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Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Your Family Wants to Kill You
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Su Nuan was stunned.
What kind of monster is he?
I was kind enough to help him bandage his wounds, but now he’s hurting others. Why would I have such weird interests?
Su Nuan stood with a gloomy expression. It seemed like she had angered this tyrant again.
The rows of palace maids knelt trembling. Finally, one of them cried out in fear, and Feng Junyi rubbed his temples.
Eunuch Wang Ze witnessed this, and understood the Emperor’s intentions. So he hurriedly handed over the sword that he had just hung back up.
Feng Junyi looked at the sword and reached out to take it. When the crying palace maid saw that the sword was still dripping with blood, she was so frightened that her whole body went limp..
However, she didn’t dare to beg for mercy. She didn’t want to cry either, but she was too scared to control her tears.
She knew that His Majesty would behead people when he was in a bad mood. So if she were to utter a sound now, he would slice off her tongue too.
She could only tremble like a leaf.
Feng Junyi held the sword, and his headache worsened. Then, just as he was about to swing down the sword, he saw Su Nuan standing there dumb like a wooden chicken.
He looked at her petite body and her big eyes that would cry at the slightest fright. If he killed the palace maid, she would probably cry again.
Finally, he tossed the sword away with a clang. His low and cold voice echoed in the quiet palace. “Get lost.”
The palace maids thought that they would be beheaded and skinned alive. When they heard the Emperor say that, they quickly scrambled out of the room.
Even Wang Ze was stunned.
The Emperor didn’t kill that palace maid today?
He finally turned his gaze to Su Nuan.
It’s probably because of the young Empress.
Su Nuan was still thinking of a way to coax Feng Junyi. When she came back to her senses, she realized that he had chased all the palace maids out.
Fortunately, he didn’t kill anyone.
She stood there, her little fingers pinching the corner of her skirt. She blinked her big eyes at him and asked carefully, “You don’t want me to bandage it anymore?”
Feng Junyi replied in a low voice, “No more bandaging.”
“Oh…”
She felt like the tyrant was not as bad as she thought.
Feng Junyi found her current appearance stupidly adorable.
He said, “I didn’t kill that palace maid.”
“Huh? Which one?”
Su Nuan couldn’t follow what he meant for a moment but then asked, “Zhen Zhu?”
“Real pig1 or a fake pig—it doesn’t matter. Guards, bring her in.”
Wang Ze was secretly relieved.
As expected, the reason why the Emperor didn’t kill anyone was because of the Empress. He also didn’t kill that palace maid.
Though, of course, he might still kill the palace maid later.
When Zhen Zhu entered, she immediately knelt in front of Su Nuan. She explained through sobs, “Your Majesty, I will explain it, I will explain everything. It was… It was the Third Princess who ordered me to kill you. Your Majesty, please spare your servant. If I didn’t follow their orders, they would kill my family.”
Su Nuan stood there in a daze.
Things were more complicated than she thought.
She had thought that the Commandery Princess Shuanghua wanted to kill her, and bribed Zhen Zhu. She did not expect the Third Princess of Yun Nation to want her dead.
To make things worse, Su Nuan had no idea what had happened during her time in Yun Nation.
She pouted and frowned at Zhen Zhu.
It was fortunate that Feng Junyi didn’t kill her.
Zhen Zhu was the only palace maid that Su Nuan brought from Yun Nation. If she wanted to know what happened before, she had to find out through Zhen Zhu.
When he saw Su Nuan’s slow-witted expression, Feng Junyi could not help but remark, “It’s your family who wants to kill you. Those palace maids from before were in cahoots with them.”
Why is he telling me this?
Is he hinting that my family wanted to kill me, so I should be his Empress wholeheartedly?
Unbeknown to her, Feng Junyi was the one who spread rumors that the Empress’ dowry maid was executed and that her skin was left hanging in front of the palace.
He did this to make the Yun Nation give up on any further schemes to kill Su Nuan.
The two girls were murmuring in front of Feng Junyi, and they sounded like they were about to cry. He felt a headache coming on, so he flicked his sleeves and left.
After Feng Junyi had left, Su Nuan’s expression changed immediately. She looked at Zhen Zhu and asked sternly, “Zhen Zhu, do you know why the Third Princess wants to kill me?”
Zhen Zhu knew that she could not hide the truth anymore, so she told her everything.
The Third Princess had been jealous of Su Nuan’s beauty for a long time. She wanted her to die in a foreign land and had threatened Zhen Zhu with the lives of her family on the night before Su Nuan got married.
What a vicious Third Princess.
But Su Nuan knew that things were not that simple.
Su Nuan looked at Zhen Zhu and said, “You’re the only servant I have by my side. I’ll find a way to bring your family over secretly, but you have to do your best for me in the future. Otherwise, even if the Third Princess doesn’t kill your family, I’ll make their lives a living hell.”
She didn’t know what the original host used to be like. But, from the meat bun incident that Feng Junyi mentioned, she could tell that the host wasn’t a good person.
Hence, threatening Zhen Zhu might work.
As expected, Zhen Zhu immediately kowtowed and exclaimed, “Thank you, Your Majesty! I will do my best to serve you. As long as Your Majesty can save the lives of my family, I am willing to do anything!”
Seven days passed peacefully.
During these seven days, other than paying her respects to the Empress Dowager in the mornings and evenings, Su Nuan barely stepped out.
She spent her days eating and sleeping comfortably in her chambers.
Today, the Empress Dowager didn’t ask her to leave immediately after serving tea. Instead, she asked her to stay for a chat.
The others who also came to greet the Empress Dowager have left, leaving only her and the Empress Dowager behind.
The Empress Dowager stood dignified before the young girl. Although Su Nuan was 10 years old, she looked like she was only seven or eight years old.
Her hair bun seemed a little too heavy for her. Her head swayed under the weight of her hair accessories. Her skin was as tender as tofu. If it weren’t for what happened a few days ago, she would have been fond of the little girl.
However, she had tested the girl over the past few days. She was tight-lipped, lovely, innocent, and also well-behaved, never overstepping her boundaries. She came every day to serve tea and pay her respects. The Empress Dowager could not suppress the fondness for her in her heart.
Most importantly, she received a report that the Emperor had not killed anyone for seven days since the young Empress arrived.
Perhaps this little girl can cure my son’s violence?
As for Shuanghua, she was less mature than Su Nuan. She often caused trouble and gave the Empress Dowager a headache.
The Empress Dowager waved at Su Nuan. “Come here.”
Su Nuan didn’t know what the Empress Dowager was planning, but she sensed that the latter had been treating her better these days.
Since the Empress Dowager wanted her to go over, she did.
To her surprise, the Empress Dowager raised her hand above Su Nuan’s head and began removing her hairpins one by one. “I know that you have to be cautious of your appearance as the Empress, but you’re still young. It must be so tiring to walk around with so many hairpins on your head. Just come plainly in the future.”