Fantasy: Empress Wife, Cute Kids Cause Havoc in Jiuzhou

Long Yurou glanced at Ye Hongxue, nodded slightly, and said, "Go."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Ye Hongxue bowed respectfully again and then turned to Chu Xin and Chu Chen, admonishing, "Ai Chirou, Ai Kaorou, you mustn't be reckless."

"Oh!"

Chu Xin and Chu Chen nodded together.

After Ye Hongxue had left the Imperial Study Room, she finally let out a great sigh of relief.

A breeze blew by, her back cold with chills, and she suddenly realized her back was soaked with cold sweat.

"These two rascals, I don't know what's gotten into them, they never used to be this impulsive."

Ye Hongxue muttered under her breath, glanced at the Imperial Study Room, and turned to leave.

It was too dangerous to stay with these two troublemakers; who knew if they might provoke the Empress into a rage, resulting in her own beheading. It was safer to keep her distance.

But after only a few steps, she stopped again, unable to rid herself of the worry for the two troublemakers. What if they truly angered the Empress?

If she stayed, perhaps she could find a way to plead for them.

With that thought, she bit her lip, and ultimately, she did not leave, but neither did she return to the Imperial Study Room; she just stood outside.

At that moment, the voice of the Empress Long Yurou once again came from inside the Imperial Study Room.

"Your names are Ai Chirou and Ai Kaorou? Can you tell me your real names?"

She wanted to win over the family behind these two troublemakers, and the first step was to find out which power they were from.

"We can't!"

Chu Chen shook his head decisively, saying in a childish tone: "Daddy said, children must protect themselves when they are outside, and they should not casually tell their real names to bad people."

Chu Xin didn't speak, just blinked her large eyes, tilting her head to look at Long Yurou. She felt a tiny bit of familiarity about this Empress aunty, but just as she was about to focus on that feeling, she got distracted by the imperial might emanating from her.

After more than three years as the Empress, Long Yurou's aura had completely changed from the beginning. The imperial might became more and more profound, nearly masking her original aura entirely.

This was also why Chu Feng, upon first meeting her, did not associate her with his wife Rou.

Although Long Yurou was not wearing the Divine Artifact mask, enabling Chu Xin and the others to see her face clearly, they did not know what their own mother looked like. Coupled with the imposing imperial might which was nothing like the gentle mother their father had described, they couldn't possibly connect this Empress to their own mother.

"I am the Jiuzhou Empress, not a bad person."

Long Yurou tried to make her tone as gentle as possible and put on a kindly smile to avoid frightening the two troublemakers.

"But your current appearance makes you look like a baddie who wants to kidnap children."

Chu Xin said earnestly.

"..."

The smile on Long Yurou's face froze momentarily, and she inadvertently touched her face before smiling again and asking, "Do I look that bad?"

"Yes!"

Chu Xin and Chu Chen nodded without hesitation, their round eyes filled with expectation as they gazed at Long Yurou. They had been so impudent, why hadn't the Empress become angry and locked them up in the Heavenly Prison yet?

A twitch formed at the corner of Long Yurou's mouth. As the Jiuzhou Empress and the most beautiful woman in Jiuzhou, she had never been spoken to like this; she couldn't help but feel rage.

However, she didn't take it out on the two troublemakers.

She thought of the time; her own two children in Big Stone Village should be about the same age as these two.

They should be much more obedient than these two troublemakers.

Long Yurou thought to herself.

Ye Hongxue, standing outside the Imperial Study Room, upon hearing this dialogue, couldn't help but feel her legs weaken, nearly dropping to her knees again.

That was the Empress of Jiuzhou, the most exalted person in Jiuzhou. Who would have dared speak to the Empress that way before? These two were incredibly bold.

However, what surprised her was that the Empress had not become angry.

On second thought, perhaps the Empress was trying to win over the power behind the two troublemakers, or maybe she was planning for them to replace the Heavenly Pride of Central State, to compete against the Heavenly Pride of Longzhou.

Previously, when she came to report to the Empress, she happened to see the State Governor of Longzhou leaving the Imperial Palace. It was only after she saw the Empress and asked that she learned the State Governor of Longzhou had brought the Longzhou Heavenly Pride to challenge the Central State Heavenly Pride, thereby forcing the Empress to abdicate.

That was when she suggested letting the two youngsters join Central State and fight as its Heavenly Pride.

But to become the Heavenly Pride of Central State, they needed a status.

So, before that, she deliberately led the two young ones, wanting them to acknowledge the Empress as their godmother.

The Empress must have wanted the two youngsters to confront the Longzhou Heavenly Pride as well, which is why she had been enduring all this while.

But she felt that if this continued, the Empress's patience would eventually run out.

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At this time, within the Imperial Study Room, Long Yurou took a deep breath to calm her somewhat irritable mood and once again revealed what she considered a kind smile. With a wave of her jade hand, two Sumeru Rings floated in the air.

"You assisted the Central State army in suppressing the rebellion in Demon State and have contributed to the Empire, this is your reward."

Long Yurou said with a smile.

Chu Chen's eyes lit up and asked, "Is it a good treasure?"

"Of course!"

Long Yurou nodded.

"Thank you, Auntie Empress."

Chu Chen picked up one of the Sumeru Rings to take a look, and his round eyes immediately crinkled with joy.

Although these things were still of no use to him, their quality was much better than most of the treasures he had plundered from the Holy Lands and State Mansions.

Chu Xin hesitated for a moment, then picked up the remaining Sumeru Ring and made a point of stressing, "This is our reward; it doesn't count as taking advantage of you."

"Of course not."

Long Yurou nodded, her face breaking into a bright smile, finally understanding the two brats' preferences.

Only then did Chu Xin relax and began to explore the treasures within the Sumeru Ring. There were several dozen items in total, all Holy Artifacts, and one of them was even an Emperor's Artifact.

All of them were great treasures.

Chu Xin's round eyes narrowed into little crescents, and she happily gathered them up.

Seeing this, Long Yurou smiled and said, "Could you possibly do me a favor?"

"No way!"

No sooner had Chu Chen put away the Sumeru Ring than he became wary and quickly shook his head, saying, "Empress, you seem like a bad person, and Daddy said not to help bad people, otherwise it's called 'abusing pork knuckles.'"

Abusing pork knuckles?

What on earth is that?

Long Yurou was baffled. Was this kid calling me a pork knuckle?

She took a deep breath and chanted 'children will say anything' several times in her heart.

Smack!

Chu Xin slapped Chu Chen on the back of his head, speaking with an exasperated tone, "Stupid brother, it's not called 'abusing pork knuckles,' it's called 'aiding tyranny,' I've told you to read more, how come your head's filled with pigs?"

Aiding tyranny?

Long Yurou suddenly understood, yet she felt a mix of laughter and helplessness, unable to associate 'aiding tyranny' with 'abusing pork knuckles.'

Then, Chu Xin turned Chu Chen's head toward Long Yurou and pointed at her, saying, "Look, does the Empress look like a pig?"

"She doesn't."

Chu Chen obediently nodded.

Long Yurou finally nodded with relief, but it quickly dawned on her that this conversation, while seemingly in her defense, still felt like an insult to her.

Chu Xin then lifted the toy piggy and said, "You see, the pig looks much kinder and friendlier than the Empress."

Long Yurou: "..."