Exile Queen is Beloved
Chapter 6 - Spying

Arriving at the palace, it was Yuan Shi himself who brought Liu Qing into the cold palace. This time he looked very angry and did not want his wife to come out of the cold palace. Yuan Shi forcibly pulled the empress into the room and warned her and tightened the guard. The atmosphere of the cold palace was now increasingly crowded due to the tightening of the guard that Yuan Shi had done, even the man sent twenty more servants to serve his wife while inside the palace.

"Let go! Is this how you've treated your queen all this time?" the Liu Qing.

"I don't want you to go anywhere, obey my orders this time! As long as I carry out my imperial duties you are barred from the outside of this palace, all your needs will be prepared if necessary I will bring several tens more servants for you!" Yuan Shi gently touched Qing' Er's cheek.

In his heart, he deeply yearned for the calmness and peaceful attitude that Qing Er had always shown him. But, somehow Liu Qing's attitude this time was more sincere and natural than he used to be obedient and always agreed with Yuan Shi's words like a puppet that the emperor could arrange himself. Yuan Shi also did not want to confine Qing' Er in the cold palace, but Liu Qing's existence within the harem palace could endanger the woman's own life, especially in the eyes of the Wu Clan, however, the existence of Liu Qing within the harem palace could endanger the life of the woman herself, the clan that had the great power of the queen mother behind him.

After the death of the previous emperor, Yuan Shi as the crown prince and the son of a concubine had to replace his father as emperor. While the queen mother was the widow of the previous emperor and the first person who did not approve of Yuan Shi and Liu Qing's relationship, because the queen mother's real hope was to Wu Zetian who was from the same clan as her, the Wu Clan.

However Yuan Shi, always holding fast to his mother's message, he had to be detached from everything that made him governed by the person behind him no matter how strong they were. Instead of marrying his cousin Wu Zetian and making him queen, Yuan Shi decided to marry his best friend Liu Qing as a condition of ascending the throne that he had to do at the time.

After the queen mother's beloved sister who was none other than Wu Zetian's father became seriously ill, the Wu Clan then urged Yuan Shi to marry his cousin's sister. Wu Zetian had great strength as well as the support of the clan and the queen mother, she was a woman who was always in the hype as the emperor's favorite concubine. His image in society is very good and inversely proportional to the image of Liu Qing who is always considered a burden because he never showed his skills to everyone.

Liu Qing is a person who likes to be alone, she rarely attends official events even though she is a queen. Therefore, she is famous as an outcast queen who according to the public is a queen who never even accompanied and introduced by the emperor.

After Wu Zetian's arrival to the harem palace, Emperor Yuan Shi immediately gave the order to move Liu Qing to the cold palace as well as all harem matters were fully held by Wu Zetian. It was not without reason, as all of that he did at the request of the queen mother, except for the decision to move Liu Qing to the cold palace. It was only the only way Yuan Shi could protect Liu Qing. In his opinion, the less Liu Qing dealt with the empire then it would be safer for him.

Unfortunately, Yuan Shi himself had never thought about Liu Qing's feelings. He locked Liu Qing up as he wished, rarely even visiting him on the grounds of duty. Qing Er's life in the cold palace was no different like a bird in a cage in Yuan Shi's grasp. That was, the thing that was now causing Su Mian to be angry at Yuan Shi.

Their two eyeballs exchanged, Yuan Shi gently pulled Qing's hand 'Er and drew closer towards the large bed that belonged to her consort. "I've always loved you" Yuan Shi said.

"If you really love me there's no way I'll be stuck here" Qing's Er said. But what Su Mian really meant was that he who was now trapped in the Xia Dynasty could not even return to the future in order to carry out a mission to regain the love of an ignorant emperor in front of him that.

"Don't you believe me?" ask Yuan Shi.

"I can't!" Yuan shi said as he turned his face away. "The empire is already running like this, it will remain safe if you are here, I promise to meet you every day as long as you don't rebel much and never leave me!" continued.

"You're so selfish, have you ever thought about Qing Er's feelings? Caged like this like a bird in a cage!" Su Mian did not even realize that he said things according to the heart of the original owner of the body, even now his eyes felt sore and hot as if he was going to shed tears.

"Rest! Tomorrow there will be an event to celebrate the anniversary of the empire! You must look so beautiful compared to the others." Yuan Shi moved from his seat then gently touched Liu Qing's cheek.

Liu Qing brushed away her tears that did not even fall from her eyelids. "I will attend, give me the freedom to do anything while I don't take care of the harem palace!" the Pinta Qing 'Er.

"Alright, do as you wish while not humiliating the empire," Yuan Shi replied.

After Yuan Shi left, Liu Qing raised the corner of his upper lip to sneer at himself and Yuan Shi. "The owner of this body is so sensitive and weak, I'm almost carried away by his true nature." Su Mian complained while patting her forehead.

"And so, that man! The way to show love really seems dominant and annoying. No wonder she was an emperor, but holding the person she loved in the cold palace and letting her woman get her nickname as an outcast queen was cruel!

He did nothing, not even make his wife's image improve in society. Actually who was working behind to suppress it? Why did he look like a puppet emperor who did not have any strength to defend his own wife?" a million questions flashed through Su Mian's mind who was now lying down while enjoying the air from the open window of the room.

His gaze was immediately upon someone who was watching him behind a tree. Without a second thought, Liu Qing directly grabbed his sword at the corner of the room then threw himself out the window. The black-clothed man with the black mask earlier shot out quickly, but it was fortunate that Liu Qing's movements were also no less fast that he was able to catch up to him. Just as the man was about to jump on top of the cold palace walls, Qing Er's sword had already slashed his calf and he had fallen right at Liu Qing's feet.

Liu Qing's sword tip was now pointed right at the neck of the man lying on the ground. "Listen, Qing'Er It's me Ji!" said the man while opening his face cover.

Liu Qing furrowed his brows, still flinging his sword at the man. "General Ji? What are you doing?"