Chapter 724 Cooperation - Perfunctory
Princess Chuxia was almost worried to death. Upon hearing Lu Hexuan's voice, she could no longer stop her tears from falling.
Seeing her like this, Wuyin's eyes darted around, and she hurriedly began to give instructions to the others.
The eunuch was very fast; in the blink of an eye, there was a knock on the door.
Following Wuyin's instructions, Princess Chuxia allowed the eunuch to enter without any obstruction.
However, upon seeing the tear stains on Princess Chuxia's face, the eunuch stopped in his tracks.
"This servant greets Your Highness."
The eunuch was suspicious, but he still had to show due respect.
Princess Chuxia continued wiping away her tears, her voice trembling with sobs as she said, "Eunuch, there's no need for such formalities, please rise!"
"Thank you, Your Highness." After speaking, the eunuch glanced into the inner room and cautiously asked, "Your Highness, is the Prince here?"
The eunuch's question only made things worse; it caused Princess Chuxia to cover her face and burst into tears again.
Just as the eunuch was at a loss, a maidservant helped a man with unsteady steps out.
The eunuch's gaze slowly moved upwards from the feet, and when he saw the wise king's dark eyes and swollen face, he was almost startled.
"Oh dear, Your Highness, what happened? How did you get into this state?"
As soon as the eunuch's treacherous voice came out, everyone's eyes turned to Lu Hexuan. Even Princess Chuxia was stunned for a moment before she hurriedly continued to cry.
Upon hearing this, Lu Hexuan glared at the eunuch and said irritably, "What's wrong? Ask her!"
Lu Hexuan mumbled incoherently and gestured for the eunuch to look at Princess Chuxia.
Seeing that the eunuch's gaze had indeed fallen on Princess Chuxia, he continued to complain, "I am a dignified prince, and I only slept with a maid, yet she beat me up. It would be better not to marry a wife like that."
"You mean sleeping with a maid? You're clearly slapping me in the face. I, a princess, am sharing a husband with a maid. I want a divorce! I want a divorce!"
Princess Chuxia was not a gentle person. Even the eunuch felt sorry for Lu Hexuan, thinking of the divorce he had caused at the New Year's banquet.
He's a prince, after all. It's one thing for him to marry a foreign princess, but he also hits her from time to time and threatens divorce. What man could tolerate that?
Although the eunuch sympathized deeply with the virtuous prince, he could not disobey the emperor's orders.
"Your Highness, His Majesty summons you to the palace for the morning court session!"
The eunuch explained his purpose, and Lu Hexuan could hardly believe his ears.
"No! You want me to attend court in this state?" Lu Hexuan looked like he wanted to beat up the eunuch.
Upon seeing this, the eunuch quickly explained, "Your Highness is not a servant, but His Majesty. It was His Majesty who summoned Your Highness to court. Please do not make things difficult for this servant."
The eunuch knew that members of the royal family like Lu Hexuan were extremely concerned about their image, and given Lu Hexuan's current appearance, how could he possibly be willing to follow him into the public eye?
But imperial orders cannot be disobeyed. As long as it is the emperor's order, Lu Hexuan must crawl to see the emperor, even if he has to crawl on all fours.
"No, can't you speak on my behalf and my brother's behalf? Is it inconvenient to enter the palace now?"
Lu Hexuan's bargaining posture, coupled with his pitiful face, made him look utterly ridiculous.
Even if the eunuch wanted to laugh, he had to hold it in.
"By His Majesty's decree, Your Highness, please accompany me to the palace."
The eunuch was inflexible, and Lu Hexuan couldn't refuse to go, so in the end he could only glare at the eunuch and reluctantly follow him out the door, limping along.
However, in order to prevent others from seeing him in such a "disheveled" state, Lu Hexuan had someone bring him a cape used by women.
Finally, by the time the eunuch brought the virtuous king into the palace, the morning court session had already ended.
The Prince Xian, looking injured and weak, was carried into the palace in a sedan chair by several people. Only when they arrived outside the Emperor's bedroom did he limp and be helped into the bedroom by a palace attendant.
He bowed to the emperor, but upon seeing the cap on the emperor's head, the emperor was furious.
"What are you doing, making yourself look like this?"
As soon as the emperor spoke in anger, Lu Hexuan immediately knelt down.
"Your Majesty, I beg you to have mercy and allow me to divorce that princess of Wei!"
Lu Hexuan's voice was trembling with sobs, and his unclear, mournful tone startled the emperor.
"Nonsense, you think you can just divorce a princess who's being sent for a political marriage because she discriminates against you?"
The Wei Kingdom is currently behaving relatively friendly towards the Great Zhou, all thanks to the marriage alliance. If the Emperor were to listen to Lu Hexuan and divorce Princess Chuxia, the Emperor guarantees that the Wei Kingdom would be questioning him within a month.
Even if it weren't for the sake of the people of the Great Zhou, the emperor would never agree to the marriage of a princess for his own sake.
“Then a divorce is fine! Even if it's the worst that can happen, I’ll make her divorce me. As long as she leaves, I’ll do anything.” Lu Hexuan compromised.
"Ninth Brother, what exactly did the princess do to you that you have to belittle yourself like this?"
The emperor rarely saw him compromise like this, so he couldn't help but ask the reason.
Upon hearing this, Lu Hexuan lowered his head and hesitated for a moment before finally steeling himself and taking off the cape.
Upon seeing Lu Hexuan's face, the emperor was startled, and then couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Seeing the emperor making fun of him like this, Lu Hexuan felt even more upset. "Brother, please stop laughing."
"Okay, I won't laugh. Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Hexuan repeated what he had said earlier, and finally asked the emperor with great anger, "Brother, tell me, she's just a maid, why did she treat me like this? She even beat me like this, what kind of girl would do such a thing?"
The emperor had countless concubines, so he naturally understood what Lu Hexuan was saying.
Even so, he couldn't follow Lu Hexuan's words and blame Princess Chuxia. After all, she was someone who could benefit him, and even if he was biased, he had to side with her.
“Indeed, no daughter would dare to beat her husband like this, but Ninth Brother, don’t forget that you married no ordinary woman, but the daughter of the Emperor of Wei.”
If it were just the emperor's daughter, it would be fine, but this is the emperor of Wei's most beloved and spoiled daughter, so we have to put up with it.
"I don't care, I just can't live with this woman anymore."
It was rare for Lu Hexuan to be so presumptuous in front of the emperor, and he was still acting like this, throwing a tantrum.
Lu Hexuan will soon be twenty-eight, not much older than the former crown prince. Thinking about what he had done to this child in the past, the emperor felt a little guilty for the first time.
"Alright, stop being so petty. Later I'll go find your sister-in-law and talk to the Princess about it another day. How about asking her to be more magnanimous in the future?"
The emperor's tone softened. Even if Lu Hexuan was being unreasonable, there should be limits. So, after pretending to think for a moment, Lu Hexuan nodded, which was considered as agreeing to the emperor's suggestion.
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