Rouge and the others had no choice but to kneel down and loudly proclaim, "We, your servants, greet Your Majesty."
"Greetings, Your Majesty."
The sounds outside were naturally heard by Shi Mei inside, who quickly went to the bedside to call Hai Ling: "Miss, Miss, the Emperor is here! Get up quickly, the Emperor is here."
Unfortunately, Hailin was fast asleep and only mumbled something before falling back asleep.
At this moment, Feng Zixiao walked in, his tall and upright figure standing in front of the bed.
Shi Mei quickly knelt down: "This servant greets Your Majesty."
Feng Zixiao ignored Shi Mei and squinted at the person on the bed. He found that when she was sleeping, she was no longer as annoying and aggressive as she was during the day. She was unusually peaceful at this moment. He wondered what she was dreaming about. There was a sweet smile on her face. Feng Zixiao was a little confused for a moment. He had never seen a woman sleep before and never knew that a woman could be so cute when she was sleeping.
For a moment, there was not a sound in the palace.
The emperor remained silent, and Shi Mei dared not speak either, kneeling quietly and stealing glances at the emperor.
Feng Zixiao's handsome face was shrouded in thought, and surprisingly, he did not get angry.
What does the Emperor mean by barging into the palace before dawn and just watching the young lady sleep?
The person on the bed finally sensed that the atmosphere in the air was different, turned over, and then slowly opened their eyes.
As she turned over, a section of her fair neck was revealed, and a bluish-purple hickey on her neck came into Feng Zixiao's view.
Feng Zixiao's handsome face suddenly turned icy cold, his eyes blazing with fury and bloodlust. He clenched his fists, his fingertips turning white and veins bulging, and roared, "Where did you get that hickey on your neck?"
Hai Ling rolled her eyes, momentarily confused. She sat up, quickly dressed, and looked at the Emperor. Her mind raced. Why was there a hickey on her neck? She hadn't expected Feng Zixiao to be so angry. Now was a good opportunity. With that thought in mind, she quickly put on an uneasy expression.
The moment this expression fell into Feng Zixiao's eyes, it aroused all sorts of fantasies, and Feng Zixiao could no longer hold back his furious rage.
"Jiang Hailing, as Empress, you are not virtuous, but jealous, you beat and scold the concubines, provoke the Empress Dowager, and now you are having an affair, a licentious Empress. I want to depose you—?"
Before the emperor could finish speaking, the person on the bed rolled off the bed and knelt on the ground. Her eyes gleamed with a fleeting glint of light, a hint of divine intervention in them. However, her face was filled with a pitiful expression as she pleaded pitifully, "Your Majesty, please spare me this once! I will never dare to do it again, never again! Please don't send me out of the palace, please don't send me out of the palace!"
These words completely confirmed that she had cheated on her husband. Inside the palace, Shi Mei was dumbfounded. Her mistress was truly amazing.
"Guards! The Empress is immoral! Throw her out of the palace! From this day forward, she shall never set foot in the palace again!" The emperor, enraged, fell into a trap without realizing it and casually issued the order.
Outside the palace gate, several eunuchs immediately slipped in and invited the Empress to leave.
The empress looked heartbroken and choked up, but after turning around, a smile spread across her lips and her eyebrows danced with joy. She had rejected all those lousy men who offered her their services, truly foolish to think she was being so sentimental. Now she had finally left the palace. But who left that kiss mark? It really did her a big favor.
There was a carriage in front of the palace gate. Hailing pulled Yanzhi with her left hand and Shimei with her right hand, and hurriedly climbed into the carriage. If you looked closely, you could easily see her excitement. Her mouth was almost stretched to the roots of her ears, but the words she spoke were full of sadness.
"Your Majesty, please don't send me away from the palace! Please don't send me away!"
Once they were on the carriage, the eunuch gave the order: "Giddy up!"
The carriage drove out of the palace, leaving the guards, eunuchs, and palace maids in front of the Zhengyi Palace dumbfounded. Wasn't this speed a bit too fast?
The Emperor just drove the Empress out of the palace like that. Although the Empress was crying and wailing, wasn't it a bit too fast for her to leave?
Inside the sleeping quarters of Zhengyi Palace.
Feng Zixiao was initially so angry that he wanted to kill someone, which is why he chased Hai Ling away in a fit of rage. Later, he gradually calmed down.
Looking into the vast palace, which was completely empty, he felt strangely uneasy, as if something was missing.
Why is this so strange? And if he just banished Jiang Hailing from the palace like that, what was the point of marrying her in the first place?
Feng Zixiao felt completely confused, and this confusion was caused by the fat woman. She had always been elusive and unpredictable.
Sometimes he was as clever as a talented woman, sometimes as cunning as a wild man, sometimes as shrewd as a scheming person, and sometimes as cute as a harmless child. He was always calm and wise, but when facing her, he would always get angry and lose his temper, getting so angry that he would run around in circles. Now he had even lost his temper and chased her out of the palace. All of this seemed a bit unbelievable. Feng Zixiao sat in his bedchamber in Zhengyi Palace, slowly thinking and slowly figuring things out.
It turns out that from the very beginning, she had been hiding many things. She pretended to admire him by giving him calligraphy and paintings, and then she made up an ugly face to anger him. After entering the palace, she even provoked the Empress Dowager and hit Jiang Feixue. Even the hickey on her neck was probably a deliberate deception, which is why he lost his temper and chased her away.
In fact, she had one goal from the beginning: to have him personally depose her so that she could legitimately break free from the constraints of the Jiang family and the royal family.
It turns out she was the smartest and most capable one.
Such a shrewd person, yet he was so blinded by appearances that he couldn't see reality. He truly deserves to die. If he had treated her sincerely from the beginning, he might have gained her help.
It turns out that he was the most foolish one; even Feng Qian saw things more clearly than him.
Why was Xi Lingfeng willing to lend out the Jade Flute? Why did Feng Qian like her? Why was the Seventh Prince willing to get close to her? And why did their father leave behind words before his death? But everything was ruined by his arrogance.
Feng Zixiao's heart ached terribly, for reasons he didn't know. In any case, after reflecting on his actions, he immediately shouted loudly outside the palace.
"Guards, immediately stop the Empress's carriage and bring her back."
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Upon hearing this, the eunuch rushed out, wondering what had happened to the Emperor. He ordered the guards outside the palace gate to stop the Empress's carriage and bring her back.
The guards obeyed the order and quickly left. Dozens of men nimbly mounted their horses and headed straight for the palace gates.
However, when they stopped the carriage that was taking the Empress out of the palace, they found that the carriage was empty and the Empress and several maids were gone.
The guard immediately returned to Zhengyi Palace to report to Emperor Feng Zixiao. This further convinced Feng Zixiao that the woman had been deceiving him from beginning to end, and he had been fooled time and time again. He couldn't describe the feeling in his heart. He couldn't even see through a woman's deception. How could he be a ruler, how could he be an emperor? Did he still have a way to defeat Jiang Batian? He had never doubted his own abilities before, but now he had deep doubts.
Jiang Hailing left the palace today. If she hadn't left a little too quickly, he probably wouldn't have realized it and would never have known that this woman had been plotting against him from beginning to end. If he hadn't been so concerned about appearance, he would have noticed something was off about her long ago. But he was too focused on appearance and overlooked other things.
Jiang Hailing, you have been cautious and meticulous in every step you have taken, but unfortunately you moved too fast today, which exposed a flaw and gave me this little opportunity to think things through.
With a chilling aura emanating from him, Feng Zixiao ordered the guards in the main hall of Zhengyi Palace: "Immediately notify the capital's garrison to seal the city gates, go to the Jiang family to find out the Empress's whereabouts, and search the entire capital. You must find the Empress's whereabouts, and once you find her, bring her back to the palace."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The guard rushed off to the capital's garrison to retrieve his men and begin searching the city.