Zui Gu🔞 ( mtl)

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　　 The next morning, after Yan Zhaozhao woke up from her bed, she found that Xie Ci Yan was no longer beside her. She looked out through the half-open window anxiously. It was already daybreak, and her lover had already put on his armor and walked out of the palace gate at dawn, heading for his battlefield.

　　When a person is completely silent, his mind will unconsciously be filled with random thoughts, and even develop uneasy emotions. The swords on the battlefield are blind, and every battle is like a walk in the Yama Palace, with life and death uncertain.

　　Yan Zhaozhao couldn't help but think of the last night when they changed to another bedroom to sleep, she was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night. At that time, Xie Ci Yan had not left yet, and he was lying on his side beside her, watching her sleeping appearance motionlessly.

　　She threw herself into Xie Ci Yan's arms, constantly telling him about the dangers of the battlefield in her dream, and asked him if he could not go to the battle. Xie Ciyan didn't say anything, but just touched the top of her head and reminded her in a hoarse voice, "I will have someone renovate the bedroom where you are staying temporarily. During the time I am away, I will let the secret guards stay to protect your safety. I have also told Huo Sui to let him take care of you more."

　　Yan Zhaozhao suddenly looked up, "No." She refused in a hurry, and then her voice softened again, and her tone was full of worry. "I am no longer the queen, so I will not be the target of the women in the harem. Staying in this cold palace, no one will come to trouble me. Why do you leave the secret guards to me? Take them to the battlefield to help you."

　　Xie Ciyan's handsome eyebrows no longer had a sense of coldness, and there was only reluctance and attachment when he was reluctant to leave his sweetheart. His voice was affectionate, and he only wanted to give all his tenderness to the person in front of him. "If I don't leave some people by your side, what should I do if something goes wrong?"

　　Yan Zhaozhao glanced at him, "This is the cold palace, not the Fengyi Palace. No one will be willing to set foot here, so how can anything go wrong?" She was afraid that he would insist on leaving people here, so she grabbed the man's clothes regardless of anything, and her voice was full of soft and coquettish words, making it impossible to refuse. "I will live well here and wait for you to come back and pick me up. Don't worry about me, just move forward, I will always be behind you."

　　Xie Ciyan hugged her tightly for a long time, and was unwilling to let go for a long time. After a long time, he slowly said a sentence, "Zhao Zhao, just wait for me to come back here." He kissed Yan Zhaozhao's red lips devoutly, "Zhao Zhao is the only meaning of my existence in the world. As long as you are here, I will come back even if I have to fight for everything."

　　Yan Zhaozhao's eyes were filled with sparkling water vapor, and she buried her head in his chest, just hoping that the dawn would take a little longer to come. Let her and Xie Ci Yan stay longer, longer.

　　Her thoughts wandered for a while, and suddenly there was a slight sound outside the bedroom. Yan Zhaozhao came back to her senses and asked with some vigilance: "Who's outside?"

　　The bedroom door was pushed open, and Biluo walked in quickly wearing a plain and rough cold palace maid's clothes. "Biluo pays respects to the queen."

　　Yan Zhaozhao pulled her up, "This is not Fengyi Palace, and I am no longer a queen, so there is no need to perform formalities in the future." She looked Biluo up and down, and saw that she was wearing coarse linen clothes worn by the lowest-ranking maids, and she did not have the graceful appearance of the former senior palace maids. She felt a little bitter in her heart. "Why did you follow me to this damn place? Listen to me, let Xie Ci Yan find a good home for you, isn't it better than suffering here?"

　　Biluo suddenly knelt down and called her as she did in the mansion before. "Miss, I have been following you since I was a child and have never thought about getting married. Now that you are alone in this place, how can I leave you alone?"

　　Yan Zhaozhao felt warm in her heart. In this world where everyone wants to sacrifice her, she and Xie Ciyan are by her side. She thought that she could be considered a lucky person.

　　"Okay, get up quickly." She patted Biluo's hand gently. "I will remember your willingness to not abandon me today. Thank you for doing this for me."

　　Biluo shook her head and looked around the furnishings in the bedroom. There was no trace of the dilapidated feeling that the cold palace should have in the hall. The bed was the step-out bed that Yan Zhaozhao had always loved. The quilts and pillows were all made of silk. The hall was equipped with soft couches, long tables, and dressing tables. Although the sparrow was small, it had everything.

　　Biluo knew that everything in the cold palace was exchanged by the regent. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, if the person her young lady met from the beginning was the regent, not the emperor, how good it would be.

　　The night before Xie Ci Yan went to war, it seemed that he had made plans for her for the next several decades. Meals would be delivered to the door of the bedroom on time, and those irresponsible servants in the cold palace never appeared again. Someone also brought a whole box of various books for her to entertain her. If she finished reading, she could ask Biluo to go to Huo Sui and tell him.

　　Everything was arranged properly, as if the existence of Xie Ci Yan had completely penetrated into her life. None of them was him, but none of them was not him.

　　Yan Zhaozhao looked at the bedroom full of Xie Ci Yan's love for her, and missed Xie Ci Yan who was fighting thousands of miles away. She would think of him unconsciously every time. She had never really experienced the pain of parting with her lover before, and this time, she really understood what it meant to live a day like a year.

　　Obviously, she didn't have the life that required her to be worried and tread on thin ice every day, but she always felt a little uneasy in her heart. It seemed that only when Xie Ci Yan was by her side, she could be truly fearless and not afraid of any difficulties.

　　Yan Zhaozhao counted the days in the cold palace every day, looking forward to Xie Ci Yan's return. During this period, the emperor did not have the regent to obstruct his policies, and he was even more fearless and did whatever he wanted. The

　　news came from the previous dynasty that the emperor was about to establish a new queen, and Biluo told Yan Zhaozhao the news he had heard. Then he heard that many court officials were dissatisfied with the emperor's quick establishment of a new queen. The original intention of those court officials was not to let the prime minister Yan Huai's family dominate. The former queen was his legitimate daughter, and the new queen to be established was also his concubine's daughter.

　　The position of the queen has always been fought for by the aristocratic families. No matter who it is, they all want their own daughter to sit on the throne of the queen and be able to shine from then on. It was rare that the former queen Yan Zhaozhao was deposed. One by one, the court officials were eager to compete for it, but they were awakened from this dream by the emperor's blow, and the position still fell into the hands of Yan.

　　The court officials were selfish and deliberately obstructed the emperor. Every day, people gave advice. They said Yan Zhiman had just been promoted to the position of Concubine Chun. How could she become the empress in one leap? But the emperor was completely unmoved. He didn't even raise his eyelids. He just waved his sleeves and ordered the death of the court official who gave advice. He even pulled out his tongue and put it in front of the court officials as a warning.

　　For a time, the court was in turmoil. The court officials were also in a state of panic all day long. They were even more afraid of this tyrant who took human lives lightly.

　　The matter of establishing a new queen had not yet been settled, but an uninvited guest suddenly came to the cold palace.