Seeing Hua Poyue off, Chen Ning stood by the window listening to the thunder, and his mood became dull with the gloomy sky.

Liuli walked in and whispered behind her: "Empress, I heard that Empress Hui is sick again, and the Imperial Doctor said... I am afraid I can't stand tonight."

Chen Ning turned around a little, nodded after a moment of silence. Recalling Huifei's gentle face, he felt mixed feelings in his heart.

There was a sudden muffled thunder, and Liuli was startled and said, "I'm afraid it's going to rain heavily."

Chen Ning opened his mouth, but before he could speak, he heard outside that the imperial guards had arrived. She went out with complicated thoughts, and saw the emperor strode in in a hurry, and saw her expressionless face seemingly softening.

"Your Majesty." She actually didn't expect him to come today.

Dong Yuheng nodded, "Have you had a meal?"

"not yet……"

"Then let's eat together." The emperor waved his hand and asked someone to go down and prepare.

Chen Ning stared at him and wanted to speak but stopped.

Dong Yuheng also looked at her for a while, then cursed, "I have no conscience."

After the two of them had dinner, it started to rain heavily outside, and the thunder rumbling. When Dong Yuheng saw Chen Ning standing by the window, he frowned and said, "It's windy now, close the window and go inside."

Chen Ning turned his head and pressed his palm against the eaves of the window. He finally put a sentence in his mouth, "Don't you... go and take a look?"

Seeing her uncomfortable feeling, he knew how difficult it was to say this. This woman couldn't even pretend to be generous. "What do you think?" he asked knowingly.

"Look at Concubine Hui..."

"It will be useless if I go." Dong Yuheng sighed, "Come here, lie with me for a while."

The two of them had their own thoughts. The emperor hugged Chen Ning and lay on the couch, listening to the wind, rain and thunder outside, both silently.

Chen Ning was in a very conflicted mood at this moment. Dong Yuheng went to see Concubine Hui. She was selfishly afraid that part of his feelings would be taken away with Concubine Hui's death. He didn't go to see Concubine Hui, she was also afraid of the man's ruthlessness... Moreover, she actually remembered the night when she thought she was suffering from a rash and was about to die. At that time, she was not Concubine Hui now...

"... Before you pretended to die, three concubines died in the harem, two died of labor and one died of illness. I, and none of them had seen them before they died, including...you at that time." The emperor's voice sounded deep behind him, and his thick arms tightened her body. "Since I was young, there were too many people around me, including my father and mother... When my father died, I was still young, and I felt that the sky was about to fall, but I was not sad. The crown prince ascended the throne, internal and external troubles, and life and death were unpredictable. All the things even forgot the grief... When my mother left, my heart was also hard, and I felt that birth, old age, sickness and death were the same in the world. I just wish I could not be filial to my knees again."

Chen Ning listened to Dong Yuhengchang's heart when she heard that she was happy, and she held his hand silently.

"So it is a matter for me to be accustomed to death in the harem. When you pretended to die, I... thought so too." Dong Yuheng hugged her and murmured, "But I didn't expect that your death... made me feel very uncomfortable..." That year was a world of difference compared to today.

"Yuheng..." Chen Ning's nose was a little sour.

"Concubine Hui is a gentle and kind woman. She has been in the palace for seven years, and now her life is hanging on the line. I feel a little uncomfortable, and you don't know how to understand me."

"I, I can't do anything," Chen Ning buried his head in his arm, "I don't want you to be sad for other women... and I comforted you, and I feel sorry for Concubine Hui..."

The contradictory and straightforward words made the emperor's eyes soften. He rubbed her hair and tightened her, "Idiot." But she didn't know that as long as she was in his arms, his mood would be comforted.

The two were silent for a while, and the heavy rain outside did not stop, until Wanfu said outside that Hui Fei was afraid that she would be out of reach. Chen Ning finally stood up, "You go, what she wants to see most should be you." She couldn't face the condemnation of her conscience, and she said softly, "I... know her mood very well."

Dong Yuheng looked at her for a moment, sighed, and asked someone to prepare to set off. Then he called Liuli and others to go into the inner hall to serve him, and told him: "The thunderstorm outside has not stopped, you are staying in the palace, I... go back."

When the emperor left, Chen Ning stood by the window, and suddenly a flash of lightning flashed by, and she realized what Dong Yuheng meant.

He... was afraid that she would be struck by lightning, so he rushed over...

Chen Ning raised his head and sighed, covering his face with his hands and leaned against the wall.

God, she would rather be enemies of the whole world.

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Concubine Hui died that night, not long after the emperor went there. Her funeral was not grand, it could be said to be simple. After three days of the coffin, she moved the tomb of the concubines in Nanshan. The people did not care about which concubine died in the palace, but what they cared more about was the victorious army that was about to return to the court.

But Chen Ning didn't expect that Concubine Hui's death caused many troubles in her life.

That day she went to Zhaohua Palace to pay tribute to the queen. Outside the hall, she heard the cry of the child. She walked into the main hall and saw the queen holding a girl in brocade clothes and coaxing her gently, but it was the seventh princess Yaohan, born by Chen Mei.

"Oh, Seventh Sister is really pitiful." After Chen Ning invited An, the queen hugged the Seventh Princess and said to her with a little distress.

Chen Mei stood in her lower head and shed tears.

"Empress, what's wrong?" Chen Ning glanced at Chen Mei and asked.

"Concubine Chen said that Qi Jie'er has been crying all the time these two days. I'm afraid that Fuxi Palace is sick and has caused Qi Jie'er to get involved."

"But you hired the imperial physician?"

Chen Mei nodded with a sob, and raised her red and swollen eyes, "I have seen it all, and the imperial physicians can't tell me why. The day is fine, and I cried all the time at night, and I cried even more today. Then I was shameless and asked the Queen to take over the Seventh Princess for one or two nights."

Chen Ning looked at the little kid who was so angry that he couldn't help but feel soft-hearted.

The queen said in embarrassment at this time: "I am not unwilling to keep Qi Jie'er in Zhaohua Palace, but I am close to the Japanese Palace and cried for two nights because of Hui Concubine Hui's sister's departure. And because the eldest prince has a lot of trouble in choosing a concubine, I am really afraid that I don't have the energy to take care of my sister."

"This..." Chen Mei tamped the veil tightly, "Empress, Seventh Princess..."

"I also know that Concubine Hui has just left, and Fuxi Palace has a stronger yin energy towards the Seventh Princess. What's better than this?" Meng Ya stroked the little man in her arms and looked at Chen Ning and said, "Concubine Baorui, Princess Seventh Princess will live in Chunxi Palace for the time being?"

Chen Ning was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Imperial Concubine, I beg you." Chen Mei immediately knelt down.

Chen Ning took a step sideways and the queen said, "What are you doing? The imperial concubine is your legitimate sister. The seventh princess is kinship to her, how can she not help? If you give this gift, those who don't know will think that the sisters are in a bad relationship, which makes people laugh."

Speaking of this, Chen Ning couldn't say anything more, and when she saw that the girl was innocent, she had to nod.

Meng Ya smiled and handed the Seventh Princess to Chen Mei, "You go down first and let the nurse servants who serve the Seventh Princess be prepared."

"Yes." Chen Mei was overjoyed and hugged the little princess, saluted Meng Ya and Chen Ning in turn, and retreated.

Chen Ning sighed in his heart and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Meng Ya, "Sister of Concubine, I have something to discuss with you."

"Please tell me, Empress." If possible, Chen Ning really wanted to be friends with the queen. It was not that she had a high position and power, but that her methods might be very impressive. Chen Ning heard that the rumors about Dongmingyi were circulating on the streets last time, and the Meng family not only arrested all the rumors, but also secretly spread a strange rumor that diverted everyone's attention. She guessed that it was the empress's commander.

"Sister, I am thinking about a happy event recently." Meng Ya said with a smile.

"Where is the joy of the Empress?"

The queen took a sip of fragrant tea and said slowly: "Yi'er returned from the army. I Miyamoto wanted to choose a wife and concubine for him, but he delayed it for some reason until His Majesty mentioned this matter, and he agreed."

"Then I will congratulate the Empress first." Chen Ning smiled, thinking of Dong Mingyi's increasingly mature handsome face. Alas, at a young age... but it cannot be compared with Modern. Are there a few modern spoiled children who are as old as him who have experienced so many things?

Meng Ya covered her lips and smiled, then said, "No, I have someone to use to marry a daughter, and I put a full tank of money. I also saw two daughters from the Chen Mansion."

Chen Ning was shocked.

"I looked at the Shen family's daughter, who was very likable, and I thought that Concubine Baorui and Concubine Chen are both beautiful women. These two must be no different." Meng Ya always looked at her with a smile.

"Empress... is too much." Chen Ning heard the implication that the queen actually wanted to marry the Shen family.

She suddenly had a headache. When did the Shen family send the portrait to Zhaohua Palace? Is the Shen family planning to support the queen and Dong Mingyi? At least I would like to know her!

Although she was optimistic about Dong Mingyi, she really did not want to participate in the dispute over the crown prince soon. She is now jealous and hated. If she even involved this matter, she would probably not have a day of peace. From the first day she returned to the palace, she decided to keep herself safe. If anyone did not offend me, I would not offend others. Besides, what would Dong Yuheng think if he knew about this?

Chen Ning had no choice but to pretend to be stupid and said a few irrelevant words, then stood up and left.

Lu Qiao was puzzled, "Master, why did the imperial concubine pretend not to know?"
Chapter completed!