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Chapter 186: Rejected Again
The emperor has countless concubines, and Nangong Xuanyu doesn't know why Shen Zhinian can make him so confused.
Originally, in his plan, he had to take his time to get rid of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. But because of her, he even changed his attitude towards the Duke of Zhenguo in advance...
Nangong Xuanyu always believed that he only doted on the women in his harem, not loved them.
It has also been said that no one will be an exception.
But her appearance broke his inherent cognition...
As an emperor, Nangong Xuanyu was used to having everything under his control, and he didn't like things that were beyond his control.
So at the beginning, when he realized that he had already had enough of Concubine Rou, he treated her coldly for a whole month, hoping that his feelings for her would fade.
This time, he should do so even more.
An emperor should not and cannot have weaknesses.
But... he deliberately ignored her last time, and in the end, he was the one who suffered...
Nangong Xuanyu subconsciously took a step forward, wanting to go to Tingyu Pavilion to see her. However, he realized that he had just come out of Tingyu Pavilion in the morning and sent a lot of rewards there.
She was supposed to go to the Queen's Palace on the first night of the New Year. If she went to Tingyu Pavilion, not only would the Queen hate her to the core, but the concubines in the harem would also be even less willing to tolerate her.
Nangong Xuanyu pursed his thin lips slightly, got on the dragon sedan chair, and said in a deep voice: "No need, I will return to the Yangxin Palace."
Li Changde waved his whisk and said, "Your Majesty, please get up--!!!"
In his opinion, His Majesty doesn't care about Concubine Rou, but cares about her too much!
After all, His Majesty always favors which concubines he wants. Apart from Concubine Rou, he has never seen His Majesty consider others so much.
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Kunning Palace.
Logically speaking, the emperor and the empress are one. The emperor is entertaining his ministers in the Hall of Supreme Harmony today. The concubines do not need to attend, but the queen mother should be there.
But last night, Queen Jiang had to ask the imperial physician to prescribe strong medicine so that she could stay awake and attend the New Year's Eve banquet. In addition, what happened at the banquet dealt her a great blow, and Queen Jiang really couldn't get up.
She had been lying in bed drowsily all day, and every time she woke up she would ask, "Is His Majesty here?"
Fanghua looked at him with heartache: "My queen, if you want to see His Majesty, you have to take care of your own body... It's getting late, don't wait any longer, just rest..."
"Do not."
Queen Jiang shook her head weakly: "Your Majesty rests in Kunning Palace on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. This is the rule left by our ancestors. Moreover, today is the first day of the lunar year. I must wait..."
Although His Majesty was suspicious of her because of the Suhe Pill incident and did not come to have lunch with her today, Queen Jiang always understood that although the emperor did not love her, he respected her very much. He would never let everyone in the palace laugh at her as a queen on a day like this.
"Fanghua, take another look. I have been lying down for so long. Is my hair messy? Please put on some rouge for me. I don't want His Majesty to see me looking sick during the New Year..."
The Queen Mother has become so thin that she is unrecognizable. No matter how hard you look at her face, you can no longer see her former beauty.
Fang Hua tried hard to hold back her tears, and forced a smile, saying, "Your Majesty is the mother of the country, graceful and elegant. Of course, His Majesty will like her when he sees her..."
Queen Jiang also knew that Fanghua was comforting herself, but she began to wait bitterly. Because she was seriously ill and not favored by the emperor, this was her last dignity as the empress.
Fanghua couldn't bear it, and urged the little palace maid several times: "Go out and find out, is the state banquet in the Hall of Supreme Harmony not over yet?"
After several times of this, a little palace maid finally came back, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated: "The state banquet ended a long time ago, but Your Majesty... Your Majesty did not come to Kunning Palace..."
"What did you say?!"
Queen Jiang's skinny hands suddenly grabbed the edge of the bed, and the blue veins on the back of her hands popped out!
"Today is the first day of the new year, why doesn't His Majesty come to Kunning Palace?!"
Is Shen so important to His Majesty? Is she so important that he is so cruel that he doesn't even want to give her the dignity of the Queen Mother?
The little maid was so scared that she knelt on the ground and trembled: "Your Majesty, I don't know either..."
Queen Jiang's eyes were filled with hatred: "Where did your Majesty go? Did he go to Tingyu Pavilion?!"
If that's the case, even without her doing anything, the jealousy of the women in the harem would be enough to make Shen Zhinian suffer!
The censors in the court would not let her go when they saw that His Majesty neglected the Empress for a minor noble!
The little palace maid said, "No, His Majesty did not go anywhere and returned to the Yangxin Palace."
Fanghua comforted her, "Your Majesty, look, His Majesty did not ignore you because of Concubine Rou. I guess you were too tired from today's state banquet, so you returned to the Yangxin Palace to rest..."
Queen Jiang's mood not only did not improve, but became worse. She said in a tearful tone, "If Your Majesty really went to Tingyu Pavilion, I would not be so angry. Because that means that although Your Majesty loves Shen, he only treats her as a plaything and does not care about her life or death at all."
"But His Majesty didn't go, which just shows that he was considering Shen's situation! How ridiculous, a ruthless emperor would actually care about a woman..."
"I, as the queen mother, actually lost to a mere noble..."
All the palace maids in the room knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe.
Even Fanghua didn't know how to comfort the Queen, and could only say dryly: "Your Majesty is only interested in Concubine Rou for a while. Concubine Wen is not only beautiful, but also talented. When Yuanxiao enters the palace, how can Your Majesty still see Concubine Rou?"
Queen Jiang was becoming increasingly uncertain: "Let's hope... Write a letter to my father on my behalf and ask him to pick a few beautiful and easy-to-control maids to accompany Noble Lady Wen into the palace."
She didn't believe that this wouldn't be enough to win His Majesty's heart back from Shen!
"Yes."
……
In any case, His Majesty did not rest in Kunning Palace on the night of New Year's Day, and the Queen was completely embarrassed.
Concubine Liu was taking care of the eldest princess in Yongshou Palace. She laughed happily for a long time after hearing this: "When the queen was in the palace, she relied on her status as the principal wife to look down on me everywhere. Now she has come to this day! I really want to go to Kunning Palace to see if she is dying of this blow!"
"Lady Rou has done a great job! Someone, pick out some good things from my storehouse and send them to Tingyu Pavilion."
Although she doesn't like His Majesty to care too much about Concubine Rou, as long as she can strike a blow to the sick Queen, Concubine Rou is great!
Cuizhu knew that the Imperial Concubine didn't care much about Concubine Rou, she just wanted to slap the Empress in the face with this action: "Yes, I will do it right away."
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The second day of the new year.
After finishing the ancestor worship and sacrificial offerings and having dinner, Nangong Xuanyu came to Tingyu Pavilion.
Shen Zhinian still let Handan speak, and she still went to bed, refusing the emperor entry.