In the current Legitimate Wife, lived a girl who was under the same roof as her not long ago.
Not long ago, they were of the same rank, but now, she was the Queen.
Zhong Miao Yi stared at the towering palace for a long time. Ban Qiu did not urge her to stop and just stood there with her.
Maybe only a few people could understand Zhong Miao Yi's feelings at this moment, but Zhong Miao Yi felt that it was no longer important. She took a deep breath, and finally stepped into the doorway.
Bao Er was already the manager aunt in Yun Mengqi's palace. Seeing that the Zhong Miao Yi and Ban Qiu had entered, she welcomed them with a smile, "The empress is waiting for your honorable person. It's a good thing that your esteemed self did not miss the auspicious moment, if not the empress would not be happy."
She addressed her benefactor and Empress as a tongue twister, which Zhong Miao Yi did not place too much importance on. She nodded slightly and asked, "Can we go in now?"
Bao Er laughed, looked at Ah Jiu who was supporting Zhong Miao Yi, and said softly: "Esteemed guest, please come over here."
There were many corridors in the Legitimate Wife, and the locations of the pavilions and pavilions were very subtle, making people feel as if they were in a parcel in the garden, but they were unable to reach it. The empress must have been a very ingenious person, but unfortunately, she heard that she committed suicide and decided to stay in this palace.
Chastity is always particularly regrettable and admirable.
Yun Mengqi was also bold, she had just entered the palace of a dead person without blinking.
When Zhong Miao Yi saw her, she was wearing the extravagant attire of a queen, and the phoenix crown on her head was on the verge of collapsing. Looking at the phoenix crown that was full of gold, even Zhong Miao Yi felt pain on her neck.
However, Yun Mengqi was evidently very satisfied. She personally watched Zhong Miao Yi kneel down and kowtow at her feet before exclaiming loudly, "The Empress is thousands of years old."
She finally got her wish.
This was the scenario she had always hoped for. How could the Zhong Miao Yi be on equal footing with her? She could only kneel on the ground and obediently serve as a servant.
Zhong Miao Yi didn't feel too humiliated kneeling in front of this young lady who was even younger than him. Instead, she felt extremely calm in her heart.
As Yun Mengqi spoke the familiar words of admonishment, Zhong Miao Yi listened attentively.
Yun Mengqi lectured for a long time, and as if on purpose, kneeled on the hard floor. Very quickly, her knees started to hurt, but Zhong Miao Yi's endurance was very good, and she did not display it at all.
At the end, even Yun Mengqi herself felt that it was boring, the Zhong Miao Yi did not cooperate at all, acting as if she was acting out a play on her own.
"Alright, from today onwards, we are all sisters. Just serve the emperor properly and be obedient. Remember that?" She casually ended her lecture and impatiently supported the phoenix crown on her head.
Zhong Miao Yi kowtowed and said loudly, "Chenqie will follow the Empress's teachings."
When she straightened her body, someone would bring her a cup of tea. Zhong Miao Yi took it and passed both hands over her head to Yun Mengqi, saying, "Empress, please have some tea."
This meant that from the moment Yun Mengqi took the cup of tea, she was eternally a concubine.
This was Yun Mengqi's favorite, and one that she had waited too long for. She quickly took over the cup from the Zhong Miao Yi's hands and drank a mouthful of tea. This was probably the most delicious cup of tea she had ever drank.
"Get up." Yun Mengqi took a deep breath, then let out a long sigh, as her entire body felt extremely comfortable.
Ah Jiu went forward to help Zhong Miao Yi up. Her body was not completely fine, and she had to kneel for such a long time, but actually, she could not take it anymore. If not for her makeup, someone would probably see through her sickness.
Yun Mengqi didn't want to empathize with Zhong Miao Yi at all. She put down her teacup, completely ignoring Zhong Miao Yi's condition, and insisted that she accompany her to speak.
"Do you know how many daughters of meritorious officials have been appointed to the Palace this time?" When Yun Mengqi talked about this, her expression didn't look very good.
In the past, she was so jealous of Zhong Miao Yi that she almost died of jealousy. But now that so many people had entered, and Su Zeyi was in his prime of youth, which of these young ladies had not heard of Su Zeyi's great reputation before? Which one of them didn't know that Su Zeyi was the beautiful guy from Great Qi? She was afraid that she would fall flat on Su Zeyi's bed.
Zhong Miao Yi heaved a sigh of relief. With these people, Yun Mengqi didn't have the time to pay extra attention to her.
Keeping her distance was also her wish. As long as he didn't provoke her, she would rather stay in her room and eat with him.
"There should be quite a few." Zhong Miao Yi casually replied. In truth, she felt that it didn't really matter to her anymore.
She would not be jealous, nor would she stir up trouble. Even if a few hundred people were to enter the palace, she would not object.
Yun Mengqi gave a cold snort, "Of course there are! "You foxy girl!"
This aura, was so familiar that Zhong Miao Yi felt helpless.
"All the women in this world belong to him alone." Zhong Miao Yi still didn't like being called the Emperor. She wouldn't be stingy if she could be replaced with other words.
The light in Yun Mengqi's eyes dimmed, and she laughed: "I hope that he will succeed, but if he succeeds, I will regret it."
As he spoke till here, Yun Mengqi suddenly stopped and frowned. He probably felt that he shouldn't say these words in front of Zhong Miao Yi.
"Two from the Zhou family." Yun Mengqi changed the topic, her tone containing a bit of disdain. "The empress dowager personally pointed it out."
Regarding this matter, there was a reason why Yun Mengqi was unhappy.
Her Majesty had originally only cared for her.
When Zhou Ji arrived, the empress dowager, who also doted on Zhou Ji and frequently greeted him, this time helped him gain a very high position, but she also became an empress herself, thinking that Zhou Ji was after all the son of the Zhou family, so it was fine.
But this time, the two Zhou sisters who entered the palace, who were also the direct descendants of the Zhou family, were well-liked by the empress dowager. According to the empress dowager's intentions, they were to directly confer the concubine to her, but luckily Su Zeyi insisted that it was not good, so the empress dowager gave up.
Yun Mengqi kept this in mind, but she couldn't directly ask the empress dowager if she was biased. Instead, she kept it in her heart, as she was somewhat dissatisfied with the two girls from the Zhou family.
Zhong Miao Yi sounded like a child fighting over the love of their great-grandmother.
But wasn't Yun Mengqi always like this? She had to fight for a position, she couldn't lose, and she didn't like losing. She had to make herself the strongest one, as if that was the only way she could calm down.
"The Zhou family hasn't returned to the capital in many years. Since they're the empress dowager's mother's family, they're naturally the empress's mother's family as well." Zhong Miao Yi replied casually, she really did not know what she should do.
Yun Mengqi laughed coldly and did not look at Zhong Miao Yi. "My mother? My mother is from Prince Xiang's estate, didn't you know? "