LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 91 - A Dejected Prince with a Cold Outside and Tender Inside (47)
Chapter 91: A Dejected Prince with a Cold Outside and Tender Inside (47)
Translator: asassin
The next day, Ah Zhao and Zhao Yin go to pay their respects to Emperor Huizong together.
Emperor Huizong is clearly in a good mood and grants them a big reward.
At the moment there isn’t an empress in the palace. There was Noble Consort He who was in charge of the imperial harem before what happened to Prince Fu therefore the two of them don’t have to pay anyone else a visit after they get out of the Palace of Heaven and Earth.
They go straight back to Eastern Palace.
It’s still early.
Zhao Yin is planning to enjoy a sweet private time with his Ah Zhao when someone reports that Consort He arrives.
After all Prince Fu was entitled prince and Emperor Huizong has spared him. Noble Consort He was demoted to Consort He and she’ll go to Prince Xinan’s fief with him.
Both Ah Zhao and Zhao Yin have some ideas about why she’s here.
Zhao Yin doesn’t want to see her: “Tell her, the princess and I are having a rest.”
The servant tells Consort He exactly what Zhao Yin has said.
Consort He has aged a lot because of worry.
She doesn’t say anything in particular after hearing what the servant has said, only smiling mildly: “Since I have nothing else to attend to, I’ll wait for His Highness and Her Highness to see me when they have the time.”
Hearing her replay, Zhao Yin sighs: “My aunt is really something. It’s a pity that my second brother hasn’t inherited that from her.”
This is a disguised sarcasm of what a fool Prince Fu is.
Ah Zhao bursts out laughing.
Zhao Yin reaches out and strokes her head: “Ah Zhao, would you like to make ink for me?”
Ah Zhao asks: “Are you not going to check on her?”
Zhao Yin says with indifference: “Since we are having a rest, naturally we’ll see the guest after a good rest.”
Nearly two hours has passed. The crown prince and princess who have rested arrive slowly.
The cup in front of Consort He has been refilled three times, however, there is no impatience on her face.
Seeing that Zhao Yin and Ah Zhao arrive, she says with all sincerity: “Your Highness, wish you both good health.”
Zhao Yin’s eyes stop on her face for a second before he gives a smile: “Consort He, you are too polite. What do you want to see me for?”
Consort He smiles: “I just want to congratulate Your Highness. If my sister could see how you are today, she would be very happy.”
The sister she has said is naturally Zhao Yin’s birth mother, Lady Wang, who passed away a long time ago.
Zhao Yin knows what she’s playing at as soon as Consort He opens her mouth.
The card of family.
What a pity. He doesn’t want to play along.
He says indifferently: “Father has ordered to confer my mother a posthumous title of Empress of Kindness and Filial Piety. Consort He, you should call her Her Majesty.”
Consort He’s face turns stiff.
She does have hatred in her.
She has been after that position for decades and it never occurs to her that in the end her sister who died a long time ago could get it so easily.
How could she live with that?
However, she doesn’t have a choice since she wants something from him.
Consort He manages a smile. Out of everyone’s expectation, she stands up and gets down on her knees before Zhao Yin.
“Your Highness, I know I haven’t been good to you but Prince Fu is your brother by blood. Do you have the heart to see him being sent to such a barbarian place like the south-west by His Majesty?”
“Call me shameless but please plead to His Majesty and help my son since I come from the same family as your mother.”
She’s in plain clothes today with simple makeup. There’s no trace of the once respected and beautiful Noble Consort He in her. What a pity.
It actually lets others want to come to her aid.
But Zhao Yin only feels irritated.
He has seen too much of this woman’s multiple masks.