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The torrential rain similarly covered the emperor's footsteps. Xiang Ye walked all the way to his side, but the person crying did not notice. When the Emperor reached out to pry away her shoulders, Yu'er was frightened. With tears in her eyes, she saw the Emperor's face. She couldn't help but shiver and instinctively wanted to run away.

Although she had already seen Qiu Miner's tears in the upper yang palace's pavilion, those calm tears still carried indifference and pride. However, the person at this moment, was crying so bitterly, fear and hesitation filled her eyes, and she could no longer see the stubborn gaze that caused the Emperor to be angry.

"Since you're so heartbroken, since you're in so much pain by our side, why didn't you follow Shen Zhe?" Xiang Ye did not let go.

The emperor slowly stood up. The lantern still brought with it a few faint rays of light, which vaguely projected his figure on top of the curtain of rain. The dense rain blocked everything, and in the empty and dark world, only his lonely figure remained.

"What the hell am I doing …" The emperor tightly clenched his fists. Why did he make the woman he liked suffer so much? What was he doing in the end? Would he still be able to love a woman, would he fall in love, and lose her again? Would he be able to make Qiu Miner be like him, and only be able to live a short life?

Since they were going to separate, why would they stay together? He didn't have the right to be emotional, nor did he have the right to love.

It rained heavily all night, and when she fled back to the bedroom, she curled up on the bed in her wet clothes and fell asleep in a daze in fear that the Emperor would break into her, but the wet clothes carried cold air into her body, and the next day when the ladies woke up, her eyes were clouded with confusion, and she thought she had been drugged by the Emperor again.

"The empress's body is boiling hot." The palace maid cried out in alarm. "Quickly go find the imperial physician and tell the Esteemed Empress Dowager that the empress has a fever."

This time, the Imperial Physician ordered the palace maid to use white wine to wipe off the heat from the empress's body. She took an ice cube and placed it on the empress's forehead, then tossed it in a cloth bag for a long time until the empress couldn't burn it like a furnace. The imperial physician reluctantly said to the empress, "The empress's life is safe, but this illness will need some time to recuperate."

The emperor stood stiffly at the side. The empress dowager looked at him coldly, as she had never hated her son so much before.