My Devil Emperor
Punishment and Blessing

The susana of the palace hall was already filled with several ministers and high officials of the empire. This was the official visit of the Kingdom of Wei so important people were in the meeting.

The Emperor sat on his throne with the Empress on his left side.

"I don't think you'll dare to come here," Zi Xuan said opening her voice to the few people in front of her.

"For the matter created by my daughter, I apologize, Your Majesty. He used to be spoiled by me so as to make it this way," explained King Yinluo politely. While Bingyan's daughter only put on her lazy face when she heard the words of the ruler of Wei who was a pity it was her father.

"You clearly know that your daughter's mistake is an unforgivable mistake. Do you want to hand over your daughter to be punished now?"

"No parent wants his daughter punished, Your Honor. Servant begs for your mercy to forgive her and talk about marriage."

"Dad!" bingyan's interruption with a flushed face in anger. His father still did not give up on getting him married to the emperor.

"Shut your mouth!" he said firmly to his daughter.

Zi Xuan looked at the father and son in silence, then he returned to his voice. "Your daughter not only harmed me, but also harmed many others. One of them was the first princess of the Zhou kingdom who is now my wife, Empress Zhou Yanli."

The gaze of King Yinluo fell on the female sitting by the side of Emperor Zi Xuan. He looked at Yuan with disdain.

"Isn't that so, my Empress?" zi Xuan asked as he tidied a few strands of Yuan hair at the temple.

"Your Majesty the Emperor and the Empress, may I have permission to speak?" wei Bingyan.

King Yinluo stared intently at Princess Bingyan, but the boy did not care about her at all.

"Please," Zi Xuan said giving permission.

"You've got the empress and I think the queen mother must have blessed you too. For the trouble I made, I apologize, but please do not force this marriage. Just give me the death penalty!" The statement from Princess Bingyan certainly made her father very angry.

"Bingy! What are you saying?!"

While Yuan who noticed the circumstances had already managed to pull the red thread. This marriage was indeed unwanted by Bingyan's daughter. Regardless of whether the person he married was an emperor or not, handsome or not, he really did not care. That's why he ran away. This was all the plan of his father.

"Why don't you want to marry the Emperor? If you marry her, can't you have everything?" The question Yuan was asking made everyone look towards Wei Bingyan. Waiting for the answer to what he will give.

Wei Bingyan smiled faintly before replying, "I'm a princess, I already have enough of everything. If I may ask, I would rather be a simple peasant child but have family affection than a noble daughter bound by many rules. I can't even choose the person I want to marry. What's more to suffer than this?"

Although the atmosphere was silent, but some people confirmed what Wei Bingyan said.

"I also apologize to Her Majesty the Empress for what I did, now you can't be with your loved ones either." Further.

Yuan smiled faintly. "Everything's happened. No need to blame yourself anymore."

Bingyan smiled and said, "Your Majesty has a good wife. Looks like you guys are meant to be together, so I will accept His Majesty's punishment, but please don't force me to get married."

"Bingy! Your Majesty, don't take his words seriously." King Yinluo cupped his hands together on his chest.

"Your daughter should get the death penalty. Deceiving the Emperor, harming others, and destroying the marriage the Queen Mother made." Zi Xuan flatly said.

"Why are you doing this when you should ask for forgiveness, Princess Bingyan?" asked Yuan astonished.

"Someone who is deeply loved will never know the feelings of the person who never gets love. When I was in your palace, I could feel the affection of the family and everyone in the palace. You have a mother, father, brother and ex-lover who love you. I'm just my father's own chess piece. Until the end, even I still can't be with the people I love. It is better to hasten my death, even if His Majesty forgives me at this time, he might kill me on the way back." A few seconds after uttering it, a fairly loud slap sound resounded in the imperial hall.

"Please! You dare to do rudeness in front of me?! You don't appreciate me?!" said Zi Xuan raising his voice.

Everyone also looked surprised but unlike Yuan whose face instantly stiffened. This was the first time he had seen the man angry.

"There are many ways to teach children other than by violence. Your YinLuo King is too impulsive. How could you slap your daughter in public? This is tantamount to humiliating him," Yuan said after feeling a little calm.

"You continue. It is you who decide to remember you are the victim. I'm following your decision." ZiXuan relaxed his body after saying so.

Everyone was even more astonished when they heard what Emperor Xuan said to his empress. This was the first time the man had handed over his affairs to someone else.

"There's still the Queen Mother. Why did His Majesty hand it over to me?"

"Daughter-in-law, didn't you notice that I was just quiet from earlier? That means I'm too lazy to talk to them. Princess Bingyan has humiliated us so much already, do you think if I handle it, they will still be alive? Deceiving the empire was an unforgivable crime," Lian Chun said in an open voice.

Yuan swallowed his saliva which felt like a nail. Sure enough, when he saw the Queen Mother, the expression of the middle-aged woman did look sinister. Like a cruel stepmother who wants to torture her child.

"If it wasn't because I liked you and you're a pretty good son-in-law with a good background, it wouldn't be hard for me to give him a seven-derivative sentence."

"Ah, then just me," Yuan said quickly.

ZiXuan held back a laugh when he realized the girl beside him was stiffening.

"Your Majesty, how about just forgiving him? I mean don't give him a heavy sentence," Yuan said a little hesitantly.

"Then how do you punish him?"

"I will not only punish him but also give him a gift, is it okay?"

"Say."

"The Royal Princess of Wei, Wei Bingyan deceived the Imperial family. Punishing him not to leave his palace for four months, no one should visit except a waiter who delivers food. Since the two rejected you for someone, after the time of her punishment, I Empress Xuan asked humbly to King YinLuo to marry her to the man of her choice. Let him choose his own life. I gave him my protection. It's a punishment for father and son, isn't it?"

Everyone is silent. It was no wonder Empress Xuan had such distant thoughts. Isn't this too good?

"Pardon me, Your Majesty the Empress. But this is not a good thing. Didn't you think about it? Because your heart is so soft that if something like this happens later on, they will assume that cheating the empire is not a big thing? They will think you will also forgive them like today? If so, the rules will not be enforced again," said a minister who looks old enough to express his objections.

"You mean, Your Majesty is getting married again? You're trying to find her a concubine?"

"No, it's not like it—"

"Then it is changed. No need for confinement, give Princess Bingyan 50 drunken sentences. It's not gonna die, is it?" tanya while looking at ZiXuan.

"It won't die, but it might be able to directly bring it to the afterlife," ZiXuan replied with a faint smile.

"Ah? Your Majesty, I really cannot think of the right punishment for him. You only. But don't kill him."

"Write decree. Write down everything Empress Xuan said and add the punishment of 20 whips for her. What do you think, Minister Qiu?" he told the minister who had raised objections.

"His Majesty the Emperor, just and wise."

"Does anyone mind anymore?"

"No, Your Majesty," everyone replied in unison.

"Thank you to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress. Long live His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress."

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