Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Jia Ling's Double Rebirth, Creates a Great Success

Ruyi was very happy when she saw Li Yu leaving. She had touched another person with her warmth.

This made her even more certain that it was惢心 who was ungrateful and could not understand her good intentions. That night, she fell asleep sweetly.

On the second day, Ruyi, feeling refreshed, prepared to go to the Ruyi Pavilion set up by the emperor for the Western painter Lang Shining to have him paint a portrait for her. She turned around and said to A Ruo:

"Aruo, my name is Ruyi. The emperor named this Lang Shining's studio Ruyi Pavilion. Can you feel the emperor's deep love for me?"

Ah Ruo had recently used Jiang Yebin's medicine sent by Suo Xin, and the wound in her mouth had almost healed. She nodded obediently:

"Of course I know the emperor's feelings for you. You are so smart and beautiful. The emperor's heart is all about you."

Ruyi was happy, and when Lang Shining painted her portrait, she framed the painting and gave it to the emperor, who hung it in the Qianqing Palace for him to look at every day.

Inside the Ruyi Pavilion, Lang Shining, with his high nose, blue eyes, golden hair and white beard, is adding details to the double portrait of the emperor and empress.

He sometimes nodded and sometimes shook his head. In the West, the aesthetic standard for Oriental beauty is not like that of the queen. They like thin and long eyebrows, pouty lips, and bulging eyes.

"Master Lang, I'm here at a bad time. What are you busy with?"

Lang Shining looked up, oh my god, this is the standard oriental beauty in his mind,

"Oh, I have never seen a queen as beautiful as you. All the queens in the palace are so beautiful, but I can't paint their portraits. I can only paint the emperor and the queen."

Ruyi sighed, it was a pity for her natural beauty, "I also hope that one day you can paint a portrait for me."

Lang Shining shook his head. "I still don't understand the Qing Dynasty. Why does the emperor have so many concubines? Isn't it enough to have one proper partner?"

Ruyi's eyes lit up. Lang Shining was really her confidant. She smiled with narrowed eyes:

"Master Lang Shining is saying, 'In your country, a man only needs to be in love with one woman? He won't have feelings for other women?"

Lang Shining thought, oh no, his complaints were taken seriously by this lady. Although men in Great Britain only have one wife, men can have mistresses and women can have lovers. Their king has quite a few.

He could only change the subject and try to salvage what he had just said, "If there is no love anymore, a man can leave a wife he doesn't love, and a woman can leave a husband she doesn't love."

Ruyi lowered her head to think, then sighed and said, "How can a woman be born to love being a concubine, and how can a wife be born to love sharing her husband with others? Lord Lang's words today warmed my heart. I will go to the emperor to praise you."

Lang Shining had a bad feeling in his heart. Would this beautiful lady really go to the emperor and tell him about his remarks today?

Ruyi felt elated by Lang Shining's praise, and Lang Shining's words made her feel more confident.

She wanted to scare the emperor. If the emperor didn't cherish her, she would leave on her own initiative, and then the emperor would definitely treat her better.

A Ruo followed Ruyi and watched her master start to act stupidly again.

In the Qianqing Palace, Hongli was standing on a ladder admiring the treasures in the Treasure Pavilion. These were treasures that had been handed down in the great Chinese nation for thousands of years, and now they were all in his pocket. At this moment, he was extremely confident in his rule and his Qing Dynasty.

Seeing Ruyi coming, he wanted to ask her to come and appreciate these with her, but he saw Ruyi pouting and standing on the ground looking at him proudly.

"Your Majesty, I just went to Ruyi Pavilion and chatted with Lord Lang for a while. I was wondering, what if a husband can only have one wife and no concubines?"

The emperor was disdainful in his heart. Ruyi was too weak to control herself. She believed whatever others said.

"I think you are stupid. Why do you always think about Lang Shining's gossip? He says one thing to one person and another to another. No one believes him except you."

Ruyi pouted, "Your Majesty, I am just thinking, what if one day, all the men in the world, including you, only have wives and no concubines, or if the love between husband and wife has ended, the woman can also take the initiative to ask to leave, don't you want to be together for the rest of your life?"

Hongli sneered, Ruyi is just worshipping foreigners and doesn't take the Qing Dynasty seriously at all.

"Ruyi, have you ever thought about the fact that you and the other concubines in the harem are now living a life of luxury, supported by the whole world, and you don't have to pay anything, all because of me. If you want to ask for it or stay with me for the rest of your life, you must be capable of doing it yourself. You can't eat my food and use my things and still ask me to love you only. Besides, even if we are monogamous, my wife is the queen. She gave birth to my children, is filial to the empress, and helps me pacify the world. Can you do all this?"

"Besides, you said you envy the West. Let me ask you, what do you envy about the West? Although men in our Qing Dynasty can take concubines, they are given formal status, and even the titles of concubine and imperial concubine can be recorded in the imperial book. Even if they divorce, they can get compensation. However, the West enjoys keeping mistresses, and when women are abandoned, they get nothing and may even be killed directly. Have you ever thought about such a life? I think you are used to a life of luxury and have begun to worship foreigners."

Ruyi was shocked by the emperor's words. How could the emperor think like that? She really didn't know how to respond to the emperor.

So she pretended to be angry, "Your Majesty, in the final analysis, you just don't want to give up so many beautiful wives and concubines. You are not loyal enough."

Ruyi turned around and was about to leave. Before leaving, in order to show her anger, she actually grabbed the emperor's ladder and shook it a few times, "Hmph!"

The emperor was almost shaken down. He was so scared that he grabbed the ladder. The fear and anger in his heart made him forget that this was Ruyi. He called out to Ruyi: "Empress Xian, stop right there."

Ruyi thought that the emperor was going to give in to her, so she turned her head reluctantly. She thought that she would never forgive the emperor easily.

Unexpectedly, the emperor quickly came down from the ladder, threw away the magnifying glass in his hand, and called Li Yu directly, "Ruyi, you just pulled the ladder, are you angry with me, or are you trying to harm my body?"

Ruyi was stunned by the emperor's question. She was of course angry, but she couldn't admit it. If she admitted it, it would be disrespectful to the emperor. But she also couldn't admit that she was plotting to murder the emperor, which was a bigger crime. She could only stare at the emperor blankly. The emperor now seemed very unfamiliar to her.

"Your Majesty, haven't we been joking like this before? You and I are like brothers, and our friendship is like that of brothers. Is there anything we can't do?"

The emperor sat in his seat. Today he must let Ruyi know how bad his behavior was.

"Ruyi, it's true that you and I knew each other when we were young, but now, you are Concubine Xian, my concubine. We must first be monarch and subject, and then husband and wife. You must respect me and strictly abide by the palace rules."

Ruyi blinked, her heart ached, "Your Majesty, you clearly said that I can say anything in front of you. On the day of our wedding, you even said that you would only have me as your wife..."

The emperor slammed the table and said, "Ruyi, that's enough! Who doesn't talk nonsense sometimes? That day you said that it was my brother who came to judge, but in the end, didn't you accept my Ruyi and become my concubine? Since you can change, why can't I? Besides, what you want is not a lifelong couple, but three thousand beauties in the harem, and three thousand favors in one person, right?"

After the emperor said these words, he finally felt relieved. "For your behavior today, I should punish you severely, but considering that this is your first offense, I will only let you go back and confine yourself to your house to reflect on your mistakes. If you do it again, I will never forgive you."

"Li Yu, send Concubine Xian back!"

Ruyi wiped the tears from her face. She needed time to digest the emperor's words. The emperor's words today showed no mercy to her at all. He almost said that she was useless. She thought that maybe the emperor cared too much about his face. She bowed to the emperor and followed Li Yu.

The emperor was feeling bored and decided to go to Qixiang Palace to have a chat with the outspoken, beautiful and lovely Jiapin. Although Jiapin was not from the West, she was also a foreign tribute girl. He wanted to ask Jiapin whether there was such a rule in the Yu family.

In Qixiang Palace, Jin Yuyan served the emperor dinner. Listening to the emperor's frustrated complaints, she realized that it was Ruyi who caused the trouble again. She sneered and decided that today she would use her "yo" to make the emperor sober up a little.

"Yuyan, don't you think what Concubine Xian did today was too much? She scared me."

Yuyan lay in the emperor's arms, and stretched out her cool hand to touch the emperor's smooth chin.

"Oh~ Your Majesty, don't be angry. Let me say that Concubine Xian is indeed too much. You are not only the husband of the concubines, but also the monarch of the world. How can you use those ordinary people from foreign countries to demand you? Besides, if Concubine Xian really wants to live a monogamous life, she can marry into the poorest farming family and work with them. That would satisfy her. She wants both wealth and glory, and your unique sincerity. It's really difficult for you."

The emperor was very pleased to hear Jin Yuyan's words. He held Jin Yuyan's hand and said: ...