Chapter 451 (1/2)
t.i.tle: The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir
Translator: Fuyu Neko
Chapter 451 - Women that he needed to marry and women that he didn't (2)
In the marquis's estate, Ji Man and Ning Yuxuan were sitting across from each other and drinking tea.
”I heard the emperor is giving the empress the cold shoulder. The empress is so upset that she almost miscarried.” Ji Man put down her cup and sighed. ”You're too ruthless.”
”If Shen Clan and Xiao Clan's alliance isn't torn apart, we'll be the ones left feeling uneasy.” Ning Yuxuan put down his cup too. He looked at her very admiringly. ”I didn't expect that you would know what I was planning on doing and even lay out the foundation for me.”
Ji Man clicked her tongue and shook her head. ”It was just a coincidence.”
How could she have known his reach was long enough to enter the inner palace? Wasn't he a marquis that stayed within the bounds of his role?
Right now, was this considered a meeting of villains that were colluding together?
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Erxin was truly a cunning young woman. Step by step, she climbed upwards without meeting any difficulties. In return for her sprained ankle, she was promoted to n.o.ble consort. She even went to the empress's palace to thank her for her favor.
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Using the excuse that he was sick and the superst.i.tious belief that a marriage would cure his illness, Ning Yuxuan asked the emperor to hurry with bestowing him a marriage. He wanted to get married to Ji Man soon.
However, Zhao Zhe still didn't agree.
Not only did he refuse, he also invited Ji Man to the palace to write poems and discuss them with him since Ning Yuxuan was supposedly sick.
”This emperor still remembers the poem you wrote in Luoyan PaG.o.da, Inviting you to drink wine.” Zhao Zhe smiled. ”Can you write something else?”
Ji Man nodded and easily wrote out the lines from Prelude to the Water Melody by Su s.h.i.+.
How long will the full moon appear?
Wine cup in hand, I ask the sky.
I do not know what time of the year
'Twould be tonight in the palace on high.
Riding the wind, there I would fly,
Yet I'm afraid the crystalline palace would be,
Too high and cold for me.
I rise and dance, with my shadow I play.
On high as on earth, would it be as gay?
(T/N: Excerpt taken from
The emperor's delighted laughter was so loud that even the people pa.s.sing by Zichen Hall could hear him. And so, the people in the palace thoroughly realized that there was someone in the emperor's heart. He especially longed for her and doted on her, but he couldn't have her.
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