Empty White
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the sage issued an edict of repentance.
Your Majesty, promote him to a higher position and posthumously confer him a higher title, and bury Zheng Zihuan with great ceremony and splendor.
Because of Yang Leren, I had a falling out with the Yan family and it was impossible to turn things around.
For Prime Minister Yang, the sage lost all the reputation he had accumulated bit by bit, and he made everyone in the court and the country feel disheartened.
I acted recklessly and was abandoned by everyone.
The sage acted recklessly, and the government and the people were outraged.
How can spilled water be collected? How can a broken mirror be mended?
The emperor has ignored the Li family and the world. Now he has to pick everything up again, which is extremely difficult.
Because of Yang Langjun, the Saint's heart meridians were damaged, and his Qi and blood were depleted. From that year and that time, his dragon body, like his world, was gone, and there was no way to save him...
However, after that, the king never mentioned the three words Yang Yanji again, inside or outside the palace, and there were no more male favorites in Taiji Palace.
The emperor is heartless, a heartless emperor. This is the real emperor. This is the king in my memory.
That summer night, God wanted to keep me alive, so I didn't die.
The Saint and I deserved to die, but neither of us died.
I pondered over what happened next and recalled that bloody night. It would have been cleaner if I had died with him on that full moon night.
Living a few more years also cost a few more innocent lives...
After the Dragon Boat Festival, I returned home to recuperate.
One month, two months, the neck that was almost cut off by a sword ate flesh and blood and grew again.
The saint lived in Taiqing Palace in Daningfang. He recuperated in his royal Taoist temple and confessed his sins with the ancestors of the Li family.
On the Chinese Valentine's Day that year, the emperor granted amnesty and the lights in Chang'an were as bright as stars.
There was no curfew that night, just like the Lantern Festival.
I went out with the two princesses Huayang and Anyang to pray for good luck in making mistakes. As we were leaving Xingningfang, we ran into Princess Heng on the main street.
The princess brought the palace soldiers and went to Pingkangfang to take someone away. She wanted to take away Prince Li Jiaheng.
Every night before curfew, Li Balang sneaked into Pingkangfang, and then kept the lights on, seeking pleasure every night and staying awake all night.
Every morning, when the drums sounded, he would escape back to Wang's house in Yongfufang, feeling sleepy.
It's like this every night, every day, and every month.
On the night of Qiqiao Festival, Prince Heng abandoned his princess and went to Pingkangfang to drink and have fun.
There was no curfew that night and the lights in Chang'an were on all night. The princess chased after him in anger.
The couple was arguing, and Princess Huayang wanted to watch the fun, so Anyang and I went along.
That year’s Chinese Valentine’s Day night was the first time I set foot in Pingkangfang.
"Li Junyu!"
Princess Heng called out the name of Prince Heng.
Li Wanwan stopped Li Junyu.
The strings of silk and bamboo broke, and the wine cups fell to the ground.
"Yuwen Wuyou!"
Prince Heng called out the name of Princess Heng.
The wine splashed and the laughter died down.
Li Mimi hugged Yuwen Wuyou.
The music stopped after three songs.
Southern music, Chinese music, northern music, prostitutes and dancers, everyone came out to pay their respects.
On the night of Qixi Festival, when everyone is in a romantic place, there will be a big chaos because of the quarrel between Prince Heng and his wife.
But I don't agree.
Lady Yuwen cried incessantly, "Your Majesty, why did you not bring me with you when you came here to have fun?"
Princess Heng cried and questioned him, and Prince Heng angrily said, "Every time I invite you, you either say you're afraid of the darkness or that digging a hole in the ground will dirty your dress. It's clearly you who refuse. Why are you blaming me for mobilizing so many people tonight? Do you still need me to ask you again and again?"
"I...I want the king to ask three times and four times. Not only do you have to ask three times and four times, you have to ask five times and six times!"
"The princess is so rude and domineering!" Prince Heng said angrily with his hands behind his back.
"I am rude and overbearing!"
When Prince Heng said this, Princess Heng's tears shed even more.
"My family is in Luoyang, and I'm in Chang'an, with no relatives. Your sisters, the princesses of the Li family, are all in pairs, and they always forget me when they go out for fun... The Queen Mother only knows those two handsome and beautiful ones. Mother doesn't like me, but only the sisters of the He family, Prince Yu, Prince Ying, Prince Wei, Prince Yue, Prince Shu, and the princesses of the various prefectures... The sisters of each family think I talk too much and have no manners. My sisters-in-law never confide in me, nor do they take me out to play... The two saints in and out of the palace are one sick and the other injured, and I "Counting the days, there's been nothing to see in Taiji Palace in Chang'an for two whole months. I'm so bored. My only relative in Jingzhao is the King. If you can spend every night enjoying the pleasures of women, why don't you bring some of your concubines back to your residence so I can spend the night with them? If I could keep a lover, I wouldn't be expecting you to keep urging me to come to Pingkangfang. This is my only hope, and yet you refuse? It would be better for me to submit a petition to the Empress Dowager tonight, and have her let me return to Luoyang tomorrow. It's better than living in boredom and widowhood every night..."
The king loves to drink and have fun, and the princess also loves to drink and have fun. The king has fun every night without the princess. The princess thinks to herself that she cannot say it openly. She has endured it for several months and can't endure it anymore. On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, she vomits everything out.
Princess Heng sobbed and made a fuss for a while, and Prince Heng smiled and asked the palace soldiers to go back. He did not say anything about submitting a petition, but only asked the musicians and dancers of the three songs to come and comfort the princess.
After wiping her tears, the princess drank two glasses of wine in Pingkangfang. Her face turned red and she stopped making noise.
Princess Heng came in great excitement and stayed happily.
Huayang and Anyang stayed for a drink, and I stayed too.
Just as I turned around to sit down, the dancer from Pingkangfang bumped into me.
With that collision, I encountered my retribution, which was the real retribution for my indifference to the men from the north.
That night was the first time I saw a play.
She bumped into me and knelt on the ground crying. She didn't say a word while crying, but just knelt down to apologize.
On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, the two Shaoqings, Zong Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple and Hong Shaoqing of the Zongzheng Temple, vied with each other to redeem her freedom.
However, Zong Shaoqing's family rules are very strict and he may not tolerate her. Hong Shaoqing's wife is jealous and will definitely not tolerate her.
She had nowhere to escape and had no choice but to bump into me.
Just one glance, and at that moment, I roughly understood what the saint felt towards Yang Yanji.
Pingkangfang that night was just like Furong Garden that day. I was mesmerized by the play and will never forget it.
I seemed to see a familiar figure in the crowd, but only for a moment. I forgot to look closely and it disappeared in a flash.
After the Chinese Valentine's Day, Xier did not go to the Zong family or the Hong family. I redeemed her freedom and she followed me back to Xingningfang.
Xier is beautiful, intelligent, clever, graceful, and elegant, and she is very pitiful.
She is from Pingkangfang and is the most beautiful dancer in the whole Chang'an.
Among the dancers, Concubine Guo of the previous dynasty was the most beautiful, followed by Concubine Xue of the past, and Xi'er's appearance stood out among them.
Although she is a little thing, she is the best at pleasing me. She takes the trouble to please me, and I also put her at ease.
The first time she looked up, I liked her.
Now that I have the play, I feel happy and no longer worry about the cicadas' chirping.
Unfortunately, she only likes boys, not women. I neither tested her nor asked her, but I could see it.
Fortunately, I have power and influence, so it is not difficult to keep her by my side all the time.
The day before Mid-Autumn Festival, Xier changed the medicine for me.
Looking at the half jade disk on my body, she asked me, "Why are you wearing a broken piece of jade? Don't you want to damage the texture?"
I said this is not real broken jade, it was given by the previous emperor. I lost it a long time ago and then found it again. It is not good to throw it away, and no one dares to take it if I give it to others. So I have been wearing it for many years.
She said she had never seen anything so good.
I took off the jade disk and gave it to her. She held it in her hand and couldn't let it go. She said she liked it.
I like drama, and I can give her everything in the mansion, except for a piece of broken jade. If she likes it, I will give it to her.
I got that half jade disc and the jade flute that I often played with, and Xier also said he liked it.
I "stole" that jade flute from the saint. I like it more, so how could I bear to give it to others?
Xier is very nice to me, so I am naturally nice to her too.
It's just that she is a little too arrogant and takes advantage of her status.
Drama is just something that helps me to relieve my boredom.
When I like her, she has a miserable life; when I hate her, she comes from a humble background.
The emperor still has a trace of true love, but I don’t have any at all.
The current emperor has never suffered any hardship and has the leisure to talk about love. He is a passionate man, and I am far inferior to him.
Although I was born into a wealthy family, and was fortunate enough to be "trained" and "humiliated" by my mistress for many years, and have walked on ice for more than ten years, there is a trace of true love in my heart, but only a trace...
I am not a crane slave, nor am I a romantic.
Xier, I looked at her. Although she was a living person, she was actually far inferior to the dead thing in my hand.
I am clearly an illegitimate bastard, but I am the most presumptuous and have a heartless and ungrateful emperor.
In the north of Chang'an, if there is anyone who is heartless and cold-hearted, I am actually the only one.
I put away the jade flute and at the same time stopped being intimate, and Xier dared not make a sound anymore.
Seeing her pitiful and cautious appearance, I felt distressed. "You said you have never seen a saint. Tomorrow is His Majesty's birthday. I will take you to the Taiji Palace, okay?"
As soon as I said that, Xier looked up and said okay with a smile.
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