Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Chapter 514 World Nine 24

Yinyin hugged the Empress and gently patted her back, asking, "Mother, do you want to come with me?"

The Empress hugged her back and patted her head: "Where can we go?"

“Your sect is a place for cultivators to live. I am not the same kind of person, so it’s better not to go.”

“Even if we’re not in the sect, I can find a suitable place for Mother to stay,” Yin Yin coaxed her. “I’ll stay with Mother every day then.”

“That won’t do,” the Empress said sternly. “Your cultivation is more important.”

"Don't you always say you want to beat your junior brother? You can't let external affairs interfere with that."

“How can you call Mother’s affairs an outside matter?” Yin Yin disagreed. “You are my mother!”

The Empress stroked Yin Yin's face: "Don't worry, I misunderstood before, but now I understand, and this Phoenix Palace can no longer confine me."

Seeing that Yin Yin was still a little worried, the Empress put her arm around her and said, "Sometimes what traps a person is not external things, but their own memories and emotions."

Yinyin leaned affectionately on the Empress's shoulder: "So Mother has come out now? Congratulations, Mother."

The Queen laughed and told her, "You don't need to prepare so many things in the future."

“Your father is the Emperor, so he deserves his share. But you have no obligation to the Crown Prince, so you can forget about his share.”

Yinyin nodded and agreed earnestly.

The mother and daughter talked for a while longer, and then someone opened the palace gates and brought in food.

The Empress instructed Yin Yin to remove the illusion and remain hidden inside the room.

Before long, a familiar palace servant came in to deliver the meal.

"Your Majesty," a palace maid relayed with a stern face, "His Majesty says that Fengyi Palace has been sealed off for three years. Have you come to your senses?"

The Empress pretended to have just opened her eyes and said, "I've figured it out."

The palace maid who delivered the message had just shown a happy expression when she saw the Empress tear off her jade pendant and smash it hard on the ground.

"Since His Majesty has forgotten his vow, why should I wait for him to remember it? From now on, life and death are preordained, and we need not meet again in this life."

After the palace maid saw what kind of jade pendant the Empress had smashed, she knelt down on the ground.

"Alright," the Empress glanced at her, "Take your things and go find your master. Don't come back."

The palace servants were truly at a loss when they saw that the Empress had closed her eyes again and showed no intention of eating.

After all, in the past few years, the Empress has been eating and drinking as usual, and her main goal is to treat herself well even though she can't go out and has fewer people to serve her.

Because the Empress seemed to be living too comfortably, all the servants around her were transferred away, and her brocade robes were later replaced with plain clothes.

The palace maids gathered up the broken jade pendant and hurriedly left Fengyi Palace.

“Mother,” Yin Yin used her illusion magic again to reveal herself and asked, “What kind of jade pendant did you break? Why did that palace maid seem so scared?”

“It used to be a valuable item, but it has long lost its value,” the Queen explained. “It was the betrothal gift and promise your father made when he asked for my hand in marriage.”

The Empress showed no regret or pity: "Promises have been trampled on countless times, but I've just pretended not to know and have kept them on my person all this time."

"The person who came today is an old man that your father used to send to serve me. This kind of thing is only somewhat useful to people who know about the past."

"In your usual parlance, it could be considered 'a worthy death'?"

Yin Yin usually searches for delicacies with Jing Yue, and when praising how delicious they are, she likes to use this word with the Empress.

The Empress was willing to joke with her, and Yin Yin believed her and didn't take it to heart. Thinking that the Empress hadn't eaten yet, she took out some delicious food from her storage bag.

The Empress was just putting on an act; she didn't really want to harm her body. She picked and chose from the things Yin Yin gave her, selecting those that had little taste after eating. After rinsing her mouth, the effects wouldn't be noticeable.

After the meal, there was another commotion outside. This time it was quite a big event, including the sound of the emperor's whip being cracked during his travels.

The Empress told Yin Yin to rest: "Don't make a sound later."

Yinyin agreed, and then concealed herself using the previous method. Just then, the emperor hurriedly entered, holding the jade pendant fragments that had been cleared away.

Seeing that the Empress was ignoring him with her eyes closed, yet revealing a look of sadness and grievance, the Emperor asked, "Does Zitong resent me?"

The Empress slowly opened her eyes, her gaze devoid of any former intimacy, even showing some coldness: "Your Majesty is joking, how could I dare?"

The emperor held his hand right up to her eyes: "Then what about this jade pendant? Why did you throw it away?"

“Useless things should be discarded as soon as possible,” the Empress said, her words like knives. “What good are they besides taking up space?”

Yinyin saw the emperor take two steps back, looking quite hurt. But she had to admit, the expression on his face, if it had been someone younger or someone else with good looks, would have been heart-wrenching. But now, at this age…

His body was overweight and out of shape, and his face was loose and sagging. Even if he was dressed impeccably and had an aura that was unmatched by ordinary people, it still wouldn't work.

When Yinyin saw that the emperor had driven all the servants out of the room and ordered the door to be closed, she thought he had some big trick up his sleeve that he couldn't tell anyone else. After holding it in for a long time, she finally called out "Sister".

Yinyin lowered her hand immediately, which had been on guard.

Alright, alright, the old emperor wants to paint it green, so let's turn back time to several decades ago.

"Sister, I was wrong. I shouldn't have listened to slander and shouldn't have made a move on Yin Yin."

The Empress looked sorrowful: "Three years. I never imagined that, just when I was about to give up, Your Majesty would say such a thing."

"But will it work?"

The Empress didn't even want to stand up: "Your Majesty, you don't really think you've done anything wrong, you're just trying to appease me, otherwise you wouldn't have sent someone to ask me such a question today, would you?"

"No," the emperor said anxiously, trying to continue his rebuttal, but was stopped by the empress.

“Actually, I should have seen through it long ago,” the Queen sighed. “The boy who grew up with me is long gone.”

The Empress looked utterly devastated, then let out a sneer, though it was unclear who she was mocking.

"Thank you for sending someone to ask me today. If someone hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have realized that three years have already passed."

"I'm getting old, and I don't have many more three-year periods left. It's time to make a proper decision, don't you think?"

"No, no," the emperor would repeat over and over that this was not his true intention, but the empress didn't want to hear a single word.

After the emperor left, Yin Yin came out and used a trick to deceive the empress, whose expression immediately changed.

Yinyin looked and looked again, and finally chose to sit next to the Empress to keep her company.

The Empress stroked her hair and said, "I'll definitely be very busy these next few days, so you'd better hide away."

"But if it doesn't work out, it's fine. Just say that I asked you to come and take me away."