King's Regrets
The Eps 33
After empress Yan left the royal palace, she went straight to Yu city. Which he had already bought a house that his younger brother Qing Hao Min helped with.
Empress Yan did not return to the Qing prime minister's residence, because early in the morning before she went to the palace hall, someone brought a letter containing if the Qing family no longer accepted her in the family.
She never cared much in the Qing family, when she was old enough to get married. He was thrown into the palace to raise his surname, and strengthen his father's position in the palace.
And now, after he could no longer survive inside the palace. The family who should have embraced him warmly, just threw him away.
But even so, empress Yan did not feel aggrieved. Instead, he felt happy because he could be free from all the people who had hurt him.
Empress Yan arrived at Yu city along with Qing Hao Min, Xiao Wei and the palace chef at night.
The train stopped in front of a house that was not so big, but enough for them to live in.
Everyone got off the train and saw the house. Xiao Wei and the palace chef looked delighted. They were finally able to live outside the palace, without feeling pressured again by people who did not like them in the palace.
"Your majesty, this house looks big and nice." Xiao Wei said to Empress Yan.
"Xiao Wei, I am no longer an empress of Yan. So you have to get used to not calling me that again." Empress Yan reminded.
"Ah, ba... Miss Qing."
"Now I am also not the lady of the Qing family. So from now on you guys just call me Xia Lian An."
"Okay, Miss Xia." Said Xiao Wei and the palace chef together.
"All right, let's get all our stuff in. So we can rest early." Min'er said to the three women who were talking.
"Okay, young master Qing." Xiao Wei.
They both helped the three men Min'er hired, unloading all the things in their carriage.
"Min 'er. You've been a big help to me, thank you." Said empress Yan.
"Sister, I'm your sister. Until anytime it won't change. So you don't need to be like that to me."
Empress Yan nodded.
Empress Yan stared at the house in front of her. That house that from now on will be the place where he returns after being tired of working in the cake shop that he just opened.
Half an hour later all the belongings were inside the house, and the three men Min'er had paid for had returned.
"Alright, here are three rooms.one room I'll occupy, another one for Min'er if she stays here, and another one for both of you." Said empress Yan.
"Okay, Miss Xia." Said the palace chef and Xiao Wei.
"The room in this house is quite spacious, so even if you live in one room will not feel cramped. I've also made two separate beds for the two of you." Min'er said to Xiao Wei and the palace chef.
"Thank you young master Qing." Xiao Wei.
"You rest, tomorrow we'll just get it all done." Said empress Yan.
"Well miss."
Xiao Wei and the palace chef went to their room, leaving empress Yan along with her sister.
"I hope they'll get used to living here." Said empress Yan.
"Of course, they wouldn't be afraid of the death penalty if they made such a mistake while inside the palace."
"Hmm, you're right."
"Sister, here's the key to your shed. All your money I've saved there."
Min'er gave a key to Empress Yan.
"thank you. At least I still have money after I leave the palace."
"Sister, don't you want to avenge them?"
"Of course, it's just that I'm going to repay them slowly. I want them to feel what I've ever felt."
Min'er looked at Empress Yan, in front of her once was a woman who was so quiet and timid. But these few months, she had already turned into a powerful female figure, even if it was imagined to be extremely frightening.
"Min'er? Min'er!"
Min'er flinched from her daydream "Ah, yes brother. What did brother say?"
Empress Yan smiled "Are you thinking about my change right now?" Guess empress Yan.
"Ah, no. no brother. I. I don't think so."
Empress Yan grabbed the hand of her sister who was nervous because her guess was correct.
"Min 'er. If I say I'm not your brother, but someone else. Will you believe it?"
Empress Yan shook her head, she then walked closer and looked at the courtyard of the house.
"Do you remember the incident when I was poisoned at Ju's palace?"
Min'er nodded.
"At that time your real brother's soul was dead, and I who was in your brother's body was me, Qing Lian An, not Qing Lian."
Min'er looked at Empress Yan and tried to understand what Empress Yan had said earlier.
"I know you are very unaccepting of the treatment of emperor Shun and concubine Ning to big brother, but what big brother said. If my sister is not my sister? I really...." Min'er shook her head in disbelief.
Empress Yan knew that what she said would be hard for others to believe. Moreover, he entered the body of a person born in the era of the kingdom, where such things are difficult to understand.
"Well, let's just say that you're just saying something no-no because you're exhausted, and maybe because you can't accept all the treatment of those two people."
"Yes, brother."
"Then you rest. Tomorrow we'll be even more busy."
"Good brother."
Empress Yan left Min'er alone. He walked to his room.
While Min'er stared at her brother's departure with a questionable thought about the change in the attitude of Empress Yan lately and what her brother had said earlier.
Min'er shook her head a few times before she also went to her room to rest.
Empress Yan stopped stepping and turned her head back, and seeing Min'er enter her room, Empress Yan could only silently look at it.
"If he doesn't believe, then leave it like that. Because believe it or not, as long as she still considers me as her own brother, then I will replace Qing Lian to protect her."
Empress Yan entered the room and locked the door.
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Inside the palace, the still-awake emperor Shun was staring at the jade bracelet that Empress Yan had worn this morning.
He remembered he was so angry that every empress Yan wore a jade bracelet given by the queen mother. He even beat up Empress Yan just because he was unwilling to remove the bracelet from her wrist.
Emperor Shun stared fixedly at the jade bracelet, he also occasionally rubbed the bracelet slowly.
"What happened to me? Do I really like Qing Lian?"
Emperor Shun placed the jade bracelet on the table. She then looked at the brown box containing the hair of Empress Yan, a hairpin and a letter from empress Yan.
Emperor Shun took the letter. And with a feeling of not knowing what to say, emperor Shun opened and read the letter from empress Yan.
Here is the letter from Empress Yan to emperor Shun
Greetings to the emperor. May your Majesty live long.
Your Majesty, I know that from the beginning your majesty never liked me. I'm sorry if as long as I'm in the palace always make your majesty the emperor always angry and even hate me.
I also apologize for all that my family has done, thus making the noble hate me and my family even more.
Your Majesty, if only I could restore time. I would never want to marry your highness and enter the palace. I really don't want that.
But I, who was weak at the time and fell in love with you the first time I saw you, could only follow what my parents did.
If your majesty always thinks all is my desire to be queen, your majesty is wrong.
Just because I waited for the noble to return my favor, I obeyed my parents and stayed inside the palace. Though his majesty never saw me and would not even touch me. I stayed, until I finally realized that everything I did never meant in the eyes of the emperor.
Your Honor, if your majesty ever meets the woman you love. I will only pray that your majesty feels the pain I once felt, for having loved you for up to half of my life.
Your Majesty, even though I have left the palace and am no longer the empress of the Yan Qin state. But I will stop at nothing to prove, if a noble woman has chosen, who has made me stand on the brink of death, not a woman worthy to succeed me as empress in this Qin state.
Please take care of your noble health.
Qing Lian's.
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The two eyes of Emperor Shun felt so hot that they held back the feelings that were inside him.
As long as Empress Yan was inside the palace, whether she made a mistake or not. Emperor Shun would always get angry and beat him up to vent his anger over something else.
All the memories of how she treated Empress Yan were so vivid. It was as if emperor Shun was looking at a flashback to himself when he hurt Empress Yan.
Emperor Shun squeezed the letter in his hand, and without his permission. Her tears just flow.
"Why, why after everything has happened. I just realized my stupidity?"
Emperor Shun regretted everything he had done to empress Yan. But it was already too late, empress Yan had left and she would not be able to come back again.