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The bedroom of the Regent's Palace is spacious and luxurious.

The mahogany carved doors and windows are painted with complex patterns with gold lacquer, and the golden nanmu tables, chairs and cabinets are full of precious antique furnishings.The floor was covered with camel hair rugs embroidered with patterns of gold silk, and on the table was an exquisite incense burner made of suet and white jade.Wisps of light smoke slowly flowed through the gorgeous bead curtain made of agate strings, and softly wrapped around the soft smoke yarn in the couch in the inner hall...

Lan Zheng walked into the outer hall angrily, and threw the court robe on the dragon gate.Someone had already prepared hot tea on the table, and put two small green jade bowls beside it, but at the moment he felt depressed, seeing the thing that was dazzlingly bright in the sun was a burst of anger, and he waved his sleeves and slammed the table Everything was swept to the ground.

With a messy crash, the warm tea splashed all over the floor, and a faint fragrance rose from the slowly spreading heat on the carpet.

"My lord, calm down..." Yunxi, the maidservant, ran in quickly, kowtowed uneasy on the ground, raised her head, and asked cautiously, "But today's tea is not to your liking?"

Lan Zheng sat leaning on the golden nanmu carved chair, propped one hand on the table, propped his forehead and frowned and said: "It's okay, let's go down."

"My lord..." Yunxi hesitated for a while, but his eyes quietly condensed on Lan Zheng's angry face, "Wangfei sent someone to ask for your advice, can I go back to Xue's mansion to stay longer this year?" For a few days, spend time with my sister who just lost her husband."

"It's okay to go back to Xue's mansion, and it's okay to see that Li Xue family, but you tell her, remember what to say and what not to say..." Lan Zheng snorted coldly, his eyes were full of indifference, "If something If I tell someone who shouldn't, I will ask the whole Xue family to be buried with her."

"My lord..." Yunxi's expression darkened suddenly, and he hesitated for a while, recalling what the Xue family did back then, and the estrangement between the lord and concubine for so many years, until today, he still faintly feels sorry for him, " Are you...still hating the concubine and the Xue family..."

Lan Zheng didn't expect her to ask such a question suddenly, and immediately frowned suspiciously, squinting at the woman who was kneeling upright, without saying a word, but her gaze was piercingly painful.

"Actually...you and the concubine have been married for so many years. On the surface, you are very affectionate, but behind your back, you are like a stranger. The servant has served you by your side since childhood, and understands the pain in your heart. It's just..." Yunxi bit her lower lip, stubbornly Looking back at Lan Zheng, staring into his dark eyes, he said, "If you really don't want to consummate the concubine, you can marry two concubines, right? Why do you have to waste yourself like this? After so many years, you Even if you punish yourself, it should be enough, right?!"

"No need to say any more."

Looking at Yunxi's sad face, but the memories of the past swept in like a tide, Lan Zheng's eye circles were slightly red, and even his heart felt sharp pain.

He raised his head slowly, closed his eyes tightly, his slightly trembling voice was indescribably hoarse, "She wants to go for a few days, I don't interfere, and I don't have to say goodbye to me, I don't want to see her."

"My lord... Yunxi really doesn't understand!"

Unwillingly, she whispered again, raised her small face stubbornly, and asked stubbornly, "The Xue family has long since lost the ability to control you, why do you still refuse to marry a wife and have children, continue the incense, and keep doing it like this?" Will it dry up?!"

"Go back."

Lan Zheng didn't open his eyes, but his deep voice gradually became cold.Yunxi knew that this was a harbinger of his anger, and even though she had already prepared herself, she was still frightened by him, and most of the courage she had worked up just now was vented.

"Your Majesty, forgive me..." Yunxi hurriedly kowtowed cautiously, pleading guilty in a low voice, "It's the servant who has usurped."

"It's good to know." Lan Zheng gently rubbed his temples, frowned, and said in a somewhat displeased voice, "You go down first, don't bother me if you have nothing to do, I'm a little tired... I need to take a rest meeting."

"...Yes." Yunxi held the teapot and bowl that fell on the ground, looked at the irritable expression on Lan Zheng's face, and didn't dare to say any more, but bowed and retreated outside the hall.

The sunshine outside the window is really good, lazily passing through the window paper and sprinkled on the soft carpet at the feet, warm and with the unique flavor of winter.

Lan Zheng let himself be bathed in the sun, but his heart gradually fell to freezing point. Although he closed his eyes tightly at this moment, more and more memories appeared before his eyes one after another.

The Xue family, he smiled coldly.

At the beginning, he used all means for the sake of power, but now it is only his own fault, but some consequences are still the karma that he must bear, just like that snowy night...