Chapter 371: Chapter 276: The Emperor’s Bride
Speaking of it, the Xie family was also on the Crown Prince’s side.
However, amidst the reshuffling of the noble families’ power alignment in the Capital City, amidst the storms of blood and rain, the Xie family still remained unshaken, standing firm.
It was precisely at this time that many came to realize that the newly enthroned Emperor did not harbor resentment towards the Xie family for the broken engagement years ago.
As for when he was still the Crown Prince, wanting to establish the deceased eldest daughter of the Xie family as the Crown Princess Consort, only to be rejected by the Xie family, it was understandable.
After all, their beloved daughter was already married, enjoying a life of wealth and prosperity, but lost her life while fleeing after being taken to the Northern Land by him.
A month passed.
News came again from the Capital City.
Three months had passed since the new Emperor took the throne, and the court officials submitted a memorial, suggesting that it was time to start selecting maidens to enrich the harem.
After the expected lack of results, the officials knelt in the golden hall, pleading with the new Emperor to at least establish an Empress if he was unwilling to take concubines.
After all, it made no sense for an Emperor to remain single.
Don’t mention Miss Xie, she was merely a fiancée.
Surely she couldn’t have died before marriage and still expect their Emperor to be a widower for life, right?
After repeated pleas from the court officials,
Lu Ziyuan finally relented.
He was willing to establish an Empress.
Even with a sense of impatience that seemed well-prepared, the decree to establish an Empress was issued from Qinzheng Hall that very day.
The eldest daughter of Marquis Xuanping Mansion was declared Empress.
Everyone knew the surname of Marquis Xuanping Mansion was Xie.
The eldest daughter of the Xie family...
At this moment, her coffin still lay in the ancestral tomb of the Xie Family.
Even as the Crown Prince, he was intent on making the deceased eldest daughter of the Xie family the Crown Princess Consort.
But at that time, the Xie Family did not agree.
This time, after all the turning and returning, the choice for Empress came back to the Xie family.
Still the same deceased person.
How could the court officials stand idly by? Immediately, a passionate civil servant dared to offer death as advice in protest.
The old emperor, perhaps very concerned with leaving a mark on history, might have taken this seriously, but Lu Ziyuan, who now sat on the dragon throne, had killed so many that even he lost count, and committed countless acts that defied the world’s principles, so how could he be threatened by this?
He gave up caring about historical reputation long ago.
Those officials who attempted to control the Emperor by threatening death, if one ministers through death, then one is executed.
By the third day, the bloodstains in the golden hall were enough to terrify.
Finally, no official dared to stand up and oppose.
The decree smoothly reached Marquis Xuanping Mansion.
And this time, unlike when Lu Ziyuan was still the Crown Prince last year, the Xie family did not outright refuse.
Perhaps due to the ministers who had already died for their remonstrance, or for some other consideration, the Xie family respectfully accepted the decree.
Thus, the new Emperor as he wished, married his once fiancée, Miss Xie, with whom he grew up as childhood sweethearts.
A woman who had long died, who had once married another.
It is said that the Empress conferring ceremony was grand, with the Emperor himself holding the memorial tablet for the entire ceremony.
In this lifetime, she finally became his rightful wife.
The Emperor’s outrageous action, such intense love, shocked the world.
Even in such a remote Jiangnan Town, the rumors spread increasingly wildly.
Everyone marveled that the most capricious and ardent royal family could also bear such a romantic soul.
When Xie Wanqing received the news, more than half a month had passed since the Empress conferring ceremony.
She remained silent for a long time, her expression vacant.
For a moment, she began to doubt herself, wondering if she had left too hastily.
If she had stayed and tried to move him with reason and emotion, would he have retracted his decision and spared Pei Yuqing?
She left in such a fierce, irrevocable way.
...Could that crazy, obsessive person really let go of the past as she wished and become a good Emperor?
