The Royal Highness - C29

There will always be a time when he regrets

However, when Xiang Ye turned back to look at Bu’Er, the Empress had already continued to look at the stage with her indifferent expression.

The brilliant performance did not manage to make her smile, but when she saw Shen Zhe, she smiled.

Originally, at this time, Shen Zhe should have asked his cousin for his help so that he could leave the seat and avoid all the trouble. However, Shen Zhe was so shocked by the little miss that his mind went blank, and he forgot everything. He forgot, but the emperor remembered that Xiang Ye had been unable to catch his brother’s gaze for a long time. Watching him stiffly respond to the words of others, the answer to the question in his heart became clearer.

This brother of his who had followed him by his side since he was two years old, had never been able to hide anything from him, but the emperor seemed to be overly confident. If he and Qiu Miner knew each other and even fell in love, wouldn’t the Emperor be hiding everything?

“Your majesty?” The empress dowager was smiling as she called out to her son. Her face was filled with anticipation, the excitement of wanting to pick a daughter-in-law for the Shen family.

Xiang Ye knew what his mother wanted to do. When he looked at his brother again, it was as if Shen Zhe had woken up from his stupor. The resistance in his eyes had finally broken through his usual warmth.

Was it because of Qiu Miner?

The emperor ignored his mother’s question, calling Shen Zhe over directly and said coldly: “Qingming Pavilion is currently waiting for an urgent document worth eight hundred kilometers. Leave the seats and help us receive it before coming back.”

Her Majesty was unhappy, but before she could stop her, Zhe stood up to receive her orders and left without looking back. Her Majesty glowered at the Emperor, a trick they had played many times before, but once upon a time her son would smile at her so as not to make her so angry, and today the Emperor’s face was tense, as if someone had poked him in the side.

“Seriously, one or two won’t let me worry.” The empress dowager said that this matter could only be put aside for now.

However, just now when Shen Zhe stood up to receive his orders, the emperor paid attention to him and Qiu Miner who was by her side. They did not look at each other, and Shen Zhe walked away faster than ever before, for the sake of avoiding the choice of wife, it was understandable.

As for the empress, she was still the same calm and composed person. Instead, it was her who openly set her gaze on Shen Zhe, as if the emperor was overthinking things. She felt that his gaze was a little gentler than when he was looking at her or anyone else.

Outside the Longevity Palace, Shen Zhe rushed out. The sun had finally set and night fell, this time the climate was the most irritating. Naturally, he was extremely pleased with himself.

Shen Zhe tried hard to think back to three years ago when he saw that girl who looked to be around fifteen or sixteen. Why had her grandmother called her? Shen Zhe couldn’t remember, he only remembered the young lady’s clear voice, “Grandmother, I’ll be right there.” Only then did he know that the woman was the girl’s grandmother, and that she had said every word to him.

“Qiu Miner, you are Qiu Miner?” Shen Zhe muttered to himself.

Maybe he could have asked her what her name was then, and from the moment the Emperor decreed his order, he would have understood the arrangement and tricks of fate, instead of almost revealing his embarrassment in public at this very moment.

He smiled helplessly. “Maybe she has already forgotten about it.”

The General Shen’s attitude was still the same. Although the empress dowager was embarrassed, she was still the empress dowager, who would still dare to give her face? It was actually the emperor who had been depressed since the latter half of the day.

The banquet was about to disperse. Since this was the Palace of Longevity, the empress dowager naturally didn’t need anyone to send her off. Thus, she ordered the empress dowager to return early to rest. On the contrary, he ordered Zhou Huai to hand over the food in front of everyone. He casually touched a piece and under everyone’s gazes, the Eunuch Zhou walked over to the side of the Begonia palace King, Wang Yu, and gave him some instructions.

This also meant that the Emperor would be spending the night in the Begonia palace, and the Empress who had been sitting beside him all night was completely fine.

The empress dowager was angered to the point that her face changed, but there were so many people that she couldn’t stop herself from flaring up, and when the emperor had left, she came to help her enter the bedchamber. She waited until all the guests had left, and then the empress dowager’s strange relationship with her would naturally be carried out of the palace.

“My dear son, I won’t explain anything to the Emperor.” In front of the bedchamber’s doors, the empress dowager advised her daughter-in-law to go back and rest early.

She didn’t care about the people in the banquet at all. She didn’t even want the emperor to come to the upper yang palace, she didn’t want to be bullied by the emperor, and the wound on her chest had just healed.

It was getting late in the night in the Begonia palace, and from Wang Yu to the Maid Eunuch, they were all carefully waiting on the emperor. The emperor was furious today, but judging from his behavior, he seemed to be angry at the empress.

The sound of “pa pa” shook the hearts of the people. The jade bone fan in the emperor’s hand was constantly tapping his palm, and he had been standing under the window for a long time in her sleeping clothes with a faint smell of alcohol. Wang Yu, wearing a white nightgown, was waiting on the bed.

Finally, Xiang Ye turned around and saw that the person on the bed seemed to be stunned, as if he didn’t know where he was. Just as he walked closer, he saw two lines of tears on Wang Yu’s face and asked impatiently, “What are you crying for?”