Chapter 405: You want to be on an equal footing with me?
Just now I suspected that the person I loved was Lan Xiaolou, and now you come to me for a hug. Am I a despicable person?
Jiang Xinyue complained harshly, twisted her body, broke away from the emperor's embrace, sat on the bed, turned her back to the emperor and said nothing.
The emperor sighed and sat beside her: "Yuer, it's my fault. I don't have your past, so I feel uneasy. I'm very afraid that you don't love me."
"The bottom line is that the emperor has never trusted me."
Jiang Xinyue had a cold face and still refused to look at him: "In the future, if someone says that I have some unclear concerns with this man or that actor, and the emperor will send someone to investigate me, giving others the opportunity to frame me, I beg the emperor to depose me now. But I don't want to die, and I hope that the emperor will spare my life for the sake of giving birth to children for you, and send me to the cold palace, so that he can turn a blind eye to it."
Her tone was flat, and her eyes were not red from crying. There was no life in her eyes, but it made the emperor more nervous than when she was crying.
"Why are you saying all this for no reason?"
Emperor Xuanwu felt uncomfortable for a moment, but he quickly recovered and coaxed her: "I checked it out to clear your name. I don't want them to talk about you."
"So the emperor is doing this for my own good?"
The sneer and self-mockery in Jiang Xinyue's voice became stronger: "Then I am so grateful to the emperor for always considering me."
"Yuer, could you please not talk to me in this tone? My heart hurts so much."
The hard way didn't work, so he tried the soft way. Did the emperor really think he had a hold on her?
Jiang Xinyue snorted again: "Don't say that I have never liked Lan Xiaolou. I only respect him as my master. Even if I had someone I liked before entering the palace, so what? Was I the first person the emperor liked? Was I the first person he favored? Did he only love me? Have I never been sad? Why can the emperor treat me like this, but I have to greet the emperor with a smile and not be negligent in the slightest?" When
it comes to such things, the emperor must be the most guilty one.
He has loved more than just one woman?
When he was young, he liked the former Shufei and protected her like the apple of his eye. He also used Jiang Xinyue as a shield for the former Shufei. Later, when Li Guifei entered the palace, he fell in love with Li Guifei's liveliness and brightness and doted on her for more than ten years.
He had slept with so many women in the harem that he couldn't even count them all. He couldn't even remember the appearance of many of them.
But he was the emperor!
Thinking of this, his eyes revealed some emotions.
Jiang Xinyue exploded and stood up with force. The emperor was so scared that he quickly protected her body: "Slow down, Yue'er, you are still pregnant! You... don't be angry and hurt yourself."
Oh!
He almost forgot that she was still a pregnant woman. Pregnant women's emotions are most likely to get out of control. She could do better.
She immediately covered her belly and closed her eyes, looking as if she was in unbearable pain, and even her steps staggered.
The emperor went to help her, but she waved his hand away and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, are you still thinking in your heart that you are the Son of Heaven, you can like whoever you want, and favor whoever you want, without your permission? Are you thinking that I dare to treat you like this only because of your favor?"
The emperor waved his hand quickly: "I didn't, don't wrongly accuse me!"
But in his cognition, the emperor is like this. He favors concubines in the harem, one to stabilize the previous dynasty, and the other to expand his family. Emperors have always been like this, so what's wrong?
Moreover, after he fell in love with Jiang Xinyue and knew that she would be sad and jealous, he has never favored anyone except her.
Even when she was pregnant, the officials in the court advised him to treat everyone equally, but he turned a deaf ear.
This is already a very difficult thing for an emperor.
"You have!"
Jiang Xinyue stepped back a few steps from him: "Love is to put aside all external factors, including status, power, wealth and worldly perspectives. It is an emotion from the heart between two equal people. But the emperor is always superior and dominates me. I can't care about the things that the emperor does to make me sad, but the emperor hurt me and wanted to cover it up with a casual sentence that it was all for my good. I don't accept it."
Her "disobedience" made the emperor speechless.
So angry, just because she thinks he is too high and doesn't look down on her? As
God is conscientious, he has never looked down on her.
But she said that in love, men and women are equal, and they should put aside all external factors such as status and rights.
This is the first time I've heard of this.
In the Great Yan Dynasty, women had to follow the Three Obediences and Four Virtues: obey their fathers at home, obey their husbands after marriage, and obey their sons after their husbands' death.
Women's virtues, women's words, women's appearance, and women's achievements are all constraints on women, but I've never heard of husband's virtues, husband's words, husband's appearance, and husband's achievements!
This is the problem.
The emperor is an extremely powerful and intelligent person. Jiang Xinyue said that she was dissatisfied, and it should be because of this.
Men always require their wives and daughters to abide by the women's code of conduct, observe etiquette and rules, work hard and never complain, and squeeze their blood and bones to dedicate to their husbands and children.
But no one has ever thought about them.
"Do you mean to be on an equal footing with me?"
Jiang Xinyue thought to herself, it would be best if you pave the way for my son to ascend to the throne, and then you abdicate and let me be the queen mother, so that I don't have to live under your eyes.
Before she could think of her words, the emperor stood up, looked at her deeply, and walked out.
What happened?
He didn't coax her well, and now he's done with her because he found out that she wanted to be on equal footing with him?
Jiang Xinyue gritted her teeth and said, "Xi Que, pack up and send all the emperor's things back to Chengqian Palace."
The news that the Empress had quarreled with the Emperor again spread throughout the harem in a blink of an eye.
Not only did they quarrel, but all the masters and servants in the palace saw it. Xi Que in the Empress's palace packed up all the emperor's things and took people to carry them to Chengqian Palace.
The Emperor lost his temper, and the eunuchs on duty in Chengqian Palace heard the Emperor scolding Xi Que for being so audacious, helping the tyrant to do evil, and being a troublemaker.
Sooner or later, she will be beaten with a stick.
Xi Que simply fell to the ground and said, "It doesn't matter whether I am beaten sooner or later. Your Majesty should beat me sooner!"
She will have many more days of being so daring in the future!
She would feel relieved if she finished beating him earlier.
It was still Eunuch Tang who led the emperor down the steps and pushed and pulled Xi Que out of Chengqian Palace.
Yanxi Palace -
Concubine Shi was trimming her pot of Clivia again.
Man'er burst out laughing: "Everyone says that Xi Que is powerful. I think she is just shameless. She dared to act wild at the gate of Chengqian Palace. The emperor might hate the empress even more in his heart!"
"Don't be happy too early."
Concubine Shi put down the scissors: "The empress is very capable and won't fall so easily."
But it doesn't matter. Only by eating away the feelings between the emperor and the empress bit by bit can she avoid exposing herself.