Xia Yixin didn't want to confront him directly, so she politely bowed. At that moment, she was quite grateful to the original owner's father for having the nannies teach her manners.
Qi Yu's expression softened slightly as he watched her stand up, but her next words turned his chill into murderous intent.
"Your Majesty, since things have come to this, I must say something to you. Regardless of what rumors you have heard, today's wedding is not from my heart." Xia Yixin felt that there was no need for the cannon fodder to make things difficult for the cannon fodder. She would not be as shameless as the original owner.
Qi Yu was initially incredulous, but then filled with overwhelming rage and murderous intent.
Xia Yixin ignored him and continued with the excuse she had already prepared: "To tell Your Majesty the truth, my condition is not solely due to my own actions, but rather because I have been poisoned. If Your Majesty does not believe me, you can have the imperial physician examine me. By the time I realized it, I was already deeply poisoned. If I had not proposed to marry Your Majesty as Empress, I fear I would not have survived."
The murderous intent in Qi Yu's eyes finally subsided somewhat. He sat on the bed and said coldly, "I will naturally have the imperial physician examine you. If what you say is false, then I..."
“Even Your Majesty can’t do anything about me,” Xia Yixin interrupted him in one breath.
"You!" Qi Yu slammed his hand on the table and stood up, not expecting her to look at him with pity. He was even more furious and embarrassed. "Xia Yixin, don't think I wouldn't dare to kill you!"
Xia Yixin really didn't want to beat around the bush with a fifteen-year-old boy. She calmly walked to the table, picked up her chopsticks, and said, "Your Majesty certainly dares to kill me, but Your Majesty probably can't just give the order. Now, my father controls the Imperial Guards inside and outside the palace, and there are also the Northern Martial Iron Cavalry outside the capital. The ministers in the court are either dead or sick. Your Majesty has no real power and can't touch me."
Qi Yu initially wanted to grab his sword and kill her immediately because of her words, but gradually he calmed down because she was right and he understood her underlying meaning.
"So what does the Empress mean?"
"Your Majesty and I are now husband and wife. I do not expect Your Majesty to believe me, but we can cooperate and each get what we need."
Upon hearing this, Qi Yu gave a self-deprecating laugh, "What can a powerless emperor like me give you?"
His gaze was open yet incredibly distant.
"Does Your Majesty dare to gamble?"
After Xia Yixin finished asking the question, she saw him pondering and knew that she wouldn't get an answer anytime soon, so she simply said, "Your Majesty can take your time to consider it."
It was late at night.
Xia Yixin was feeling hungry. She scratched her face a little embarrassedly and said, "Your Majesty, would you mind if I ate a few bites first? I haven't eaten all day."
Qi Yu was thinking about what she had just said, so she didn't react to her sudden question and nodded subconsciously.
Xia Yixin breathed a sigh of relief, inwardly cursing the evils of feudal society, where she had to ask permission even to eat a meal.
But there was nothing she could do when she was starving. In those days, people were still eating coarse food and vegetables, so meat was a delicacy. The whole table was full of chicken, duck and pork. She couldn't even find any green vegetables, so she could only pick out the low-calorie chicken breast, which was as good as wood chips.
On the other side, Qi Yu watched her eat her meal with delicate grace, and he suddenly felt his stomach growling. Earlier at the banquet, he had been depressed and had only been drinking heavily, barely eating anything.
He swallowed hard, but stubbornly refused to sit with her. He then noticed two glasses of wine on the low table, the kind of wine the two of them were supposed to drink together. Feeling thirsty, he drank it down in one gulp, but soon after, he realized something was wrong.
Xia Yixin was half full and didn't pay attention to him until she realized something was wrong when she noticed that the man hadn't reacted for a long time.
He sat upright on the couch, his eyes slightly red, his forehead covered in cold sweat, and his breathing rapid. Xia Yixin noticed the two empty cups on the low table and immediately felt a sense of foreboding.
Because Qi Yu resisted, there might be something in the nuptial wine tonight.
At this moment, Qi Yu felt very hot, dizzy, and had a dry mouth. He also realized that there was something in the wine.
Qi Yu was feeling incredibly depressed when he suddenly sensed someone approaching. He instinctively waved his hand, but then collapsed from exhaustion. The other person helped him up, but he stumbled back as if he had been stabbed.
"Don't touch me!"
"Your Majesty, I only wanted to help." Xia Yixin raised her hands to indicate her innocence. "It wasn't me who made Your Majesty drink. Your Majesty drinks recklessly and then blames others. Can't Your Majesty manage on his own? Should I find a maid for myself?"
Qi Yu blushed furiously. "Xia Yixin, are you crazy?!"
On her wedding night, she actually wanted to bring a maid to him...
"Absurd!" Qi Yu refused.
"What about His Majesty? He can't just tough it out." Xia Yixin suddenly remembered the hot spring pool in the back and suggested, "Why doesn't His Majesty go to the hot spring pool in the back and take care of himself?"
Qi Yu wasn't some clueless young man. Although he had never been intimate with a woman, he still understood the basics. After hesitating for a moment, he walked towards the hot spring pool behind him, regretting his impulsiveness.
Tonight, Xia Jingfeng was afraid that Qi Yu would treat his daughter badly, so he drugged her once. The Empress Dowager and Cao De were also afraid that Qi Yu would act impulsively, so they drugged her again.
So, after eating the double portion, and being young, Qi Yu spent half the night in the hot spring before waking up. Thinking that the noise he made earlier must have been heard, Qi Yu was not only unsteady on his feet after getting out of the water, but also blushed deeply.
This time I am truly ashamed and indignant.
He changed into the new clothes that had been prepared beforehand, disdainfully not wearing the red wedding robe he wore outside. After hesitating for a moment, he walked around the screen and into the hall.
He held his breath and looked at the canopy bed with dragon and phoenix decorations in the back hall, but there was no one on it. Instead, a person was lying on the couch next to the bed.
She was so small that she could barely lie down, and was clearly fast asleep.
Qi Yu naturally couldn't squeeze in with her, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. However, he ignored the fleeting emotion in his heart. He got into bed and then discovered the problem—there was no pillow.
He immediately glanced at the ground and, sure enough, saw fragments of the jade pillow; he had smashed the pillow earlier.
But there should be another one on the bed... Hehe, without even thinking, Qi Yu guessed where it was.
He looked at the figure on the couch, lost in thought.
This woman's personality is indeed quite different from the rumors. Although she is equally unrestrained and even disregards etiquette, she is not as foolish. In fact, Qi Yu does not completely trust Xia Yixin, but one thing she said before is correct: he does not have real power now. Even if he wanted to kill her, he could not. In fact, it might be him or his mother who would die.
Thinking of this, a flash of murderous intent crossed his obsidian-like eyes.
He lay down fully clothed and placed the dagger he usually carried with him beside him.
As dawn approached, Qi Yu, who was half asleep, was suddenly woken up by someone pushing him. He jolted awake and instinctively reached for his dagger, only to find it was gone.
He tried to get up, but a chubby hand covered his mouth, and a woman's pleasant, light voice rang in his ears.
Shh! Be quiet, someone's coming.
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