Five years after her death, she awoke on the dragon bed.

Chapter 149 I never hated you back then
Having no other choice, Consort De gathered all the servants of Changqiu Palace, intending to interrogate them one by one.

In order to save herself, she had no choice but to do her best to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Of course, she couldn't let this time bomb remain in Changqiu Palace; she had to find this person to prevent him from being framed again in the future.

Dinner was ready in Xianfu Palace. Lou Suyi sat at the table and waited for a while. Seeing that Murong had not returned, she thought that she should eat first. Perhaps Murong would have dinner in Changqiu Palace?
She had barely started eating when Murong returned.

She immediately put down her chopsticks and stepped forward warmly, saying, "I was helping His Majesty taste the dishes when His Majesty returned."

Murong knew perfectly well that she was just greedy and didn't want to wait for him before eating.
He didn't expose her, and simply took his seat.

Lou Suyi looked slightly embarrassed. Was he angry because she hadn't waited for him to have dinner?
To make up for her small mistake, she enthusiastically served him food, subtly diverting his attention: "I heard that Consort De bought mutton fat outside the palace. Did Your Majesty go to see Consort De just now? What was the result?"

Murong recounted the events of questioning Consort De, and concluded, "Someone must have framed Consort De. Even if Consort De is dull-witted, she couldn't possibly have left such obvious evidence."

Lou Suyi thought this made sense.

Furthermore, Consort De has been under house arrest recently, so unless something unexpected happens, it means someone is trying to frame her.

Honestly, if this frame-up succeeds and something happens to her child, Murong might take her anger out on Consort De in a fit of rage and punish her severely.

This shows that the person who committed the crime also included Consort De in their scheme.

"If Consort De was truly framed, then there must be a traitor in Changqiu Palace, or perhaps a spy by Consort De's side." Lou Suyi felt this was highly likely.

Murong said, "There is another possibility: like Consort Wan, someone in Changqiu Palace is being controlled."

Lou Suyi clicked her tongue in amazement, feeling that the methods and ways to harm people in the palace were endless.

"I think I should have a little prince," Lou Suyi said with a smile.

Murong looked at her upon hearing this.

“There are always people trying to harm my child, simply because they’re worried I’ll give birth to a prince. If my womb is cooperative and I do give birth to a prince, wouldn’t that person be furious?” Lou Suyi said, feeling a particularly good appetite.

Murong Wan'er: "Then you will give me a big, fat son."

Lou Suying touched her pregnant belly and murmured to herself, "Did you hear that? If you're a boy, your father and mother will be happy. Of course, if you're a girl, your mother will love you very much too."

If it were a daughter, with a father like Murong, she would likely grow up pampered and spoiled.

Murong echoed, "If it were a princess, I would love her just as much as you do. Whether it's a prince or a princess, I love them both."

Lou Suyi received a single sentence from the emperor, and suddenly felt that life was full of hope.

At least her child will have a loving father, instead of being disliked by her own parents and growing up alone, stumbling and struggling.

That night, nestled in Murong's arms, she suddenly felt a pang of emotion: "I suddenly realize that following His Majesty isn't so bad after all. All crows are black, but His Majesty is far better than other men."

Since all men have multiple wives and concubines, and she couldn't change her fate of being a concubine, she might as well follow Murong, the king who held the power of life and death over everyone in the world. "From what you're saying, you used to feel that being my woman was a disservice to you?" Murong gently pinched her nose.

Lou Suyi felt that his actions were a little too intimate and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

But he didn't seem angry, and even seemed interested in chatting.

“It’s not that I feel wronged, it’s just that I would feel very tired competing with so many women for one man. Besides, once I enter the harem, I will lose my freedom and my life will be predictable. I used to think about marrying a poor man as my wife, unlike my aunt who was a concubine and lived her whole life trying to win the love of one man. How pathetic that would be. I don’t want to live a life as stifled as my aunt.”

Lou Suying never told anyone about these things. First, no one could empathize with her, and second, she had spent the first half of her life trying to escape the Lou family, so no one in the Lou family could understand her.

"So when you took a liking to Xie Qing back then, you were actually attracted to his background and thought you could marry him and become his legal wife?" Murong suddenly realized.

"And another thing, he's quite good-looking. If I marry him, our children will probably be good-looking too..."

Lou Suyi's voice faded away as she suddenly remembered that she was leaning against Murong's chest, and she had actually brought up another man in front of Murong, saying that the man was handsome.

She looked at Murong with surprise and uncertainty, only to meet his slightly cold face.

She chuckled dryly and tried to salvage the situation: "It's all my fault for being blind back then, mistaking a fish eye for a pearl. Now I realize that His Majesty is infinitely more handsome than that scumbag surnamed Xie."

"You're truly blind! Am I not better than Xie Zhijie? Why didn't you take a liking to me back then?"

Murong was immediately stumped by the question. She said with a bitter face, "This... this is not a question of whether I have feelings for His Majesty or not, but rather that there is a huge gap between our statuses. There is no way there could be anything between us. Back then, His Majesty always had a stern face whenever he saw me, as if he hated me. How could I dare to have any designs on His Majesty?"

Moreover, she was an unfavored illegitimate daughter of the Lou family, despised by everyone. Murong didn't like her back then either, so how could she possibly have any wicked thoughts about Murong?
Murong stared blankly at Lou Suyi for a long while before explaining, "I never hated you back then."

“I know, it’s because His Majesty is stern and looks cold. He has a sour face for everyone, not just me.” Lou Suyi immediately understood what Murong meant.

But if she remembered correctly, every time she ran into Murong back then, his face was always sour, and she didn't dare to look him in the eye.

"Enough, let's not dwell on the past," Murong said softly.

Lou Suyi agreed, saying there was no point in bringing up the past.

She quickly became sleepy and couldn't help but sigh, "Life is unpredictable. I never thought I would become His Majesty's woman one day."

Perhaps it was because she had mentioned the past to Murong, but that night Lou Suyi had a dream.

To be precise, I dreamt about the past.

That day, she bought a mille-feuille pastry to give to Xie Zhijie, but Xie Zhijie said he would not accept charity, and knocked the pastry out of her hand before leaving.

This was a pastry she had painstakingly queued for an hour to buy, and she hadn't even dared to taste it herself, but Xie Zhijie had knocked it to the ground. She felt wronged and ashamed of wasting food, so she tried to pick it up.

At that moment, a pair of men's legs were planted in front of her. She looked up and met Murong Qing's cold and indifferent gaze.

The man's thin lips parted slightly: "Lou Suying, you're blocking my way..."