He would even still be concerned about her every move.
"Today is all my fault," the emperor said, as if compromising. "It will never happen again."
"Go to sleep." The emperor covered her with a quilt.
After Xu Lingyi fell asleep, the emperor sat beside her bed all night.
"What should I do with you?" The emperor looked at her in surprise.
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"What's going on between you and the Queen?"
The Queen Mother asked sternly.
Ever since Xu Lingyi entered the palace, his heart and eyes have been filled with Xu Lingyi, and he has no time to care about the emperor.
When she woke up this morning, she learned that the queen had a miscarriage last night.
The Queen Mother rushed over anxiously.
"It's all my fault."
The emperor didn't want the empress dowager to know what had happened recently.
Even though he knew that she had ulterior motives and was full of calculations, he still didn't want the Queen Mother to know this.
He still wanted to maintain her impression in the Queen Mother's mind.
"I've been drinking every day lately. She came to Xuanzheng Hall to admonish me. I drank too much and acted recklessly for a while, then did something wrong."
The Queen Mother was so frightened that she even wanted to slap the Emperor to wake him up.
"You bastard! How is the queen now?" The queen mother said with a tense face.
"The imperial physician has come to see me, and I'm fine now."
"It's fine this time, but what about next time? She's still pregnant. Even if there's something going on between you, you should give in to her."
The Empress Dowager had no idea what had happened between them. She just thought that it was Xu Lingyi's way of dealing with the princess and the others, which made the Emperor unhappy.
She knew that the emperor never liked women with evil intentions, so perhaps this was why he had a grudge against him?
"As for what happened at the General's Mansion, Yun'an and the others deserved it. The eldest princess killed Yi'er's mother. The hatred for killing her mother is irreconcilable. It's not wrong for her to want revenge. Even if her methods are a little harsh, that's their retribution. How can revenge be considered cruel?"
The emperor was not upset because of these things, but he was unwilling to explain to the empress dowager and would rather be misunderstood by her.
Seeing that the emperor didn't say anything, the empress dowager changed the subject.
"So what if she really has evil intentions?"
"There are thousands of gentle and virtuous women in this world, but do you like them, Your Majesty? I have placed so many kind and docile women around you over the years, but you never even glanced at them, turning a blind eye to every one of them."
"You only have eyes for her, only like her. So does it matter if she's vicious or mean?"
"Would you like another woman?"
The emperor was stunned for a moment. The empress dowager's words not only woke him up, but also finally allowed him to find a way out in his heart.
The pain he felt these past few days was because he realized that even though she was playing tricks on him like this, he still couldn't hate her, let alone abandon her.
He couldn't accept himself being so humble.
He told himself in his heart, if he could easily forgive her for such deception and teasing, then what kind of emperor would he be? Would he still have any pride and self-respect?
But now, he found that the Queen Mother was right.
No matter whether she teased him or deceived him, he just fell in love with her.
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Emperor: Self-PUA
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