Xiao Langyan placed his big palm on the door, and when he was about to push the door open, his movements suddenly stopped.
He raised his deep, dark eyes and looked at the warm yellow candlelight from a separate door.
Xu Shou quickly stepped forward and spoke on Xiao Langyan's behalf: "Your Majesty, the Emperor has come to see you specially. Have you rested yet?"
After a moment, Shen Dingzhu's voice came from inside the door: "I'm tired and just want to take a rest."
Her tone was low and soft, with a lazy coquettishness. When she spoke the first word, Xiao Langyan unconsciously concentrated all his energy to listen to the vague response.
From time to time, Shen Dingzhu's voice would attract all his attention.
Xiao Langyan's expression darkened: "Are you still playing tricks on me? I thought you had already thought it through in the few days I gave you."
There was a long silence in the hall. After a while, Xiao Langyan seemed to hear Shen Dingzhu laughing inside. The sound was a little helpless and also had a touch of sadness.
"I have been very clear from the beginning about the reason for my forbearance in the past few years." Shen Dingzhu supported the edge of the bed and stood up reluctantly. A layer of cold sweat broke out on his greasy forehead.
She held her belly and glanced at the leftovers on the table. She felt even more nauseated, so her tone became indifferent.
"What I am fighting for and asking for has always been the peace and innocence of my family. The emperor has given the former, but promised to clear the grievances of my family, but has not fulfilled it. I do not want the power and favor you gave me. I am willing to Take all this in exchange for the justice that my father deserves."
Shen Dingzhu walked to the door with weak legs. She really didn't have the strength, so she simply sat in an armchair. The cold wind blew in through the cracks in the window. She felt cold, and her jade-white hands protected her lower abdomen.
Xiao Langyan stood at the door, with a storm in his thin eyes, and his voice tried to suppress the anger in his heart: "Do you know that everything you have now is given by me, what do you give me in exchange for it?"
Shen Dingzhu lowered her long slender eyelashes and licked her lips bitterly. She also smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "I really have nothing, and everything is given by the emperor. However, I also know one thing. Soon, Fu Yunqiu will..."
"I don't want to hear about other people's affairs!" Unexpectedly, Xiao Langyan interrupted her.
In the past, when she told her what he knew about the past, he was obviously willing to listen, but this time, Xiao Langyan's sharp voice was full of the fury of a lion.
Shen Dingzhu held her sore waist, her beautiful eyes filled with confusion.
He doesn't want to hear anything about Fu Yunqiu either?
Xiao Langyan said coldly through the door: "I just want you to bow your head! If you are willing to admit your mistakes, understand my painstaking efforts, and accept my arrangements, then I will forget everything in the past and give you nothing less." ,even more."
Hearing this, Shen Dingzhu's eyes were sour, and a hot tear fell down his white face.
Her silence aroused the displeasure of Xiao Langyan outside the door. He paced back and forth, trying to talk to the angry and annoyed lion!
His eyes were heavy and dangerous, and his melodious voice kept asking: "I don't understand, why is it that what you want is always different from others? I gave you favor, status, love for our children, and the sworn brother I found for you is also to give you Your strong mother's family prevents you from being bullied in the harem, and no one in the previous government dared to impeach you."
"I also allowed your family members to enter and leave the palace, gave your second brother a place in the court, and even hired an imperial doctor to heal your eldest brother's leg!"
"I put everything into consideration for you. Why? Why do you always feel that it is not enough, and you must ask me to do that difficult thing for you, to overthrow the Shen family's crimes that have been recognized for nearly ten years? In the middle of the court The forces are complicated, and all the insiders related to the Shen family case have long been buried with the late emperor!"
Shen Dingzhu's tearful voice was trembling and even hoarse:
"Because this is what you promised me!"
"Because innocence is more important to a subject like my father than his life!"
"Because the entire Shen family, numbering 136, is waiting for the day when the injustice will be redressed!"
"Because my concubine's surname is Shen, she is the Shen of my father Shen Tongfu, not the Shen of Shen Hanshan's family!"
After she finished speaking, she retched a little and fell on the edge of the chair in discomfort. Her tears became more intense, and she even found it difficult to breathe.
Xiao Langyan outside the door seemed to be shrouded in snow, with an extremely cold expression.
The two of them were clearly separated by a thin door, but at this moment, they both felt that there seemed to be an insurmountable chasm between them.
Xiao Langyan has suffered a lot since he was a child. The environment in which he grew up requires him to stay calm and rational, put his interests first in everything, and abandon all things and people that are not beneficial to him!
But Shen Dingzhu became his exception.
According to his previous character, Shen Dingzhu should be killed and the emotions that he has not yet understood should be strangled in the cradle in time.
However……
The cold autumn wind blew in from behind, causing his long sleeves to sway slightly, and his tall figure was like a towering shadow cast on the door.
In his mind, Shen Dingzhu's coquettish look kept flashing through his mind.
She is like a petulant kitten, trying hard to cater to his preferences and appearing dignified and decent. In fact, when she encounters someone she hates, she will quietly pout and let her dissatisfaction secretly leak out. She endures it for her own purposes. A lot.
Even if all this patience was not for him, Xiao Langyan actually felt it was enough.
He closed his eyes and calmed down the raging sea of anger in his heart, turning it into a cold question from his thin lips.
"I will give you one last chance, Shen Dingzhu, do you know you were wrong?"
There was no sound in the hall.
As long as Shen Dingzhu cries or shows weakness, Xiao Langyan will go in and forgive her without hesitation.
However, all he received in response was cold silence.
The autumn wind whistled in my ears, and the Yaoguang Palace was no longer as gorgeous as before. The decaying withered grass in the courtyard was scorched yellow in color. When the night wind passed by, they all fell over.
Xu Shou watched Xiao Langyan's tall figure standing at the door, motionless, just waiting for Shen Dingzhu's answer, and he felt anxious in his heart.
What’s wrong with the imperial concubine’s submission? Who else in the world can make the emperor look like this!
Others begged not to come and see the emperor. The concubines in the palace tried their best to win favor, but Xu Shou saw clearly that the emperor never gave them a loving and smiling look.
Now, the emperor is actually standing at the door of Concubine Shen, asking her to give in. Is it not to give himself a step down?
Xiao Langyan deliberately gave Shen Dingzhu time to think about it, but after waiting for a long time, after the bleak cold wind blew, the emperor's figure, like a rock standing in the interlacing darkness of night and light, gradually revealed a touch of coldness.
suddenly.
In Yaoguang Palace, the last candle was extinguished.
Xiao Langyan raised his eyes, and under his dark and cold brows were a pair of thin eyes whose heat had subsided.
Shen Dingzhu didn't answer, but her actions were the answer.
Xiao Langyan pursed his thin lips and looked at the dark courtyard with stern eyes. Finally, he turned around and left without a trace of hesitation, flinging his sleeves.
"Your Majesty, oh, this... oh!" Xu Shou glanced inside the door and wanted to persuade him but didn't know how, so he could only follow Xiao Langyan and run down the steps.
The Imperial Guards blocked Yaoguang Palace again.
No one knew that in the Yaoguang Palace, a delicate body was lying on the ground. Shen Dingzhu's pretty face was pale, her eyes were closed, and she had obviously fainted.
She couldn't breathe just now, and she had just vomited and was weak. Before she could finish listening to Xiao Langyan's words, she slipped softly along the chair.
But the candle flame had already burned out, so it was extinguished.
The icy blue moonlight shines through the gaps in the window, illuminating the hall with mottled light and shadow. The beauty's delicate body lies in the intertwining of light and death, with a heart-wrenching tear trail still hanging on her cheek.
