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

Chapter 48: The Leng Family's Children and Grandchildren

After leaving the Southern Chu Imperial Palace, Leng Yuling felt like a bird freed from its cage, enjoying her freedom and breathing in the fresh air deeply, feeling extremely comfortable.

Even Ziyan could see how much she loved this freedom, let alone Mozhen and Moxuan, but no one pointed it out.

Aside from disliking being confined in the palace, Leng Yuling prefers new things, and since she has already explored the palace, she is full of curiosity about everything outside.

Leng Yuling sat in the carriage, but lifted the curtain to look at the lively scene outside, and a beautiful smile curved her lips slightly.

Mo Zhen watched from the opposite side, but couldn't help but wonder: "As far as I know, you live in the countryside in the Northern Desert. You're not some young lady who's confined to the Prime Minister's mansion all day and can't go out. Why do you look so curious?"

Mo Zhen was testing her.

Leng Yuling kept the curtains drawn, but the smile on her lips had faded considerably. Yet, she still smiled and said casually, "How could someone like me, who grew up in the countryside, have ever seen such a grand scene?"

The original owner grew up in the countryside, and she had never seen streets like this in ancient times before, so she was quite shocked.

This is still within the territory of the Southern Chu Kingdom, and it's just a small town. Its prosperity is enough to prove that the Southern Chu Kingdom's national strength and the living standards of its people are quite good.

"When did you ascend the throne?" Leng Yuling lowered the curtain, looked at Mo Zhen, and suddenly asked.

Mo Zhen didn't know what Leng Yuling meant, but he still answered, saying calmly, "Three years ago."

three years ago……

"Then you can be considered a capable monarch." Otherwise, how could a small town have developed so well? Therefore, she had to look at Mo Zhen in a different light.

Mo Zhen looked at Leng Yuling, but didn't know why she suddenly said that.

Before he could ask, he heard Di Ren say from outside the carriage, "Your Majesty, we have arrived at the city gate of the Northern Desert."

As the name suggests, if you continue forward, you will reach the territory of the Northern Desert Kingdom.

At this moment, Leng Yuling suddenly felt a little agitated, though she couldn't quite explain why. It was probably because of some of the original owner's feelings towards the Northern Desert Kingdom. All she could do was try her best to suppress those feelings and not show them on her face.

Mo Zhen subconsciously looked at Leng Yuling and sneered, "What's wrong? You don't seem very happy now that you've arrived in the Northern Desert Kingdom?"

Leng Yuling shrugged and remained silent. There was nothing to be happy about in Beimo. In the end, her only goal was to rescue Bai Xiaozi and then take him back to Nanchu to treat Ma Zhiyun.

"My only goal is my master. As for the others, they are just people who have appeared in my life." Leng Yuling narrowed her eyes and said firmly.

Mo Zhen curled the corners of his lips. Leng Yuling was a very thoughtful person, and also a shrewd one, but it couldn't be denied that she also possessed her own kind of naivety.

That's why even when Leng Yuling revealed her scheming in front of him, Mo Zhen didn't feel disgusted. Instead, he was curious about how far she could go in the end.

"Now that we've arrived in the Northern Desert Kingdom, how do you plan to rescue your master?" Mo Zhen was very curious about Leng Yuling's plans, because she had never mentioned any of her plans or intentions before.

Leng Yuling curled her lips into a smile, looked at Mo Zhen, but didn't say a word.

Her mystery only fueled Mo Zhen's curiosity, but he also knew that if Leng Yuling didn't say anything, he didn't need to ask anymore.

Mo Zhen and his entourage checked into the post station prepared for them by Jun Ao, while Leng Yuling was taken to the Prime Minister's residence by Prime Minister Leng the moment she arrived in Dongqi.

Leng Yuling is, after all, the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's mansion. Even though she is now the Empress of the Southern Chu Kingdom, her marriage to Mo Zhen was neither arranged by her parents nor by a matchmaker.

It was understandable that Leng Pingchu brought Leng Yuling back to the Prime Minister's residence, but Leng Yuling did not necessarily have to stay there.

"It's getting late, I should head back to the post station. His Majesty is waiting for me to have dinner together." With that, Leng Yuling turned to leave, but Leng Pingchu shouted, "Stop right there!"

Leng Yuling paused, turned around and glanced at him, then calmly asked, "Does Prime Minister Leng have any further instructions?"

Leng Yuling's indifferent attitude infuriated Leng Pingchu. He glared at her angrily and said, "You are the daughter of the Prime Minister of the Northern Desert, not the Empress of the Southern Chu. Don't forget your place!"

"Excuse me," Leng Yuling curled her lips, looking at Leng Pingchu with arrogance, then asked sarcastically, "When have you ever treated me like a daughter?"

Neither she nor the original owner had ever experienced fatherly love. This was the first time she had met Leng Pingchu, but she did not feel any fatherly love from him at all.

Some of them were just using her as a hostage or a pawn. If that's the case, why should she be attached to this home? After all, she never lived there, and the original owner had no feelings for them.

Before Leng Pingchu could speak, she continued, "Since you've never treated me like a daughter, I won't treat you like my father either. In the end, besides contributing a sperm, you don't seem to have contributed anything more."

What Leng Yuling didn't know was that they couldn't understand her words, yet they were also angry at her disdainful attitude.

"Leng Yuling!" Leng Pingchu roared, "No matter what your current status is, you still have the blood of the Leng family flowing in your veins, and you are still a child and grandchild of the Leng family!"

When needed, she became a member of the Leng family; when she was no longer of any use, she was thrown into some godforsaken place. Fortunately, there was Bai Xiaozi; otherwise, the original owner might have died long ago, and there would have been no story of her transmigrating.

"When you get older, you shouldn't get angry so easily. You might end up dying of anger one day without even knowing why." Leng Yuling was neither angry nor moved by Leng Pingchu's words.

Ultimately, neither she nor the original owner had any feelings for this so-called father. At least, she couldn't sense any emotional connection the original owner had with him.

"You!" Leng Pingchu was furious with Leng Yuling, but the latter stood in front of him calmly and indifferently.

As soon as Leng Pingchu finished speaking, a girl who looked a year or two younger than Leng Yuling walked up to her side, affectionately took her arm, and said, "Elder sister, how could you make Father angry? Father is only doing this for your own good."

Leng Yuling subconsciously looked at the hand that was holding her arm, looking completely bewildered, before turning her gaze to the owner of that hand—Leng Siyu.

Leng Siyu is Leng Yuling's half-sister. Her mother was Leng Pingchu's second wife. After Leng Yuling's mother passed away, she became the mistress of the Leng family, and Leng Yuling was driven away by her.

Throughout the Leng family mansion, although everyone called Leng Siyu the Second Miss, she enjoyed the treatment of a legitimate daughter, which was even more than Leng Yuling's.