Chapter 1: Chapter 1: A Wild Seed
"Is it true that Princess Zhao Yang is still kneeling at Wen De Palace?"
"I passed by Wen De Palace in the afternoon and she was still kneeling there. Under such a
hot sun..."
"I say, how can the majesty still meet her? How
can he pretend as if nothing had happened?"
"The noble consort did something wrong and waited for something bad to happen. This is an act of treason against the emperor! How will his majesty be able to pardon the mother and
daughter?"
"I am afraid that after a few days, there will be two less people in the palace!" Three court ladies huddled together at the
corner, gossiping about the recent palace scandal that shocked everyone. Yesterday, the noble consort and Princess Zhao Yang still held their heads up high above everyone else. Before a day had even passed, the gossip had spread
among the lower court ladies.
Someone exposed the affair between the noble consort and the imperial guard. Before they could prove it otherwise, the noble consort admitted to the sin herself and even claimed that Princess Zhao Yang was not his majesty's biological daughter!
On the day when Princess Zhao Yang was born,
auspicious clouds descended upon the living.
His majesty had finally ascended to the throne.
Even though his majesty had so many princesses, he loved the youngest 11th
princess the most.
Once she was born, he bestowed a title on her. The little princess was then brought up by his majesty himself. Other princesses spent their life mostly beside their own mothers, only Princess Zhao Yang grew up in Wen De Palace
and was taught solely by the emperor.
The noble consort was awarded her title because of her daughter. She was originally only a beauty without title or placements, but in the previous 10 over years she rose through the ranks without fail until she achieved the title of noble consort. After the empress had passed away, she became the highest ranking person
inside the harem. How could anyone not despise and get jealous
at all?
After the incident happened, the whole court sat back and enjoyed their scandal. The extremely angry emperor had not given an
official imperial order yet. He only told the imperial soldiers to arrest the noble consort and abandon her in the cold palace.
When the emperor left the noble consort's Guan Ju Palace, Princess Zhao Yang face paled and tried to chase after the emperor, begging him to stop for a while but the emperor did not heed her words.
That was the moment that the whole imperial court knew that this mother daughter duo's
future was utterly ruined. It made everyone celebrate with glee!
They thought that this was not yet enough, they wanted to see the mother and daughter pair
descend to even miserable depths.
Li Zhen Zhen kneeled on the jade brick road in front of Wen De Palace.
She, Jiao Jiao was brought up lovingly. If she was even forced to walk a few steps more, it would bring pain to her Fu Huang's heart. She now kneeled at this place for the entirety of the whole day under the scorching hot sun.
The eunuchs didn't dare to look at how the young lady matured physically.
"Get out." Li Yue bellowed.
Gao Sheng led the whole team of eunuchs out of the room.
Li Zhen Zhen wept while she laid on the floor,
her whole thoughts concentrated on how her Fu
Huang had used the term "wild seed", her heart
was filled with pain as she realized she was no
longer worthy enough to be next to him.
Li Yue's heart was in a mess when he heard her
cry. He opened his mouth to deliver a diatribe
that was increasingly icy:
"You are a wild seed, how dare you think you are worthy enough to cry in front of Zen?"
Li Zhen Zhen raised her gaze and looked at the
Fu Huang who adored her the most. She was
brought up blind to worldly affairs, and her Fu Huang unforgivingly labelled her a "wild seed".
Her sorrow was so deep that she had lost hope.
She unknowingly asked: "Fu Huang, are you
going to kill Zhen Zhen?"
"You dare think you are worthy enough to call Zen that?" Li Zhen Zhen's tears flowed resembling a hibiscus caught in the middle of the rain. She
then asked: "Your majesty, are you going to
execute Zhen Zhen?"
Li Yue coldly laughed: "Zen won't just kill you
alone. Your wh05e of a mother, and your whole
maternal line leading up those who are nine
times removed will be fully executed."
When Li Zhen Zhen heard this, her face
blanched even further, she sobbed while saying:
"Fu Huang, no, your majesty, your majesty,
please I beg you to pardon the life of my
Consort mother. Zhen Zhen will die
wholeheartedly in place of Consort mother. If
you agree to pardon my Consort mother and
my maternal family, Zhen Zhen is willing to die,
I swear..."
When Li Yue heard those words, his expression
darkened even further.
Li Zhen Zhen was scared when she looked at him. Her whole body was infused with pain as she crawled forward, depleting her nearly
empty energy even further.
Li Yue's mind blanked out on other things while he looked at her crawling in his direction. In the
midst of her movements, the short jacket that
was on her shoulders slipped down, exposing
the exquisitely rounded snowy left shoulder. Li Zhen Zhen didn't realize her state of undress
then. She clenched her teeth while dragging
herself to reach the dais, then she lifted her
head up. Her dripping tears were even more
lustrous than the pearls in her hairpin.
She begged while crying: "Your majesty, Zhen
Zhen is a wild seed. You should only kill Zhen
Zhen, your, your majesty should let Zhen Zhen's Consort mother and my maternal family go. Zhen Zhen is begging you, your majesty."
LI Zhen Zhen stubbornly held on to a half
kneeling position, kowtowing while hitting her head on the floor again and again. Her forehead started to become red but Li Yue didn't move
from his position from the start till the end.
Li Zhen Zhen could feel her sorrow spread further to deaden her heart, her desperate cries
rising in agony, yet she continued hitting her head on the ground.
Her hair was already in a mess. She originally wore a full set of pearl hair ornaments and it fell off little by little until only one was left. Now that hairpin was swaying precariously on its last hold.
Wisps of hair floated down to cover her temples.
Li Yue was like a war weapon when he coldly assessed her face in one sweep, his gaze then
moved downwards, the young girl's shoulders were fully exposed from the jacket that slipped off. The wisp of jet black hair swept occasionally on the white luster of her rounded shoulders.
His gaze moved downwards and he saw that her waist strap was getting looser due to her movements. The short jacket had already slipped off early on, so the white dudou that was embroidered with more hibiscus flowers was now half exposed.
The dudou was exquisite and yet it could not completely cover the young girl's voluptuous chest. The two pale and tender tits were squeezed
inside the dudou, so when she kowtowed, her
two tits jiggled with her movements. When she bowed down, the outline from her
back till her a5s was shown clearly.
When Li Zhen Zhen had her period at 14, she was so frightened that she hid in her bed and cried. When he knew what had happened, he cheerfully went in to hug her and kissed her
face. He soothed her by saying:
"Be good and don't be scared, Zer's little
princess has finally grown up."
Li Zhen Zhen could not comprehend his words: "Grown up?"
"Zen's princess is now ready for marriage." Li Yue begrudgingly said.
Li Zhen Zhen was so shocked that she buried her face on his chest and cried:
"Zhen Zhen don't want to marry, Zhen Zhen
wants to be beside Fu Huang forever."
After that, Li Yue did not hug her any longer,
because his daughter had grown up. Within the year that he avoided hugging her, she
was slowly blossoming.
Li Zhen Zhen sobs broke him from his reverie:
"Your majesty, please pardon Consort mother and spare her life, Your majesty, Zhen Zhen is begging you... woo..." Li Zhen Zhen wept until her voice was hoarse and her vision blurred.
Li Yue bent down his head, her dudou had loosened even further, the young girl's beautiful
t1ts were now within his reach.
Li Yue softly said: "It is possible to spare her
life."
"Your majesty!" Li Zhen Zhen raised her head to look at him, her face was full of surprise and delight.
She always had this expression every time she received something she liked from him.
So much so that it became an instinctual habit
of hers.
Li Yue bent his waist, his fingers reached out to slowly caress the young girl's face. In the end
he raised his hands to rest it on top of her head and pulled out the pearl hairpin so that her jet black hair fluttered down in a curtain. Zhen Zhen raised her head up in a daze then called him subconsciously:
"Fu Huang?"
Li Yue went mute while his eyes started to dry
up.