Chapter 138: The emperor annoyed and walked out of Qi Hong's gate. Ling Ruoyao also looked in the direction Huangfu Xuan left to determine whether he had really left.

Caizhi followed her and looked at her. There was a look of confusion on her pretty face. She asked in confusion: "Miss, why should we hide from the Second Prince?"

Turning his head and glaring at her, Ling Ruoyao said angrily: "Are you stupid? Did he say anything when you forgot to enter the palace? He said, "Going out of the palace together! I still have some serious business, so where can I leave the palace with him?"

After hearing her words, Caizhi's face showed a sudden enlightenment: "The reason why the lady hides from the Second Prince is that she doesn't want to leave the palace with him!" As she said that, she showed a puzzled expression on her face, "But we were not far from the Second Prince just now, so it is impossible for the Second Prince not to find us."

Caizhi's words made Ling Ruoyao think too. There was a solemn expression on her fair and pretty face. She wrapped her chest with one hand and held her cheek with the other, thinking secretly.

It was indeed as Caizhi said. When she discovered Huangfu Xuan just now, he was about to walk in front of them. The distance was very close. With his agility, I believe he would not have found them.

The only explanation is that he was attracted by other things and didn't care about them at all.

After pondering for a while, she frowned tightly, with an impatient expression on her face, and waved her hand and said, "Don't worry about him! What's my business? What do he likes to do, let's do our business!"

As he said that, he walked straight ahead without even looking at Caizhi.

After a moment of silence, Caizhi opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say a word. She had to sigh and quickly follow her steps.

Huangfu Xuan, who left straight away, was walking around the imperial garden where flowers were blooming and heading towards a gorgeous palace.

As soon as he walked into the gate, a palace maid came up and saluted and said, "I would like to pay tribute to the second prince. Please invite me inside." As he said that, he made an invitation.

While walking into the room, Huangfu Xuan asked, "Where is Empress Zhen?"

"The Empress is in the house. When she knew that the second prince had entered the palace, she waited for the second prince in the house."

"I understand, you go back." Huangfu Xuan nodded, and said in a low voice, waved his hand and sent the palace maid down.

After stepping through the threshold, he immediately felt a refreshing fragrance coming from the room, making people feel refreshed and refreshed.

Turning his head and looking at the hall, he saw Zhenfei leaning on the soft couch in the inner room. He unconsciously raised a faint smile on his lips and quickly walked up.

When he came to Concubine Zhen, he saluted respectfully: "Please to Concubine Zhen."

Zhenfei, who was originally sleeping, opened her eyes when she heard the sound, looked up at Huangfu Xuan in front of her, and nodded with a smile and said, "Come on. Let's do it." As she said that, she pointed to the location next to her.

Walking forward, Huangfu Xuan sat on the soft couch next to him, with a small table separated by a small and delicate incense burner on the table, bursts of faint fragrance emitting, and wisps of blue smoke slowly rose.

"When I first entered the palace, I saw the Fourth Princess. Did the Fourth Princess come to pay my respects to the Empress?" Huangfu Xuan said with a calm expression.

Although he knew the purpose of Ling Ruoyao entering the palace, he couldn't help but ask.

Concubine Zhen supported her head with one hand, leaned lazily on the soft couch, looking leisurely. She just turned her head slightly and glanced at him. She whispered: "Yes, I finally know to come to the palace to pay my respects to my mother."

There was a hint of unconcealed dissatisfaction and complaint in his tone.

"The Empress seems not very satisfied with the Fourth Princess?" Huangfu Xuan looked at her with a look of expression and said with a smile, "Why do you think you are complaining to Erchen?"

Sighing quietly, Concubine Zhen moved her body, changed into a comfortable position, and said in a low voice: "That is the fourth princess personally granted by the emperor. How can I be dissatisfied with me? Isn't the second prince slandering me?"

"How dare I?" Huangfu Xuan buried his head slightly and whispered, but there was a calm expression on his handsome face. "I'm just curious."

"Curious?" He raised his eyes and glanced at him sideways. Concubine Zhen asked in confusion, "What's there to be curious about?"

Huangfu Xuan raised his lips and chuckled, and said slowly: "Is the son-in-law curious about what kind of woman can be the daughter-in-law who is satisfied with the Empress?"

Concubine Zhen was stunned for a moment, then smiled indifferently, and said disapprovingly: "Just be curious about this? I am satisfied with the daughter-in-law chosen by the emperor himself."

After hearing what she said, Huangfu Xuan no longer continued the topic, but just curled his lips and chuckled, his smile deep and complicated.

However, after a little silence, Concubine Zhen sighed again and said, "Oh, you also have your own wife, but why didn't you add a grandson to me? The Fourth Prince is afraid that there is no hope, so I just expect you to let me hug my grandson."

"Empress, this is something that needs to be left to fate." Huangfu Xuan said with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face and he said with a wry smile.

Upon straightening, Concubine Zhen picked up the teacup on the short table, took a sip, and then said again: "Oh, everyone is left to fate, so I have to let fate?"

Huangfu Xuan did not speak, but just laughed awkwardly, picked up the teacup on the table, and took a sip of it gracefully.

Neither of them continued on this topic, and changed the topic tacitly, chatting all the time, but the atmosphere was harmonious and casual.

***

After a long time of going around, Ling Ruoyao asked someone for inquiries and found out that the emperor was in the imperial study room at this time and knew how to go to the imperial study room.

With a destination, she became even more excited and wished she could rush to the imperial study room and come to the emperor.

When she actually came outside the hall of the Imperial Study Room, she fell into nervousness and panic again, and even forgot how to place her hands.

Standing outside the hall, she looked up at the majestic palace in front of her, and felt a sense of awe and timidity arise from the bottom of her heart.

What she was about to face was the emperor of Cheyuan Kingdom, the Nine Five Lord. Moreover, this was the first time she faced the Saint alone. The tension and fear in her heart were self-evident, for fear that if she accidentally made the emperor unhappy, she would be beheaded.

"Miss?" Caizhi, who was following her, also looked nervous. Her pretty face was almost wrinkled, but she still had to be calm and reminded Ling Ruoyao, "It's getting late, we have to go back early, otherwise the prince will be suspicious."

Caizhi's reminder made Ling Ruoyao come to her senses suddenly, and the tension in her heart also subsided a lot.

Yes, she can't continue to waste time. She has been in the palace for a long time. If she doesn't go back to the palace soon, I'm afraid that Huangfu Yi's broken sleeve will be suspicious. She won't be in the door.

If he knew that she went to the palace to see the emperor, she would definitely obstruct it, and she would definitely refuse to let him destroy it.

Thinking of this, she took a deep breath, looking quite righteous and generous, and walked towards the Imperial Study Room.

As soon as she stepped onto the stone steps, she was stopped by the eunuch guarding the door as soon as she arrived at the door. The courage she had finally plucked up also dissipated a lot at this moment, and the tension rose again.

"Who is here?" a little eunuch came to her, looked her from head to toe, and said seriously, "Do you know where this is? Is it where you can come?"

Ling Ruoyao didn't care, just because she rarely went in and out of the palace, and it was understandable that the people in the palace didn't know her.

But Caizhi, who was following her, was unhappy. She, who was protecting the master, quickly stepped forward and scolded the little eunuch: "Do you know who are you talking to? This is the fourth princess, can you shout loudly?"

After hearing Caizhi's words, the little eunuch looked at Ling Ruoyao again and saw that although she had a calm expression, there was a deterrence in her clear eyes that could not be ignored.

The little eunuch was immediately frightened and knew that he had caused trouble. He quickly begged for mercy and said, "Fourth Princess spares his life, but I don't know that it is the Fourth Princess. I hope the Fourth Princess will forgive me if I offend you."

Frowning slightly, Ling Ruoyao was still a little uncomfortable with the scene of begging for mercy at any time. She quickly waved her hand and said, "Okay, get up."

After the little eunuch stood up tremblingly, Ling Ruoyao asked again: "Can the emperor be inside?"

Turning his head and looking at the room behind him, the eunuch replied respectfully: "The emperor is criticizing the memorials. The fourth princess suddenly arrived, but I am afraid that something is wrong, so Rong Nu went to report it."

Of course she knew that it was inappropriate, so she was nervous and scared, but even if she was afraid of being nervous, she had to force herself to calm down and try to calm herself down.

Without making a sound, she just nodded softly. The next moment, she saw the little eunuch bent over and turned around and walked into the imperial study room.

The waiting time is always so painful. Ling Ruoyao and Caizhi are guarding outside the imperial study room. Both of them look impatient. Ling Ruoyao rubbed her hands repeatedly and walked back and forth.

Time passed by bit by bit. Although it had not been long since the little eunuch entered the imperial study, in Ling Ruoyao's opinion, it seemed as long as a century, which made her wait almost crazy.

He kept muttering in his heart that the emperor must promise to see her, she must face it calmly, and must not say the wrong thing, which will make the emperor unhappy.

Just after she secretly recited it three hundred times, the little eunuch finally came out.

When he arrived in front of Ling Ruoyao, the little eunuch bent over and buried his head, looking respectfully: "Fourth Princess, the emperor summoned him. Please come in."

"Thank you." She nodded slightly, took a deep breath, and walked into the Imperial Study room.

Caizhi originally wanted to follow, but was stopped by the eunuch and came to her senses. She knew that with her identity, she could not enter the imperial study room and could not see the emperor, so she could only wait patiently outside.

As soon as she stepped into the threshold of the imperial study room, Ling Ruoyao felt a majesty aura coming towards her, which made her shudder and awe emerged from the bottom of her heart.

Forced to calm down, she swallowed quietly, looked at the entire imperial study room slightly, and her eyes fell on the majestic figure in the hall. She quickly withdrew her gaze, lowered her head and walked forward with her hands and feet.

When she reached a place three or four steps away from the emperor, she stopped, knelt down and kowtowed in a regular manner, and said respectfully: "My daughter-in-law Ling Ruoyao, kowtow to the emperor, long live my emperor."

The emperor, who was at the desk, slowly raised his head after hearing this clear voice, looked at Ling Ruoyao who was kneeling in front of him, and had a calm expression on his older, slightly older face, but with a majesty of being unhurried.

"Please calm down." said casually, and the emperor turned his attention to the memorial in front of him, "The fourth princess came to see me specifically, what's the matter?"

Ling Ruoyao, who had just stood up, finally calmed down after listening to his question, and her mood was ups and downs again. She took a deep breath, and tried hard to make her voice sound abnormal, and whispered: "I have something to do, I want to ask the emperor."

Turning his eyes from the memorial to Ling Ruoyao, the emperor frowned, and a confused expression appeared on his majestic face. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "The Fourth Princess has something to ask me for? It's really strange. Let's talk about it."

He hadn't met this fourth princess several times, but he never thought that she would suddenly come to the palace to beg him. He wanted to hear what she had to ask him for.

He knelt on the ground again, Ling Ruoyao lowered his head and said firmly and earnestly: "My daughter-in-law wants to divorce the Fourth Prince, so please forgive me."

The curious face suddenly appeared on her face, and the gloom of her eyes became sharp. The emperor felt anger arise in his heart and scolded him sternly: "Nothing! How can you tell the story of the relationship between you?"

Frightened by his loud shout, Ling Ruoyao couldn't help but shiver, and she felt particularly nervous, afraid that the emperor would not agree, and even punish her.

But she had made up her mind to be at peace with Huangfu Yi and finally met the emperor. How could she retreat because of his scolding?

"Your Majesty," Ling Ruoyao buried her head lower, but her voice was still firm, neither humble nor arrogant. "My daughter-in-law is not a fool, but a decision made after careful consideration."

The emperor was so angry that he glared at him, and became angry, but he did not know the right and wrong, but he was patient and asked, "Then you give me a reason to be kind."

After taking a deep breath in secret, Ling Ruoyao raised her head slightly, straightened her spine, said quietly and gently: "My daughter-in-law thanked the emperor for giving the marriage to the fourth prince and finding a husband for his daughter-in-law. However, since the days after marrying the fourth prince, she has found that her daughter-in-law is really not worthy of being a wife and has not fulfilled her duties as a wife."

"Oh?" the emperor raised his eyebrows and asked loudly, "Then tell me, where did you fail to fulfill your responsibilities?"

He swallowed quietly, Ling Ruoyao thought secretly, wondering what words should be used to make the emperor believe it.

"The so-called unfilial piety is the greatest thing." Ling Ruoyao always lowered her head and said word by word, "I have never given anything since my daughter-in-law married the Fourth Prince. I am really ashamed of the emperor's grace, and I am really unfilial."

God knows how hatred and uncomfortable she felt when she said this, and how gritted her teeth.

However, she could not tell the truth, and could not tell the emperor that it was Huangfu Yi who refused to let her get pregnant and have children. After all, that was the emperor's grandson. If the emperor was angry and wanted to punish the entire Four Princes' Mansion, then she would be very guilty.

After all, in the Four Princes' Mansion, she only resented Huangfu Yi, and those maids and servants were all innocent. As for the two concubines who were still locked in the side courtyard, although they were a little annoying on weekdays, they were not implicated.

However, she had been burying her head, what she did not notice was that after listening to her words, the emperor's face became gloomy and complicated, and a layer of elusive gloom was shrouded on her majestic face.

The fourth prince is a famous prince of the Duanxiong. He doesn't like women at all. He doesn't expect the fourth prince to give him a grandson, but he never thought that the fourth prince would use such a reason to let him let them divorce.
To be continued...