boyutpedia Chapter 174 The Most Beautiful Promise
Chapter 174 The Most Beautiful Promise
The wet hair hung naturally on his shoulders. Lu Mingyang took out a handkerchief to wipe it. When no more water droplets fell, he used his hands to comb his hair and pinned it up.
After taking a bath, the man no longer smelled of roses, but instead had an indescribable scent that was like bamboo shoots after rain, making people feel flustered when they smelled it.
Chu Mingzheng touched the white fingertips and asked, "Does it look good?"
Lu Mingyang said anxiously: "I didn't peek just now!"
Chu Mingzheng said "Oh" lightly, with laughter between his lips and teeth.
Yes, I didn't ask what was good-looking, so this is considered a confession. Lu Mingyang's face flushed, and his mind was full of abdominal muscles covered with water droplets under the water curtain. How many were they?
The abdominal muscles appeared before my eyes.
Lu Mingyang cried out "Ah" and fell to the ground, "Who told you to turn around!"
"You're not wearing any clothes after you tie your hair up?" Chu Mingzheng walked out of the stream very naturally, a grown man without any shame. Lu Mingyang was so scared that he ran back to the curtain cave, covering his ears tightly.
Can't hear, can't hear.
"Let's go!" Chu Mingzheng put on his clothes and picked up the girl who was mumbling.
Lu Mingyang was terrified: "What are you doing?"
"Aren't you tired?"
Chu Mingzheng's reaction was natural. Lu Mingyang moved slightly, but didn't break free, silently clutching his shirt. The atmosphere was a little strange for a moment.
"You just asked me if you wanted to save them. What do you mean?" Lu Mingyang drove away the random thoughts in his mind and asked a different question.
Chu Mingzheng didn't answer.
Reaching the summit, he set Lu Mingyang down and gazed towards the mist-shrouded Imperial City. This was Yanqi Mountain, the highest peak surrounding the capital. From this peak, the bustling capital was unobstructed.
Chu Mingzheng pointed to the center of the capital and said, "Yangyang, that's the imperial palace. Can you see it?"
"I can see it!" She just didn't understand what the point of running all the way here was to see the people entering and leaving the palace every day.
Chu Mingzheng continued, "The most majestic and grand palace in the center is Hanyuan Hall. Behind it is Qinzheng Hall, and to the southwest is the Cabinet. Documents are drafted by the Cabinet, passed to Qinzheng Hall, and then to Hanyuan Hall. All government orders originate from here."
At this moment, he was dressed in coarse linen clothes and was just an ordinary person in the world. However, the kingly aura he exuded throughout his life made people admire him and yearn for him.
At this moment, Lu Mingyang's heart surged: "Your Highness, what do you want to say?"
Chu Mingzheng looked ahead and asked, "Yangyang, what you worked so hard to obtain is nothing more than a joke in the eyes of the world. Are you willing to accept this?"
"So what if I'm unwilling? This is the way the world is." Furthermore, initially, she was just trying to keep her eldest sister alive. She couldn't push those immovable mountains, nor did she dare to.
Chu Mingzheng looked at the girl in front of him, stretched out his slender and powerful hand, and said in a deep voice: "Girl, marry me. I am willing to work with you to reshape the world's order."
He changed his address, and Lu Mingyang was a little confused: "Didn't I marry you?"
Chu Mingzheng's eyes were heavy: "You know what I mean by marry!"
From then on, he and I became one, and for the same goal, we embarked on a path of no return, and would never regret it even if we died.
"How can I reshape it? Replacing the emperor is reshaping it? What can you promise me? Imperial Concubine? Empress? Or even Empress Dowager after you die? Aren't they all women after you? They rise with you and fall with you. In the final analysis, that is your world. What does it have to do with me?"
Having said this, Lu Mingyang raised his head with pride: "For you, being an emperor is the most satisfying thing in the world; the greatest blessing for a woman you can imagine is nothing more than being the queen. But for me, living on my own is the thing I am most proud of. So, I don't care!"
"How can a woman like you survive on your own?"
Chu Mingzheng asked, "Can you do business or be a government official? Of all the professions in the world, how many can a woman do? And your generous dowry seems to be all yours, but which land deed or house deed has your name on it?"
"You!" Lu Mingyang was so angry that he raised his fist and punched someone.
Chu Mingzheng held it tightly and said in a deep voice, "Come with me, and walk side by side. I promise you that women can become officials, join the army and be granted titles, and start a business, and all of this is done by the Queen's decree, and is allowed throughout the world."
His eyes were firm, without a trace of joking.
Lu Mingyang was shocked: "Are you kidding me?"
This matter was far more difficult than being the emperor himself. No man in the world would be willing to share his possessions with a woman. If things went wrong, the world would be in turmoil, and the country would be overthrown.
Chu Mingzheng raised his hand and swore, "If I tell even a single lie, I will fail at the very edge of my mission and be cursed for eternity."
Those scenes that she hadn't even dared to imagine in her dreams were actually told to her by someone in person. It was said so sincerely, so touchingly.
Lu Mingyang looked at the gradually fading man in front of him and choked out, "Why did you promise me this?"
Let her heart, which wants to be buried, give birth to thousands of expectations, and be willing to give it a try even if it means she is like a moth to a flame.
"Because I am the descendant of Emperor Taizu, who unified the nine provinces; because I am the descendant of Emperor Taizong, whose power was known throughout the world; because I am only a stone's throw away from the supreme position in the world; because my name, Chu Mingzheng, can command a hundred thousand cavalrymen on the border."
Those extremely confident and frank words shocked the listeners and made them feel a little dissatisfied.
"It's only one hundred thousand. I thought it was one million!" Lu Mingyang lowered his head and said weakly.
Chu Mingzheng couldn't see her expression clearly, the light in her eyes gradually fading. With the situation in the court still unclear, it was understandable that she had concerns.
After thinking for a while, Chu Mingzheng took out a divorce letter from his arms. The red background was covered with black ink, blurred by water. At this moment, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, but he still spoke firmly.
"If you don't want to, I'll let you go! I won't lie."
Lu Mingyang reached out to grab it, but it didn't open the first time, and it didn't open the second time either. He looked up in confusion. Chu Mingzheng let go of his hand, fighting back tears, and saw snowflakes falling all over the sky.
"Yangyang, you agreed!" Chu Mingzheng excitedly hugged the girl in front of him, his laughter resounded through the sky, and her green dress fluttered on the top of the mountain, like a dream.
There was a bottomless abyss beneath his feet. Lu Mingyang was really afraid of falling in, so he hurriedly patted him: "Who said I promised you? Put me down now."
Chu Mingzheng's hands froze. Lu Mingyang landed on his feet and pulled him away from the cliff. Then he said, "What you said is too far-fetched. I don't eat flatbread."
"Cake?" Chu Mingzheng didn't understand.
Lu Mingyang smiled and said, "If you help me accomplish one thing, I'll agree to it."
"you say!"
Lu Mingyang said, "I want my eldest sister to become the true Marquis of Chengyang, to command the army, and to inherit the throne for eternity. My eldest sister must have everything a man can inherit."
"If we do it now, I'm afraid..."
"Don't tell me about the future." Lu Mingyang interrupted him decisively and asked, "Can you do whatever you want once you become emperor? If you could, would you become his son?"