Demoted from wife to concubine? Reborn, the mistress of a noble family plots another high-status mar

Chapter 128

"What is this?" Murong Yu was in a bad mood and didn't want to see him.

Qin Mo said, "Yun Xiyue asked me to bring you this as an apology. She's afraid the Emperor might execute her entire family in a fit of rage."

He couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.

Murong Yu's face darkened. "Does she think I'm a foolish emperor?"

"She doesn't understand your temper. The Emperor's sudden outburst of anger was clearly because she was frightened."

Murong Yu snorted, "Who told her to be so audacious?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and opened the brocade box.

A stack of silver notes lay inside the brocade box.

His face darkened even more after he glanced at it.

Qin Mo glanced at it curiously, and his eyes immediately lit up. "One hundred thousand taels? Miss Yun is indeed generous and wealthy!"

"Is she trying to bribe you with 100,000 taels of silver? To please you and then spare her entire family?"

Murong Yu's forehead veins bulged. That brat actually threw a silver note at his face. Did she really think he was some kind of brothel owner who could be summoned and dismissed at will?

The King of Qin was unaware of the affair between the two, but Eunuch Fu was, and he guessed what was going on when he saw the silver notes.

This young lady of the Yun family has a death wish!

They actually mistook the emperor for the kind of men found in brothels.

Murong Yu was furious. He slammed the brocade box shut. "Take it back and tell her that if she wants to buy the lives of her entire family, 100,000 taels of silver won't be enough."

"At least one million... no, ten million taels of silver."

If she's so capable, she'll throw ten million silver dollars in his face.

Yun Xiyue is still at the Prince of Qin's residence and hasn't returned. She can't rest easy until she gets accurate news.

"Xi Yue, what did you do to anger the Emperor?" Xiao Rongrong couldn't help but worry when she saw how nervous she was.

"have no idea......"

Yun Xiyue smiled bitterly, "Who can fathom the Emperor's thoughts? I am just a lowly imperial merchant. If he wanted my life, wouldn't it be a matter of a single word?"

Xiao Rongrong said, "Don't think like that. The Emperor is not as cold-blooded as you think. As the Son of Heaven, he holds the power of life and death, but he also has many things he can't do and many things he has no choice in."

"His Majesty once said that emperors are the least free people in the world."

"He lived not for himself, but for the sake of the millions of people of the Great Xia Dynasty so that they could live and work in peace and contentment."

Xiao Rongrong grew up with Murong Yu and knows him very well.

“Xi Yue, even if he did something to hurt you and the Yun family that day, it must have been a choice he had no choice in. He is not a bad person by nature, but as the emperor, he can no longer live for himself.”

Yunxi Yue was startled and remembered some rumors she had heard in her previous life. People said that Murong Yu was a tyrant, cruel and heartless, indifferent to women, and died alone.

Thinking about it, it was similar to my own experience. In her past life, she was imprisoned for her entire life, spending it all in a dark little house, and finally dying a painful and slow death...

"I believe that the Emperor would not execute a person's entire family for such a trivial matter. He is not a tyrant."

Yun Xiyue smiled and said, "The Prince also said so. Are the Princess, the Prince, and the Emperor on good terms?"

"Yes, we were once sworn brothers. The Emperor went to the battlefield in his early years when he was still the Crown Prince. He and the Prince became my father's disciples and learned martial arts and military strategy from him."

"The Emperor once saved the lives of the Prince and me. Without the Emperor, I would never have been able to marry the Prince and have our love story come true." Xiao Rongrong's expression was a mixture of hurt and relief as she recounted the past.

The Xiao family was a prominent family of generals in the Great Xia Dynasty. She was the eldest daughter of a military family. Once, due to a defeat of the Xiao family on the battlefield, someone needed to be sent to marry a foreign ruler. The other party asked the princess of the Great Xia Dynasty to go to the marriage.

However, the imperial court believed that since it was the Xiao family's mistake that led to the defeat of the Great Xia, she should go to the Northern Liang for a marriage alliance in place of the princess.

"It was the Emperor who withstood the pressure, took all the blame, protected my Xiao family, and prevented me from being sent to a marriage alliance."

Therefore, they were all very grateful to Murong Yu and swore to be loyal to him for life.

Listening to their past, Yun Xiyue couldn't help but feel a sense of beauty. "It's so good. The Emperor is a responsible and good man. He will be a very good emperor in the future."