Quick Transmigration: The Rise of a Favored Concubine

Chapter 200 Heartless and Cold-Hearted Emperor × Little Palace Maid 11

"Empress Dowager... Aunt, please help Xian'er!" The Empress came to the Empress Dowager's palace early in the morning, crying and complaining, "His Majesty is too cruel. I have already lifted my confinement, but he still won't return the Phoenix Seal to me. What use am I as Empress?"

The Empress Dowager, still recovering from her illness, was driven to a headache by the Empress's nagging: "Enough! What's the use of crying and whining like this?"

"aunt……"

"You should change your ways. Why would the emperor favor a palace maid when he doesn't even like you? Have you ever reflected on your own behavior?"

How could the Chen family be so useless? They couldn't even defeat a palace maid.

The empress stood there, pale and frozen, forgetting to cry.

"Xian'er, Consort Jin is already pregnant, and the Emperor is protecting her closely. If you continue to act so willfully, you will only push the Emperor further away." The Empress Dowager remained patient: "If you don't hurry up and win the Emperor's heart so that Consort Jin can give birth to the imperial heir first, you, as the Empress, will have no face left."

"Aunt... what should I do?" The Empress panicked completely.

The Empress Dowager said wearily, "You know the Emperor's temperament; he can't be easily moved. It all depends on your sincerity."

"Alright, let's go back. I'm tired."

The Empress left Anyang Palace.

She must reclaim the seal of authority and win the emperor's heart.

After some thought, the Empress came to Changqing Palace: "Go and report that I have something to discuss with His Majesty."

After thinking it over, Xiao Dezi realized that although the Empress was not favored by His Majesty and had lost her real power, she was still the Empress. So he turned around and went inside to report.

"Your Majesty... Her Majesty the Empress has arrived."

The emperor was engrossed in processing the memorials. He neither looked up nor answered.

As the emperor's personal attendant, Xiao Dezi naturally understood his meaning.

Upon arriving outside the palace, Xiao Dezi nervously spoke up, "Your Majesty, His Majesty is very busy and probably won't have time."

The Empress sneered inwardly; she hadn't expected the Emperor to readily agree to see her.

But since she was already there, she couldn't leave empty-handed.

The Empress walked past Xiao Dezi and went inside.

"Your Majesty...you..."

"Don't move!"

Xiao Dezi: "..."

When the Empress entered the palace and looked at the Emperor on the high platform, she felt a moment of sadness.

Why is His Majesty so cold to her?

The emperor looked up when he heard the noise, his cold black eyes devoid of any warmth.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects..." The Empress composed herself and spoke softly, "Cousin, Xian'er wants to talk to you."

When she was little, her cousin wasn't particularly warm towards her, but he wasn't as cold towards her as he is now, treating her like an enemy.

"Who let you in?" the emperor asked coldly.

The Empress's face stiffened. She suppressed her embarrassment and tried her best to appear weak. That was the way Consort Jin acted.

"Your Majesty, what have I done wrong? Why are you so cold to me? Please tell me, I will change."

"go out."

The emperor said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty... Cousin, please don't treat me like this. You never used to treat me like this."

The Empress's tone was filled with endless grievance and sorrow. Her voice trembled, and tears streamed down her face like a burst dam: "Your Majesty... if I have done anything wrong, please forgive me just this once?"

In the past?

The emperor scoffed. He didn't dislike her at all. She was his cousin and often visited the Empress Dowager in the palace. The two of them met frequently. In the past, she was lively and he was cold and distant, but she still chattered around him.

The emperor was a man of few words, but he would occasionally reply to her with a word or two. Until that time when he took his younger brother to play at the rockery, the little prince fell down. Even though she was right next to him, when she went to the empress dowager, she did not explain for him, letting the empress dowager misunderstand that he had deliberately hurt his brother.

From then on, the emperor disliked her and never treated her kindly again.

Later, when he learned that his mother had forced him to marry her as empress, the emperor's disgust intensified.

"I'll say it again, get out!" The emperor's disgust was palpable, almost making the empress lose her footing.

"Cousin, I admit that I did something wrong because I was in a hurry, but I have reflected on it and I know I was wrong. Please forgive me?"

Tears welled up in the Empress's eyes, and her tone was aggrieved.

The emperor's face darkened: "Do you not understand what I'm saying?"

Such a hateful tone instantly drained the Empress of all her strength. She stood dejectedly in the center of the hall, immersed in grief.

"Your Majesty, how cruel you are..." The Empress smirked self-deprecatingly, "You really are cruel."

"Your Majesty... Something terrible has happened! Consort Jin has fainted!" Xiao Dezi's terrified voice rang out.

The empress didn't even have time to see the emperor's movements before he disappeared from the palace.

"Haha... Consort Jin... very good." The Empress chuckled maniacally, "Consort Jin, we'll see!"

Tanghua Palace

Chu Yue lay weakly on the bed, her face pale and her brows furrowed.

She deliberately fainted. Fangcao told her that the Empress had gone to His Majesty's place, so how could she let go of this opportunity to make the Empress uncomfortable?

So while Xiaotao and Fangcao were helping her take a walk, she pretended to faint from feeling unwell.

"What's going on! Why has Consort Jin fainted again!" The emperor's angry voice rang out, and he entered the hall.

"Your Majesty, Consort Zhao ate two extra pieces of pastry today. She said she wanted to go for a walk, but after walking for a short while, she said she felt unwell and then fainted."

Xiao Tao knelt on the ground and replied in a trembling voice.

"Where is the imperial physician?!"

"Your Majesty, they're here, the imperial physician is here." Xiao Dezi brought the imperial physician with him.

Seeing the emperor's high regard for Consort Jin, the imperial physician also kept a close eye on the situation at Tanghua Palace.

He rushed over as soon as the situation arose, otherwise his life would have been in grave danger.

The emperor stood by the bed, his piercing gaze fixed on the imperial physician as he took the emperor's pulse: "How is it?"

"Your Majesty, this is Consort Jin's first pregnancy, and she is still a bit weak. It's normal for her to feel unwell occasionally. She just needs to take good care of herself."

"Is there any way to help Consort Jin recover?" the emperor asked again.

"Your Majesty... Consort Jin was overworked in the past, which damaged her health. She can only be carefully recuperated, not cured."

The imperial physician spoke tactfully, but the emperor understood his meaning: when Consort Jin was a palace maid, she had done all sorts of rough work, which was why her body was so weak.

"Take good care of Consort Jin's health."

"Yes……"

"Go down."

"Yes…"

The emperor sat by the bed, somewhat worried about how her delicate body could endure the pain of bearing a dragon's offspring.

Chu Yue's slightly cold little hand grasped his. The Emperor looked down at her: "Your Majesty...it's all my fault, my health is poor, and I've wronged our son..."

When she said that, the emperor knew that she had heard what the imperial physician had said.

"It's alright, don't worry, it's nothing serious. The palace has everything, you'll recover."

Chu Yue nodded delicately, "I will obey Your Majesty's will."

"Rest for a while, and I will have a meal with you in a little while."

"it is good……"