Quick Wear: Oh no, the lady is running away with the ball again

Chapter 167 The Living Abandoned Empress of the Cold Palace X The Invading Unruly Buddhist Son 1

"Stop, I'm awake." Yun Qian closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down. He supported his forehead with one hand and waved at Chunshan.

"go out."

Yun Qian spoke, his brows still tightly furrowed, looking quite impatient.

Chun Shan was obviously stunned for a moment, as if a little surprised by her coldness. However, he did not dare to disobey the young lady's order, so he responded and stood up and left.

Yun Qian looked at the door that Chun Shan had closed, and finally regained his composure.

The room finally fell silent. Yun Qian rubbed his temples, took a deep breath, and then asked, "System, who is this world's child of destiny?"

The remnants of memories continued to flood back, leaving her feeling even more confused. The moment she regained consciousness, she realized this body held a special identity, even a complicated past with the current Crown Prince. As Yun Qian digested the memories, she felt a vague sense of unease. Could this child of destiny be... that Crown Prince?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel nauseous, her stomach churning, and she almost vomited.

"No." The system's straightforward answer made her feel relieved.

"Host, don't be anxious. I have temporarily paused the flow of time and space. You can slowly recall it, and perhaps you will find something unexpected." The system's voice sounded calmly, like some unpredictable hint.

The bitterness of the past returned with the memory——

Her identity this time was also "Yun Qian," and she was the niece of the current Empress Dowager. Her fate had been determined from the very beginning. Empress Dowager Yun personally pushed her to the side of Crown Prince Qi Heyao, making her his Crown Princess.

Once upon a time, the two were deeply in love, inseparable. The noble ladies of the capital all envied her status and praised them as a perfect match. Qi Heyao even made a solemn promise to her face: "I will only have you for my whole life. Even if you are childless, I will never take a concubine or have children out of wedlock."

She was so delighted at the time, believing herself to be the second luckiest emperor and empress of the dynasty, enjoying the same steadfast loyalty and deep affection that Emperor Gaozu and his first wife had enjoyed. After all, Emperor Gaozu had promised never to marry again, and he and the empress had four sons and three daughters, spending their lives together, a story still celebrated by later generations.

However, everything changed after the death of Queen Mother Yun. She originally thought that life would continue as before, but she did not expect that after the death of Queen Mother Yun, Qi Heyao took power and revealed his cold side.

In the past, whenever others brought up the issue of offspring, Yun Qian never had to worry about it; he would just brush it off. In her previous life, she hadn't been concerned about the fact that the Eastern Palace had no children. After all, Qi Heyao would always tell her that she was still young and that having a baby a few years later would be better for her health.

She believed it without a doubt... After all, Qi Heyao was not in a hurry, and there were no other concubines in the Eastern Palace, so she naturally believed Qi Heyao's words.

But... when she had been queen for about two months, a minister submitted a memorial accusing her of being unproductive and unfit to be queen.

When the news reached her ears, she still didn't take it seriously, thinking that this time would be the same as before, and she would be beaten back by Qi Heyao.

After all, for her sake, Qi Heyao still "went his own way" even when the late emperor mentioned this matter. He also said it himself, there is no rush.

However, she never expected that Qi Heyao would come to her bedroom that night and ask her to stay alone in Fengyi Palace for a month to reflect on herself, saying that this was a way to shut up the previous dynasty.

Although she was a little confused at that time, she still agreed. After all, Qi Heyao had always been very good to her, almost obedient to her. Even though it meant that she was confined to the palace in disguise, she foolishly thought that Qi Heyao wanted her to be patient temporarily because he had just ascended the throne and the government was unstable.

However, he soon began to spend a lot of financial and manpower in the name of building palaces and expanding the imperial mausoleum, and then announced that he would send troops to conquer the eastern border, breaking the original peaceful and prosperous era.

She had sensed then that he had changed. Gone was the Qi Heyao who had promised her, by candlelight, that they would spend their lives together. In his place was a king who was unfettered, cold, and ambitious.

He sent batches of aristocratic sons and powerful families in the court to the battlefield, ostensibly to quell the rebellion, but in reality to gradually weaken the powerful families in the royal capital.

Gradually, Yun Qian thought she understood that every step he took was to consolidate his power, and no one in her Yun family could escape this disaster.

When she learned that Qi Heyao had ordered her father and brother to march to the Eastern Frontier as vanguards, she felt a wave of suffocation in her heart, unable to accept it for a long time. She had tried to persuade Qi Heyao to abandon the Eastern Frontier campaign, but that had led to a fierce argument, leaving her feeling deeply depressed.

At that time, she was in a panic all day long. She felt that it was because she had angered Qi Heyao that the disaster came to her mother's family, and she felt guilty for implicating her family.

At the same time, she felt bitter and chilled by his ruthlessness. All those vows she had made to him had finally turned into nothing, drifting away with the wind.

She finally decided to find Qi Heyao. Even though her love was no longer there, she couldn't bear to watch her elderly father die.

But what she didn't expect was that Qi Heyao didn't want to see her at all.

For the first time, she had the thought of being disrespectful to the emperor. What a joke! In military campaigns, it was always the generals who sat firmly at the center, commanding the armies. Without the generals, how could the soldiers fight? Now, Qi Heyao, blinded by rage, had lost his mind, sending batch after batch of strong commanders to the front lines as vanguards.

Gradually, there were no more people available in the court, until the butcher knife was pointed at her mother's family. She walked on the road, thinking about the past and the present. In the end, she felt depressed.

It took only a moment for him to realize the truth. Where did all that deep love and loyalty come from? In the end, it was always no match for the deep suspicion of those in power.

He wouldn't believe it. Even when Yun Qian asked to see him, he refused. There was no trace of his former obedience.