Chapter 44 - 44. Her Unrequited Love (2/2)

The emperor dismissed everyone in the hall, he angrily walked back to the Back Palace. He went to Huang Guifei's chamber and when Huang Guifei's maids saw the emperor coming to their master's chamber. The maids hurriedly opened her mouth to announce the emperor's arrival but the emperor beat her speed. He dismissed all of the servants.

He entered the chamber and saw her holding a red pocket on her heart. She closed her eyes and her face was filled with sorrow and longing. She didn't realize that the emperor was standing in front of her door, he knew that she loved Xu Tingfeng before she became his Guifei. But she is the one who was begging him to make her his wife.

She was a beauty and her family was strong, obviously he didn't reject her offer and married her. At that time, he and the Xu brothers had always been compared by others so he had hated them for a long time. When Li Zhenzhen ( Huang Guifei's name) begged him to marry her, he was ecstatic, he thought that he had won over Xu Tingfeng. Everyone in Da Chu knew that Li Zhenzhen was Xu Tingfeng's fiancée candidate and Li Zhenzhen was in love with Xu Tingfeng.

Xu Tingfeng was in a war for many years so Li Zhenzhen was getting desperate. She thought that by marrying Xu Tingfeng, she will be the one of the most respected woman in Da Chu. But she didn't thought that after the new young emperor ascended, the Xu family would be targeted by the emperor.

As she didn't want to be the victim of the emperor, she decided to marry the emperor and grab the highest position in the harem. But she never thought that the new empress won't be her, rather it was the neighbor country's imperial princess. She was furious, but she couldn't take back her proposal. At the day she married, Xu Tingfeng came back from war and announced Bai Huiqing as his fiancée.

Li Zhenzhen felt a little regret but she didn't think much about it. But when she attended Xu Tingfeng's and Bai Huiqing's wedding, she saw Xu Tingfeng's face for the first time. Xu Tingfeng and Bai Huiqing were walking towards the emperor to give their greeting and asked for his blessing. She really felt regretful as she kept staring at Xu Tingfeng's handsome face. Xu Tingfeng's sturdy body made her heart thump, even though her husband's body was great too, but it wasn't as great as Xu Tingfeng's.

She was jealous of Bai Huiqing, ' How can that orphan woman become his wife?! It should be me! Li Zhenzhen from Li family!'. She had been trying hard to seduce Long Quan ( Emperor) and was promoted to Huang Guifei ( Imperial Consort). As she got closer to Long Quan, the more secret she knew. She was shocked that Long Quan wanted to kill Xu Tingfeng, she wanted to stop him but she thought about a plan.

She would support him to kill all of Xu family's member, especially Bai Huiqing. And when Xu Tingfeng was in dire position, she would come out to help him like a goddess. Then he would fall in love with her. But she never thought that Bai Huiqing would get pregnant after 3 months they got married.

Li Zhenzhen often invited Bai Huiqing to her palace, she would put a small amount of poison into Bai Huiqing's tea. But Bai Huiqing never drank the tea nor ate the snack she gave. Not long after that Xu Tingfeng asked for Long Quan's permission to let Bai Huiqing peacefully gave birth in his hometown. Long Quan and Li Zhenzhen was trying to hold them off like usual but it didn't work.

Li Zhenzhen made a red embroidered pouch for Xu Tingfeng so he would always remember her in his heart. But she was blandly rejected by Xu Tingfeng. At that time, Long Quan saw Li Zhenzhen gave Xu Tingfeng a red pouch, in her eyes, he saw love. He felt betrayed, he had always thought that she loves him, he thought that he had won over Xu Tingfeng by marrying Li Zhenzhen. But no. At night, he went to her chamber, she cutely greeted Long Quan like usual. Long Quan was drunk, he pulled her hair and threw her to her bed. He forced himself on her, if Li Zhenzhen struggled, he would slap her.

The next morning, Xu Tingfeng and Bai Huiqing departed from capital. 8 months later, the spy that Long Quan put inside Xu residence told him that Bai Huiqing would gave birth sooner or later. At this time, the empress told Long Quan that if a woman gave birth, she would be weak and her Qi would decrease rapidly. As Bai Huiqing was one of the biggest obstacle for him to destroy Xu family, this was the perfect opportunity to launch an attack.

Long Quan hired the first rate assassins to kill the new born baby together with the baby's mother. But Long Quan never thought that Xu Tingfeng would kill all of the assassins and annihilated the guild. Fortunately, the baby died.

After thinking like that for 7 years, his hopes were shattered when Xu Tingfeng introduced Hong er to him. Li Zhenzhen destroyed all of her belongings, she screamed and laughed like crazy. For 7 years, she had been holding on the red pouch, thinking that Xu Tingfeng would regret his decision and come back to her. On that day, she vowed that she will kill Bai Huiqing and Hong er.