Originally Posted by
subdereality
Actually, she would have plenty of reasons to ask the very same question. It has been reiterated several times in the book that fighting amongst family members for the throne is the norm in royal families (可惜出生于帝王之家), and it would make sense for Ruoxi to ask her beloved to give up his quest for the throne even without her foreknowledge of the eventual outcome. After all, there can only be one winner, and the 'losers' would end up with tragic endings (胜者为王,败者为寇). Being Ruoxi, she's very scared of losing the ones she loves, at least in the first 2/3rds of the novel anyway.