jdhmnovel Chapter 273 So he's a psychopath
Chapter 273 So he's a psychopath
Inside the Night Mandarin Duck Palace, Xin Moyan sat on the edge of the bed, staring intently at the dark red flowers in the pool. No wonder they looked familiar; they were the Lianyu Zuidi flowers she had seen in the Yuanqi Imperial Garden that day.
Hmph! It looks so strange and bizarre. Like owner, like flower!
She looked up and glanced around. The empty, dark red room was empty except for herself. The palace servants who had set out the food were just standing by at a distance. No matter what she asked, they remained silent, their faces full of fear. Did she look that scary?
The doors and windows were tightly shut. She tried to pry them open with her bare hands several times, but they wouldn't budge. It seemed she would need some tools. She wondered what the situation was like outside. Everyone must be frantically looking for her!
"Squeak~"
As she was pondering this, the red palace gate suddenly opened a crack, and a woman draped in sable fur walked in gracefully, followed by a large group of palace maids.
She was beautiful, with gentle and elegant features, but her overall demeanor was excessively cold, like an ice queen. Xin Moyan looked closely and saw that the woman was touching her pregnant belly with her right hand, indicating that she was quite far along in her pregnancy.
Yao Ruoyu walked slowly, stopping a meter away from the pool. Concealing her amazement at the future empress, she bowed and respectfully greeted the woman in front of her.
"Xu pays respects to Her Majesty the Empress, wishing Her Majesty a long and prosperous life."
"No, no, no! Don't kneel before me!"
Xin Moyan was quite frightened and quickly crossed the pool to help Yao Ruoyu up.
"Get up quickly, don't kneel before me, you mustn't."
Yao Ruoyu was slightly taken aback, and stood up as she did.
"You are the Empress, and it is only right that I, your humble servant, bow to you."
Xin Moyan hurriedly helped her sit down at the table, "Don't call me Empress, you're so pregnant, please sit down."
"Your Majesty, the King said that since you are new to the palace, you are bound to be confused about many things, so he specially ordered me to come and serve you."
"Is someone with sleepless nights sick? Why would I send a pregnant woman like you to take care of me?"
"hold head high?"
Yao Ruoyu stared wide-eyed in disbelief. This empress had such audacity.
"Your Majesty, how can you address the King by his given name?"
She shrugged. "He's not even here. I not only called him by his full name, I wanted to curse him out!"
"This……"
Yao Ruoyu grew increasingly curious about the Empress. Looking around the entire Yelan, it seemed that no one had ever dared to be so presumptuous, and the King even said that he would do as she pleased in everything.
"what's your name?"
"Your Majesty, my surname is Yao, and my given name is Ruoyu."
"Could you be the pregnant Consort Yao he mentioned this morning?"
"Yes, Queen."
"Don't call me Empress. My name is Xin Moyan, not Empress."
"Xin Moyan?" She frowned, as there seemed to be no ministers in the court with the surname Xin.
"Okay, you can just call me Mo Yan!"
"Your Majesty, etiquette must not be disregarded. Since His Majesty has sent me to serve you, please do not hesitate to tell me what you need."
Xin Moyan felt that what she said sounded strange, but she couldn't quite put her finger on why.
However, at least there's still someone I can talk to.
"Then may I ask, Consort Yao, do you know the layout of this palace?"
"The layout of the palace?"
"Hmm, or is there any side path that leads out of the palace?"
Yao Ruoyu grew increasingly surprised as she listened. "Your Majesty, do you... wish to leave the palace?"
"Mmmmmmm!"
She nodded frantically. Logically speaking, since this concubine was pregnant with the emperor's child, Ye Wumian shouldn't have harmed her and the child. Or perhaps she could pretend to kidnap Yao Ruoyu and take this opportunity to escape...
A bitter smile crept onto her cold and lonely face. "Your Majesty, you'd better not even think about leaving the palace. You can't get out."
"Why?"
“Because…” Her eyes gradually became obscure, “because for the past six months, I have been thinking about escaping all the time, but I have never been able to escape this world.”
"what?"
Xin Moyan blinked, somewhat confused.
Seeing her puzzled look, Yao Ruoyu could only smile helplessly, "Judging from Your Majesty's expression, I'm afraid you didn't enter the palace voluntarily, did you?"
"Yes! I was stolen away by Ye Wumian on the eve of my wedding. No matter what, I will never marry him, and my husband will come to save me."
She stared blankly at Xin Moyan, her face full of astonishment. After a long while, she managed to force a sarcastic smile from the corner of her mouth.
"Ha! I knew it. He's ruthless and capable of any evil. If he's capable of this, he's not afraid to do it again."
"Sister Yao Guifei, could it be that you were also abducted by him?"
Xin Moyan clicked her tongue in amazement at how much evil Ye Wumian had done, a truly heinous act.
"My husband's surname was Xu. He was Xu Rongke, the Left Commandant of Sudu. Who would have thought that he would suddenly die on the battlefield half a year ago? Only seven days after his death, I was forcibly brought into the palace by the King, and I have been here ever since..."
Xin Moyan's eyes widened, her disgust for Ye Wumian intensified. This perverted emperor was actually leading the way in forcibly taking women, and what's more, the women he was taking were the wives of his own subjects.
"That shameless scoundrel, Night Sleepless! I...!"
She wanted to say a few more words, but Yao Ruoyu quickly covered her mouth.
"Your Majesty, walls have ears."
She only let go of Xin Moyan's hand after seeing Xin Moyan nod.
"So you've been referring to yourself as Madam Xu and your humble wife the whole time? No wonder I felt something was off."
"Yes, in the past six months, I've walked all over the palace, every time..."
Yao Ruoyu lowered her eyelids, let out a soft sigh, and touched her belly helplessly, saying, "He always catches me and brings me back. Now that the baby is growing bigger every day, my body is becoming more and more inconvenient. Lately, I've become more open-minded. I only wish that the baby can be born safely. I'll let him do whatever he wants with me."
"So you've been on the run for six months, and you still can't get out?"
"Yes, the king has spies everywhere in the palace. You can't escape or get out."
"If the emperor were to seize a minister's wife, wouldn't a single minister from the previous dynasty have stood up to object?"
When this matter was mentioned, Yao Ruoyu's eyes grew even colder and more lifeless. "Initially, several senior officials offered their advice, but the king chopped off their heads. After that, no one dared to say another word."
"He killed someone with just a few words?"
"Yes, His Majesty kills people every day, not only former court officials but also concubines in the harem. Now, I've become the concubine who has lived the longest in the six palaces, hehe~"
Xin Moyan's mouth dropped open. What do you mean by killing people every day? How is that any different from a tyrant who kills without hesitation?
"Consort Yao, I really want to rescue you!"
She felt sorry for Yao Ruoyu's plight and thought they were in the same boat, only that she herself had not yet suffered the same fate as that pervert.
"No wonder my brother and His Majesty both said that the Night Emperor's temperament was unpredictable; it turns out he's a psychopath."
"Little Yan'er~"