The boss is back and she doesn’t pretend to be a fake daughter anymore

The imperial palace, where the palace ladies live.

The female official in the official uniform walked with slightly stiff steps on the path in the palace.

From time to time, palace maids came to greet her.

The female official walked forward without responding.

The little palace maids looked at each other. Although they were curious, they did not dare to say much.

The female official walked all the way inside to the palace where she lived. When she entered, she found the house was empty.

There was not much expression on the female official's pale face. She found her bed based on her memory, walked over, and lay down stiffly, not moving.

……

On the other side, another female official came out from Feng Zeze and stuffed a purse into the hands of Li Ma, the supervisor of this palace.

Nanny Li was the personal nanny prepared by Chu Beihe for Jiang Xuxu. Her main job was to help her understand and become familiar with some things in the palace. She also helped her deal with trivial matters in the palace and some irrelevant people.

In addition, Nanny Li is also responsible for recommending female officials for the future queen.

The selected female official will be the queen's right-hand man in the harem in the future.

Therefore, many female officials had been eyeing this position early on.

After hearing that His Majesty suddenly issued an edict to make her the Queen yesterday, they started to compete with each other openly and secretly.

Nanny Li was one of the people they focused on currying favor with.

But in fact, everyone knows that Nanny Li has an apprentice in the palace, and Nanny Li naturally reserved the position of female official following the queen for this apprentice.

But since yesterday, her apprentice has disappeared, and even if Nanny Li wants to recommend her to Feng Zhenzhen, the future queen, she has no way to do so.

As a result, he was taken advantage of by the female official Su Shang in front of him.

Looking at the purse that Su Shang stuffed in front of her, Li Ma's eyes flashed with sadness, and after a while she said,

"Your Majesty has entrusted all the trivial matters in Miss Feng's palace to me. Since you want to be the first, I will give you this opportunity. But if you do something wrong, I can pass your name on or cross your name out. Do you understand?"

Su Shang's heart tightened when he heard this, but his face remained sincere and harmless.

"I know, Ma'am. Thank you for giving me the opportunity."

Seeing that Nanny Li finally took the purse, Su Shang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After leaving the palace, Su Shang still walked in a proper manner, but his steps were obviously more brisk.

From tomorrow on, she will be a lady-in-waiting serving the Queen!

From now on, her status will soar to new heights, and no one will be able to surpass her except those around His Majesty!

Thinking of this, Su Shang's steps became lighter and his brows showed a hint of joy.

However, this expression of joy froze in an instant when he returned to the palace where he lived and saw a figure lying straight on another bed that should have been empty.

Her neck seemed to be strangled by a pair of hands. She used up all her strength to prevent herself from screaming in fear, but her whole body seemed to be fixed in place, unable to move, with her eyes staring into the house.

Perhaps it was because her posture outside was too strange, and Qingge, another female official who had just returned from the same room, came forward and asked curiously,

"Su Shang, what are you doing standing here? Why don't you go into the house?"

As she spoke, she looked into the room. When she saw the person lying in the room, surprise instantly flashed in her eyes. She quickly walked forward and pushed the person on the bed awake.

"Chun Yan! Where did you go last night?! Why did you just show up when the nanny was furious?!"

The girl called Chun Yan sat up slightly stiffly, with an unclear emotion on her pale face, and her voice was hoarse.

"Not going anywhere."

Seeing her ugly face, Qingge couldn't help but reach out to touch her forehead. The next second, he was shocked.

"Why is your face so cold? Are you frozen? I don't know where you've been in such a cold day. You didn't come back all night. Aren't you afraid of freezing to death outside..."

Qingge, Chunyan and Su Shang lived in the same room and were close to each other. At this moment, while chattering, he pulled the quilt next to him and put it on Chunyan. Seeing Su Shang still standing at the door, he could not help but urge him,

"Su Shang, why are you still standing there? You've let the little warmth in the room escape! Come in quickly and add some more charcoal fire, Chun Yan is freezing."

Su Shang was startled by Qingge's shout, as if he had suddenly come back to life. Although he wanted to escape desperately, he could only walk inside with stiff steps.

But he didn't dare to get close to Chun Yan. Instead, he walked to the stove with stiff hands and feet and added charcoal fire.

Perhaps because he was too nervous, Su Shang accidentally touched the edge of the stove and was immediately burned.

"what!"

Seeing this, Qingge didn't bother to ask Chunyan any more questions and walked over helplessly.

"Why are you so careless? You are going to serve the Queen, be careful not to offend her by being so careless!"

As the oldest person in the room at the age of nineteen, Qingge felt that she was worrying a lot about her two younger sisters.

Su Shang's mind was in a state of confusion at this moment. She couldn't hear what Qingge said at all. She was about to turn around and leave. However, as soon as she turned around, she saw Chun Yan, who had been sitting on the edge of the bed, standing in front of her at some point.

Suddenly facing that pale and slightly stiff face, Su Shang's pupils trembled visibly, and his breathing also choked. After a long while, he finally spoke in a trembling voice,

"Chun, Chun Yan..."

Then, Chun Yan, who was standing opposite her, looked at her expressionlessly. After a while, she gave her a slightly stiff smile, and said in a voice like a ghost from the underworld,

"be careful……"

Su Shang didn't know how he managed to withstand the other person's gaze or climb onto the bed.

But that night, she lay in her bed, shaking like a sieve, but she didn't dare to escape from the room.

She didn't sleep all night. The whole night, her eyes were fixed on Chun Yan, who was lying straight and motionless on the bed, and she didn't understand what was going on.

Chunyan, why did you come back?

She should... be dead!

What on earth is this thing now?

Is she a human or a ghost?

With such fear, Su Shang kept his eyes open until dawn, until he could no longer bear it and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

However, she didn't know that just when she finally closed her eyes and fell asleep, Chun Yan, who had been lying straight and motionless, turned her head little by little towards Su Shang. In the dim room, she looked at the other person with cold eyes, and hatred gradually appeared in her eyes.

After a long while, a stiff sneer slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth.

are you afraid?

This is just the beginning.

……

Although Chun Yan came back, she was unable to report for duty due to illness.

Su Shang was so frightened that he didn't sleep the whole night. Although he felt weak and had a splitting headache, he still forced himself to get up.

Firstly, this was her first day to meet the future empress, and secondly, she was unwilling and dared not to continue staying in the same room with Chun Yan.

If possible, she would not want to go back to this house even if she had to keep vigil for the queen tonight!

Jiang Xuxu didn't know what Su Shang was planning, but when she saw the female official brought in by Nanny Li who was said to be in charge of her daily affairs, Jiang Xuxu almost instantly smelled an unusual scent from her.

That is - corpse qi.