In the next early morning, the sun was shining brightly.
Tang Xia lay on the bed lazily with her eyebrows knitted, stretching her limbs out. As warm sunlight cast on Tang Xia's face through the mist of early morning, her face was bathed in golden light.
Tang Xia in the sleep raised her hand up subconsciously to cover her eyes as if she felt uncomfortable because of the sunlight. Then she felt that her nose itched as if something that was fluffy kept on teasing her.
Tang Xia shook her head subconsciously. However, that thing kept on teasing her until Tang Xia woke up.
After she opened up her eyes slowly, Tang Xia waved her hands when she got fully adapted to the sunlight and shook her head. When she saw the magnified face in front of her, Tang Xia opened her eyes suddenly and shouted after taking a deep breath.
"Ah!!!" A sharp and scared shout belched into the sky.
Chu Tiankuo froze for a while as he
Although it was a sunny day, Tang Xia was in a gloomy mood. She held the fiction that she had read many times in both hands idly and sighed, sitting on the couch. "Damned Chu Tiankuo! He fooled with me completely! He swaggered off after enjoying a night with me." "And he planned all these!" Tang Xia slapped the fiction in hands and turned over, lying on the couch angrily. Lyuyou looked at Tang Xia's back worriedly and sighed quietly. What she had looked forward to was that the emperor and the empress could live a happy life and treat each other courtesy. Her worry was of no use as their relationship could not progress. Finally, the emperor who was drunk came to the empress's palace and had a pleasant night with Tang Xia... Lyuyou still remembered that she left happily with other palace maids. However, the emperor was 'threw' out by the empress the next morning. Lyuyou worried so much for Tang Xia as
As Lyuyou looked at Tang Xia, Tang Xia also gazed at that palace maid, not planning to take the soup. The palace maid lowered her head, noticing that Tang Xia did not believe her. Then she hurried to say, "Your Grace, please take it. If I go back with the soup, my master will beat me to death." As the palace maid said so, she knelt on the ground plaintively and kowtowed continuously, "My master has been locked up by His Majesty. She is truly sorry. Please take the soup, Your Grace!" Tang Xia and Lyuyou were both frightened by palace maid's reaction and looked at each other. Then Lyuyou came to help that palace maid up. "All right, stop crying. You will definitely be punished without accomplishing your task." Tang Xia sighed, "Now that she is sorry for what she has done, I don't blame her anymore. Leave the soup." "Thanks, Your Grace! Thank you!" That palace maid was moved to tears of gratitude and gave the hamper
Standing before the door of Concubine Lan's chamber and hearing the cries from inside, Tang Xia's face turned gloomy. Her face was a little pale, and doubts arose in her mind. "What? Concubine Lan is dead?" Tang Xia stood still, aghast, murmuring to herself. It was herself that was meant to be poisoned. How come Concubine Lan was dead? She felt it was very weird and decided to go inside to check Concubine Lan's corpse. At right that moment, several concubines walked outside of the chamber. They were close to Concubine Lan before she was dead. After seeing Tang Xia standing outside the door, their faces turned dark at the thought of Concubine Lan's innocent death. They were thinking about themselves ending up with the same fate. After seeing that Tang Xia was about to enter the chamber, they spoke one after another to stop Tang Xia at the door. "Well! Isn't it the empress? What're you doing here?" sai
"What? Concubine Orchid is dead?" Just as Tang Xia heard about the news, Chu Tiankuo also heard about it from his servants. "I want to know who is so bold to commit murder in my harem! Let's go to Concubine Orchid's place!" Chu Tiankuo said as he rushed to the scene with his servants. When Chu Tiankuo arrived, Tang Xia arrived too. "Your Majesty, did you come here to see Concubine Orchid too?" asked Tang Xia even though she already figured it out from Chu Tiankuo's look. "Yeah! I want to know who is provoking me in secret!" And then Chu Tiankuo and Tang Xia walked in together. There was only Concubine Orchid in the chamber. She was lying on the bed without anyone beside her bed. Tang Xia and Chu Tiankuo walked over and checked her appearance. Her face was deadly pale, and her lips were partly purple with bloodstains at the corners. Her eyes were gaping and fixed at the ceiling.
It was like something had exploded in Tang Xia's head. She cast a reproachful glance at Chu Tiankuo with her teary eyes, then looked away in abashment. He was really cheeky to have said something like that! Tang Xia was almost speechless. She didn't know when Chu Tiankuo became so good at making fun of her! Quick-witted and eloquent as she usually was, she didn't know how to retort this time! How could she let him make fun of her like that! She gradually regained her mental composure, and her hands, which were still clutching her sleeves, slowly relaxed. Suddenly, a new idea occurred to her. She clasped her hands and her glance at Chu Tiankuo became somewhat meaningful. After organizing her thoughts, she raised her head and asked Chu Tiankuo in a serious tone, "Tell me. Do you really have a crush on me?" After asking the question, Tang Xia stared at Chu Tiankuo without blinking, as if she was trying
The announcement from the eunuch surprised Chu Tiankuo as he did not know why Tang Xia would want to meet him at this time. "Did she tell you why she wants to meet me?" Chu Tiankuo asked. As he was editing the memorial to the throne, he did not want to waste his time. "Well..." The eunuch shook his head. "I don't know. Her Grace did not tell me." Yue Ji had asked the eunuch to announce to His Majesty that she wanted to meet him so urgently that the eunuch had forgotten to ask her the reason in wanting to meet the emperor. The eunuch felt quite perturbed by this omission on his part and hoped that His Majesty would not punish him. "Alright." Chu Tiankuo waved his hand, looking at the memorials to the throne that he had not read yet. Then he said, "Tell Yue Ji that I have some memorials to the throne to deal with. "If she has something urgent to tell me, she can come in now. If not, I'll meet her when
As Tang Xia's plot had been discovered, she wore an embarrassed smile and touched her nose subconsciously. Then she looked at Chu Tiankuo coyly and prepared to leave. Looking at Tang Xia's blushing face, Chu Tiankuo laughed to himself. But he wore a poker face, pretending to be quite calm. As he choked back his laugh, Chu Tiankuo glanced at Tang Xia and said slowly, "Am I wrong?" As Tang Xia looked at Chu Tiankuo, she became more embarrassed and scratched her head. Then she said blushingly, "No." "Hm? Is it?" Tang Xia's behavior was so becoming that Chu Tiankuo wanted to tease her more, so he said, "It seems that you are unwilling to admit your mistake." "I...I..." Tang Xia lowered her head, raised her eyes to take a look at Chu Tiankuo secretly and stamped her foot in shyness. When Lyuyou saw Tang Xia's behavior, she exclaimed, "Is this Tang Xia, the woman I know?" As Lyuyou finished h
Although Lyuyou said so, Tang Xia was reluctant to eat humble pie. Zui Linglong had always said to her in a sarcastic tone that she would regard Tang Xia as HelloKitty if Tang Xia could not bear any insults. After taking a look at Chu Tiankuo, who was enjoying the show, Tang Xia wore a sly smile. Tang Xia then put on an aggrieved look and jumped on Chu Tianku. "Your Majesty, how could you tell the other imperial concubines about our conversation?" "It is all right that your imperial concubines are making jokes about me, but what if your people regard your empress as a fool who is a hypochondriac." "It will definitely do damage to our national prestige. How could you do such a thing, Your Majesty." Tang Xia paused and looked at Chu Tiankuo as if he was quite ignorant. As Tang Xia involved Chu Tiankuo in this matter, Chu Tiankuo could not find a reason to vindicate himself within such a short time.