I also hurried away. Who knows if my anger would spread to me if I got angry later on.
After returning to the Begonia Courtyard, he closed the door and started to read. The snowy weather was getting dark very quickly.
I put the book away and propped my chin on my hand to look at the dark sky, where the snow was blowing and rustling.
Why is it getting colder and colder? The whistling wind seems to be blowing in, and I feel a little weird. When I turn around, I almost jump out of my skin.
He stood at the back window, looking at me in that quiet way, and when I opened my mouth to salute, he laughed and opened the other window with one hand and closed it with the other.
"I like one person, only one person." As he spoke, he stroked the window carefully. "She loves Begonia the most. It's very pretty."
With a burp, he leaned his face against the window and said, "She likes to read. That's all. Sit down."
He yelled at me, and the momentary confusion was replaced by ferocity.
I sat down quickly, and he called out in dissatisfaction, "Books."
So I picked up the book again, reading it just as I had before.
From the bronze mirror on the table, one could vaguely see his gentle expression, and his handsome face was pressed against the window. "Just like this, how beautiful is it? Zhiqiu, Zhiqiu, you truly are despicable, I want to break your pride, you despicable woman, looking at this favor of mine, you can also be calm. Yun Zhiqiu, you are despicable everywhere, I have my heart on you, but you …" "Yes, yes." He slid down to the ground and shouted, "Yun Zhiqiu!"
Then his father-in-law helped him up and went back to his palace.
I turned my head and looked at the wind coming in through the back window. I went to close the wooden window, but I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. He really did have me in his heart.
Only, Your Majesty, since you have so many women, the things that you and I want are not the same.
It was said that one could spew out the truth after drinking wine. However, the monarch's heart was like the snow within a palace. In winter, he could enjoy the ground to his heart's content and could also occupy a bit of spring, but he was unable to walk through the summer.
That night, it was very cold. His heart was like water that melted into snow, disturbing the calmness. His soft voice kept coming back to my mind, calling out to me with tenderness, "Zhiqiu, Zhiqiu."
When the sun rose, the entire courtyard was covered in snow. The Begonia looked as if she was about to die, and her branches were covered with snow-white pimples.
The breath that he exhaled was snow-white like a fairyland on earth.
Today, he didn't know why there were always hurried sounds of people outside. Just as he was about to knock on the door.
"Zhiqiu, Zhiqiu, hurry up and open the door." It was Lin Shangyi's anxious voice.
I thought something had happened, so I hurried to open the door. "What happened? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Zhiqiu, I didn't dare call for you just then. Hurry up and wash up, then go to Madame Li's place. Today, you're fifteen, ah. Madame Li's better now. You have to go pay respects, hurry up."
"Am I going too?" I didn't sleep well last night, and now I feel like I can't get over it.
"Everyone in the palace has to go. Hurry, Zhi Qiu, don't be late." She looked outside and said, "Zhiqiu, I have to go now."
This scared me awake completely, not even to wash, clothes do not need to change, in any case put on thick clothes, hair to comb, what pearl hairpin I do not like, do quickly go, on the road to catch snow in the palm of the hand to melt and wash face, the sleeves to wipe off the water is very cold.
But it was still too late. By the time I reached Madame Li's palace, the gates were already deserted. The palace maid glanced at me indifferently before leading me in. She called out, "Yun Fengyi has arrived."
She had a stove in front of her, and smoke rose faintly, but it was still possible to tell that her face was rather gorgeous. As I bent down to greet her, she said lightly, "This is the emperor's new gift. After receiving it, I don't know who it is, this Concubine's body isn't well enough to handle the palace rules for several months, and I don't know if this little Ninth Pin is so dignified. Does Concubine have no one to personally invite for two hours, or is it unknown?"
"Zhiqiu deserves to die." I said somewhat helplessly.
I thought they wouldn't make things difficult for me. After all, it's been so long.
"I've heard that the Begonia Academy has been very generous recently, and that the sage has also risen to become a noble lady. However, she still keeps to her duties and serves as a form of flattery. This concubine would like to ask you, what are palace rules in your eyes?"
I say, if you want to pick a thorn, why worry about nothing? I had never seriously looked at the palace rules before. I believed that I wouldn't become the emperor's woman one day, and in the end, only the palace told me that I could only sleep in the middle of the night, but the palace allowed the emperor to kill me.
I suddenly remembered that Ning palace was actually Madame Li's man.
His heart turned cold, and he forcibly turned cold. If Lin Shangyi hadn't told him in secret, he would still be in the dark. Presumably, she wanted to pick on him.