weddingnovel Chapter 1313: The Emperor Is Pregnant 27
Chapter 1313: The Emperor Is Pregnant 27
Situ Xiu suddenly stood up,
"Let’s go to the Imperial Palace to meet the Empress."
Chi Xing was taken aback.
"Now?"
The sky outside had already turned dark.
Going to the palace without a summons.
This is against protocol.
However, if the Prince wants to go, they couldn’t stop him.
Situ Xiu placed his hands behind his back.
He recalled the first time he saw Song Su sober.
Her face pale from hunger, as if she hadn’t eaten for days.
Yet the clothes she wore.
Whether in craftsmanship or material.
Were very exquisite.
She saved him back then and only asked for him to take her back to the Capital.
She bore a five or six points resemblance to the current Empress.
Even so, Situ Xiu felt it was unlikely.
But he still needed to visit the Imperial Palace.
He lowered his eyelids.
"All Shadow Guards follow."
There was a trace of gloom in his voice.
The pretense of meeting the Empress was false, but inspecting the palace inside and out to see if someone was there was true.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Su Yan entered the Imperial Palace.
She didn’t sneak in stealthily.
Instead, she chose a side gate on the northwest side of the palace.
She handed her Token to the guard at the gate.
That was the Token from the Prince Mansion.
The guard saw it and said nothing, letting her pass directly.
But as she walked in.
She wandered around the palace for a long time.
The Imperial Palace was too large.
Majestic and magnificent.
The towering walls isolated the bustle from outside.
Palaces stood one after another.
Su Yan wandered for so long, unable to find the Empress’s sleeping quarters.
Her original self rarely went out back then, let alone the Longyin Hall or even the Imperial Study Room where the Emperor resided.
So much so that Su Yan had no memory of this.
She could only search blindly by herself.
At first, she encountered patrols, who would stop her for questioning, seeing a guard wandering aimlessly here.
Later, finding it troublesome, Su Yan started to avoid them altogether.
But in doing so, she walked for one hour.
From sunset to nightfall.
The time for dinner had already passed.
She hadn’t even found where she was supposed to live.
She spoke out.
"Xiao Hua."
Xiao Hua promptly responded to assist.
"Host, do you need to go to the Imperial Study Room or to the sleeping quarters?"
Su Yan pondered.
At this hour, after dinner, the Empress should still be in the Imperial Study Room going through documents, right?
Thinking this way, she answered.
"To the Imperial Study Room."
"Host, go straight, turn left at the second intersection······"
With Xiao Hua’s guidance, Su Yan turned left, right, and finally reached the Imperial Study Room.
Avoiding the guards on patrol.
She climbed in through a window.
As she entered.
It was very quiet inside.
Occasionally, she could hear the conversation of two female voices.
One woman’s voice was steady...
"The Empress should engage more with new officials like Zhao Mu from the Cabinet to cultivate her own influence."
Behind the long pear wood desk, on the Dragon Chair.
Sat a woman wearing a Dragon Robe, adorned with a Dragon Crown.
The woman nodded,
"Alright."
The Empress on the Dragon Chair lacked the calm composure seen with others, listening closely to the maid beside her.
Su Yan chewed on a piece of candy.
Listening carefully.
The maid appeared about twenty-five or twenty-six.
Not very old.
Yet her speech and actions demonstrated extraordinary insight and depth.
She acted superior.
Without the demeanor a maid should have had.
In contrast, the Empress seemed somewhat timid and submissive.
At a glance, one might mistake the maid for the Empress.
Having understood most of it.
Xiao Hua’s voice was soft and childish.
"Host, what’s your plan?"
"Wait for them to come over, kill them, and switch clothes."
Xiao Hua was silent after hearing this.