"Jingrong..."

"Your Majesty, let's give each other some space and be quiet."

When the emperor saw the queen's distraught expression, he suddenly realized that she was moved by the scene she had seen today.

As soon as he moved his lower lip, the queen raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, interrupting the emperor.

They have been married for twenty years.

This was the first time she said such words.

The emperor panicked and reached out to grab the queen's wrist, explaining: "Jingrong, you are different from that merchant's daughter."

The status of merchants in Qi State was extremely low.

He did not want the prince to marry the daughter of a merchant as his princess, which was also for the prince's own good.

The position of emperor is not easy to sit on.

The court and the harem are inseparable.

The Crown Princess came from a merchant family.

How could the ministers in the court agree to this?

The unstable mind of the minister is enough to cause unrest in the world.

He is the emperor and should take the country as his foundation.

"I'm tired. Let's talk about Heng'er's matter in two days."

The queen broke free from the emperor's hand and spoke in a calm tone.

She had been in the palace for many years, but she actually dreamed that an emperor would remember his original intention. It was simply ridiculous.

"Jingrong, my heart hurts..."

When the emperor saw that he could not keep the queen, he immediately covered his chest and staged a self-torture trick.

In order to achieve a realistic effect, the emperor pinched his own thigh.

The merciless force instantly twisted his facial features together.

As expected.

When the queen heard the emperor's painful voice, she stopped in her tracks.

The emperor looked at her stopped back, curled his thin lips, and felt happy.

Jingrong still cares about him.

The Queen took a deep breath and said calmly, "Your Majesty is not feeling well, you should call the imperial physician. I am not a doctor and cannot treat your Majesty."

She said this and walked away without stopping.

The emperor's face fell as the queen moved.

Normally, whenever he coughed, she would look worried.

Jingrong knew that he had been overwhelmed by state affairs in the past two years and was feeling unwell. She always kept an eye on him, fearing that he would get angry.

Today, even though he was heartbroken, he couldn't keep her.

Really ruthless and cruel.

Women all say that men are cruel.

In fact, when women become cruel, they can be just as cruel as men.

"Empress, would you like to go to Kunning Palace?"

When the queen walked out of Ganchong Hall, the palace maids who served her came to greet her.

The eunuchs lifted the phoenix sedan chair and came in front of her.

The queen shook her head and said, "We don't need the phoenix chariot today. Please remove it. I want to take a walk. Except Dongxue, everyone else can leave. No one is needed to accompany me."

"promise."

The eunuchs and palace maids bowed and saluted respectfully.

"Dongxue, please walk with me."

"Is the Queen worried?"

After all the palace maids left, the queen seemed to have lost all her strength and her face no longer had the majesty it deserves.

Only in front of Dongxue, her mother's relative, could she dare to show her vulnerable side.

Ever since she ascended the throne of queen, she has been wearing a mask of majesty.

It seems that only in this way can she become a qualified queen.

Gradually, she was about to forget her original dream, which was not this throne.

Dongxue held the fragile queen in her arms and said, "Princess, cry if you feel sad. Dongxue will always be with you."

"Dongxue, I'm sorry..."

The queen buried her head in Dongxue's arms, and her shoulders shook slightly.

Dongxue didn't say anything, but just patted the queen's back silently.

The queen was originally a princess of Shu.

But her mother was of humble origin, and her father was extremely promiscuous and womanizing. Not only did the Shu harem have many heirs, but many royal heirs were also lost among the people.

Everything is precious because of its scarcity.

The Emperor of Shu had countless children, but only a handful of them were favored by him.

The princess has been a transparent existence in the palace since she was young.

She survived cautiously in the cracks of the harem, deliberately dressing herself ugly and lowering her presence, just to avoid being sent away as a plaything by her own father.

She just wants to grow up peacefully.

Find a husband who only has eyes for her and live a simple and warm life.

She did not ask her future husband to be extremely intelligent and brave, or to be talented and handsome, nor did she ask him to have a prominent family background or be extremely wealthy, but she only asked that they could be together for the rest of their lives.

In the end, this fantasy became a luxury.

No matter how careful and transparent the princess was, she was still handed over to the old emperor of Qi by the emperor of Shu himself.

When she heard the news, the princess smiled, a sad and desperate smile.

She had spent half her life trying to escape becoming a plaything.

But they forget that they were born to be a plaything.

She can't escape just because she wants to.

The princess's father threatened her mother's life to stop her from committing suicide.

When the princess came to Qi from Shu, all her assets were just the four palace maids who grew up with her.

The four people are named after the four seasons: Spring Painting, Summer Cicada, Autumn Frost, and Winter Snow.

Their names were all given by the princess.

The princess was a beauty who was presented by the Kingdom of Shu to the old emperor of the Kingdom of Qi. However, due to some strange circumstances, she fell in love with the current emperor, who was also the crown prince at that time.

The prince snatched away his father's woman.

This incident caused quite a stir twenty years ago.

The old emperor was furious.

As an emperor with many beauties in his harem, he would naturally not be so angry because of a woman.

He just felt ashamed.

After all, the princess of Shu was a tribute to him, the emperor.

In name she was his woman.

Although it is in name only, it is at least a nominal one.

The prince's behavior is no different from incest.

How could the old emperor agree to them being together?

He stopped it.

The princess followed the prince for three years without any status or position.

It was not until the old emperor passed away and the prince ascended the throne that he used thundering means to intimidate the court officials, and the princess finally got her status.

When the prince became emperor, the princess was given the title of Imperial Concubine as soon as she entered the palace, which was an unparalleled honor.

But once she entered the palace, she could only go against her original intention.

The princess's path to becoming queen was paved with blood.

In order to protect the princess, Chun Hua, Xia Chan and Qiu Shuang all died tragically in the harem.

From then on, Dongxue was the only one by the princess' side.

After seeing through the viciousness in the hearts of the women in the harem, the emperor disbanded the harem, thus fulfilling the princess's fantasy of being alone with her husband for the rest of her life.

"Princess, Chunhua, Xiachan, Qiushuang and the others are all willing to do this. If we were their servants, we would do the same as them." Dongxue softly comforted the queen.

The queen calmed down and stepped out of Dongxue's arms, her eyes red.

"Dongxue, if there is an afterlife, you four must stay away from me."

"Don't care about the three of them, I will follow the princess for the rest of my life anyway."

The queen was amused by the winter snow and burst into laughter. "What's so good about me? I don't even know it myself."

She raised her eyes and looked at the palace that had trapped her for twenty years.

The red walls and green tiles remain, but the beauty has faded.

"Dongxue, prepare the sedan chair, I want to leave the palace." The queen looked outside the palace wall, with a hint of longing in her eyes.