Chapter 1542 - 1540: Don’t You Want to Avenge Your Humiliation?
Chapter 1542: Chapter 1540: Don’t You Want to Avenge Your Humiliation?
Chapter 1540
By the third day of the month, the palace had entirely quieted down.
Lin Siyin finally had time to tidy up her ’pathetic’ self.
Inside the inner hall.
Sheng Chunhua knelt before her, trembling in repentance.
"Empress, please calm your anger. It’s all the fault of this servant. I didn’t explain the details to you properly; it’s all my mistake. I hope Empress can be forgiving!"
Lin Siyin was so furious that she almost laughed.
"Forgiving?"
"Forgive what? I’m just new to the palace and unaware of the rules, yet you treat me like a fool!"
"Are you happy now? Are you proud now?"
Sheng Chunhua dared not answer, trembling.
Lin Siyin, enraged, threw a teacup in front of her.
"You plotted it in advance, didn’t you?"
"Don’t think I’m unaware of your ambitions!"
"You think you can succeed? Or do you really believe I’m just at your mercy?"
She slowly stood up, glaring at her with a face full of fury, exuding an indescribable majesty and oppression.
Don’t assume she has to be timid and humble just because she comes from a humble background.
Don’t assume she can be easily deceived because she doesn’t know the rules.
And don’t assume that as Empress, she must follow those broken rules of the harem.
Why should she?
Even the Emperor doesn’t acknowledge them, so why should she follow them strictly?
With no one forcing her, why suffer by fitting herself into those confines? She’s not mentally ill!
Sheng Chunhua was evidently terrified.
Originally, she couldn’t imagine how a solitary orphan girl could have any capability other than barely surviving under the Emperor’s favor.
Now she witnessed it firsthand.
Turns out an orphan can be this imposing.
Is she truly an orphan?
"E... Empress, please calm your anger!"
"This servant dares not!"
She instinctively spoke while trembling.
Only then did she understand that even if this person’s background was poor, she still had the power to decide life and death.
Even as a noblewoman turned palace maid upon entering the palace.
If she offends the mother of the nation, the Empress, it’s also certain death.
At this moment, she finally realized belatedly and began to fear, even stammering in speech.
"This servant... this servant only..."
She found no excuse to exonerate herself.
"No need to say more!"
Lin Siyin turned and sat down again, squinting her eyes.
"From now on, you don’t need to serve beside me!"
"Go to the Imperial Garden!"
"Ah??" Sheng Chunhua was somewhat disbelieving.
"Empress, don’t! This servant dares not in the future, I beg for your forgiveness!"
"This incident was this servant’s mishandling, but it wasn’t deliberate, truly there were misunderstandings from you too!"
"You..." Your disgrace has nothing to do with me!
She wanted to voice it, but upon meeting the Empress’s gaze, she swallowed it back abruptly.
She didn’t wish to go to the Imperial Garden.
A proper palace maid not serving the master, but tending to the flora in the Imperial Garden?
It would be better to be chased out of the palace, at least she could marry.
If demoted to the Imperial Garden, her life is doomed.
Thinking of this, she hurriedly kowtowed again.
"Empress, be merciful, Empress, be merciful, this servant will have no path if sent to the Imperial Garden!"
"I beg you..."
She presumed Lin Siyin, being a mere orphan, couldn’t have a heart too harsh.
Unexpectedly, she was interrupted before finishing.
"The Imperial Garden isn’t that bad, tending to flowers and watering trees could cultivate oneself, how nice!"
"Most importantly, I simply don’t want to forgive you!"
She never thought her heart was that hard. Previously, she treated patients for free, and those from impoverished families could receive medicine without charge.
But now, she simply didn’t want to forgive.
Intuition told her this woman was full of malice, best sent away.
She didn’t even want to glance at her, merely waving her hand.
"Someone, take her away!"
Sheng Chunhua was utterly panicked.
"Empress, Empress, be merciful, this servant dares not again!"
Listening to Sheng Chunhua’s fading screams, Lin Siyin tiredly massaged her temples, reclining back on the soft couch.
"Merciful?"
"Wasn’t I merciful enough before? Hmph!"
...
When Zhao Qichen came over after his midday duties.
Lin Siyin casually told him.
"I sent that palace maid packing! Let her go water the trees in the Imperial Garden!"
Initially uninterested, Zhao Qichen’s brows suddenly raised upon hearing this.
"Oh?"
"You took initiative?"
Lin Siyin nodded nonchalantly.
"Of course, she deliberately put me to shame during New Year’s Eve, also on the first day!"
Although it wasn’t directly her mistake, it was her deliberate misguidance.
"I hate scheming the most, she crossed my bottom line!"
"I care nothing for rules, I just want her gone from my sight!"
Saying this, she fixed her gaze on Zhao Qichen.
Expecting he would restrainedly tell her it’s against protocol.
Unexpectedly, he said nothing, instead smiling broadly and embracing her shoulder.
"Good!"
"As long as you’re happy, there’s no absolute rules in this palace, you’ve just been too tense!"
Lin Siyin: "..."
Alright, thinking back, it truly is so!
She smiled with relief.
"From now on, I won’t anymore!"
"Apparently, besides not being able to leave, the palace isn’t much different from the outside!"
No need to constantly worry about rules, just do as you wish.
As long as it doesn’t get out, all is well!
Zhao Qichen smiled faintly without saying more, but inwardly, he was delighted.
Previously, she would never listen; now she finally understood.
Does this mean she’ll be less restrictive, show more smiles in the future?
...
At Sheng Chunhua’s end.
When her belongings were moved from Jiaofang Hall to the Imperial Garden by a group of palace maids, she collapsed entirely.
Fell into the dilapidated room, crying relentlessly.
"How to live!"
"In such a miserable place, what future is there!"
She entered the palace not to suffer, but to become a concubine!
With this, what future does she have?
Amidst her uncontrollable sobbing.
Suddenly a little palace maid peered from outside.
"Chun Hua sister?"
Sheng Chunhua raged.
"Get lost! You came to mock me? Hurry up and leave!"
Previously, those who flattered her were all gone, all laughing at her, a bunch of vile people!
But the little palace maid, unaffected, walked in with a grin.
"Chun Hua sister, don’t be so fierce!"
"Didn’t you say you’ve no path?"
"I came to offer a path for you!"
Sheng Chunhua looked disbelieving, cursing.
"Get lost!"
"What path could you offer? Overestimating yourself, if you don’t leave, don’t blame me being rude!"
However, the little palace maid remained unperturbed, even sat on her exceedingly old and worn bed.
"Does Chun Hua sister want to reclaim her honor?"
She laughed serenely, speaking with confidence and seriousness.
Sheng Chunhua blinked in confusion; is she serious? Could she have a good idea?