C13 She Was Useful to Me

The rain had not yet stopped, and there was a chill in his eyes through the thin curtain of rain.

"Chenqie..."

Before Yun Zhiyu could finish her words, she was forcefully embraced by the dampness.

"Your Majesty?!"

"Are you afraid of me?" He frowned and his eyes were sharp, "You weren't like this before. Didn't the Empress like to pester me?"

When the others saw this, other than the little eunuch who was holding an umbrella for them, everyone else lowered their gazes and stepped back without saying a word.

The water in his eyes seemed to be filled with tenderness.

Chi Hongze gently lifted her face and gently caressed her slightly cold face with his warm fingertips.

"What? Does the Empress not like to be intimate with me now?"

Memories of the past flooded her mind. Indeed, she used to like his intimacy the most. She liked everything about him, his face, his voice, his light and heavy caresses.

However, when she thought about it now, there was only endless desolation and shame that she couldn't get rid of!

Yun Zhiyu let out a light breath. Her clear black and white eyes seemed to be cleaner than the rain that filled the sky.

"The Emperor is worrying too much. I am just afraid of the cold, so I want to go back as soon as possible."

"Is it cold in my arms?"

He held her tighter and rubbed her back with his palm, as if he wanted to rub her into his body.

Yun Zhiyu suddenly wanted to laugh. If it was the past her, she would have been overjoyed by now.

But this love, this love, all of it was fake!

Yun Zhiyu clenched her fists, trying her best not to let her heart be filled with humiliation.

However, Chi Hongze did not make up his mind at all. He gently rubbed the tip of his nose on her smooth forehead and narrowed his eyes, as if he wanted to smell her scent in his heart.

She instinctively wanted to dodge, but his arms were tightly restraining her, making her unable to move.

He leaned close to her face and rubbed his ears. His deep voice could make one's heart itch, "Is the Empress' cold better now?"

Yun Zhiyu's body became stiffer and stiffer. She could only use all her strength to make her face look a little more natural. "It's... It's not good yet."

A trace of fear emerged from the bottom of her heart. She had longed for his intimacy, and now she was afraid of his ambiguity!

Just as she was racking her brain for a way to escape, the big hand holding her loosened its grip.

"In that case, the Empress should go back quickly and have a good rest."

He let her go just like that? Yun Zhiyu's heart was filled with joy, and her tense body immediately relaxed.

As he watched Yun Zhiyu leave, the smile in Chi Hongze's eyes gradually dissipated. "Do you think the Empress is a little different from before?"

The eunuch holding the umbrella was at a loss. "This servant can't tell what's different about the Empress?"

"Don't you think she was a little panicked just now?"

"This servant... really can't tell."

The corner of Chi Hongze's mouth curled up, but there was not a trace of a smile in his eyes. Without saying a word, he turned around and left.

After returning to Phoenix Palace, Yun Zhiyu drank half a bowl of ginger tea before she felt some warmth return to her body.

Lianye rebuked: "Your Ladyship's body is weak, yet you insist on rushing in the rain to save some Worthy Lady Lan. What if she gets cold?"

Yun Zhiyu shook her head with a bitter smile.

It was not because of the cold weather. She clearly felt the biting cold because of that man.

After drinking a few more mouthfuls of ginger tea, Yun Zhiyu said, "I did not save Worthy Lady Lan for no reason."

"She is a useful and reliable person," Yun Zhiyu said lightly.

Based on Worthy Lady Lan's personality, she would definitely be grateful to him for saving her and be extremely close to him.

Right now, in this palace, she did not seek to be pampered in the harem. All she wanted was to keep herself safe and live a steady life. To be able to rope in an ally with an upright personality and skilled in medicine was undoubtedly the best plan.

However... there was one thing she didn't understand.

Although Noble Consort Hui was domineering, she wouldn't frame Worthy Lady Lan for no reason.

There was only one possibility, and that was what Worthy Lady Lan had done, or what she knew that made her so anxious to silence Worthy Lady Lan!