The soft waist and super pregnant, forced to marry by the tyrant

The Queen is deliberately avoiding him. The two haven't seen each other for half a month. Waiting like this is not a solution.

Xiu Ningchuan put down the chess piece in his hand and said loudly, "Bring Zhenzhen here."

The eunuch was about to leave, but in a blink of an eye, Xiu Ningchuan changed his mind again.

"No need, you can go down and rest too."

He is not so useless as to use the child as a shield to deal with the problems between them.

Xiu Ningchuan thought so, but he walked to the door and then retreated. He looked down at the plain brocade clothes on his body and frowned.

He did not think of retreating, but went back to change his clothes.

After being married for many years, Xiu Ningchuan thought he knew what Empress Chen Zhao liked and what she couldn't take her eyes off.

The moon-white Guangling brocade robe with round sleeves and wide collar looked no different from what he usually wore at first glance, but a closer look revealed a big difference.

The edge of the collar is decorated with lapis lazuli-colored seal characters, and the ink is faintly visible through the gauze, which shows the elegance of a famous scholar.

He thought for a moment, then took out a whisk with three peacock feathers wrapped in silver threads, which made the exiled immortal look even more radiant.

Xiu Ningchuan looked at himself in the bronze mirror again and again, making sure there was nothing wrong, then he sighed and walked out of the Xingshu Hall.

If five years ago, someone had told him that one day he would have to use his body to please someone, he would have definitely spat at that person and cursed him for being unreasonable.

On the way here, Xiu Ningchuan thought about many things, from the day he entered the palace, to knowing that the Queen was pregnant, to the Queen giving birth to Zhenzhen, to the Queen's victory and unification of the world, and the dispute between the two...

As the past events came back to him, he could even remember every aspect of her clearly.

When Xiu Ningchuan reached the steps of the Queen's Zi Ji Palace, he heard the laughter of many people coming from inside the palace, which seemed extremely lively in the quiet night.

Xiu Ningchuan paused slightly.

"I've heard that the handsome men in Xijin's tribute are young and handsome. The most surprising thing is that they look very similar to the hostage who used to be in the hostage house."

Judging from the voice, it was Zhao Yunhuai, the legitimate son of Prince Yong.

He tightened his grip on the whisk, took a few steps, and heard another person talking.

It was Princess Huachang's only son, Yuchi Tingnan, whose voice was weak.

"After Xijin surrendered, Yuwen Tianqing became the King of Xijin. I see that he still misses his sister."

Xiu Ningchuan had also heard about King Xijin. The smooth surrender of Xijin was inseparable from the help provided by Yuwen Tianqing and the silver hairpin in the hands of the Queen Mother that could break the witchcraft of the Tianyue Clan.

Before the war, the empress had gone to the hostage house many times late at night without avoiding people. The affair between the empress and King Xijin was the most widely circulated of her romantic affairs because the love-hate entanglement therein was extremely complicated.

Xiu Ningchuan never believed this rumor.

Not only was Prince Xi Jin much older than her, he had also sent assassins to kill her father. The Queen was just using him.

But now, when the words come out of the mouths of these princes, their credibility increases.

Xiu Ningchuan stopped at the entrance of the palace.

The moon-white wide-sleeved robe he had just put on was cast a dim yellow by the palace lanterns.

There were no palace servants outside the hall, so no one inside knew that he was already outside the door.

The laughter and joy in the hall continued. They were discussing the friendship between King Xijin and the Queen, but they did not hear the Queen Chenzhao's voice.

She didn't argue.

A crack appeared on the jade handle of the whisk in Xiu Ningchuan's hand.

Yes.

Amidst the intrigues and exploitation, there is inevitably hidden sincerity.

However, it’s not just King Xijin.

Xiu Ningchuan frowned, wondering how many people the Queen had in her heart.

Whenever these people came to the palace, the empress would always send the palace maids away and not allow anyone to serve them, and some rumors were also spread in the palace.

But after Xiu Ningchuan entered the palace, he was very strict with his subordinates. After publicly punishing more than ten eunuchs who talked too much, no one in the palace dared to talk about these groundless things anymore.

Moreover, after he punished the inner court, Empress Chen Zhao's behavior became much more restrained and she never summoned them at night again.

But this time, the Queen not only unilaterally went into a cold war with him, but also summoned Yuchi Tingnan and Zhao Yunhuai into the palace.

Xiu Ningchuan's heart sank.

In the Ziji Palace.

Zhao Yunhuai continued, "Tingnan's words make sense. Most likely, Prince Jin wants the Emperor to always remember him and remember their old friendship."

Remembering...old love...

Now that Xiu Ningchuan has come, there is no reason to go back the same way. Even if there is a wall in front of him, he has to hit it before moving on.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door, and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, I have something to ask."

The hall fell into silence for a short while.

Zhao Yunhuai and Yuchi Tingnan put down their wine glasses in astonishment and looked at Empress Chen Zhao, but she seemed not to have heard them. She was scratching something on the table with her chopsticks, looking focused and absorbed.

Zhao Yunhuai reminded: "Royal sister, someone is coming."

Empress Chen Zhao didn't even raise her head and said without interest, "Didn't I tell you that no one is allowed to disturb us?"

The man sitting at the right of the Queen said, "Xiu Ningchuan is here."

Upon hearing the name, Empress Chen Zhao's back stiffened for a moment. She looked towards the hall but could not find his figure.

"Where is the Emperor?"

Lu Songwen nodded and asked with a smile, "I'm at the door. Does the emperor want to see me?"

Xiu Ningchuan, who was just one door away, pushed open the palace door and said, "I am so reckless and have disturbed your majesty's pleasure!"

Several people looked at him with different eyes.

They had all seen this imperial husband before, more than once. The first time was before the wedding. In order to test whether this imperial husband was worthy of the empress, he secretly climbed over the wall of Xiu's family.

The results of the inspection showed that we were unsatisfied with everything.

It was far from the level that the three of them thought was worthy of the queen.

The people of Xiuningchuan are as elegant as their name suggests, like slender bamboos and still water. They are always gentle and polite to everyone they meet.

At this moment, the expression on Xiu Ningchuan's face was frighteningly cold, and anyone within sight would be frozen by his gaze.

Yuchi Tingnan was familiar with this expression.

Because he had a fairy mother at home, and this was how she looked when she was angered by her shameless old father. At such a moment, if Yuchi listened to Nanduo, he would face the fate of being kicked out of the house.

Yuchi Tingnan shrank his shoulders and hid behind Zhao Yunhuai.

They are about the same age, but Zhao Yunhuai is obviously braver.

He tutted his tongue and said, "Since the Emperor knows how reckless he is, yet he still wants to interrupt my gathering with the Imperial Sister, is he deliberately disobeying his superiors?"

Xiu Ningchuan raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't see the prince here. It seems that I have another crime to add to my list."

He said word by word: "You have no eyes."

Zhao Yunhuai heard the sarcasm in these words. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush forward.

Yuchi Tingnan wanted to stop him, but he didn't want to. Zhao Yunhuai was a few months older than him and was already an adult. He had just drunk a lot of alcohol after the ban on alcohol was lifted, and his whole body was full of the smell of alcohol. If he was stained with the smell, he would definitely be disliked by his mother when he returned home.

He said anxiously: "Song Wen, stop him quickly!"

Lu Songwen usually doesn't talk much and is even less willing to get involved in these things. He sat quietly next to the Queen.

With a loud bang, the queen dropped her chopsticks on the table with her eyes lowered.