Chapter 173: Chapter 147: Who’s the Fool, Who’s the Choice

Shen Jingxian finally opened her eyes after a long time, and the first thing she saw was the very familiar pink canopy of her bed, with the family portrait of her and the Empress Emperor embroidered on it, making it quite recognizable.

Only her bed in the entire Imperial Palace had this honor.

However… Shen Jingxian blinked, was it her imagination, she always felt the canopy had become much cleaner.

There were clearly some dark spots there before, but now it looked so clean?

She blinked again, wanting to confirm whether she was seeing things wrong, but eventually realized she wasn’t mistaken.

Shen Jingxian couldn’t help but exclaim, “So clean.”

The Empress, who had been standing not far away, upon seeing Shen Jingxian express such an absurd exclamation with a dumbfounded look, gave the Emperor a hard slap on the head, then rushed to the bedside, grabbed Shen Jingxian’s still-not-fully-recovered hand, and shouted, “Er Ya!! You’re finally back!”

Shen Jingxian was startled, and looking at the Empress who was hugging her and wailing with absolutely no image of a mother of the nation, she instinctively replied, “Mother, don’t call me Er Ya!”

Who would have thought the Empress would immediately turn her head, excitedly saying to the person behind, “Xiong Yuanxing!! Our daughter called me Mother! She really is our daughter.”

The Emperor had yet to recover from the slap given by the Empress, touching his head, he tried to console himself strongly while responding to the Empress, “Yes, Yi Fen has finally returned.”

The Emperor’s gaze towards Shen Jingxian was filled with genuine affection, but simply because his tone wasn’t ecstatic enough, it displeased the Empress.

“Xiong Yuanxing, what do you mean? Aren’t you happy our daughter is back?”

Seeing the Empress’s increasingly dangerous gaze, the Emperor immediately removed his hand from his head, bringing his index and middle fingers together, making a gesture of swearing, “My lady, how could that be! If Yi Fen can come back, nothing could make me happier!”

“Then why did you have that tone?”

The Emperor was dumbfounded, “Wha… what tone?”

“Such a cold tone.”

The Emperor realized, he took a deep breath again, and shouted at Shen Jingxian loudly, “Yi Fen!!! You’re finally back!!”

This was exciting enough.

The Empress was very satisfied, she even turned around to ask Shen Jingxian if she was satisfied.

Shen Jingxian: …

It’s okay, but not necessary.

Wen Ranchen and Fu Xuan were guarding outside the door.

Wen Ranchen, having grown up in the Imperial Palace and being quite familiar with the Empress Emperor’s temperaments, upon hearing the commotion inside the door, his expression softened.

The Princess should be awake.

His heart began to stir restlessly, even starting to plan what kind of words he needed to use to get the Empress Emperor to agree to let him take care of the Princess.

Only Fu Xuan didn’t understand anything; he heard the noise inside and became extremely nervous, thinking, should he really be listening to the Emperor being disciplined by the Empress?

The two of them exchanged a glance, and Fu Xuan saw disdain in Wen Ranchen’s eyes.

Wen Ranchen: Listen to your uncle’s advice, this Prince Consort position, you can’t handle it, let your uncle take it.

Fu Xuan: You scoundrel! Looking down on me, I’ll bite you to death!!

Thus the two of them started fighting at the doorway.

Fu Xuan was utterly beaten and eventually had to escape using his Qinggong skills.

He regretted it, wondering why he hadn’t practiced swordsmanship well back then; if his swordsmanship were as good as his Qinggong, he wouldn’t have had to suffer such indignity today.

Inside the room, the Empress held Shen Jingxian’s hand, asking her about her health while recounting everything that happened during those days.

For example, spreading the news that the Princess was possessed by a Demon went more smoothly than expected.

Such as how, during Shen Jingxian’s coma, the Emperor and Empress had already controlled the public opinion, and the citizens no longer clamored to burn the Princess, but instead started praying for her, hoping she could wake up soon.

Furthermore, once the Empress Emperor discovered their daughter was not their daughter, they dismantled the ceiling symbolizing their familial bond and even cleaned away the stains on it.

Shen Jingxian: No wonder it’s so clean.

After realizing this, she belatedly wondered, can the ceiling actually be dismantled?

Up to here, it was still normal conversation, but the Empress’s rambling gradually shifted from the state of the country to the state of Yi Fen Palace, then to the Emperor passing gas, and finally to… the state of men.

“Er Ya, tell Mother honestly, have you shifted your affections to someone else?”

Shen Jingxian: ?

“Don’t think Mother doesn’t know, that brat Fu Xuan put in quite a bit of effort for you this time, seems like he even sacrificed his charms, an ordinary relationship wouldn’t do this for you.”

Shen Jingxian: …

The Emperor, upon hearing this, hesitated to speak, wanting to say something to Shen Jingxian, but dared not step forward, fearing another big slap from the Empress in her excitement.

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