I just want to live a happy life

The amount of arsenic that Ruyi took was not much but not too little either. Her health had already been damaged by her time in the cold palace.

This time it was even worse, so she needed to stay in bed for a while.

Although she still lives in the cold palace, she is no longer a commoner. After she was restored to a noble lady, the emperor assigned several people to serve her.

As soon as she recovers, she can go to Yiku Palace.

The imperial physician explained that not only was she poisoned by arsenic, but the burns on her legs had not healed, so she needed to stay in bed and not move.

The people serving her now are not familiar to her, and she doesn't know if these people have been told that apart from serving Ruyi, they will not speak without Ruyi's instructions.

In such silence, Ruyi couldn't go out. She could still bear it on the first day, but after a few days, she was almost driven crazy.

On this day, Ruyi drank the medicine after being served, just like the previous few days, and then lay on the bed in a daze.

At this time, footsteps were heard outside, getting closer and closer. Ruyi turned around and saw that it was Ling Yunche.

Seeing her, Ruyi sat up and smiled: "Ling Yunche, why are you here?"

Because there were outsiders present, Ling Yunche only walked a few steps after entering, and said from a distance: "I am here to congratulate Concubine Xian. After suffering in the cold palace for so long, she finally has her happy ending."

When Ruyi heard the three words "Concubine Xian", her face looked a little unnatural and she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

But she also knew that Ling Yunche didn't poke her wound on purpose, so she smiled faintly and said, "I have to thank you for this. If you hadn't helped me so often in the cold palace, I wouldn't be alive today, let alone leave the cold palace."

Ling Yunche said modestly: "Lady Xian, your words really humiliate me. I didn't help much either. It was all up to you, Lady Xian."

Ling Yunche would not be so distant and polite to her. When she got along with Ling Yunche before, he was very natural and familiar with her. What happened to him today?

Ruyi felt a little dissatisfied. She accidentally saw the palace maid standing outside the door, and then she realized what was going on.

He was moved by Ling Yunche again. Ling Yunche was such a good person. He knew that she was no longer a commoner. In order to avoid being criticized, he began to pay attention to the separation between men and women.

He did this for her own good.

Although she suffered a lot during her time in the cold palace because of惢心, she was still very lucky. She actually met a good person like Ling Yunche in a place like the cold palace.

Thinking about how Ling Yunche had helped her a lot before, Ruyi felt that she needed to do something to thank him.

So after Ling Yunche left, Ruyi asked someone to bring her something. She planned to make a pair of shoes herself to thank Ling Yunche.

A palace maid who served her put something in front of her, and looked at Ruyi's red and swollen claws, wanting to say something but stopping herself. Her hands had become like this, was she sure she could still hold the embroidery needle?

The maid expressed her doubt.

But the palace maid didn't expect that Ruyi was really capable of it. Her hands had become like this when she first entered the cold palace. When she was embroidering the handkerchief at the beginning, her hands didn't listen to her commands, but after many times, she had gotten used to it.

Although her craftsmanship is not as good as before, it is still acceptable.

She knew in her heart that it was wrong for her, as the emperor's concubine, to make shoes for other men, so every time she did it, she would ask someone to go out and she would do it secretly.

Finally, the shoes given to Ling Yunche were completed the day before he was released from the cold palace.

On the next day, Ruyi changed into a Manchu dress and put on the flower-pot bottoms again. The moment she walked out of the room, she looked at the palace maids and eunuchs who saluted her, and she raised her head proudly again.

It was as if she had become the pure and high-ranking Empress Xian again.

Just like the original plot, it was Li Yu who picked up Ruyi when she came out of the cold palace, but this time Li Yu did not cry with joy. Instead, he had a blank expression on his face and was very distant towards Ruyi.

"Lady Xian, the Yikun Palace has been cleaned up and is waiting for you to move in. Let's go."

But Ruyi did not move. Instead, she waved everyone away, walked to Ling Yunche who was standing aside, and gave him a box: "I am in the cold palace thanks to your care. I don't know how to thank you, so I prepared a gift for you."

Ling Yunche couldn't say much in front of so many people, he could only say: "Thank you, Lady Xian."

Ruyi smiled faintly and turned away.

He walked down the steps, and the deposed concubine standing on both sides looking at her saluted her, saying, "Greetings to the Emperor."

Ruyi looked at these people with pity in her eyes. Although these people had beaten her, she was a tolerant person. Seeing how pitiful they were, she would show mercy and forgive them.

Now that she can go out, these deposed concubines will have to stay in this cold and gloomy palace forever, with no one to warm them, so she will be the person who warms them.

Thinking of this, Ruyi performed a very standard salute to the deposed concubine standing on her left, then turned around and performed another standard salute to the deposed concubine standing on her right.

Then, she walked out of the cold palace with a smile on her face and her body straightened.

But she had no idea how speechless the palace maids and eunuchs following behind her were.

In their view, Concubine Xian's behavior was to confuse the superior with the inferior. What was the difference between this and a master paying respect to them, his servants?

Isn't it said that Concubine Xian was born into a noble family, the Ulanara clan? Is this how the Ulanara family educated people?

Thinking in this way, the palace maids and eunuchs' filter of Ruyi's noble birth and good upbringing since childhood was shattered.

He also remembered that she had been to the cold palace, and he looked down on her even more.

Ling Yunche, who was standing at the back, opened the box in his hand with anticipation after seeing Ruyi and her group walk away.

He thought Ruyi would give him some gold, silver and treasures. She should know that he lacked these now.

He had used up all the money he had on buying arsenic for Ruyi. If he hadn't borrowed some money from Zhao Jiuxiao, he would probably have been left with nothing.

However, Ling Yunche was destined to be disappointed. Looking at the pair of shoes in the box, Ling Yunche was dazed for a moment.

He took the shoes in his hands and saw the crooked stitching on them. It was obvious that they were made by Ruyi.

But why did Ruyi embroider a cake inside her shoes? What does this mean?

If Ruyi was present, she would definitely tell him that what was embroidered was not a cake, but a Ruyi cloud pattern.

When Ling Yunche looked at the pair of shoes, he was not touched that Ruyi had made a pair of shoes for him personally. Instead, he felt angry and furious. She clearly knew what he lacked most, but she gave him these worthless shoes to get rid of him.

But he calmed down his anger when he remembered what Ruyi had said before, that she would make him an imperial guard.

He comforted himself in his heart that there was a reason why Ruyi gave him the shoes. She must really regard him as a friend, and friends should not care about worldly things like gold and silver.