The Queen Mother jumped from the tower, and His Majesty was reborn with fear

Just as she was about to stand up, Yu Jinzhi fell to the side. Xie Yuxiu reacted quickly and put his arm around her waist.

"How long have you been kneeling?" Xie Yuxiu asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty, the princess has been kneeling for half an hour." Qingyu was really heartbroken.

Xie Yuxiu frowned, and his eyes fell on the woman in front of him again. Yu Jinzhi's body was shivering the whole time, probably because of the cold, after all, she had been in the rain for so long.

"Go back to the palace!" Xie Yuxiu's tone was tinged with hostility. He picked up Yu Jinzhi and carried her sideways, then headed back towards Jiayu Palace.

Yu Jinzhi looked very well-behaved from beginning to end. She huddled obediently in Xie Yuxiu's arms without saying a word.

After returning to Jiayu Palace, Xie Yuxiu asked someone to summon the imperial physician, and Yu Jinzhi was taken into the inner room by him.

"Prepare water!" Xie Yuxiu shouted.

Yu Jinzhi was put down by her and sat down. She was soaked through, and her dress clung to her body, exuding a bit of coolness. Her hair was entangled in water droplets, which stuck to her cheeks. Occasionally, water droplets slipped down and dripped along her chin. She kept her head down, like a child who had done something wrong, helpless and frightened.

She felt helpless because she had no idea what she should do, and she was terrified that she would be punished again.

"Your Majesty, the hot water is ready." The palace servant stepped forward and replied.

"Go take a bath first and change your wet clothes." Xie Yuxiu frowned. Yu Jinzhi stood up and bowed slightly, then followed the palace servant to take a bath and change clothes.

Xie Yuxiu just stood there and watched her leaving until she completely disappeared.

"What happened in the Imperial Garden today?" There was always a chill in Xie Yuxiu's tone that made people tremble.

"Reporting to your majesty, today when the princess was returning to the palace, she passed by the Imperial Garden and happened to meet Concubine Jia. Concubine Jia said that it was against the palace rules for the princess to return so late. The princess argued about this, but Concubine Jia said that the princess had talked back to her, so she punished the princess to kneel in the Imperial Garden until dawn." Qingyu explained word for word what happened in the Imperial Garden today.

Xie Yuxiu's face was gloomy and he didn't speak for a long time after hearing these words. After all, everyone in the palace knew that their emperor had indulged Concubine Jia in many ways, and the princess was just a nameless person. Now, of course, it was impossible to lose face for the princess.

As expected, Xie Yuxiu said nothing in the end, but followed him into the inner hall. Qingyu felt sorry for her master. How could His Majesty be so hard-hearted? On the one hand, he had to trap people in the palace, and on the other hand, he allowed these people in the harem to bully the princess. Why?

Xie Yuxiu came to the bathhouse in Jiayu Palace, which was specially built by him.

The candlelight was like fine gauze, gently falling on the edge of the quaint clear pool. The pool water was dyed with a faint silver glow by the night, and was filled with curling hot air, like a fairyland.

In the pool, Yu Jinzhi, naked, was quietly sinking in the water. Her figure was looming in the hazy water vapor, making her look particularly soft and lonely.

Yu Jinzhi's long hair fell like a waterfall. She kept her head down. There was always a hint of melancholy on her unmade-up face, and an inextricable sorrow locked between her brows.

Even though Xie Yuxiu had come, she hadn't noticed it at all. From beginning to end, Yu Jinzhi just stared at the water quietly, as if all her worries were flowing out slowly with the gently rippling waves...

Yu Jinzhi stirred the water in the pool with gentle and restrained movements. Every time she raised her hand and stroked the water, she revealed an indescribable bitterness. The water drops slid down her fair skin and dripped into the pool, making a subtle and crisp sound that was particularly clear in the quiet night.

Xie Yuxiu just kept looking at her quietly, he couldn't tell what kind of emotion he was feeling. In his previous life, Yu Jinzhi jumped off the city wall, he still remembered it vividly, he hated her so much, hated her for daring to jump like that.

He knew better than anyone that if he had caught her at that time, he would have punished her cruelly. But he didn't catch her, so he lost her...

It was precisely because of this loss that he began to reflect on himself in his new life. The moment he brought her back from the palace gate, he had always thought that he would vent all the resentment he had accumulated over the past few decades on her, but when he looked at her frightened eyes, he was actually reluctant to do so.

Apart from these emotions, he actually had a little fear, fearing that one day she would leave him in the same way. According to his original self, in order to avoid this situation, he should have locked her up directly...

But...he softened his heart again.

In the decades after he left in his previous life, Xie Yuxiu had thought about it carefully. He had also realized that perhaps it was because he pushed her too hard that eventually led to that situation.

But what can he do? If he didn't do this, Yu Jinzhi would not stay with him, so he could only use this method to force her to stay.

Of course, in this life he could stop forcing her like that, and could even tolerate more of her small mistakes, but the prerequisite before that was that she had to stay by his side obediently.

Xie Yuxiu took two more steps forward and walked behind Yu Jinzhi, who finally noticed him. He still had an expressionless face, and his cold and hard face made people dare not offend him.

"Your Majesty..." She called softly. Because she was afraid, her voice was always very low, and if you listened carefully, you could hear that she was shaking when she spoke.

Xie Yuxiu's gaze was so aggressive that people were always afraid to look him in the face.

"Yu Jinzhi" he called her name.

Yu Jinzhi's heart trembled. She was afraid and her heart suddenly rose to her throat.

"You really deserve to be punished." He uttered these words in a cold tone.

Yu Jinzhi's expression dimmed instantly, but she had gotten used to it, so used to it that she even felt there was no need to explain or refute.

"Yes... Please punish me, Your Majesty." She admitted it silently.

"Punish you? If I want to punish you, do you think you can bear it?" Xie Yuxiu was in mixed feelings. He really didn't like the look of Yu Jinzhi.

"I know I was wrong." Yu Jinzhi didn't want to say anything more, but just accepted all his blame submissively.

But such a sentence angered Xie Yuxiu instead.

"You know you're wrong? You've said this more than once." Xie Yuxiu's eyes gradually turned red. It was obviously her fault...