Realizing this, Su Yushan suddenly felt like she had been tricked. "So you already had a decision, then why did you ask me?"
Smiling at her, Hongli tapped the tip of her nose, "Because I wanted to see if you would be jealous, if you would care about me."
Su Yushan sighed with a helpless smile, "We've been together for eleven years. Don't you know whether I care about you or not?"
“I knew it before, but you said that people’s hearts can change, so I have to check on them often to feel at ease.”
With a slight frown, Su Yushan couldn't believe it and couldn't help but scold, "You're already twenty-eight, how can you still act like a teenager, thinking about this and that? I've always been by your side, how could I have had the chance to change my mind?"
Hongli, who was always fond of nitpicking, found her words increasingly odd the more he thought about them. "You mean, you're really looking forward to this kind of opportunity?"
"I never said that, don't frame me!"
The two joked and teased each other for a while. In the past, this would have naturally led to intimacy. However, recently Hongli had been preoccupied with his thoughts of Yonglian and simply wasn't in the mood. So he didn't tease her, but instead put his arm around her shoulder and sighed.
“Being born into an imperial family is not a good thing. I hope that Yonglian can be himself in his next life and no longer be constrained.”
Su Yushan nodded, nestled against his shoulder, and whispered, "Don't blame yourself. I once heard a saying: Death is not the end of life, forgetting is. As long as you still remember him, he is immortal."
These words greatly comforted Hongli. He tightened his arms slightly and placed a kiss on her forehead. "You're right, I will always keep him in my heart."
Hongli had already made up his mind, but the Empress Dowager refused to give up.
That morning, after court, Hongli was reviewing memorials in the Hall of Mental Cultivation when Granny Mei from the Cining Palace came to see him, saying that the Empress Dowager's leg ailment had relapsed and she was in great pain. The imperial physician had come to treat her, but the Empress Dowager was unwilling to cooperate.
Therefore, Granny Mei had no choice but to ask the Emperor to go over and persuade the Empress Dowager.
Hongli knew this trick all too well. When he went to Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager would definitely threaten him, saying that she would not treat his illness unless he agreed to have a legitimate son.
Having seen through everything, Hongli coldly ordered, "Changchun Garden has hot springs, which are beneficial for the Empress Dowager's recuperation. Issue my decree to send the Empress Dowager out of the palace to live in Changchun Garden."
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