Chapter 130 If Line: If Yuanyuan Becomes a Concubine (21)

Feeling that there was a knife hanging over his head that could fall at any time, Yang Manyan became more and more depressed physically and mentally.

Considering her weak body, the emperor had not touched her even though they had slept in the same bed.

But with her warmth and tenderness in his arms every night, it would be a lie to say that he had no reaction.

That night, he was almost going crazy.

"I wish... to help me."

He thought he wouldn't get a response from her, so he just held her little hand and moved it down.

Suddenly, the girl's hoarse voice rang out from the bed, "Your Majesty, whatever you want is fine. I have no objection."

The emperor narrowed his eyes in surprise, then turned her over.

The light in the gauze tent was dim. The girl's eyelashes drooped, and she looked weak and vulnerable, like a rag doll that had lost its soul.

Thinking of her cute and shy appearance in the past, the emperor felt a suffocating pain in his heart, as if he had been pierced by an awl, and his throat and lungs were burning with pain.

It was not until now that he realized how wrong he was.

At first, he was amazed and frightened by her sharp tongue and ambition, and he tried every means to tame her.

But now that she has become what he wanted her to be, he wants her to change back.

In the past, she even dared to beat him in chess and bargain with him, but recently he hasn't heard her speak on her own initiative for a long time.

The emperor suddenly lost interest. He took her hand away and gently held her in his arms.

"Why have you lost weight again?" He said with a distressed tone.

From the first sight, she had a plump and plump figure, a fair and round face, and was so tender and beautiful that it seemed as if it was about to drip with water.

Although he is not emaciated now, he has lost a lot of weight, and even the soft and lovely flesh on his waist and abdomen is gone.

But Yang Manyan did not respond.

It was deep winter, with ice and snow outside and biting northerly winds, but inside the west warm room, with the heating on, it felt like spring.

Being tightly restrained by the strong man, she felt she couldn't breathe, but she didn't resist at all.

After a long silence, the emperor proposed in a deep voice: "Tomorrow, I will ask your parents and sister to come to the palace to chat with you and relieve your boredom. Is that okay?"

Before he finished speaking, he felt the girl in his arms tremble, and her little face suddenly turned pale.

"Don't..." She choked and said, "Your Majesty, please don't let them enter the palace..."

She didn't want her family to see her like this, and she didn't want to implicate her family.

After a brief pause, the emperor lowered his head and kissed her forehead, "Okay, I'll take care of whatever you want. When you feel better, I'll take you out of the palace to visit your parents, okay?"

"I have issued an edict to confer upon your father the title of Duke of Changguo and your mother the title of First-Rank Lady of Changguo, and have them move to a mansion in the imperial city near the palace."

Yang Manyan was slightly stunned when he heard this.

Among the founding heroes of this dynasty, the four who made the greatest contributions were awarded the title of Duke, which was hereditary. Since then, few other heroes have been able to receive the honor of being awarded the title of Duke.

According to old rules, the father of the queen was granted the title of earl, the third of the five noble titles of duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron, while the father of a concubine had no title.

"I am terrified." She lowered her thick eyelashes even more.

"Why are you so scared? You are my queen, so why can't I confer a title on your father-in-law?"

The emperor pinched her chin, kissed her eyebrows affectionately, and then kissed her cheek and lips.

"Yes..." Yang Manyan closed her eyes slightly and let his slightly cool thin lips linger on her face.

But the more submissive and yielding she was, the more heartbroken the emperor felt. She was clearly in his arms, but there seemed to be an insurmountable chasm between them.

The imperial physician said that if she continued to be depressed like this, her body would collapse sooner or later.

But heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine, and no matter what prescription they prescribe, it will be of no help.

After an unknown amount of time, the emperor sighed slightly, buried his sharp-faced handsome face in her neck, and said in a muffled voice, "Yuan'er, I was wrong."

"I also suffered the pain of being imprisoned in a small place when I was young, but I still hurt you in the same way. I am really ridiculous."

Yang Manyan still didn't say anything, but his eyes flashed, as if he was surprised by his words.

The emperor sniffed her fragrance with fascination. It was sweet and had a unique scent of hers. He could not describe it in words, but the more he smelled it, the more he liked it.

"You may not know, but my biological mother is the current empress dowager, but I also have an adopted mother, the Imperial Noble Consort Tang." He said slowly.

"Ms. Tang is the emperor's maternal cousin, and she is the most favored among the six palaces. The empress dowager and she both diagnosed pregnancy at the same time, and gave birth to the emperor's eldest son and second son respectively."

"Not long after, the second son born to Tang died, and the eldest son born to the Queen Mother was made the crown prince. This was the late emperor, my brother from the same mother."

"A few years later, I was born. The Emperor pitied Tang for not having a child for many years, so he asked her to adopt me."

"Tang still wants to give birth to an heir to the throne, and she doesn't care about me as her adopted son. And because my brother occupies the position of crown prince, she hates me to the core."

"Later, Tang had miscarriages again and again, and was bedridden all day long. The people at the Imperial Observatory said that my fate was incompatible with hers, and that I must pay with my life."

"How ridiculous! My father actually believed the words of the Imperial Observatory and imprisoned the young me in Xuanguang Pavilion deep in the Imperial Garden for several years."

"When Tang was on the verge of death, the Emperor personally brought poison to Xuanguang Pavilion and tried to force me to drink it."

Yang Manyan listened silently, his expression changing again and again, and he felt it was incredible.

Seeing that he suddenly paused and was still hesitant to speak, she couldn't help but ask curiously: "What happened next?"

The emperor chuckled and couldn't help kissing her again, "I am blessed with a long life. Before I was poisoned, I heard the news of Tang's death."

"The Emperor was extremely grief-stricken and he suddenly suffered a heart attack and collapsed a few days later."

Yang Manyan was shocked and couldn't recover for a long time.

When she first met the emperor in Xuanguang Pavilion at the beginning of the year, he had been in power for more than ten years. He was the supreme ruler of the world, tall and majestic, with an awe-inspiring aura.

It was really hard for her to imagine how he had once been imprisoned and lived in shame.