Chapter 395 - 12.3
"Your Majesty, I think that you’re doing this out of duty. I know that Your Majesty is a responsible Emperor. Thus, I will ease your burden. You don’t need to visit me again, Your Majesty."
"What do you mean?" Huang Shu frowned as he looked at how nonchalant and cold Bai Yunyu, no, his wife was. "You’re still my wife, my Empress, Bai Yunyu. Even if you’ve moved to a different palace, it doesn’t mean that I don’t have any responsibility for you."
"This one believes that Your Majesty has done the utmost best to take care of me. Look at my lavish coat right now," Bai Yunyu said sarcastically. But there was a lingering smile on his face as if he had accepted everything.
"Your Majesty, please don’t address me as your wife so lightly. This humble one believes that a wife is for one’s man to address his beloved. It is a sacred word. At least for me, I do believe addressing someone as his wife is a sign of endearment, means that you are loving that person from the moon and back."
"But I still—" Huang Shu wanted to utter something before Bai Yunyu snipped his words.
"Which I have to consider, that Your Majesty lacks such basic skill," Yunyu lowered his head, so Huang Shu couldn’t see his face. But for Huang Shu, he had imagined that Bai Yunyu was either sneering out of contempt or showing a bitter smile out of pain.
And Huang Shu couldn’t bear either of them. He didn’t want to see that kind of expression in Bai Yunyu’s face, especially in his current state, where he was frail and sickly, unlike the vigorous youth he was ten years ago or the enchanting beauty still bewitched Huang Shu two years ago.
Bai Yunyu right now was in a very pitiful state. He was just skin and bones, ghastly pale, and his body constantly shivered when a cold wind blew, telling him that he was not in good condition right now.
But it was Bai Yunyu’s fault that he messed everything up. It would be too difficult to fix unless he would want to repent for all his sins to the Empress Dowager and Concubine Xi.