Time Travelling: My Love from the Royal Family

Michelle was enraged. Her face burned with humiliation, as tears of anger and shame inflamed her eyes. Hoffman had just made outstanding achievements in the war, and yet the emperor actually punished her by making her kneel in the Imperial Garden where people came and went continuously. She couldn't imagine how those concubines would heap scorns on her when they saw her being punished.

"Lady Michelle." When Andy made his approach, Michelle had been kneeling there for more than two hours. Her legs went numb, and her body was shaking with cold. But she still clenched her teeth and straightened her back up while kneeling on the ground. She believed that the emperor wouldn't treat her like this for no reason. It must be because the empress uttered calumnies against her to the emperor that made him punish her.

"Lord Andy, is it that His Majesty has summoned me?" Michelle knew that Andy was the messenger of the emperor.

Andy shook the horsetail whisk in his hand and nodded. "Hi

Michelle was domineering. If the empress were to let her go easily, then that would lead to a total chaos in the imperial harem with disregard to any rules.

Michelle couldn't believe her ears as she looked at the emperor in disbelief. Earlier, the emperor used to complement her as a good tempered woman and that he liked her cheeky and casual manner. But now, he rebuked her as she was casual in her etiquette and even asked her to kowtow to the empress. Wasn't this the same as putting her head on the ground for the empress to trample on?

Upon seeing that Michelle just knelt straight on the floor, showing no intention of kowtowing and making an apology, the emperor frowned. "What? You don't want to do that?" he asked in a low voice.

"I dare not, Your Majesty." Michelle tightened her grips so hard that her hands almost bled. She made three kowtows towards the empress, making her forehead turn red. "Please pardon me, Your Majesty. I swear that I will never do that again."