Fast Travel: The Hundred-Life Couple

"And if you listen to the Queen and get rid of me, you will have no worries from now on. Nothing will change. You will become the only emperor without any obstacles, enjoying all the wealth in the world and ruling a vast territory."

Zhao Dongxu returned Ye Xiaoli's cold gaze without flinching. "I'm not afraid. In fact, I've been looking for you. I don't want to get married. First, I haven't met someone I like, and second, I don't want to have children and take away your kingdom."

"The Emperor once joked that if I remained childless, I would adopt Princess Rong'an's child. I had already made up my mind not to let that happen."

Princess Rong'an has no royal blood, so how could her children be qualified to inherit the throne?

So that's why. No wonder in his previous life, after Zhao Dongxu ascended the throne, when he was settling accounts with Su Jian, he actually killed all the members of the Su family except Princess Rong An, including Princess Rong An's children.

"But why do you keep looking for me?" Ye Xiaoli was puzzled.

Zhao Dongxu shook his head: "I don't know either, but since I was a child, there has always been a voice in my heart reminding me that I must find you..."

To protect you.

"Furthermore, Concubine Wan once approached me privately and revealed my identity, hoping that I would play along with the Empress, while still treating her as my biological mother. At that time, I knew she was just trying to use me."

"In fact, my investigation back then revealed that Concubine Wan was willing to enter the palace, but she lied to Ouyang Meng, saying she was forced to enter. She wanted to give birth to the emperor's eldest son, but there was no sign of pregnancy, so she seduced Ouyang Meng into having an affair with her."

"After she was diagnosed with pregnancy, she seduced the Queen's second brother, Ye Changrong, to provide an additional identity and protection for her unborn child. Then she sent a message to the Meng family, asking them to kill Ouyang Meng and eliminate the future trouble."

"The Ouyang family, having been informed of my identity by Concubine Wan, believed that a small lack of patience could ruin a great plan, and so they did not pursue the matter of Ouyang Meng's death."

"So, after all this time," Zhao Dongxu laughed at himself, "your mother and my mother, your relatives and my relatives, none of them are easy to deal with."

"Well then," Ye Xiaoli said, looking as if he believed her. "I want you to follow the Queen's wishes and take the throne first. Then, I'll announce our identities to the world and return the Great Yong Empire to me. Can you do that?"

Zhao Dongxu smiled and said, "I will definitely do it."

"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing. Ye Changrong seems to have returned to Beijing recently. He once disguised himself as a eunuch and went into the palace to meet Concubine Wan."

The Queen probably hasn't been informed yet about Ye Changrong's fake death and return to Beijing. It seems that he really cares about Concubine Wan.

Ye Xiaoli: “…”

Well, she and everyone around Zhao Dongxu are living with masks on.

"Then I will live in the East Palace from now on and supervise you. If you have any bad intentions, I will kill you." Ye Xiaoli said fiercely.

"Great!" Zhao Dongxu wanted more than anything.

In the past, he always felt that this world was illusory and unreal. It was not until Ye Xiaoli appeared that he felt that mountains were mountains and water was water.

……

Although Ye Xiaoli had to wait for Zhao Dongxu to help her pick the "fruit", there was one thing she had to do right before her, which was that Su Jian'an's family must die early and be reborn soon.

"Lend me a team of people, the kind that can do dirty work." Ye Xiaoli ordered Zhao Dongxu without any hesitation. Anyway, in the near future, the world will belong to her, and all of Zhao Dongxu's property and manpower will also be hers.

"Also, you should lose some weight as soon as possible. It's so irritating to my eyes just looking at you." Ye Xiaoli said with disgust.

Zhao Dongxu responded with a smile.

So, that night, a group of bandits broke into Su Zhuangyuan's house and brutally killed Su Zhuangyuan and his family of three, leaving their bodies mutilated.

The coffin of Su Zhuangyuan's "wife" was still in the yard and had not been buried, but the three of them were in a hurry to reincarnate.

When Ye Xiaoli led people to kill their family, he even put on makeup to make his face full of black spots like the original owner. Su Jian'an's mother and sister were shocked when they saw Ye Xiaoli.

After torturing them severely, they were finally sent to see the King of Hell.

On the same night, Zhao Dongxu also sent people to find and kill all the bandits who were bribed by Su Jian and ambushed Ye Xiaoli on the way.

When Princess Rong'an heard the news of the death of Su Jian'an's family of three, she stayed in bed all day long.

She really fell in love with Su Jian at first sight and couldn't help herself.

Ever since the Queen learned about Zhao Dongxu's background, she has been in a state of panic. She is afraid that Zhao Dongxu's identity will be exposed, bringing disaster to her and the Ye family. She is also afraid that Zhao Dongxu will ascend the throne smoothly in the future. In her heart, she regards Concubine Wan as more important than herself.

But Zhao Dongxu became thinner day by day, and the Queen and Concubine Wan were terrified every time they saw Zhao Dongxu's appearance.

After all, considering that the longer the emperor died, the more risk Zhao Dongxu would be exposed, the queen and Concubine Wan started to poison the emperor at the same time.

Two years later, the emperor passed away. At Zhao Dongxu's coronation ceremony, his, Ye Xiaoli's and Princess Rong'an's identities were announced, and it was announced that the throne would be given to the late emperor's only bloodline.

Then all the members of the Ye, Meng and Ouyang families were imprisoned, and the Queen, Concubine Wan and Princess Rong'an were placed under house arrest, waiting for Ye Xiaoli to deal with them.

Since Zhao Dongxu had been planning for the past two years, many people in his camp had been won over by Ye Xiaoli. Therefore, when Ye Xiaoli's life experience was made public, the waves caused in the court were quickly suppressed.

Instead, the people were in an uproar, discussing the fact that Ye Xiaoli, a woman, inherited the throne.

But no matter how much the people talked about it, it was just talk. Ye Xiaoli forcefully suppressed the voices of opposition and successfully ascended the throne.

"Let me go! Even if Zhao Xiaoli ascends the throne, I am still her biological mother and the only Empress Dowager of Dayong. If you dare to be disrespectful to me, be careful! I will execute all nine generations of your clan in the future!"

On her happiest day, Concubine Wan was extremely happy and sad. She had already realized that her situation was hopeless and she was as miserable as if she had lost her parents. However, the Queen was still screaming and could not accept that she was locked up.

"You are my biological mother, yes, but you abandoned me when I was born. Since that is the case, considering you gave me a life, I will make you the Queen Mother as I wish, but I will never see you again for the rest of my life."

"Ye Changrong took me away when I was born, separating me from my father for nearly twenty years. Because he raised me, I will spare his life."

"You and Ye Changrong will go guard the mausoleum of our father. I will punish you two by making you kneel before him for two hours every day to apologize to him."

"As for the rest of the Ye family, they encouraged you to confuse the royal bloodline with Ye Changrong and attempted to steal the Zhao family's throne. The head of the Ye family and the remaining adult men will be executed immediately. Boys and women under the age of fourteen will be exiled to southern Xinjiang and will not be pardoned for fifty years."

"The Meng family, Ouyang family, and Ye family will be punished the same way."

As for Concubine Wan? Considering that she was Ouyang Dongxu's biological mother, she would just live out her remaining life in seclusion.

Although Princess Rong'an was Ye Changrong's daughter, she was the daughter of a concubine, and she was still an infant when the incident happened and had no control over her own affairs, so she was restored to commoner status, given 200 taels of silver, and allowed to fend for herself.

When she was leaving the palace with her bag on her back and a look of panic on her face, an elderly woman in a hemp dress and a white hairpin took her away in tears and she was never heard from again.

After Ye Xiaoli came to power, he used ruthless means to suppress court officials, consolidate imperial power, encourage agriculture and sericulture, reduce taxes and levies, stop fighting, open up channels for public opinion, further develop the imperial examination system, establish an imperial examination for women, improve the status of women, send troops to fight against the Rong and Di tribes, and intimidate the four barbarians...

In just five years, he won over all the court officials and people.

That year, Ye Xiaoli was already 23 years old, and the harem was still empty. The ministers began to worry about her and were secretly discussing writing memorials to advise her.

During the morning court session, Ye Xiaoli couldn't help but vomit in front of all the officials.

They didn't know who the father of the child was, nor did they dare to ask. Eight months later, Ye Xiaoli gave birth to a daughter.

Three years later, she was made the Crown Princess.

"Your Majesty, when can I have a formal identity?" Someone asked sweatily at night.

"You can't have that." Ye Xiaoli replied calmly.

The next moment, she lost her composure.

——End of this article——