It was already spring. In the imperial garden, the flowers and plants were lush, and there were many pavilions, craggy mountains and rocks. Everywhere was full of vitality.
It was not time for lunch yet, Lian Ruyue and Feng Yunzheng walked in the middle of the flowers one after another. A light breeze blew, and the fragrance of flowers faintly drifted.
Lian Ruyue raised her head under a yellow tree and looked at the flower with a faint smile on her face.
Standing under the same tree, she had a different frame of mind. In her previous life, she stood there crying helplessly, but now, she was enjoying such beautiful scenery. There was also someone who came with her in her previous life.
He even felt that the road to revenge was not only blood and thorns.
Feng Yunzheng looked at her figure, and slowly, his vision began to blur, then gradually became clear again. In a trance, he seemed to see a lonely and powerless woman wearing a phoenix robe standing there, in the same place, at a loss of what to do.
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At that time, Feng Yunzheng had followed the newly ascended new emperor Feng Qianyue out of the imperial study. They talked about the imperial court matters along the way as they walked into the imperial garden.
"Ah …" While the two of them were talking, a shout of alarm came from the imperial garden.
"Esteemed Empress, y-why are you like this? You've already pushed esteemed imperial concubine to the ground. You don't like the esteemed empress, but … but you don't need to secretly kill her." Then, he heard a palace maid berating him in a sobbing tone.
Feng Qianyue and Feng Yunzheng simultaneously looked in the direction the voice came from — —
The new imperial concubine, Lian Shiya, fell to the ground with a pale face. There was fear and helplessness on her face. A few palace maids surrounded her to help her up, but she held her waist in pain.
As for the noble empress Lian Ruyue, she stood to the side, looking astonished at the person on the ground. "Little sister, I didn't push you. I even reached out to help you!"
"Esteemed Empress, it was you who pushed esteemed imperial concubine while she wasn't paying attention. Y-you, how could you still argue?" Lian Shiya's personal palace maid said.
"How dare you!" Lian Ru Yue shouted in anger as she raised her hand and slapped the palace maid's face, saying, "Who are you? How dare you reprimand me over and over again! If I say that I don't push the imperial concubine, I just don't have one! "
Lian Shiya already knew that Feng Qianyue had seen this scene. Clutching his waist, he tightly furrowed his brows. With tears in his eyes, he said, "Xue Ru, quick, kneel down and apologize to the Empress, quick."
"Empress, it was clearly …" Xue Ru was unwilling, as if her master had suffered a great grievance.
"Hurry up and kneel down and admit your wrongs. Big sister is the empress, how could the empress be in the wrong? Kneel down quickly!" As Lian Shiya spoke, she pulled along the palace maid and knelt down before Lian Rue Yue. She said, "Big Sister, don't, don't be angry …"
Feng Yunzheng's cold gaze fell on Lian Shiya's face. He clearly caught the hint of success that flashed across her face.
He abandoned Feng Yunzheng and quickly walked over to Lian Shiya's side. He personally squatted down and helped her up from the ground as he gently called out with a pained heart, "Ya'er, quickly get up."
Lian Shiya seemed to be extremely surprised to see Feng Qianyue, as she hurriedly lowered her head and wiped away her tears. She said, "Your majesty, you've come. This concubine pays her respects to you."
"Your Majesty …" Lian Ru Yue's heart was ruthlessly pierced when she saw how much love Feng Qianyue had for Lian Shiya, but her face still maintained the proper bearing a queen should have.
Feng Qianyue helped Lian Shiya up and looked icily at Lian Xiyue. "I didn't expect that you, Empress, would have the ability to bully others. I underestimated you in the past and was deceived by your pure and gentle appearance!"
"Your majesty!" Lian Ruyue looked at Feng Qianyue in disbelief, "You suspect me, and you suspect that I intentionally pushed down my sister?"
"We …"
"Your Majesty, don't be angry, your elder sister is definitely …" It's not intentional. " Lian Shiya had a delicate and touching look on her face as tears welled up in her eyes. Those pearl-like tears seemed as if they could flow down her face at any moment. "Wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu
"Lian Shiya!" Lian Meng Yue's eyes widened as she looked at this normally obedient and obedient little sister, not daring to believe her words. When Lian Shi Ya heard Lian Ru Yue's loud and screeching figure, she retreated into Feng Qian Yue's embrace like a frightened cat with her arms around his waist and her face pressed against his chest.
This scene deeply pierced Lian Ru Yue's heart. However, her tears stubbornly stopped in her eyes, unwilling to flow down.
"Enough! "You self-proclaimed yourself as the Empress, arrogant and despotic, bullying your other concubines. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, I don't know how long I would have been fooled by you." Feng Qianyue glared at her coldly as he berated her.
"Your majesty, even if the whole world doesn't believe me, it doesn't matter as long as you believe me. But you … don't believe me, how could I … how could I possibly push her away? Since I've agreed to make her my consort, how could I …" Lian Ruyue looked at Feng Qianyue's icy cold gaze, and her heart was dripping blood.
How sad, how sad!
"Ya Er, I will accompany you back." However, Feng Qianyue didn't look at her at all, and he instead carried Lian Shiya in his arms and left the imperial garden, leaving her alone there.
Her palace maid stood at a distance, afraid to go over because the Emperor was on a rampage.
Tears rolled down her face, and her hand covered the other side of her face that had been disfigured. He saw that the back of her hand was bleeding, probably because she had seen Lian Shiya fall, and when she went to support her in her desperation, she accidentally hit a rock. It was just that she didn't have it herself.
She stood there, so lonely, so helpless, so pitiful! The way the tears fell made him look desperate.
Feng Yunzheng took a step forward, but in the end, he stopped and tightly held onto a rock on the rock garden.
At this time, a palace maid passed by him, and he called out to one of them. He took out a piece of white silk from his bosom and handed it over to the palace maid, instructing:
"The empress's hand is bleeding. First help her bandage it well, then ask the imperial physician to come over and take a look at her wounds." As he spoke, Feng Yunzheng took out a piece of gold and handed it over to the palace maid.
"Yes, Ninth Prince." The palace maid took the handkerchief and walked to the empress's side, kneeling down and bowing. "Esteemed empress, your hand is bleeding. This servant will bandage it for you."
Only when Lian Meng Yue looked over, did she realize that the back of her hand was actually rubbed against a piece of skin, causing blood to ooze out.
She wiped away the tears on her face and returned to her usual dignified demeanor. She stretched out her hand and said, "Wrap it up."