Chapter 51 Lu Zhaoxue Provokes the Empress Dowager
"Your Majesty, please return! Without His Majesty's order, we cannot allow anyone to enter!"
Then, Lu Zhaoxue heard Empress Dowager Rong scolding the guards. Lu Zhaoxue suddenly sat up from the bed, thinking that Chu Huaiyu certainly did not want Empress Dowager Rong to know that the woman in the hall was her, so she would just have to appear in front of her!
Now that things have come to this, what does she have to be afraid of? As long as she can make Chu Huaiyu unhappy, she'll be happy!
Lu Zhaoxue pushed open the palace door and, as she wished, saw the stunned look in Empress Dowager Rong's eyes. She slowly raised a faint smile and said, "Your Majesty, why are you here?"
Empress Dowager Rong's eyes widened, her whole body trembled slightly, and she pointed directly at Lu Zhaoxue. Empress Dowager Rong seemed to want to scold her sternly, but for some reason, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
Lu Zhaoxue kept her eyes fixed on Empress Dowager Rong, and she couldn't help but sneer, "Now that Her Majesty the Empress Dowager is here, why are you still stopping her?"
Lu Zhaoxue's tone carried a hint of deliberate provocation, "I've been here for a long time and I'm really getting bored. Now that the Empress Dowager is here, I'd like to have a good chat with her."
Empress Dowager Rong was stopped by the guards. Looking at the woman in front of her who was still beautiful despite not wearing makeup, she was so angry that she trembled all over. She gritted her teeth and looked at Lu Zhaoxue, her chest heaving violently. She was obviously very angry with Lu Zhaoxue.
"Lu Zhaoxue! What are you doing here?!" Empress Dowager Rong was shocked and furious, her voice trembling.
Lu Zhaoxue blinked innocently, "Then Your Majesty, if Zhaoxue isn't here, where should I be?"
"You!" Empress Dowager Rong laughed in fury, "You, Lu Zhaoxue, how dare you, a subject's wife, openly sleep in the Emperor's bedchamber? Don't you even know what propriety, righteousness, and shame are?!"
No sooner had she finished speaking than Empress Dowager Rong abruptly turned to the guards beside her and shouted sternly, "Why haven't you taken this shameless hussy to the Imperial Prison yet!"
But the guards remained motionless like statues, their heads bowed, as if they had not heard Empress Dowager Rong's command.
Upon seeing this, Empress Dowager Rong's face instantly turned red, and her anger intensified. She never expected that she, as the Empress Dowager, would be unable to command a group of guards!
Empress Dowager Rong shouted angrily, "You! You..."
"Mother!" Chu Huaiyu strode over, his gaze immediately falling on Lu Zhaoxue. Seeing that she was unharmed, he breathed a sigh of relief, then stepped forward and steadily shielded Lu Zhaoxue behind him, protecting her from the Empress Dowager's anger.
Empress Dowager Rong was already furious, and seeing Chu Huaiyu defend Lu Zhaoxue like this, she immediately burst into a tirade: "Huaiyu! Are you possessed?! Do you even know who Lu Zhaoxue is?!"
Chu Huaiyu frowned, his face immediately darkening. He instructed the palace servants behind him, "You should escort the Empress Dowager back to the palace first."
Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Rong felt a sharp pain in her heart. She looked at Chu Huaiyu with disappointment and heartache, saying, "Huaiyu, this woman absolutely cannot stay in the palace. If she stays, she will only..."
"Mother! Shut up!" Chu Huaiyu interrupted Empress Dowager Rong. "Guards, escort Her Majesty back to the palace! Without my decree, no one is allowed to come here again!"
Empress Dowager Rong felt like she could hardly breathe, and her gaze toward Chu Huaiyu grew increasingly hostile. Seeing this, the palace servants dared not delay any longer and hurriedly half-supported, half-carried Empress Dowager Rong as she walked out.
Inside the palace, after watching Empress Dowager Rong's figure gradually disappear, Chu Huaiyu's expression instantly turned dark and inscrutable. He suddenly grabbed Lu Zhaoxue's hand and threw her onto the bed. Lu Zhaoxue's face was expressionless, as if the farce just now had nothing to do with her.
Chu Huaiyu's anger was instantly ignited. He gripped her wrist tightly, trapping her in front of him, and stared into her eyes.
"Lu Zhaoxue, why did you provoke the Empress Dowager?!"
Lu Zhaoxue felt a sharp pain from Chu Huaiyu's grip, but said calmly, "Your Majesty, what are you saying? I don't understand."
Chu Huaiyu stared angrily at Lu Zhaoxue, "Fine, then I'll ask you, why did you take the initiative to appear in front of her?"
Lu Zhaoxue met Chu Huaiyu's gaze, a faint smile playing on her lips: "What else can I do, Chu Huaiyu? Are you planning to keep me locked up here forever?!"
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