Chapter 275:
Speaking of which, the Xie Family is also one of the First Prince’s people.
However, in a situation where the prominent families in the Capital City have almost been completely reshuffled amid a storm of bloody purges, the Xie Family remains unmoved and stands firm.
It was precisely at this time that many people realized the newly ascended Emperor harbored no resentment toward the Xie Family’s broken engagement from back then.
As for when he was still the Crown Prince and wanted to make the Xie Family’s already deceased Eldest Legitimate Daughter the Crown Princess, only to be refused by the Xie Family, that is understandable.
After all, their beloved daughter had already married, and she was enjoying a life of fine clothes and good food until she was abducted to the Northern Region by him, losing her life while escaping.
Another month passed.
News came again from the Capital City.
More than three months after the New Emperor ascended to the throne, the officials submitted memorials, saying it was time to start selecting maidens to fill the rear palace.
After the expected fruitless response, the officials knelt in the Golden Hall, requesting that even if the New Emperor did not take any imperial consorts, he should at least first establish an Empress.
After all, what kind of Emperor stays a bachelor.
Never mind the Xie Family Young Lady; she was merely a fiancée.
They couldn’t expect that before the marriage even happened she died, and still make their Emperor keep chastity for her for life, turning into a widower forever, right?
After the officials’ repeated pleas.
Lu Ziyan finally relented.
He was willing to establish an Empress.
Even showing a bit of long-prepared eagerness, that very day an imperial decree establishing the Empress was issued from the Hall of Diligence.
Appointing the Xuanping Marquis’s Estate Eldest Legitimate Daughter as Empress.
Everyone knows that the Xuanping Marquis’s Estate is surnamed Xie.
The Xie Family Eldest Legitimate Daughter…
Her cenotaph is still buried in the Xie Clan ancestral graveyard right now.
Even back when he was still the Crown Prince that day, he was single-mindedly set on making the already deceased Xie Family Eldest Legitimate Daughter the Crown Princess.
It was just that the Xie Family members did not agree at the time.
This time, after going full circle, the candidate for the Empress position returned to the Xie Family again.
Still that dead person.
How could the officials watch this happen, so immediately fierce civil officials remonstrated with death.
The old Emperor who cared deeply about leaving a name in history might have eaten up that sort of thing, but Lu Ziyan now sitting on the dragon throne had killed so many people he couldn’t even count them himself, and done who knows how many things that defied the world and common ethics—how could he be swayed by such a threat.
He had long since stopped caring about his reputation in the history books.
Those ministers who tried to manipulate the Emperor and remonstrated with death—kill one for each who dies remonstrating.
By the third day, the bloodstains not yet dry on the Golden Hall were enough to chill anyone to the bone.
Finally, no more officials stood up to oppose.
The imperial decree smoothly reached the Xuanping Marquis’s Estate.
And this time, unlike last year when Lu Ziyan was still the Crown Prince, the Xie Family did not outright refuse.
Perhaps because of those officials who died remonstrating ahead of them, or perhaps for some other reason, the Xie Family respectfully accepted the decree.
Thus, the current New Emperor successfully married his former fiancée, the Xie Family Young Lady he grew up with as childhood sweethearts.
A woman who had long died and once married into another family.
It was said that the Coronation Ceremony was very grand, with the Son of Heaven personally holding the memorial tablet and performing all the wedding rites alone.
In this life, she finally became his legitimate wife.
The Emperor’s absurd actions and such intense affection shocked the world.
Even in this remote town in Jiangnan, the rumors grew ever more intense.
Everyone was marveling that the imperial family, which should have been the most romantically promiscuous, could produce such a devoted lover.
Xie Wanning received the news half a month after the Coronation Ceremony.
She was silent for a long time, her expression dazed.
For a moment, she began to wonder if leaving like that had been too hasty.
If she had stayed and reasoned with him emotionally and logically, would he have taken back his order and no longer harbor killing intent toward Pei Yuqing?
She had left just like that, in such a tragic and uncompromising way.
…That obsessive madman, could he really let go of the past as she wished and be a good Emperor?
