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Chapter 1098: Extra : Zhao Rui (Part )
There are complicated relationships behind these women.

We cannot expel them all from the palace at once, and we must have a reasonable explanation.

I chose Concubine Ye to cooperate with me, and promised to let her leave the palace and marry her off after the task was accomplished.

Anyway, it's just paving the way for retreat.

Concubine Ye is a person without any ambitions and readily agreed, and we hit it off immediately.

I was thinking about how to disband the harem, but Xiaoxiao suddenly had a new suitor. I panicked and asked someone to investigate that person's background.

"Senior brother?"

I looked at the files on my desk with an unhappy look on my face.

What a useless senior brother.

He is a man, can't he guess what men are thinking?
Get close to him as a senior brother, get along with him slowly, and after a long time, feelings will develop.

So shameless.

So when Xiaoxiao returned to the palace, I couldn't wait to find her.

But Xiaoxiao ignored me completely. Not only that, but what she said was even more heartless than before.

Anger, nothing but anger.

Why does she think she can push me away with a few harsh words?

Why do you think that I, an emperor, cannot be with you for the rest of my life?

What if I am willing to disband the entire harem for her and become enemies with the entire court for her?
You want to push me away, but I won't.

I just want you to know that I am dismissing the concubines just for you.

I want you to know that I am serious about you.

If you can still accept that senior brother hanging around in front of you, I, Zhao Rui, will accept it.

Xiaoxiao still didn't agree to me, but when she came back to the palace from Wuji Sect later, I never saw the figure named Chu Mo again. I felt happy in my heart, thinking that Xiaoxiao was not as heartless as she said.

Disbanding the harem is not as easy as I thought.

It took me six or seven years to send those concubines in the harem to the Taoist temple, and I secretly arranged for them to escape. As for whether they would go home or something else, that was up to them.

Xiaoxiao was moved by what I did, and she finally agreed to marry me.

My feelings at that moment were indescribable. I just wanted to present the most beautiful things in the world to her with both hands.

To this end, I held a grand ceremony to crown her as the queen. From now on, she will be the only queen of my Zhao Rui.

After the marriage, I still let my fourth brother bring the children into the palace as usual.

However, my mentality changed at this time. I no longer wanted to choose an heir from among them as the crown prince, but to train right-hand men for my and Xiaoxiao's children in the future.

I know the characters of these children.

According to their different personalities, we plan different paths for them.

Not long after, Xiaoxiao became pregnant, and I couldn't wait to announce the good news to the world.

However, my mother asked me to remain calm and I waited and waited, and only announced the matter at the palace banquet three months later, so that I could share this joy with all the ministers.

I thought my mother cared so much about this child because she liked Xiaoxiao.

What I never expected was that my mother was nice to Xiaoxiao only because she was pregnant with my child.

After Xiaoxiao gave birth to the child, his attitude towards her changed.

He actually secretly brought the minister's daughter into the palace, trying to hide it from Xiaoxiao, and let me have relationships with those women, and then directly made me a concubine.

I realized something was wrong, so I asked Mr. Pan to take me away immediately and summoned Doctor Wang to treat me. I confronted my mother after I recovered.

That was the first time I had an argument with my mother. It was so fierce that it made her cry.

“I’m doing this for your own good,” she yelled.

"I don't need it, Queen Mother, I just want Xiaoxiao. You were worried before that I wouldn't have my own child to inherit the throne. Now Xiaoxiao has given birth to Yaoer, why are you still doing this?"

"There is only one woman in the harem, and you dote on her so much, the final result may be worse than that of the previous empress."

That empress had no relatives by marriage and could only rely on slowly cultivating her minions.

But Gu Yanxiao is different. She has an extremely powerful father and an ancestral family with many clans. As long as she has the slightest bit of disloyalty, it would be very easy for the Zhao family to change hands.

"Mother, your worries are unnecessary!"

"Emperor, do you think your mother is really crazy? I am just taking precautions. Is it wrong for me to do this?"

"You are not wrong, and Xiaoxiao is not wrong either."

I said, "But I only want to be with Xiaoxiao forever in this life. When Yaoer grows up, I will abdicate the throne to him."

My mother was surprised and asked me what I meant by this.

I told my mother my plan. She stepped back in shock and finally fell into a chair. After a long while, she spoke: "You are quite open-minded. Since you trust the queen so much, I have nothing to say. You can do whatever you want."

I didn't tell Xiaoxiao about the quarrel between my mother and me, but I did keep the matter between the two women in mind.

Unexpectedly, Xiaoxiao rushed directly into the Qingshou Palace and took back the palace power from her mother.

She has always been the one who never suffers any loss.

But she was the queen, so it was her legitimate right to manage the harem.

But I didn't expect that my mother would ask to go to the palace at this time. No matter how I tried to persuade her, it was useless. Her attitude was very firm. In the end, I could only arrange personnel to send my mother to the palace to recuperate.

For the safety of my mother, I specially arranged for a cultivator with good cultivation under Lord Pan to accompany me.

I thought the matter was settled.

Xiaoxiao and I can live a peaceful life as a normal couple for a few days.

However, news came from the palace that the queen mother was seriously ill.

At that time, I felt a little guilty, thinking that my previous words had hurt my mother's heart. She could not let it go and fell ill due to excessive worry.

I plan to go to the palace alone, and Xiaoxiao wants to go with me.

When we arrived at the palace, the accompanying imperial physician could not find out what was wrong with me, so I asked Mr. Pan to go to the capital and bring Imperial Physician Wang. When he took my pulse, I was shocked.

Some people were so bold as to murder the empress dowager.

The anger at that moment surged up.

This is like a slap in the face. I must find this person.

Xiaoxiao acted quickly. In just one night, she caught the treacherous person hiding in the palace, and then found the murderers behind the scenes, Princess Shun and Princess An.

In the past few years, there had been plans to attack Tubo, and Princess Shun's move was to take the initiative to light the fuse. Taking this opportunity, sending troops to Tubo was also justified.

After recovering Tibet, the people rested and recuperated for a few years before I began to send troops to the north. Finally, I incorporated the Liao Dynasty into the territory. This was truly a great unification in my hands.

By then, I was nearly 40 years old, and Yaoer had grown up, so I could safely hand over the empire to him.

I came to Xuanyin Sect with Xiaoxiao and tried to draw the energy into my body, but I still couldn't gather it. However, I was not discouraged. As long as I could live a good life with Xiaoxiao every day, I felt it was all worth it.

One day a year later, I got up as usual and drew the energy into my body, and found that I could actually retain some spiritual energy in my dantian.

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