If it weren't for their control over the military forces guarding the capital, Li Xiao wouldn't be so wary of the Lian family.
The situation is so complicated! Chu Nian felt a terrible headache coming on.
"Minister Li, rise!" Seeing Chu Susu helping Chu Nian walk into the inner hall, the emperor glared at Li Xiao and said, though his voice sounded somewhat gritted.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Xiao said as he stood up.
The Emperor said, "I never imagined that Minister Li could endure being ridden like an animal by a woman."
Li Xiao: "As a man, one should always maintain a gentlemanly demeanor when facing a woman. Consort Lian is drunk and her mind is unclear. I dare not move her, for fear that she might fall and injure herself."
After he finished speaking, countless palace maids standing nearby began to secretly fall in love with Li Xiaofang.
The emperor, however, wished he could immediately draw his sword and behead Li Xiao.
"Hey, sister, look! Aren't those the Emperor and the Regent standing over there?" Chu Nian suddenly turned around and pointed at the two of them as if she had just seen them.
Chu Susu hurriedly said, "Niannian, it's getting late, let's go to the inner hall to rest."
"No, they're going to fight! We have to go break them up!" Chu Nian said, breaking free from Chu Susu and turning back.
Not only that, she killed him with a swift counterattack.
The two men, who had been tense and ready to draw their swords, were now facing each other, quite close, as if they might draw their swords at any moment. Upon hearing the commotion as Chu Nian rushed over, they both retreated to the sides.
Chu Nian was moving too fast. She watched as the two of them dodged away, but she couldn't stop herself and crashed directly into a cabinet on the opposite side.
Chu Susu was already afraid that something would happen to her, so she had been following her very closely. When she saw this, she was so frightened that her face changed drastically. She shouted "Niannian" and shot out like the wind.
first!
This was the first time she had used her lightness skill since she entered Chu Susu's body!
To this day, she has never revealed her martial arts skills to anyone, not even Suhe.
This was a profound internal skill she had cultivated in her previous life. In this life, after being reborn as Chu Susu, she seized every opportunity to secretly cultivate it, thus making her martial arts even more advanced than in her previous life. It could be said that she was no less skilled than Li Xiao.
Although Li Xiao and the Emperor managed to avoid it, they were startled to see Chu Nian flying towards the cabinet like an arrow released from a bow, and they both reached out to grab it.
As a result, the two grabbed one of Chu Nian's ankles from the left and right.
Chu Susu was behind them, and even if she used her lightness skill, she couldn't fly faster than their outstretched hands. So she rushed behind them and blocked Chu Nian's head, letting Chu Nian fall headfirst into her arms.
She was terrified by Chu Nian's head hitting the cabinet earlier, and thought that if that had happened, the woman would be finished for the night. A surge of anger welled up inside her.
She reached out and hugged Chu Nian, and seeing that the Emperor and Li Xiao each held one of Chu Nian's ankles, her anger intensified.
"Let go of them, all of you!" She didn't know where she got the courage, but she shouted at the two highest symbols of power, and even kicked Li Xiao and the emperor's hands away.
Both men stared at her in shock: When did Chu Susu become so amazing?
Chu Susu glared at them with red eyes: "None of you have the right to touch her!"
Emperor: "She is my beloved concubine!"
Chu Susu: "My beloved concubine? How much do you love her? Have you ever truly loved her? You two men are always fighting and fighting and fighting, you..." She pointed at the emperor, "You are already the emperor whom everyone looks up to, what more do you want? You think the regent is a threat to your throne, but with Duke Lian and General Lian around, who can really touch your throne?"
“And you!” she pointed to the regent.
Li Xiao was surprised: "Me?"
Chu Susu: "That's right, it's you. The emperor does want to take your power and your life, but does he really think he can? The entire Great Yu Kingdom, almost the entire court, is in your hands, and most of the ministers submit to you. The emperor can't touch you at all."
Why don't you two maintain a balance of power like this? Why don't you live together peacefully like this? Why do you have to fight for power all the time? It's not enough that you're fighting in the imperial court, you're even causing unrest in the harem, and now you're even fighting over my Kunning Palace!
Fine, if you want to fight, I'll give you Kunning Palace. You can continue fighting to the death here!
"Guards, go to Xukun Palace!"
Chu Nian leaned against Chu Susu's arms and, upon hearing her impassioned speech, secretly breathed a sigh of relief: Hmm, the female lead has finally spoken. All that effort she put in this afternoon and half the night wasn't for nothing!
Since she couldn't curry favor with the future emperor, she had to find another way: to make peace between the current emperor and the future emperor, the current regent. Maintaining a balance of power in the court thus became her priority.
The only person who could make the male lead and the villainous male supporting character reconcile is probably the female lead. Chu Nian had just left the Qianqing Palace and arrived at the Kunning Palace.
She goes to such lengths to flatter and fawn over others, even to the point of being called a brainwashing queen. Does she have it easy?
"I'm so tired!" Chu Nian thought helplessly.
Upon hearing Chu Susu's words, the Emperor and the Regent exclaimed in unison, "Empress!"
With tears in her eyes, Chu Susu said, "I am not the Empress; I am merely a puppet you all want to control. But I don't want to continue being a puppet..."
"Your Majesty the Empress!" Li Xiao called out in a sorrowful voice.
"I told you I am not the Empress!" Chu Susu shouted angrily. "As the Regent, you have managed the affairs of the Great Yu Kingdom in an orderly manner, and the people are no longer as miserable as they were more than ten years ago. I admire you for this."
But in order to maintain your position and power, you send people into the palace no matter who they are, no matter how close or dear they are to you..."
She broke down in tears as she spoke.
Li Xiao thought she was heartbroken because she didn't want to be empress and wanted to be his princess. Little did he know that she was heartbroken because of her past life—Li Xiao had sent him to the palace to become a eunuch.
If it weren't for this, she would have been a complete man, wouldn't have been killed by the emperor's scheme, and wouldn't be a woman now.
"It's all my fault! It's all my fault!" Li Xiao said with deep sorrow, "I shouldn't have insisted on sending you into the palace to become empress despite your and His Majesty's objections..."
"You don't understand anything at all!" Chu Susu shouted angrily.
After Chu Susu finished speaking, she picked up Chu Nian, who had decided to start sleeping properly from now on, and left Kunning Palace.
A group of palace servants from Kunning Palace followed behind her, none of them daring to utter a sound. They were so frightened that they even forgot to bow to the Emperor and the Regent: it was the first time they had ever seen the Empress so angry, especially towards the Emperor and the Regent.
They were all filled with apprehension, wondering how the Emperor and the Regent would hold the Empress accountable afterward.
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