novelraw Chapter 600: The Arrogant Noble Consort Who Failed in the Succession Struggle (12)
Chapter 600: The Arrogant Noble Consort Who Failed in the Succession Struggle (12)
Ah, this...
This emperor, is he sick or something!
After a period of observation, the system couldn't help but mutter in its heart.
The original owner was always someone with a rather short memory. After the initial brief scare, once she saw that although the current emperor was still somewhat weak, he was indeed no longer in mortal danger, An Ning, this Imperial Noble Consort, quickly tossed everything to the back of her mind and completely reverted to her former ways.
Spoiled and overbearing? Sorry, not a single bit of that could be changed.
Especially with the support of the emperor's private treasury, she was decked out in gorgeous clothes and beautiful ornaments, gold, jade, silks, and satins every single day—it was truly a dazzling spectacle. Strutting around all day like a proud peacock, she still didn't even deign to glance at the assembled palace consorts or the Empress.
The crown prince's birth mother, oh, isn't that "Beauty" Qi?
The consorts: "..."
How utterly shameless!
Ah, this, this person, doesn't she have any sense of crisis at all?What to do, just looking at her makes one's teeth itch with annoyance.
Especially after this incident, perhaps because she felt she had nothing left to lose, the current emperor didn't even bother to hide it anymore.
If not for the awe-inspiring majesty of the emperor being difficult to defy, many of the consorts would have cursed in their hearts, "You shameless pair, get lost and stay far away!"
Finally, they would sigh with regret:
Beauty Qi, oh Beauty Qi, why couldn't you have just endured it back then!
However, after this ordeal, most people in the current harem have lost their fighting spirit anyway.
If His Majesty could be angered back to life for love, and now pays absolutely no attention to anyone else, why should they, these people, insist on forcing their way in? To play the fool for them?
Aside from a few exceptionally ambitious and unwilling individuals, nowadays, when everyone gets together, they drink tea if they want to drink tea, play with their children if they want to play. After all, the current emperor doesn't have many consorts, and they aren't shortchanged in terms of treatment.
At worst, they could just consider that His Majesty had unfortunately passed away that time!
Many people secretly thought to themselves.
Especially when thinking this way, compared to scraping by under the ruthless and patient Beauty Qi, with the Imperial Noble Consort's crying fit, to some extent, they had actually come out ahead now.
At the very least, aside from the Imperial Noble Consort, the current emperor wasn't excessively biased towards his various children. The Grand Tutors at the Literary Abyss Study were still meticulously selected and quite dedicated.
Thinking this, everyone's hearts eventually felt a bit more at ease.
Forget it, out of sight, out of mind!
"This emperor, could it be he has some kind of problem?"
Witnessing with its own eyes its host once again leaving the man to the side, engrossed in admiring her own reflection with a newly changed vermilion hairpin, the system voiced its confusion once more.
Why does it feel like the more its host coughs...
The more this one loves her! It had thought that after the previous incident, its host would have taken the opportunity to change somewhat, to make this one dote on and favor her even more.
"Do not doubt it, what he loves is precisely this type!"
Before the dressing table, happily admiring the vibrant, radiant beauty in the mirror whose eyes sparkled with life, An Ning couldn't help but remark with a touch of appreciation.
Admittedly, for the original owner to have reached her position today, being a great beauty and physiologically appealing was a necessity. Otherwise, the original owner back then wouldn't have attained the rank of Consort within less than a year upon first becoming pregnant, and within two years, become the Imperial Noble Consort, second only to one person in the palace.
But an emperor is never short of beauties of all kinds. Over a decade of being treasured like pearls and jewels, bordering on exclusive favor, could never be summed up by mere physiological attraction.
Even if not particularly intelligent, in An Ning's view, the original owner was, from start to finish, a person with an extremely strong sense of self.
If her love for parents and children was one part, cough, make that half a part, then her love for herself was twelve parts and still not enough.
Moreover, she naturally possessed an extremely high sense of deservingness. When first entering the palace to attend the emperor, even facing the supreme ruler of the land, she had to check his face first, cough... and his physique.
Fortunately, the current emperor's looks were passable.
Otherwise, in the original owner's view, even if he were the emperor, he would simply be utterly unworthy of her own flower-like beauty and moon-like grace, with not a single flaw!
What, she also had flaws?
Impossible! She was so beautiful, so clever and quick-witted, how could she have flaws? As for background, what did that matter!
"Cough!" Playing with the newly presented ruby jade hairpin in her hand, within her spiritual sea, An Ning couldn't help but give a light cough, her voice carrying a barely perceptible hint of laughter:
"In short, the original owner's domineering and spoiled nature was never something nurtured by the current emperor; it was inherent to her from the start."
But as for the current emperor, although a prince and the eldest son upon whom great hopes were placed, above him was a strict, frequently disapproving Imperial Father, below him a bunch of troublesome, covetous brothers, and his only ally, his birth mother, was quite power-hungry and extremely worrisome.
In such an environment, self-restraint and the instinct to ponder and guard against matters had become second nature.
People probably, to a greater or lesser extent, spend their lives yearning for things difficult to obtain!
An Ning couldn't help but sigh:
"Moreover, unlike others who show care and consideration in everything, wishing they could lay their hearts before you, professing affections of unknown sincerity.
Even a tiny bit was sincere, precious, and belonged solely to him as a person.
Not to mention she was such a bright, dazzling, great beauty!
Honestly, although the original owner's personality seemed truly shameless to others, she herself really liked it.
And soon, An Ning would learn exactly how this personality of the original owner was formed.
Several days later, Luan Yi Palace
"Wuwuwu, daughter, I heard everything from outside, our Yueyue has suffered! Look, she's even lost weight."
As soon as he entered the door, an eight-foot-tall, strikingly handsome man let out a loud, wailing cry.
And this voice was so resounding...
Looking at the original owner's biological father before her, eyes red-rimmed and tears uncontrollable, then glancing at the original owner's mother beside him, equally worried but now wearing an expression of utter helplessness and speechlessness.
An Ning: "..."
At the same time, Hall of Diligent Governance
Having received the news and having gone through the people around his beloved consort one by one, yet failing to find even one or two who could be entrusted.
Before the desk, Xiao Qi also couldn't help but rub his temples.
He rubbed the large half of the tiger tally in his hand a few times, then slowly put it back.
Leaving aside matters of the state, with A-Yue's temperament, if this thing were truly handed over to her, it would likely bring disaster rather than fortune.