Regent, the princess you found is a treasure

At the hour of Mao, sunlight shone through the window lattice into the Qinzheng Hall in the imperial palace. The hall was solemn and quiet. A group of ministers had already lined up neatly on both sides, respectfully waiting for the emperor to come to court. However, as time passed, the time was over, but the emperor still did not appear. Everyone couldn't help but murmur in their hearts: What happened to the emperor today? Why didn't he show up?

Xuan Moyin, who was standing under the dragon throne, had a gloomy face and scanned the people below with cold eyes. He knew very well that the emperor was probably still sleeping soundly in Yuhan Palace at this moment. Facing this situation, Xuan Moyin did not show any surprise, as if everything was expected.

The ministers in the palace seemed a little uneasy. The Crown Prince, Prince Ning, Prince Zhao and others all stared at Xuan Moyin silently, trying to find some clues from his cold face. However, Xuan Moyin still said nothing, standing there like an iceberg, making people dare not approach easily.

Seeing this, everyone knew that it was not appropriate to say more about this matter, so they all lowered their heads and waited quietly for the emperor to arrive. The entire hall fell into a strange silence, with only occasional coughs and the sound of clothes rubbing against each other. Although they were extremely anxious, no one dared to act rashly, for fear of angering the powerful regent, Xuan Moyin.

Meanwhile, in Yuhan Palace, Concubine Rou slowly woke up. What time was it? Why didn't any palace maids come to help her change clothes and wash up?

Concubine Rou sat up in a daze. Why was the emperor still by her side? Why hadn't he gone to court yet?

She turned her head and wanted to call the emperor, "Ah...!" Concubine Rou screamed, and when she reacted she quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

Xuan Jingyu was awakened by her shout and said angrily, "My beloved, what are you doing? You are so startled so early in the morning."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Concubine Rou quickly climbed down from the bed, knelt on the ground, lowered her head deeply, and did not dare to look at the emperor.

"My beloved, what are you doing? Get up." Xuan Jingyu said. It was already dawn today, why didn't Eunuch Jiang come to help him change his clothes and go to court?

"Someone come! Someone come! Where have you all been?!" Xuan Jingyu shouted in anger, his voice was deafening.

"Your Majesty, please calm down! Your Majesty, please spare my life! I don't know why I overslept last night..." Eunuch Jiang rushed into the room in panic, and saw Concubine Rou kneeling on the ground with her forehead pressed against the ground.

"Your Majesty..." Eunuch Jiang was about to speak when he suddenly raised his head with a look of horror on his face. He then knelt down in a hurry and said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, your face..."

Xuan Jingyu was puzzled and thought to himself, "What happened to my face?"

With full of doubts, he got off the bed and walked straight to Concubine Rou's dressing table. After standing still, he stared at himself in the bronze mirror - he saw that on his face, there were three huge words "bastard" written on it!

He rubbed his eyes hard in disbelief, but the facts were before him, and there was no doubt that such disgusting words had indeed been written on his face.

In a rage, Xuan Jingyu suddenly raised his arm and overturned the bronze mirror and other objects on the dressing table to the ground, making a mess.

At this time, the palace maids in Yuhan Palace also woke up one after another. As soon as they woke up, they knew that something big had happened. Sleeping until this time and not serving the emperor and the empress was a capital crime.

The palace servants all rushed to the outside of Concubine Rou's bedroom and knelt down, waiting for their master's decision.

Because the emperor's face was stained, this cannot be known to too many people.

After all, the emperor is the supreme ruler and the true dragon emperor. If this matter were to be spread outside, it would damage the reputation of the royal family and would make Emperor Xuan Jingyu ashamed.

This is also the reason why Concubine Rou and Eunuch Jiang, who witnessed the stains on the emperor's face, trembled in fear. They were also afraid of being silenced by the emperor.

Although Xuan Jingyu was furious, he still had some rationality. He asked Eunuch Jiang to lower the curtain of the bedroom and call the guards to guard outside the door. No one was allowed to enter, including the queen, the prince and the regent.

He asked someone to fetch a basin of clean water and sent people to interrogate the palace servants of Yuhan Palace, asking what happened last night?

Concubine Rou took the clean water brought by the palace maid from the door and slowly wiped the big words on the emperor's face with a towel, but she couldn't wipe them off.

Concubine Rou tried harder, but still couldn't wipe it off. She was so scared that she knelt down again and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I can't wipe it clean."

Xuan Jingyu glanced at Concubine Rou and said to Eunuch Jiang: "Come here."

Eunuch Jiang picked up the towel tremblingly. He really didn't dare to do it because this was His Majesty's face. He gently wiped it on the emperor's face.

"Try harder!" Xuan Jingyu roared loudly.

Eunuch Jiang could only try hard to wipe it off the emperor's face, but it still didn't work.

Xuan Jingyu got so angry that he picked up a towel and wiped his face with it. Concubine Rou had already picked up the bronze mirror and was kneeling in front of Xuan Jingyu.

But no matter how Xuan Jingyu wiped and washed, the three words were still clearly on his face. His face had turned red and was almost broken, but it was still not clean at all.

With a loud "clang", Xuan Jingyu knocked the basin and the water to the ground. Concubine Rou and Eunuch Jiang were so scared that they knelt on the ground and trembled.

The guards outside who were in charge of interrogating the palace servants also came back to report that they had not found out anything. Everyone felt that they had just slept longer than usual.

Just when Xuan Jingyu was having a headache, something even more troublesome happened. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that his private vault had been robbed.

Yes, he heard it right. His private vault, containing millions of taels of gold and silver, as well as so many rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, etc., were stolen quietly in the heavily guarded imperial palace.

He asked someone to call the leader of the imperial guards. As soon as the leader of the imperial guards knelt outside the door, a teacup flew out and hit him on the forehead, and blood immediately flowed down.

In fact, he could have dodged it, but he couldn't because it was the emperor who smashed it. He had just learned about the theft in the emperor's private treasury on his way here. The emperor had shown him mercy by not killing him immediately. What was a small teacup?

"Go and check it for me. It's impossible that so many things were stolen without any noise. Also, send people to search for me. Don't leave any corner of the palace unchecked." Xuan Jingyu was so angry that he roared hysterically.

"Yes, I obey your order!" The leader of the imperial guards hurried down.

For a time, people in the palace were in a panic. All the imperial guards and secret guards on duty that night were questioned and beaten one by one, but still no one discovered that someone had sneaked into the palace.

Xuan Jingyu felt like he was going crazy. Who had quietly stolen his private vault? Who dared to sneak into the palace to play a prank on him and write the word "son of a bitch" on his face? If he knew about it, he would kill all his clans and tore him apart.