Chapter 125 Your only identity is my wife
"You! You are so outrageous!" The queen cared most about her status. When she heard Yue Li dare to speak so arrogantly, she immediately ignored everything else and raised her hand to hit her.
Before Yueli could move, Lianqiao grabbed the queen's wrist.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Even if our queen is wrong, she should report it to His Majesty. You are not allowed to punish her privately." Lian Qiao used a little force on her hand and pushed the queen back a step.
Yueli is now the Imperial Noble Consort, with the same status as the Vice Queen, and she is not someone the Queen can punish at will.
The Queen's face turned pale, and she angrily shouted, "Royal Consort, you are so bold! You dare to covet my position in public."
Yue Li curled the corners of her lips slightly: "When did this concubine covet the position of the Empress?"
"You can only covet what belongs to Her Majesty. How many more days can Her Majesty remain as Empress? It no longer belongs to you, so how can you covet it?"
The queen tightly grasped the handkerchief in her hand, her eyes growing colder.
Li Cairen, who was standing by, also heard Yueli's words and immediately spoke up for the Queen, saying, "Even if the Imperial Noble Consort is favored by His Majesty, she cannot be so disrespectful to the Queen."
"I'm disrespectful to the Queen?" Yue Li looked at her and smiled. "How have I disrespected the Queen?"
Yueli stood there. She hadn't paid her respects to the emperor for a long time, so Li Cairen naturally hadn't seen her for a long time. However, in Li Cairen's impression, Yueli was born beautiful, with the gentleness of a girl from the Jiangnan water town, and was always weak. It was only because of the emperor's favor that she could do evil in the palace.
Thinking of this, Li Cairen still felt that the Queen was more reliable. She stiffened her neck and said to Yue Li, "The Queen is the master of the six palaces. The Imperial Concubine should not speak to the Queen in this manner."
Yue Li sneered and slowly walked up to Li Cairen. "I shouldn't speak to the Queen in this manner, and you dare to speak to me in this manner?"
"Who the hell are you? Do you have the right to interrupt me when I'm talking to the Queen?"
Li Cairen couldn't help but feel embarrassed because her face turned red and white.
"you..."
Before she could finish her words, Yueli raised her hand and slapped her.
"Li Cairen, I'm not in the mood to care about your attitude towards me in the past, but now, who gave you the courage to chatter in front of me?"
Li Cairen was stunned by the slap. Yueli's strength was not great, but the feeling of humiliation was about to overwhelm her.
The Queen was furious: "Royal Consort, you are too presumptuous! How dare you humiliate a concubine while I am still here?"
How outrageous! Yue Li couldn’t count how many times the Queen had said “outrageous” today. Her ears were about to get calluses from all the repetitions.
"I was just being presumptuous. What do you want, Queen?" Yue Li squinted her eyes at her. "The Queen and I have always kept our distance. If the Queen hadn't wanted to punish my maid for no reason, I wouldn't have bothered to pay any attention to you."
The Queen was so angry that her voice trembled: "You are so arrogant!"
Yueli snorted lightly, too lazy to talk nonsense with her. She kept saying the same few words over and over again, which was annoying.
She turned her head and wanted to leave, but saw He Yanchen walking towards her not far away.
She was originally going to the imperial study to accompany the emperor. The few of them were not far from the imperial study. He Yanchen heard the noise and knew that she had a conflict with the queen, so he came out to see.
As the man approached, he saw that the queen's face had turned blue with anger, and there were five red fingerprints on Li Cairen's face. He paused slightly and asked, "What's going on?"
The Empress spoke before Yue Li could. She knelt and spoke earnestly, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Noble Consort, relying on your favor, has completely disregarded me and the other concubines. She contradicts and strikes me at will. She has absolutely no sense of discipline."
Yueli grabbed his sleeve and said angrily, "It was the Queen who punished Zisu first for no reason. Zisu didn't even touch her, and she's just using this as an excuse to make a fuss!"
He Yanchen saw that her cheeks were pouting with anger, and he couldn't help but reach out and pinch them.
She is so beautiful even when she is angry.
"His Majesty..."
"Okay, I understand." He Yanchen rubbed her face, then turned to the Queen and changed his expression, "The Imperial Noble Consort assists in the management of the six palaces, so she naturally has the right to punish the concubines."
He glanced at Li Cairen, but couldn't recall who she was. He just said coldly to the group of palace servants, "Even the Imperial Concubine has to do the punishment herself. Are you just for show?"
Lian Qiao and the others knelt down hurriedly: "Your Majesty, please calm down."
Li Cairen only felt that her face was in even greater pain, as if she had been slapped again.
The Queen was incredulous: "Your Majesty is so indulgent to the Imperial Noble Consort. In the future, won't everyone be able to offend the superior and break the palace rules?"
"Empress." He Yanchen interrupted her, glancing at Li Cairen with a pointed look: "You turned a deaf ear and dumb when others offended the Imperial Noble Consort, but now it's your turn and you remember the palace rules?"
"Is it the Imperial Concubine who doesn't follow the palace rules, or do you treat them as nothing?"
The queen's eyes turned red with anger, but she had no way to refute. He Yanchen's tone was very cold, and he was obviously very impatient with her. No matter what she said, she could not do anything to Yue Li.
"Since the Queen takes the palace rules so seriously, please copy them carefully several times so that your efforts will not be in vain."
"As for you." He glanced at Li Cairen, still unable to remember who she was.
Ji Ming whispered something in his ear, and He Yanchen said, "You have offended the Imperial Noble Consort, and you will be demoted to Baolin and fined three months' salary."
Li Baolin completely collapsed on the ground.
As soon as he finished speaking, He Yanchen took Yue Li away.
Yue Li followed him obediently until they entered the imperial study, then she threw herself into his arms: "Your Majesty, if Your Majesty punishes the Empress like this, will anyone impeach Your Majesty?"
"Impeach me?" He Yanchen pinched her neck and pulled her out of his arms. "Impeach you."
Yue Li snorted twice: "I am not afraid of impeachment, as long as it does not affect Your Majesty."
He Yanchen rubbed the top of her head and said, "I was just joking with you. No one will impeach you, and no one will say bad things about you."
He paused with his hand on the woman's head and suddenly asked, "Are you happy being the Imperial Concubine?"
"I'm so happy!" Yue Li had never thought that she could become an imperial concubine. When she came back from the temporary palace this time, she found that the Zhuoyu Palace had become much more luxurious, and the path leading to the Linde Palace in the backyard had been renovated. Pear blossoms were planted on both sides, and a rain corridor was built. In the future, she could run there whenever she wanted to go.
Moreover, she had just returned, and people from the Sixth Bureau came to ask about her well-being and sent any good things to her palace. Everyone was respectful when they saw her. Today, even the Queen was embarrassed.
Seeing her eyes sparkling, He Yanchen knew that she must be happy.
But this was not enough. He touched the woman's cheek and said, "Jiaojiao, wait a little longer. I don't want your reputation to be damaged. I can only take it slow."
It would not be impossible to depose the queen directly, but deposing and enthroning the queen was no trivial matter and would cause endless arguments in the court. Even Wei Chengdong would probably not approve of his rash actions.
The queen was impatient. As long as she made a mistake, no matter how small the matter was, he would find a way to make it a big deal, and then he would have a reason to depose her.
"What are you waiting for?" Yue Li asked casually as she nestled in his arms and played with his jade pendant. But the next moment, she froze and looked up at him in disbelief. "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, could it be..."
Don't you want her to be the queen?
He Yanchen smiled and said, "I said that you are my wife and I will let you stand with me."
"What...when did you say that?"
Yue Li didn't want to believe it. She thought being a royal concubine was good enough. If she became the queen, wouldn't she have to manage everyone in the palace?
"When you were sick." He Yanchen could guess what she was thinking by looking at her expression. He lowered his head and kissed her. "Jiaojiao, don't feel pressured. Don't you want to be my wife?"
"I want to...but..."
"No buts, just leave it all to me." He Yanchen said calmly, "As for palace affairs, you can take care of them if you want, but if you don't, just leave it to others. There are many capable people in the palace, so you don't need to do everything yourself."
Yue Li suddenly felt a little panicked: "But...but my status is not good. Will it embarrass Your Majesty?"
"Your only identity is my wife. Who dares to say anything bad about it?"
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