"Why have you come, Your Majesty?" Xia Ruqing asked, blinking her sparkling eyes.
Zhao Junyao looked at her fair, healthy-looking face and her big, starry eyes, feeling a stir in his heart. Half his troubles seemed to vanish in an instant.
"It's nothing, I just came to check on you!"
Xia Ruqing stared at him for a moment.
His face is as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he says it's nothing—who would believe that? Still, it was normal for the Emperor to be in a bad mood.
She had also occasionally heard some things from her brother about matters outside the palace. It was said that Zhao Junqi had committed treason against the Great Chu Dynasty. Such a crime was akin to rebellion—punishable by death!
No wonder he's in a foul mood, having to execute his own cousin!
