funbook-pk Chapter 483: Expressing Lovesickness
Chapter 483: Expressing Lovesickness
Bai Zhi walked out of the kitchen and was about to bow and pay her respects, but the emperor gently raised his hand to stop her.
"Which room does your master live in? Can you show me?"
Her fingers trembled slightly as they moved from right to left, finally stopping at a Zen room with good lighting.
The emperor gestured to the others to wait where they were, while he walked to the door with steady and slightly heavy steps, his raised hand not falling for a long time.
Not long after, Cui Jinxi in the room was heard whispering persuasion.
"My wife didn't sleep well last night, why don't we——"
As he was speaking, the door creaked.
When Cui Jinxi turned her head, she was startled by the person standing at the door.
"Your Majesty!" she exclaimed.
Zhen Huan, who had her back to the door, gave a wry smile and murmured softly, "Your Majesty? Why is Your Majesty here?"
"Master, it's really the Emperor. I didn't lie to you!"
Cui Jinxi shouted again in surprise and joy.
Zhen Huan turned around abruptly and stared blankly at the man outside the door, tears streaming down her eyes like pearls from a broken string.
The emperor strode forward and held her cold little hand without any hesitation.
"Gao Changjin, the nun from Ganlu Temple just said that Wanpin moved here due to illness and is now well. Why does she still look so sick to me?"
"Your Majesty, this servant is here with you for the first time. How did I know that Master Mochou—Princess Wan—was still ill?"
Gao Changjin pretended not to know. This was a strategy they had agreed upon in advance, so as not to reveal any flaws and arouse the emperor's suspicion.
The Emperor helped Zhen Huan sit on the couch and turned his sharp gaze to Cui Jinxi: "What did you just say? Wanpin didn't sleep well last night? What do you mean by didn't sleep well again?"
Cui Jinxi knelt heavily on the ground and sobbed as Zhen Huan shook her head.
"In reply to Your Majesty, our master was initially expelled from Ganlu Temple on the pretext of lung pain. The icy weather and frail health of the master made his illness even worse. In reality, it wasn't tuberculosis at all. It was simply the result of our wife's persistent coughing after giving birth, as she didn't properly recuperate during her confinement."
Cui Jinxi wiped away the tears that blurred her vision and continued to report.
"Originally, it was said that the illness would gradually improve by spring with the medicine, but ever since leaving the palace, my wife has been missing the emperor and the princess. She's been in a trance and hasn't been able to sleep well, which is why she hasn't recovered."
After hearing this, the emperor took Zhen Huan, who had tears in her eyes, into his arms with heartache.
Seeing this, Cui Haoxing and Gao Changjin tactfully closed the door and left.
Gao Changjin sternly ordered the young eunuchs behind him, "Tell them all to retreat! Keep guard down below, and don't let even a fly in! Also, whoever tells anyone about what happened today will lose his own head. Do you understand?"
The eunuch, like a follower, responded repeatedly, "I understand!"
He kept whispering to the group of people behind him, "Go! Go!"
Jingbai, who had done something wrong, looked hesitantly at the closed door, feeling uneasy.
"His Majesty?"
Gao Changjin glanced at her sideways with a cold face, "The Emperor has his own Empress to serve him, why are you nagging?"
Jingbai had no choice but to say "yes" repeatedly and retreated with a lot on his mind.
The people Gao Changjin brought with him had already left the platform, and Bai Zhi also went to the kitchen. He walked up to Cui Jinxi and shook her hand with a smile.
"I haven't seen your boudoir yet. I wonder if I could have the pleasure of having a cup of tea with you today?"
Cui Jinxi's face suddenly changed and she reminded him in a low voice.
"The Emperor is inside. If something unexpected happens, none of us will be spared!"
Seeing that there was no one around, she took the initiative to hold Gao Changjin's hand and coaxed him in a gentle voice.
"Changjin, after the emperor leaves, I will go to the city to look for you. Are you worried that we won't have time to spend together?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
After getting the promise, Gao Changjin felt that the injuries on his body didn't hurt as much.
Damn Su Peisheng!
His "beauty saves the hero" strategy didn't work, and when he saw the woman he loved throwing herself into his arms, he went crazy.
They actually sent people to block him outside the alley, threw a handful of dust at him, and hit him on the head.
Except for his face, there was hardly a patch of healthy skin on his body.
As soon as Gao Changjin saw Cui Jinxi, he became furious and wanted to make trouble for her.
Now that she has persuaded me like this, I feel that I am not at such a disadvantage.
When I take Cui Jinxi past Su Peisheng in the future, he will definitely feel jealous, which will be more satisfying than beating him up.
In the room, Zhen Huan leaned in the emperor's arms and cried silently without saying a word.
The emperor was so anxious that he patted his back gently and comforted him in a gentle voice.
"Hanhuan, I'm here! I'm here!"
"Shiro, I've been waiting for you for so long."
The gentle and resentful voice penetrated into the emperor's heart, making him feel a suffocating pain.
Rouze also said something similar to him when she had a difficult childbirth.
In the blur, the emperor felt that the images of the two people were gradually overlapping, and he hugged the person in his arms tightly.
"You make me sad. Why are you crying?"
Zhen Huan raised her tear-stained face and looked at the emperor whom she "thought about day and night" with tearful eyes.
"Everyone thought Huanhuan was hopelessly wrong to leave the palace, but only Huanhuan herself knew, and only now did she realize that what she did back then was absolutely correct."
"In the past, Huanhuan always thought that Silang no longer had any feelings for me, but because I am Longyue's biological mother and look somewhat similar to Queen Chunyuan, he wanted me to stay in the palace."
"Hanhuan admired Silang so much that she was really hurt by the phrase 'Wanwan resembles you'."
The emperor's eyes deepened and he stroked Zhen Huan's head lovingly.
"Why are you still talking about this now?"
He sighed inwardly, hoping that Zhen Huan could be as sensible as An Lingrong.
Zhen Huan had no idea what the man holding her was thinking. She slowly lowered her head and touched the red rope on her wrist.
"Silang, during these years since I left the palace, Huanhuan has been thinking about me all the time. If Silang still has a bit of sincerity towards me - no, just a little bit - Huanhuan will die without regrets."
"It's been three years since Huanhuan left Silang. Even after not seeing each other for three years, Silang still misses her the whole time. Just now, I heard from the Emperor that Huanhuan was away due to illness, so I rushed from Ganlu Temple to Lingyun Peak to visit her. If Huanhuan only knew that Silang still had some sincerity towards me, what regrets would there be in these three years of separation?"
"If I had known that the Emperor still remembered me, Huanhuan would have been willing to shorten her life by ten years."
The emperor didn't know what he was thinking about, and an indescribable feeling of emotion and guilt surged in his heart.
He covered Zhen Huan's mouth and said in a deep voice.
"Don't talk nonsense. Huanhuan, after three years in Ganlu Temple, your temperament has become much gentler. If you hadn't been so willful and impulsive back then, how could I have been willing to let you leave the palace?"
"When you gave birth to Longyue, I abolished your title and position, allowing you to reflect on your mistakes. If your title and position still existed, how could you have known the suffering after leaving the palace?"