Her wedding dress was as bright as fire. She could faintly hear the sound of music coming from the outer courtyard. It was the people from the Ministry of Rites coming on behalf of the Emperor to welcome her into the palace.
She held a golden ruyi in one hand and an apple in the other, and was covered with a red veil. Qinghe and the nanny supported her on both sides as she walked out the door.
She got on the bright yellow wedding sedan, and the Minister of Rites waved his hand, and festive music sounded.
The emperor married her into the palace with a formal matchmaker, and the royal palace also sent her off with a grand wedding bridal ceremony.
The grand procession overshadowed the bustling city, and the people lined the streets to watch as the procession entered the palace.
"This is the emperor's wedding. It is truly magnificent."
"I haven't seen such a lively wedding in a long time. Today is really an eye-opener."
"I remember when Princess Chen got married, there was also a grand ceremony with a huge crowd..."
In the teahouse, Xiao Linfeng looked at the bustle of the street and said softly, "The more lively and grand it is, the more painful it will be when it is broken."
The emperor welcomed her into the palace with the greatest ceremony, and he himself stood outside the palace gate waiting.
Zhongqiu led the concubines to the palace and welcomed the queen from a distance. Although it was a happy event, these beautiful concubines, who were as beautiful as flowers, found it difficult to smile.
Soon the sedan stopped at the palace gate. Helian Xuan took the bow and arrow handed to him by Eunuch Zhou and shot an arrow at the sedan door. He personally stepped forward and helped her out.
"Welcome to the Queen!"
All the palace maids and concubines knelt down, but Jiang Xuening, under her red veil, did not have a trace of joy on her face.
She was welcomed into the Fengluan Palace and sat on the bed. Helian Xuan lifted the red veil, and she looked up at him with a bright smile.
Helian Xuan was intoxicated by this smile, feeling as if he didn't know what day it was.
"Your Majesty and His Majesty, please drink from the cup of wine."
Jiang Xue Ning did not reach for the wine, but said, "I feel dizzy after sitting in the sedan chair. Can we drink later?"
It was a poor excuse. Helian Xuan smiled and said, "Of course you can. Save it for your wedding night."
He wanted to entertain his ministers first and then come back for the wedding night.
He looked at her deeply and said, "Wait for me to come back."
Jiang Xue Ning sat in the red room, thinking back to when he entered the palace and became emperor, he also held her hand and said to her, "Yangyang, wait for me to welcome you into the palace as empress."
She waited until the entire Gu family was wiped out, waited until he personally surrounded and shot her to death, and waited until he made Xiao Shujin his queen.
This time she didn't wait. She reached out and took off the phoenix crown, walked around the room, and sat quietly.
Helian Xuan didn't come back until it was completely dark, reeking of alcohol. He waved his hand and said, "Everyone leave."
They were the only two people left in the room in an instant, and the atmosphere was a little weird.
Helian Xuan handed her the bright yellow imperial edict in his hand, "I owe you this. I should have conferred the title in public at tomorrow's heavenly sacrifice ceremony, but I'm afraid I won't be able to wait that long."
She was stunned for a moment before taking it and casually placing it on the table beside her, without any desire to open it.
"Don't you want to take a look?"
"No."
If she opened it, she would find that the imperial edict did not say who would enthrone Jiang Xue Ning as the queen, but who would enthrone Chen Wang's wife Gu Mingyue as the queen.
Helian Xuan stood in front of him and bent down, stroking her eyebrows with his fingers, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he spoke slowly and affectionately and gently.
"Resurrection from the dead is a ridiculous thing, not to mention Jiang Xue Ning's identity and origin, no matter how you investigate it, it is very reasonable.
So even though I was dazed a lot of the time, I never thought that it was you who came back."
"The more I interacted with you during your short stay at the palace, the more I knew it was you who had returned."
They had been together for several years, and there had been times when they treated each other with respect. He had also admired her every smile and remembered some of her little habits.
He was once one of the people in the world who was most familiar with her, so how could he not recognize her?
He placed his fingertips on her forehead, "Yangyang, I know you are back."
Jiang Xuening raised her eyes and looked him straight in the eye. She smiled coldly and asked, "Then your majesty, are you afraid of my return, or are you happy that I'm back?"
"I don't know either. After I was sure about it, Fei Wan died before I could figure it out."
Then Xiao Shujin also died, and from that time on he was certain that she had come back to take revenge on him.
Helian Xuan stared at her and said, "If possible, I naturally hope that you can stay with me and start over."
But as the situation changed, he knew it was impossible. The mistakes he made in the past and the roots of disasters he planted were coming back to bite him one by one.
Jiang Xue Ning chuckled and said, "In the beginning, you knelt outside the imperial study for a long time and asked me to marry you in person. Since then, the Gu family has never let you down, and I have never let you down either."
However, she lost miserably. No one told her that the young man with whom she was in love when she was fifteen would take her life when she was twenty-two.
She had learned the etiquette of aristocratic families since she was a child, so after becoming his princess, she worked hard to be a good princess.
Today, she finally asked the question she had always wanted to ask, "Helian Xuan, where did I go wrong?"
She marched for him in the night rain, she pacified the northwest for him, she thought they could live in harmony and create a peaceful and prosperous era together.
Everything was what she thought. He used his deep affection as bait to give her the most fatal blow, and finally made her understand the ruthlessness of the royal family.
Helian Xuan closed his eyes and said painfully, "You are right, Yangyang, you did nothing wrong. It was me who was too greedy at the beginning and lost my mind because of the evil words."
She sneered, "Your Majesty is being honest now."
"Hahahahahaha, Yangyang didn't come here today to be my queen. She wanted to end things with me."
He placed his hand on her cheek, "Whether you believe it or not, I really loved you."
“Hahahaha.” She laughed loudly, “Then your majesty’s heart must have many petals, otherwise how could he love so many people at the same time.”
Maybe he loved her, but he also loved Chi Feiwan, Xiao Shujin... and even other beauties in the palace.
"We made a mistake. Both the concubine and I made a mistake. You are not worthy."
Helian Xuan's eyes turned red with laughter, "So I deserve to be deserted by everyone and end up like this today."
There was no fierce quarrel, no grandiose. As time passed, they met again in the deep palace as Gu Mingyue and Helian Xuan, and both of them were terrifyingly calm.
Maybe they had all been waiting for this day for too long, so when the moment finally came, they were not excited at all.
Jiang Xue Ning looked at him calmly, "Your Majesty, how are you going to pay back what you owe to the entire Gu family?"
"How can I repay you when you miss me?"
"Of course, blood debt must be repaid with blood, with life!"
Helian Xuan hugged her unexpectedly and said, "I can't achieve the peaceful and prosperous era I once promised. You can create it."
"In fact, when I knew it was you who came back, my first reaction was to kill you for fear of your revenge. I am indeed rotten to the core."
"I really didn't know you were pregnant. If the child was born, if it was a daughter, she would look a lot like you..."
"Yangyang, I'm tired."
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