Refusing to let love take a back seat, the scumbag emperor actually seeks favor every day

"My lady, are you really okay?"

Qiu Ye, the Queen's personal maid, had a round face that was so wrinkled with worry that it looked like a wrinkled watermelon.

In the pavilion of the Imperial Garden, the young empress, dressed in a green silk skirt and a pearl hairpin in her hair, simple yet dignified, and although dressed like a woman, her girlish delicacy was not concealed at all, did not have much free time.

He was very busy, keeping his eyes on the latest storybook brought from outside the palace and sipping the newly tributed fresh fruits and delicious tea.

When she heard the maid's words, she just uttered a perfunctory "hmm".

Qiu Ye looked at the queen who had fallen into the lake a few days ago and was fished out, and resurrected half a day after she died, and was now safe and sound, sitting and reading a storybook with a silly smile. He sighed but was still worried.

The wind in the April evening is still a little chilly, which is not very friendly to a person in relatively good health.

"How about you ..."

"Hey? Isn't that to attract the emperor's attention to the queen who jumped into the lake?"

In order to prevent his queen from catching a cold, Qiu Ye was about to persuade her to return to Fengwu Palace.

She had only said half of her words when a sarcastic female voice, coming from far away, interrupted her.

At the same time, Su Manman, who was reading a book, heard this familiar yet annoying voice, and narrowed her eyes in displeasure.

I raised my head and followed the sound towards the side of the pavilion where peonies were in full bloom.

She saw a woman dressed in gorgeous orange clothes, decorated with jewels and precious stones, who was more glamorous than her, the queen, coming towards her in a domineering manner.

Seeing that the person was the one most favored by Emperor Zhao Chengyuan, her long-time nemesis Concubine Li, Li Yuwan, she didn't need Qiu Ye to persuade her. She immediately closed the notebook in her hand, got up and left without saying a word.

As a fool who has been fighting in the palace for many years and only has a love-minded mind but no skills, she knows this very well.

If I come into contact with this woman dressed like a flamingo, I will be in big trouble.

She had just been pushed into a lake and drowned. After finally coming back to life, she realized that life is precious and should not be wasted on people and things she hates.

If she can't afford to offend him, then can she not hide away?

However, the person who came to her door did not intend to let her go.

As soon as she reached the flowers, she was surrounded by Concubine Li and a group of people.

"Could it be that the Queen's true feelings have been revealed and she is feeling guilty?"

Although Concubine Li kept saying that she respected the emperor's name, her delicately made-up face showed no respect for her at all, only ridicule.

It's not surprising that she dares to be so arrogant.

Everyone knows that Su Manman, who was only nineteen years old at the time, was sent to the palace away from her parents when she was five years old because the imperial teacher predicted that she was born to be a phoenix.

Although she also met the current emperor Zhao Chengyuan, who was three years older than her, in this year, and became his empress when he ascended the throne at the age of 15, she was a 15-year-old woman.

But everyone knows that when Zhao Chengyuan was still Prince Yan, Li Yufei, the second daughter of the Minister of Rites, who was only one year older than him, became his concubine, and the two had a deep relationship.

And because of the words of the national teacher, and the fact that her father was the only king of a different surname in the dynasty who commanded 100,000 elite soldiers, she was named the King of Tuojiang.

Although Zhao Chengyuan didn't like her, he was afraid of the Su family's power and also needed the Su family's power, so he gave her the position of queen.

She understood all this, but when she was young and ignorant, she thought that as long as she was nice to him, he would always like her.

But the facts slapped her hard in the face.

The two had known each other for fourteen years and had been married for four. She always followed him and tried to please him.

To this day, I still can't get a single good word from him.

He even refused her small request to bring her sick mother to Yingjing to be taken care of, which only required him to nod and he wouldn't have to do anything, and said she was being unreasonable.

But when the families of other concubines entered the palace, he would obviously not refuse and would arrange for them to be properly settled.

If it were just this matter, she would still help him find excuses to get away with it.

But this fall into the water made her see everything clearly.

She had clearly been dead for a long time, and God gave her a chance to be reborn, but when he saw her wake up, he just said "Stop making trouble" in dissatisfaction, then turned around and left the palace to join the army.

There was not a single word of concern, nor was she given a chance to speak out the fact that someone had pushed her on purpose.

Only then did she suddenly realize that this man had no affection at all in his heart and could not be warmed up.

th.

Maybe it was because the person was soaked in water and died again, so his brain became clear.

Since he doesn't care about me, there's no need for me to keep trying to please him.

As for this scumbag emperor, whoever is willing to serve him can do so!

She didn't want to become a resentful woman at such a young age, and she didn't want to die young.

So this time, after Concubine Li made the provocation, she did not appear in the embarrassing state of stiffening her neck and trying to argue with her as if someone had stepped on her tail.

"Oh."

Su Manman, who was stopped, looked at her, extremely calm.

He responded perfunctorily and rubbed his oval face which felt a little cold.

After falling into the water, the body temperature always remains low.

Before she went out, Qiu Ye was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he specially dressed her in more clothes, but she was still a little cold now.

"Are you done? If you're done, I'll go back and put on more clothes... Yawn..."

Before she could finish her words, she sneezed and almost hit Concubine Li in the face.

Her unexpected rebellion made Concubine Li, who was looking for trouble, forget how to act and was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Su Manman assumed that she agreed and turned sideways to pass by her.

She had just walked away when she felt someone trying to catch her from behind, so she subconsciously dodged.

An orange figure stumbled forward because it stepped on the hem of its skirt.

Because Su Manman dodged and missed, she fell headfirst into the peony bushes with her butt sticking out in an indecent posture.

“Ahhh… My face—”

"The royal concubine!"

Hearing Concubine Li's screams like a slaughtered pig, and looking at the accompanying palace maids and eunuchs frantically trying to help people out of the flowers, Su Manman was also stunned.

She didn't turn around until she saw everyone helping Concubine Li, whose face was scratched by flower branches, and saw her hair full of messy pearl hairpins and a few leaves stuck in her hair.

Seeing the peony flowers being trampled all over, my eyes were filled with heartache.

Ruihuang Country does not produce peonies in great abundance, but she likes them very much. She had gone to great lengths to ask someone to get these seedlings from the neighboring country.

She has been carefully caring for this plant for three years, and it is only this year that it blooms for the first time.

"Queen! Why are you pushing me?"

"what?"

Su Manman was still feeling sorry for her flowers, but she was dumbfounded when Concubine Li said this.

If a person is shameless, he is invincible.

It was obvious that she was trying to push herself from behind, but she didn't stand firmly and fell into it.

He destroyed her flowers and tried to slander her. This time she couldn't stand it anymore.

He did so many things just to irritate me. Doesn't Zhao Chengyuan know how jealous and unreasonable I am and how unfit I am to be the queen?

She decided to help them both.

"Li Yuwan, I have tolerated you for a long time!"

Su Manman said this angrily and rolled up her sleeves.

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp sound of slapping, and the noisy sounds around suddenly stopped.

At the same time, a tall figure in a dark robe with a gold dragon pattern came quickly from a distance.