Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Fawning

With the emperor's permission, Ruyi asked惢心 to prepare some snacks early the next morning and took Sanbao to the Yanx Palace.

The Yanxi Palace was already remote, Hailan had fallen out of favor, and the maids and eunuchs who served her had all been executed. It hadn't been cleaned for several days, and weeds were growing outside the palace.

Ruyi stood outside the gate of the Yanx Palace where she once lived, feeling deeply moved.

Five years ago, she was framed by Gao Xiyue for murdering her legitimate son. Under pressure, the emperor was forced to demote her to a commoner and confine her to the cold palace.

During the three years in the cold palace, Hailan secretly supported and helped her. Five years later, their identities had changed drastically.

The emperor had promised her that there would be no more cold palaces in the palace, but he did not expect that the Yanx Palace would become Hai Lan's cold palace.

There were footsteps outside the door. Hailan was delighted and ran to the door. She knocked on the door and shouted excitedly, "Sister, is that you?"

Ruyi was very calm.

After a moment of silence, he said, "It's me, Hailan."

Suddenly, Hailan burst into tears of excitement, and a warm current surged through her body. She knew that her sister would definitely come to see her.

"Hai Lan, why are you doing this?"

Hai Lan was stunned and gritted her teeth as she said, "Empress Xiaoxian died, and Concubine Chun has been plotting to establish herself as empress and usurp the throne. She has a son, and she is the biggest threat to you, sister. The position of empress originally belonged to you, so how can I tolerate someone else trying to steal your possessions?"

From the very beginning, the emperor wanted to make Ruyi his principal wife, but Fucha Langya intervened and snatched away Ruyi's position as principal wife, so she deserved to die.

Su Lujun was even more shameless. Relying on the fact that she had two princes and was raising the eldest prince, she became greedy, so Hai Lan wanted to get rid of them and their son.

Originally, the plan was flawless, but unexpectedly, it was discovered by Concubine Mei and the Sixth Prince who were passing by.

She could only blame herself for this misfortune.

Fortunately, Ruyi and Yongqi were not implicated, which was a small comfort to Hai Lan.

"Shut up, Hailan, when did you become like this?" Ruyi covered her chest as if she was heartbroken.

But Hai Lan didn't take it seriously, still believing she had done nothing wrong. She said, "Sister, I told you long ago that there's no true love in the harem. The Emperor might be kind to you now, but what about the future? When you lose your beauty and don't have a prince by your side, how can you rule the country and become the Empress Dowager? Unless we eliminate those evil-minded people..."

"Sister, I did do this, but I don't regret it."

Ruyi said sternly, "I've already told you that what you did was no different from what I did. Fortunately, the Emperor didn't blame me this time, Hailan. You're so foolish."

Hailan was at a loss, her hands leaning against the door drooping weakly, "I'm sorry, sister."

Hearing Hailan's weak apology, Ruyi's attitude softened instantly.

Hai Lan used to be her most capable assistant.

Seeing her good sister under house arrest, she was naturally heartbroken. Ruyi sighed, "Hai Lan, the emperor is still angry. I will ask him to let you out after a while when his anger subsides. Just wait."

Hai Lan nodded with tears in her eyes, her mind full of Ruyi's safety. She was afraid that Ruyi's frequent visits to the Yanxi Palace would anger the emperor, so she advised, "Don't worry, sister. I'm living very well here. The Yanxi Palace is unlucky, so you'd better not come here in the future, lest the emperor know and be unhappy."

Ruyi responded, "Well, you have to take care of yourself. I'm leaving first."

After saying this, Ruyi quickly left the Yanx Palace.

She didn't really come to see Hailan, but everyone in the harem knew that she and Hailan were as close as sisters. If she turned a blind eye, it would definitely cause greater criticism, which would be detrimental to her future ascension to the throne.

The imperial edict appointing Ruyi as the Imperial Noble Consort to assist in the management of the six palaces has been issued by Li Yu. The concubines flattered and fawned on him and went to the Yikun Palace to congratulate him.

In an instant, the Yiku Palace was piled high with things sent by the concubines and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

When Ruyi was squatting and looking at the gifts sent by everyone,惢心 hurriedly walked to Ruyi and whispered a few words in her ear.

Ruyi raised her eyes and asked, "What is Yongqi doing here?"

"My lady, the Fifth Prince just got home from school and said he hasn't seen you for a long time. He came to pay his respects to you."惢心 said.

"Hai Lan has done such a heinous thing. I see that the emperor looks at Yongqi with disgust. I really don't want to incur his dislike. Just say that I am sick and I am afraid that I will pass the disease on to Yongqi. Let him move to Xiefang Palace and he doesn't need to pay attention to Yiku Palace." Ruyi lowered her eyes and didn't intend to pay attention, so she asked惢心 to find a reason to get rid of Yongqi.

After what happened with Hai Lan last time, Ruyi also lost her patience with Yongqi. Not only did she exempt him from paying his respects, she also refused to let him enter the main hall to see her, for fear that Hongli would see her and remember what happened that day and vent his anger on her again.

惢心 received the order and went out to refuse Yongqi.

She looked at Yongqi with some sympathy and said, "Fifth Prince, the Imperial Concubine is busy and can't see you right now. How about I take you back to the side hall? When the Empress is free, she will come to see you."

Yongqi pursed his lips in grievance. He didn't understand. It was obvious that his mother Xian loved him very much before, but why did everything change since his mother was under house arrest?

He can't see his mother or his father, and now even Ruyi avoids him. Is he really that disgusting?

Yongqi was defeated by Ruyi and shook off惢心's hand with force. Even though惢心 kept calling out to him, he didn't turn back.

Although the palace was large, it no longer had room for him.

When passing by the Yanx Palace, the palace gate was locked with heavy iron chains, and he might never see his mother again.

There were still mottled bloodstains on the edge. Yongqi walked to the front of the Yanxi Palace, carefully recalling every detail of his childhood with Hailan in his mind, but he found that in the conversation between his mother and him, apart from what Empress Xian had done today, the other thing was how he should be filial to Empress Xian in the future.

Ever since Langya's death, Yongqi has suffered from nightmares.

He often saw Hailan appear in front of him, slap him, stare at him with a fierce look, and question him, "Yongqi, didn't I ask you to protect Mother Xian? How could you, a wicked creature, have the heart to seize the throne? You have greatly disappointed Mother. You are not worthy of being my son."

Yongqi suddenly opened his eyes. He was sweating profusely and gasping for breath as he stepped back. He accidentally fell to the ground, and his palms rubbed against the ground, causing blood to seep out.

"Is it Yongqi?" Hai Lan's hoarse voice came from the Yanxi Palace.

Yongqi came back to his senses and replied, "Uh... Mother, it's my son."

Hai Lan excitedly banged on the iron gate, "Yongqi, how is your mother Xian?"

"The Emperor has already appointed Xian'e Niang as Imperial Noble Consort."

Hailan laughed and said, "Really? That's great, sister finally made it."

Yongqi felt very upset. He had finally sneaked here to see his mother, but the first person his mother asked was not him, but the woman who had no blood relationship with him and whom he had never even seen.

Yongqi clenched his fists and roared at Hailan through the door, "Mother, are you really so biased towards Mother Xian? It's been so many days since the Empress Dowager passed away. Has she ever come to see you? Has she ever pleaded for you in front of the Emperor? Mother, you're just a pawn in her hands..."

"Shut up." Hailan said sternly, "I don't allow you to say that about my sister. Do you know that without my sister, you would never have come into this world?"

It was this sentence again. Yongqi was still young at that time and he didn't understand the meaning of Hailan's words at all. It was only a long time later that he realized that his mother was hopeless from the beginning.

Yongqi didn't want to talk to Hailan anymore, so he turned around and ran forward.

As for his destination, he had no idea. He only knew that he wanted to escape from the Yanx Palace and the Yiku Palace.

Suddenly he bumped into a warm embrace, and with a cry of "Ouch", Yongqi was knocked to the ground.

"Who is this blind bastard?" Shunxin's angry voice came to my ears.

Yongqi didn't look up, but stood up silently and wanted to leave.

Lan Qi, who was standing behind Chen Wanyin, suddenly called out to Yongqi, "It's the Fifth Prince. Why are you here alone? You don't even have a servant to serve you."

Shunxin was so frightened when she heard that it was the Fifth Prince that she immediately knelt on the ground and said, "I'm sorry, Fifth Prince. It's my fault for being blind and speaking without restraint that I offended you."

Yongqi turned around and stepped forward to pay his respects. "Your son greets Empress Cheng, Empress Ling, and Empress Wan."

Yan Wan smiled and said, "Fifth Prince, you are too polite."

Suddenly Wanyin noticed the wound on Yongqi's hand, "Oh, is the Fifth Prince injured?"

Yongqi hid his hands behind his back awkwardly and said calmly, "It's okay."

"How could he be okay?" Wanyin stepped forward, bent down, took Yongqi's hand, breathed softly, and ordered Shunxin to prepare the ointment.

Wanyin then took Yongqi back to Zhongcui Palace.

Yongqi looked at Wanyin and felt a little moved. Wanyin was not of high status and was not favored. She had been struggling in the palace for so many years and was only a noble lady, but her heart was kind. Wanyin looked very gentle when applying medicine. Hailan had never shown such a gentle side in front of him, because Hailan gave all her gentleness to her sister who had no blood relationship with her.

Yongqi suddenly thought, how great it would be if Empress Wan was his mother.

Wanyin applied medicine to Yongqi in the side hall and played with him, while Lanqi and Yanwan went into the room to see Lujun.

Under Kexin's care, Lujun's complexion looked much better.

Hearing the children's laughter coming from outside the window, Lujun asked, "Who is making noise outside?"

Ke Xin stepped forward and said, "It's the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince."

Hearing about Yongqi, Lujun's face immediately drooped and she frowned, "Why is the Fifth Prince in Zhongcui Palace?"

"It was Sister Wan. Seeing that the Fifth Prince was injured, she couldn't bear it, so she brought him back to Zhongcui Palace and applied medicine to him." Yan Wan replied.

Lujun sighed. Her life was ruined by Hailan. Yonghuang and Yongzhang had no chance of inheriting the throne. Only Yongrong was left by her side. But in her current situation, she would only bring trouble to Yongrong.

She groaned in pain, "It's all my fault. I relied on Empress Xiaoxian's recommendation and ignored Concubine Xian. I thought the Emperor would definitely make me the successor, but I didn't expect... I can't let Yongyongrong suffer with me. Concubine Cheng, you have a lot of ideas. Can you help me think of a solution?"

As she said this, Lujun wanted to stand up and kowtow to Lanqi.

Lan Qi held Lujun's hand and advised, "Sister, there's no need to be so polite. Actually, there are ways to keep Sixth Prince safe."

Lujun was delighted, "Do you have a solution?"

Lan Qi nodded, "I do have one, but you will have to bear the pain and give it up."

An ominous premonition emerged in Lujun's heart.

"Sister, you only need to find another foster mother for the Sixth Prince. She cannot be too noble, otherwise the Emperor will be suspicious. You must also personally speak to the Emperor to show your sincerity."

Lujun showed a look of horror. Yongrong was the son she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy. How could she bear to let her give him to someone else to raise?

Even Yan Wan, who was sitting beside them, felt that this was too cruel and asked, "Sister, do you have no other options?"

Lan Qi shook her head and advised, "It's best for Meipin to raise the Sixth Prince. She has no children, and in the long run, she won't be able to have children again in this lifetime. If you are willing to give the Sixth Prince to her to raise, she will definitely be grateful to you. And I can guarantee that Meipin will do her utmost to protect Yongrong."

Although Lujun was reluctant, it seemed that this was the only way for her to protect Yongrong from being disliked by the emperor and to make the emperor eliminate his evil intentions towards her.