Chapter 482 Finale (Part 7)

The red candles are swaying and the happy quilt is flying.

This wedding night that was a thousand years late finally came to a perfect end.

Feng Qi got what he wanted, and fell asleep contentedly while hugging the half-drunk and half-awake Lu Li.

The next morning, Lu Li opened his eyes and saw Feng Qi's beautiful face.

She reached out and gently stroked his brow.

Fengqi closed his eyes and held her hand.

"Ari, you didn't answer me last night." Fengqi kissed her scallion-white fingers and opened her eyes.

"Answer you what?" Lu Li was a little confused.

"I said I love you, but you said nothing." Fengqi looked at her a little aggrieved.

Lu Li laughed dumbly and kissed him on the lips.

"I thought you would understand without me saying anything."

"It's one thing to understand, but it's another to hear it with your own ears." Fengqi stared into her eyes, looking at her expectantly.

"I love you." Lu Li said this with a smile without hesitation.

Feng Qi's wrinkled brows relaxed, and her smile bloomed quietly like a snow lotus on an iceberg.

"I love you, too."

After saying that, he covered Lu Li's lips again.

"Hmm." Lu Li tried to push it away, but failed.

"It's dawn, Fengqi." She wanted to push him away shyly.

Feng Qi raised his hand, and the room became completely dark.

"Well, it's getting dark."

Lu Li was amused by his self-deceiving behavior.

He actually used this illusion on her.

"Stop it..."

Lu Li wanted to get up.

Feng Qi sighed softly.

"It seems that I didn't work hard enough, which gave Ah Li the time to think about other things."

"No..." Lu Li wanted to deny it, but the sound that came out was intermittent.

As Fengqi's attack became more and more intense, she threw away her weapons and chose to surrender, never mentioning the dawn again.

The palace maids standing guard outside the palace looked at each other, blushed, and tacitly agreed not to disturb him.

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Three days after Lu Li's wedding, Lu Yanshi decided to quit his job.

"Xiaojiu, the throne of Daxia will be handed over to you."

"Isn't it a little too early?" Lu Li declined again.

"It's not too early. I should have given the throne to you three years ago!" Lu Yanshi shook his head quickly.

"Okay, then after I ascend the throne, father can no longer object to anything I do, right? After all, I am the emperor." There was a hidden meaning in Lu Li's words, but Lu Yanshi did not hear it.

He only knew that he could finally leave the palace and see the empire he had conquered.

"Of course, you are the emperor, you have the final say." Lu Yanshi nodded.

"Okay." Lu Li also agreed.

So a month later, Lu Yanshi abdicated and Lu Li ascended the throne.

Change of reign title: Shengshi.

The first thing Lu Li did after ascending the throne was to discuss with her brothers and sisters and ask them to send their children to the palace so that she could choose the next heir.

When the ministers learned of this, they all came to stop it.

"Your Majesty, you are still so young, why do you want to choose a crown prince so early?"

"I am the emperor. I can choose whoever I want as the heir." Lu Li didn't want to explain too much to outsiders.

It is enough for her father and others to know her and Fengqi's identities.

Lu Yanshi, who was about to leave the palace, learned about this and rushed to stop him.

Lu Li told him the truth.

The child she and Fengqi had was born with divine blood and could not remain in the human world.

So she planned to choose one of her brother and sister's children to be the future emperor.

"But your third brother doesn't have any children yet." Lu Yanshi was a little worried.

"But the royal sisters do." Lu Li was helpless.

"But those are my grandchildren, not my biological grandchildren. If we give our Lu family's kingdom to them for inheritance, I'm afraid our ancestors' coffins will not be stable." Lu Yanshi stated his reasons.

When Lu Li heard this, she brought up the reason for her debate with the scholars when she was three years old.

"Father, what you said is wrong. The bloodline of a child born by a woman is the purest. Blood test is not reliable, but the child born from a woman's belly is 100% hers. If you mind the surname, why not just change the surname of all the children to Lu?"

Lu Yanshi was speechless.

"But a grandson is still a grandson, and he sounds like an outsider..." After a moment of silence, he tried to convince Lu Li.

"Then change the name. From now on, no one is allowed to call them grandsons. Just call them grandchildren. Don't call them grandpa or grandma anymore. Why not invent a new name? In some places, don't people call grandma grandpa grandpa? That sounds very intimate." Lu Li felt that these were not a problem.

Lu Yanshi was convinced.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

So, the next day, Lu Li promulgated new laws.

From the time she ascended the throne, her daughter's children were called grandsons instead of grandsons-in-law. They were all called grandsons and granddaughters.

Moreover, the child can take the father's surname or the mother's surname. It is not only necessary to marry into the family to take the mother's surname.

As long as both parties reach an agreement through negotiation, it will be fine.

The ministers knew that the empress was more difficult to convince than the emperor emeritus.

They tried to give him some advice at first, but then they gave up.

The Crown Princess can choose whoever she wants to be the heir. After all, no one can be more difficult to deal with than her.

After all, other emperors would not attract thunder from heaven.

The memorial advised other emperors that their lives were not in danger, but the same could not be said for the empress.

It would be better to change the heir or for the empress to abdicate early.

With this in mind, people stopped trying to stop Lu Li from choosing a successor.

Lu Li summoned all the children of her sisters who were over five years old to the palace and conducted a six-month observation.

Finally, she chose her fifth sister Lu Qiongying and Tian Nanxing's daughter Tian Chaoying to be the new heir.

This child inherited the Fifth Sister's immense strength and the Sixth Sister's intelligence. He is a talented person with great potential.

Lu Li thought that if she ascended the throne, the court officials would honor her because she could break a tree with one kick.

You shouldn't dare to go too far.

Lu Qiongying and Tian Nanxing had no objection to their daughter changing her surname to Lu and inheriting the throne.

Lu Li called her niece Tian Chaoying and asked for her opinion.

"Yingying, are you willing to become the new Crown Princess, take charge of the country, and lead Daxia to prosperity?"

"Yingying is willing!" Tian Chaoying nodded without hesitation.

Aunt Jiu has always been her role model.

Her greatest wish is to become the same person as Aunt Jiu.

"Okay, you must remember what I said today. Don't let me down." Lu Li touched her head with satisfaction.

"Yingying will use her whole life to remember her promise to you." Tian Chaoying answered seriously.

So Lu Li changed her surname to Lu Chaoying and made her the Crown Princess and the next Emperor of Daxia.

Ten years later.

Lu Li announced his abdication.

Lu Chaoying looked at her with tears in her eyes: "Aunt, I am only fifteen years old, still too young. Isn't it too early to inherit the throne?"

"It's getting late. You've reached marriage age, and you're a grown-up girl." Lu Li meditated impatiently.

Being the emperor is really tiring, she has to leave quickly and travel around with Fengqi.

These ten years have worn her out.

"But..." Lu Chaoying was about to say something when she was interrupted by Lu Li.

"Anyway, the abdication decree has been issued, Yingying, starting tomorrow you will be the new empress of Daxia. Think about it, you are the first empress to ascend the throne in history, isn't that amazing?" Lu Li fooled his niece without any psychological burden.

"Besides, those stubborn old aunts have kicked them out for you. Long Aotian, Qin Xiao, and Qu Songnian will all be your solid backers. Don't be afraid, no one can shake your throne."

Lu Chaoying was no longer a child. She saw through her aunt's purpose, but she did not do anything.

She said helplessly, "Yes, Yingying, please remember your aunt's teachings."

With her words, Lu Li happily handed the jade seal to her.

He then returned to the palace, changed into light clothes, and rode his horse excitedly towards the city gate like a bird out of a cage.

Outside the city gate, Fengqi had been waiting for a long time.

"Fengqi, I'm free!"

Lu Li's cheerful voice rang out.

Feng Qi smiled slightly: "Well, from now on, you don't have to live for the country and the people anymore, you are free."

The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Let's go, let's go!"

As the sun sets, the silhouettes of the two men galloping on their horses become longer and longer in the afterglow of the sun.

The story of Empress Lu Li has ended, but Lu Li and Feng Qi's free life has just begun.

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