On Shen Dingzhu's first day back in the palace, everyone in the Qianyuan Palace treated her with respect. She wanted to ask something, but these palace people did not dare to say anything.
Xiao Langyan was handling government affairs and didn't come back until midnight.
He entered the hall a little tiredly. When he saw the graceful sleeping figure on the bed, Xiao Langyan was stunned.
In Nanzhou, I also spent many days with Shen Dingzhu.
But never once did he feel it so intuitively——
She has come back.
Right next to him, on his couch.
Shen Dingzhu was a very strange woman. He didn't think she was very important when she was here, but in the four years since she left, he had hardly had a good night's sleep.
When he was still a prince, no matter how busy he was, he still wanted to go back to his house to see what trouble this woman was up to.
But in the four years since she left, there seemed to be a void in his heart.
What surprised him even more was that on the day he ascended the throne, all ministers paid homage to him, but he always felt that there was someone missing around him.
That's why, when he learned about Shen Dingzhu's whereabouts, he chased after her without any reason.
It was morning when he learned the news about her, and he had already left Beijing in the evening.
He did not stop on the way to Nanzhou. The journey that originally took a month took him to drive day and night, and he arrived in Nanzhou in only thirteen days.
Then, he finally met her.
With complex emotions brewing in his thin eyes, Xiao Langyan walked over and slowly sat down beside her bed.
In the past four years, he has never stopped looking for Shen Dingzhu. Xiao Langyan knew what she would have to rely on to survive alone.
He once thought that she should only know calligraphy and embroidery, but when he thought of these two things, Xiao Langyan panicked.
He was actually afraid that Shen Dingzhu had talents that he didn't know about, because she was originally a bright moon in the sky.
If the Shen family hadn't suddenly declined, as a bright pearl in Prime Minister Shen's heart, Shen Dingzhu would have married the most favored prince.
How could it have been his turn to pick up this bright moon?
But now, like a dream, this woman is here, lying on his dragon couch, and their child is living a good life not far outside the palace.
Xiao Langyan couldn't help but stretched out his hand and gently pinched the ends of her hair.
Shen Dingzhu was awakened.
She originally wanted to rest for a while and wait for Xiao Langyan to come back. After all, he was already the emperor. If there was no invitation to sleep, it would be against the palace rules for her to sleep in the Qianyuan Hall.
Unexpectedly, after such a wait, she fell asleep first.
She just woke up when she felt someone touch her.
She opened her hazy sleepy eyes and saw Xiao Langyan sitting beside the couch, looking at her with a dark and complicated expression.
"Your Majesty?" Shen Dingzhu sat up quickly and rubbed his eyes, "When did you come back?"
"Just now." Xiao Langyan replied.
Shen Dingzhu was about to stay and help him change clothes, but Xiao Langyan held her down: "You can continue to sleep. I will go to court in an hour."
Shen Dingzhu glanced at the palace and realized that it was so late.
She looked at Xiao Langyan with her watery eyes and asked with concern: "Would the Emperor want to lie down and rest for a while?"
Xiao Langyan originally planned to leave immediately because there was still a pile of accumulated government affairs that had not been dealt with.
But when he heard Shen Dingzhu say this, he nodded: "Okay."
Shen Dingzhu sat inside, and he put on his clothes and lay down outside. Shen Dingzhu felt that sitting was inappropriate, so she slowly lay down next to him.
"When I just came in, I saw there was cold dinner on the table outside. Didn't you use it tonight?" Xiao Langyan asked.
Shen Dingzhu no longer felt sleepy and replied in a gentle voice: "I thought the emperor would come back, so I waited for a while, but then I forgot to eat. I'm not hungry. Let's use it tomorrow morning."
"What do you want me to do?" Xiao Langyan originally closed his eyes and fell asleep, but at this moment, he opened his sharp thin eyes and turned to look at her.
His eyebrows are dark and thick, his sword-shaped eyebrows are sharp, and the thin eyes below are even more profound.
Every time Shen Dingzhu looked into his eyes, she felt as if she was being held captive by the abyss.
She licked her lips unconsciously: "I want to ask, when will you move to your palace?"
This move made Xiao Langyan's eyes deepen even further.
His voice was hoarse, and even he didn't notice it. Xiao Langyan reached out and played with a strand of ribbon on Shen Dingzhu's clothes: "Why are you leaving in a hurry? Didn't I leave someone to take care of you? Could it be that they don't agree with you? ?”
Shen Dingzhu said hurriedly: "No, it's just that the palace rules stipulate that the Qianyuan Palace is the emperor's bedroom, and it is against the rules for a concubine to stay here."
"Even in the palace before, I still had my own room."
Xiao Langyan pursed his thin lips into a sneer.
"I understand, you want your own place to live, and you don't want to stay under my roof for a long time."
Shen Dingzhu's white cheeks suddenly turned red.
Xiao Langyan followed her wishes: "In a few days, let Xu Shou make arrangements for you."
Shen Dingzhu became happy: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Her shouting was unfamiliar, not as good as the "Langyan" she shouted out loud that night when she was hit in the eye.
Xiao Langyan's eyes darkened and he asked hoarsely: "On the way back, you and I were angry for thirteen days."
Shen Dingzhu was stunned and looked at him suspiciously with her beautiful eyes.
Has it been that long?
She said harshly: "I'm not angry. I don't want to delay the emperor's handling of government affairs."
However, these words directly ignited the fire in Xiao Langyan's heart.
He turned over and pressed her under him, with a fiery look in his thin eyes: "Really? Are you really not trying to escape and don't want to serve me?"
Shen Dingzhu felt his change, her face flushed and her ears warmed, she stretched out her hand to gently touch his chest.
"Your Majesty, didn't you say you can only rest for an hour?" She couldn't delay his morning court.
Xiao Langyan pulled her hand down and pulled down the bed curtain.
"Isn't one hour enough?" He laughed in her ear, with a hint of teasing, "You want too much."
Shen Dingzhu's beautiful eyes widened, and she suddenly cried out in grievance. It was obvious that he knew the taste and refused to give up.
However, before she could complain, Xiao Langyan pressed her chin, bit her lips and kissed her.
This delicate kiss was originally filled with a little pity, but then for some reason, Xiao Langyan became aggressive again.
It seemed that he preferred to watch her begging for mercy than her weak humming.
After a fierce torment, Shen Dingzhu barely held up his sleepy eyes and wanted to send Xiao Langyan to court.
When he came out from the shower, he found Shen Dingzhu hugging the quilt, with her fair shoulders exposed and covered with pink marks.
Her sleepy head moved slightly, but Xiao Langyan felt refreshed and sneered: "No need to send it off, you can continue to sleep."
Shen Dingzhu closed her eyes and insisted, "How can that be done? It's against the palace rules."
However, Xiao Langyan stepped forward and pushed her. The beauty fell into the quilt and fell asleep.
Xiao Langyan smiled so hard that his eyebrows were raised.
He knew that although Shen Dingzhu kept reminding her of the palace rules, she was a delicate girl by nature. In her eyes, she only followed the rules when necessary.
She was very sleepy, so he let her sleep.
The next day.
Shen Dingzhu still drank the soup sent by the palace maid.
Then when she had nothing to do, she helped water the flowers in Qianyuan Palace. The palace ladies were so frightened that they didn't dare to let her interfere.
I wanted to persuade her, but I didn't know Shen Dingzhu's status, so I could only follow her and keep shouting: "Master, please take a rest."
This is the person the Emperor holds dear to his heart.
For her sake, the former prince was killed, and even the late emperor died without knowing why. He even tried to suppress the court to grant her a high status.
Shen Dingzhu didn't know anything about it. He just held the pot and said to them with a smile: "I only water the flowers."
At this time, a graceful figure led the palace servants up the white jade steps.
The man said to the eunuch at the door: "My concubine, Mrs. Cui, is here to deliver soup to the emperor."
In a blink of an eye, Cui Lianfu saw Shen Dingzhu smiling at the window talking to the palace maid, and the food box in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.
Bones rolled down the white jade steps.
Shen Dingzhu heard the noise and turned to look.
Cui Lianfu looked at her expression, as if she had seen a ghost, and was frightened.
