roccoschili Chapter 423: Queen's Duties, Doting on the Imperial Concubine
Chapter 423: Queen's Duties, Doting on the Imperial Concubine
This is also one of the reasons why he wrote a eulogy to commemorate Chun Yuan. He wanted to tell Chun Yuan, and also to tell himself, that he had not forgotten Chun Yuan. Even though he now has a concubine, he still remembers Chun Yuan.
And Concubine Wan is the best proof that he misses Chunyuan.
"Your Majesty, do you still remember this dress?"
The Queen looked at the Emperor's changing expression and her heart sank. The Emperor was actually wavering in his feelings for her sister.
This is not a good thing for her at the moment. After all, if the emperor really forgot her sister, how could she use her sister in the future to make the emperor soft-hearted towards her?
Upon hearing this, the emperor looked carefully at the dress on the queen. It looked very familiar, but he couldn't figure out where he had seen it.
The Queen snorted sarcastically, "This dress was given to me by my elder sister after I entered the palace. The reason Your Majesty can't remember this dress is probably because I never wore it again after my elder sister left."
The Queen originally wanted to use Honghui's matter to make the Emperor soften his heart towards her.
When she realized that the emperor's feelings towards her sister were wavering, she decisively changed the name of the dress.
Anyway, it happened so long ago, she was sure that the emperor would not really remember it.
After all, my sister did give me a lot of things as a reward after she entered the palace, including clothes of course, and this piece of clothing was indeed the one I wore back then, so the emperor would not notice anything.
Sure enough, after the Queen said this, when the Emperor looked at the dress again, he felt that he had indeed seen the Queen wearing this dress when he was in the palace.
I didn’t expect that this dress was actually the one Chunyuan gave to the Queen, but since they are sisters, it’s not surprising.
"Does the emperor really still remember my sister now?"
"Why did the emperor get so angry when he saw Wanpin wearing my sister's clothes? Was it because he felt that Wanpin had offended my sister, or was it because the emperor could no longer remember what my sister looked like, so he mistook Wanpin for my sister?"
"After all, Wanpin and my sister only have some similarities in their eyebrows and eyes. But if you really look closely, Wanpin and my sister are not exactly the same, to the point where it is impossible to tell them apart."
The queen looked up and stared straight into the emperor's eyes, as if she wanted to see through the emperor's eyes and see his true thoughts.
The emperor was shocked by the queen's questions. After thinking about it carefully, he found that he seemed to have gradually forgotten Chun Yuan's specific appearance. Chun Yuan's real appearance seemed to become blurred with the passage of time, but Zhen Huan's face gradually became clearer.
It seemed that he was really finding it increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Wanpin and Chunyuan.
Even when he subconsciously recalled the tenderness he and Chunyuan had experienced in the past, that face turned into that of Wanpin.
Could it be that he has really changed his heart and even forgotten Chun Yuan's existence?
"Your Majesty, I did harm Wanpin, but I was also too angry. Wanpin is nothing. She is just a substitute for my sister. How can she be qualified to replace my sister's position in your heart?"
Seeing that the Emperor was obviously stumped by her words, the Queen struck while the iron was hot and quickly attributed her actions to speaking up for her sister.
She tried to create the image of a good sister who missed her sister, so that the emperor's guilt for forgetting his sister would take effect on herself, thus making the emperor forget the crime he had committed.
But the queen did not realize that her last sentence made the emperor realize that something was wrong.
Does he really care about Wanpin so much?
The emperor knew very well that although he favored Concubine Wan, he did not care about her that much.
After all, he once truly loved Chunyuan, and he knew very well what it felt like when one really cared about someone. He had had this feeling towards the Imperial Concubine and towards Shilan, but never towards Wanpin.
At the beginning, Nian Gengyao was the one who rebelled and even planned to join forces with Prince Dun to rebel, but he never thought of attacking Concubine Hua. In fact, for the sake of Concubine Hua's feelings, he was willing to give such a heinous person like Nian Gengyao a decent death.
As for the Imperial Concubine, it was even more obvious. If he didn't really care about her, why would he have gone to so much trouble to get her brother promoted, even though the Fucha family was already prominent enough.
Although Wanpin's father was promoted, it was because of his contribution to the New Year's Eve celebration, and Wanpin also made a lot of contributions to the New Year's Eve celebration.
If this incident had not happened, he would not have promoted Wanpin's father just because he favored Wanpin.
Of course, the Imperial Concubine and Shilan also have deep feelings for him, which cannot be compared with Concubine Wan.
His Xier is not only outstanding in appearance, but also the most capable of understanding the emperor's intentions. Even though she is so favored, she has never acted arrogantly. Even if she is angry, she will never feel resentment towards him.
Such people are worthy of his true heart.
Wanpin was just a thing for him to remember Chunyuan by. If it weren't for the fact that she had just given birth to a child, he would never easily agree to lift the house arrest for her.
"Queen, you can say anything to escape your guilt."
"I do love Wanpin, but I have never forgotten Chunyuan, and there is no such thing as Wanpin replacing Chunyuan's position in my heart."
"Wanpin is indeed somewhat similar to Chunyuan, but she cannot understand my feelings as well as Chunyuan. How can she be compared with Chunyuan?"
After the emperor calmed down, he quickly realized that the queen's words were just an attempt to use emotion to cover up her own vicious intentions.
"What about the concubine?"
"Has the Emperor never shown any true love to the Imperial Concubine?"
The queen didn't expect the emperor to react so quickly. She panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down.
"The Imperial Concubine is the Imperial Concubine, and Chun Yuan is Chun Yuan. Are you going to say that the Imperial Concubine and Chun Yuan are somewhat similar?"
The emperor looked at the queen with a mocking tone and asked back.
"Your Majesty, now that you have the Imperial Concubine and the Sixth Prince by your side, I'm afraid you have long forgotten your sister and her Second Prince."
These words instantly ignited the emperor's anger, and he threw the inkstone in his hand towards the queen.
Although it was not aimed at the queen's head, it still hit the queen's body hard. The queen endured the severe pain in her waist and still straightened her back to confront the emperor.
"Your Majesty is so angry, it shows that what I said is right."
"The emperor has given the Sixth Prince the highest honor. I have seen him hold the Sixth Prince in his arms many times without any hesitation. He even gave him a nickname. This is a treatment that no other child in the palace has ever received. This shows how much the emperor loves the concubine and the Sixth Prince."