Chapter 97: Holding the child to force the emperor to abdicate! How audacious!
Chen Hai sighed, turned around and ran away.
Shen Yuanwei watched Chen Hai run away, she turned around and looked at Xie Junlin in surprise.
Didn't he say before that he wouldn't care about Xiao Lingzhao? Why did he suddenly agree?
…
On the path leading away from the palace, Xiao Lingzhao walked slowly forward holding an orange lantern. Under the cold moonlight, he was all alone.
He knew what kind of life he would live after returning to the Xiao family.
But he would rather be a madman for two months than beg Xie Junlin for mercy like a dog. He didn't want to give up his dignity and beg Xie Junlin to let him sleep under the bed, begging Xie Junlin to have mercy on him...
He admitted that he was angry at the moment.
He has always regarded Xie Junlin as his master, and he believed that he was loyal and willing to risk his life to serve Xie Junlin. Today, seeing that Xie Junlin was poisoned and would not live long, he voluntarily fulfilled the contract and divorced Yuan Wei. He reluctantly gave his life-saving medicine and his favorite girl to Xie Junlin, but in the end he found out that this emperor might have pretended to be poisoned to deceive him!
No one can smile and say it's okay to face such malicious and deceptive love-stealing.
No one can say tolerantly, even if you take advantage of my loyalty and cheat my wife away and steal the only medicine that can save my life, even if you monopolize my medicine and refuse to save my life, I will still continue to be loyal to you and continue to use my life to protect you -
A hint of mockery appeared at the corner of Xiao Lingzhao's mouth.
Ministers are the emperor's slaves and dogs, but even the most loyal dog may want to bite his master sometimes.
Xiao Lingzhao walked for a while when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him.
Xiao Lingzhao stopped and looked back.
He saw the leader of the Dragon Scale Guard, Qian Jiao, leading his men running towards him, shouting as he ran, "General Xiao, please stay!"
Xiao Lingzhao put his hands behind his back to hide his emotions.
"What is it?"
Qian Jiao came in front of Xiao Lingzhao.
"General Xiao, the emperor has asked you to protect him tonight. Please come back with us."
Xiao Lingzhao was slightly stunned.
Previously, she didn't allow him to sleep under the bed to treat his illness, and she insisted on forcing him to take a concubine. Now she has changed her mind and asked him to go back?
Oh, he is not a dog to be ordered around by the emperor. He has been teased and tormented enough by the emperor today.
He said to Qian Jiao, "Please tell the emperor that I am afraid that a sudden illness will disturb the emperor, so I am going back to the Xiao family."
Qian Jiao bowed and said, "General, the emperor has ordered that you must be taken back even if he has to tie you up. He said that he has not given up on you, so how can you give up on yourself?"
Xiao Lingzhao felt ironic when he heard this.
Does he want to give up on himself?
Who wants to be a madman without reason?
But how could he rob the emperor?
The emperor could arbitrarily snatch his wife away. If the emperor was unhappy, he could arbitrarily grant him a marriage and ask him to leave. How many times did he kneel down and beg the emperor today? Did the high and mighty emperor count them? He begged so humbly so many times, what did he keep?
He just suddenly didn't want to beg anymore. He just wanted to retain the last bit of dignity.
Qian Jiao turned around and extended his hands to ask, "General, please come back with us. Please don't make things difficult for us."
Xiao Lingzhao slowly raised his head and looked at the towering palace under the moonlight.
Being a subject is not free...
I can't even leave if I want to.
Without saying anything more, he turned around and walked towards the towering palace step by step.
Finally, he arrived at the emperor's bedroom.
He thought he would see Xie Junlin holding Shen Yuanwei in his arms. He thought he would hear Xie Junlin warning him not to let his imagination run wild even if he held Shen Yuanwei's hand...
But when he looked up, Xie Junlin was the only one on the dragon bed.
He was slightly stunned.
Xie Junlin followed his gaze and looked at the empty bed.
"What are you looking at? Do you think I will really hug Shen Yuanwei on the bed and let you sleep under the bed and watch?"
Xie Junlin pointed behind the bed curtains, "She is on the small couch at the back. I have placed a recliner for you next to the couch. Go ahead."
Xiao Lingzhao looked at Xie Junlin, becoming more and more stunned.
Xie Junlin didn't explain anything to him, he just waved his hand and chased him away, "Don't stand here, if you don't want to get sick, go over there quickly, don't act crazy and disturb my rest."
Xiao Lingzhao stared at Xie Junlin for three breaths, then took confused steps and walked around behind the bed curtain step by step.
Behind it stood a screen with a narrow couch, which was originally a place for the emperor to sit and change clothes. At this moment, Shen Yuanwei was sitting on the couch, dressed neatly, holding her chin and smiling at him.
He stood beside the screen and stared at Shen Yuanwei, unable to react.
Shen Yuanwei blinked.
She also didn't expect Xie Junlin to have a change of heart.
Just now, he asked Chen Hai to invite Xiao Lingzhao back. As soon as Chen Hai left, Xie Junlin sent her to the small couch in the back, saying that out of sight, out of mind, and asked her to treat Xiao Lingzhao here tonight.
Shen Yuanwei glanced at the golden curtains of the dragon bed and whispered to Xiao Lingzhao, "The emperor said that letting you sleep under my bed and his bed is humiliating you, but if you sleep on the recliner next to this small couch, then no one will humiliate you. I am simply treating your illness."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lingzhao glanced at the recliner placed a foot away from the small couch. He clutched the screen tightly and looked towards the dragon bed with complicated eyes.
He felt an indescribable pain in his heart.
He had just discovered that Xie Junlin was pretending to be poisoned to deceive him, and his heart was filled with anger, but before he left the palace, Xie Junlin pulled him back, softened his heart and gave him alms, and gave him dignity...
He clenched his teeth.
Why not just be a tyrant? He can hate others completely and not have to suffer like he is now.
Xiao Lingzhao was still trying to calm himself when he heard Xie Junlin's voice coming from the bed curtains.
"Chen Hai will not come in to serve you tonight. Blow out all the lights except one."
Xiao Lingzhao responded, turned around and quietly blew out the lamp.
After blowing out the lights, he came to the small couch, looked at Shen Yuanwei who was already asleep with the quilt wrapped around her, and quietly sat down on the recliner next to her.
There was a distance of one foot between his recliner and Shen Yuanwei's small couch. They slept separately and it didn't seem ambiguous.
Xiao Lingzhao lay down, looking sideways at the hand that Shen Yuanwei stretched out. He slowly stretched out his hand and interlocked his fingers with Shen Yuanwei.
Finally, he held this hand again. The soothing power was transmitted from this hand continuously, and Xiao Lingzhao's aching head instantly calmed down.
He stared at the roof with his eyes open, never thinking that the emperor would compromise like this.
In the darkness, he asked softly, "Your Majesty, aren't you reluctant to let me in?"
In the darkness, Xie Junlin's voice seemed a little gentler than usual.
"I just suddenly remembered that you are not only my great general, you were also a little child who lost his brother and was so sad and helpless that he could only hold on to the corner of my robe and cry and call me brother emperor..."
Xiao Lingzhao also recalled his childhood.
Just when he thought Xie Junlin would not say anything else, he heard a sigh from the darkness.
"You are still a child. I feel so sorry for you..."
Xiao Lingzhao listened to the sigh in silence. For some reason, the resentment in his heart suddenly disappeared.
Shen Yuanwei noticed that her clenched hands were tightening, and she turned her head to look in the direction of Xiao Lingzhao.
This guy must be touched, right?
…
The next day.
There was a lot of noise outside the bedroom early in the morning. Shen Yuanwei opened her eyes in a daze and turned her head to see that the recliner was empty. Xiao Lingzhao had let go of her hand and left at some point.
The noise continued. Shen Yuanwei sat up with the quilt in her arms and asked the other side of the dragon bed, "Your Majesty, what's going on outside? Why is there a child crying?"
A cold snort from Xie Junlin was heard from the dragon bed.
He said, "The news that I took arsenic and will not live long has spread. The royal family members came to the palace early in the morning, carrying their own children, saying that they were here to visit me. In fact, their meaning is very clear. Since I am about to die, they should adopt their children and establish a prince before I die, in case there is no one left after my death."
Shen Yuanwei stood up and walked to the dragon bed.
Looking down at Xie Junlin who looked listless, she suddenly felt a little pity for this guy.
She asked cautiously, "You didn't see them, so they were waiting outside with the child?"
Xie Junlin hummed.
He held Shen Yuanwei's fingers tightly and looked into her eyes. "I will have my own children, right? My throne and my kingdom will only be left to the little prince you give birth to for me—"
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