Yun Shuyan looked at her with resentment, “I didn’t expect that my sister still cared about me, I thought… that no one in this world cared about me anymore.”

She put on a full performance, her black and watery eyes were filled with tears, she looked at He Fei with deep affection.

He Fei didn’t expect her to do this, she felt a little scared and took a step back, she really… wasn’t normal.

“Sister, can you talk to the emperor for me? I know I was wrong, this cold palace is cold and haunted, and there’s no food. I… I really can’t stand it…”

Yun Shuyan finished speaking with deep emotion, looking at He Fei with anticipation.

He Fei: “…” Goosebumps rose all over her body, especially the coldness that kept coming from all directions, it scared her so much that she took two steps back, her legs feeling weak.

Not only He Fei, but the maids and eunuchs beside her also shivered involuntarily.

“I… I still have things to do.”

He Fei couldn’t stand the coldness here, she turned and left with a look of fear.

Yun Shuyan pressed on, continuing to wail towards her back, “Sister, don’t abandon your sister, sister…”

Listening to Yun Shuyan’s mournful and plaintive voice, He Fei was so scared that she walked faster and faster, she couldn’t even maintain her image, she wouldn’t dare to come to this broken place again.

Yun Shuyan successfully scared her away, she turned her head and met her beautiful neighbor’s gaze.

She immediately smiled at him and waved, without any embarrassment that her acting had been exposed.

Qi Posheng indifferently looked away, ignoring her.

Yun Shuyan gradually got used to her beautiful neighbor’s “cold face, warm heart,” she leisurely sat back on the pillar and waited for nightfall.

Before the original owner was thrown into the cold palace, she had been constantly fighting with He Fei, Li Fei, and a few others. If the original owner hadn’t moved against the female lead, they might have lived in peace.

Although there were conflicts between the male lead and the female lead, how could the male lead allow anyone to move against his childhood sweetheart? Sure enough, with a plan within a plan, he eliminated the original owner and the potential threat to the emperor, that is, the people from the general’s mansion.

Although he didn’t directly take the lives of the people from the general’s mansion, being exiled to the frontier wasn’t much different from being killed.

Yun Shuyan sighed, her situation wasn’t much better either, she could only live one day at a time.

As soon as night fell, Yun Shuyan quietly snuck out to catch fish. This time, she caught two fish back. It was autumn now, and when winter came, this place would snow. Not to mention the lake surface would freeze, in such a cold winter, she wouldn’t be able to leave the palace with her cold-weather clothes, except to hide under the quilts.

In such cold weather, even the eunuch who delivered the steamed buns wouldn’t dare to set foot in the cold palace, who knew if there would be any steamed buns to eat.

To see the spring when the flowers bloomed, she had to stock up on enough food for the winter. As long as she had enough food, she wouldn’t have to go out of the palace as often, and there would be no risk of frostbite.

Now, she caught two fish every day, ate one, and made the other one into dried fish, until she had enough dried fish to last through the winter.

That night, her beautiful neighbor didn’t appear again. Yun Shuyan used stones to build a pile, and made a fire in the middle of the pile.

She stuck the branch with the fish on it in the crack of the stones and waited for it to slowly roast. She washed the fishy smell off her hands and went to the small kitchen to get the iron pot and wash it by the well.

Once the fish was roasted, she would put the pot on top of the fire and boil water. She hadn’t bathed in days, although she wiped her body clean every night, it still felt uncomfortable.

She spent the whole night fussing, and finally took a hot bath, she slept much better.

These relatively easy days passed in a blink of an eye, more than half a month had gone by.

Tomorrow was the Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yun Shuyan didn’t know this originally, but the festive atmosphere in the palace was so grand that even she in the cold palace could feel it.

She asked her beautiful neighbor and found out that it was the Moon Festival.

But no matter how lively it was, it had nothing to do with her in the cold palace.

That’s what Yun Shuyan thought, but the unexpected still happened, the people who wanted to kill her hadn’t given up.

On the day of the Moon Festival, early in the morning, the eunuch came to the cold palace with people, his head held high, his contempt was obvious, he didn’t even look at her directly.

“By the emperor’s decree, Empress Yun, you may go to the banquet today.”

Two maids placed the clothes and jewelry they were carrying in her palace.

“I thank the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live the emperor.”

Yun Shuyan was stunned, but she still remained calm on the surface. She knew that this banquet wouldn’t have anything good waiting for her.

Sure enough, the eunuch told her to thank Empress Li, to cherish this hard-won opportunity.

“Empress Yun, you really have to thank Empress Li this time. If it weren’t for her, you wouldn’t be able to attend this Moon Festival banquet.”

How could Yun Shuyan not know that Empress Li was up to no good? Her being thrown into the cold palace wasn’t enough to appease her hatred, she probably wanted to completely eliminate her.

Since the emperor had issued a decree, she had to go.

“Thank you, Eunuch Liu. I’m in a precarious situation now, even food and clothing are a problem, I really don’t know how to repay Empress Li.”

Yun Shuyan’s words aroused a glimmer of pity in Eunuch Liu’s heart, he finally deigned to look at her.

Eunuch Liu glanced at the desolate and windy cold palace, he really didn’t expect Empress Yun to be alive until now, she looked… quite good.

“Don’t worry about Empress Li for now, you have to seize this opportunity at the banquet.”

Although Eunuch Liu spoke beautifully, he knew in his heart that Empress Yun had no chance of turning things around, the cold palace was her destiny.

Yun Shuyan, of course, knew he was being polite. Not to mention that she had touched the male lead’s “bottom line,” just the incident with the general’s mansion, she was destined to be a companion to the cold palace for the rest of her life, no matter what, the male lead wouldn’t let her out of the cold palace.

“Thank you, Eunuch Liu.”

Yun Shuyan’s attitude was neither cold nor distant, Eunuch Liu looked at her with a little more respect, it was rare for her to be able to face reality.

She quickly entered the palace and changed into new clothes. The maids combed her hair into a flying cloud bun, her originally plain and beautiful appearance became gorgeous and bright, her graceful beauty made people stunned.