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Chapter 304
This huge change pulled Ye Zhaoyan out of her confusion, she looked at the back of Zhuoyi Baizhilan Yushu, with complicated emotions in her eyes.

In her impression, Zhuo Yibai's personality has always been indifferent, and he doesn't care about power and status, but she has never heard of him confronting the superiors.

It seems to be a gesture of deliberately retreating behind the back.

In everyone's eyes, the young master Zhuo has always been a person who knows how to advance and retreat, and is polite and alienated to everyone. Today's behavior should be unreasonable.

He did not hesitate to disobey Emperor Donglin, but also to shirk this marriage, whether it was because of her, or something else...

"Your Majesty, calm down," Zhuo Yibai bowed his hands, and said in a calm voice, "Yibai does not want to wrong the princess."

Emperor Donglin's face paled slightly, "How do you say that?"

Zhuo Yibai lowered his eyelids, and said slowly: "Yibai knows that his status is low, so he made this plea."

"Low status?" Emperor Donglin laughed lightly, "Although you are the last among the descendants of the Zhuo family, you are still the son of the prince. You just declined repeatedly, but I thought you were ambitious because you didn't admire power. Looking at it now, I'm afraid I'm proud of being favored?"

What he said was extremely embarrassing, and it would be enough for Zhuo Yi to die a thousand times in vain if he took off the hat of contempt for the majesty of the emperor.

This anger made the people present feel a chill, and they all said that the thunder, rain and dew were all due to the grace of the king, which was true.

"You don't want to get married, is it because you look down on the princess of the royal family of South Vietnam?"

"No such intention." Zhuo Yibai replied respectfully.

Although he spoke humbly, there was no sign of giving in in his words, but a few traces of distress appeared on his brows, as if there was something unspeakable hidden.

Seeing his appearance, Emperor Donglin dismissed him in his heart, "Since you don't mean it, why do you refuse?"

Zhuo Yibai was silent.Especially with that look of concern on his face, Emperor Donglin completely lost his patience, his voice was as cold as a knife, and he paused every word, "I will give you another chance today, if you can't tell me why, You must accept this marriage!"

There are many aristocratic families who have made good friends with Zhuo Wang's Mansion, but there are not many who have some friendship with Young Master Zhuo. For fear of being affected by the remaining anger, everyone kept silent and quietly became spectators.

The young man nodded humbly, Ye Zhaoyan couldn't see his expression, even though he was confident that he was not an impulsive person, but there were so many unbelievable things today that she couldn't help being startled.

Anxiety grows over time.

Anger smoldered on Emperor Donglin's face, and the chief eunuch behind him didn't dare to take a breath.

At the very moment, a tall figure stepped forward to salute, "Your Majesty, let Rong Chen speak on behalf of the third brother. The third brother has a last resort to do this."

It was Zhuo Mingxuan, the second son of Zhuo Wangfu.

Seeing that the person speaking was from the Zhuo Palace, Emperor Donglin's tone became more and more severe, and he sat on the dragon chair and said majesticly: "What is your last resort? Do you still want to protect him?"

There was a strong killing intent in his voice, but Zhuo Mingxuan ignored it, "Your Majesty, please listen to the minister's explanation first."

"Oh? Tell me now." Emperor Donglin snorted coldly, waiting for Zhuo Mingxuan's words.

"Third brother, he refuses to marry the princess because—" Zhuo Mingxuan paused, his eyes fell on Zhuo Yibai, "He has been weak since he was a child, and he suffers from a blood disease!"

As soon as these words came out, the seats were filled with silence, and the seats where there were some voices fell silent in an instant.

Emperor Donglin was also slightly surprised, it turns out that Young Master Zhuo is so useless?This is what he did not expect.

No wonder King Zhuo didn't reuse this youngest son, so thinking about it makes sense.

How can a sick and weak son be entrusted with a heavy responsibility?

But he was still depressed, "Then why didn't he say it just now?"

"Your Majesty does not know that this matter is originally the secret of the Zhuo Palace, and it should not be revealed lightly. There are only a dozen people who know the inside story." Zhuo Mingxuan paused, "Although this blood disease cannot be cured by ordinary doctors, if With the help of a brilliant genius doctor, there may be hope. It is because of a fluke that the father told us not to strictly disclose the inside story to the outside world."

In this way, it is understandable. Compared with the two, Emperor Donglin's anger seems to be a bit of a fuss.

Blood disease?For some reason, Ye Zhaoyan had a strange feeling when he heard these two words.

Judging from the several times she had been in contact with Zhuo Yibai, Zhuo Yibai was in good health, not inferior to the well-known Zhuo Mingxuan in Jindu, why was he suffering from a chronic illness?
At this moment, everyone looked at Zhuo Yibai with sympathy.It is embarrassing that Zhuo Wang's youngest son's hidden disease of being inhumane was exposed, and he suffered so much blame for nothing. On the other hand, the Princess of Nanyue also paid infatuation by mistake, which is really unlucky.

True love is precious, but the king of Nanyue would not let his beloved Zhangzhu marry such a person even if he was killed.

If one day Zhuo Yibai suddenly passed away due to a hidden illness, wouldn't the princess's long-distance marriage become a joke?

The life of a foreign princess without her husband can be imagined.

Countless eyes stared at her body, either openly or secretly, making Kunyu feel uncomfortable all over her body as if she had been crawled by ants.

How did things turn out like this. Zhuo Tianxin never mentioned the hidden illness to him. Could it be that she was being plotted against?
Originally, she thought that the well-planned plan of this matter had a chance of winning, but she never expected that a hidden disease would completely shatter her plan.

Now that the incident is well known to everyone, not only did she lose the opportunity, but it was also very inconvenient for her to discuss marriage afterwards.

Which aristocratic family can accept such a woman who is infatuated with him?It is neither up nor down.

When things got to this point, Emperor Donglin knew that he was wronged, but he couldn't save face, and his tone was still filled with resentment: "The King Zhuo kept this kind of important matter from me. Isn't this deceiving the king? Don’t tell me? If the princess is really allowed to marry into the Zhuo Palace, how will I explain to Nanyue?! I have always treated him generously, but he can’t even do this well!”

"Your Majesty, calm down, my father is not such a person." Zhuo Mingxuan hastily dissuaded, "Maybe my father never thought that the third brother would get such a marriage? After all, the third brother has always kept a low profile, and no one has ever discussed marriage... "

Emperor Donglin waved his hand, signaling him not to say much, "I'm not someone who doesn't know right from wrong, I know what he's like, that's all, let's leave this matter for now."

Only then did Zhuo Mingxuan heave a sigh of relief, "Your Majesty is kind, my third brother has suffered from a chronic illness since he was a child, but these years, he has never stopped practicing martial arts and writing. Although he is not a good match for the princess, he can barely be regarded as a talented person. This time I won the second class in the autumn hunt, and I hope that His Majesty will promise to grant a marriage when I have someone I like in the future."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and quietly glanced at Zhuo Yibai. Since the other party had given him a lot of benefits, he simply gave him a favor, and the icing on the cake was easy to do.

It is his style of doing things to make friends with others, and it is natural for him to reciprocate those who really give him convenience.

When Emperor Donglin heard the words, his gaze wandered around the arena, seeing those noble ladies who were originally envious lowered their eyes, their eyes showed a naked intention of retreating.

　There will be more tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)