After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 204

204~ Got It!~

"Your Majesty, can't you sleep?"

"Mm."

The Empress stood alone on the room's balcony. It was only when Ling returned to report after completing the Empress's orders that she saw the Empress spacing out here alone.

"Is it about Princess Mo?"

"Mm."

Ling was her most trusted confidant. Showing some of her feelings in front of Ling was no problem.

"Your Majesty, I feel that before you want Princess Mo to open her heart to you, you should first give your heart to Princess Mo."

"Give my heart to Mo?"

She didn't quite understand Ling's meaning.

"What I mean is, if Your Majesty wants Princess Mo to treat you sincerely, you should first open your own heart to Princess Mo."

"Must it be this way?"

"From spending so much time together, you should also know that Princess Mo is very sensitive to emotions."

"Mm."

Of course she knew this point...

"Since Your Majesty understands, then Your Majesty should be clear on what you ought to do."

"..."

After the two finished talking, Ling briefly repeated the results to the Empress, then returned to her own room. The Empress continued thinking on the balcony.

Regarding what the Empress planned to do, she could only offer corresponding suggestions. Whether it would be taken to heart still depended on the Empress herself.

"Ling?"

"What is it?"

The Maid Ling was slightly stunned when entering the door.

Xiyan was hung up in the corridor before the door. Red Leaf held a whip in her hands, continuously lashing Xiyan.

And the lashed Xiyan was forcibly holding back her tears from falling, letting Red Leaf continue lashing her.

This bizarre scene truly left her somewhat baffled.

"What did Xiyan do that requires such punishment?"

"Well, it was requested by Her Majesty the Empress, to properly punish Xiyan. This girl privately followed Princess Mo outside, hiding it from Her Majesty the Empress."

"Then she indeed deserves punishment."

Hiding from the Empress and privately following Princess Mo outside, if it weren't Xiyan, she would probably be directly expelled from the Scarlet Maid Corps. There absolutely wouldn't be any punishment left.

After the Maid Ling observed for a while, she returned to her own room, while the whipping sounds outside the door continued ringing out.

......

......

"Mm?"

After waking up, the little Princess twisted her body and rubbed the Empress's chest with her face.

"Hm?"

After getting up and scratching her head, she suddenly remembered what happened last night. She had gotten so tired in the Empress's arms that she fell asleep...

There was no help for it. Last night she was truly too tired. Add to that her body fundamentally couldn't withstand much torment, so falling asleep in the Empress's arms wasn't anything strange.

"Fei?"

After suddenly discovering the Empress beside her still showed no signs of waking, the little Princess reached out to pinch the Empress's face.

Seeing there was still no reaction, she slowly struggled free from the Empress's embrace and got out of bed, preparing to find something to eat.

As for the Empress, if she could avoid waking her, then better not wake her. If she woke her up later, she might get worked over again.

"Xiyan? Xiyan? Red Leaf? Ling?"

After she called out several times in succession, Ling was still the first to appear before her.

"Princess Mo."

"Ling? Where's Xiyan?"

"Xiyan is still sleeping."

Strange. By normal logic, at a time like this when the sun was already high in the sky, Xiyan should have gotten up early to make breakfast.

"If Princess Mo is hungry, I can prepare breakfast for you. Xiyan probably won't wake until noon."

If she remembered correctly, last night Red Leaf hung Xiyan up for punishment until the middle of the night and still hadn't finished. She definitely couldn't get up this morning.

"Fine then."

Anyway, the breakfast the Maid Ling made was also quite good.

But what still puzzled her was why both the Empress and Xiyan couldn't get out of bed today?

After quickly preparing breakfast for the little Princess, the Maid Ling set all the breakfast on the dining table but didn't prepare bowls and chopsticks for the Empress.

"Eat, Princess Mo. I still have some matters, so I'll take my leave temporarily. After you finish eating, just leave the bowls and chopsticks on the table. I'll have other maids come clean up."

"Oh, okay."

The little Princess nodded.

"Whew..."

Probably really bored out of her mind, the little Princess came to the place where the Empress usually reviewed memorials and looked through some documents on the desk.

Things like sending orders to Glaze Nation, ordering how many pieces of equipment, what cooperations had been reached, and such were piled on the desk in abundance.

Continuing to flip through, she found the details of when Scarlet Phoenix Nation fought with the Eighteen Alliance Nations. At that time, she was in Glaze Nation's Imperial Palace and didn't pay much attention to the battlefield, so many details were unknown to her.

Just right, she was bored now. She could look at details about the battlefield at that time to pass some time.

......

"Your Majesty the Empress!"

As the door was pushed open, a somewhat unfamiliar-faced maid entered and knelt on one knee.

"Princess Mo."

"Mm?"

The little Princess, who was reading with great interest, put down the notebook in her hands and looked with some confusion at this maid kneeling on one knee before the office desk.

"Excuse me, Princess Mo, is Her Majesty the Empress here? I have urgent matters to report to Her Majesty the Empress."

"Looking for Fei? Fei is still sleeping. Whatever it is, you should come back this afternoon."

She was certain the Empress also wouldn't wake up so quickly. Otherwise, she would have already woken during those few pinches to her face earlier and been thinking about how to bully her.

"Her Majesty the Empress hasn't woken yet?"

The maid was somewhat surprised.

In her understanding, apart from after establishing the little Princess as Imperial Consort when she didn't leave the bedchamber for several days straight, and also during vacation periods, she had never been absent.

She looked at the little Princess thoughtfully.

So that's how it is! She got it!

Her Majesty the Empress was also a person. Since she was a person, she inevitably had emotions and desires. Her Majesty the Empress must have suppressed herself for too long from working for a long time, so last night she couldn't hold back and something happened with Princess Mo, causing her to be unable to get up today!

As for why Princess Mo woke earlier than the Empress? That was of course because the passive party didn't need to exert any effort at all! She just needed to obediently lie flat and enjoy!

"I understand now. If that's the case, please rest well, Princess Mo."

Even if she didn't exert effort, her body would definitely still be tired. After all, even for the passive party in this kind of thing, she would definitely still be tired.

Immediately after, she placed a letter on the desk, bowed to the little Princess again, then left, leaving behind a completely bewildered little Princess.

Mo: "???"

Wait, what exactly did you suddenly understand??

She felt that maid had thought of something in some strange direction.

Forget it. Rather than dwelling on these things, why not look at the contents of this letter?

But was it really okay for her to open it? What if the Empress used this as an excuse to "punish" her again?

After thinking it over multiple times, the little Princess placed this letter in the corner and continued picking up the notebook recording battlefield details, forcing herself not to be curious about what was inside...