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"You never told me..." Sui'er slightly raised her hand to cover her lips, unable to hide her surprise.

Xiao Lingming's 16 years old, to her, was just a world that changed overnight and the ensuing bloodshed.

In Sui'er's eyes, everything has already been borne by the lives of the servants.

At that time, she and all the servants who served the young prince were dragged into Yeting Palace for punishment, and the last thing she saw before that was the emperor's furious face.

When Sui'er came out again, Xiao Lingming, the little son she had followed since she was a child, was already a magnificent concubine Xiao.

At that time, Sui'er could barely feel that in these short few days, the emperor must have made Xiao Lingming suffer all the pain that he had never experienced in the first half of his life.

But Xiao Lingming didn't want to say it, and Sui'er never dared to ask.

At this time, Xiao Lingming just touched the top of Sui'er's head who was lying on his lap.He didn't answer her words, but continued to talk to her: "They are not fighting for a lover..."

Sui'er was easily taken away by him, she asked with a puzzled face, "What is that?"

Xiao Lingming's palm landed on Sui'er's shoulder and patted her, letting her rest on his lap, and then slowly said: "Women in the world have to rely on men to live, and there is never a second way for them to choose. Engagement and marriage The man at that time will be the way for the rest of their lives."

"——If someone comes to fight for it, it's not the lover——the one who fights is the way of life and the future." He paused, his eyes drooped slightly, and he wrote lightly: "You must die."

Xiao Lingming seemed to feel something in his heart when he said it, and said: "The same is true when the prince seized the heir to the fight in the previous dynasty. But when people mention men, they call them ambitious and decisive. But it's not the case when it comes to women's survival and future. It's..."

Sui'er interrupted: "But why?"

"Because people in the world always attach gentleness and softness to women, and for things that don't fit their delusions about women, they call them femme fatales with vicious intentions." Xiao Lingming curled the corners of his mouth, with a clear hint of disdain hanging on his face.

He mocked: "Since we are all human beings, how could there be an extra word for "female"? You should be born to get and ask for anything. Even livestock know how to resist if they are abused. In this world, people can do whatever they want. What you knead is nothing but dead things."

"But people in this world are always different, why can't there be a daughter's family who is not gentle and disobedient? How can there be a man from a daughter's family who is so unusual like Aizhong?" Sui'er pouted.

Xiao Lingming glanced at her, as if hesitating whether to speak or not, he lowered his eyes, and said after a while, "Isn't my elder sister just an unusual daughter's family? Didn't the sage love his elder sister unusually at the beginning?"

He paused when he said this, and sneered, "But the sage also hates my sister for being unusual."

Xiao Lingming said this with a smile and lightly.It was as if the heavy and bloody past more than ten years ago was like a page in a thin silk book, which passed by with a single flip.

Just put it on for a period of time, and it becomes a thing of the past that can be talked about and laughed at will.

Sui'er obviously had lingering fears about the fate of the Xiao clan and Xiao Lingming's past years. She clutched her heart and shuddered and said, "Then it's better to be a dead thing to please others, at least you can live."

Xiao Lingming thought it was funny when he heard it, and stretched out his hand to push Sui'er's eyebrows, "But Sui'er, if you marry someone and become a dead thing, men will think you are ignorant, like a piece of wood."

Sui'er shook her head as soon as she heard about being married, "I don't want to marry you! Don't marry me off, I will be with you for the rest of my life!"

"If I don't want to marry you, you will naturally not marry if you want to." Xiao Lingming coaxed her with a smile.

But Sui'er thought for a while and said: "Then why the world is so contemptuous when it comes to the struggle in the backyard, but Tongfang, concubines and empresses are carried one by one into the backyard and harem."

"Who doesn't like objects that have been trained to be obedient and beautiful. The raccoon slave in Yong'an Palace has never raised wild animals in the palace. No matter how noisy the cats in the palace are, they are just playing with pets and fighting with each other , look who dares to bully her." Xiao Lingming said casually.

Sui'er was obviously not convinced, "You say that women are human beings, but you compare cats to yourself, which is contradictory."

What Xiao Lingming said today, his mind was several times that of ordinary days.Sui'er asked one question after another, looking a bit endless, and remembering the instructions from Emperor Wu, he pushed her away, got up and walked to the desk, and began to perfunctory, "It's people who are treated as People see, those are two things."

Seeing that Sui'er wanted to ask again, Xiao Lingming simply showed a disappointed expression, and pretended to say: "Didn't you say that you will stay with me for the rest of your life? You don't need to know after asking so many questions." "Could it be that you lied to me?"

Sui'er subconsciously felt that what he said was wrong, and it was obvious that Xiao Lingming was sad, and his head immediately shook like a rattle, "I'm not lying to you! I want to accompany you for the rest of my life!"

Finally, Sui'er's head became clean, Xiao Lingming opened the booklet that Wu Xiang submitted three days ago, he read it many times, but he was still undecided.

Although Emperor Wu had the habit of asking him to review on his behalf, he mostly watched from his side and gave pointers from time to time. Most of the time, he just read the scriptures and wrote on behalf of others.

He thought it over carefully, typed up the draft again, and finally wrote down the pen carefully, but just after writing the beginning, a wife came in and replied cautiously, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is here."

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The empress is still in that overdone simplicity, she sits upright on the top seat of the magnificently decorated main hall of Zhaoyang Hall, looking out of place with the heavy brocade curtains and the delicate and luxurious seats below her.

Xiao Lingming stepped in against the light, and the hazy and bright sunlight cast a soft and warm white halo around his body.He lifted his feet and slowly stepped over the threshold of the main hall and entered the hall. The winding and complicated hem of his body was dragged in inch by inch as he walked towards the inside, and it took a while for him to be completely submerged in the shadow of the room.

When Xiao Lingming arrived in front of the queen's seat, he didn't intend to salute, but quietly placed his hands in front of him, and said slowly, "I don't know what your empress is doing."

And the mother of the Great Yuan Kingdom, who had no name, was mostly covered in the shadow of the curtain, so she couldn't see her face clearly at the moment.

After Ming Huang Guifei opened her mouth, she did not speak, but just quietly looked at the young concubine.

She looked at the strange yet familiar face of Imperial Concubine Ming's imperial concubine inch by inch until her eyes were sore and her heart was throbbing. The imperial concubine's book of etiquette has been spared. If I come alone today, I will give you the golden treasure of the book.

"Now that the things are delivered, there is nothing else to do." The queen got up and walked down the main seat as she spoke.Xiao Lingming didn't say a word the whole time, until the empress's grayish-yellow blouse brushed against Xiao Lingming's radiant crimson violet shirt, and then he opened his mouth softly, "It's the meaning of a sage."

The queen paused, her face, which had faded most of its color from the years and her husband's cold treatment, turned slightly sideways, and she glanced at Xiao Lingming's tight jaw.

The queen was silent for a long while, and finally threw down a ambiguous sentence, "Of course you have always been innocent." Then she strode out.