"Ma'am..."
Ran Xiaoyu was worried, and finally couldn't help asking: "What did you see in the cabinet treasury?"
"..."
Hearing Ran Xiaoyu's worried voice and looking at her concerned eyes, Nan Yan was silent for a long time, but did not answer her, and only said softly: "Xiaoyu, bring me a heater."
"..."
"I am cold."
When Ran Xiaoyu heard this, she hurriedly prepared a stove, and poured soup, one of which was delivered to her hand, and the other was stuffed into the quilt.
But even so, Nan Yan's pale face was not dyed red by the warmth.
On the contrary, there is a sense of transparency like ice and snow.
She really didn't have any heat in her whole body.
Ran Xiaoyu was anxious and worried at the same time, but looking at Nan Yan's appearance, she seemed to be so calm that everything was clear, and she could even tell herself that she was cold, so that she could prepare the stove for her.
Is she awake or confused
Nan Yan held the stove in both hands, and her pale skin immediately felt a layer of warmth, but the cold air kept gushing out from inside, which made her tremble slightly.
She was silent for a long time before slowly saying: "I have seen a truth."
"Truth? What truth?"
"I was told that my father, my real father, was murdered."
Ran Xiaoyu gasped suddenly.
Can't help feeling ominous in her heart, when Ran Xiaoyu spoke, her voice was a little hoarse, "Your Majesty's father? No, you don't know who it is? He has passed away? Why—"
Her series of questions made Nan Yan's eyes even more cloudy.
She really didn't know anything about these things.
All possibilities, all guesses, are only Nan Yan's.
But now that I want to tell her, it's no wonder she doesn't know it at all, Nan Yan just smiled wryly, and said, "He is my uncle in name."
"...!"
Ran Xiaoyu gasped again.
Bowang Hou Siboyan.
She frowned, and after a while, she said softly: "Then, who killed him?"
Nan Yan looked at her for a while, then slowly said: "Someone told me that the person who killed him is the current emperor."
"What?!"
This time, Ran Xiaoyu didn't hold back, she stood up from the bed all of a sudden.
Nan Yan looked up at her, seeing her shocked expression.
Ran Xiaoyu couldn't believe her ears: "Your Majesty? How is it possible?!"
"I used to think it was impossible."
"..."
Hearing what she said, Ran Xiaoyu's heart sank suddenly, she knelt down slowly again, and touched Nanyan's hand holding the stove with both hands. Her hand was clearly warmed up, but still Shaking constantly.
It was as if the soul was crying.
Ran Xiaoyu said dryly: "My lady went to the cabinet treasury to find the truth—"
Nan Yan glanced at her.
This glance was deep and dignified.
Just being looked at by her like this, Ran Xiaoyu can almost feel the torment that the big rock pressing on her heart has brought her these days.
But she didn't say a word.
She was so distressed that she grabbed her hand even tighter: "The truth, what is it?"
"..."
This time, Nan Yan didn't answer her.
Just smile at her.
That smile was extremely desolate.
"What do you say?"
With just these three words, Ran Xiaoyu felt that her whole body had sunk into the ice cave. In an instant, this warm and harmonious Yikun Palace suddenly turned into a world of ice and snow.
And she and Si Nanyan were almost frozen to death.
Ran Xiaoyu opened her eyes wide, and the corners of her eyes were slightly red. With a hoarse voice, she said in disbelief, "Yes, is it...?"
Nan Yan looked at her and said, "After I came out of the treasury, you asked me why you didn't leave quickly."
"… Um."
"Because I was waiting for him there."
"..."
"I knew he would come."
"..."
"I know that my whereabouts have been monitored all the time. He came so fast, someone must be following me, reporting my whereabouts to those people, and then telling him right away."
"Yes, Concubine Ning?"
"I'm afraid there will be Concubine Hui and the others."
"Then the empress still doesn't leave and waits for the emperor, why?"
"I didn't intend to leave from the beginning."
"..."
"From the time I decided to enter the treasury to find the truth, I have already decided where to wait for him."
"..."
"It's just that after he comes, it will be different."
"What's the difference?"
Nanyan smiled desolately, and said softly to Ran Xiaoyu: "If he is not, then I, Si Nanyan, forcibly broke into the cabinet treasury, and I am a criminal who deceived the emperor. Naturally, I should be punished and returned to the cold palace."
"..."
"From now on, I will be in the cold palace and will not come out again."
Ran Xiaoyu's heartbeat stopped for a moment.
She trembled: "If he is—"
"If he is,"
Nan Yan smiled again.
But this time, her smile was a little warmer, probably because something hot came out of those bottomless eyes, which made the circles of her eyes slightly red, and made her smile, In the desolation, there is a bit more contradiction and pain like ice and fire blending together.
"If he is," she repeated again, her voice choked with sobs, "then I'll tell him that I was there and helped him burn the memorial."
"..."
"That was the first thing I did for him."
Ran Xiaoyu immediately understood.
The cabinet treasury belongs to their common memory, but after Zhu Feng lost his memory, he no longer remembers it. Nanyan deliberately stayed there to arouse Zhu Feng's doubts, and then told him about that period of the past.
With a hoarse voice, she said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, let the emperor know that you still have feelings for him."
"..."
"In this way, the emperor will reconcile with you."
"..."
"Then, Empress can stay in Yikun Palace instead of going back to Leng Palace."
Nan Yan glanced at her and nodded slightly.
Ran Xiaoyu was shivering from the cold, but at this moment, she shivered violently again.
She had never been so cold.
She didn't expect that Nanyan had such a plan.
Everything is in her plan.
No matter what the truth is, she has already found a way out, but one of them will be unknown from now on, and may even die of old age in the cold palace; and the other one, just like this moment—
Return to Yikun Palace, and become a noble concubine in the harem again.
But she knew that this was a real road full of thorns.
Even, walking on the edge of a knife.
Ran Xiaoyu said: "Your Majesty..."
"..."
"That time, you were in the camp and disappeared with Li Bushang for a long time, isn't it, because of this incident—"
(end of this chapter)