Su Miao rolled his eyes in his heart.

Is it polite of you to talk about passing the imperial examination and having a wedding night in front of the eunuch?

Jiu Qiansui, a narrow-minded and vindictive man, silently made a note of Pei Changjun in his little notebook.

When he has complete power in his hands, he will definitely take revenge on Pei Changjun!

Su Miao deliberately said with a half-smile,

"When you won the title of third place in the imperial examination, all the noble ladies in the capital were eager to find a husband for you. At that time, you didn't think about your wedding night, but now that you are old and ugly, you are beginning to have spring fever."

Pei Changjun's smile did not diminish, even though Su Miao mentioned a day that he considered to be a shame.

He and Xiao Yaoguang were students of the same year and classmates in the Imperial College. Both of their essays and policy papers were of top quality and were often praised by the teachers.

They both started working in the same year, and because of their similar family backgrounds and the fact that they were both talented people of their generation, it was hard not to compare them.

Pei Changjun is handsome, romantic, and unrestrained, while Xiao Yaoguang is cool, elegant, dignified and self-contained.

Emperor Wende was very distressed when he was choosing the top scholar. One was the son of the Prime Minister Pei family, and the other was the next head of the Xiao family, and both of them wrote good essays.

This made Emperor Wende feel happy that he had all the talented people in the world in his hands, but at the same time, he was worried that he would have to decide who would be the better of the two in the palace examination.

There is no best in literature, but Emperor Wende can start from the face.

Emperor Wende said bluntly, "The eldest son of the Pei family is handsome and elegant, and the third place winner and the first place winner are paraded together in the streets."

Everyone knew that this was just an excuse of the emperor. In fact, it was Xiao Yaoguang's policy that won the emperor's favor.

How could Pei Changjun not know the origin of this? He raised his head and looked calmly at Xiao Yaoguang's name written in the middle of the list, with his name and the runner-up's name standing next to it.

He smiled as he paraded through the streets to look for beauties, attended the imperial banquet, toasted with his future colleagues, and accepted their congratulations and inquiries about marriage.

Pei Changjun handled these matters fluently and could even toast with Xiao Yaoguang in a calm manner.

Only he himself knew that when no one was around, he had already identified Xiao Yaoguang as his rival in life.

Losing to Xiao Yaoguang was the most humiliating thing in his smooth life.

Pei Changjun knew that he was different from Xiao Yaoguang.

Xiao Yaoguang is the ideal scholar-official that best fits the literati's ideal, with lofty aspirations and aloofness.

But Pei Changjun just wanted to be a powerful official.

After entering the court as an official, Emperor Wende liked Xiao Yaoguang and promoted him many times. In just a few years, he had become the Minister of Personnel, while Pei Changjun was a step behind him and was only in the Ministry of Rites.

The jealousy and rivalry among the literati burned in Pei Changjun's heart, so when the eunuch who was then the ninth prince's personal eunuch handed him the message, Pei Changjun gladly accepted it.

He doesn't mind using anyone if it means he can achieve his goal.

Pei Changjun has a common problem among smart people. They usually look down on most people in the world. The fact that Pei Changjun was born into a wealthy family only makes his arrogance easier to conceal.

The first time Su Miao met Pei Changjun, he knew that he would agree to form an alliance with him.

Because he saw that Pei Changjun had the same tremendous ambition and arrogance as him.

Su Miao thought that they would cooperate happily.

This was indeed the case. The two of them hit it off immediately and worked together to expel Xiao Yaoguang from the capital. They also devised a plan to transfer the Regent to Mobei to encourage the troops.

Afterwards, Su Miao became the powerful Ninth Prince, and Pei Changjun was praised as the head of civil officials and was able to make things happen in the previous dynasty.

After being selected, all memorials had to first be drafted by Pei Changjun and then presented to the emperor for his approval, which was of course done by Su Miao.

In the past two years, Su Miao has been able to decide life and death and hold great power. Pei Changjun was also not ambiguous in the previous dynasty, and he was well-known among the literati and officials because he did not curry favor with officials.

On the surface, they were confronting each other, but secretly Su Miao fabricated charges and used the Jinyiwei to eliminate Pei Changjun's political enemies, while Pei Changjun quietly promoted Su Miao's cronies in the previous dynasty and Su Miao threw all the dirty work to Pei Changjun.

Pei Changjun promoted commerce, reformed the land system, vigorously cultivated land, and formulated rituals... Any policy that offended Su Miao was attributed to him, and he was the subject of many assassination attempts for this.

They did it so secretly that no one except a few confidants knew about their mutually beneficial and collusive cooperation.

Xiao Yaoguang is a true gentleman, and Pei Changjun is naturally a hypocrite.

Villains and hypocrites are natural allies.

Pei Changjun still had his naturally handsome and romantic face, but at this moment he pretended to be resentful.

"If someone hadn't been so cruel, I wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble to enter the palace in the winter. I should have stayed at home with my lovely wife in my arms and enjoyed the snow."

Su Miao sneered, glanced at him and started reviewing the memorials again.

"You don't have to be so nasty to call you a hypocrite."

Pei Changjun hasn't married yet, so where would he get a beautiful wife from?

The first person who can only talk nonsense and speak in a coquettish manner.

Su Miao thought to himself, why should Pei Changjun compete with Xiao Yaoguang? Xiao Yaoguang would never be able to beat Pei Changjun when it comes to talking dirty.

The Nine Thousand Year Old Man's look was so delicate and charming that Pei Changjun's heart melted and he had the thought of staying here that day.

But the idea was dismissed in just a moment. All the transactions between him and Su Miao were done in private and could not be known to others.

Pei Changjun thought with interest that what they were doing was more like an affair.

But the Ninth Thousand Year Old Man must not know this. Pei Changjun smiled with his fox eyes slightly curved, thinking that the Ninth Thousand Year Old Man with a bad temper would definitely glare at him fiercely.

His eyes, like those of an amorous fox, looked at the flowing red comments beside his own black handwriting, and they seemed to be particularly in tune with each other.

Pei Changjun smiled with satisfaction, and from his appearance he was truly a handsome man.

People who don't understand his true nature will think that he is a gentleman who restrains himself and returns to propriety. Little do they know that Pei Changjun is the most coquettish and treacherous minister.

He didn't have much time to stay in the palace, and he didn't feel it wasted even though he said so much nonsense.

Pei Changjun stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the long sword in the hall, and said calmly:

"I don't know when General Lu caught Qiansui's eye. He came to you at night to seek your treatment, but Lianchen has never had such a treatment..."

Su Miao smiled, her bright eyes rippling like autumn water as she looked at Pei Changjun with a hint of teasing.

This person clearly wanted to test his plans for Lu Jiuzhou, but he deliberately used jealousy to disguise it.

It's really hard to go through so many twists and turns.

So Su Miao used her jade-like little finger to stroke her delicate and tempting red lips and said deliberately:

"I have heard that the general is brave and good at fighting, and he is full of heroic spirit. Naturally, I have long admired him and wanted to make friends with this Great Zhao God of War."

Who would summon someone to come over in the middle of the night to make a serious connection? What he said was ambiguous and there must be another meaning behind it.

Everyone said that the Nine Thousand Year Old was physically disabled, so she had a taste for strong men, and she would have sex with ten men at night to absorb their essence to maintain her beauty and magical powers to seduce the Holy Heart.

Otherwise, why have the men picked up by Jiu Qian Sui disappeared? It must be because his magic requires tall young men!

For this reason, men of marriageable age in the capital city are very cautious when going out, for fear that they may be spotted by the Nine Thousand Year Old Man and captured and drained.

Unexpectedly, the Ninth Thousand Year Old actually targeted the most heroic General Lu.

It's true that beauty brings disaster.

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