Xiao Jinran was sitting at the desk, holding his forehead with his hands and meditating. His irritability could be seen in the frown between his eyebrows.
The door to the royal study room was suddenly pushed open. Xiao Jinran didn't even raise his head and said coldly: "Get out."
"emperor."
Hearing the soft voice, Xiao Jinran knew that Wen Nianruan was here. He raised his head and looked at Wen Nianruan's eyes with undisguised disgust: "What are you doing here?"
Knowing that the child in Zhao Xiuyi's belly was caused by the Queen Mother, and that she framed Su Wanyan, Xiao Jinran hated the Queen Mother to the extreme, and his disgust for Wen Nianruan also increased.
"My concubine came to see the Emperor, and naturally she has something to discuss."
Wen Nianruan ignored Xiao Jinran's expression and sat on a chair beside him.
"Go away, I don't want to see you now!"
Xiao Jinran took the tea cup at hand and threw it to Wen Nianruan's feet with a "pop" sound. The tea cup shattered with the sound, and water stains splashed on Wen Nianruan's embroidered shoes. She lowered her eyes and glanced lightly.
Kick away the debris at your feet.
The palace people guarding outside heard the movement inside the room and knew that the emperor was angry, so they clamped their necks cautiously for fear of being angered.
Wen Nianruan was calm and composed, with a smile on his lips: "Your Majesty, please don't be angry. I'm just here to negotiate with the Emperor. I know that the Emperor knows in his heart that Concubine Shu was framed, and the mastermind behind it is the Queen Mother.
I will help the emperor settle the matter of Concubine Shu, and the emperor will promise me something, how about it?"
Xiao Jinran's anger suddenly subsided a bit, and he looked at Wen Nianruan with squinted deep eyes: "What do you want me to promise you?"
He had just interrogated the maid who testified against Su Wanyan. Although she insisted that it was Su Wanyan who caused Zhao Xiuyi's miscarriage, Xiao Jinran could tell from her eyes that it was the Queen Mother who was behind it.
He didn't expect that Wen Nianruan would still want to make a deal with him at this time, but he was also curious about what Wen Nianruan wanted to do.
Wen Nianruan looked him in the eyes calmly: "I want to be free."
She doesn't want to be a concubine in the harem. She wants to be a free man in the harem in the future.
Xiao Jinran read this from her eyes and was shocked. He still couldn't believe it: "What did you just say?"
Wen Nianruan moved his eyes away and repeated: "I want to be free, and I don't want to be a concubine in the harem anymore."
When she looked directly into Xiao Jinran's eyes just now, she didn't dare to think about Yun Chenan. She could only think about her desire to leave the palace. This made Xiao Jinran more convinced of her determination to regain her freedom.
What happened between her and Yun Chenan cannot be known to Xiao Jinran and others. Only when she truly breaks away from her status as a concubine can she and Yun Chenan be together openly.
Xiao Jinran was silent, looking at Wen Nianruan with calm eyes, and found that this woman was always difficult for him to see through. It was obvious that his mind-reading skills could see through her heart, but her heart seemed to be covered with another layer of veil, which made people feel uncomfortable.
I can't always understand what she is really thinking.
When she first entered the palace, she hid in the palace and did not go out. Every time she went to see her, she could see that she didn't want to see him in her heart, and she still called him "the dog emperor."
Some time ago, I came forward to show my courtesy again. I was still thinking of listening to the Queen Mother and trying to win favor in order to keep the favor of the Wen family alive.
But now, I am thinking about leaving the palace and no longer want to be a concubine in the harem.
Xiao Jinran has a pair of eyes that can read minds, but he cannot see through Wen Nianruan's heart.
After a moment, he sneered and said: "The Queen Mother sent you to the palace in order to ambush me and help the Queen Mother and Xiao Weifeng win my throne in the future. Now you suddenly want to leave the palace. How about the Queen Mother?"
Just don’t care?”
He had always understood the thoughts of the Queen Mother and Xiao Weifeng, and also knew their purpose of sending Wen Nianruan into the harem, so he never touched Wen Nianruan, leaving the Queen Mother with no opportunity to take advantage of them.
Wen Nianruan chuckled, seeming to be sarcastic: "I have never taken orders from her, so why should I care about her so much? I only care about what I want to do, the ambitions of the Queen Mother and Xiao Weifeng, and the honor of the Wen family.
What does it have to do with my concubine?"
I opened up the conversation with Xiao Weifeng today and didn't bother to hide it anymore.
Xiao Jinran said: "But you are from the Wen family, how could you not think about the Wen family?"
"But the Wen family never treats their concubines as family members, they only treat them as chess pieces."
Wen Nianruan held the tea cup, his fingernails scratched the surface of the cup, and a smile on the corner of his mouth showed a wild smile: "However, I am a chess piece that is not very obedient, and I will not let them manipulate me."
Xiao Jinran's brows were solemn, his eyes closed and silent, as if he was weighing.
Xiao Jinran's mother, Yu Sang, was a woman of unknown origin. When she first entered the palace, she had no family background and no background. So after Xiao Jinran ascended the throne, he had no support from his grandfather's family, and almost all the ministers in the court were won over by the Queen Mother.
Only Su Muye's family was loyal to Xiao Jinran, so he couldn't let the Su family and Su Wanyan get into trouble. If something happened to the Su family, it would play into the Queen Mother's hands.
So he couldn't ignore Su Wanyan.
But for Xiao Jinran, letting Wen Nianruan out of the palace was just a piece of cake. Before, he would have wished the woman to get out quickly, but now that he had a new understanding of Wen Nianruan, he was a little hesitant.
He couldn't explain his feelings towards Wen Nianruan. Sometimes he was disgusted to death, but sometimes it touched his heart.
This woman is so annoying!
Xiao Jinran pursed her lower lip and raised her eyes: "If I promise you that I will treat you well in the future, will you still think about leaving the palace?"
Wen Nianruan's face was startled, and he was panicking. Don't be nice to her. She just wanted to stay away from him.
She said: "Your Majesty, it's not necessary. I don't want to stay in the palace. I just want to be an ordinary person in the future."
Xiao Jinran could tell that she wanted to leave the palace.
He felt an inexplicable coldness in his heart. He suddenly remembered that Wen Nianruan had a sweetheart before entering the palace. He couldn't help but ask: "You don't want to stay in the palace because of the person you like?"
?!
Wen Nianruan's eyelids twitched, how did he know there was someone she liked in her heart?
Could it be that her affair with Yun Chenan was discovered?
But even if she is discovered, she cannot admit it even if she is beaten to death at this time.
Wen Nianruan didn't look into Xiao Jinran's eyes and said with a smile: "I am empty-hearted. How can I like anyone? Besides, I stay in the palace all day and have no contact with other men."
Planting green grass on Xiao Jinran's head can't be discussed now even if she is beaten to death. If she is discovered, she can slap her butt and leave at any time, but Yun Chenan cannot.
As a national master of a country, he has too many things on his shoulders.
What Wen Nianruan didn't know was that he and Xiao Jinran were not on the same topic at all.
Xiao Jinran was talking about the person she liked before entering the palace, who was Xiao Weifeng, while the person Wen Nianruan liked now was Yun Chenan.
Seeing that Xiao Jinran had been hesitating, Wen Nianruan didn't know what he was hesitating about.
Compared to her, shouldn't Su Wanyan be more important?