The Queen Mother jumped from the tower, and His Majesty was reborn with fear

Xie Yuxiu grabbed Yu Jinzhi's hand as she was trying to untie her clothes. Yu Jinzhi looked up at him and said, "As long as Your Majesty lets my father go, I can do anything..."

"If I ask you to kill Xie Zhao with your own hands, would you be willing?" Xie Yuxiu looked into her eyes and asked.

Tears welled up in her eyes. She looked at Xie Yuxiu and opened her mouth but couldn't say anything. Is it okay? She couldn't answer.

Look, Xie Yuxiu's eyes were dim, this was the position Xie Zhao held in her heart. It was just a test, and she was at a loss, but what right did Xie Zhao have? If it weren't for his identity, this person should be hers...

Moreover, how could Xie Zhao be sincere now? In his previous life, he even used Yu Jinzhi.

Xie Yuxiu straightened Yu Jinzhi's clothes and said, "If I wanted your father to die, I should have done it long ago. Why would I use such a roundabout way? Don't you trust me?"

"It's bitterly cold at the border..." Xie Yuxiu interrupted Yu Jinzhi before she could finish her words.

"He has been fighting on the frontier for decades, how could he not bear this little bit of hardship? You are worried about him, just because you are afraid that I will do something to him." Xie Yuxiu's face turned colder, but he still picked her up from the ground. She still had an injury on her leg, but it seemed to be much better today.

Xie Yuxiu held her and sat down in front of the dressing table again. Yu Jinzhi looked at herself in the mirror and said nothing.

He picked up the wooden comb and combed her hair himself: "Do you know Princess Changling?" he asked.

Princess Changling, Yu Jinzhi was somewhat familiar with this name. She was the sister of the late emperor and the youngest heir of that generation. She had been loved since she was born. When she was three years old, the late emperor had already ascended the throne. At that time, she just lost her mother, so she was taken care of by the late queen, so she had a close relationship with the late emperor.

But fifteen years ago, an envoy from the Kingdom of Li went to the Kingdom of Jing and proposed a marriage alliance to make Qin and Jin become friends forever. At that time, she was the only princess of the right age in the palace, and for the sake of the diplomatic relations between the two countries, she had no choice.

So the princess, who had just turned seventeen, went to the Kingdom of Li alone, and with her presence she gained more than ten years of friendly exchanges between the two countries.

But why did Xie Yuxiu suddenly mention her? Yu Jinzhi looked at him combing her hair in the mirror and didn't respond.

"If you know her, do you know her relationship with your father?" Xie Yuxiu asked again.

What does this have to do with my father? Yu Jinzhi didn't remember what kind of relationship her father had with such a princess. But she did know that her father personally led the team that led the princess' marriage.

"Princess Chang Ling is different from the other spoiled princesses in the palace. She is free and easy and fearless. When she was fourteen, she asked the late emperor to join the army in order to escape from the palace. The late emperor did not allow her to do so, so she ran away from the palace privately."

"Later, she sneaked into the military camp and was discovered by your father. She has been pestering your father ever since. Your father wanted to send her back to the palace, but she refused and insisted on going to the border with him. The late emperor could not stand her pestering and agreed, and asked your father to take care of her."

“In the year when Princess Chang Ling came of age, your father’s family arranged a marriage for her, with your mother. The two fell in love with each other and were about to get married. But Princess Chang Ling was going to ask the late emperor to grant her a marriage to your father.” When Xie Yuxiu said this, Yu Jinzhi was stunned. Is there such a story?

But she had never heard of...

Xie Yuxiu gently touched her head, and her long hair was rolled up around his fingers, and then he continued to tell the rest of the story.

"But your father refused and rejected Princess Chang Ling's request. She did not force it, but she also refused to get married. So when she was seventeen years old and the Kingdom of Li asked for a marriage alliance, she became the only suitable candidate."

"Princess Chang Ling was spoiled, and everyone thought she would refuse, or even plan to run away from the marriage. But to everyone's surprise, she actually agreed."

"Do you know why she agreed?" Xie Yuxiu asked.

Yu Jinzhi shook her head.

"She met your father the day before she agreed to the marriage request. She said that if your father was willing, she could be his concubine." Xie Yuxiu sat down in front of Yu Jinzhi, preparing to draw her eyebrows.

Become a concubine? Yu Jinzhi was slightly shocked. How could she, a princess, degenerate to the point of being willing to be someone's concubine?

"Isn't it incredible? So your father would never agree to her request. You were already one year old at the time, and your father would not tolerate anyone else in his heart. But it was precisely because of his refusal that Princess Chang Ling completely gave up her resistance and agreed to the marriage."

"But the late emperor was also under pressure from all the court officials. She agreed, which is a good thing for everyone. But she made a request, which is to let your father personally send her off to marry." Xie Yuxiu said as he looked at the eyebrows he had drawn for Yu Jinzhi. He seemed dissatisfied, but he just gave in.

Yu Jinzhi was so shocked that she was speechless. This was too bizarre.

"Marriage is just an excuse. Everyone knows that if Princess Chang Ling does not agree, all the blame will be directed at your father, including the late emperor." Xie Yuxiu picked out a lip balm with a nice color.

At this point, Yu Jinzhi couldn't help but ask back: "Will the late emperor force Daddy? He has always been lenient to Daddy, and this can't be Daddy's fault..."

Xie Yuxiu looked into Yu Jinzhi's eyes: "How can an emperor really be so close to a minister? Zhizhi, are you thinking too simply?"

Yu Jinzhi was speechless. Profits are the first priority for those in power.

"The late emperor told Princess Changling that if she didn't want to marry, he would let your father go to the border alone and never be allowed to return to the capital." As soon as Xie Yuxiu said this, Yu Jinzhi felt cold all over.

Xie Yuxiu began to help Yu Jinzhi put on lip balm: "So no matter whether your father would agree to her request that day, she would have no choice but to choose the path of marriage. Your father's words only cut off her last hope."

"On the day when the princess was sent out of the country, she told him that she hoped he would personally take her back to her homeland one day, even if she was just a skeleton."

"Your father felt guilty about her, and after he heard about what Princess Chang Ling had experienced in Li, his guilt grew deeper and deeper. She had no relatives in Li, and she had gotten pregnant twice but both ended in miscarriage. A few days ago, a letter came back saying that she doesn't have much time left." Xie Yuxiu told this story as if it was just an insignificant matter.

Because he was paying more attention to Yu Jinzhi, the color of this lip balm... seemed a little darker?