Chapter 43: Secret
Drunkenness on one side causes trouble, and hangovers on the other side are also uncomfortable.
Jiang Ran slept until noon before waking up. He felt as if he had been beaten. His whole body ached and he felt nauseous. He wanted to vomit but couldn't.
"Taoli, did you plot against me yesterday? Tell the truth."
Jiang Ran looked pale and weak, and even his voice lacked the energy to denounce others.
Tao Li brought a bowl of hangover soup and said fearfully, sticking out her tongue: "Oh, my lady, who dares to bully you! How strong are you when you are drunk? Do you need a reminder from me?"
Jiang Ran recalled some fragments intermittently. She and Lu Weiqing went to play in the farm. He said that rice wine was not intoxicating, but after a few glasses, she became drowsy.
She vaguely remembered biting someone. Could it be Lu Weiqing?
She shuddered, feeling that this assumption was too horrible. Since she was standing here in one piece, it must not have happened.
"Fortunately, Lord Lu stayed for a while after sending you back yesterday. Otherwise, when the young lady wanted to dance with a sword, the young master would not be able to stop her alone." Tao Li still felt a lingering fear when she recalled the scene.
Jiang Ran drank the hangover soup in one gulp, covered his face and fell back onto the bed.
Shameful.
This is so embarrassing.
After changing her mind, she sat up with a somersault.
"Taoli, I shouldn't have said anything nonsense, right?"
Taoli counted on her fingers and recalled, "No, the lady didn't say anything strange."
"That's good."
"Just three sentences, repeated over and over again."
Jiang Ran had a bad feeling and asked tremblingly, "Which three sentences?"
"I am the Demon Cult leader Jiang, the most beautiful girl in the world, Ran."
"Bold traitor."
"Give me your life!"
ah! ?
Isn’t that strange?
Jiang Ran fell to the ground in response. Why did she ask Tao Li what happened? Ahhhhhhh——
I am so ashamed now.
Seeing that the young lady looked disheartened, Taoli racked her brains to find some good news to cheer her up.
"The wife of the Minister of Works was very pleased with the farm and bought it for two hundred gold coins. What a generous act!"
Seeing that she didn't respond, Taoli thought for a while.
"Miss, Lord Lu has asked His Majesty to officiate the wedding. The Emperor and Empress have a very harmonious relationship. You and Lord Lu will surely grow old together."
Jiang Ran glanced at her, hummed weakly, and fell asleep.
Tao Li was delighted to receive the response. She knew that the young lady treated Mr. Lu differently! The young lady was just too embarrassed to admit it.
Taoli didn't know that at this moment, the emperor and empress, whom she had mentioned as harmonious, were in a strange confrontation.
"Empress, I summoned you yesterday. Why was it Consort Chen who came to invite Yuechi?"
The emperor was furious, but the queen was calm and composed, her hands never stopping as she prepared the perfume.
Although he was angry, it was almost noon when he came to question me. I guess he couldn't help but indulge himself last night.
It's really disgusting that he is questioning her at this time, acting like he has to rely on her.
"I am not feeling well and cannot serve you. Seeing that Your Majesty has been favoring the younger sister of Consort Chen recently, I think he will be satisfied with her."
The indifference in the queen's eyes was particularly glaring.
They also had days of loving each other and being in love with each other. She also used to beg him to promise to be together forever by his side.
Yesterday, considering that she was afraid of the cold, he took great pains to bring in hot spring water to give her a surprise, but she ended up giving him another woman!
The emperor's rage was out of control.
"Queen, you are my queen, my wife!"
The emperor walked forward and overturned the incense table, causing bottles and jars to roll all over the floor.
The Queen finally looked him in the eye. "Le An said she wanted to have lunch with me today. I have to go now."
The emperor held her hand and stared at her. It seemed that time had been particularly kind to the queen, and her eyes and eyebrows still retained the charm of her youth.
"I'm old. I'm also a human being. When people get old, they think about their children and want to reunite with their family. Am I wrong?" He knew that the queen was angry with him because of the third prince, and he couldn't help but soften his tone.
The Queen struggled for a moment, then pulled her hand away. "The Emperor is supreme, and everyone under heaven is his subject."
The emperor sensed her resistance and felt uncomfortable.
"Xin'er! I understand you're angry. If I had other ideas, I would have brought him to the palace and publicly acknowledged the Third Prince's identity."
"Out of consideration for you, Youzhi, and Le'an, I only brought them back to Chang'an. Can't you even tolerate this?!"
The queen gave him a cold look. If he really cared about them, he wouldn't have been looking for the illegitimate child in Gusu.
Bringing Chang'an back, just bringing Chang'an back? There is no impenetrable wall under the sky. How will others guess the emperor's intentions? How many ambitious people are there? How much hardship will the prince have to endure in the future before he can firmly sit on this throne?
Did he think about it? He certainly did, but he did it anyway.
From that moment on, the relationship between them could never go back to the way it was before.
"Your Highness, I will take my leave."
The queen leaned forward to salute, but a pair of hands clamped her arms tightly.
The emperor looked at the beautiful face greedily, his eyes revealing obsession and madness.
The queen felt a chill on her back, as if she was being stared at by a poisonous snake.
The emperor swept the objects off the table, pinched her slender white neck, and pushed her hard to the edge of the table.
Her horrified resistance only made the man behind her more excited.
Humiliation came like a tide. She was hysterical and struggled desperately, but no one could and no one dared to save her.
The palace maids stood aside with their heads down, listening to the queen's wails, not daring to move an inch.
Her hair was disheveled, her brocade was torn, and the teeth marks on her body were faintly bleeding.
The queen made up her mind, clenched her teeth, and bit down hard.
The emperor felt pain, relaxed, spat out a mouthful of blood, and lost interest.
The queen's mouth was red and swollen, her clothes were in disarray, and she pulled the torn clothes hard to cover her body.
"Xin'er, it's you who insisted on pushing me away." The emperor narrowed his eyes, with a threatening look in his eyes amidst disappointment.
"Farewell, Your Majesty."
The emperor walked away in anger, and only then did two lines of tears of humiliation roll down the queen's face.
Ever since she knew that the emperor secretly went to the Marquis' Mansion to look for Jiang Ruyue, she never let him get close to her again.
Jiang Ruyue is as vicious as a snake and scorpion. She killed her brother and has an irreconcilable feud with her.
She originally thought Jiang Ruyue had passed away, but she didn't expect that the one who saved Jiang Ruyue was the person who slept with her day and night.
The emperor kept saying that she was his only wife and the love of his life.
"Only the Queen is worthy of bearing my child."
I wonder if he felt a bit guilty when he said this?
He and Jiang Ruyue also have a son. Under the pretext of a southern tour, he went to Gusu to meet Jiang Ruyue secretly, and they even had a child. How could she let it go?
She was unwilling to give in and refused to admit defeat.
The only thing the emperor could threaten her with was her two children.
She believed that with the prince's character and wisdom, even without the emperor's favor, he was a thousand times, ten thousand times better than Jiang Ruyue's son!
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