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

Chapter 225 Give her a divorce letter

The gift box was overturned, and its contents spilled out: a translucent jade hairpin. The fall shattered the hairpin into several pieces.

Lou Suya didn't know what was inside. Her heart tightened when she saw it was a jade hairpin.

She had seen the hairpin in Xie Zhijie's study last year. At first, she thought Xie Zhijie had given it to her, but when she didn't receive it, she gradually forgot about it.

She never imagined that Xie Zhijie's hairpin was prepared for Lou Suyi.

Lou Suyi had already shaved her head and become a nun at that time, and had also entered the palace. So, did Xie Zhijie decide to get Lou Suyi out of the palace at that time?

It's laughable that Xie Zhijie had such a brilliant plan, but Lou Suyi became the empress and still looked at Xie Zhijie, this heartless man.
Lou Suying saw the broken hairpin on the ground and glared coldly at Lou Suya: "Is this the gift you gave me?!"

Would Lou Suya give her a hairpin?

She felt that only Xie Zhijie, that bastard, could do something so disgusting.

She is already the Empress. If she still accepts hairpins from other men, wouldn't that mean she still has feelings for Xie Zhijie?
Lou Suya quickly regained her composure and replied solemnly, "This is a gift I chose after a long time. I hope Your Majesty the Empress can be magnanimous and forgive my mistakes from back then. In fact, to put it another way, perhaps it was precisely because of the calamity of that year that Your Majesty has such immense wealth and status today."

Lou Suyi looked coldly at Lou Suya: "According to you, I should thank you for harming me back then?!"

Lou Suya replied, "What I mean is that Your Majesty's good fortune today may be related to that incident back then..."

"Kneel down!" Lou Suyi was too lazy to listen to Lou Suya's nonsense anymore and shouted in a deep voice.

Lou Suya was taken aback. Only then did she suddenly remember that Lou Suyi now held a noble status. If she made Lou Suyi unhappy, she would only be asking for trouble.

But she is Xie Zhijie's wife. Xie Zhijie is a powerful minister in the court, and if Lou Suying embarrasses her, wouldn't Xie Zhijie also lose face?

"How dare Madam Xie offend Her Majesty the Empress! Why don't you kneel down?!" Jinshu shouted sternly when she saw Lou Suya still standing there without kneeling.

Lou Suya's face turned pale. Not daring to delay any longer, she hurriedly knelt down on the ground.

The commotion drew the attention of many women.

When everyone saw Lou Suya being forced to kneel as punishment by Lou Suyi, they immediately understood.

Many people have heard that the current Empress was bullied by the entire Lou family when she was still unmarried. Lou Suya just happened to walk into the line of fire, which is why she was publicly forced to kneel by Lou Suyi.

When Madam Yin saw Lou Suya being forced to kneel as punishment, a sinister glint flashed in her eyes.

Lou Suyi allowed the mother and daughter to enter the palace to participate in the flower festival. Could it be that she wanted to take the opportunity to embarrass her and Suya?
Suya married a powerful minister in the cabinet, so how could Lou Suyi make Suya kneel in public as a result of personal grudges?
Without thinking further, she quickly went to Lou Suyi's side, wanting to persuade her not to make a big fuss over personal grudges.

"Suyi, Suya is still your elder sister. If you do this, the world will only think that you, the Empress, are petty and narrow-minded..."

Yin's words caused Jinshu's expression to change, and she subconsciously looked at Lou Suyi.

Lou Suying simply smiled: "How dare you call me petty, Lady Yin? Who gave you the audacity?!"

The Lou family women are used to being fawned over and don't know their place. Today, she will show all the powerful and influential people in the capital how petty and narrow-minded Lou Suyi is.

Only then did Madam Yin realize that she had said the wrong thing. Before she could make amends, Lou Suyi gave the order: "Madam Yin dared to offend me with her words. Slap her thirty times!" Jinshu obeyed the order, went to Madam Yin, and slapped her face hard, one slap after another, left and right.

She struck hard; by the time she finished delivering the thirty blows, Madam Yin's face was swollen and red, and blood was seeping from the corner of her lips.

Just then, Empress Dowager Chen arrived.

Upon seeing this, Lou Suya wanted to climb up to Empress Dowager Chen and complain.

"I beg Your Majesty the Empress Dowager to make the judgment! Your Majesty the Empress punished me by forcing me to kneel without even asking what happened..."

Empress Dowager Chen didn't like to hear this; she knew Su Yi's personality best.

She had long heard about the Lou family's behavior; did they really think she was oblivious to what was going on around her?

"Alright! The Empress has been quite lenient with you. If you hadn't bumped into her, she wouldn't have bothered with you. You insisted on getting in her way, so who else should she punish but you? You don't need to attend the banquet; leave the palace early," Empress Dowager Chen said slowly.

Yin Shi and Lou Suya looked ashen-faced. They hadn't expected Empress Dowager Chen to protect Lou Suyi like this. No wonder Lou Suyi was so arrogant.

After today's events, I'm afraid all the noble families in the capital will distance themselves from them.

Empress Dowager Chen gestured for Fangruo to send the people away, and then said to Lou Suyi, "Since you are unhappy to see them, don't let them enter the palace again, they are an eyesore to you."

"What Mother says is true." Lou Suyi chuckled.

"In my opinion, you are still too concerned about the big picture. I know you don't want people to think you are biased, but if you don't let those who have treated you badly into the palace, no one will dare to say a bad word about you."

Before Yin Shi and Lou Suya had gone far, their hearts sank further upon hearing Empress Dowager Chen's words.

No wonder Lou Suyi is so arrogant; it turns out that not only is she the empress, but she also has Empress Dowager Chen protecting her.

Lady Yin could imagine that when she returned to the mansion, the Earl of Suning would find out about this and would probably be furious with her, at which point Lady Ke would be even more smug.

Since Lou Suyi became Empress, Consort Ke's status in the Earl's Mansion has risen sharply. Even though Consort Ke and Lou Suyi had long since severed their relationship, the Earl still valued Consort Ke.

She simply wanted to use Aunt Ke to build a good relationship with Empress Lou Suyi in the future.

Lou Suya thought of the broken jade hairpin, and then of how she was publicly punished by Lou Suyi and subsequently expelled from the Empress's office. She knew that if she lost her usefulness, Xie Zhijie would no longer keep her around.

A eunuch witnessed what happened in the Chrysanthemum Garden and quickly found Xie Zhijie, recounting everything that had occurred there.

When he learned that the jade hairpin had been thrown away like trash by Lou Suyi's people after it broke, his face darkened.

Afterwards, he gave the eunuch a reward, feeling that Lou Suya was probably a useless pawn. Since that was the case, he didn't need to keep Lou Suya any longer, and might as well give her a letter of divorce.

After the eyesore of the mother and daughter, Madam Yin and Lou Suya, disappeared from the Chrysanthemum Garden, Lou Suyi felt much more at ease.

Under Empress Dowager Chen's guidance, she thrived among the many noblewomen. Her witty remarks frequently drew laughter from the crowd, and everyone quickly forgot about Lady Yin and Lou Suya.

Having witnessed what had just happened, they all knew one thing: they would stay far away from Lady Suning from now on, lest they be implicated by the women of the Lou family.