In the real world where time stood still, the unconscious man on the hospital bed raised his lips, but the smile was so subtle that it was not noticeable.
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Xu Nuo opened his eyes and saw a thick crimson bed curtain, with a few rays of sunlight occasionally filtering through the gap between the curtain and the gauze. Xu Nuo tried to sit up, but felt a wave of weakness coming over him. His arms, which were supporting the bed, went limp, and he fell back again.
"66...what's going on?"
"Wait a minute, Nono, your body in this world is still sick. I'm going to start telling you the story."
"Oh." Xu Nuo nodded and raised his hand to observe his arm covered with bright yellow underwear. His wrist was pale and thin, and a few blue veins could be seen.
The plot provided by 666 came through smoothly. In the original novel, Xu Nuo was a puppet emperor who was supported to the throne. The late empress was terminally ill in her later years, and the princes and ministers colluded to fight each other. The late emperor was powerless to stop this, and could only watch as his few princes died or were injured. The late emperor's anger and deteriorating health soon led to his death. After the late emperor's death, restless forces in the court began to show their fangs. In the end, it was the only king of a different surname who was appointed by the late emperor during his lifetime, the current regent Xiao Jinyan, who drastically cleansed the court and supported the previously invisible Xu Nuo to the throne. Panic erupted in the court, and the atmosphere of bloodshed lingered for a long time.
In the original novel, Xu Nuo was born after the late emperor accidentally favored a palace maid. His mother was of low status and died after giving birth to him due to a difficult labor. The young Xu Nuo was raised by two old maids and a eunuch who was punished for offending a noble.
Nanny was old and passed away when he was seven. Young Xu Nuo did not know what death meant. He only knew that the nanny who taught him to read and sewed his clothes would never come back. Little Xu Nuo looked at the eunuch Wang beside him, who was also covered with wrinkles, and threw himself into his arms, sobbing in fear. From then on, the unfavored seventh prince in the deep palace had only an old eunuch for company. The people in the palace were very good at judging people. Although Xu Nuo was a prince, his food, clothing, and housing were not as good as those of some favored slaves. In addition, he had been suffering from a chronic illness since his mother's womb. He had not received treatment for many years, and he looked sickly.
Fortunately, Xu Nuo had no status, so when the princes were fighting for the throne, no one thought he was a threat. He was just a sickly person who would die at any time. Ironically, in the end, those arrogant princes who claimed to be the true dragon emperors were either killed or exiled to their fiefdoms by Xiao Jinyan.
Xiao Jinyan did not ascend to the throne as everyone expected. Instead, he picked the most insignificant and weak prince among the remaining princes and promised to support him to the throne. For a time, people all over the country were talking about how the regent had a good plan. He could not only avoid being accused of being ungrateful, but also keep the world in his hands.
Xiao Jinyan did not clarify anything. Only he himself knew that before the death of the late emperor, he had entrusted him to guard the Xu family's territory and not let the territory built by the Xu ancestors be completely devoured. If there was really no one in the Xu family who could take on the responsibility, Xiao Jinyan could proclaim himself king.
Xiao Jinyan was born in a poor family and his parents died early, but he was a well-known child prodigy since he was young, so he was taken care of by his fellow villagers. Later, he won the top three places in the imperial examination and was designated as the top scholar of the year by the late emperor, becoming a disciple of the emperor. He was only fifteen years old at that time.
The late emperor had been kind to him, and whether out of morality or the bond between ruler and subject, he would swear to defend the Xu dynasty to the bitter end. However, the remaining princes, apart from Xu Nuo, either treated the people like ants and cared only about their own pleasures, or were inherently tyrannical and unjust. After all the picking and choosing, only one sickly child remained to support.
Unfortunately, after Xu Nuo ascended the throne in the original novel, he believed the slander of others and gradually drifted away from the regent, and they became estranged. He was determined to overthrow Xiao Jinyan. Xiao Jinyan treated him very well, but in the end he allowed him to destroy himself and die in bed. Xiao Jinyan chose a smart child from the side branch to support him, and retired from the court at the age of forty, returning to the countryside, and never married until his death.
Some say he harbored a paternal love for his wife, others say his excessive wisdom inevitably leads to harm and he's already lost all hope, while others say he'd been locked in a feud with the former emperor for too long and didn't want to implicate an innocent woman. With so many different opinions, Xiao Jinyan ultimately left a mysterious figure in history.
"66, where is the plot now? Is it too late for my husband and I to get along well?"
666 felt guilty, "You've been on the throne for over a month now, and the relationship between you and the male protagonist has been strained for a long time. You're also sick because he refused to accept the marriage proposal at the palace banquet."
Xu Nuo's eyes suddenly widened, "Did I grant him a marriage?"
"Hehe... In order to demonstrate your royal power, you deliberately offered him a marriage with a dancer from the Western Regions, but he rejected it on the spot."
"Wow, wow, wow," Xu Nuo muffled herself under the quilt, "How can I pursue my husband like this?"
A series of light footsteps approached from afar, followed by a sharp voice, "Ouch! Your Majesty! Don't let yourself get bored!"
As he spoke, he pulled off the blanket, revealing Xu Nuo's face, red from lack of oxygen. Looking at the eunuch's white-powdered, flattering face before him, Xu Nuo instinctively felt uncomfortable. "Who is this? 66?"
666 replied, "The first villain you believed in the original novel was the eunuch Li Gui."
Xu Nuo brushed his hand away, "Where is Eunuch Wang?"
Li Gui's face turned a little ugly. "Eunuch Wang is old, so it's inevitable that he won't be able to serve you properly. Let me do it."
Xu Nuo recalled how he had believed Li Gui and replaced Eunuch Wang, and anger surged in his heart, "Get out!"
Li Gui knelt down and then ran away in a hurry.
Soon, an old eunuch came in and paid his respects. "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
"Grandpa, get up quickly!"
Wang Hai was stunned. This was the name Xu Nuo had used for him when they were children. Ever since he ascended the throne, he had always maintained a sense of superiority and no longer trusted him. Although Wang Hai felt sad, he also understood the difficulties he had faced after ascending the throne and consciously withdrew from his side.
"Your Majesty! You can't do that!" The wrinkles on Wang Hai's face were about to be squeezed together.
Xu Nuo knew that Wang Hai was cautious because he had offended a nobleman before. "Now it's just you and me, don't panic. From now on, grandpa should stay by my side."
Wang Hai's eyes were slightly red and he said "eh".
Not long after, in the Regent's Palace, a man with his eyes closed was listening to the report from his subordinates. After hearing that the young emperor had removed Li Gui and replaced him with Wang Hai, he opened his emotionless eyes indifferently.
"Little Emperor, what medicine are you going to sell?"
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