Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

155. A Committed Emperor

Translator: Flying Lines

The news that Su Jie proposed to Prince Rui of State YanHui quickly spread across the entire State YanLing.

Zhou Zaiyue tried his best to hide the news that the Emperor was missing. He worked hard with Zhu Ce every day to sort out the petitions. The unimportant ones had already been sorted out by Zhou Zaiyue and other ministers. The remaining ones, also the really important ones would have to wait until the unruly Emperor came back.

However, before the Emperor came back, they heard about the Emperor leading the elite troops to take down ten cities in State YanHui.

What troubled Zhou Zaiyue the most was that when the officials in the court heard about the Emperor’s heroic deeds on the battlefield, their first reaction was not saying how mighty the young Emperor was, but to look at Zhou Zaiyue.

As an official with the highest rank, Zhou Zaiyue had great prestige. After Su Jie disappeared, in order not to cause chaos in the court, Zhou Zaiyue lied that the Emperor fell ill, and because he was appointed as the emperor’s teacher the third day after he was appointed as Prime Minister, on one doubted his word.

Zhou Zaiyue meant to find Su Jie and get him back to the palace. Who’d know news about Su Jie was everywhere in the capital even before he was back, which denounced Zhou Zaiyue as a liar.

Even though Zhou Zaiyue had been through many ups and downs in his life, he could not help but blush and feel embarrassed when facing the resentful eyes of those officials.

Furthermore, the rumors about Su Jie were updated day by day.

With Su Jie’s permission, Vice-general Yan had the update on the war sent to the court every day.

Also many rumors about Su Jie were circulated among the people.

Rumor has it that the young emperor came up with the strategies personally to attack State YanHui.

It was said that a brave young man named Wen Nianxuan was following the emperor. He killed hundreds of soldiers of State YanHui alone, and his martial arts were amazing.

Rumor has it that the young emperor took a fancy to the beautiful and gentle Prince Rui in State YanHui, and he gave away the 10 cities that he’d taken as the bride price and proposed to Prince Rui.

Hearing this news, Zhou Zaiyue almost spat out the tea he just drank. He originally thought that the young Emperor was competent and more mature and calmer than his peers, but he didn’t expect that the Emperor would be more troublesome than ordinary people when he got righteous and frivolous.

It was really daring for an emperor to lead the troops personally. It was like going deep into a tiger’s den.

What if the Emperor was captured, what would the officials of State YanLing do?

Zhou Zaiyue mumbled as he waited for Su Jie to come back. He would try his best to persuade Su Jie to see the bigger picture and not put his life on the line like this again because Su Jie was not alone now. He was an emperor to the hundreds of thousands of people in State YanLing.

“He never gives me a break…”

Zhou Zaiyue had been worried that the Emperor would commit himself to Xiao Shengnian alone, but now his worries became a reality because Su Jie’s promise to have no one as his harem except Xiao Shengnian had already gone viral and everyone knew about it.

The culture of polygamy was popular in State YanLing, and men are also allowed to get married to each other. Now the Emperor took the lead to only marry one person, which would indirectly affect the families of the commoners.

An emperor shall never eat his words.

However, the Emperor must also have offspring.

When the courtiers of State YanLing heard that the Emperor was going to marry a man and promised that he would only marry one person during his lifetime, they all protested at the court in the morning.

At this moment, Su Jie was still at the border. He didn’t know that every morning, all his ministers would look at the empty throne with resentfulness. Then, they would sincerely hope that Zhou Zaiyue could stop the emperor’s ridiculous actions.

They could accept that the Emperor only married one person, but they couldn’t accept the Emperor marrying a man without any descendants.

However, regardless of whether they accepted it or not, the news had already come from the border that the Emperor had personally led the troops and gave 10 cities in exchange for Prince Rui.

“His Majesty’s growth is very fast. He can already lead soldiers to war,” Ju Liandao felt gratified compared to the civilian officials who were worried sick.

However, his son, Gongsun Yi, was in a bad mood.

For so many years, it was the first time that Gongsun Yi had ever fallen in love with a young man to his liking. Before he had the chance to cultivate his feelings with Su Jie, this had poured cold water on his plan.

It was said that Su Jie had promised that person that he would have no other concubines as his harem except for him.

What a devoted emperor!

However, he was committed to one man but heartless towards others.

Gongsun Yi had already caught Lan BuHui according to Su Jie’s order, but he was seriously ill after hearing the news.