Chapter 46 I want to get closer and take a bite
Is he the emperor?
How could he become emperor?
"Miss Su, please don't talk nonsense." Yun Ji reminded lightly.
"We're in the middle of the lake, just the two of us. It's okay to say something offensive." Su Rui changed her posture, stared at Yun Ji curiously, and asked, "You and the emperor are from the same lineage, and you're the late emperor's favorite youngest son. Have you ever thought about the throne of the Supreme Ruler?"
“Never.”
Yun Ji didn't hesitate at all.
From the beginning to the end, he never dreamed of the dragon throne.
Since he was born, his eldest brother has been the crown prince. He knew and believed that his eldest brother would inherit the throne in the future, and he did not have the slightest greed for the throne.
But no one believed it.
The emperor doted on him, and his joke, "If Qin'er had been born a few years earlier, the throne would have been handed over to him," was taken by court officials as a sign that the emperor wanted to reinstate the prince.
In the changing situation, no one would listen no matter how much he explained. Palace maids delivering messages and eunuchs delivering gifts began to appear around him, and his mother beat and killed them one after another.
The look in his elder brother's eyes gradually became distant, and the young boy even saw the murderous intent hidden in his elder brother's eyes for a moment.
No one knows a son better than his mother. His mother knew his elder brother's temperament better than he, a six-year-old boy, did. When she was on the verge of death, she used her last bit of strength to ask his father to send him to the Fahua Temple to practice Buddhism.
But the Fahua Temple is not isolated from everything. Most of the monks are ordinary people. Even if they deliberately avoid him, those rumors will always reach his ears like wings.
Some felt sorry for him, saying that he was born at an unfortunate time. If he had been born five or ten years earlier, he would have been the crown prince.
There are those who dislike him, saying that since ancient times, the eldest son has been the heir apparent, and that it was his fate to be born late, so he should accept his fate and not be too brilliant or too smart, as that would get in the way of the prince. They sent him here under house arrest just to guard against him.
There are also those who are even more cruel and think that they should just kill him to eliminate the trouble once and for all.
His childhood was filled with all kinds of remarks, and he was unwilling to accept it, asking himself why he had become the one being sacrificed and placed under house arrest when he had done nothing.
Why should I be guarded against or even killed just because I was born a few years later, studied better than others, and learned martial arts faster than others, and my father and mother liked me more?
He didn't understand where he went wrong.
Eventually, he found his own consistency.
An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. He was born into a royal family, which was the cause, and was imprisoned in a Buddhist temple, which was the result.
But the shadow of childhood was always difficult to get rid of. He instinctively hated the palace which was like a cage. Similarly, he also hated the throne which forced him to change and accept and represented imperial power.
"Sir, you have saved so many people by establishing the Buddhist village. You must have the heart to save the country. If you don't take a high position, you can't save the country."
"Do what you can, whether saving one person or all living beings, it is a merit."
"If you can save everyone, why save only one person?" Su Rui retorted.
His words silenced Yun Ji. He looked at her with a slightly different expression and asked, "Miss Su, why do you think I can save everyone?"
Su Rui's heart trembled with guilt, and he spoke too fast.
After all, the emperor is still alive, and nothing happened to the eldest prince and the second prince. It is not Yun Ji's turn to be involved in the throne.
After a moment's thought, he changed the subject and said, "Isn't this just a casual chat? I simply feel that you, sir, are kind-hearted and compassionate to all living things. If you were in that position, perhaps you could save the people of Great Zhao and change the world. Great Zhao wouldn't be in the suffocating state it is today. In fact, if you were the emperor five years ago, I wouldn't have been punished as a military slave, escaping death and ending up like this."
Su Rui said this with some sincerity in her voice.
If Yun Ji had ascended the throne five years ago, even if she was wronged, even if Chang Ning put pressure on her, Yun Ji might have found out the truth, and she wouldn't have to go to the border and be beheaded.
Looking at the loss hidden under her smile, Yun Ji felt a little distressed.
The border was far worse than he had imagined. Even the news about Su Rui that Zhuiyue brought back was just a few rough words from other people. Pieced together, a short page summarized her five years of slavery.
But none of the wounds on her body, nor the sufferings she spoke of with a pretense of lightness, told of how hard it was for her to climb out of the abyss of hell.
Seeing that sentence become what it is now, she must feel helpless.
How many people can accept the fall of a noble lady, from the clouds to hell in one day?
If he had known her five years ago, perhaps he could have saved her.
"It's a pity that there is no such thing as a if." Yun Ji clasped his hands together and advised, "The past cannot be changed. We should let go of our obsession and start a new life."
"Yes, that's why I hope you can become the emperor, sir. Then I can have a place in the three harems and six courtyards." Su Rui said with a smile, and quickly moved forward, with both hands on the small table. Her face was only three fingers away from Yun Ji, and she asked with her lips slightly opened: "How is the concubine?"
Yun Ji didn't expect that Su Rui, who was discussing the people's livelihood with him seriously just a moment ago, would become so dishonest the next moment.
Lovely concubine.
Where is there such a title?
People have always been virtuous, beautiful and kind. How could one say that a concubine is coquettish? That would clearly mean that this concubine is a seducer to the emperor. One can even imagine the scene where the emperor is seduced into having fun every night and no longer attends the morning court.
But at the moment, Su Rui is indeed worthy of the word "delicate".
Looking at her face with every feature being exquisite, Yun Ji couldn't help but have a picture emerge in his mind for some reason.
Behind the gauze curtains, chasing, entanglement, the room is full of beautiful spring scenery.
Knowing that it is immoral, people are still addicted to it.
Looking at her rosy lips, Yun Ji's throat moved unconsciously, but he still felt dry in his mouth.
He moved his body slightly, wanting to get closer and have a taste.
Suddenly Su Rui stepped back and said with a flattering smile, "It was just a joke, sir, don't be angry."
A flash of regret flashed through Yun Ji's mind, and his alarm bells rang instantly!
He actually thought about those things and was upset that he couldn't touch her lips.
He looked around to see if Su Rui had used any medicine again.
But there was nothing in the tent, and he hadn't touched the food. Could it be that Su Rui really didn't take the medicine?
But he didn't even have any physical contact, he just...
How is that possible!
Yun Ji stood up suddenly. Su Rui was startled, thinking he was angry. She immediately admitted her mistake: "I was wrong. I will never make such a joke again next time."
Seeing her looking at him eagerly, Yun Ji bent down and got out of the black tent, picked up the bamboo pole and started to support it.
The speed was extremely fast, as if all the strength that had nowhere to go was used in rowing the boat, and it reached the shore in a short while.
Yun Ji jumped off the boat and left without caring about Su Rui.
He disappeared very quickly in the darkness, and by the time Su Rui took the lantern out of the tent, the man had already disappeared.
"How stingy!" Su Rui frowned and complained.
Yun Ji is not so stingy on weekdays. Did he take some wrong medicine in the palace today?
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