Zhao Jing asked himself, was he really so desperate for her?
He just has to be controlled by this woman.
He should have been a conqueror in a chaotic world, indifferent to women, never preoccupied with any of them, with the world at his fingertips. Yet, it was as if he were under a spell, unable to sit still without this woman!
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