The most romantic little emperor

"what--!"

When Dong Qingluan heard this, her body trembled violently and she let out a scream of terror. Her eyes were instantly filled with tears, sparkling and about to fall.

After being on the verge of collapse for a long time, she finally broke down and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty, it was the Queen who ordered me to hide in the secret room. Normally, she would not allow me to take a single step out. Every time I could come out, it was only to serve Your Majesty, and I had to go back after serving her."

"Serve me?" Qin Hao was slightly stunned, a hint of surprise flashed across his brows. He had no memory of any intimacy between them, and a hint of doubt arose in his heart.

Then, his gaze involuntarily turned to Dong Meir who was kneeling on the ground.

Those deep eyes seemed to contain thousands of words, yet they examined each other secretly in silence, as if trying to figure out the truth behind it all.

Dong Meir witnessed Dong Qingluan confessing under Qin Hao's majesty and intimidation, and an indescribable sadness and despair surged in her heart.

She knew very well that her explanation at this moment seemed pale and powerless, and she didn't know how to explain her deceptive behavior to Qin Hao.

Then, she slowly lowered her noble head, and her once arrogant posture turned into silent silence.

"Yeah." Dong Qingluan nodded slightly.

Then, she gently lowered her eyes, and under her long eyelashes, her almond-shaped eyes flashed with a hint of fear of the outside world.

Qin Hao suddenly remembered the night not long ago. The candlelight was flickering in the Linglong Palace. He was in a daze due to drunkenness. He only remembered that Dong Meir quietly turned off all the lights, leaving only a dark room with her tenderness.

At this moment, fragments of memory were quickly pieced together in my mind, and an astonishing idea flashed through my heart like lightning.

"Could it be..." Qin Hao's eyes turned cold and he instantly thought of a possibility!

"You mean, the ones who slept with me before, including the last time when you wore a phoenix robe, it was you, not Dong Meir?" His voice was low but with a majesty that could not be ignored, and there was a murderous intent on his iron face.

Dong Qingluan's body trembled, fear surged like a tide, she knelt on the ground trembling, tears welled up in her eyes, her voice was full of despair and pleading: "Your Majesty, please spare my life, I had no choice but to do this."

"Because my sister said that if I don't obey her wishes, she will send me out of the palace and send me to that place of prostitution, where I will never be a slave or a prostitute again."

"Sister?" Qin Hao frowned and murmured when he heard the words.

Dong Qingluan realized that she had said something wrong and her face turned pale as paper in an instant. She quickly reached out to cover her red lips which were slightly open due to panic, her eyes full of regret and helplessness.

"Humph, what a daredevil!"

Qin Hao looked at Dong Meir angrily, his voice filled with uncontrollable indignation, and he cursed, "Dong Meir, you are such a master at deceiving the world, and you even dared to deceive me. You are so bold!"

He felt betrayed by his closest relatives. He never imagined that the seemingly passionate Dong Meir was actually a scheming and vicious woman.

For a long time, she had been using others to serve him instead of me. I had been giving her opportunities to reform out of consideration for the physical intimacy between husband and wife. I had really wasted my sincerity.

At this moment, Qin Hao's eyes flashed with unprecedented coldness. Dong Meir's vicious and manipulative look made him feel extremely sick.

He gritted his teeth secretly, his chest burning with rage, and he wished he could immediately issue an order to banish her to the cold and lonely cold palace, so that they could be separated from each other and never see each other again, in order to relieve the hatred in his heart.

However, when he thought of the powerful Dong family, Qin Hao forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart, and his face gradually regained some calmness and depth.

Dong Meir, who was proud of her noble status, keenly felt the undisguised indifference and disgust in Qin Hao's eyes.

Her arrogance instantly died down, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito, with a barely perceptible tremor: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, and I beg you to consider our past relationship as husband and wife..."

Qin Hao interrupted her and sneered, "You think you can easily erase your mistakes with a simple "I know I was wrong"? You think I can easily forgive you? Don't tell me, you really think I'm a fool."

"I might as well tell you that my tolerance is never used to indulge people with evil minds like you. Wait a minute, when your father comes, I will settle the score with you."

After that, his eyes turned to Dong Qingluan like a sharp blade, and his tone was full of unquestionable majesty: "Dong Qingluan, tell me, what's going on? You all have the surname Dong, are you also from the Dong family?"

Dong Qingluan's heart seemed to be suddenly hit by a rainstorm. Amidst the raging waves, two lines of clear tears slid silently across her fair cheeks, and her lips trembled slightly.

For a long time, she was unable to utter a word, only deep fear filled the air.

After half a stick of incense.

Dong Qingluan explained the whole story in a disjointed manner.

At this moment, she knelt straight, yet looked so small and helpless, her shoulders trembling slightly, revealing unspeakable fear.

"Your Majesty, this is how it is." She mustered up her courage and spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

After saying this, Dong Qingluan secretly raised her eyes, her beautiful eyes flashing with cowardice and uneasiness, as if she was afraid that if she was not careful, she would anger the emperor and be sentenced to death.

This time, Qin Hao finally understood.

It turns out that Dong Qingluan is Dong Meir's cousin. Her parents died when she was young, and she lived in the Dong Mansion. However, she did not receive the warmth and protection she deserved. Instead, she experienced the coldness of human nature and was neglected in that deep courtyard.

Ever since Dong Meir entered the Eastern Palace and became the concubine of Qin Hao, who was still the crown prince at the time, she had carefully planned to quietly bring her cousin Dong Qingluan into the deep palace, using family affection as shackles to force Qingluan to obey her will.

Afterwards, she used the method of stealing the dragon and switching the phoenix to secretly send Dong Qingluan to Qin Hao's bed, while she herself never slept with him.

On weekdays, Dong Qingluan was like a canary in a cage, locked in an unknown secret room, and was never allowed to see people easily to avoid being discovered.

She would only escape from the cage when Dong Meir needed her and Qin Hao to sleep with her.

The manipulator behind all this was her nominal cousin, Dong Meir.

It has to be said that having a cousin like Dong Meir is extremely unfortunate and sad for Dong Qingluan.

Qin Hao looked at Dong Meir coldly, his eyes filled with anger, as if he wanted to dig out her heart to see what color it was.

At this moment, the last bit of kindness he had towards Dong Meir was gone.