Chapter 449

Lin Feilu was quite happy. After taking the handkerchief, she slowly stroked the Cymbidium Sinense with her fingers. It took a long time before she raised her head and said, “Little Lu likes it very much. Thank you, Empress Dowager.”

Her joyful voice sounded a little muffled at the moment, but the Empress Dowager looked up and found that her eye circles were also slightly reddening. The older woman couldn’t help asking in a soft voice, “What’s wrong?”

The girl pursed her lips, and with the corners of her mouth pulled downwards as if trying to hold back her tears, she squeezed the handkerchief for a while and whispered, “I miss my mother.”

The Empress Dowager felt sad for the child. Thinking of her son’s indifference and estrangement towards her, she drowned in her sorrow briefly before she took the girl’s hand and pulled her to her side. Speaking melancholically, “Good child, you are going to marry the Emperor soon. So, from now on, I will be your mother.”

Although Lin Feilu knew that she would never be in a disadvantageous position with Pretty Boy looking out for her and the fact that it didn’t really matter how the Empress Dowager treated her, one of the key skills of being a green tea was the ability to befriend anyone.

Turning an enemy into a friend and surrounded by reliable comrades was not at all a hard task for a true green tea.

On the way here, after listening to Tingchun and Shixia’s explanation, Lin Feilu realised that the lack of family affection in Empress Dowager’s heart and her sense of urgency to have a familial bond would be the strategy that she would utilise.

Once a person climbed to the top where they had both power and status, they would inevitably start to recall the past and yearn for the most ordinary warmth. This was the inferiority of human beings, but it was also a common problem amongst the high-ranking people of this era.

It also profoundly demonstrated a fact— if you don’t cherish what you have, you will regret it when you lose it.

The little Princess was the only way for the Empress Dowager to understand her son’s past. Moreover, she seemed like an obedient and filial child. If she were to get closer to her, paired with the fact that the Emperor doted on her, the Empress Dowager thought that she would have better chances of getting closer to her estranged son.

When Lin Feilu left the palace with reddening eyes, she wore an ice jade bracelet that was given to her by the Empress Dowager.

This ice jade had a peculiar texture. Wearing it on her hand in the summer felt like a small, portable air-conditioner that cooled her off despite the hot weather. There was only a pair of it in the entire palace. Since the Empress Dowager was wearing one of them, the other was now in Lin Feilu’s possession.

The two servants, who were waiting outside, anxiously immediately greeted their Princess. Seeing that the rims of her eyes were red, they asked nervously, “Princess, are you okay?”

Lin Feilu smiled reassuringly at the two of them, “I’m fine, the Empress Dowager treated me very well.”

Tingchun was a little surprised when she saw the bracelet on her wrist. Being in the palace for so long, she naturally knew about the jade bracelet and its rarity. Seeing that the Empress Dowager gave the Princess the only other available jade bracelet, it appeared that the pair truly got along. With that in mind, both servants let out a sigh of relief.

It was early summer in the south, so the sun outside was already quite blazing when the three of them left the Chonghua Palace. As soon as the trio exited the palace, they saw a line of palace servants carrying a sedan chair as they waited under the tree by the gates.

The team leader was Sun Jiang, the eunuch in charge of the Lin An Palace. When he saw her coming out, he greeted her with a smile, “Your Highness, this humble servant greets you.”