Chapter 13 (2/2)

Turns out, this hairpin belongs to Mu Yan.  Perhaps it is a token that was given by Xuan Yuan Yu.  She actually mistook it as hers.

Then, what does she count as now?

Mu Yan gradually retreats, his eyes are on her.  He does not move a single step.

Even the air seems like vacuum inside the hall.

Suddenly, a voice announces, “The empress dowager arrives!”

A deep red vermillion skirt pa.s.ses through Xi Yan.  That woman says, “Your Majesty sent Official Mu’s daughter to Ye Kingdom?”

An emperor’s words are like gold, even though his heart has regret, he cannot simply take them back.  “Yes,” his voice is cold and chilly.

“Your Majesty!” the empress dowager can only say that, knowing that a monarch’s words can never be taken back.  She walk over to Xi Yan, using her hand that is wearing a long nail protectors to lifts her chin and indifferently says, “Gave birth to such a face and confuse a ruler’s heart as expected!”

Xuan Yuan Yu’s eyes are on Xi Yan as the empress dowager said that, a cold smile on his lips, “Really did make zhen’s heart drunk.  Zhen decrees to appoint Nalan Xi Yan as Consort Zui, she will live in Bing Ran Palace.”

As soon as he said that, he walks back to his throne, his expression indiscernible behind the yellow gauze screen.

Xi Yan can only stand there as the empress dowager’s long nail covers penetrates into her chin.  As she waves her sleeve around, the Xi Yan flower falls to the floor.  A golden shoe step on it.  Somewhere deep in her heart, pain and ache rises.

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