Xu Lingyi shook his head: "Your Majesty, I'm fine."
The emperor still stood up, held her hand and looked at it carefully, his eyes looking at Liu Dehai.
Liu Dehai told the queen what she had said truthfully. The emperor's face darkened and his eyes were like cold blades.
"The Queen is so majestic."
The emperor disliked the queen for many years. At first, he respected her because she was his brother.
But as time went on, he realized that the queen was not worthy of respect.
The Empress Dowager said that her temperament changed because of her brother's death.
It's not her fault.
But there were so many such things that the emperor couldn't convince himself.
He realized that the Queen and the Cui family were the same, and he didn't need to treat her as his brother's sister-in-law.
The emperor took Xu Lingyi's hand and said, "You don't have to bother with the queen."
Thinking of his previous promise to her, and worried that Xu Lingyi would overthink it, the emperor began to explain, "In a month at most, I will deal with the Cui family, she will no longer be the queen, and I will marry you."
Xu Lingyi raised her eyes slightly and shook her head to refuse.
"I didn't know you were the emperor before, and I boasted that I wanted to be your wife. But now... I know you are the emperor. I know my humble status, how can I sit on the position of queen..." She declined.
But the emperor held her hand and said: "In my heart, only you can be the queen, no one else is worthy."
"Besides, who dares to say that you are of low status? I am the Son of Heaven, and I can honor whomever I want."
The emperor held her hand tightly and said, "Don't worry, Yi'er just needs to wait to marry me."
The emperor looked at Liu Dehai and said, "Tell the queen to kneel outside the palace and wait."
When the queen heard the news, her face turned pale and her hands clenched.
No matter what happened in the past, the emperor never embarrassed her in public because of the former crown prince, and she also had all the dignity that a queen should have.
But now he didn't say whether he would see her or not, he just asked her to kneel down...
"Your Majesty, are you venting your anger for that woman just now?" The Queen sneered.
Seeing that Liu Dehai didn't say anything, she understood.
It seems that the emperor has a beloved woman.
The queen's face darkened.
She knelt outside the palace for almost half an hour, but the emperor still refused to see her.
"Go and invite the Queen Mother and the Grand Empress Dowager..."
The queen instructed the maidservants around her.
The emperor noticed her movements and said, "Tell her to go back and not to alarm the Empress Dowager."
The Empress Dowager was originally to be sent to a separate courtyard, but she was unwilling to leave the palace. As the New Year was approaching, the Grand Empress Dowager also pleaded for mercy.
The emperor agreed and sent her out of the palace after the New Year.
"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager invites you to come over..."
Not long after the queen left, Liu Dehai came to deliver a message.
"Royal Grandmother."
The Empress Dowager twirled her Buddhist beads and asked, "Why don't you bring your beloved woman here?"
The Grand Empress Dowager smiled and said, "Don't you think I came to you to support the Queen?"
The emperor was silent, he really thought so.
"I will not interfere in the affairs between the Queen and you. You can do whatever you want with it."
The emperor is the Son of Heaven, and even if she intervenes, she cannot change the emperor's mind.
"I just want to see the woman you brought back. I heard you spent a month searching for her. Now that you've finally brought her back to the palace, shouldn't you ask the Empress Dowager to see her?"
The emperor raised his lips and said, "Okay."
"Grandmother, may I bring her to have dinner with you?"
The Empress Dowager nodded: "Yes."
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"The Empress Dowager is old and has become more compassionate. Don't be afraid. She will never embarrass you. We will just have a meal together, and I will join you."
Xu Lingyi lowered her eyes and said, "Okay."
"Doctor Wu and Aning are here. Do you want to meet them?" The emperor held her hand.
Xu Lingyi's eyes lit up, and she smiled for the first time in recent days.
"good."
"I have fulfilled my promise, shouldn't Yi'er do something too?"
Xu Lingyi lowered her head: "Your Majesty, what do you want?"
"I want you to stay by my side and be my woman, with only me in your heart."
Xu Lingyi lowered her eyes, "Can I still leave the palace?"
"Of course not."
"Then why do you even bother asking?" Xu Lingyi raised her eyes and looked at her: "If you weren't the emperor, I wouldn't have left a month ago. I would have..."
She had promised to marry him.
"What is it?" The emperor held her shoulders tightly, his eyes full of expectation.
Xu Lingyi shook her head and said nothing.
The emperor grasped her slender waist with his big hands, "Yier, you really won't tell me? If you don't tell me, I won't be able to rest tonight."
His tone was ambiguous, and Xu Lingyi shrank her neck and hid back. "Yier, should we talk now or tonight?"
The emperor was confident that he could always get her to speak.
"I...speak." Xu Lingyi's neck was full of his hot breath.
"I...I was willing to marry you. I agreed when we were in the courtyard."
If it weren't for this identity, she wouldn't have to hide.
She was in danger that day, and she still remembered that it was he who saved her.
The emperor was satisfied. He leaned over and kissed her lips, his eyes full of tenderness, "Yier..."
He knew that she was not indifferent to him.
If I hadn't meant it, I wouldn't have agreed to him that day.
"Although there are many rules in the palace, I will not let you be restricted. You don't have to be afraid."
The emperor promised.
The resentment that had accumulated over the past month gradually dissipated after I found her.
Those harsh words I said to her alone at night, I am now reluctant to use them on her.
He just wanted to live a peaceful life with her.
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"How did you come back... Shouldn't you be in Changshan right now?"
Seeing Cui Yu, who looked exhausted, the Cui family was a little puzzled.
She was the Princess of Changshan and could not enter the capital without a summons. Moreover, Changshan was 18,000 miles away from the capital, and it would take almost two months just to get there by road.
This means that she came back shortly after getting married.
During the time she was on the road, she didn't even write a letter home.
"Li Jinan is crazy, he wants to kill me..."
Cui Yu's face looked extremely ugly. Thinking of Li Jinan, her body was shaking. If it weren't for the people brought by the Cui family who protected her, she would have died by now.
"If I hadn't escaped, how could I have returned to the capital alive..."
Cui Yu could no longer hold back her tears. "My daughter has been worried sick lately. Li Jinan has been sending people to hunt me down. I didn't dare contact my family for fear of being discovered by his men..."
On the way, she was almost caught by Li Jinan. The arrow he shot passed by her and almost hit her.
"Why would he want to kill you? Your marriage was personally granted by the Queen Mother... Cui Yu, did you do something?"
The Cui family is arrogant and domineering in their bones, and everyone is also aware of Cui Yu's character.
If she had been obedient, Li Jinan would have been a good King of Changshan instead of taking the risk of killing her.
"I didn't do anything."
Cui Yu was stubborn and his expression turned ugly: "It's just that he set fire to and killed his ex-wife, but it's not my fault..."
"If he really must have that woman, why would he demote my wife to a concubine and even ask the Empress Dowager for an imperial decree to grant the marriage? With my status, it doesn't matter who I marry..."
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