Now when she faced Xu's father, she didn't know how to get along with him.
On the day Xu Lingyi entered the palace, the emperor and the empress dowager came to Xu's house in person to pick her up.
In this way, even if the ceremony of enthroning the empress was postponed, all the civil and military officials in the court knew how much the emperor and the empress dowager valued her.
The news of her pregnancy was still suppressed for the time being.
There is a folk saying that if a pregnancy is less than three months old, it is generally not disclosed to others.
The Queen Mother cherished her unborn child very much and naturally did not dare to let any accidents happen.
"Your Majesty, is there anything on your mind?"
Before Fengyi Palace was renovated, Xu Lingyi lived in the emperor's palace.
That night the emperor seemed to be tossing and turning for a long time without sleeping. Xu Lingyi woke up halfway and saw that the emperor was still awake.
He was looking at her with complicated eyes.
"Nothing." The emperor's voice was hoarse.
Liu Jinzhong is still investigating. He knows that he shouldn't believe what Xie Huaixing said, but he still has doubts.
She didn't like him, a fact he had already accepted at the bottom of the cliff.
But the emperor was confident that as long as he was sincere, Xu Lingyi would one day be able to feel his feelings.
Man is not a plant or a tree; he believes that water can wear away a stone.
Besides, she and Xie Huaixing could never be together, she could only be his wife.
But he never thought that his love for her might have calculated results.
He finds deception difficult to accept.
The emperor looked at her and prayed silently in his heart that everything Xie Huaixing said was a lie.
"Yier, go to bed early. I was just thinking about some things in the court." The emperor patted her back gently.
Xu Lingyi intuitively felt that the emperor was worried, but she was indeed physically tired after becoming pregnant and really had no energy to think about the emperor.
"Your Majesty." Liu Jinzhong handed the emperor a memorial. "This is the result of the Jinyiwei's investigation."
The emperor looked hesitant and held the letter in his hand for a long time without opening it.
Finally the emperor extended his hand.
He lowered his head and flipped through the pages of documents, his heart gradually sinking to the bottom.
"Your Majesty, the Empress did indeed fall off that cliff, just as Prince Xie said."
"From this, it can be seen that the Queen must have known the exit, but deliberately delayed for three months. What the Queen intends to do is clear at a glance."
The Queen is indeed very scheming. She clearly knows the way out, but she refuses to take His Majesty away, just to be alone with His Majesty, and to trick His Majesty into liking her.
The emperor did not speak for a long time.
He regretted having been to the Heavenly Prison and also regretted learning these things from Xie Huaixing.
But he went there anyway and found out.
"Go to the Sky Prison."
The emperor met Xie Huaixing again.
"Your Majesty, have you investigated thoroughly? I did not lie."
"Xu Lingyi doesn't like me. She only wants to use Your Majesty to kill me."
The emperor found that when he heard Xie Huaixing say this, he actually felt a strange sense of joy and relief in his heart.
Even now, he is still jealous of her and is moved by her feelings?
The emperor noticed this and he felt a little resentful of his own humbleness.
"Did she tell me what she encountered at the bottom of the cliff?"
The emperor asked.
Xie Huaixing had known this day would come, but the memory of that time was already very distant.
He has been reminiscing since the emperor left that day.
Finally, I pieced together some of the things Xu Lingyi said back then.
Xie Huaixing also thought of one thing most importantly.
Xu Lingyi once said that she was tortured by a kind of fruit at the bottom of the cliff for a whole night. At that time, she was full of love and trust for him and told him everything.
He thought that if he were Xu Lingyi, if he wanted to seduce the emperor, he would definitely make the emperor eat this kind of fruit.
Xie Huaixing emphasized these points.
The last glimmer of hope in the emperor's heart was gone.
It turned out that she had known that kind of fruit for a long time, so she deliberately let him eat it that day but didn't eat it herself.
She watched him suffer from the effects of the drug for several hours and watched herself struggle.
He also looked at himself and felt guilty for touching her.
But it turned out that all this was her plan.
This was the first time that the emperor was played around by a woman.
"Perhaps you and she falling off the cliff was an accident."
Xie Huaixing still didn't believe that Xu Lingyi dared to gamble with his own life and the emperor's life. After all, that was a bottomless abyss and it would be difficult to survive if one fell in.
"But the things that happened between you and her at the bottom of the cliff must have been largely calculated by her. Your fervent love for her, in her eyes, is merely a tool for her revenge."
"Shut up!" The emperor's face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and his cold look was chilling.
"Liu Jinzhong, shut his mouth."
The emperor left the prison in a daze and returned to his residence unknowingly.
But the emperor didn't dare to go in at this moment. He didn't know how to face her.
If he saw her, could he really restrain himself from asking and pretend that nothing had happened?
"Your Majesty, do you want to come in?" Liu Jinzhong spoke cautiously. The emperor's aura was extremely low.
"Go to Xuanzheng Hall." The emperor strode away.
Xuanzheng Hall was where the emperor handled government affairs.
He had thought before that if Xu Lingyi entered the palace, he would move all the government affairs back to the bedroom so that he could be with her all the time.
I never thought that one day I would not want to return to the palace.
For the next few days, the emperor stayed in the Xuanzheng Hall.
"Your Majesty, drunkenness is harmful to your health. You really must stop drinking."
Liu Jinzhong watched the emperor guzzle bottle after bottle of wine, and he became extremely anxious.
These days, His Majesty would drink almost without stopping after the morning court session.
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