"Your Majesty may ask anything you wish."
Su Jingyao raised her head slightly with a calm expression.
"When you entered the Eastern Palace, you gave in step by step. It was all fake. Your good relationship with Ling was also fake. Your deep love for me was all an act, right?"
Jun Zechen's voice trembled as he asked these questions.
He didn't know what the woman in his arms was feeling at the moment, but he himself was extremely panicked, as if his heart was being tightly grasped by an invisible big hand.
As long as she said no, he would believe her.
Su Jingyao lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.
She whispered, "If Your Majesty already has the answer in mind, does my answer matter?"
"important!"
"Answer me."
Su Jingyao raised her eyes and met Jun Zechen's hurt and disbelieving gaze, which made her heart tremble slightly.
Jun Zechen should have speculated about the things happening in the Eastern Palace a few days ago, but it happened too long ago and he had no evidence.
I don't know why, but I never asked her.
I called her here today because I was upset about Li Jin's incident. In that case, it seems okay to tell the truth.
After only a moment's thought, Su Jingyao answered firmly.
"yes."
She did not back down, and her eyes did not dodge at all.
Jun Zechen's heart sank into the abyss in an instant, feeling heavy. He wanted to say something, but his throat seemed to be blocked and he couldn't utter a single word.
Ask her why she is calculating?
This thought flashed through his mind, but how could he ask such an almost idiotic question?
Isn't the purpose of plotting against him just to gain supreme power?
He couldn't help but sneer at himself. He never thought that he, who was so smart all his life, would be played like this by a woman. Every time he expressed his feelings to her, what kind of mood did she have when she looked at him?
A poor man who kneels at her feet and has his feelings toyed with by her?
Jun Zechen suddenly felt that he was extremely ridiculous. The woman he had pampered for several years had actually been acting hypocritically in front of him!
Jun Zechen's hands were shaking as he clamped Su Jingyao's chin tightly with his tiger's mouth, with such force that it seemed as if he could crush her bones.
He was so angry that he almost lost his mind. "Do you know that I am the emperor? I can make you..."
He wanted to say something harsh, something that would make her feel scared and regretful, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.
Su Jingyao naturally understood what he had not said, and he could easily take back everything she had now.
If Su Jingyao had come in today and been asked by Jun Zechen to kneel on the ground and explain everything, instead of being held in his arms now, Su Jingyao would have denied it without hesitation, and she would even pretend for the rest of her life.
It was Jun Zechen who gave her the confidence.
Rather than worrying about when he will find out about these things for the next ten years, it is better to tell him now.
She would rather others suffer injustice than herself.
But Jun Zechen was injured and exerted too much strength. Her brows were tightly furrowed, and tears soon welled up in her eyes. She said with a hint of tears, "It hurts."
"Hurt? Are you as hurt as I am?"
Jun Zechen's eyes were red and he roared with gritted teeth.
However, despite saying this, he finally slowly let go of her hand.
"What's your relationship with that imperial physician?"
"Just a servant."
The more she acted like she didn't care, the less Jun Zechen cared.
Jun Zechen lowered his head and approached her, his deep eyes looking straight at her, as if he wanted to see through her.
"Then how about I kill him? As long as he is on the imperial land of the monarchy, he can't escape if I want to kill him."
"Your Majesty wants to kill him because of me? Your Majesty thinks I have an affair with him?"
Su Jingyao's voice was filled with grievance.
Jun Zechen didn't believe in his heart that she would have an affair with an imperial physician, but the events of the Eastern Palace were still fresh in his mind, and that imperial physician was obviously her type, and he had stayed by her side for so many years.
Her deception and concealment made Jun Zechen feel confused and for the first time he didn't know how to deal with something.
By killing that imperial physician, wouldn't that be acknowledging her unclear relationship with that imperial physician?
Just flippantly brush it off? Would she then become even more complacent and unscrupulous?
Punish her severely?
Jun Zechen gritted his teeth.
"From today on, the Empress is confined to the Palace of Heavenly Purity."
After saying that, he pushed her away from him, then turned his head away and stopped looking at her.
Su Jingyao looked at him doubtfully, but she didn't seem very angry.
Then she entered his bedroom in the Qianqing Palace without any restraint, just like she was in the Kunning Palace.
At night, Jun Zechen lay alone in the east side hall, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Finally, he had to ask Anshun to bring in several jugs of wine to relieve his boredom.
Su Jingyao slept peacefully in Jun Zechen's bedroom, but from time to time she could hear the sound of a wine jug breaking next door.
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