"Zhong Zhiling, I'm glad you can tell me the truth. I like this most about you. You always stick to your own principles, never lie, and never deceive yourself. This is good." Helan Ya breathed a sigh of relief, and while holding the man's face with her hands, she continued, "Now, I know that you really want to marry me."
"You just found out?" Zhong Zhiling laughed dumbly, rubbing his head on Helan Ya's legs, and sighed comfortably, "It's great, I finally got married, I don't have to live in the military camp anymore, I don't have to spend all day with those rough old men, I can live a sweet and carefree life with my wife in the future, hehe, it's great."
"Since there are so many benefits to marrying a wife, why haven't you been so enthusiastic before?" Helan Ya glared at him, but seeing the childish look on his face, she couldn't help but smile. She stroked the man's hair and said with a stern face, "You said you would come back home to live in the future. If you dare not come back, I will make trouble in your camp. I have a king behind me to support me, so you better be careful!"
"Yes, yes, I will follow Madam's instructions," Zhong Zhiling said with a smile, holding Helan Ya's hand and kissing it, then he said slowly, "Yaya, when Mingwei ascends the throne, I plan to hand over the military power. When the time comes, I will accompany you wherever you want to live. Even if you want to go back to Turkic, I will go back with you and be a son-in-law who marries into the family."
"Really? The dignified King Pingxi of the Great Zhou, who is so famous and powerful, is actually willing to follow me back to the Turks?" Helan Ya had a look of disbelief on her face, but she couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth.
"I was too tired in the first half of my life, so I want to live a more relaxed life in the second half. I don't care whether I am the King of Pingxi or not. In the second half of my life, I just want to be your husband, Helan Ya," Zhong Zhiling said softly, looking at the smile on Helan Ya's lips, a little absent-minded, and paused, then said slowly, "In fact, I really don't have any ambitions, and I used to be the same. My brother...he even laughed at me for this, saying that I was the most useless prince. I didn't expect that I, the most useless prince, would later become my brother's biggest worry," At this point, Zhong Zhiling couldn't help but smile sarcastically, "It shows that times have changed."
Helanya listened to him quietly. When Zhong Zhiling finished speaking, Helanya reached out and held Zhong Zhiling's hand, saying in a deep voice: "Brother Ling, are you really planning to overthrow the Emperor of the Great Zhou and help Mingwei ascend the throne?"
"Yaya, I must avenge the hatred of my wife being taken away and my father being killed," Zhong Zhiling raised his head and looked at Helan Ya, speaking each word lightly but solemnly, "How did my father die suddenly? How did my mother help this executioner to ascend the throne? How was Siyao forced to marry? How was she falsely accused of being pregnant with my child and forced to die unjustly? Each of these is a deep hatred, and I must avenge them all."
Zhong Zhiling actually never knew what Zhong Zhiheng's attitude towards Zhong Mingwei was. He just heard occasionally that Zhong Zhiheng was very harsh on the eldest prince. Like everyone else, he thought that Zhong Zhiheng was so harsh on the only legitimate son of the empress because of Xu Siyao's sudden death after childbirth, which implicated Zhong Mingwei. So he never took it to heart. When the major case broke out in the 20th year, Zhong Zhiling's old subordinates were almost strangled to death. Zhong Zhiling hated Zhong Zhiheng and Zhong Mingwei, father and son, but Taking into account that Zhong Mingwei was Xu Siyao's only prince, she refrained from taking action against him. Instead, she repeatedly ordered the Imperial Guards to restrain themselves and keep a distance from the Eastern Palace. It was not until the beginning of the 32nd year of Jiasheng that news suddenly came from the capital that the Emperor deposed the Crown Prince and exiled Zhong Mingwei directly to Ningguta. Only then did Zhong Zhiling become suspicious of the father and son. Even if Zhong Zhiheng hated Zhong Mingwei, he must be Xu Siyao's flesh and blood. How could Zhong Zhiheng bear to let him enter the clan house and become a paraplegic?
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