Jiang Ting suddenly looked Jiang Tian straight in the eye: "Don't worry, I won't leave you in this deep palace. I know how ruthless this palace is, and how miserable it is for those without ambition to live here."
During the talent show, Jiang Ting's mind was in a mess. Once the decree was issued, he knew he had made a mistake.
He doesn't need any other woman, and his heart doesn't allow him to be fickle.
If he doesn't encounter such an opportunity, then taking things as they come and going with the flow, using his harem to counterbalance the previous dynasty and demonstrate his imperial skills might be a good approach.
But if you happen to encounter it, then nothing will work.
No one but her will do.
That's why he subtly reminded his ministers that he might never be able to leave the door of his heart in his lifetime, so wouldn't they be harming him by sending their daughters over?
But this world is an extremely pragmatic one, where everything is geared towards profit.
This group still sent their daughter in.
Fortunately, no accidents have occurred in the past few years.
He had seen his father's harem.
Many hopeless concubines chose to end their own lives.
A group of people were living a life worse than death, while his father, the emperor, was extremely proud.
Because he held the lives and deaths of these women in his hands.
Jiang Ting treated the concubines in the harem as guests visiting the palace, instructing the palace staff to treat them with the utmost care and to ensure that no one suffered from hardship or cold.
Sure enough, they behaved themselves.
Perhaps for them, a harem without an emperor was also a paradise.
At least there's no need to fight for it, no need to think about how to improve one's status, and no need to disregard human life.
Jiang Ting closed his eyes and slowly said, "I regret the selection process, and I also regret lying to you. In fact, apart from you, I have never had a romantic relationship with anyone else. I will dismiss the concubines in the harem."
He didn't even know what he was saying anymore.
Thinking back on everything that has happened in the past few years, he was actually feeling a bit overwhelmed.
He kept those feelings he secretly harbored hidden for the sake of many people and many things.
Sometimes, in a moment of impulsiveness, I do so many stupid things.
However, he also found himself somewhat amusing.
He knew that if he locked a woman in the harem, it would slowly drain his vitality.
This is a hell that devours people without spitting out their bones.
How could someone who loves freedom so much wither away here?
Jiang Tian didn't speak. After a long while, she finally said slowly, "Are you willing to let me go?"
Jiang Ting nodded firmly: "I'm willing. I never intended to keep you in this deep palace. I know very well how this place can swallow a person up."
He had seen far too many similar examples.
If you truly love someone, how could you dare to put her in this palace?
Such a cramped environment, such a small imperial garden.
All you can see is a square patch of sky and those towering city walls.
Ambitious people can have unwavering beliefs, while those without ambition can adapt if they can enjoy a comfortable environment.
Those who wish to breathe under the vast sky would never be able to survive here.
Jiang Tian is just that kind of person.
He cares about her and wants her to be well. How could you let her suffer in this place?
His words may have touched Jiang Tian, for a hint of emotion finally appeared in her eyes.
"But I still can't be with you."
Jiang Ting's face was pale, and he seemed somewhat resigned to his fate.
"...So what do you think?"
He wanted to know why.
Jiang Tian's determination and decisiveness saddened him.
“I don’t know how you view the love between the emperor and his concubines. But I know very well that they have never treated each other as equals from beginning to end. Perhaps if I treat you better, the palace servants will remind me that this is overstepping my bounds.”
“We are two people of unequal status. You are above me and I am below me. I can never treat you with an upright posture.”
"Because the emperor and his people cannot be defined in the same way."
Jiang Tian's tone was filled with a calmness that came after she had regained her senses.
"If she could, who wouldn't want to be chosen and become a favored concubine? If she really became a favored concubine, she could be second only to the emperor for the rest of her life. But if she is second only to the emperor, then what she gets will not be love."
Wanting the love of an emperor is utterly absurd.
An emperor's first thought is always about his own power and status.
No one would give up their power and status to choose a woman.
In his spare time, the emperor could take a liking to a woman as if it were a joke, and he could also do what he could within his power to make the woman's life better.
No matter how much you do, the relationship between superiors and subordinates will never be equal.
Even if he were to make the emperor bow his head, he would only do so within a limited scope, using some small tricks to please his concubines without harming the emperor's interests.
“I don’t know what other women’s pursuit of love looks like, but I have witnessed the equal love that Yan Jing’an gave me. He respects me, appreciates me, and is willing to be on equal footing with me. He treats me as a truly independent woman, not as an appendage of his husband’s family.”
“In this era, he is the only one who can treat me like this, so I will also be devoted to him.”
Jiang Tian looked at Jiang Ting: "The two of us can't get along like Yan Jing'an and I do. These days, many palace maids and eunuchs feel that I've been too rude to you. They're on tenterhooks, afraid that you'll lose your head if you get angry. After all, you're the master, and I'm just a servant like everyone else. You can take my life or my life at will."
Even if Jiang Ting says he has fallen in love with someone, can he distinguish whether this love is called pampering or true love?
As long as he remains emperor, he will be unable to treat others in a level playing field.
“If there hadn’t been so many barriers of social status between us when we first met, and if I had treated you as an ordinary man, and if we had developed feelings for each other, perhaps things would have been very different.”
When they truly love each other as equals, perhaps the gap caused by their different statuses will decrease.
But they are not.
From the very beginning, Jiang Ting never hid his identity.
Jiang Tian always regarded him as the emperor.
Who would fall in love with an emperor?
That's like a moth drawn to a flame.
The emperor's heart is cold and indifferent, but a woman's life is only once.
Jiang Tian is just too clear-headed.
As long as she remains clear-headed, she cannot indulge herself, much less allow herself to forget the various contradictions brought about by social class, and fall in love with someone who can abandon her at any time.
Jiang Tian made herself perfectly clear.
Jiang Ting heard it clearly, and his heart suddenly turned completely cold.
“I understand,” he said.
After saying that, he didn't say anything more.
What else can we do?
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