bookrebus Chapter 201: What's the matter? It's just the Emperor's bad luck
Chapter 201: What's the matter? It's just the Emperor's bad luck
"The Queen..."
Ruyi asked suddenly and Hanxiang's cheeks turned red.
Thinking about what the emperor told her last night.
"Han Xiang. Although this is not my first time being a husband, I have never given my love for you to anyone else."
The emperor had indeed never seen anyone as beautiful as Han Xiang. Although he accepted Han Xiang's stay in the palace with a clear conscience, looking at Han Xiang's tears rolling down her cheeks, the emperor always felt that he had to promise something to Han Xiang.
"Hanxiang, when I married the queen, I promised my first night to her. If possible, I want to have your first night with me."
Hanxiang couldn't understand the emperor's shameless promise.
Hanxiang didn't understand how the emperor could mistake a request for a romantic promise.
Han Xiang looked at the bearded face for a moment. The emperor was so much older than her that she even felt that he was old. She was young and beautiful, but her beloved had died and she had to serve an old man.
A tear rolled down and the emperor reached out to wipe it for Hanxiang, who suddenly felt malicious.
"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. I'm no longer a virgin."
Hanxiang saw the emperor's forbearance and anger. Veins bulged on the emperor's forehead, but Hanxiang smiled.
"Haha, Your Majesty, I am no longer a clean person. Please kill me. Killing me will keep me in the Han tribe, and I can go to see Han Qi.
If you hadn't threatened me with the lives of my people, I wouldn't have come back."
People at night always have wild thoughts. Han Xiang, who sacrificed herself to save Ruyi during the day, is now jumping madly in the emperor's minefield, just wanting to die.
The emperor forced a smile.
He pushed Hanxiang down.
"is it?"
Whether out of revenge or curiosity, the emperor pounced on Han Xiang and called for water three times that night.
Han Xiang did not think of the emperor's madness, nor did she think of Ruyi's question.
Hanxiang and Hanqi spoke out of love but stopped at courtesy. Their angry words were overheard by others, and Hanxiang didn't know how to explain it.
One glance fell on Ling Yunche.
Ruyi also noticed Hanxiang's gaze on Ling Yunche.
"Hanpin, you don't have to look at Ling Yunche. Hailan had a stomachache last night, so she asked Ling Yunche to go and invite the emperor. She didn't expect to hear you and the emperor talking to each other."
Ruyi betrayed Hailan and Ling Yunche with just one sentence.
Hailan seemed to be used to it. Ling Yunche looked a little embarrassed, but he just glanced at Hanxiang guiltily.
"It's strange that I saw Ling Yunche rushing in and out of Yikun Palace last night. But Queen, is it appropriate for Ling Yunche to pry into the privacy of the Emperor and Empress like this?"
"Concubine Yu and Ling Yunche..."
Concubine Chun cares about the emperor's reputation, and it is inappropriate for Ruyi to spread the word that the emperor married a slut.
Furthermore, since Ruyi sold out Concubine Yu and Ling Yunche, the emperor will no longer hate them for wantonly prying into and leaking royal secrets.
Ruyi, however, did not care much about Concubine Chun's questioning. Instead, she said in her usual condescending manner:
"Don't worry, Concubine Chun.
I don’t know whether Hanpin is real or fake, I just heard it. If she is fake, Hanpin will explain herself. If she is real, the emperor doesn’t mind it anymore, so what?”
Ruyi could no longer see Hanxiang's innocence. She just kept saying that she didn't want to do it based on what she heard and her dissatisfaction. She used her power as the master of the harem to hurt Hanxiang.
Han Xiang frowned slightly and moved her fingers randomly. She seemed to want to explain, but also seemed to have done it on purpose, especially as the situation became more and more serious. Yan Wan noticed her small movements.
Opened his mouth.
"Princess Han, I really don't know why you said such a thing and why it was so unexpected.
I advise Hanpin that your every word and action concerns the life and death of the Han tribe and the people of the Han tribe that you care about most. Don't say things that you shouldn't say just because of a momentary impulse."
Hanxiang and Yanwan looked at each other.
Han Xiang didn't know how Yan Wan could tell that she was desperate, but what Yan Wan said was indeed her lifeline.
Han Xiang explained.
"Your Majesty, you only heard what I said to the Emperor, but did you see the wedding veil last night?"
"As a woman who has had a fiancé, how could His Majesty not care whether I am a virgin or not?"
Han Xiang's words last night were intentional, and the most important thing was that Han Xiang saw the wedding veil tucked into the quilt. She had heard of these rules.
Ruyi originally wanted to reprimand Hanxiang and make Hanxiang embarrassed, but now only Ruyi is embarrassed.
Ruyi's lips moved again and again, and finally she uttered a sentence helplessly.
"That's good, but don't say such things again in the future, Hanpin. Otherwise, people will misunderstand you."
Hanxiang felt uncomfortable. She was uncomfortable with the emperor's temptation, and she was uncomfortable with Ruyi's completely different expression from a few days ago. She wanted to explain herself and also wanted to please the queen.
But she just opened her mouth.
Ruyi didn't want to listen, so she stood up and let out a long sigh.
"Okay, I'm tired too, you all can go down."
Ruyi ruthlessly rejected Hanxiang's rebuttal, and those who wanted to see Hanxiang's excitement also looked down upon her. They all went their separate ways.
Ruyi walked towards the inner hall of Yikun Palace unwillingly.
Ling Yunche, who was about to help her, hesitated for some reason.
"Ling Yunche, what's wrong with you? Are you blaming me for not naming you in front of everyone?"
Ruyi realized belatedly that she had implicated Ling Yunche.
Ling Yunche shook his head.
"It is my duty to do anything for Your Majesty. I just think Your Majesty shouldn't ask Hanpin such a question in front of everyone.
Perhaps, Your Majesty can ask in private."
Ling Yunche was afraid that Ruyi would be angry, so he spoke very politely and pertinently.
Ruyi looked surprised.
"Ling Yunche, what did you say?
Are you blaming me for treating Hanpin like this?"
Ling Yunche was originally quite confident, but when he saw Ruyi like this, he suddenly lost his courage and hurriedly explained.
"Your Majesty, that's not what I meant. I just think that Hanpin and you are both serving the Emperor. We are both trapped in the deep palace."
Ling Yunche explained seriously, but Ruyi didn't think so.
Ruyi stared at Ling Yunche, as if she wanted to see through him.
"Ling Yunche, are you feeling sorry for Concubine Han?"
"You feel sorry for Hanpin, so I want to ask you, what is the past between me and the emperor?"
"It's nothing. It's just bad luck for the emperor."
Before Ling Yunche had time to respond to Ruyi's question, Yanwan, who had just left Yikun Palace and returned, quietly added this sentence.
Just because she spoke, the curtain covering her moved. Ling Yunche alertly noticed her.
"Concubine Ling, what are you doing here?"
Ruyi heard that it was Yanwan and hurried over. She saw that Yanwan looked unhappy.
Yanwan didn't give Ruyi a chance to explain.
"Hello, Queen. I came here because I want to tell you something."
Ruyi glanced at Yanwan impatiently.
"You can say whatever you want to say."
Yanwan chuckled.
"Yes. Queen, I want to tell you that Eunuch Ling and Princess Xiangjian disappeared together in Hanbu for one night, but they are innocent."