"Too much trouble."
Su Qiao had already been Empress before.
And more than once, at that.
It had been a huge hassle.
It wasn't fun at all.
Ye Jinghua pondered for a moment. "Then I won't become Emperor."
His original plan had been to kill Ye Beiyao once the poison was cured, then ascend the throne himself.
"I want to go adventuring with my brother."
In her original world, after becoming the Cult Master of the Demonic Sect, she had actually wanted to roam the martial world, but she hadn't expected to suffer Qi Deviation later.
When Ye Jinghua heard that he wasn't included in this plan, he immediately felt awful.
"Then I'll go with you."
"Your brother is rather straightforward and impulsive, and it's easy for him to suffer losses. I'll go with you and keep an eye on him."
Su Qiao agreed with that point.
He had been willing to spend forty thousand taels of silver on a lousy Martial Arts Manual that wasn't even worthy of being called third-rate, then treated it like a Peerless Secret Manual and secluded himself in the mountains to cultivate for a year and a half. Her brother really was rather unreliable.
He did need someone to keep an eye on him.
However...
"You're not going to be a prince anymore?"
Ye Jinghua knitted his brows, looking somewhat apologetic. "I can't stop being one."
"The Emperor won't let me off."
"Besides, all the subordinates I brought out, as well as those court officials and troops, will be purged without me."
"Then keep being one." Su Qiao felt that as long as he didn't become Emperor, it was fine.
After all, it was very difficult for an Emperor to leave the palace even once.
"If I'm a prince, we can still make time