Chapter 398 - 12.6
"How’s the Empress right now? Did you ration his food?" Huang Shu asked the head eunuch that he ordered to ration Bai Yunyu’s food. The head eunuch nodded obediently and replied,
"Yes, Your Majesty. His Highness, Empress Xiuying, only eat rice bowl and tofu, also boiled fish for dinner, nothing more than that," the head eunuch said.
Huang Shu nodded and ordered the head eunuch to leave. He continued eating his breakfast in his room. He saw the amount of breakfast in front of him. Meat, fish, herbal tea, even cakes from other nations. Usually, he would eat this every morning with his beloved wife Bai Yunyu before his wife got banished to the Cold Palace.
Of course, the urge of Huang Shu giving all this food to Bai Yunyu. Because he knew that Bai Yunyu hadn’t eaten anything for breakfast. He always lost his appetite whenever he remembered about Bai Yunyu. Because he was afraid that something might happen to Bai Yunyu during his banishment in Cold Palace.
But Bai Yunyu was too stubborn, even though it was obvious that he was the wrong one here.
His wife was enduring punishment right now. Huang Shu was a disciplined man who held honour and justice for his nation piously. Even though it was difficult for him to punish his wife, he had to do it because his wife had committed a serious crime.
"And he dares to call my... our family as lesser than rats..." Huang Shu pondered. He was both furious and disappointed at Bai Yunyu. Because he always believed that Bai Yunyu was a kindhearted, intelligent, and perfect Ger man.
But Yunyu betrayed him by scheming to kill his own child, the Crown Prince.
Huang Shu stared at the food in front of him. Even though he always rejected breakfast after Bai Yunyu got banished to the Cold Palace, his mother, Empress Dowager Aixi, always insisted on eating healthy to forget the sorrow and even proposed Imperial Noble Concubine Xi to replace his wife for breakfast.
But nobody could replace Bai Yunyu at this table, just like nobody would ever replace Bai Yunyu in his heart.
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