"Empress Dowager, please don't take offense. This is the first time Ah Zhi has entered the palace, and the palace rules have yet to be studied. This is a biased situation. May the Empress Dowager and the various concubines forgive him!"

Nan Yue frowned and kneeled down again.

In the palace, who was not allowed to say a word about a servant when facing a master?

Right now, Ah Zhi knew nothing about the rules of the palace, how could she survive in this huge palace in the future?!

Hearing her words, Shen Zhi Qiao frowned.

When the empress dowager saw that she still knew etiquette and knew nothing about it, she was indeed more pleasing to the eye than the other one. She lowered her gaze and said, "Rui Wangfei, get up. You don't need to kneel down in front of the empress dowager and ruin our relationship with each other."

"Yes, Empress Dowager!" She bit her lips and stood up.

In her mind, she started to ponder the purpose of the empress dowager coming to the Dragon's Nest Palace while the young emperor wasn't around.

Glancing at the kneeling Shen Zhiqiao, he thought to himself, could it be because of the matter of her staying in the Dragon's Nest at night?!

"This Dowager wants to ask you, what's your name?!" the Empress Dowager asked again.

Shen Zhi Qiao rolled his eyes and raised his voice slightly, "Shen Zhi Qiao!"

Alright, she just said the word 'I', and was just reprimanded. Then, she should be able to get rid of that word now, right?!

However …

"Although This Dowager is old, she's not so old that she's deaf. Why are you shouting so loudly!?"

The empress dowager was pure fiction!

Shen Zhiqiao hatefully thought to himself.

"The empress dowager, in chenqie's opinion, she's just not putting you in her eyes due to the emperor's favor …"

Imperial Concubine Hua said in a delicate voice, "In this palace, there are some servants who don't know their place. They thought they had become a phoenix overnight and began to flatter them!"

Dammit!

She really wasn't afraid of biting her tongue when she said that, what was she supposed to say?

She had used her ability to turn the tables around!

Shen Zhi Qiao bit his lips and clenched his fists tightly. He resisted the urge to punch her.

There was no other way. In someone else's territory, even if she couldn't tolerate it, she still had to. Otherwise, the one who would suffer would end up being herself.

Now she could see.

This bunch of people were all here to cause trouble for her.

When Nan Yue heard this, she was also infuriated.

It was said that General Hua Shuo's daughter, Hua Yi, had relied on her father's family's power to do whatever she wanted in the palace since she had entered the palace.

Today, she had finally experienced it!

However, she absolutely would not allow anyone to bully someone she cared about in front of her.

The empress dowager was one thing, but she was still an elder after all.

But Imperial Concubine Hua, she didn't put her in her eyes at all.

Thus, Nan Yue coldly snorted. She opened her mouth and was about to speak, when she heard a lazy voice coming from behind her.

"Yo …" "Isn't this the emperor's grandma who is gentle, gentle, and beautiful to the point of being beautiful?!" Tuoba Yu swung the blood jade at his waist.

He slowly walked in with a charming smile on his face and calmly glanced at the person kneeling on the ground.

The empress dowager looked at him slovenly as she leaned over without the slightest sign of an emperor. Her eyes were filled with helplessness but were filled with affection. Her wrinkled lips were stretched taut as she lectured, "Yu'er, you're the emperor right now. You should act like one!"

Tuoba Yu wrapped his arm around the empress dowager's body and sat down next to her on a chair. He didn't seem to mind as he said, "Royal granny, you haven't seen your handsome grandson for almost a month. Can't you treat him better?"

As he spoke, he pointed to his concubine who was standing on either side of him.

"Look, there are so many people watching. How do you want this grandson to establish his might in the future?!"

The meaning behind his words was that he wouldn't allow any females to step even half a step into his Dragon's Nest, but she had already accepted all of them. Wasn't this openly challenging his authority?!

How could the empress dowager not understand the meaning behind his words? She blushed and said, "Imperial Concubine knew that it was more than a month since we last met. Imperial Aunt didn't miss you, so she came to find you herself."

Yes or no, they all knew.

Tuoba Yu didn't say anything. His almond-shaped eyes circled around the hall once before landing on Shen Zhiqiao. He feigned shock as he said, "Royal granny, he has committed a grave mistake and caused you to be unhappy. He has been punished to kneel down in the middle of the winter.

"Your grandson is thinking that he must have provoked Grandma Huang. Otherwise, with Grandma Huang's kind and generous character, she wouldn't be so heartless. Grandma Huang, what do you think?"

Tuoba Pi who was standing outside the door sighed softly, "As expected of the emperor, look how eloquent he is!"

In her heart, she was thinking that her master was also like this, often making her so embarrassed that she couldn't speak.

Hmm, I haven't seen Master in the whole morning. How I miss him!

Forget it, I'm not going to watch the liveliness anymore. I have to go home and see my master.

Thus, he turned around and disappeared like a wisp of smoke.

Tuoba Rui frowned as he looked at her disappearing background. A headache!

Shaking his head, he turned to look at someone within the hall.

The empress dowager's lips moved as she gave a coy smile. "Look at how old grandma Huang is now, you actually forgot there's someone kneeling on the ground …"

He turned his head to look at Shen Zhiqiao and gently smiled, "Stand up."

Shen Zhi Qiao had seen this for himself. Each and every one of them had great skill at putting on an act. She wrinkled her nose and slowly stood up.

However, she had knelt for too long, and when she stood up, she felt a wave of dizziness that nearly caused her to stop.

Nan Yue reacted quickly and grabbed her arm, barely managing to stabilize herself.

Emperor Tuoba's phoenix eyes darkened. The smile on his face deepened as he asked, "Royal Grandma, how are you planning to spend your 80th birthday celebration?"

The empress dowager was startled. "Yu'er, why do you ask this?!"

"Of course it's to give my grandma Huang her birthday!" As Tuoba Yu spoke, his eyes unwittingly fell on Shen Zhiruo, who had his head lowered.

Shen Jingbin was quietly listening to their conversation, when she suddenly felt an intense gaze sweep over her.

She raised her head to look and saw the man who was talking to the empress dowager staring at her with a charming smile.

Shen Zhi Qiao's heart skipped a beat and he lowered his head.

His glance made her think of what he had done to her that morning. She closed her eyes and felt a burning sensation in her ears.

After that, she was not in the mood to hear what the two of them had to say. It was always something related to the birthday banquet.

After a while, the room gradually quieted down. He raised his head and looked around doubtfully.

Only the two of them were left in the enormous palace …

His heart thumped loudly. Shen Zhi Qiao subconsciously took two steps back. His lips moved, but he didn't know what to say.

Before, when she was alone with him, besides feeling that he had a very perverted personality and acting unbridled, she had never felt such distance from him. From the bottom of her heart, she treated him like a Little Four and felt no pressure when she got along with him.

But now, it was different. He was the emperor, and the entire world belonged to him. He held the power to kill and to live. His prestige was unquestionable and unshakable.

Plus, she had done a lot of 'foolish things' when she didn't know his identity previously. If he were to pursue the matter, she would really agree with the saying 'not even ten heads are enough'.

Tuoba Yu leaned against the chair and tapped the dragon head on the handle with his ten fingers. He glanced at her and caught sight of her helplessness. With a relaxed voice, he said, "Come to my side."

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