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"Do whatever you want! Your mother came tonight to tell you that tomorrow you only need to marry and establish an empress; the rest will be taken care of by your mother."

Before leaving, Empress Dowager Meng asked one last time, "Is Song Qingning here now?"

Xie Xuanjin did not answer.

But the sadness in her eyes was enough for the astute Empress Dowager Meng to immediately discern the answer.

After leaving Jinhua Palace, Empress Dowager Meng sent a letter to the Duke of Meng's residence.

The following day, the new emperor was married, and the whole country celebrated.

Everyone was speculating about which noble lady would be the new empress, with the Xue family's daughter being the most popular choice. However, on the night of the wedding ceremony, when the court officials saw Xie Xuanjin in a red robe, holding a memorial tablet in his hands, their expressions changed instantly.

"Your Majesty, what does this mean?"

The ministers from powerful families looked at each other in bewilderment.

Xie Xuanjin remained unfazed. "As you all can see, today I am marrying the Empress. She is the woman I love, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Is there nothing wrong with it?

Is there anything wrong with marrying a dead person's memorial tablet?

The memorial tablet already reads "The Spirit Tablet of My Beloved Wife, Madam Song, in Peace and Tranquility"!

Song Shi Qingning.

Most of the court officials had long forgotten about this person and didn't know which noble lady she was.

"Song Qingning, daughter of Marquis Yongning Song Qian and Lady Lu, joined the army at the age of fourteen, defending against foreign enemies and protecting the Great Jing, repeatedly achieving military merits. She is the female general of the Great Jing, and from now on, she will be my wife, my empress!"

Xie Xuanjin's voice echoed in the main hall.

Every word was powerful and assertive, without any attempt to hide anything.

but……

"Song Qingning, she's long dead!" someone said.

"So what if she's dead? She's still my wife!" Xie Xuanjin said calmly, the shock and opposition from the court officials were exactly what he had expected.

He even deliberately provoked the anger of the court officials, declaring, "I will only marry her in this life! I will only have her as my empress!"

Upon hearing this, the ministers present turned even darker.

A dignified emperor, marrying a dead person, and making a dead person his empress.

This……

"Absurd, utterly absurd!"

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely unacceptable!"

"Your Majesty has indeed been bewitched. I urge Your Majesty to reconsider!"

The powerful officials knelt down one by one, and the entire hall was filled with voices of remonstrance, but the emperor seemed not to hear them.

Xie Xuanjin directly instructed the master of ceremonies, "Begin."

The ceremony began with bowing to Heaven and Earth, paying respects to the ancestors, and then presenting the Empress with the golden book. All the procedures were carried out one after another, following the master of ceremonies' instructions.

Those kneeling in the hall continued their remonstrances without ceasing; some even banged their heads against pillars, threatening to die in their remonstrances.

Empress Meng had anticipated this outcome and had informed her family beforehand, sending people to guard against it, which prevented the man from actually dying.

Inside the hall, there was a cacophony of voices offering advice, pleading, and rebuking.

Some people even shouted "tyrant!" Xie Xuanjin ignored them all. He paid attention to the commotion around him. He knew that with Song Qingning's personality, she would definitely stop him in this situation.

Thus, he achieved his goal.

He wanted to force her to appear.

However, even after Song Qingning's name was entered into the Xie family's official records as the Empress, he still hadn't heard any further news.

Everything fell silent.

Inside Jinhua Palace.

Xie Xuanjin looked at Song Qingning's memorial tablet on the altar, and the disappointment in his eyes grew stronger with the passage of time.

He drank the nuptial wine from the altar and poured half of it in front of the memorial tablet, but he waited until dawn without hearing that familiar voice.

"Song Qingning, are you really... gone?"

In front of the table behind the altar.

Song Qingning listened to the disappointed voice but remained silent.

Today, as she watched everything unfold in the main hall, she wanted to speak up and stop him countless times, but when she opened her mouth, she couldn't even hear her own voice.

Song Qingning lowered her head, her "body" becoming as transparent as a shadow.

She doesn't have much time left.

At this moment, she looked at the dejected man and felt uneasy.

She never expected Xie Xuanjin to be so deeply in love with her, but she was unable to reciprocate in the slightest.

"Xie Xuanjin, if there is an afterlife..." Song Qingning began, but before she could finish speaking, the curve of her lips betrayed her bitterness.

The afterlife was too abstract for her.

As the morning light streamed through the window and shone on Xie Xuanjin's face, he felt a sharp pain in his heart, followed by boundless panic.

"Song Qingning..."

Xie Xuanjin spoke, as if something was drifting away from him.

Song Qingning never appeared again.

Xie Xuanjin remained as diligent in his duties as ever. Empress Dowager Meng exerted pressure, and even if some people in the court were dissatisfied with Xie Xuanjin's decision to appoint a dead person as empress, they kept it to themselves and dared not say anything.

Until the emperor neglected to hold morning court for several days in a row.

The emperor neglected the morning court sessions, yet summoned Prince Li to the palace every day.

Xie Yunli watched as a glimmer of light finally returned to his fourth brother's eyes, which had been dim for so long.

"Yunli, she's back, but she's not herself!"

"I can see her. The things she's muttering to herself are so strange. She says that the Marquis of Yongning and his wife are still alive, and she's talking about 'Xie Xuanjin,' but that 'Xie Xuanjin' is not me!"

"She said she and 'Xie Xuanjin' had a child!"

"Yunli, I think I've seen hope again!"

Xie Xuanjin could not hide his excitement.

Everyone else said Xie Xuanjin was possessed, but Xie Yunli believed every word his fourth brother said.

"Fourth Brother, if there's hope, let's seize it!"

Xie Yunli's tone was firm.

Xie Xuanjin snapped out of his excitement, a sense of uncertainty washing over him. "Can I really hold on to it?"

In just a moment, his eyes hardened again, "No matter what, I must hold on!"

Xie Xuanjin instructed Xie Yunli to search for sorcerers, and Empress Dowager Meng gave him a brocade box, telling him to find Master Lingguang.

He personally visited Master Lingguang, and from Master Lingguang, he saw even greater hope.

The jade pendant left by her great-grandmother may be able to send Song Qingning's soul back to the past.

That means that the Song Qingning who is now standing in front of him is the same Song Qingning he sent back.

He didn't know why she was there, but he was convinced that he had succeeded in everything he had done.

Master Lingguang opened the small note and said that to send Song Qingning back to the past, he had to summon her soul on the anniversary of her death.

But on the day of the summoning of the spirit, an accident occurred.

Inside Jinhua Palace.

Xie Xuanjin clutched the jade pendant, broken in two, his whole body trembling.

Suppressing his anger, he handed the jade pendant to Master Lingguang, and then personally killed the monk who had broken the jade pendant at the behest of the Empress Dowager.

Master Lingguang reset the soul-summoning formation.

Song Qingning never expected that she would see Xie Xuanjin again.

She thought she had vanished, but what was going on now?

Before she could figure it out, she was drawn to a faint light. Looking over, she saw two broken jade pendants on the altar.

What is that?

Song Qingning was unaware of this.

Suddenly, she heard the monk in front of the altar say to Xie Xuanjin, "The jade pendant is damaged and has lost its energy. If we are to send both empresses back, I'm afraid one of them will be injured."

Will one of them be damaged?

Xie Xuanjin would not allow either of them to be harmed.

"Is there any other way?" Xie Xuanjin pressed.

Master Lingguang glanced at Xie Xuanjin with a solemn expression, pondered for a long time, and said, "Yes, but..."