Chapter 305:
Bloodthirsty, massacred countless cities, did not care when people called him Tyrant, yet at this moment he cared about his reputation in matters of men and women.
Xie Wanning found it somewhat amusing. She gazed at him gracefully and said, “It would have been so good if you had cared about this earlier.”
As the words fell, the smile at the corner of Lu Ziyan’s lip stiffened.
He stuffed a piece of orange into her mouth and said, “I was too arrogant.”
Xie Wanning hummed softly and slowly swallowed the piece of orange flesh.
This was the first time the two of them mentioned the past so calmly.
At this moment, Xie Wanning was thinking about their past life.
She pouted and said, “Back then, did you really think about taking a concubine? Liu Manrou was just a pawn, merely to make me accept you in advance…”
“No, I never thought about taking a concubine,” Lu Ziyan said. “From beginning to end, I only wanted you. If I had ever had second thoughts, there were countless opportunities before or after.”
He led troops at sixteen and spent years suppressing bandits and investigating cases in the Great Khan’s territories.
Countless officials offered him beauties; if he had wanted, he would have known countless women long ago.
“Oh,” Xie Wanning looked at him with a smile in her eyes, “Then what about your Lu Family’s heirloom undertaking?”
“……Isn’t there you? Anyway, I never thought about anyone else,” Lu Ziyan also recalled what he had said back then. He pursed his lips and said, “Back then I was young and vigorous, felt you were pressing me, so I said some nonsense. Don’t take it seriously; those weren’t true heart words.”
He put down the honey orange in his hand, wiped his fingers with a handkerchief, then held her hand and smiled bitterly, “I knew I was wrong early on, really.”
For this, he had paid a sufficient price.
“Alright,” Xie Wanning no longer had the heart to make things difficult for him, but continued the previous topic, “Since you don’t plan to let me change my name and identity, then how to explain my resurrection and giving birth to a child?”
“Resurrection is easy to explain; just say I was saved by a boatman that day. As for Ran’er…”
Thinking of his son, a smile played at the corner of Lu Ziyan’s lip. “Of course, the Empress loved me deeply, risked life and death to give birth to my offspring for me, but was injured at the root during production, was arranged to nourish in a small town in Jiangnan, and now her body is much better, so she naturally returns to the palace.”
The deep affection between the Emperor and Empress would surely become a good story sung through the ages.
In fact, it was indeed as Lu Ziyan said.
While they were still on the road, the Capital City had already spread the news that the Empress was not dead, had resided in Jiangnan these years, was now personally welcomed by the Emperor, and would soon return to the palace.
It created a grand spectacle for Xie Wanning’s reappearance.
The official explanation was that after giving birth, her body was weak and she was nourishing at a villa in Jiangnan. The Emperor knew, the Xie Family knew, and several heavy ministers in the court also knew.
Therefore, their Emperor had not gone mad enough to marry a memorial tablet; rather, the Empress had not died at all.
Not only had she not died, she had even given birth to a prince.
Eldest and legitimate, the Great Khan had a successor.
As for why the person was clearly still alive, yet the Coronation Ceremony was completed by the Emperor holding a memorial tablet—with Lu Ziyan’s current deterrence, no civil or military official in the court dared to raise any questions.
Whatever he said was what it was.
No matter what, this was a great joyous event.
The Emperor and Empress were loving and harmonious, and there was already a little prince who was established.
From then on, Lu Ziyan’s sharp sword had a scabbard.
In the future, with wife, children, and warm bed, his killing intent surely wouldn’t be so heavy anymore, right?
Everyone thought so.
Everyone was filled with surprise and joy at Xie Wanning’s sudden appearance.
