At this moment, Empress Yueyao was filled with regret.
She shouldn't have invited Jing Zhe to her tent, because saying it would only make her look ridiculous.
Perhaps, when he returns to Liangzhou and arrives in Anguo, he will spread the word that Empress Yueyao invited him to spend the night?
At that time, both she and Yueyao Kingdom will lose face. If she had to choose again, she would not say a word to him, much less let him into her tent!
Thinking of this, Empress Yueyao felt a tightness in her chest and entered the tent in a daze. The icy chill she had felt earlier returned.
She reached out to lock the door again when a hand reached in from the outside. She was immediately startled: "Who's there!"
"I am the Empress!"
Jing Zhe's voice came from outside: "Didn't the Empress send me here?"
"..."
Empress Yueyao stood there stunned, the "You can leave" that was about to come out of her mouth suddenly turning into: "What were you doing just now?"
As they were talking, he lifted the door open and Jing Zhe walked in, bowing slightly. He said, "Of course I brought all the bedding—it's just a pile of straw, but it's better than nothing. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't be able to get through this cold night!"
"..."
Empress Yueyao then realized she had misunderstood, and was still indignant: "If you were going to get your bedding, you should have just said so! What's with turning around and leaving like that? You deserve to be wronged!"
But she wouldn't say it out loud, and the fierce determination she had shown earlier—"I won't let him into the tent again"—vanished instantly. It was as if Queen Yao had suffered from intermittent amnesia, forgetting everything completely.
Where are your bedding?
"Over there."
Which way?
That's it—
Empress Yueyao stopped halfway through her sentence. In the pitch-black darkness, how could words possibly describe their location?
She could feel Jing Zhe right in front of her, his masculine aura so strong. She pointed at him with one finger, then pointed to the side and forward.
"Right here."
As she spoke, she walked over, intending to point out to him again that he should put his bedding—that is, the meager pile of hay—on the other side. But Jing Zhe took a step and placed the hay pile on top of hers.
"..."
Empress Yueyao's brain short-circuited again, still pondering whether he had deliberately placed it incorrectly or correctly.
"Did you put it in the wrong place... on my bedding?"
"That's right!"
Jing Zhe said nonchalantly, "How much bedding do you have? It's practically nothing. Aren't you cold?"
At this moment, Empress Yueyao was at a loss for words. It turned out he had been worried about her being cold, so he had laid out his own bedding for her. She didn't know whether she should be moved at this moment…
However, when she sensed Jing Zhe's next move, she didn't know if she was moved, but she was definitely too scared to move!
After arranging his bedding, Jing Zhe lay down and "invited" her, "Your Majesty, don't just stand there. It's too cold standing up. Lie down and go to sleep!"
"..."
Empress Yueyao took a deep breath, telling herself to calm down, and then said in a deep voice, "Go to sleep, I'm not sleepy!"
Jing Zhe could guess what she was thinking. No matter how thick-skinned an empress was, she wouldn't just come up and sleep with him right away, would she?
So he had to give her a way out.
Then he laughed and said, "Your Majesty, think about it, if I hadn't gone to help you just now, would you even be able to sleep here?"
If he didn't go, he knew Babu would force him to stay...
"If you're going to sleep there, wouldn't it be better to sleep here with me?"
Although he's annoying, compared to Babu, well, he's not bad...
"Furthermore, Your Majesty cares deeply for the people of Yueyao Kingdom, so you should take even better care of your health! Those barbarians are clearly deliberately making things difficult for us. In this cold weather, with so little bedding, you could freeze to death even if you fell asleep! If people die, who will protect Your Majesty's people? So, even if not for yourselves, Your Majesty must huddle together for the sake of your people!"
"..."
The literal meaning of "sticking together for warmth" is easy to understand.
Although Empress Yueyao was extremely unwilling, after Jing Zhe said that, she suddenly felt that lying down together wasn't such a bad thing.
Yes, life is full of endless possibilities...
However, she remained somewhat wary, saying coldly, "Tonight's situation is special. We're all huddled together for warmth in order to survive, and this only applies to tonight..."
"What if we're still camped out tomorrow night?"
"Then...we'll discuss tomorrow night's matter tomorrow night!"
"oh."
Jing Zhe agreed, and then added, "Let me make this clear beforehand: I'm doing all this to help the Empress survive, so please don't tell anyone about tonight's events!"
He came to Liangzhou intending to spend some time alone with Liu Jinghong and take her back to Jingzhou. But if Empress Yueyao went back and complained that he had "slept with" her, who knows if Liu Jinghong would get angry!
So let's take precautions in advance.
Hearing this, Empress Yueyao felt a surge of anger.
I should be the one saying this, shouldn't I?
What, you think you're at a disadvantage after sleeping with me?
Empress Yueyao desperately wanted to confront him, but she gritted her teeth and ultimately didn't say it.
She naturally didn't want Jing Zhe to go around talking about this, so his thoughts were the same as hers, only it sounded strange coming from his mouth.
So he gave a heavy "hmm" and said, "Okay, then don't go around saying anything!"
"Am I stupid? I wouldn't talk nonsense!"
In the darkness, Jing Zhe's tone was slightly serious: "What if others find out that I slept with you... I mean, that we slept together, and it gets to His Majesty's ears? He might think it's an insult to civility and insist that I marry you?"
Empress Yueyao is not only beautiful, but also has a very alluring mature and sophisticated style. Logically speaking, there should be many people who want to marry her.
But don't forget, marrying her also means marrying that saintess, and going to the Moon Yao Kingdom to become a live-in son-in-law responsible for "delivering children," which doesn't align with his goal of liberating more beautiful girls, so forget it.
Empress Yueyao had endured for a long time, but after hearing these words, she finally couldn't hold back any longer and said through gritted teeth, "What, is marrying me... a particularly bad deal?"
If there were lights in the tent, Jing Zhe would definitely have seen the furious, murderous look in Empress Yueyao's eyes.
Unfortunately, the tent was pitch black, so Jing Zhe said, "To be honest, it's not exactly a huge loss... just a so-so loss!"
"You tell me, what exactly constitutes a 'normal loss'?"
At this moment, even a pig could hear the rage in Empress Yueyao's voice, let alone Jing Zhe, who, though a bit of a dog, was not a pig.
So he quickly explained, "Your Majesty has misunderstood. What I actually meant was... that not marrying Your Majesty is for the good of Yueyao Kingdom!"
"..."
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