Translated by Eve

　　Edited by Kara

　　Happy Lunar New Year~ To those that get to go home and celebrate it with your family, I envy you~ Eat lots and be merry!!

　　Since they'd finished their mission of killing Mo Ziyou—although the ending was rather mystifying—and Zhao Xihe had regained his memory, Sui Yuan had finished everything that he had to do.

　　Since not a lot of time had pa.s.sed either, Sui Yuan, who was dedicated to his work, still wished to go back to the world he had "abandoned midway." He planned to go back and "finish up" the plot, even if he didn't know what exactly he had to "finish up'" in the plot. After all, Hui was indeed supposed to die this winter.

　　Finding out that Sui Yuan wanted to leave, how on earth could Zhao Xihe be at ease?! He had a vague understanding of Sui Yuan's "womanizing" in his last world, courtesy of 5237. Thus, he naturally wanted to go with him.

　　Unfortunately, Zhao Xihe's ident.i.ty in this world was not like Sui Yuan, although there actually wouldn't be too many people who would inquire about his sudden disappearance. Nonetheless, Sui Yuan had no choice but to prolong his stay in this world as he waited for Zhao Xihe to put everything in order on his end.

　　Although Zhao Xihe was a very competent ruler on the surface, and his people and subordinates all held a blind faith in him, he actually had no sense of responsibility. He had only developed his power for the sake of completing his mission.

　　Now that the mission was over, who cared about them? Fortunately, Zhao Xihe wasn't rotten to the bone. He knew that he wouldn't get married, so he had fostered a son he had adopted as his successor. He taught him rather seriously.

　　There were certain steps that had to be taken to justify his "leave from office." Although he had an adopted son, Zhao Xihe's subordinates still hoped that he would leave behind offspring. And to have offspring, he needed to wed a wife. Therefore, when the news that Zhao Xihe was exclusively favouring a young man broke out, his subordinates all exploded. My Lord, to be without a wife for so long is one thing. To exclusively love a man is another! The former they could just think that their Lord was picky and still retain their hope. With the latter, their hope was thoroughly extinguished, ah!

　　His greatest foe had already died; he'd unified the entire country; his ascendance as Emperor was imminent, and his people and military troops were impa.s.sioned. Under the instigation of "a person with ulterior motives," the subordinates who were worried about their future little master began to act: The more sly ones tried to hint at it in a roundabout manner. They didn't ask their Lord to change his orientation, but they asked him to take a wife and give birth to a successor. Those who were a bit more obstinate directly admonished him, quoting the cla.s.sics to criticize Zhao Xihe's straying from Confucian ethics, that Heaven's law would not allow this. The more gentle ones sent beautiful women and men, hoping to divert the Lord's affection from the youth. The more vicious ones wanted directly get rid of the youth who had caused their Lord to "go astray," resorting to drastic measures.

　　Of course, this all had nothing to do with Sui Yuan. Zhao Xihe properly arranged things for him, and he just watched everything go on in a leisurely and carefree manner. That is, until Zhao Xihe was "angered" by his subordinates' little tricks.

　　Zhao Xihe actually didn't behead these restless ministers in a fit of anger, . Instead, he straightforwardly gave up his throne and efficiently had his adopted son take over his position. He then left with his beloved.

　　When this happened, everyone was dumbfounded. They had imagined all sorts of reactions from their Lord and had meticulously thought up of all sorts of ways to deal with each reaction. However, no one ever expected that Zhao Xihe would do this!

　　He had been so close to ascending the throne. However, he had unexpectedly chosen to leave without a word! A regular person couldn't do this, ba?! Why had he suffered through all those blood-soaked battles for? Don't say empty nonsense like "It was for the common people." Wouldn't most people only do this to win success and recognition or to reach instant success?! However, their Lord had unexpectedly thrown away this readily available position that towered over tens of thousands of people and left just like that!

　　——Wait! My Lord! Let's talk about this! Actually, everything is negotiable, ah! QAQ [Er Kang hand]

　　The pitiful adopted son who was pushed to do something beyond his ability strenuously dealt with everything with the bag of tricks left to him by his adopted father. The officials, who were scared into peeing themselves, also hastily went looking for their headstrong Lord, who had eloped, all over the country. Unfortunately, their Lord was very resolute about eloping. Until his adopted son had stabilized his position, unified the country officially, and successfully became Emperor, he didn't reveal even the smallest trace. This made the ministers who had used all sorts of methods to force their Lord to marry and have a child feel extremely regretful. They suffered for their entire lifetimes, considering themselves as people who should be condemned in history.

　　——To actually be able to force their Lord to give up the throne that was in his grasp and elope in ancient times, they really were worthy of being recorded in the annals of history…._(:з)∠)_

　　From then on, Zhao Xihe became an example of someone who would "rather have a beauty than power and authority." Meanwhile, the "beauty" who had never showed his face became the object of many literati's imaginations, leaving behind quite a number of songs that would be pa.s.sed down for all eternity as well as magnificent poems. Meanwhile, said "beauty" was opening his eyes in a beast's body.