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Chapter 585 The Relationship Between the Emperor and Empress
With the help of the golden rain insect medicine, Empress Qin finally had the best sleep she had in years.

"What? The Empress is asleep?" Upon hearing the shadowy report, Emperor Minghua was so happy he almost jumped for joy.

Shadows are the secret guards kept by Emperor Minghua. They are a group of people without fixed names who only obey his orders.

Their actions were even more covert than those of the palace's top guards.

However, most of the tasks he carried out were to monitor Empress Qin.

At that time, the Shadows all thought to themselves that their Heavenly Family was indeed a suspicious person by nature. Even their own bedmate was being monitored by so many experts. It must be because they were very wary of the Qin Family of Jiangnan.

It wasn't until later that they learned that the imperial family had sent them to the Empress's side not to monitor who she met or what she said.

Instead, they monitored whether the Empress ate well, slept well, and whether she was being bullied by other concubines.

Their conversations at that time mostly went like this—

"Your Majesty, the Empress encountered Consort Li in the Imperial Garden today."

Did the Empress smile?

"No, I'm still a little angry."

"Changde drafted an edict to demote Consort Li to Lady Li, no, to Lady Li, a palace maid. Don't let her dishonor the title of Lady Li."

“Your Majesty, Consort Li was personally selected by the Empress, and she has only been here for less than a month.”

"Oh, then send her to the Empress's palace and see if she can make her a cleaning maid or send her back. It's up to her."

Later, the shadows discovered that the queen was even angrier.

She even sneered at herself in the mirror.

If the Empress was displeased, Emperor Minghua would secretly punish anyone she had met.

Even if she was unhappy with a tree, Emperor Minghua would have the tree dug up.

On the first and fifteenth of each month, the Empress was as cold as a sword, as if she wanted to stab the Emperor in the heart.

But the emperor insisted that it must be because the people around him had not served him well, so he punished them all by deducting their salaries.

Sometimes, when the Empress suggested leaving the palace for a walk, Emperor Minghua would outwardly be furious and forbid her from going out, but he would also instruct them to guard the door she slipped out of, not to let anyone else discover it, and certainly not to block it.

But every time the Empress returned, her complexion would be even worse.

Over the years, apart from the concubines who gave birth to two princes and the indifferent Consort Jing, the rest of the imperial family dismissed them under various pretexts. However, the emperor himself was extremely busy with state affairs and rarely had time to spend with the empress. He could only instruct the imperial kitchen to prepare a variety of meals for the empress every day.

Even so, the relationship between the emperor and empress did not improve in the slightest.

On the surface, everyone could see that the imperial family was not kind to the empress, and the empress treated the imperial family as if they were enemies.

When princes and ministers are present, or on important occasions that require the two of them to attend, the royal couple will put on a show of deep affection. But when they are alone, they are unwilling to even pretend.

The palace servants in the Empress's palace were all speculating: "When will our Consort truly offend the Emperor completely? I'm afraid it will be..."

Only the shadows shook their heads in the shadows: "I'm afraid that day will never come."

No one knew better than them how much the current emperor loved his first wife, how much he loathed the two princes, and the two concubines who drugged him and slept with him.

They guessed that the imperial family must have misunderstood the empress's meaning.

But no one dared to bring it up.

All that everyone knew was that since the Empress fell seriously ill, the imperial family, in order to protect the court, had concealed her condition from all the princes and ministers, and had not visited her more than a few times.

The palace servants speculated that the imperial family was wary of the Qin family from Jiangnan, fearing they might take the opportunity to cause trouble, and even more so, the concubines might stir up trouble.

But what they didn't know was that Emperor Minghua had been suffering from insomnia ever since the Empress fell seriously ill. He usually spent his time reading memorials and holding meetings with ministers, and the rest of his time studying medical books and avoiding the imperial physicians.

Not feeling at ease in the middle of the night, he even asked them to provide cover and use their light-footed skills to peek at the Empress.

Now that he heard that the Empress had finally fallen asleep and was no longer in pain, Eunuch Changde was very happy.

"Your Majesty, it's almost dawn. You should rest."

"No, I want to go and see."

She's stubborn and least welcoming to people when she's awake; if you go alone, you'll definitely be turned away.

If she was asleep, her loyal subordinates, afraid of waking her, could only endure his scrutiny.

Hey.

While sleeping under her watchful gaze, Empress Qin was unaware of everything happening outside, but she had a strange dream.

(End of this chapter)