"What are you doing?"
Cui Yu looked terrified. She struggled non-stop, "Why are you arresting me? I'm the Queen's cousin and the Princess of Changshan! No!"
Liu Dehai brought a group of guards and tried to arrest her right away.
Cui Yu's heart was shocked, and this scene made her scared.
Does Your Majesty really want to hand her over to you?
Even though the queen didn't want to care about her cousin, she still stood up at this moment.
"Eunuch Liu, where are you taking her? What crime has she committed?"
Cui Yu represents the Cui family, and the emperor is also slapping the Cui family in the face by doing this.
"Empress, these are His Majesty's orders. Please forgive me."
After Liu Dehai finished speaking, he turned to the guards and said, "Take him away!"
"I don't want it! I don't want it!"
Cui Yu was scared, but she had no power to resist, "Cousin, save me!"
If she fell into Li Jinan's hands, she would probably be living a life worse than death. She knew too well how much Li Jinan wanted to kill her.
Cui Yu was taken to a dungeon. She never knew there was such a place in the palace.
Is Li Jinan here?
Instead, she saw the emperor in the dungeon.
"His Majesty?"
"Your Majesty, I am innocent. I did not set the fire. Please do not believe the one-sided words of the King of Changshan..."
Before Cui Yu could finish his words, he met the emperor's sinister eyes.
A sneer appeared on his thin lips, and his eyes were like a cold blade, which frightened Cui Yu so much that his whole body was shaking.
Even if Cui Yu was stupid and slow at this moment, she realized that the emperor had murderous intentions towards her.
But she didn't know why?
Even if Li Jinan is His Majesty's biological brother, it is impossible for him to hate her to this extent?
"I heard that you like to set fires?" The emperor's eyes were full of grimness and his voice was frighteningly cold.
Cui Yu shuddered and kept backing away. She curled up her body and refuted subconsciously.
"No, no, no, I don't like it, Your Majesty... It was the Dowager Consort's idea. She doesn't like her daughter-in-law and despises her infertility. It was the Dowager Consort who ordered me to do it. Your Majesty, it really wasn't your servant's doing."
The emperor ignored her excuses and said, "I will punish both you and the Concubine Dowager. Neither of you will escape. I will not let you die easily. I will make you pay back tenfold or a hundredfold for the evil you have done."
The emperor's cold eyes glanced at her, making Cui Yu extremely scared. She wanted to scream loudly, but she didn't dare.
"Punishment!"
He would not kill Cui Yu immediately, but he would make her live a life worse than death and let her taste the burning of fire.
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The moment he walked out of the dungeon, the emperor looked at the dark night and the depression in his heart subsided a little.
He took a special shower and changed his clothes to make sure there was no smell of blood on his body before returning to the bedroom.
"His Majesty?"
Xu Lingyi opened her eyes hazily, and a big hand stroked her head.
"Did I wake you?" The emperor lowered his voice and spoke gently.
Xu Lingyi shook her head, "No, Your Majesty hasn't returned, and I haven't fallen asleep either."
When she opened her eyes, she found that something was wrong with His Majesty today. The way he looked at her seemed to be filled with more pity than before.
"Why is Your Majesty looking at me like that?" Xu Lingyi was puzzled. She turned her head to face him.
The emperor did not speak, he originally wanted to tell her that he knew everything.
But I'm afraid of reminding her of those sad things.
She must have had a hard time during the three years in Changshan Palace.
She once said that she was disliked by her husband's family, but she never mentioned that her mother-in-law disliked her to the point of wanting her to die.
It is conceivable that she had endured a lot of torture from the Concubine Dowager during the past few years in the Changshan Palace.
She also said that she was divorced, but she did not mention that she had suffered the humiliation of being demoted to a concubine.
The more the emperor liked her, the more he felt sorry for her and he didn't dare to mention a word about her.
"Nothing." The emperor reached out and stroked her fair face. "I just thought that your pregnancy was difficult, but I couldn't help you share the burden."
"Your Majesty has been very good to me." Xu Lingyi said softly.
She sat up and looked at the emperor seriously.
The emperor held her face and their foreheads touched.
"I haven't done well enough, Yi'er. I haven't asked you to sit on the throne of queen and become my legal wife."
The emperor's tone was full of apology.
After spending so much time together, he already knew her personality.
She must have been unwilling to be a concubine. She used to be the Princess of Changshan, but later became a concubine.
Now that she met him, he still couldn't give her the position of his wife.
"Your Majesty has his own reasons."
Xu Lingyi leaned in his arms and slowed down her voice.
"Ordinary people have many things to worry about, let alone you, the Son of Heaven? The position of Empress involves many things, and I understand. You don't have to be like this. Your Majesty has not wronged me. On the contrary, you have been very good to me."
She was so considerate, but the emperor felt even more sorry for her.
She is always so considerate, thinking about others and never thinking about herself.
She had suffered such a tragic experience in the Changshan Palace, but when she mentioned it in the past, she described it as calm and without much resentment.
"Yier, why didn't I meet you earlier? If I had met you earlier, I..."
If he had met her earlier, he would have wanted to protect her and save her from suffering.
Xu Lingyi smiled lightly and spoke softly, "In the past, I was too far away from Your Majesty, and Your Majesty couldn't touch me."
The emperor hugged her tightly and said, "Yes, I am too far away from you."
She was obviously the Princess of Changshan, but he had never seen her once.
"But I feel that if I were to meet you, even just once, my heart would be moved and I would do everything I could to make you my woman."
What he didn't say was that he had already secretly been attracted to her the first time he saw her in that house.
After living for so many years, he felt like a young boy at that moment.
Xu Lingyi shook her head gently, "You won't."
She used to be his sister-in-law and the princess of Li Jinan. With this identity as a constraint, even the emperor could not act recklessly.
Xu Lingyi bit her lip unconsciously. She hesitated for a moment, then spoke:
"Your Majesty... do you want to know who my former husband was?"
"Actually, I was planning to tell His Majesty last time..."
The emperor shook his head, and he stroked her lips with his big hand. "Yier, if you want to say something, then say it. If you don't want to say anything, then don't say it. No matter who you were before, or who your husband was, I don't care. I just need to know that you are my woman now, and will soon be my wife."
These words made Xu Lingyi's eyes red.
Behind the narrow bed curtain, the two looked at each other. When the emperor saw her red eyes, his heart was even more touched, and he wished he could treat her even better in the future.
"Your Majesty." Xu Lingyi raised her head slightly, her voice trembling slightly, but she still mustered up the courage to speak: "My former husband was the Prince of Changshan."
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First update. Sorry guys, I’m still writing. I got stuck on typing today. I’ve been stuck for several hours and just can’t write anything.
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