Chapter 59: Your Majesty, are you willing to give up the throne to him?
Xie Junlin watched as his fingers trembled slightly, spilling a drop of ink onto the table.
With the words "Your Majesty, please don't take away my love", his dirty, dark and shameful thoughts were suddenly exposed to the scorching sun.
He glanced at the determined Xiao Lingzhao, then looked at Shen Yuanwei who was kneeling beside Xiao Lingzhao and following his husband's lead, and slowly put down the red pen.
He leaned back on the dragon throne, his dark eyes looking at Xiao Lingzhao quietly.
"You, got it."
Xiao Lingzhao's jaw was clenched.
"Yes, I was very confused by the emperor's love for me, so I asked Yuan Wei again. Yuan Wei and I are of the same mind. She concealed the truth just to protect me from being in a dilemma. Seeing that I was determined to know the truth, she couldn't bear to let me be kept in the dark, so she told me everything."
Xie Junlin listened to Xiao Lingzhao deliberately emphasizing that Shen Yuanwei and he were "husband and wife", and deliberately emphasized that Shen Yuanwei's concealment was just to protect him...
Xie Junlin thought, is Ling Zhao deliberately expressing his love to him?
After all, coveting a minister's wife is not a glorious thing. Being pointed out so bluntly by Xiao Lingzhao, Xie Junlin felt very sorry.
He felt even more ashamed when these two people talked to him on their knees.
He said, "You guys stand up and talk first."
Xiao Lingzhao did not stand up.
He said stiffly, "I am afraid that my words will be disrespectful to Your Majesty, so I'd better kneel down before I dare to speak my mind."
Although he himself was unwilling to get up, he didn't want Shen Yuanwei to suffer with him. He glanced at Shen Yuanwei and whispered, "You get up first. This is between the emperor and me. It has nothing to do with you. You don't have to kneel."
Shen Yuanwei shook her head.
She stretched out her slender fingers and held Xiao Lingzhao's hand tightly. "You did this for me, how can it have nothing to do with me?"
Xie Junlin looked at the loving couple in silence, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.
He rubbed his brows and was silent for a few breaths before speaking to Xiao Lingzhao with difficulty, "I covet your wife. I admit it. Even though my thoughts are dirty and shameful, I don't want to keep you in the dark. I wanted to make it clear to you twice today—"
Xiao Lingzhao did not deny it.
The emperor did speak to him twice, once being interrupted by the empress dowager and once by Yuan Wei.
Xiao Lingzhao kowtowed and said, "I thank the emperor for considering the friendship between the monarch and his subjects and for being willing to explain things to me--"
He raised his eyes and stared straight at Xie Junlin, his attitude was cold and hard, "But Your Majesty, even if you explained it clearly, Shen Yuanwei is my wife. I can't be grateful and give my wife to you just because you are honest."
He said in a deep voice, "I will not give in, and I cannot give in!"
Xie Junlin could feel Xiao Lingzhao's restrained anger.
If Xiao Lingzhao wasn't so loyal, he would probably want to punch him to death right now, right?
Xie Junlin smiled bitterly.
He stood up and walked in front of Xiao Lingzhao and Shen Yuanwei.
"Ling Zhao, I don't know how you view me as the emperor at this moment, but I want to tell you that I am not a person who is blinded by lust. If it were just lust and desire, it would not be enough for me to covet my wife."
"It's not your wife's beauty or her body that I covet. I am tempted because only your wife can give me a successor. I just want a child."
He looked at Shen Yuanwei again.
"Miss Yuan Wei, if there is another woman in the world who can give birth to my child, then no matter how beautiful you are, I will not have any thoughts of offending you, because you are already married. Even if I love you to death, I will restrain my inner desire and will not take you away. I am not such a dirty person. I never want to hurt you two-"
"It's God. He wants to play a trick on me like this."
"He was the one who made me childless, and yet he wanted me to know that the newlywed wife of my most trusted minister, Xiao Lingzhao, could actually give birth to my own child."
"Do you know my situation these years? I have taken in so many concubines in the past eighteen years, but I have not given birth to a child. My kingdom is about to fall into the hands of others. I have no children to see me off to the end of my life. I am already in a desperate situation..."
He slowly bent down and looked at the two of them.
"Now, God has pointed out a bright path for me who is in a desperate situation. I can actually have a child, and my kingdom and my family business don't have to be handed over to outsiders. How can I not be tempted?"
Xiao Lingzhao looked up at his monarch.
He understood the emperor's suffering.
He had heard how the emperor was ridiculed by the people for not being able to have children over the years.
He also witnessed how the emperor was forced by court officials to adopt a child from the royal family.
The emperor understood the pain of having to sacrifice his life to win the kingdom, but now it was being taken away by outsiders.
However, the emperor's suffering was not caused by him, so why should he give his wife away? Why should he sacrifice his happiness in exchange for the emperor's perfection?
The emperor already rules the world, which is far superior to all the suffering people in the world. Isn't the emperor perfect enough?
Xiao Lingzhao said, "Your Majesty, I also hope that you can have a child. I also hope that you can have hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, and that the Yong Dynasty will last for thousands of generations and last forever. But why does this child have to be born in my wife's next life?"
He glanced at Shen Yuanwei and said, "I am also a man of eight feet tall. How can I let my wife, who I sleep with in the same bed, bear a child for another man? My loyalty is not for such things."
Xie Junlin's voice was hoarse.
He said, "I know, I know you don't want to, you can't bear it, but I have no other choice."
Xiao Lingzhao looked directly into Xie Junlin's eyes.
"Your Majesty has a solution. Your Majesty can wait patiently for Divine Doctor Song to treat you. If you wait for two more years, there may be a solution. If there is really no other solution, Your Majesty can also adopt a child from the royal family—"
Without waiting for Xie Junlin to speak, Xiao Lingzhao continued, "I know that Your Majesty is unwilling to adopt a child from the royal family, because Your Majesty is reluctant to give your kingdom to someone else's child. Then how can Your Majesty be willing to give my beloved wife to an outsider? You love your kingdom, but you are reluctant to give it to an outsider, my beloved. Do I have to reluctantly give it up? You have the power to be reluctant to give it up, so I am not worthy of it?"
Xie Junlin was speechless for a moment.
He wanted to say, how can beauty be compared with the country? The country is far more important than beauty...
But after looking at Shen Yuanwei, he felt that these words would offend Shen Yuanwei to death.
He didn't say it, but Shen Yuanwei understood what he meant.
Shen Yuanwei speaks frankly.
"Your Majesty, I understand what you mean. Your Majesty wants to say, how can a woman compare to your kingdom? Your kingdom is a priceless treasure, what is Xiao Lingzhao's wife? But Your Majesty, your kingdom is just your treasure, what does it have to do with Xiao Lingzhao? This is not his kingdom. If he offers his wife to you, will you give him your kingdom?"
Shen Yuanwei asked Xie Junlin, "Your Majesty, you asked Xiao Lingzhao to give up his love with great pain, so are you willing to give up your love? Otherwise, how about you exchange?"
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