Chapter 682

Li Qingluo

Li Qingluo and Duan Rongshi also worked together to stabilize the realm.

But the people Li Qingluo has lost are growing ever more numerous.

Although Jinling still has two concubine-born daughters of the Li family.

Especially Huan Jieer, she has gone out to see her several times.

Seeing that she now has her own future, Li Qingluo also felt greatly relieved.

Moreover, she recently passed the entrance exam for the women's academy on her own, and has now officially become a student there.

The daughters of the Li family never need to worry.

So, Pei Lao Furen's days now have regained some hope.

Duan Rongshi lowered his head to look at his beloved wife in his arms, his brows involuntarily knitting together.

He knew that, although she was busy with state affairs just like him all day, she was actually not living happily.

He felt deep guilt and heartache, holding her tightly, "What I promised you then, I as husband will surely fulfill."

Great Yue (Great Yue State)

"Wait a little longer, I will surely fulfill my promise."

Northern Frontier (Northern Frontier)

Southern Frontier (Southern Frontier)

Princess (Princess)

However, what she did not expect was that Duan Rongshi would become even more diligent in state affairs thereafter.

Imperial Prince (Imperial Prince)

Great Yue Crown Prince (Great Yue Crown Prince)

At the same time, Duan Rongshi did not neglect personally teaching her martial arts.

As for his younger brother Ayuan, he began holding a brush to write characters at just over three years old, studying and practicing martial arts, equally excelling in both literary and martial pursuits.

However, Li Qingluo discerned Duan Rongshi's intentions in his teaching of the children.

He wanted to pass this realm on to his daughter, Fangfang?

Could he really achieve that?

The result was, Duan Rongshi truly intended to do so.

"When Fangfang turns eighteen, I will pass the throne to her."

"Over these years I have secured the realm's ten thousand li of mountains and rivers, and you have earned her ten full treasuries. With her wisdom, guarding the realm's prosperous age will not be difficult."

Li Qingluo felt her heart tremble upon hearing his plan.

"Ah Shi, must we really be so ruthless?"

"Fangfang will only be eighteen then, and you would already be a retired emperor?"

Duan Rongshi said: "You aren't you wanting to tour the mountains and rivers? If you don't take advantage of your youthful vigor and strong legs, do you really want to wait until you're old and unable to walk, when your eyes are dim and you can't even clearly see the scenery of the mountains and rivers?"

Li Qingluo imagined that scene.

Grandmother and grandfather walk a bit then rest— isn't that simply because their legs grow weaker with age?

She certainly did not want to spend her entire life utterly consumed in the inner palace, trapped in Jinling.

Li Qingluo quickly agreed to the proposal.

But what neither of them expected was that, upon learning she would be made Crown Princess, Fangfang actually expressed fierce opposition!

"As expected, the father and mother still favor Ayuan more!"

Ayuan, who was earnestly writing characters nearby, lifted his head:?

He knew his mission from childhood.

That is to assist his elder sister in becoming the first female emperor in the history of the state of Dai Yue, and indeed the first in all ages!

This conviction has been passed down from father to Ayuan since he was old enough to understand.

For this, he will surely not disgrace his mission!

Thus Ayuan, from a young age, has striven to study diligently, practicing swordplay each day for an hour longer than his elder sister.

All so he could become immensely strong and then serve as his elder sister's strongest support.

Now why does his elder sister say that the father and mother favor her more?

Ayuan dares not agree with this.

Fangfang said: "Father and Mother, my aspiration is to traverse the ten thousand li of mountains and rivers of our Dai Yue, to walk every inch of its land."

"To know just how vast our mountains and rivers truly are."

"I want to go explore the differing customs and local conditions of the northern and southern frontiers."

"Fangfang wants to know just how high the heavens are, and how far the earth extends."

"Father, Mother. Since Fangfang's ambition lies elsewhere, please set her free!"

Li Qingluo felt a sourness in her nose.

Isn't the nickname she gave Fangfang precisely so that she could live freely and unrestrained, carefree and happy throughout her life?

Now her aspiration truly lives up to her name— she is a wild, free-spirited child.

How could Duan Rongshi bear to, because of his and Duan Rongshi's selfishness, also confine her to that position?

Regarding this, Duan Rongshi felt somewhat disappointed, yet he still softened his heart and let his daughter go.

After all, even if she refuses to be empress, she remains a princess of Dai Yue, the Blue Sea Queen inherited from birth.

And that year, Fangfang was not yet ten years old.

In the twelfth year of the Longshi era, Prince Duan Jingzhi, aged eight, was made Crown Prince of Dai Yue.

In the sixteenth year of the Dragon Beginning era, the Dragon Beginning Emperor announced to the world that he abdicated the throne to the twelve-year-old Crown Prince Duan Jingzhi, and retired as Retired Emperor.

This announcement to the world threw all the civil and military officials of the court into utter chaos.

The Dragon Beginning Emperor was the one emperor of all ages who governed the world!

Today the prosperous age of Great Yue was created by him and the empress together, and they are still so young—how could they suddenly hand over the realm to a young heir?

Although the Crown Prince's talent was also extraordinary, after he was made Crown Prince, several key ministers took turns serving as his Grand Tutor.

In the Crown Prince, they also clearly saw the reflections of His Majesty and the empress, feeling that Great Yue's realm had a successor, and that reviving Great Yue's prosperous age for another hundred years was no problem.

However, His Majesty ran away at this moment!

He actually ran away!

How could he have run away?

Not only did he run away, but he also dumped a tender young younger brother on them!

What propriety is this?

How could this be acceptable?

The realm of Great Yue will now surely be utterly ruined in their hands!!

Until the young new emperor, clad in a red-black dragon robe, turned and steadily sat upon the dragon throne in the court, looked down upon the world and asked: 'Grand Tutors, do you all not trust me?'

A single cry of 'Grand Tutor' called back the reason of the several power-holding ministers who dominated the court.

Only then did they realize that the youngster before them was truly not just a youngster.

The sharpness and edge he exuded, and even the dragon aura and majesty he fully inherited from his father, made the hearts of all the court officials tremble.

This, this really is just a young emperor?

He is not merely a young emperor.

But a Son of Heaven personally taught by the Dragon Beginning Emperor himself!

His father emperor and mother empress had already laid everything of the realm ready for him.

A complete legal code.

A full treasury.

Even the loyal generals who commanded half of the court were placed in the hands of this young emperor.

"This prosperous realm was created by my father emperor and mother empress, and I will inherit their aspirations and safeguard this myriad miles of mountains and rivers."

"When my father emperor and mother empress return to court someday, I will surely return to them a brocade-like mountains and rivers!"

Ayuan's eyes brimmed with fervent zeal for this mission.

Yet the innocent him at this time had no idea that his father emperor and mother empress would henceforth roam the world carefree, becoming an immortal couple who no longer concerned themselves with worldly court affairs.

His imperial elder sister also went out to wander the martial world, and when tired she became the Queen of Lanhai.

Only the young and sensible he still guarded this home……

This guardianship is a lifetime.