He had only been unwilling to give up and wanted to try one last time.
Now, he had truly given up all hope.
"Your Highness, this throne should have belonged to you in the first place. Do you really still intend to yield? Aren't you afraid they'll discard you once you've served your purpose?"
After saying this, Shang Shuheng turned and left dejectedly.
Host, do you think he'll go and beg the Little Emperor?
"He probably will."
Shang Shuheng was an extremely intelligent man who knew how to read the situation.
Just as Su Qiao had guessed, Shang Shuheng truly was someone who could bend and stretch as needed.
After returning to the palace, he really did go to the Imperial Study to request an audience with Your Majesty.
Unfortunately, Huang Ying was not so easy to speak with.
She flatly refused to see him.
It was not until sunset, after he had knelt outside for two hours, that she sent her personal lady-in-waiting out to ask him a few questions.
"Heh, he wants to beg me?"
Now he knows to come begging me?
When I put aside my status and personally went to his residence to see him, how did he treat me?
He clearly wasn't ill and was perfectly fine, yet he pretended to be sick and refused to see her, simply because they thought she wouldn't win and couldn't possibly win.
After they married, he still refused to behave himself. He even dared to secretly intercept the Imperial Uncle.
Why should she show mercy to such a shameless wretch?
The lady-in-waiting hesitated before moving closer and reporting softly, "Your Majesty, before coming here, the Phoenix Monarch had already left the palace to look for The King. The King presumably refused him."
"What?"
Huang Ying's heart, which had