The cold emperor reigns supreme, the arrogant empress begs for a truce.

Chapter 41: What use are you then?

"What do you want to ask?" After entering the house and waiting for Leng Yuling to close the door, Mo Zhen spoke slowly.

He did it on purpose.

Leng Yuling gritted her teeth and smiled as she asked, "What I want to ask is, did that letter reach my master? What did he say? Will he come to the Southern Chu Kingdom?"

She asked several questions in a row, but Mo Zhen just looked at her calmly without answering any of them.

Leng Yuling couldn't wait any longer and asked anxiously again, "What did my master say?" She urgently needed Bai Xiaozi to come to Nan Chu to see her.

Seeing Leng Yuling's anxious expression, Mo Zhen spoke calmly, "You know that the Medical Saint's whereabouts are uncertain, don't you?"

"You mean to say that your men didn't deliver the letter to my master?" Leng Yuling looked at Mo Zhen in disbelief, hoping to see a denial on his face.

However, she was destined to be disappointed, because Mo Zhen nodded at her.

Leng Yuling instantly wilted like a deflated eggplant, her head drooping, and she dragged her seemingly exhausted body to a chair and sat down, subconsciously asking, "Then what use are you to me?"

Although Leng Yuling spoke softly, Mo Zhen, with his sharp ears, still heard her words and couldn't help but frown, asking her in return, "Does the Empress think I'm useless?"

“Of course…” Leng Yuling raised her eyes and met Mo Zhen’s slightly angry gaze, then immediately changed the subject, “Of course not, you are the emperor of the Southern Chu Kingdom, how could you be useless?”

On the surface, these were Leng Yuling's words of praise, but in reality, they were completely insincere.

Mo Zhen wasn't oblivious to the lack of seriousness in her tone, but he didn't mind. After all, he was never afraid of Leng Yuling being compared to others.

Moreover, he seemed to prefer being with Leng Yuling to the flattery of others, as it always brought him a great sense of peace.

This is why, even though he had no relationship with Leng Yuling, he was willing to spend the night at Jingling Palace—he simply wanted to find inner peace.

"Um... are you sure your people can find my master?" After a long while, Leng Yuling finally spoke again to Mo Zhen.

The latter turned his head to look at her and asked in return, "What do you think?"

"I don't know." Leng Yuling was a little excited, not because she was eager to see Bai Xiaozi, but because she was eager to know what kind of strange illness Ma Zhiyun had.

However, her skills were still too shallow, and she couldn't figure out what illness Ma Zhiyun had. Otherwise, she wouldn't have bothered to seek out Bai Xiaozi.

After all, the original owner's memories of her contained absolutely no recollection of Bai Xiaozi, not even what he looked like, let alone that she missed him.

"I have sent people to search for her. Your Majesty, please wait."

At this moment, Leng Yuling really wanted to lose her temper, but she still had to keep smiling. It wasn't because she was living under someone else's roof, but because she had no way to leave here, let alone return to the Northern Desert Kingdom.

She's naturally very curious, and she has to know the answer to anything she's curious about, otherwise she'll feel extremely uncomfortable keeping it to herself.

"To be honest, are you afraid that my master will come and take me away, so you said you couldn't find him, but you didn't send anyone to look for him at all?" Leng Yuling pointed at Mo Zhen and questioned him.

Mo Zhen's face remained expressionless, showing no displeasure even at Leng Yuling pointing at him. He simply remarked, "You are my Empress. Who can take you away?"