This palace is from modern day 2

Chapter 248 The Empress Dowager's Request

She held my hand so hard it hurt me.

"Mother, let me send you back to the palace first." Nangong Ye's worried words sounded, there was no trace of hidden worry, and it was obvious that the Empress Dowager was in poor health.

The Empress Dowager nodded, "Alright."
"Ye'er, then you send Ai's family home, and Yiyi will stay here to talk to Yanran."

When the Empress Dowager left, I asked, "What happened to the Empress Dowager?"

I asked Nangong Chen, but he lowered his head. I looked at Yiyi, and she also lowered her head in embarrassment.

"What's wrong?" Is there anything you can't tell me yet?
"Yanran, you just came back, do you want to take a shower and change clothes first?" Yiyi raised her head and suggested suddenly.

I took a deep look at her, "Yeah."
What is it that makes Yiyi so hard to tell? When she came out of the bath, Yiyi had already left, and I didn't even say hello to her precious daughter.Only Nangong Chen sat there alone, in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Nangongchen, has the queen left?"

"Yeah." He should be weak, and I stepped forward, "What's wrong with you?"

He looked up at me, hesitating to speak.
Damn, what did they have to say to me so hard?
"Yan Ran, I won't accept concubines."
His sudden words completely stunned me, I stood stupidly, with his arms wrapped around my waist, "You...what did you say?" What joke is he kidding?
"The imperial doctor said that the empress dowager's illness won't last long. It could last a year, or... half a year."

Overwhelmed by this news again, I forgot how to react, and it took a long time before I said in disbelief, "How could that be?"

"The empress dowager's only wish is to see the royal family flourish. She is afraid that I will be like my father... She said that if this is the case, she will have no face to meet her ancestors."

What is he trying to say?I don't understand, I don't understand.

(End of this chapter)