The Yandere Male Lead Chases Me

Chapter 1325: The Emperor Is Pregnant 39

Su Yan didn’t speak, and the air instantly went quiet.

She couldn’t help saying,

"You’re not going to marry me anyway. Why can’t I take concubines?"

Situ Xiu said,

"Has Your Majesty taken a fancy to me, or to the power in my hands?"

Su Yan paused for a moment.

"Both."

Hearing that answer, Situ Xiu was even more displeased.

Then he pressed Su Yan down onto the Dragon Chair and kissed her.

In the midst of the kiss, he murmured,

"Looks like I’ll have to work harder, make Your Majesty fall completely in love with me, so you’ll never again have the thought of taking concubines."

The dim Qiankun Hall.

Originally a solemn and serious place.

It was where Tiansheng Country discussed matters of state.

Right now, the hall was empty.

Looking further up, behind the Beaded Curtain, on the imperial seat, it was all ambiguity and heat.

And so, that thought of taking concubines vanished from Su Yan’s mind.

A couple of days passed.

In the afternoon.

After finishing reviewing the memorials,

Su Yan went to the Imperial Garden.

She lay on the consort’s lounge chair, watching butterflies dance within the Imperial Garden.

It was a perfectly quiet, pleasant moment.

Suddenly she heard a familiar voice,

"Little Taotao, the flowers here are really beautiful."

"Miss, whatever you like we can have people move some back for you."

"That’s true, anyway Father said I should treat the palace as if it were my own home."

In one’s own home, can’t you move a couple of bunches of flowers?

The newcomer was dressed in narcissus-colored clothes, with a dangling hair ornament, every frown and smile full of youthful vigor.

It was Ning Zhi and her servant.

Ning Zhi pointed at a bunch of blue tulips.

"Let’s take this one."

The maid hurriedly said,

"Miss, tonight servant will have people come fetch it."

"Mm-hmm."

Ning Zhi looked very happy.

Su Yan opened her eyes.

She looked toward the noisy direction.

Qing Wan stood on the steps of the pavilion, frowned and spoke,

"Insolent."

The single word came out sternly.

Making the master and servant, who had been happy just now, both freeze.

The two exchanged a glance, and Xiao Tao stood up.

"Who are you?"

Qing Wan said,

"A female official by His Majesty’s side."

Once Xiao Tao heard that, she didn’t say more and gave a bow.

Qing Wan’s brows furrowed even tighter.

Where did these two ignorant of rules come from?

And so presumptuous?

"His Majesty is resting here. Your noisy disturbance is a grave disrespect.

Such an attitude is adding crime upon crime, contempt for imperial authority, and you ought to be executed on the spot."

Hearing that, Xiao Tao suddenly had no idea what to do.

She hurriedly looked toward Ning Zhi.

Ning Zhi panicked for a moment.

But then she thought of what she had overheard a few days ago.

She steadied herself.

After straightening her clothes, she walked up to the pavilion.

Then she saluted.

"Ning Zhi of Duke Ning, greets Your Majesty."

Su Yan didn’t tell her to rise.

She just asked,

"You just said you were going to pick these flowers tonight and take them away?"

"Your Majesty, this humble woman is the legitimate daughter of Duke Ning, Ning Zhi."

She did not explain what she had done.

Instead, she emphasized her identity once more.

Ning Zhi felt very confident inside.

That day, when she returned home from the Prince Mansion, she had heard her father and a woman talking outside the study.

The current Empress was not actually the real Empress.

But merely a collateral-born girl from a branch of their Ning Family who happened to resemble the Empress by about sixty percent.

No wonder when she went to see the Empress before, her father told her to relax and not be nervous.

He even said that sooner or later, the Imperial Palace would be her future home.

Once she married the Regent King.

The throne would also be under the Ning Family’s control.

Who would dare oppose the Ning Family in the future?

After listening to Ning Zhi’s emphasis,

Su Yan finally remembered.

Isn’t this the so-called legitimate daughter of Duke Ning who’s rumored to have a marriage agreement with Situ Xiu?

She gave her a few more looks.