After saying this, Qingdai let go of her hand with a lack of interest.
"In Lord Yan's eyes, could it be possible that I could be interested in someone like Yan Li?"
"I have no interest in him. If it were Minister Yan, I would have made a good welcome for him."
Yan Tingjing felt that the empress was very strange today. Someone who had never had any contact with him in private matters suddenly flirted with him like this.
Thinking about how ruthless and cruel she was in her previous life, and that the lesson she learned from her tragic death once was not enough, did she want to suffer the same lesson a second time?
Yan Tingjing quickly left Yuqing Pool, his voice even colder and more angry:
"If Your Majesty is angry with Yan Li and is taking it out on me, there is absolutely no need for that!"
He left this reproach and quickly turned and left, walking very fast as if he was fleeing in panic.
Behind him, the empress leaned against the edge of the pool, her drooping brows revealing a hint of sadness for no reason. She was alone, and the ripples on the pool surface gradually calmed down, as if she was in grief and inexplicably lonely.
It seemed like she said something to him, but Yan Tingjing didn't hear it at all.
*******
The serving boy suddenly saw the wet prime minister walk into the bedroom, then come out with a changed set of clothes, his back looking angry, and walk straight towards the study.
Yan Tingjing sat upright in his study, picked up an essay, and tried hard to calm himself down and read.
In a short while, a servant came to report.
"Prime Minister, His Majesty has left the palace."
Yan Tingjing was stunned for a moment, but then he quickly reacted.
The servant waited for a while before he heard the prime minister's voice.
"Your Majesty...how do you look?"
"Your Majesty has a gloomy face and no longer has the smile he had when he came. Perhaps... you are in a bad mood?"
The servant spoke carefully. He did not dare to say that His Majesty's face was so ugly that it seemed like water was about to drip out. Even ignorant servants like them could tell from a glance that he was extremely angry.
But... who in the Prime Minister's Mansion can offend His Majesty?
It can't be his prime minister... right?
There was silence in the study for a while before Yan Tingjing's voice was heard:
"Got it. Go on down."
After the servant left, Prime Minister Yan, who used to be able to calm down and work quickly, seemed unable to calm down no matter what.
But every time he thought of the empress, he would recall the rumors that came out from the womb in his previous life about how she doted on Yan Li in every way. How could she possibly punish him by making him kneel until he fainted if she loved him so much?
And the heart-wrenching scene where he was tricked into entering the palace and then pierced by thousands of arrows.
...He is a cold-blooded emperor who is good at playing tricks and deceiving people. I can't just become a clown who allows herself to be controlled by her and ruin my whole life!
He finally calmed down and read the essay for half an hour, but he didn't turn a page. The gloom between Yan Tingjing's brows became more and more gloomy.
The atmosphere in the study became increasingly depressing. When it was nearing its climax, a servant came knocking on the door.
"Prime Minister, His Majesty's oral order just arrived from the palace, saying that Young Master Yan was punished by His Majesty to kneel outside Qiwu Palace for two hours today. He fainted from kneeling and has just been carried to the palace. Should we call the palace physician to treat him?"
The servant's voice was filled with anxiety. He had never imagined that the Prime Minister's nephew had offended His Majesty and fainted from being punished...
The servants were still waiting for Yan Tingjing's instructions, but they didn't expect the door of the study to be suddenly pushed open from the inside.
"What did you say?"
There was a terrifying gloom between Yan Tingjing's eyebrows.
*****
When Yan Tingjing walked out of the guest room, the gloom between his brows had not yet completely dissipated.
The court doctor said that Yan Li had been kneeling for too long and his body could not bear it, so he fainted.
He thought it was just another trick of the cunning empress, but he didn't expect that what she said was true...
Yan Tingjing asked the palace servants who brought the person and found out that it was Yan Li who offended the emperor. She directly made Yan Li kneel outside the Qiwu Palace. The whole palace was bustling with people coming and going. After two hours, the news almost spread throughout the palace.
Moreover, when she came, she had asked someone to bring Yan Li here, but she only released him when she left... After such a long delay, Yan Li's knee was completely injured, and even the imperial physician who had not left the palace was helpless.
Actually, it wasn't that he was completely helpless. The imperial physician had revealed a little to him, and the phrase "there is no way" was actually what His Majesty meant...
How could he not understand at this point?
Her Majesty revealed all this to him on purpose, wanting to tell him that what she said to him was correct.
Yan Tingjing stood there, and suddenly a trace of confusion and uncertainty appeared on his serious and calm face.
He subconsciously walked towards Yuqing Pool, but only remembered after taking a few steps.
His Majesty has left...
*****
After dinner, Yan Tingjing returned to his room. He concealed the melancholy in his heart and reached out to open the door.
The next moment, a faint fragrance wafted into the dormitory.
It's the mandarin duck tail fragrance.
Yan Tingjing's eyebrows were deep and he raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes falling on the bed not far away.
Qingdai was wearing a light robe with dragon pattern, her graceful figure half leaning on the couch, her fair and clean legs faintly visible between the hem of her robe, bright and charming.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
