When they heard the woman's crying, everyone watching the fireworks looked at Sheng Xiyan.
Concubine Jia sneered, "Ugly people are often mischievous! What a foxy woman!"
Concubine Liang watched the show with great interest and asked, "Concubine Chen, what's wrong with you? Why are you so sad?"
Empress Duan asked with a smile, "Sister Chen Fei, you were fine, what happened?"
Sheng Xiyan saw Xuan Ling glance at her through the thin silk handkerchief, then turned back and continued to hold Queen Duan's hand.
His eyes were cold and disdainful. It seemed that there was no point in pretending to be sad and pitiful.
When a man changes his mind, no matter what you do, he will not show you any mercy.
Don't fight for bread, fight for face.
Sheng Xiyan cried and said, "When I saw the shape of the fireworks just now, I thought of the goldfish I raised and it died, so I felt a little sad."
Concubine Shu sneered, "It's the Empress's birthday, and Concubine Chen said it's unlucky for her to die!"
Empress Duan looked at Emperor Xuanwu and said magnanimously, "Concubine Chen is a person of deep affection. This palace will not blame you."
Sheng Xiyan bowed: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I will take my leave first. I will go back and bury the dead goldfish so that it can rest in peace."
"Sister Chen Fei, be careful on the road."
With the love of her husband, Empress Duan became more tolerant and virtuous.
As soon as Sheng Xiyan came out, two people followed behind her.
"Sister Sheng, we don't want to watch anymore. Let's go together."
Gao Guirong and Lin Jieyu each held her arm, and the three of them walked under the moonlight.
"These crappy fireworks are not good at all. We don't want to watch them anymore."
Sheng Xiyan touched their hands and tried hard to hold back the tears in her eyes.
"Luckily, I have two sisters to accompany me. Come to my place for a drink."
Gao Guirong said, "Great! I really miss the seven or eight kinds of fruit wine you have there!"
Lin Jieyu smiled and said, "I miss the side dishes that Meixiang made!"
On the viewing platform beside Yu Lake.
Fireworks bloomed in the sky, and Xuan Ling let go of Queen Duan's hand.
His face returned to its stern and solemn state, without a trace of emotion.
What an ugly fireworks display! This bastard, the Minister of Rites, squandered my money to flatter the Empress. Does he think I'm being taken advantage of? Just wait and see how I deal with him!
Empress Duan noticed the emperor's change and felt sad that he was using her as a trick for another woman.
But she was also happy that the emperor and his favorite concubine had become estranged.
Fireworks are beautiful but fleeting.
The concubines bowed and said, "Your servants (concubines) take their leave."
The moon hanging on the black screen is half round.
Xuan Ling stood with his hands behind his back. For so many years, he had been the only one watching the moon.
On the day of conferring the title of Consort Chen, he told Sheng Xiyan:
Since I have shown favoritism to one person, I am willing to be generous to him/her for the rest of my life.
He is willing to use his whole life to protect her.
I hope that for the rest of our lives, we will be happy to know each other and accompany each other through thick and thin.
What he wants is a soul mate, a mutual confidant, and mutual comfort.
Because he has each other, he is no longer alone, and he no longer looks at the moon alone.
I thought Sheng Xiyan was the one, so I devoted all my efforts to nurturing her.
Sheng Xiyan, are you heartbroken tonight?
This is just the beginning. I will tear your heart apart and let it grow again.
The love he gave her was too full from the beginning, and she didn't know how to cherish him.
Queen Duan tied a cloak on Xuan Ling.
"Your Majesty, I have been with you all the way and I know the hardships involved.
People say that the palace is as deep as the sea, but I don’t feel depressed at all.
It is the husband's duty to pursue and acquire things, and the wife's duty to take care of the household chores and manage the inner quarters. It is also because I love the emperor.
You are the most powerful person in the world, but I know that you have never been tired of state affairs and have always been dedicated to them.
I am a dull concubine, and I am not as good at pleasing you as the Concubine Chen, but I understand Your Majesty from the bottom of my heart and will never disobey you or hurt you."
Xuan Ling looked at her intently. When it came to being a queen, she had indeed always been qualified.
Very docile as well.
When the Duan family acted out of line, he suppressed them without mercy in the court, and she never complained.
Now these words highlight his selfless heart.
But why couldn't he be moved? Every word she said sounded like a subordinate expressing his loyalty.
What made him even more suspicious was, is this really the case behind virtue?
Empress Duan leaned on his shoulder, still recounting the process of regaining power in those years.
Xuan Ling's mind flashed with the image of Sheng Xiyan frowning, acting arrogantly, and whimpering.
Although not obedient, it is lively.
The more I glanced down at the woman over her shoulder, the stranger she seemed.
"Empress, I still have a few memorials to read, so I'll go back first."
Empress Duan took his arm and begged, "Your Majesty, I will accompany you."
He pulled her hand away, but she held on tightly.
He patted her twice symbolically to appease her.
"I don't like to be disturbed when I'm handling government affairs, and the Queen should go back to rest early."
He strode away from the observation deck.
Empress Duan was thinking on the spot whether her words just now had moved Emperor Xuanwu.
Qingdai tied a cloak around her and said, "My lady, it's windy, let's go back."
Queen Duan said as she walked:
"I will definitely make the emperor change his mind. One day, the emperor will know that I am the only one who is most loyal and loves him the most."
"Yes, now that Concubine Chen has fallen out of favor, the Emperor will definitely come to Jingren Palace more often."
In Guanju Palace, on the plum blossom couch, three women said they were slightly tipsy, but they were actually drunk.
"Men are the most unreliable, sisters are the most reliable."
Sheng Xiyan hugged one of them at a time, with dimples on her cheeks and the corners of her pretty mouth curved into a beautiful arc.
Gao Guirong drank another cup of chrysanthemum wine.
"Sister Sheng, you've been accompanying the Emperor, and we haven't seen you since. Now we can get together more often."
Lin Jieyu was drunk and fell to the side, mumbling: "The palace is lonely, only good sisters are by my side..."
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