Chapter 304:
Xie Wanning then noticed how large this carriage was. They were in the inner chamber right now, and there was obviously still considerable space outside, providing ample living quarters for the Son of Heaven when traveling.
——The treatment as emperor was indeed different.
As if he could guess what she was thinking, Lu Ziyan half-reclined on the couch, watching her with a smile.
“Wanwan,” he said softly: “I won’t let you regret returning to the capital.”
They would stand side by side, and all the subjects under heaven would know that she was the most noble and happiest woman in the world.
Xie Wanning ignored him.
She was really hungry. Even though the meal on the road wasn’t abundant, she had a huge appetite.
As she was feeding herself, she saw a pair of chopsticks extend from the side, so she glanced at him. “You haven’t eaten either?”
Lu Ziyan smiled: “I was waiting for you to wake up, so we could eat together.”
“…”
It was probably truly a change in mindset, as Xie Wanning actually heard a hint of pitifulness in his words.
She thought for a moment, then picked up a pair of chopsticks of lotus root slices for him and promised, “As long as you don’t make trouble, we’ll eat together for the rest of our lives.”
“Good, no making trouble,” Lu Ziyan raised his brow slightly, slowly swallowing the lotus root slices, and smiled: “But Wanwan, you have to keep your word.”
“Of course,” Xie Wanning picked up another pair of chopsticks of duck shreds for him, raised her eyes and asked him: “Where’s Ran’er?”
Lu Ziyan said matter-of-factly, “In the carriage behind. He’s very noisy and can’t be allowed to disturb us.”
“…” Xie Wanning fell silent for a moment, then said with mixed feelings, “That’s your own son.”
“I know,” At this point, he still felt deeply resentful. Lu Ziyan gripped the chopsticks in his hand tightly. “On the day you gave birth, I was right outside, yet I still missed a full four years.”
He hated that Ji Chengfeng had dared to boldly claim that the wife inside giving birth was his own, and he also hated that Xie Yanyu hadn’t revealed a single hint.
But the person he hated the most was still himself.
Clearly, he had inexplicably felt his heart palpitating, as if some deity was secretly reminding him how important the person inside was.
But he still hadn’t gone to see.
He still remembered that day, hearing the cries of pain through the door, and the suppressed panting.
She was inside giving birth to the child, her life hanging in the balance, while he was just one door away, completely unaware.
Fortunately, nothing had happened to her.
A belated aftershock fear welled up in his heart, making Lu Ziyan’s knuckles tremble.
Xie Wanning also listened in silence. After thinking, she still explained: “At that time, I didn’t know you had come. By the time I found out, you had already left Bianzhou.”
As the words fell, Lu Ziyan suddenly looked up at her.
That gaze seemed to ask: If you had known I came, what would you have done?
For such a question, how could Xie Wanning answer.
She sighed helplessly and began to eat seriously.
After finishing the meal, a maidservant served hot tea.
Xie Wanning, full from sleep and food, held the cup and took a sip, feeling much more spirited, and began talking to the person beside her.
“What identity do you plan to arrange for us to enter the palace?”
The Xuanping Marquis’s Estate Eldest Legitimate Daughter had died several years ago. Suddenly popping up—wouldn’t that be hard to explain?
She was thinking deeply and seriously, but Lu Ziyan, who was peeling a honey orange, laughed as he listened. “What are you overthinking? I have no intention of making you change your name and identity.”
This was his Wanwan. He only wanted her alone; there was no second woman between them.
Not even a name-changed and disguised version of herself.
That wouldn’t do either.
Since he loved her so much, he naturally had to let all the subjects under heaven know.
Not only that, he also wanted it recorded in the histories, to be sung down through the ages.
If entering the palace with a changed identity, in the eyes of the myriad people under heaven and even later generations, wouldn’t that mean he had shifted his affections to another?
How could that be allowed.
Wouldn’t that ruin his reputation?
