Chapter 215

Wen Ze looked at her deeply for a moment before he finally pried away her hand.

“Empress Dowager, please have some respect for yourself.”

“Have some self-respect?” A glint of hostility flashed by Zhao Yunqing’s eyes, “Don’t tell me you’re going to throw me away after you finished using me? The young emperor follows your orders blinding while all the other influential families all obey your commands. It seems like it won’t be long before I will fall under your control and follow your orders too!”

“That’s not true.” Wen Ze said sternly.

Zhao Yunqing immediately noticed that his reaction was strange, so she dragged him toward her palace, “I don’t care. I will not let you go today unless you explain everything to me!”

With that said, she forced Wen Ze to leave the royal court.

After the two of them left, Mo Linyuan walked out from the shadows along with Ye Mu.

“I’m surprised that the Empress Dowager has such a wide network of information. Even Prime Minister Wen served as an adviser to her.”

Mo Linyuan said, “If a woman wants to survive in the imperial harem, then she will need to depend on a man. But if she wants to stand above everyone else, then she will need to depend on many men.”

Ye Mu was slightly confused by his explanation, “Are you implying that Zhao Yunqing has more than one man backing her?”

Mo Linyuan looked at her with a mysterious smile on his face.

“What do you think?”

Ye Mu didn’t dare to ask any more questions. She recently noticed that Mo Linyuan was acting very strange. He kept looking at her like she was a tiny lamb waiting to be slaughtered. He may appear gentle, but his smile made her blood run cold; it made her want to run away from him. Ye Mu shrank her neck and realized that her peaceful days were soon going to end.

Mo Linyuan said, “You said before that the Empress Dowager will probably back out of this scheme because of guilt. But I believed that she won’t stop scheming unless we catch her red-handed, otherwise, she wouldn’t be acting so unbridled in broad daylight.”

Ye Mu said, “Even if we catch her, she won’t necessarily admit to the crimes. She is a cruel woman, so if her schemes were exposed to the public, she will probably push all the crime onto one of the men backing her.”

Mo Linyuan glanced at her approvingly after listening to her deductions.

“There is only one man that can possibly make her willingly admit to all her crimes.”

He smiled and squeezed Ye Mu’s face, “She wants to protect that adulterer. If their crimes are exposed, she will probably willingly bear all the crimes.”

Ye Mu forgot about her cheeks that were being squeezed and widened her eyes in surprise, “Is it possible for her to willingly bear all the crimes for that man?”

“Who knows?”

Mo Linyuan led Ye Mu away. They still had a long time ahead of them, so he didn’t mind if things played out slowly.

Time gradually passed by and another year had passed.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

On this day, Ye Mu was hiding in her palace, refusing to head out.

“Miss? Miss?” The maidservant finally managed to drag Ye Mu from under her bed, “As His Majesty’s study companion, you should accompany His Majesty when he’s attending class!”

Ye Mu just wanted to cry. She had taught him everything she could teach, and she didn’t want to see him! She wanted to hide!

Ye Mu was curled up in a ball in the corner of the room, refusing to come out. The maidservant smiled when she saw that and said, “His Majesty sent someone to ask you to head over. If he doesn’t see you in a quarter of an hour, he said he will personally come here in person. His Majesty is someone who keeps his words.”

Ye Mu’s cheeks were streaming with tears. He was so hateful! She couldn’t even try to feign illness to avoid this!

She crawled out from under the bed with grief and indignation. The young girl had grown a little once again; she looked extraordinarily beautiful. There was still some baby fat on her face right now, but her large and charming eyes looked very quick-witted. But the expression on her face looked very sullen.

The maidservants clothed and freshened up Ye Mu. Then, she pushed Ye Mu out the door.