Chapter 47 If Your Majesty doesn't like it, then I don't like it either
The moon was at its zenith, the night was warm, and it was almost midnight when Yue Li returned to Zhuoyu Palace.
She was so tired that she could hardly open her eyes. She lay on the bed with a soft pillow in her arms, and stubbornly asked someone to leave a light on outside.
Lian Qiao lowered the bed curtains and said, "Master, you have been frightened today. I will go and turn off the lights so you can have some rest."
Yueli closed her eyes and shook her head, muttering, "Don't destroy it, if His Majesty comes later, he won't be able to see the road..."
Lian Qiao couldn't bear to tell her, "My lady, Zi Su just went to inquire about it. His Majesty returned to Linde Palace after leaving Cuiwei Palace. I'm afraid he won't come tonight."
Yueli hugged the pillow tightly in her arms, pursed her lips and said nothing, but it was obvious that she was in a bad mood.
Lian Qiao felt sorry for her. The master must have wanted His Majesty to accompany her after falling into the water today. Unfortunately, the matter of Concubine Yi falling into the water involved the Empress Dowager, and no one knew what happened in Cuiwei Palace.
"How about I go to the Imperial Court and ask His Majesty to come over?"
Yueli turned over, curled up, and said in a muffled voice: "No."
"Go out, I'm going to sleep."
Lian Qiao walked out of the bedroom, looking back every few steps. The lamp hanging by the door was not taken down after all, and it burned all night.
The next day.
Early in the morning, Ji Ming came to Zhuoyu Palace happily to announce the decree.
"Yu Ronghua has been meritorious in rescuing the heir to the throne. She possesses the virtue of a submissive queen and upholds the rites of a dignified and respectful person. She is prudent and well-mannered, and possesses a virtuous and harmonious nature. I hereby promote her to the rank of Consort of the Third Rank. This is my decree!"
The rewards filled the entire courtyard. Ji Ming said with a cheerful smile, "Congratulations, Concubine Yu! His Majesty issued an edict to promote you before he went to court this morning. This is a truly unique favor!"
Yue Li was not in the mood. She glanced at the rewards. He Yanchen obviously knew what she liked, and all he sent her were shiny gold, silver and jewelry.
But at this moment, Yueli had little interest in these things that she used to love most.
She just wanted to see He Yanchen.
"Eunuch, has His Majesty left the court?"
Ji Ming shook his head. "When I arrived, His Majesty had just left for the Golden Throne Hall. I'm afraid it will take another hour before the court is dismissed."
Yueli said "oh" and returned to the inner hall in a bad mood.
Lian Qiao hurriedly handed a bag of golden melon seeds to Ji Ming and others, and sent them away respectfully before closing the palace gate.
The windows in the hall were not closed, and the cool breeze blew in, bringing some clarity to Yueli's confused mind.
She felt something was wrong with her.
Yueli has always been clear that she is a selfish person.
God gave her such beauty, and she used it to the fullest.
When she was in Chunfeng Pavilion, every man who saw her fell in love with her. Yue Li was also very good at using the admiration of these men to inflate her own value, making the madam wait for the right price and not sell her easily.
Even after entering the palace, she knew her advantages. The palace was full of women from aristocratic families who were proud of their noble status, and no one would be more willing to compete for favor than her.
When competing for favor, what you are competing for is nothing more than power, status, and visible wealth and glory, not a man's heart.
Yueli always remembered this, so she lived a carefree life in her previous life.
But now, looking at the gold, silver and jewelry all over the yard, she was thinking of men.
She was moved.
She had been moved a long time ago. From the time he wanted to send her away in her previous life to the time he saved her yesterday, she could no longer control her heart.
Yueli is afraid to give her true heart, because once she gives her true heart, she wants him to belong to her alone.
She couldn't stand anyone else taking away what belonged to her anymore.
If so, she just wanted them all to die.
The pear blossoms outside Zhuoyu Palace have already fallen. The breeze blows through the leaves, and the rustling sound is like fingertips plucking the strings of a musical instrument, making people feel even more sleepy.
Yueli fell asleep on the soft couch by the window. She didn't know how long she slept, but when she opened her eyes again, it was already dusk.
She saw a figure sitting beside the couch.
His handsome profile was reflected in the afterglow, his thin lips were slightly pursed, and he looked dignified and indifferent.
Yueli looked at him like this for a while, then moved her body, hugged his waist from behind, and put her little face on his back.
"Awake?" He Yanchen put down the book in his hand, turned around and hugged her in his arms, "Lian Qiao said you slept all day, but you feel uncomfortable somewhere?"
Yueli shook her head and said nothing.
"Unhappy?" He Yanchen was very sensitive to other people's emotions. He pinched the back of her neck and asked her to raise her head.
"Your Majesty, why didn't you come to accompany me last night?" Yueli whimpered in his arms, "I waited for you all night."
"And this morning, Your Majesty sent so many things, but you were nowhere to be seen. You were so perfunctory..."
He Yanchen raised his eyebrows: "This is the first time I know that I have to come in person to give rewards to people."
"And you also know that it's this morning, and it's not the time for you to rush me to court?"
Can’t I go to court and see her again?
Yueli muttered unreasonably in her heart.
"What about last night?" She grabbed the man's collar and pouted unhappily. "I was frightened. Your Majesty was not by my side. I didn't sleep well all night, which made me feel even worse."
"As compensation, Your Majesty must accompany me for three nights." Yue Li said confidently.
It's only been three days. She didn't even say thirty days, but three years.
It would be best if I could just be with her for the rest of my life.
The dark emotions that had arisen in He Yanchen's heart last night were all shattered by her unreasonable insistence.
"Your Majesty, will you agree?" Seeing that he remained silent, Yueli started to act like a spoiled child again. She raised her little face in grievance and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't come, I will be alone and unable to sleep, and my illness will never be cured."
"You can't get better because you don't take the medicine properly." He Yanchen didn't say whether he agreed or not, but seized her weakness. "If you don't take care of yourself, I really won't come."
After he finished speaking, he asked Lian Qiao to bring in the bowl of medicine.
Yueli caught a cold after falling into the water, so the imperial physician prescribed some medicine to dispel the cold and nourish the body. When Yueli smelled the medicine, her delicate little nose wrinkled.
"I drank it."
"I don't like taking medicine."
He Yanchen said indifferently, "If you don't like it, then don't drink it? There are so many things in this world that you don't like. Can you not do them?"
"Why not?" Yue Li pursed her lips and retorted, "You are His Majesty. The people of the world should put your likes and dislikes first."
"I don't like taking medicine. Why not ask the Imperial Hospital to make it into pills and medicinal food? Why force me to drink this disgusting medicine?"
"Wrong logic." The man scolded lightly, but there was no displeasure in his tone.
Is it based on his likes and dislikes?
He Yanchen's hand holding the medicine bowl froze for a moment. He said casually, "What if I don't like the Queen Mother?"
"If you don't like it, then you don't like it. Your Majesty is the emperor. Don't you even have the right to like or dislike it?"
Yue Li hugged his neck and sat on his lap: "If your Majesty doesn't like it, then I don't like it either."
"The Empress Dowager always asks me to copy some rules and regulations for women. She also says that I am not dignified enough and wants to find a nanny to teach me etiquette. Last time, I spent a lot of effort to copy the rules for women, but the Empress Dowager said that I wrote it perfunctorily. She said that in front of so many people, and let Concubine Zheng laugh at me..."
Yue Li felt so upset when she mentioned the Queen Mother and kept talking on and on.
When she stopped talking with a dry mouth, she glanced at the man's face with a guilty conscience.
After all, she is his biological mother. Was she being too harsh?
He Yanchen smiled.
People all say that filial piety is the most important virtue, so no matter how extreme the Queen Mother had done to him, the word "filial piety" would be enough to make him feel suffocated.
The Queen Mother may have regretted it, but does that mean she should forgive and let bygones be bygones?
Everyone who knew the situation advised him, but he self-righteously thought that harmony between mother and son was good for him.
But he doesn't need this kindness, what he needs is recognition and standing with him.
From beginning to end, only Yueli understood him.
"Tired of talking?"
The coldness in the man's eyes completely dissipated, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Drink some medicine to moisten your throat."
"Your Majesty~" Yue Li was in tears and tried to act coquettishly again.
He Yanchen took a candied fruit from the table and stuffed it into her mouth, stopping her from saying anything.
He said, "Take the medicine today, and I'll have them make it into pills for you tomorrow."
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