Lin Li covered her chest, crying and crying with tears streaming down her face, her body trembling with fear, "Your Majesty, what are you going to do?"

"Why do you treat me like this? Why do you lie to me?" Xie Yu kissed Lin Li's neck angrily, his hands still tearing at Lin Li's clothes until her face was unrecognizable.

My chest felt cold, I didn’t know if it was sweat or Xie Yu’s tears.

"The Emperor said he would not force me."

Xie Yu stopped for a moment, and lay down beside the woman, laughing at himself, "Since you don't want me to touch you, you can just say it directly. There's no need to drink any contraceptive soup."

"I didn't want you to touch me," Lin Li cried until her voice was hoarse. Fortunately, she didn't take the last step. "Besides, I have my own reasons for drinking the contraceptive soup."

Her clothes had been torn by Xie Yu, so Lin Li could only wrap herself with a quilt, and then lay down next to Xie Yu. She wanted to hug him, but he stopped her.

"Don't touch me." Xie Yu's tone was cold, without any emotion at all.

The woman had no choice but to withdraw her hand, as Xie Yu was very angry.

"I am a man, and my wife secretly drank contraceptive soup, and now you tell me that you have your own difficulties."

Lin Li sat up and wiped away her tears. "My health has not been good to begin with. If I get pregnant, I will probably have a miscarriage. Also, from the day the emperor rescued me, my innocence has long been gone in the eyes of outsiders. You are the emperor, and your descendants are all people with clean backgrounds. I am not worthy of you."

Xie Yu didn't say anything. Lin Li said everything she wanted to say in one breath. It seemed that he was really seriously injured.

There were still some clothes that Lin Li had left behind in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. It would be shameful to leave like this, so she found some clothes to change into, and then left with her own tattered clothes.

Looking back, Xie Yu was still lying on the bed, motionless.

She walked on the road, her heart ached, but she couldn't shed a single tear. It was obviously a very simple matter, but she made it so complicated. It was all her own fault.

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Yuzhu took the clothes from Lin Li's hand and said, "Miss, are you okay?"

"It's okay, go back." Lin Li waved her hand. From now on, she would probably have to live in the cold palace.

She really hoped that Xie Yu would grant her a favor and a divorce letter so that she could leave the palace and never come back.

Otherwise, the Queen Mother would definitely not let me go. They had finally caught me with evidence and would be eager to kill me.

Not long after they walked away, Xiao Dongzi came running over with a group of young eunuchs, "Madam Lin, wait a moment."

"What's wrong? What does the emperor want?"

"It's dark and the road is difficult to walk on. The emperor asked me to take Madam Lin back."

"Your Majesty, do you have anything else to say?" Lin Li was not giving up and still cared about Xie Yu.

"not at all."

The emperor sat on the dragon bed without making any movement. He just told them to send Empress Lin back to the palace safely.

"Oh, let's go then."

Back in her own bedroom, Lin Li fell asleep. What was going to come would come, so instead of worrying about it, it was better to eat and drink enough.

Sure enough, the next day, just after dawn, the Empress Dowager's decree was delivered to Lin Li's palace.

Lin Li quickly put on her clothes and knelt on the ground to receive the order.

The Empress Dowager took into consideration that this was Lin Li's first offense and fined her one year's salary. She was ordered to copy Buddhist scriptures in the Qin'an Hall every day for two months. For the next month, she was forced to kneel at the palace gate for an hour every day and reflect on her mistakes behind closed doors.

Holding the imperial edict, Lin Li felt like crying but had no tears. However, she was already thankful for the grace from God that she was not sentenced to death. She really deserved it.

If I had known this would be the result, I would have told Xie Yu about it earlier and wouldn’t be so passive.

Zhou Yue also knelt beside Lin Li, "My queen, it's snowing outside. Do we have to kneel in the snow?"

"Of course."

"Then your Majesty, let us kneel for you. It's so cold and snowy here. If we kneel for an hour, someone might die." Yuzhu said worriedly.

Zhu'er was also panicking, "Yes, the queen is already weak, what should we do? Why not go and ask the emperor for help?"

"There's no need. The emperor may not even want to see me now. It's obviously me who did something wrong. How can I have the nerve to beg for mercy?"

The snow outside seemed to be against Lin Li and kept falling. Lin Li planned to go to Qin'an Temple to copy Buddhist scriptures first.

The Empress Dowager even sent someone to supervise Lin Li copying Buddhist scriptures.

A maid came to greet Lin Li, "Madam Lin, the Queen Mother said that the Buddhist scriptures must be sent to her for inspection every day. I am here to get the Buddhist scriptures."

"Then Madam, you can wait until I finish copying before coming over. Otherwise, it will be so tiring for Madam to supervise me all the time."

"It's not hard. This is the duty of this old slave."

Lin Li could only pretend that the nanny didn't exist and calm down to copy the Buddhist scriptures.

The Qin'an Hall was very quiet, without even a stove. Lin Li's hands were frozen red, and she could only rely on Yuzhu to frequently change the hot water bottle to warm her hands.

"Miss, have a drink of water and take a rest." Yuzhu poured a cup of hot tea for Lin Li, and also poured a cup for the nanny who was dozing on the chair.

After she had breakfast, she started copying Buddhist scriptures without any time to rest. Now it was already afternoon, and Lin Li wanted to finish today's task in one go so that she could rest in the afternoon.

"You can go back and have your meal first. You don't need to serve me here." Lin Li was copying books while talking to Yuzhu. She had been serving her here all the time and it was very hard for her.

Although there were many Buddha statues enshrined in the Qin'an Temple, Lin Li did not dare to stay there alone. However, there was a nanny there who accompanied her, so she was no longer afraid of the cold.

"My lady, I'd better wait for you. I won't feel at ease if you leave."

The nanny was tired of sitting, so she walked to Lin Li's side and glanced at her. "Madam Lin, you are too slow. How long will it take for you to finish copying? It will be hard for me to report to you."

"Mammy, I'm already trying my best to copy it. I'll just have to wait a little longer."

It was almost an incense stick of time before Lin Li finished copying the Buddhist scriptures for the day. She handed the scriptures to the nanny, who then went back to report.

Lin Li sat on the chair, her whole body sore. Yuzhu helped her massage her shoulders. "Miss, you have to copy so many Buddhist scriptures every day for two months. You will be exhausted."

"It's okay. Two months will pass quickly. Don't worry, I can hold on."

Yuzhu couldn't help shedding tears, "It's all my fault. I should have cleaned up the medicine residue and Xiaohe wouldn't have found it."

"It's all over. Through this incident, I have come to see a lot of people clearly. It's true that you can't judge a person by his appearance. Xiao He looked like such a well-behaved little girl. I was usually very kind to her, but she actually betrayed me."

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