"You!" Hearing Xianyue's admission with his own ears, Hongli was so angry that he didn't know what to say. For a long time, he vigorously waved his sleeves and turned his back and said: "Xia Qing has no such intention, why do you have to be so aggressive and even have a little leeway?"
Don’t even want to stay?”
"What about the emperor, have you left the so-called leeway for your concubines?" When he said this, the tears he had been holding back fell from his bright eyes. Unfortunately... Hongli never saw it, let alone looked at it.
The undisguised sadness and sadness, by the time Hongli turned around, had all been hidden again, leaving only some residual traces on his cheeks.
Hongli never noticed this, but said angrily: "You are simply arrogant!"
His rebuke made Xianyue feel more and more uncomfortable. She bit her lower lip until she was about to bleed, and then she managed to squeeze out a sentence, "Yes, my concubine is like this. Did the emperor only know about it today?"
Hongli was extremely angry. If the person standing in front of him was not Xianyue, he would have already deposed him into the cold palace. How could he have said so many words to him? After barely suppressing his anger, he said: "I ask you,
Do you know you were wrong?"
Before Xianyue spoke, Aluo whispered in his ear: "Master, please don't get angry with the emperor. You obviously don't mean that at all, so why bother!"
Xianyue ignored her, only stared at Hongli and said, "I don't know what my fault is. I send Xia Qing out of the palace for her own good."
Hongli said angrily: "Why do you still lie at this time? Nala Xianyue, do you consider me your husband? Do you?!"
Xianyue refused to give in and said: "In this regard, the emperor should ask himself, have you ever regarded your concubine as your wife?"
In anger, Hongli blurted out: "You are not my wife!"
Hearing these words, Xianyue was stunned for a moment, and then she smiled with a very cold smile, bowed and said: "I know that I am guilty, please punish me!"
She should not forget her identity. No matter how high a position Hongli gave her or how much favor he gave her, she was just a concubine. How could she deserve the word "wife"? In Hongli's heart,
I'm afraid that only Mingyu is worthy, and she thinks too highly of herself.
Xianyue's words made Hongli understand that he had hurt her heart, but he was so angry that he didn't think too much and just said: "I will ask you one last time, do you realize that you were wrong?"
As long as Xianyue admits his mistake, he will not pursue the matter again. After all, he still cares about Xianyue in his heart. That sentence is not so much asking Xianyue to admit his mistake as it is to find a way for him to step up.
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"My concubine is not wrong." Xianyue's answer made Hongli angry and his hands could not help shaking. He had not been so angry for a long time. He gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, you are not wrong. You will be wrong all your life."
Nothing wrong, it’s all my fault!”
"Your Majesty, that's not what the master meant. Master..." A Luo was mid-sentence when he was sharply interrupted by Hongli, "Shut up, when will it be your turn to speak!"
After such a scolding, Hongli looked at Xianyue again, with a hint of revenge: "You don't like Xia Qing to stay in the palace, do you? I insist on letting her stay in the palace for the rest of her life.
In the palace, I will also make her a noble person. At least...she has me in her heart, unlike you, who only contradicts me!"
Hongli may have said angry words, but when Xianyue heard them, he was not afraid of a bolt from the blue and said in disbelief: "Do you really want to make Xia Qing a noble person?"
Hongli hesitated for a moment, then said coldly: "Yes, does the imperial concubine have any objections?"
Xianyue said nothing, but held her hands hanging in her sleeves tightly. For a long time, she bowed to Hongli and said sincerely: "I congratulate the emperor on finding a beautiful woman!"
Hongli never expected that Xianyue would actually say such a sentence. His words were simply meant to anger Xianyue, and he did not really want to seal Xia Qing. The result...
Hongli stared at her and said, "Do you really think so?"
Xianyue turned away and whispered: "Yes."
"Okay." Hongli nodded slowly and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Xiaowu, according to my decree, Xia Qing can be ennobled immediately and given a residence in Changchun Palace, Yihua Residence!"
Xiao Wu said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, do you really want to make Miss Xia a noble person? She..." Before he could finish speaking, Hongli said sternly: "Don't you want to do this job?"
Hearing this, Xiao Wu didn't dare to say any more, and went down to deliver the order as he was told. But not long after he went down, Hongli took a deep look at Xianyue and walked away.
After he walked away, Xianyue fell softly to the ground as if her strength had been drained away. Aluo and Zhichun quickly helped her sit down in the chair. Aluo said distressedly: "Master, you are obviously not in your heart.
If you think like that, why would you say that? Isn’t that just an intention to make the emperor angry?”
Zhichun said from the side: "Isn't it? In the end, Xia Qing, that bitch, is a noble person. How can an ungrateful person like her deserve to be a noble person? If you want me to say that, she is even more hateful than Wei Jingxuan, and she should be quartered."
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A Luo glared at her and said, "Okay, are you still saying this because you think the master is not annoying enough?"
Zhichun stuck out his tongue and said no more. Seeing that Xianyue remained silent, Aluo said softly: "Master, why don't I help you to explain it clearly to the emperor? As long as the emperor knows Xia Qing's true face, he will definitely change.
Sincerely, the misunderstanding between you and the Emperor can also be resolved."
"No need." Xianyue didn't know why she could still laugh under such circumstances, but she knew that her smile at the moment must be hollow.
A Luo said in confusion: "Why, do you really want to allow the Emperor to confer Xia Qing and let this misunderstanding continue? The way the Emperor looked just now, I am really worried that he will depose you."
Xianyue shook her head and said: "If he wants to be abolished, let him be abolished. This imperial concubine really has no meaning at all." As she said that, she took off the pearls in her hair and threw them on the ground, "I am very tired, really.
very tired."
Seeing this, A Luo said with relief: "Master, don't think too much, the emperor... just said it out of anger. In fact, the emperor still cares about you very much, otherwise there would be no punishment at all."
"Care?" Xianyue said tiredly: "I have finally figured it out this time. In the heart of the Emperor, I will never be as good as a queen who made a mistake, not even Concubine Yu, Xia Qing and others.
"The Imperial Concubine..." She sneered: "That sounds nice, but to put it bluntly, she is still just a concubine. You
Didn't you hear the contempt in the emperor's tone just now? No matter how much I have done for him, in his heart, it is far less than Fucha Mingyu. Perhaps, when I died, I didn't even have a decent coffin."
As he spoke, tears flowed silently down his face and dripped onto the back of his hands, still retaining his body temperature.
[Author's digression]: There is another chapter like this at twelve o'clock