When Shi Yi thinks about Xianyu, someone always comes to disturb her.

In Kyoto, inside the imperial city, the emperor received a tip-off from the secret guards that Prince Dongshan had escaped.

The emperor sighed and did not send anyone to chase him.

It was already late at night when he finished dealing with state affairs. He came to the harem and went to the queen's palace.

Ever since the incident with Uncle Chen, he never set foot into the Queen's bedroom again.

His relationship with the queen reached freezing point. Even when the queen requested an audience, he did not summon her to see him.

Looking back, the queen did not need to be notified whenever she came. He regarded her as his own wife and gave her the greatest trust and respect.

He never expected, he never dreamed, that the queen would be manipulated by her family, and did many things that violated his taboos without his knowledge.

It turns out that being backstabbed by the person he trusted the most hurts his heart the most, and this wound will never heal.

It's just there, bloody, and it hurts when I think about it.

How could he not know the grievances suffered by King Dongshan?

He was a coward as an emperor. His brother was wronged but he did not give him justice.

This created a rift between the brothers.

In the past, King Dongshan trusted his brother the most and would not hide anything in his mind from him.

And now, King Dongshan has also learned to hide his thoughts.

Alas! Anyone would make the same choice.

After all, I failed to protect this brother who loved me so much.

All this is because of Uncle Chen!

Although Chen Guojiu was not executed for the sake of the Queen's face, she also had no intention of letting him go.

Keep him in jail and don't allow any family members to visit him!

Don't even think about any special care. He just wants him to experience the real treatment of death row prisoners in the death row.

Eunuch: "The Emperor has arrived!"

All the servants in the Queen's palace were replaced later, and the servants brought by the Chen family were later executed by the Emperor to vent his anger.

The queen had lost a lot of weight, and the emperor never saw her again after he returned from his incognito visit. The palace was the most snobbish place in the world.

The emperor's attitude is a weather vane.

Ever since the rift and discord between the emperor and the empress began, her living conditions as the empress took a sharp turn for the worse.

Although on the surface, she still sits firmly on the throne of Queen, her status in this huge harem is still supreme, no one can shake it in the slightest, and no one dares to treat her badly or neglectfully.

However, only she herself knew that the way people looked at her had subtly changed.

The respect that was contained in the eyes that fell on her in the past was gradually disappearing, and was replaced by full of suspicion.

This feeling was like tiny needles piercing her heart, causing her great torture.

But faced with such a situation, even though she felt extremely painful, she could only endure it silently and had no other options.

After all, the fickleness of human relationships and the vicissitudes of the world in the deep palace have never been something she can fully control.

She knelt on the ground and paid her respects to the emperor in accordance with palace rules.

She had taken off her hairpins and untied her hair, and lay down to rest.

The emperor arrived suddenly, and she didn't even have time to put on her coat before crawling out of bed.

Now that she was kneeling on the ground, she naturally felt cold and her body was shivering slightly.

How could the emperor not see that he felt aggrieved and helpless! He felt distressed and resentful!

"Get up and put on some clothes so you don't catch a cold."

The Queen's nose felt sore when she heard this, and the palace maid immediately helped her put on a thick dress. She raised her head and looked at the Emperor with tears in her eyes, as if she had a thousand words to say but didn't know where to start.

The emperor sat down and said softly, "You should sit down too, and let's talk for a while."

The queen sat down cautiously. In the past she would have sat next to the emperor, but now she could only sit below him.

Although they were only three steps apart, she felt as if there was a mountain between her and the emperor.

The emperor took a sip of tea, raised his head and looked at the woman he loved most in the past with indifferent eyes.

"I heard from the servants that you came to see me yesterday? What was it about?"

The Queen suppressed her tears, her eyes were red and she looked at the Emperor pitifully, and said with a choked voice:

"Nothing... nothing, I just want to pay my respects to the Emperor."

The emperor put down the teacup in his hand and said calmly:

"I heard that the father-in-law came to see you not long ago?"

The queen's face was obviously a little flustered, and she quickly explained:

"My father is here to pay his respects, too. He...he..."

The emperor snorted and the queen stopped talking.

The two of them knew exactly what the father-in-law was here for. His son was locked up by the emperor, so what else could he do?

So the queen's words seemed so ridiculous.

The emperor looked at his queen and asked, "Queen, do you think it's fun to talk like this?"

The queen's tears suddenly fell like pearls from a broken string.

She bit her lip to stop herself from making any sound, but she couldn't stop the tears from falling.

"Today I will speak frankly. You don't have to go to great lengths to test my attitude. I will tell you the truth. Uncle Chen's crimes are worthy of being killed a hundred times!"

The queen looked up suddenly in surprise, unable to believe that these words came out of the emperor's mouth.

"Your Majesty, you used to admire him! He...he was just confused for a moment...that's why he did something wrong..."

The queen slid down from her seat and knelt on the ground. She raised her head and begged bitterly:

"Your Majesty, please do not judge by appearances. You can punish him in any way you want, but please don't kill him. Please don't let my father die before his time. My father only has this one son, Your Majesty..."

She couldn't help crying.

The emperor looked at the queen coldly: "You only ask me to let him go, so why don't you care what he has done? How many crimes has he committed?"

The queen said in panic: "His crime is...he stole the token from me, which is indeed a serious crime, but...but..."

The emperor turned away in disappointment and closed his eyes.

"Queen, I always thought that the Chen family was good, and I was very kind to them. I never expected that, humph!"

The emperor picked up the teacup on the table and smashed it to pieces.

With a "pop" sound, the queen was frightened and screamed.

The palace maid and eunuch knelt on the ground.

The emperor stood up suddenly and shouted, "All of you, get out!"

The emperor seldom got so angry that the palace servants all fled from the queen's bedroom as if they were running for their lives.

Only the emperor and the empress were left in the huge room.

The emperor's eyes were cold: "Queen, do you know who was behind the things the eldest prince did?"

The queen hugged herself and tried hard to stop her body from shaking so much.

"I don't know."

The emperor sneered, "It's Uncle Chen!"

The queen's eyes suddenly widened, and she thought there might be something wrong with her ears.

The emperor laughed and said, "Why do you think he did this?"