When they arrived at the palace, the Emperor was sitting straight-backed in the main chair with a reserved appearance; the Empress sitting next to him. The several secondary husbands were standing yet one did not know why Empress Dowager Zheng was not present among them. Zong Zhi’s biological father, the Prince of Dai, stood to the side of the Empress and threw over a cold glare at Ruan Zhu’s entrance.
Ruan Zhu pretended not to notice and followed her husbands in paying respects to both the Emperor and Empress, receiving the tea cup from a palace eunuch to present it before the Emperor.
This venerable Jiu Wu Zhi Zun was aware of Ruan Zhu’s ability and naturally was fond of her. Taking the proffered cup, he then spoke a few words, saying to financially assist her Lord Husbands and be a good and proper wife, before turning his head to have a palace eunuch hand over a famous ink-stone from Duan Zhou as a present.
Ruan Zhu quietly accepted under an appearance of obedience, but the gift had truly entered her heart a little though only she knew that. Handing over the ink-stone to a palace eunuch by the side to hold onto, she then went to serve tea to the Empress.
In front of so many people, it was not good for the Emperor to speak of Ruan Zhu’s good deeds and the ones that knew of them were only a few. It wasn’t that he distrusted the Empress; he very much distrusted her. All of the officials in the court knew the Empress’s heart leaned towards the Crown Prince, thus the Emperor concealed quite a few secrets from her.
The Empress Dowager was relaxed with her eyes closed as she counted the Buddhist prayer beads on her wrist, seemingly like she hadn’t seen Ruan Zhu at all.
Ruan Zhu’s arms had been raised for a while now and started to feel a little sore. She innocently glanced at her two husbands at the side. Zong Zhi felt distressed and greeted the Emperor: “Requesting Emperor-Father to assist by saying a few words.”
The Emperor coughed, but seeing the Empress remaining taciturn, he turned towards one of the palace eunuchs behind him: “Xiao Zhou Zi, the Empress is tired. Support her in returning to rest.” The feelings between the two elders had been pretty good when they were young but too many arguments rose up between them later and affections became weaker and weaker. The Emperor was infatuated with painting and calligraphy and did not feel too strongly about the emotions between a man and a woman.
“Understood!” Xiao Zhou Zhi responded and walked over to pay his respects to the Empress: “Niangniang……”
The Empress opened her eyes and coldly stared at the female commoner kneeling on the ground: “What kind of tricks did you use to successively snatch away two of this empress’s sons?”
Ruan Zhu was still lifting the teacup and chose to remain silent before the intense Empress. In any case, opening her mouth would be wrong and saying nothing would also be wrong.
Min Zhi had been sent to the country of Nan Ling since he was small and had little affection for the imperial family of Tian Chu. After going through the wind and rain, he actually paid more attention to unchanging love. “Empress-Mother has misunderstood. It was this subject-son that proactively sought her. My wife has never used any tricks.”
Zong Zhi was still thinking of a countermeasure when, to his surprise, Third Brother had replied in such a manner: “Empress-Mother, Zhu’er is very talented and will surely give the imperial clan face. Even Imperial Grandmother praises her without cease.”
Ice flashed from within the Empress’s eyes: “As expected, once a son has a wife, he forgets his mother. This empress only said one sentence and you two brothers united to stand against me.”
The two brothers saw that their wife was still lifting the cup of tea, yet could not tell her to relax and had a headache from the Empress’s actions.
The Prince of Dai probed from behind the Empress: “Empress, I have met this girl at Princess Long Yuan’s residence before. She is an insolent child from a merchant family that has clearly never been taught any manners. I had only let her kneel for a little bit longer when she put a front against me and even contradicted her elders.”
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Husbands Seeking Love
Romance[C O M P L E T E] The day she transmigrated it, she was already the wife of two men. She later became the Queen of the country. Her life has been cherished by seven men.
