That night, like frost, arrived at the palace gate and saw a small eunuch waiting there, who ran over to say that the Empress Dowager had summoned her. She was taken aback for a moment - the Empress Dowager? She hadn't done anything recently that would warrant a personal audience with the Empress Dowager, could it be that she had found out about a fool becoming clever and wanted to see her?

  Ye Zi Su, who came in the same carriage as her, looked at her with a jealous gaze: "Third sister should be careful, when facing the Empress Dowager, one must bring their heart. The Empress Dowager is famous for having a good temper, and usually doesn't scold anyone, if Ye Ru Shuang gains favor from the Empress Dowager, won't she become arrogant in the manor?"

  Ye Su'e was worried, in her opinion, Sanmei had never done anything good, and the Empress Dowager must have found her for no good reason. She asked the little eunuch: "Does the public know why the Empress Dowager wants to see Sanmei?" It can't be that she wants to see her without any reason?

  The little eunuch stiffened and smiled: "This is unknown to our family. Miss Ye San, you'd better hurry up, the Empress Dowager is still waiting!" The Empress Dowager asked Ye Ruxue to leave without deliberately hiding the reason. Everyone serving in the Cining Palace knew that it was because Ye Ruxue did not follow the "woman's way" and had a close relationship with Yun Wangye. She also had an engagement with the Second Prince. The Empress Dowager was dissatisfied with her, so naturally, the people below would not give Ye Ruxue face.

  Ye Wan looked at the little eunuch with a smile, pushing one of her maids forward. The maid quickly went up to the little eunuch and handed him a small pouch: "Since you can serve in Cining Palace, you must be no ordinary person. Tell me, who is currently paying their respects to Her Majesty?"

  The little eunuch saw the maid's attitude, then put down the lotus bag and glanced at her with a pretentious expression. "Now Cloud King, Lu Yang princess and Xia lady are all in Cining Palace, Night Three lady should hurry up." He didn't say this for any other reason, just because Cloud King had always been flirtatious, although he was romantic but also ruthless, and had entangled with women of special status before. As a result, the Empress Dowager spoke out and Cloud King immediately forgot about that woman?

  If it's really insisted on, the Empress Dowager will also give in. For example, when Cloud King's beloved courtesan, Jing Xueyao, passed away, didn't the Empress Dowager yield and allow her to enter the palace? Who knows whether this Third Miss Ye can make Cloud King insist or not?

  At night, like frost, she didn't know what the little eunuch was thinking, but seeing him sizing her up with such a 'lewd' gaze still made her feel displeased. This slave thought he was someone? Daring to look at her with eyes that appraised goods value! If it were in modern times, she would have shot him dead with one bullet!

  Moreover, the Empress Dowager suddenly found herself and was afraid of being inseparable from Xia Tianmeng! Humph, she knew that Xia Tianmeng was a cold 'goddess' on the outside, but couldn't tolerate her own variable! She knew that Nan Xi had asked her to admire flowers together, and couldn't tolerate her even more! However, this made Xia Tianmeng's jealousy even easier to break through! She would definitely make Nan Xi see Xia Tianmeng's true face!

  The little eunuch who had unknowingly walked the thin line between life and death slightly stretched out his hand to lead the way: "Miss Ye San, please." His voice was slender and for some reason made people feel a sense of sharpness.

  The young eunuch, Yun Wangye, who was known for his romantic and sentimental nature, was currently in the Cining Palace, passionately arguing on behalf of Ye Ruoshui: "Your Imperial Highness, you have no idea how genuine and emotional Ye Ruoshui is! If you were to meet her, I'm sure you would find her extraordinary as well!"

  The Empress Dowager glared at him with a dark face: "What do you call her? Ruxue? What is your relationship with her, and yet you dare to call out her private name? Do you know that she is still the fiancée of Xiao'er?! You and she are so close, everyone knows about it, where will Xiao'er put his face?"

  Princess Lu Yang was on the side, secretly laughing and whispering: "Right! No rules!"

  The Empress Dowager surprisingly did not blame her, but instead scolded Nan Yunxuan: "Look! Even a junior like him says you have no rules! It's clear that you are the one who has no rules! I don't ask you to be proper, but can't you find a decent woman? That Snow Yau from before was also tolerable, after all, being a concubine isn't something a respectable family like ours would do, so I pretended not to see it. But this one now?"

  Nan Yunxuan glared at Lu Yang princess who was making a face beside her, then reluctantly replied to the empress dowager: "Imperial Aunt, I and Ruye San Niangzi are kindred spirits! Her personality is carefree and suits me very well, unlike other girls. As for what you said about her identity, isn't she still not married to Xiao Er? Moreover, Xiao Er doesn't like her either..."

  "Bang!" The Empress Dowager, hearing him say this, felt uncontrollably angry and suddenly smashed the ceramic cup beside her to the ground. Seeing Nan Yunxuan standing stiffly, she pointed at him and scolded: "Is this something a prince like you can say? Not mentioning how Second Young Master treated Third Young Mistress, they were engaged by the late Emperor himself, do you have the right to call it off just because you said so?"

  Nan Yunxuan did not expect the Empress Dowager to be so furious, and he was stunned into silence. He knew that whatever he said now would be futile, but he still felt that he was in the right. Hadn't Ruo Shuang said before that a loveless union would only bring suffering to each other?

  Xiatian Meng, who had been sitting silently beside her, leaned over to the Empress Dowager and smiled: "What's wrong, Your Majesty? Didn't you say that Yun Wangye was 'unbridled' and lived a carefree life? Now saying that Yun Wangye is unrefined isn't blaming yourself for being too critical? These are all trivial matters of the younger generation. What you should be doing is waiting for them to show filial piety to you!"

  Nan Yunxuan finally looked at Xia Tianmeng with a straight gaze, wearing a white gauze skirt, sitting elegantly, and even now speaking with the Empress Dowager was very natural and intimate, without any shyness or fear of others. Her delicate face was full of obedient smiles, looking weak and beautiful.

  The Empress Dowager smiled and shook her head: "You're right, what's the point of my anger? It's all your business after all. But Sixth Brother, I really can't bear to see you like this... Your mother asked me to take good care of you before she passed away, and I haven't done a good enough job..." The still-beautiful face seemed to age several years in an instant, filled with helplessness.

  Nan Yunxuan suddenly remembered that when he was a child, his mother would also say this to him in a helpless tone whenever he didn't listen, and what couldn't be denied was her gentleness.

  I now feel very guilty, but he is currently very pleased with the night frost and really doesn't want to give up like this. He can only lower his head and admit his mistake: "Imperial Aunt, nephew was wrong." He also spent a long time in the palace when he was young, although the rules inside the palace are many and oppressive, but the Imperial Aunt is very kind to him.

  The empress dowager sighed and waved her hand, no longer speaking. She hoped that Old Six would think clearly for himself and not be infatuated with women anymore, truly growing up.

  In the summer, Meng looked at the empress dowager who was as close to her as a senior member of the royal family, but she thought of the original text where her ending was that her nephew and several beloved grandsons all "forced" her to abdicate, and her only son also took his own life in the Panlong Hall. The most noble woman of the Xia Dynasty chose to die by crashing into the incense hall while holding the spirit tablet of the former emperor.

  When he arrived at the incense temple in Nanqi, what he saw was a scene of fire that had been reduced to ashes.

  She would leave a stain on his future throne at all costs.

  The Fengxiandian is the place where the ancestral tablets of the emperors are placed, it is the place that guards the ancestors. Its destruction represents Heaven's punishment for the Southern Tang emperor's usurpation, and in the original text, Li Jing also made great efforts to do many good deeds before he could shake off the name of illegitimacy.

  "Empress Dowager, Third Miss Ye has arrived." A palace maid came in and knelt down to report, seeing the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, she buried her head even deeper. However, she knew that this time Third Miss Ye had come, it was likely to be a bad outcome. It's worth noting that Empress Dowager had always been good-tempered, rarely getting angry, but this time she actually lost her temper at Prince Yun.

  The Empress Dowager heard this and glanced at Nan Yunxuan, who was somewhat anxious, and said calmly: "Let her wait outside."

  "Empress Dowager!" Nan Yunxuan hastily spoke up, "You didn't want to see Miss Ye San, why not let her in?" If Ruo Shuang stood outside like this for just a moment, the entire palace would know that the Empress Dowager was dissatisfied with Miss Ye San!

  The Empress Dowager glanced at him and said: "I wanted to see her just now, but I don't want to anymore."

  Nan Yunxuan was speechless and had no words to respond with.

  Lu Yang princess found it very amusing, she had been bullied by this elder cousin since childhood, and now it's rare to see him like this! She couldn't help but tease him: "Elder cousin, every few months you get like this because of some beauty, is it interesting?" In her eyes, Ye Ru Xue was just another one of Nan Yun Xuan's conquests, just for novelty. After a long time, it didn't matter anymore.

  Nan Yunxuan glanced at her and didn't bother to respond.

  Princess Lu Yang suddenly gained momentum, if it weren't for the Empress Dowager by her side, she might have gone up to pat his shoulder. She changed her sitting posture and smiled: "However, brother, you're getting more and more particular about finding a 'woman'. Previously, it was Xiaojie Biyu, then it was a lowly-born famous courtesan, and now you've even set your sights on Xiao'er's fiancée! I'm curious to see what kind of person this Ye San Miss is, that you can't forget her?"

  In her heart, she looked down on him very much, but he was just a flirty 'girl' after all. Still in the boudoir, she was already associating with an outsider like this, and it's likely that she wasn't a good 'commodity' either.

  Thinking so, he couldn't help but glance at Xia Tianmeng, who had been smiling elegantly all along. Shouldn't men generally like girls like Xia Tianmeng?

  The Empress Dowager held the newly poured tea, took a sip, and only after a while said: "Let her come in." Just as Ruyang said, she also wanted to see what kind of stunning beauty Ye Ruoxue was that could make Liu Sixian so desperate.

  "The queen's maid servant greets Her Majesty the Empress Dowager."

  At night, like frost, she went in and knelt down in the middle of the hall, but in her heart, she felt very stifled. Let her kneel? It's better to consider it as kneeling for a dead person in advance!

  The empress dowager took a look at Ye Ruosheng, who was wearing a flowing blue dress with exquisite workmanship that accentuated her slender figure and made her look enchanting. However, the empress dowager couldn't help but feel displeased and said, "Lift your face up and let me take a look."

  Ye Ru Shuang directly lifted her face and stared at her, her dark eyes filled with silence.

  The empress dowager was taken aback by her direct gaze, and upon seeing her appearance again, she found it merely delicate, with eyes that were even colder. She couldn't help but furrow her brow: "Truly without any manners!"

  What status does she have, daring to gaze straight at the imperial countenance?