After being reborn, I hugged the villainous boss tightly.

"Your Majesty, there is news of Princess Anping!"

Upon receiving the news, Li Si rushed over to report it.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaoran's face was filled with joy: "Where is she now?"

"At the Guoan Inn"

Madam Gu trembled with excitement. She quickly stood up, her eyes red, and asked, "Was Ruoruo injured? Is she alright now?"

"Great, great, great, everything is wonderful!"

Seeing her so excited, Ye Xiaoran quickly said happily, "Auntie, please don't get excited. I'll go and bring her into the palace so you can have a good get-together!"

The two men on the rooftop exchanged a glance, both eager to return and report to their master.

Ying didn't want Fu Chen to go back and tell Miao Xingren, so she reached out and grabbed him.

Fu Chen wasn't one to be trifled with either, and he slapped him across the face.

Neither of them would give way, and they fought fiercely, their blows ruthless and merciless.

They only stopped when their commotion became too loud and attracted the attention of the palace guards, who feared that it would hinder their master.

Ye Zhuxi was having lunch with her daughter when there was a sudden, urgent knocking on the door.

Ye Zhuxi thought that Fu Chen had returned with news of her mother, so she hurriedly went to open the door, but what she saw was a palace maid dressed in palace attire.

The palace maid looked her up and down several times before speaking.

"Please come with me to the palace, young lady. The Empress summons you!"

"..."

Ye Zhuxi was slightly taken aback, and she frowned.

In the end, she still took Miaomiao and boarded the carriage to the palace.

Inside the carriage, Miao Miao looked at her with her round eyes and asked, "Mommy, where are we going?"

Ye Zhuxi tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear and smiled.

"To the palace!"

The current emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty is Ye Xiaoran, so logically the empress should be Li Wenyue.

Thinking of Li Wenyue, Ye Zhuxi frowned. She didn't have much of a relationship with her and wondered why she suddenly wanted to see her.

Upon arriving at Chonghua Palace, the palace maid coldly said, "Please wait here for a moment, I will go and inform Her Majesty the Empress!" After saying this, she walked in without even looking at the two of them.

Ye Zhuxi thought it would be fine in no time, but she and her daughter stood outside for a long time without anyone coming out to inform them.

It was a time of freezing weather, with light snow falling. She looked down at her daughter's face, which was red from the cold, and tenderly hugged her into her arms.

Miaomiao pulled her hand back slightly and asked softly, "Mother, how much longer do we have to wait?"

Ye Zhuxi looked at the tightly closed palace gates and frowned. "It's alright, it'll be fine in a bit!"

After a long time, as the snow fell heavier and heavier, Ye Zhuxi's legs were frozen stiff. She could feel her daughter shivering from the cold. She gritted her teeth, disregarded the rules, and carried Miaomiao to the palace gate to shelter from the snow.

Miao Miao pouted unhappily: "The Empress is not punctual. She's the one who called Mother, but now she's not coming out to see me..."

"Shh!" "Miaomiao, you can't say that," Ye Zhuxi raised her hand to cover her daughter's mouth.

Miao Miao became even more unhappy. She was wrong to begin with, but she wasn't even allowed to say it. She pouted her little mouth in grievance.

Ye Zhuxi squatted down to comfort her: "Mother knows what Miaomiao means, but the Empress is the mother of the Great Qi, so we can't say it now!"

Miao Miao pouted reluctantly, "Okay!"

Half an hour later, the gates of Chonghua Palace were opened, and the palace maid who had gone in to report came out.

"Her Majesty the Empress has awakened. Please come in with me!"

Ye Zhuxi pursed her lips and led Miao Miao inside.

Li Wenyan, draped in a soft fur coat, lay comfortably on a chaise lounge, cradling a plump white cat in her arms.

After Ye Zhuxi came in, she didn't look up and kept playing with the white cat.

The palace maid Ruyi shouted sharply, "You've seen the Empress, yet you still don't bow!"

Ye Zhuxi looked up at Li Wenyue and bowed to her.

"May the Empress be blessed with good health!"

After performing the ceremony, Li Wenyue finally looked up at her. Over the past few years, Li Wenyue had been enjoying good food and drink in the harem. She didn't care about winning Ye Xiaoran's heart and simply gave up.

She spends her days either getting more beautiful or counting money. There are few concubines in the harem, and no one dares to disturb her.

However, after hearing that Ye Zhuxi had returned, she was still resentful about Ye Xiaoran hitting her for her sake.

She accepted that she had lost to Ye Zhuxi, but she was a transmigrated woman, so how could she possibly suffer the slightest humiliation here?

Now that his status is far higher than Ye Zhuxi's, he can do whatever he wants with her without her having to listen to him!

Seeing the Empress's displeasure, she immediately scolded Ye Zhuxi, "Ye Zhuxi, who told you to bow like that? You are facing Her Majesty the Empress now. I really don't know how the Ye family taught you before!"

Speaking of the Ye family, Ye Zhuxi frowned unhappily.

Li Wenyue smiled, stroked the white cat in her arms, and said lazily, "Ruyi, teach her properly how to bow to me!"

"Yes!" Ruyi smirked smugly. "Come here!"

Ye Zhuxi had only intended to meet him once, but she hadn't expected to have to do so much. Instead of following him, she stepped forward and spoke.

"Your Majesty, I have important business to attend to today. May we leave the palace?"

Li Wenyue's gaze shifted from the white cat to Miaomiao behind Ye Zhuxi, and she raised an eyebrow.

"Miss Ye is truly remarkable; she has such a grown child in just a few years. I wonder how heartbroken the Emperor will be when he finds out."

Over the years, she had come to know who Ye Xiaoran loved, and she couldn't help but mock him.

"..."

Ye Zhuxi didn't speak. There were many things she didn't want to deal with here, and she didn't want to ask who Ye Xiaoran was in his heart. She just wanted to find her mother and leave together.

"Why aren't you speaking? Are you mute, or do you think I'm not worthy to speak to you?"

"No, Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

"I forgive you, but I think you're the one with the guts of a bear and the courage of a leopard!"

"You pretended to be weak to gain Fu Jingyuan's pity back then, and now you're putting on a pitiful act. If I were a man, I would definitely be fooled by you too. But you've chosen the wrong person. I'm not one of those shallow people!"

"Your Majesty, I didn't!"

"I don't care if you have it or not, today I'm going to teach you a lesson, and you have no right to say no!"

"Ruyi, take her away to learn the rules. Bring her back to see me when she has mastered them!"

Just after Li Wenyue finished speaking, Li Si's voice rang out from outside the palace.

"The Emperor has arrived!"

Upon hearing that Ye Xiaoran had arrived, Li Wenyue quickly gave Ruyi a look.

Ruyi obeyed the order: "Someone, take them behind the screen so as not to disturb His Majesty's presence!"

"Mother!" Miao Miao was picked up by a palace maid, and she reached out to Ye Zhuxi in fear.

Ye Zhuxi was also led behind the screen.

"Behave yourself, or you and your daughter will die!"

Ye Zhuxi's mouth was covered, and she struggled to look up as Ye Xiaoran walked in from outside.