Chapter 2281 Love and Revenge
Ran Xiaoyu gasped.
She lowered her voice and said, "Then, then does the emperor have——"
Before she could finish her words, Nianqiu, Aunt Tongyun, and Tingfu walked in. Everyone had already heard about what happened in the Imperial Study. Nianqiu's expression was particularly grim. She gritted her teeth and said, "She shouldn't have had it easy!"
“…”
"This vixen tries every possible way to seduce the emperor every day. She pretends to be quiet and gentle on the surface, but she's actually a shameless bitch—"
"shut up!"
Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Nan Yan's low shout.
Nian Qiu was startled by her yell and his whole body trembled.
Looking at her carefully: "My Lady..."
Nan Yan's face was originally pale, but now it turned a little blue. She glared at her and said, "Good girl, don't keep saying things like foxy and bitch. Even if your parents didn't teach you, didn't I teach you too?"
Nian Qiu was so frightened that she knelt down: "Your Majesty, please forgive me."
Aunt Tongyun came forward and said softly, "Don't blame me, Your Majesty."
“…”
"Nianqiu is not usually like this. This time, she was anxious because of the Empress's matter."
“…”
"I hope your Majesty will not blame her."
Nan Yan was inconsolable. She looked up at Nian Qiu and saw that her face had turned pale with fear and she was kneeling on the ground trembling.
In the past, I would not be so angry. Even if she did something wrong, I would teach her gently. But this time, I seemed to have really lost my composure.
She understood it in her heart.
In order to protect Nian Qiu, she took the blame in front of Zhu Feng, and became a spoiled concubine who was arrogant and killed innocent people.
And I, from the bottom of my heart, despise people who harm others, let alone become such a person. Moreover, I made Zhu Feng misunderstand that she was angry and took it out on Nian Qiu.
If it weren't for her, nothing would have happened today.
Thinking of this, she sat up straight, looked at Nian Qiu and said, "Nian Qiu, I'll tell you one last time. If you want to work with me, kindness is the most important thing. It's more important than being smart, more thoughtful, and more important than anything else."
“…”
"Being smart and thorough might be a good thing."
“…”
"But if you're not kind, all your cleverness could become a knife that stabs me. Do you understand?"
Nian Qiu was so scared that tears came out: "I know."
Ran Xiaoyu listened to her words and felt something. She asked softly, "My Lady, what happened?"
Nan Yan sighed and said, "Nian Qiu, go down."
Nian Qiu glanced at her and saw that her face was still very ugly, so he stood up and left. After she left, Nan Yan told them what happened that day, as well as what happened today.
When Aunt Tongyun heard this, her brows furrowed.
He said in a deep voice: "This girl, she, how could she do this?"
She hurriedly said to Nan Yan, "Your Majesty, will you tell the Emperor about this matter?"
Nan Yan looked at her, was silent for a while, and then shook her head.
"Of course I won't tell anyone. If the Emperor really knew about this, I would be beaten to death, or at least given a beating."
“…”
"She, she is my person after all, I will just discipline her."
Seeing that she seemed quite angry, Tingfu held a cup of tea beside her and carefully placed it next to her, saying softly, "Actually, Your Majesty, this matter is not Nianqiu's fault. She, she was doing it for Your Majesty, so it can't be considered evil."
Nan Yan glanced at him and said solemnly, "If you do it for me, it's not considered evil?"
“…”
"Why, a scholar's stealing isn't stealing, it's thievery?"
"Well--"
Nan Yan shook her head and said, "If justice has to be divided among different people, then it's not justice, but self-interest. The same goes for pranks. If someone hasn't harmed you, and you harm them for no reason, then that's harming them."
She took a deep breath and said, "Back then, you don't know how Du Siyao bullied me. Xiaoyu, you must remember it, right?"
Ran Xiaoyu nodded silently.
Nan Yan sighed, then smiled bitterly and said, "What's even more ridiculous is that Xue Yun is actually the same as I was back then—"
"Same?"
Ran Xiaoyu was stunned, and was about to ask something, but then she thought again and suddenly understood a little: "Could it be that when Nian Qiu asked her to stand in the yard and enjoy the breeze that day, she was also pregnant?"
Nan Yan nodded.
Ran Xiaoyu asked, "How did the Queen know that that day was her period?"
Nan Yan said, "I first saw blood on the couch in the imperial study and thought—but later, Wang Baizhi told me that Xue Yun had a bone-deep cold and was very ill."
"Wang Baizhi, he, he also knows?"
"Xue Yun fainted, and the Emperor asked him to come and see him. After taking his pulse, what could he not diagnose? Wang Baizhi was worried about this, so she secretly told me."
Ran Xiaoyu frowned and said after a while: "I was wondering why she hasn't recovered after so many days, and you thought she was just pretending to be sick. It turns out, it turns out that -"
Nan Yan said: "After all, we are the ones who reaped the fruits of our sins."
Aunt Tongyun came forward and said softly, "I'm sorry that your Majesty has been wronged this time."
“…”
"The Emperor, he won't just ignore the Empress just like that, will he?"
“…”
Hearing this, Nan Yan's breath was slightly choked.
She understood that in the harem, losing the emperor's favor was like losing water and sunlight in the world; it was unsustainable. In the past, she disdained to compete for favor because, deep down, she had some confidence that she knew she was different from others in Zhu Feng's heart.
So, no matter what they went through, in the end, the two of them were still able to be together.
But this time, it's different from before.
Because of the incident with Nian Qiu, in Zhu Feng's eyes, she is no longer the kind-hearted Si Nanyan of the past.
Thinking of this, she felt a chill all over her body.
He murmured, "Will it?"
“…”
"He, he will really ignore me just because of this incident?"
Looking at her eyebrows, which were deeply engraved with several hanging needle lines, Ran Xiaoyu's heart sank.
Nan Yan rarely has such worries.
For the emperor's sake, I was worried about his neglect.
She thought for a moment, then turned to Aunt Tongyun and Tingfu and said, "Aunt, you two should go and rest first. I, I will comfort the queen for a while."
Everyone knows that she and Nan Yan have the deepest feelings, and there are some things that Nan Yan will only say to her.
So he retreated.
After they left, Ran Xiaoyu walked over and closed the door.
Then he walked back to Nan Yan's side, slowly squatted down, placed his hands on her knees, and whispered, "My Lady..."
"Um?"
"Your Majesty, have you never thought about that before when you told me that the Emperor might have harmed your father?"
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