Chapter 115 I have one more thing to confess
He Yanchen did not hide his voice. The moment he spoke, Su Huai realized that there was someone behind him.
There was a rockery next to where the two were standing. The moment Yue Li saw He Yanchen walking out from behind, her legs went weak.
When did he come?
Did he hear everything?
Yue Li's small head was spinning rapidly at this moment, trying to recall if she had said anything wrong. She was almost rooted to the spot, her whole body tense and she dared not move at all.
Su Huai had never seen the emperor, but the dragon robe on He Yanchen revealed his identity.
He was stunned for a moment. With his status, he would never be able to set foot in the palace in his lifetime without Concubine Rong's introduction.
The man in front of him was wearing a black brocade robe, with a tall and slender figure, his black hair tied under a jade crown, his sword-like eyebrows were heroic, his face was handsome, he was noble and proud, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he didn't even look at Su Huai.
Su Huai hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "I, a humble servant, pay my respects to Your Majesty."
He Yanchen walked towards Yue Li step by step, and didn't even bother to give Su Huai a glance when passing by.
When Yueli almost wanted to kneel down out of guilt, the man raised his hand and supported her arm.
He walked over to Yueli's side, placed his large hands on her waist, and held her in his arms in a very possessive manner.
"Why don't you go back? Are you here to see him?"
Yueli twisted her sleeves unconsciously with her fingers, which was the movement she made when she felt guilty. She raised her eyes timidly and glanced at him quickly. She couldn't tell what emotion he was feeling, but he definitely wasn't happy.
"I didn't want to see him. I just went out for a walk. Who knew he would appear behind me like a ghost? It wasn't me who wanted to see him..." Yue Li grabbed He Yanchen's sleeve and shook it gently, looking at him with a somewhat aggrieved look. If you look closely, you can see the uneasiness and caution deep in her eyes.
He Yanchen held her hand and his eyes fell on Su Huai who was kneeling on the ground.
"Instigating my concubine to elope with you?"
When Su Huai heard this extremely cold voice, cold sweat immediately seeped out of his back. He kowtowed repeatedly: "I dare not! I dare not!"
At this moment, the little bit of affection that Yue Li had left in her heart for Su Huai completely disappeared.
Power is indeed a good thing. It allows her to see someone as aloof as Su Huai begging for mercy in such a miserable state.
At the beginning, he was unable to resist the prefect, and he didn't even have the ability to persuade Mother Wang to find her a new patron. Now, when he saw He Yanchen, he forgot all the words he had just said about taking her away. If she really had feelings for him and really went with him, he would still abandon her again for other things in the future.
Such a person is indeed not worth her remembrance at all.
He Yanchen looked at him with indifferent eyes without a trace of emotion. He withdrew his gaze in a moment and would have disliked looking at him any longer.
"Ji Ming, take him away, give him fifty lashes, and expel him from the capital."
He Yanchen swallowed the word "execution" that was about to come out of his mouth and gave this order instead.
He couldn't let Su Huai die. After all, Su Huai had helped Yue Li when she was young. If he died, Yue Li might remember his kindness and have a grudge against him one day.
But while he was alive, every time Yue Li mentioned him, she would think of the times he had abandoned her. Over time, the white moonlight turned into a disgusting grain of rice, no longer causing any ripples in her heart.
He Yanchen couldn't swallow his anger unless he broke his legs because he dared to seduce Yue Li.
Ji Ming got the look from the man and instantly understood that if he couldn't kill him, he would beat him to death.
He called a few people to drag the man away. Su Huai was a famous zither player in Jiangning City and had always been highly sought after. He had never been as embarrassed as he was today. He kept struggling:
"Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me!"
Not until the voice faded into the forest did He Yanchen look down at Yue Li who was leaning on his arm.
He snorted coldly.
Yueli shuddered all over and said pitifully, "Your Majesty...it's really not my fault that I wanted to see him..."
"I know."
Yueli choked: "Then...then why is His Majesty still angry?"
"Am I angry?"
Yueli nodded, her face so dark that ink seemed to be dripping out.
He Yanchen couldn't help but sneer, "Shouldn't I be angry? You've been with him for five years, yet you hid it from me when you talked about it yesterday, trying to get away with it?"
Yueli cried: "I dare not say it, if I tell His Majesty, he will beat me to death..."
He Yanchen was silent for a moment, and he became even angrier. "Is this how I am in your mind? When have I ever hit you?"
"Of course I haven't been spanked before, you spank me every night..."
He Yanchen quickly covered her mouth, his face turning blue.
Ji Ming and others wanted to bury their heads in the ground. Concubine Yu really didn't treat them as outsiders.
"Shut up and go back."
Yueli pouted in grievance and said, "Just go away, why be so fierce?"
Hezheng Palace.
He Yanchen pulled the person in and slammed the door shut.
He strode over to the couch and sat down. Yue Li was about to lean over and snuggle into his arms when she heard him say in a cold voice, "Did I let you sit?"
When Yue Li heard him scold her like this, her eyes immediately turned red and she choked up and said, "Your Majesty just doesn't believe me, but I didn't know he would appear in the palace. It's obviously not my fault..."
As she spoke, her voice began to tremble, and tears were welling up in her almond-shaped eyes, threatening to fall. He Yanchen's stern face softened a little, and he reached out to hold her hand.
Yue Li groaned and dodged away. She wiped her tears and said, "I don't blame Your Majesty for watching me. You clearly came here on purpose."
On her way back, she figured it out. This was the time when he usually reviewed memorials. It was because he was busy that Yue Li was bored and went out for a walk every day at this time. It just so happened that he came today.
He Yanchen didn't wait for her to retract her hand. He grabbed her wrist and brought her to sit in his arms: "It's not that I don't trust you."
"You're lying! You just don't trust me!" Yue Li began to bring up the past. "You send people to monitor me every day, which means you don't trust me."
"If I hadn't sent someone to monitor you, how would I have known that my Jiaojiao had actually been with that man day and night for five years?"
We are back to the same old thing again. Yueli is a little overwhelmed. Why can't she fool people?
Her heart was beating fast. Su Huai was a man, and she had lived with a man for five years. If any concubine in the harem knew about this, they could sue her and ruin her reputation.
Besides, no man could tolerate his woman having such a past, not to mention that He Yanchen was the emperor.
Yue Li didn't dare to say it, for she was afraid that He Yanchen would become alienated from her.
"I'm afraid that Your Majesty will dislike me..." After thinking about it for a long time, Yue Li couldn't come up with an excuse, so she had to continue crying, "If Your Majesty doesn't like me because of him, I will be so upset..."
He Yanchen heard her crying breathlessly, raised his hand to wipe her tears: "I won't hold a grudge against you because of this, these are all things of the past, I don't care."
"But Jiaojiao shouldn't have hidden things from me. Have you forgotten what you promised me?"
Yueli's voice choked: "I haven't forgotten... just this one thing, I'm afraid... I really don't dare to say it..."
She sobbed incoherently, and He Yanchen didn't know what to say, for fear that she would faint from crying.
"I do not like that person, but it is not your fault. Your only mistake is hiding it from me. I am your husband, and you promised to keep everything from me, no matter how big or small."
"But...but this matter is different..." Yue Li still remembered that when she was first brought to Jiangning Palace by He Yanchen, the queen sent a nanny to examine her.
It might be normal for a woman to marry a second time in this dynasty, but there is still prejudice against women from brothels. The maids looked at her as if she were looking at something dirty, and she still remembers it to this day.
Even though He Yanchen knew that she was innocent when she followed him, she did have different feelings for Su Huai when she was young, and she didn't dare let him know.
"There's nothing different. You grew up in a place like that, so it's perfectly normal for you to seek shelter. Even though I feel a little uncomfortable about this, I won't take my anger out on you."
Yueli blinked: "Really?"
He Yanchen raised his hand and stroked the top of her head: "Really, I just want to know that you are now devoted to me."
"Okay, I won't mention this anymore. From now on, you are not allowed to mention this matter or this person again, let alone keep it in mind."
He Yanchen wiped the tears from her cheek with his fingertips, and his tone softened: "If you can do this, I will no longer pursue the matter you concealed from me."
Yue Li nodded hurriedly: "No more, I will not hide anything from Your Majesty anymore..."
He Yanchen wiped her face with a handkerchief not very gently: "Then don't cry anymore, crying makes me feel uncomfortable."
Yueli hugged his waist and buried her head in his arms, sobbing softly. If she had known that crying would soften his heart, she would have cried nine times out of three days.
After a while, her expression suddenly changed, and then she looked up at him cautiously: "Your Majesty..."
He Yanchen patted her shoulders to comfort her, then lowered his eyes when he heard her words: "What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty has one more thing to confess."
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