Yan Wu tossed aside the towel, took the clothes hanging on the screen, and dressed her in them.
Finally, his gaze fell on her ample bosom, and he raised an eyebrow. "The clothes are too small. I'll have someone make you new ones another day."
Yan Chaoxi, “…” How could it not be small?
After dressing her, Yan Wu was about to carry her out.
Yan Chaoxi quickly grabbed his arm to stop him, "We can't go out like this, Bichun and the others are still outside!"
He's shameless to go out dressed like that, but she's not.
Yan Wu relented, grabbed an outer garment, wrapped her up, and carried her back to the bedchamber. Bi Chun and the others had already been sent back by Yan Wu, and there was no one guarding outside the bathhouse; no one saw them along the way.
Back in her bedchamber, Yan Chaoxi was led directly to a table with dragon and phoenix candles burning. She looked up at Yan Wu in confusion.
Yan Wu said, "No rush, we haven't drunk the nuptial wine yet."
Yan Chaoxi was furious, "...Who's getting impatient?!"
Yan Wu placed her on his lap, poured two cups of nuptial wine, and said with a slightly serious expression, "Princess, today is our wedding night. After drinking this cup of wine, from now on we will be husband and wife in name and in fact. I only wish that we will be of one heart and mind for the rest of our lives and grow old together."
His eyes were filled with countless emotions, and his focused and affectionate gaze went straight into her heart. Yan Chaoxi's heart was touched, and a smile bloomed on her lips.
"As long as my husband stays with me, I will never abandon him."
The soft, sweet voice uttered the words "husband," making Yan Wu's throat tighten and his eyes suddenly light up.
He handed her one of the glasses, and the two of them drank the wine together, their arms clasped together.
After drinking the wine, Yan Chaoxi could clearly feel Yan Wu's eyes change in an instant. The large hand around her waist gripped her waist even tighter, the scalding heat pressed tightly against her thin skin, causing her waist to shiver slightly from the heat, and her fair skin to turn a thin layer of pink.
Her body was lifted into the air and landed on the soft brocade quilt in an instant. A hot embrace covered her, and her breath was taken away by a forceful yet gentle touch.
Yan Chaoxi responded to him softly.
The temperature inside the sleeping quarters gradually rose.
Yan Wu ripped off the outer garment wrapped around her body, revealing the clothes that barely covered her body underneath, and his breath hitched slightly.
The red fabric made her shoulders, neck, and arms appear even whiter and brighter, as if they were glowing, making her even more alluring...
Yan Chaoxi's watery eyes were filled with shyness, her long eyelashes trembling incessantly, like the wings of a butterfly taking flight, her fingertips gently tugging at the man's clothes above her.
Yan Wu lowered his head and kissed her eyes, the kiss tracing along her delicate and lively eyes, then down to her small nose, and finally landing on her moist and full lips, their lips and teeth entwined.
The night is still long...
After a whole night of being forced to call him "husband" for so long, Yan Chaoxi's voice became hoarse. In the end, when she kicked him off the bed, this heartless man even dragged her off the bed as well...
In the morning, she was helped up by Bichun, supporting her back. Sitting in front of the dressing table, she felt weak and slumped in Bichun's arms as Bichun combed her hair. Her delicate, fair face was taut.
When Yan Chaoxi saw through the bronze mirror that the palace maids behind her were clearing away the tattered rags scattered on the ground, she couldn't hold back anymore; she felt a surge of heat. She secretly vowed that she wouldn't give this man a kind look for the next three days!
...
The reply from Dongqi was swift. Just as the envoy had predicted, the Emperor of Dongqi would not let such a trivial matter affect the relationship between Dongqi and Daliang. He readily granted the deceased Consort Lin the title of Consort and sent people to move her tomb to the imperial mausoleum.
Finally, he wrote a letter to Yan Chaoxi, telling her that her mother's affairs had been settled, and tried to bring the father and daughter closer together.
If Yan Chaoxi hadn't become the Empress of Daliang, the Emperor of Dongqi might not have even remembered that he had such a daughter. But now, not only does he remember her, he also sends her letters from time to time, reminding her not to forget her father.
Fan Yuanxin, who had been unemployed, thought that he would be reinstated after the new emperor ascended the throne. However, the new emperor did not even think of him. Apart from seeing the new emperor once at the enthronement ceremony, he had no chance to see the emperor since he could not attend the morning court sessions on weekdays.
Fan Yuanxin found many reasons to enter the palace and finally succeeded in getting the emperor to summon him.
He had just finished bowing and hadn't even had a chance to say anything when Yan Wu spoke first, "I remember you."
Fan Yuanxin was overjoyed!
Yan Wu, "You are Fan Yuanxin, the one who had an affair with the deposed crown princess and the daughter-in-law of the Li family."
Fan Yuanxin, “…” No, how did the Emperor know that the deposed Crown Princess was also present? This news was clearly kept under wraps!
"I am innocent! I was tricked by the deposed Crown Princess! Although I am fond of beautiful women, I would never touch someone I shouldn't!" Fan Yuanxin cried out as he knelt on the ground, tears and snot streaming down his face.
"The late emperor did not give me a chance to explain. I know I was wrong, so I have been reflecting on my mistakes in my residence. I have realized my problems. Can Your Majesty give me another chance?"
"I think it's not good to keep General Fan in his residence, receiving the court's salary without doing any work," Yan Wu pondered.
Fan Yuanxin nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes! Quickly reinstate him to his original position, or at least a slightly lower one!"
While unemployed at home, none of his colleagues dared to visit him, leaving his home deserted and his life no longer as comfortable as before.
"General Fan is already fifty-two years old this year, quite old. It's time for him to retire from the military and return to his hometown, making way for younger and more outstanding military officers in the Great Liang, so he doesn't occupy the position without doing anything and waste the Great Liang's salary."
Fan Yuanxin was stunned; that wasn't what he meant!
He clearly wanted to be reinstated and gain real power, so how did he lose his general's position after going to the palace?
He quickly tried to salvage the situation, "Your Majesty, I am willing to continue to reflect on my mistakes in seclusion!"
Yan Wu's face darkened, and his authoritative voice echoed in the hall, "A ruler's word is law. I'm already giving you face by letting you go back to your hometown to farm. Don't be ungrateful!"
Fan Yuanxin trembled all over, and cold sweat broke out. He didn't think he had offended the new emperor in any way. If he really had to say something, it was that he had once fantasized about the current empress, who was the former concubine of the crown prince.
He didn't succeed either; apart from the deposed crown princess and himself, no one else knew his despicable intentions. Surely the emperor couldn't dismiss him from his generalship because of this?
Fan Yuanxin didn't dare to ask, and under Yan Wu's cold gaze, he replied, "Your subject obeys the decree."
As soon as he left the palace, Yan Wu sent Xiao Shunzi to follow him and urge him to leave the capital within a day.
Fan Yuanxin was forced into this situation and upon returning home, he was compelled to dismiss the servants in his household and set off with his wives, concubines, and children back to his hometown of Ningcheng.
He had a total of eighteen concubines, who were usually very pampered. They couldn't bear to travel with an old man like Fan Yuanxin back to his hometown, enduring wind and rain, and having to be served food and drink along the way. When they had only gone halfway, several of his concubines took advantage of the night to steal all his money, divided it equally, and ran away.
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