After a cup of tea, someone outside Guanju Palace announced, "The Emperor has arrived!"
Xuan Ling walked into the palace. The courtyard was filled with a sense of desolation. In just a few days, there was no life here.
Sheng Xiyan was wearing a water lotus-colored silk dress with a silver edge and a jeweled gauze belt around her waist, which made her waist look so thin that it was only as wide as his palm.
Xuan Ling frowned slightly and walked in front of her.
"Your Majesty, I respectfully welcome you. Long live the Emperor."
He walked up the stairs and pinched her chin without saying anything.
This face used to be round, but in just a few days, it became so thin that it looked like it had been cut off from the bones.
I was thinking about my ex-husband and was so worried about him! It's great!
Xuan Ling curled her thin lips slightly, but without loosening her hand, she used the tip of her thumb to press and rub the corner of her lips hard, squeezing them until they were deformed, and then rubbed them across her lips.
It was a kind of suppression, but it also expressed that he missed her and her soft lips.
Sheng Xiyan lowered her eyelashes and didn't look at him, with a faint sense of death, letting herself be wasted.
The jade ring slid from the chin to the snow-white neck. The palm was pink and smooth, and the scent of tuberose emanated faintly.
Finally, he placed it on the back of her head and suddenly pressed her against his chest.
Sheng Xiyan put her face close to the emperor's and heard the emperor's heartbeat echoing in his chest, like a war drum urging him to march.
The agarwood on his body, mixed with masculine scent, gradually calmed her heart.
There was complete silence all around.
Seven or eight palace maids from the imperial kitchen stood in the courtyard, hunched over with food boxes in their hands, like wooden sculptures.
Hua Xia and the others stood with their heads down on both sides of the steps at the palace gate, not daring to make a sound.
"I'm here to tell you a piece of good news. Sheng Jingheng has achieved first place in the provincial examination. I hope he will also achieve good results in the palace examination."
Sheng Xiyan was relieved that her elder brother could finally realize his great ambitions.
After a long time, Xuan Ling let go of her head and hugged her over the threshold.
The palace maids hurried into the hall, took out the imperial meal from the red lacquer food box and placed it on the table.
There was not enough space on the rosewood round table, so Hua Xia and the others moved another table and put them together.
Xuan Ling saw that the side dishes on the soft couch and low kang table were not good, and the precious flowers on the shelf were gone.
It was expected that the incident at the banquet a few days ago made the palace think that Sheng Xiyan had fallen out of favor, and her food, clothing and other expenses were all withheld.
Everyone in the palace, including the Imperial Household Department, the Imperial Court, and the Imperial Kitchen, has always acted according to the emperor's favor.
Xuan Ling glared at Sheng Xiyan, pulled her ear and asked:
"Where has your former energy gone? If I hadn't come, would you have been bullied to death?
If you had been in this half-dead state when you first entered the palace, I wouldn't have bothered to care.
You have tried your best to seduce me, and now you want to give up. There is no way.
Cheer up, or all the palace servants in the palace will be beaten with twenty sticks."
I'm not doing my best, why do you hit others? It's unreasonable.
Sheng Xiyan said obediently: "I understand."
Xuan Ling's expression softened a bit, "Bring it up."
Eunuch Fu brought a carved square wooden box with both hands, and Xuan Ling opened the lid.
"My dear, look what I have given you."
Sheng Xiyan stretched her neck to see, it was a gold and pearl inlaid hair crown?
Only when Xuan Ling took it out did she see how exquisite the hair crown was, with gold threads wrapped around it and every pearl round and translucent.
There's a gold moth on top?
It is smaller than the crown and only as big as Xuan Ling's palm.
"This is the tiara for the princess, it's a little small for me."
Eunuch Fu smiled respectfully and said:
"Your Majesty, this is indeed a princess's crown, but it was designed and improved by the Emperor himself.
It is a hair crown, not a head crown, so it is smaller. It is pinned in the middle of the bun behind the forehead. There are a hundred pearls inlaid on the gold wire.
It was even given a name, "The Moth Flies into the Flower Crown," right, Your Majesty?"
Sheng Xiyan reached out and touched the flower crown, unable to let it go.
"Do you like it?"
"like."
Xuan Ling looked at her, his narrow and long eyes filled with endless affection.
"Come, I'll put it on the little princess."
Pick up the flower crown and pin it in the middle of her bun above her forehead.
Hua Xia held a bronze mirror in her hand. Sheng Xiyan saw that she was wearing a flower crown on her head, and she looked like a little princess.
The golden moth on the crown is extremely agile, fluttering its wings.
Xuan Ling grabbed the moth with his large hand and said coldly, "Yan Yan, you must know how miserable it is for a moth to fly into a flame, right?"
What he meant was: You are now like this moth, but you can never escape from my palm.
Sheng Xiyan nodded slightly, stood up and took the jade to serve him the meal.
"Sit down and eat together. You and I will be together. When have I ever asked you to serve me a meal?"
We ate together and were forced to eat two bowls of rice and two bowls of soup.
Turning to the soft couch, Xuan Ling leaned lazily, gazing at her with deep eyes.
Sheng Xiyan poured a cup of tea and presented it.
Xuan Ling drank half a sip and put it aside with disgust.
"My dear, can't you even drink good tea now?"
In the past, it was all Lu'an tea, but now the Imperial Household Department sends aged tea.
She said nothing, just like a well-behaved and precious clouded cat, curled up beside him.
"I feel a little hot, take off your clothes for me."
Sheng Xiyan stepped forward to help Jie Gun with his clothes, and heard him jokingly say, "Use this."
He touched her red lips.
Her almond-shaped eyes glared at him angrily, but under the imperial power, she had no choice but to submit - unbutton her clothes with her mouth.
You damn girl, can't I deal with you?
Sheng Xiyan pretended to be obedient while secretly unbuttoning her robe with her hands.
He touched her shoulder, "My dear, what should we do next?"
The clothes are off, obviously?
"Sleeping with me." Sheng Xiyan's voice was light.
Xuan Ling stood up and led her into the inner hall.
There were ten brocade boxes placed next to the gourd vine on the bedside niche, each containing a night-shining pearl the size of an egg.
It is full of light and shines brightly.
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