Chu Chen saw that her expression didn't seem to be fake, so he finally put his mind at ease.

"In that case, I'm relieved." Chu Chen laughed from the bottom of his heart, "As long as you are not forced to be helpless, then I think you must have your considerations, and I can't have any ideas because of this, you can rest assured." ”

After a pause, he reached out and grabbed her wrist and said in a low voice: "Anyway, you can't abandon me, even if it's not Zhengjun, it doesn't matter to me, you just can't do without me." ”

Zixi stared at his hand and was silent for a while, "Aren't you sad at all?" ”

"Why be sad?" Chu Chen leaned over and kissed her on the face, "The saddest time in my life was the experience of returning to Xiling from Donglin two years ago, and I was so sad that I was about to die. ”

Seeing his beloved woman ascend the throne as emperor and become the most honorable person in the Lingguo from then on, at that moment, he realized that he would not even have the qualifications to look up to her in the future - that kind of gloomy sadness, that feeling of suffocation and emptiness, he would never want to experience it a second time in his life.

"I'm so sad that I'm dying?" Zixi laughed at what he said, "Then why didn't you think about fighting for it at that time?" ”

"At that time, my mind was blank, and I had low self-esteem." Chu Chen said honestly, "There are so many excellent sons of the family in the capital of the Tanglin Emperor, and there are thousands of miles between Dongling and Xiling, and the road is far away, so I can't take my turn, and I didn't expect to enter the ...... at that time."

Chu Chen pursed his lips: "You don't know, when you were a princess, I was thinking about how to marry you all day long, and then suddenly one day you became the empress, the dream of marrying was shattered, and I was stunned in my mind, and I was only gloomy and sad, where else could I think of?" ”

"When I returned to Xiling, I realized that you can't marry me, but I can marry you." Chu Chen said, and then sighed melancholy, "However, when I knew that you had someone you liked, my dream was shattered again, like a bucket of cold water poured down, and from then on, I was only sad." ”

The corners of Zixi's mouth curled up when she heard this, and the gloom in her heart was suddenly swept away: "Is there any exaggeration?" ”

"It's not an exaggeration at all." Chu Chen shook his head, grabbed her hand and put it in his heart, "You have lived with me for a long, long time, and only by spending my life with you will I not be sad." ”

Chu Chen said, lowered his eyes and kissed her hand: "Besides, your identity, my identity, are destined to have more than just love in our lives, but also more responsibilities." It's not that I'm jealous, nor am I pretending to be generous, but I know that many things in life should be trade-offs, and we can't take all the good things, right? ”

Zixi didn't speak, just reached out to hug his waist, buried his face in his heart, and quietly felt his heartbeat.

"Zixi." Chu Chen lowered his eyes and looked at the woman in his arms, "Do you know what my father told me before I came here?" ”

Zixi said curiously: "What did King Qingjun say?" ”

"My father said, let me be virtuous and generous, don't intrigue with people all day long, in case I fall out of favor one day, and I have no place to cry." The corners of Chu Chen's mouth twitched violently, "This is what my father said." ”。

Zixi was speechless for a long time: "It's like a mother confessing to her married daughter." ”