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"Mei Ji! It's Ai's family who is sorry for him." The empress dowager called out with heartache. After hesitating for a while, she sighed quietly. She felt pain in her heart. She didn't want to stay with her lover forever and reunite her family. But how can everything be as good as everyone's wishes? This is a place where even the empress dowager can do nothing!

"I can't see people when I've been wearing a mask? My father always looked at me tightly. From childhood to adulthood, no one could get close to me. Those who serve me are my father's personal guards. I don't have a friend or no freedom. Now, even if I become the leader of the Xieyue Sect, I still can't see people. Sometimes I wonder, what is the purpose of my life?" Meiji talked about her sadness very sadly. These things were unknown to the empress dowager who was pampered in the palace. The empress dowager stepped forward with care and hugged Meiji in her arms, tightly, not wanting to let go.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all the fault of the Ai family." The empress dowager will only say this now and keep apologizing, but Meiji doesn't want an apology. She wants the warmth of her family, but she never gets it. No one has ever given to Meiji. Meiji looks at all the people who have come into contact with her with a charming and seductive attitude. Only men covet her body, and none of them is true love, so she killed many men close to her. Now she just wants Gu Muqing's admission.

"If the Ai family said that, with the prince's character, they would not let you go. The reason why your father asked you to show others with a mask and segregate you from the world is for your own good. When the time is right, the Ai family will definitely find a way to tell the emperor." The empress dowager sighed quietly and said what she said in her heart. Meiji was stunned. Such a problem was something she had never thought about and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"The emperor looks very kind, how could that happen?" Meiji saw Gu Muqing these days, so gentle and humble, which made Meiji feel very warm in her heart. This is also the reason why Meiji urgently recognizes Gu Muqing, but Meiji didn't know that those expressions only Gu Muqing had at Concubine Hui. Moreover, in just a few days, Meiji actually thought she had already known Gu Muqing.

"The emperor just looks gentle. You don't know how difficult it is for the emperor to ascend the throne. For the sake of the throne, I endured it for five years and kept gentle on a woman. Later, after the throne became slightly more stable, the emperor killed that woman. The Ai family knows these things, so I can't let you take risks."

The Empress Dowager tried her best to dissuade him and told Meiji about Yan Zhiqing. Although she didn't know the specific details, she guessed it roughly the same.

"That person is the former queen? Didn't it mean that the emperor and the queen have a deep affection? Also, did the queen die only after losing her child? Didn't it?" Meiji suddenly understood who the queen was referring to. She asked questions in surprise, unable to believe that these things were done by Gu Muqing.

"It was the queen. When the emperor took a fancy to her wisdom, he married her. Later, she pushed the emperor to the position of the Nine Five Lord. However, the emperor never let go of his guard against her. Finally, when she was pregnant for five months, she was sentenced to death, and even the children were gone. The couple had a hundred days of gratitude for one night, let alone the same bed for five years. The emperor killed her without hesitation. How could you call Ai and your father to rest assured you?" The empress dowager even told the story of that year just to dispel Mei Ji's idea.

"What does Prince Jing have to do with the Queen?" Meiji didn't say anything else, just nodded, remembering the matter in her heart, and suddenly remembering Gu Qixiu's attitude when she mentioned Yan Zhiqing before, and couldn't help but wonder.

"King Jing has always loved her silently and did a lot for her. In the end, he even gave up the throne and led troops to fight on the battlefield. The emperor also threatened the queen to put King Jing under house arrest. Otherwise, as long as King Jing gave the order, I wonder how many people would be willing to follow King Jing to rebel." The empress dowager sighed quietly, and she sighed at Gu Qixiu's feelings for Yan Zhiqing back then.

"Then he is still a love-infatuated person." Meiji's evaluation of Gu Qixiu was higher in her heart. She had seen many men in this world. She had never seen such infatuated people before. Isn't she also looking for such affection?

"It's infatuation, but now I'm imprisoned by the emperor, maybe my life will be short of my life." The Empress Dowager nodded, agreeing with this evaluation. It's a pity that Gu Qixiu can't live long in the eyes of the Empress Dowager.

Meiji didn't say anything, but her eyes flashed. She knew what she was planning secretly, but the empress dowager didn't see it, and she didn't know that her words today were the source of the life that ruined Meiji's life.

Just as Meiji was talking to the Queen Mother, Yan Xun'er, led by Youying, quietly came to Hongying Palace by avoiding everyone's eyes and ears and ears, and met Concubine Hui.

"Xun'er, you are finally back." Concubine Hui was very happy to see Yan Xun'er come back, and hurried forward. Many times, Concubine Hui's familiar red figure appeared in her dream, but she disappeared when she woke up.

"I'm sorry, Wanwan didn't protect Xiao Tan." Concubine Hui quickly stepped forward, and her face, which had become glorious, dimmed instantly. When she remembered Xiao Tan's death, she felt guilty and felt unable to face Yan Xun'er, and she wanted to cry with tears.

"I will deal with Xiao Tan's matter, don't think too much." Yan Xun'er has not had much fluctuation now. She answered calmly and comforted Concubine Hui. He was not here to listen to the apology.

"What happened after Mei Ji entered the palace?" Yan Xun'er sat aside and asked calmly. He had to know these things without missing a single word, and then make good plans. Xiao Tan could not die in vain.

"After Meiji entered the palace, the Empress Dowager had been in Yongshou Palace and had never left. The emperor didn't know what he had talked with Meiji, so he rarely came to Hongying Palace." Concubine Hui nodded slightly. She didn't know the major affairs of the court, but she could still tell Yan Xun'er about the matter in the palace.

"Meiji herself has no intention of competing for favor, it must be the instructor of the empress dowager." Yan Xun'er guessed that after thinking about what happened over the past few days, it was not difficult to draw such a conclusion. In fact, Yan Xun'er guessed it was not bad at all.
Chapter completed!