The next day, Duan Changchuan woke up in his warm bed. Bai Su hugged him, and he curled up in her arms.

After so many involuntary acts of climbing into bed, he was now completely desensitized. He immediately climbed out of bed without changing expression and went to court.

Yesterday’s thrilling news of the marriage between the eldest son of the regent and the first daughter of the prime minister’s residence had spread like wildfire in just one night.

When Duan Changchuan and Chang Le were taking a walk in the courtyard, they could hear the servants discuss it.

“Have you heard it? Miss Jinzhi of the Bai family and the young master of the regent’s family got engaged at the Flower Appreciation Gathering yesterday.”

“How can I haven’t heard it, everyone in the imperial harem is talking about it!”

“Sigh … Speaking of which, our emperor is quite pitiful …”

“How can the people above be pitiful? No matter how much they are bullied, they still live a life of luxury. Let’s pity ourselves first. If such a day really comes, who knows what will happen to us.”

“Eh, why are you so careless with your words? Be careful with your words! Be careful, disaster comes from the mouth.”

“Isn’t it just the two of us? That’s why I said it … No one will hear it.”

Duan Changchuan, who had just walked to the rockery, felt tired and wanted to find a secluded place to rest, “…”

For a moment, he didn’t move.

He couldn’t leave, but he couldn’t stay either …

Chang Le, who was following behind him, saw that he didn’t look good and thought he was angry. She immediately stepped forward and scolded sternly, “Which palace serves you two? Who is the aunt responsible for you? Didn’t she teach you the rules? Is the matter of the emperor something you can interfere with?”

Two servants, one male and one female, immediately scrambled out from behind the rockery.

“This … this servant deserves to die! We didn’t know Le Gonggong was here …”

When they looked up again, they saw a person standing not far away, dressed in bright yellow. They were scared out of their wits.

“Your … Your Majesty?! Your Majesty, please spare us! This servant won’t dare to do it again! Your Majesty, please spare us …”

Then, they started to slap themselves.

The sound of slapping entered his ears … Duan Changchuan frowned and stared blankly …

For some reason, a dignified figure suddenly flashed before his eyes.

It was a man with gold-rimmed glasses and a white shirt. He was sitting on a long, soft couch with a beautiful long-haired cat in his arms.

“Ah Chuan, what did Dad tell you? Granny Chen was in charge of cleaning and cooking in our house. This was her job, just like Dad had to go out to work. If Dad was beaten up when he went out to work, do you think it’s right?”

In his mind, a clear and tender voice cried out, “Daddy can’t be beaten by others … Daddy don’t be beaten by others …”

“Then does Granny Chen deserve to be beaten?”

“Granny shouldn’t have too … Wu …”

The man’s expression finally eased a little. He tilted his chin to the side and said, “Go and apologize to the granny.”

Then, a woman in an apron suddenly entered the scene.

“Aiyo, Master Shi, this isn’t a big deal. Please don’t make things difficult for the child. Young Master didn’t do it on purpose.”

“Auntie Chen, don’t feel bad. Let him apologize.”

The child cried until he was out of breath, “Granny … I was wrong, I’m sorry … Wu, I won’t beat granny anymore, wu …”

“Aye, aye … Okay, okay, don’t cry. Granny forgive Young Master.”

“Wu, Daddy …”

The child’s voice was still crying. The man sitting on the sofa finally revealed a faint smile. His palm landed on the child’s head.

“Okay, you know you’re wrong. You won’t do it again, right?” His voice was gentle and pleasant to the ears …

Duan Changchuan even felt that a pair of delicate and beautiful hands were gently stroking his hair.

The scene in front of him gradually disappeared … The teenager blinked and looked at the familiar rockery and garden in front of him.

His chest suddenly tightened, and he felt a burst of sour pain.

Who is that? Where did he go … Will I meet him again?

As he was thinking, the attendants behind him greeted in unison, “Long live the Empress Dowager.”

Turning around, he saw a woman in luxurious clothes walking over with elegant steps. Extremely dignified … Dignified, like a mannequin.

“My son, I went to Ming Sheng Hall to look for you. Yi Man said that you and Chang Le came to the small garden, so I came to find you.”

After she finished speaking, she didn’t wait for Duan Changchuan to respond. She pulled his sleeve and led him back, “Come back with me. I have something to say to you.”

When she left, she saw the two servants kneeling below. She glanced at them and coldly ordered, “Send them to Ye Ting. Just follow the rules. Why are you wasting time here? Wailing like ghosts and howling like wolves, hindering my eyes and the emperor’s.”

When the two servants heard that they were going to Ye Ting, they cried even louder.

Once again, they were stopped, “If they cry again, then pull out their tongues.”

Suddenly, the whole garden quieted down.

Duan Changchuan followed behind the Empress Dowager. He couldn’t help but look back and see that the two servants had been dragged away. One of them looked at them with eyes full of hatred.

“My son.” The Empress Dowager saw that he didn’t move and turned back to call.

Duan Changchuan suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and followed.

–

The two of them returned to Ming Sheng Hall one after the other.

At this time, Bai Su had probably gone to the training field to learn riding and archery. The hall was quiet, but the fragrance of peony spread to every corner.

She was clearly not there, but she was everywhere.

Duan Changchuan smelled the comfort of the pheromone, and the stifling mood in his chest finally improved.

He sat down on the couch and asked, “Mother, why did you look for me in such a hurry?”

The Empress Dowager dismissed everyone and went straight to the point, “I already know about the engagement between Bai Jinzhi and the Duan family’s son. I don’t know how my son plans to deal with it … These days, you’ve been getting along well with the Bai family’s eldest daughter. My heart is relieved.”

“When Bai Su married into the palace in Jinzhi’s place, I already knew that Prime Minister Bai had chosen your imperial uncle. You should follow them and be obedient … What they want is imperial power. As long as they have this power, they don’t need the title.”

The woman asked for Duan Changchuan’s opinion, but she began to talk at length.

In the end, it was still the same old cliché, don’t disobey your imperial uncle. As long as you are obedient enough, and give him enough power, he won’t do anything to you.

Duan Changchuan found it ridiculous every time he heard it.

Is it possible that when there are mosquitoes in the house during summer, the best way is to let them go and wait for the mosquitoes to be fed?

On the other side, his mother was still tirelessly analyzing, “But I always feel that this is not very safe … Your imperial uncle is not the kind of person who is particularly cruel and merciless, unlike the prime minister. She’s his own daughter and he spoils her too much.”

Then she changed the topic to Duan Qinxue and asked him, “Qinxue, this little girl, I think that she is very good. She grew up in the Northwest military camp, has a straightforward personality, and is also beautiful. My son, why don’t you get to know her more?”

“If you can hook Qinxue’s heart, make her dead set on you, and only marry you, not only will your throne be stable, but the marriage alliance between Prime Minister Bai and your Imperial Uncle will also be destroyed.”

Hearing this, Duan Changchuan understood, no wonder she was in such a hurry to come over, she wanted to sell her son.

The funny thing was that the day before yesterday at the Flower Appreciation Gathering, they had mocked Prime Minister Bai for being greedy and worse than a beast. For the sake of politics, he didn’t even let go of his own daughter.

Who would have thought that just two days later, the exact same thing would happen to him?

“Mother, do you think that I, the emperor, need to rely on a woman to sit on the throne?”

He asked, “Do you think I have to rely on a woman to sit on the throne as a puppet regent?”

He was asked matter-of-factly, “Isn’t that so?”

She said, “I have already said that you are not cut out to be the emperor. You are not as brave and resourceful as your imperial father. Your imperial uncle is so powerful, and he has eaten more salt than you for more than ten years. You simply can’t compete for this position. After so many years, you have already fought for it. Don’t you see it clearly?”

Duan Changchuan looked at the person in front of him and suddenly felt very unfamiliar.

He pressed down the straight corners of his mouth, trying to control his voice, and asked, “After so many years of fighting for such a long time and didn’t get anything. Isn’t there even the slightest reason from Mother behind this?”

The Empress Dowager seemed to have heard something incredible. She stared at him in astonishment, “Me? Isn’t it you and your imperial uncle who have been fighting? You can’t win, so why do you blame me? All these years, if I hadn’t helped you and eased the relationship between you and your imperial uncle, I would have been implicated by you sooner or later.”

She said it so matter-of-factly … She even claimed great credit. She felt that she was great, and their lives were saved by her alone.

Duan Changchuan had countless words to refute in his heart …

Wasn’t it because you were wholeheartedly loyal to the Regent that Uncle took up the responsibility to go to the border?

Wasn’t Zhao Chengfu, the most capable chief steward that Imperial Father left to me, exhausted his energy and died because he was alone in the depths of the palace and didn’t have anyone to take care of him?

There were so many people by my side, and they all left one by one. In the end, she only said one sentence, “If I hadn’t helped you, I would have been implicated by you sooner or later” …?

These countless words were stuck in his throat and choked in his chest … He had held it in for more than ten years, and he had also endured it for more than ten years.

He had always wanted to vent it out to her.

But today, he suddenly felt very tired … It would be a waste of breath to say even one more word to her.

The young man’s lips curled into a forced smile, and he responded in a low and hoarse voice, “I understand what Mother said. Would Imperial Mother please go back?”

He didn’t care whether she agreed or not. She directly called for Chang Le, who was standing at the door, and said, “Send the Empress Dowager back.”

He didn’t say another word.

–

After the Empress Dowager left, the young man sat alone in the study, quietly passing a long time.

The pheromone left behind by Alpha before he left enveloped him and soaked into his skin, making him feel soft and comfortable …. Like lying on a cloud, it’s exceptionally comfortable. Even the abdominal pain of the past two days has subsided a lot.

Quite a long time had passed since the two exchanged vows in the icy snow and became husband and wife.

Winter has gone and spring has come …. In a flash, the willow catkins have all fallen.

Blinking his eyes, the teenager walked to the window and let the wind blow over, bringing with it a burst of floral fragrance.

The past few days had been too comfortable for him, and he had forgotten that every bit of contact he had with Bai Su was being watched by outsiders, magnified countless times, and carefully studied.

Duan Changchuan couldn’t help but sneer in his heart, from the first time he walked into the Qing Lu Palace, the empress dowager probably had been paying attention since then.

Not only the empress dowager but also the Regent, Bai Yan Yuan …. The palace’s servants, the patrolling guards, and countless pairs of eyes are secretly watching. Watching him seize power, watching his marriage, watching him marry a wife, watching him consummate his marriage.

In the future, they will also watch him have children.

Disgusting.

Too disgusting …

At the thought of this, Duan Changchuan only felt nausea hit him.

Slowly squatting on the ground, he began to retch.

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty, what’s wrong with you!” Chang Le was shocked and hurriedly came over to support him. “Your Majesty, you … Why did you suddenly vomit?”

The teenager’s face was pale with uncomfortable tears hanging from the corner of his eyes. Weakly shaking his head, “It’s nothing, it’s just disgusted by some people.”

The little eunuch hurriedly tried to soothe him. As soon as the empress dowager left, His Majesty vomited. It’s not hard to guess what’s going on.

“Don’t torment yourself like this, this servant feels uncomfortable … Two days ago, Your Majesty was supported back by Her Highness, saying that you were sick … But now, you are so angry that you vomited. Imperial Physician Fang asked for leave to look for his master. In the entire Imperial Physician Courtyard, there is only a little child like Sheng Yusheng that can be trusted … This servant’s heart is always nervous, unable to settle down.”

Supported by Chang Le, Duan Changchuan slowly sat back on the couch and closed his eyes.

“The anti-emetic plaster given by Imperial Physician Fang last time hasn’t been used up yet, how about I go get one for you? Imperial Physician Fang said that as long as Your Majesty feels uncomfortable and wants to vomit, then have a piece to ease your discomfort.”

Duan Changchuan’s mouth was still filled with disgust. He didn’t want to open his eyes, nor did he want to speak. He could only nod weakly and let out a low “Mm”.

–

After putting on the anti-vomiting, Duan Changchuan closed his eyes and sat down for a while before he finally felt better.

The nausea in his stomach was finally gone, but he felt even more uncomfortable. But he didn’t know where he was feeling uncomfortable.

It was just very awkward. Everything he saw was not pleasing to his eyes … He even felt that every breath he breathed in was not pleasing to his eyes. If he could, he wanted to stop breathing out of spite.

So annoying. Very very annoying.

There was not a single part of his body that was comfortable.

The young man gripped the armrest of the couch with such force that the veins on the back of his hand popped out.

Chang Le was shocked by him again, “Your Majesty! Are you still not feeling well? Where are you feeling unwell? This servant, this servant will go and call Yusheng over!”

As he spoke, he came over and knelt in front of him, worriedly supporting him.

Duan Changchuan originally only felt that his breathing was not smooth and his heart was very annoyed. But after Changle came over, he could clearly smell the scent of soap on his clothes that had been washed. It was this smell that made him feel like a small beast whose territory had been invaded. All of the thorns on his body were about to explode.

Before his brain could react, his hand had already pushed the person one step ahead.

“Don’t touch me …” He resisted the discomfort and spat out a few words through gritted teeth, “Get out!”

[Don’t touch me, and you’re not allowed to set foot in my room!]

[Here, this entire room, all of the pheromones were left for me by Bai Su. No one should even think about smelling the slightest bit of it!]

Duan Changchuan forcefully inhaled every bit of the surrounding scent of peony into his lungs, but the more he inhaled, the more he felt that it wasn’t enough.

From head to toe, every cell, every drop of blood in his body was clamoring. He wants it … Want, want it! He wants more … Wants Bai Su. Wants the pheromones. Want her!

The youth’s thoughts were muddled. He stood up and let his instincts take him back to the bedroom.

He found the place where the scent of peony was the thickest and threw his entire body onto the bed. His face threw itself onto the quilt and he inhaled a big, big breath.

It was as if he was addicted to drugs. As he smelled the remaining pheromones in the quilt, he unconsciously lay on the bed and assumed the position of being hugged by someone. He burrowed into the soft brocade quilt as if this small world was his only nest that could withstand the wind and snow outside.

–

“Aiya, it’s normal for His Majesty to want to vomit. Le Gonggong, don’t make a fuss over anything. Just stick an anti-vomiting paste on him and he’ll be fine. If you don’t trust Yusheng, I’ve already sent a message to Master two days ago and told him to hurry back. When Master comes back, you can ask him. The result will be the same.”

“No, no, young sir. This servant doesn’t not trust you. This servant is just worried about His Majesty.”

“Yes, Yusheng understands. That’s why I’m here.”

The sound of Chang Le and Yusheng’s conversation came from outside …

Duan Changchuan’s rationality gradually returned to him. He realized that he had actually taken off Bai Su’s quilt and buried himself inside. He had even taken Bai Su’s undergarments and covered himself with them.

He was like a pervert, pulling all the personal belongings of others into his little nest and doing his best to absorb their scent.

He:???

!!!

He immediately woke up. Before Chang Le and Yusheng entered the room, he pulled everything under the quilt and pushed it to an inconspicuous position.

Then, he tidied up his messy robe and sat upright on the bed.

He tried to create the illusion that “My mind is fine” and “Nothing happened to me”.

Thus, a nine-year-old child came in with a medicine box. After checking his pulse, he concluded, “His Majesty’s body is pretty good. Other than the small issue of wanting to vomit, everything else is fine. There’s no need to make a fuss over nothing.”

Then, he said, “I’ll leave more anti-vomiting paste for His Majesty. In the future, if he wants to vomit, there’s no need to call me at the Imperial Hospital. If he has a stomachache or something, Le Gonggong can come again.”

He waved at the two of them and went out.

Seeing that Chang Le was going to send him off, she said sensibly, “Le Gonggong, please stay. Yusheng knows the way back to the Imperial Hospital. Please go back and serve His Majesty.”

Unreliable, but also very reliable …

Chang Le entered with a sullen face and was about to cry, “Your Majesty, why don’t you issue an imperial edict and ask Imperial Physician Fang and Senior Huang to come back together …”

“I beg you … I still feel uneasy in my heart …”

The young man looked at the messy bed and touched the anti-vomiting paste behind his ear.

After a moment of silence … he said, “Change my clothes and follow me to the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.”