Chapter 127 I will tell you a story

"Don't say that."

Lu Haozhi sucked on her lips, teasing her as best he could.

He didn't want to hear what she said next.

Lu Haozhi knew very well that there was no way Meng Yan would set such a trap to lure him at the moment. This should just be the Queen Mother's intention to mediate.

But deep down, he wished all this was Meng Yan's plan.

"Your Majesty... no..."

A faint voice flowed gently between the lips and teeth of the two, but was deliberately ignored by Lu Haozhi.

He kissed her cheek, "Yan'er, don't reject me anymore... I want you..."

Listening to Lu Haozhi's lingering whispers, Meng Yan only felt bitterness in her heart.

If he wants it, does she have to give it to him?

"Queen Mother's kindness...why don't we accept it..."

The Empress Dowager...

The Empress Dowager's bowl of tea!

Memories of the time before she lost consciousness flooded back into her mind, and a hint of bitterness passed through Meng Yan's heart.

The Queen Mother was thinking of her, but she was afraid that she would let her down.

"Your Majesty... please let me go..."

Meng Yan begged him, but she became more and more frightened.

Lu Haozhi's hands, breath, agile body, and eyes staring at her, all of these reminded her of the passionate love they had in the past.

She could feel that this body's memories of Lu Haozhi were reviving bit by bit.

This can't go on...

She didn't want to become the Meng Yan who fell in love with him and couldn't extricate herself!

While Lu Haozhi was getting up and taking off his clothes, Meng Yan bumped into him hard.

Lu Haozhi was caught off guard and fell to the side. She pulled down her clothes and got out of bed.

"Yan'er!"

An angry shout came from behind her. Before she could take two steps, she was grabbed by a pair of strong arms around the waist and dragged back forcibly.

Lu Haozhi held her tightly in his arms, looking at her fair cheeks and jade-like earlobes, and asked with an unsteady breath, "Why is this?"

Meng Yan did not answer, but lowered her head and said softly, "Your Majesty, please let me go."

“No!”

It's so hard to get an opportunity like today, he won't let her escape again!

Lu Haozhi pulled her to sit beside the bed, "You are my concubine, the one appointed to me by the late emperor. I...will never let you go no matter what."

"Your Majesty, please let me go."

Meng Yan said another sentence, but her voice was filled with a strong nasal tone.

Lu Haozhi hugged her even tighter and said, "Yan'er, no matter what you say, I will..."

"Lu Haozhi, let me go!"

His entanglement finally triggered the hatred that she had suppressed in her heart. She shouted loudly in a sharp voice and struggled with all her strength.

Sensing her unusual anger, Lu Haozhi was baffled. He turned her around, stared into her eyes, and asked, "Yan'er, what's wrong with you? You...what's wrong with me? Tell me, don't do this."

Meng Yan's eyes were cold as she said calmly, "Your Majesty, you are too kind. How could there be anything wrong with you? This is all my fault."

Lu Haozhi's ten fingers were as hard as iron, digging into the skin of her shoulders one by one. He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be like this. If you have anything to say, just say it!"

Meng Yan felt exhausted and suddenly wanted to throw everything out. No matter whether he thought she was crazy or not, she would just let him do whatever he wanted.

She nodded and smiled, "Okay, I'll tell your Majesty a story."

Looking at the cold smile on Meng Yan's face, Lu Haozhi felt a sense of foreboding in his heart.

But she said, "I had a dream before. I dreamed... the emperor deposed me and said he never wanted to see me again and asked me to live in the cold palace..."

Lu Haozhi suddenly remembered the strange dream in which he and Meng Yan broke up.

His heart was pounding, and he blurted out, "I won't..."

"You will!"

Meng Yan's voice suddenly became sharp, interrupting him, but then it softened again, "I'm sorry for being rude, Your Majesty, please don't interrupt me."

"Then, I really went to live in the cold palace. There's nothing wrong with the cold palace. I don't see the women in the emperor's harem, and I don't have to worry about the emperor's affairs. Apart from being colder in the winter and hotter in the summer, and the daily meals being a bit coarse, I really think the cold palace is better than Changchun Palace."

Meng Yan lowered her eyes and smiled faintly, her voice indifferent, as if she was really narrating a dream.

Lu Haozhi's heart suddenly ached, and nameless sorrow gripped his heart like an iron claw.

He didn't say anything and just listened quietly.

"Every day, three meals a day, mixed with drugs that can make people lose their minds, if you take it for a long time, you will go crazy. I am proficient in medicine, and Your Majesty knows it, how could he not notice it? But I still took it. Perhaps it would be better if I went crazy and never thought about Your Majesty again."

"Yan'er..."

Meng Yan ignored him and continued, "Later, I really lost my mind. Until one winter day, when it snowed heavily and the flying snowflakes hit my face, I regained consciousness. Then, I suddenly felt that living like this was really boring. As the legitimate daughter of the Yiyang Marquis's mansion, I had ended up in this situation and still wanted to cling to the world. Isn't that embarrassing? So, I opened the door and walked barefoot into the snow."

"For some reason, there was no one in the cold palace that day. I walked and walked in the snow. The palace covered with white snow looked so clean. Until I could walk no more, I lay down in the snow. Only then did I realize that snow is warm. I originally thought that it would be great if I could just sleep like this and never wake up. Unfortunately, when I woke up, I was still in Changchun Palace."

Meng Yan narrated the story with a faint smile on her lips. At the end, she kowtowed deeply to Lu Haozhi on the bed, "I have spoken nonsense and insulted the emperor. Please punish me."

Lu Haozhi would probably think she was crazy.

But she was really tired of this game of hiding and chasing. As long as it didn't implicate others, she would let him do whatever he wanted to her.

After a long time, Lu Haozhi's voice sounded again, but it was not the angry scolding she had thought.

"...On April 12, the sixth year of the Qianyuan reign, you lost your child?"

Lu Haozhi spoke with difficulty. The Meng Yan who was bowing down in front of him overlapped with the Meng Yan in his dream who took off her hairpin and clothes to thank the emperor for his grace.

He could no longer convince himself that it was just a strange dream.

Meng Yan and he both dreamed of the same thing, and what she just described was probably the sequel to that dream.

Because of his abandonment, she died in the snow in the cold palace.

This thought was like a saw, madly hacking at his chest and causing him excruciating pain.

Those dreams, along with Meng Yan's words, entangled his thoughts, as if they had become a memory.

In that memory, he and Meng Yan embarked on another path.

He broke up with her, she died early, and the rest of his life was filled with regret, grief and sadness.

During the day, he is an emperor who works hard to govern the country; at night, he is just a lonely man who has lost his partner.

No matter how posthumously she was honored or how grand the sacrifices were, she could not be found.

In order to numb himself, he allowed alcohol and drugs to drain his body, and finally came to the end of his life at the age of fifty-four.

Knowing that he didn't have much time left, Lu Haozhi felt calm and even a little happy. He could finally ignore all this and go find her.

When he was dying, he ignored her objections and forced her to be buried with him.

No...that kind of life has nothing to do with them today!

Lu Haozhi closed his eyes and warned himself through gritted teeth.

He and Meng Yan are both still alive and well. He will never destroy Meng Yan, let alone let her die!

"emperor?"

Meng Yan raised her head, her eyes full of surprise.