Transmigrating into a female supporting role in a book

But if the mission is already completed, why am I still here mopping the floor with a wet rag?

There were only two of us cleaning the huge Taihe Hall, and the smooth black jade stone floor was not dirty to begin with. The other eunuch was hunched over, pushing a rag and running back and forth very quickly, and it was obvious that he was used to doing this job.

I was just about to follow his example and wring the rag out before starting to work, but someone grabbed my waist and lifted me up from the ground.

I was so scared that I almost screamed, but I would have shut my mouth in time if I hadn't seen the color of his clothes.

He Zhao hugged me silently. I was so nervous that I almost lost my soul. There was someone several feet away, not to mention the guards with swords under the corridor outside the hall. Is he crazy? How dare he sneak back to meet me like this?

"What are you doing? Why don't you leave?" I lowered my voice and looked at him with a frown.

"You've only been in the palace for one night, why have you become so timid?" He said as he pulled me out and snatched the rag from my hand and threw it into the bucket.

"What are you doing? Aren't you afraid of being seen?" If he wasn't crazy, I would be.

But strangely, after we came out, I don't know if it was by chance or luck, we didn't meet anyone and just walked all the way to a small garden behind the Qinzheng Hall. This place is considered the emperor's study. Although the emperor is not here now and not many people come here usually, it is almost under the emperor's nose.

I looked around fearfully, and after making sure that no one was around, I whispered to him, "You should leave the palace quickly. Everyone else has left now, and you're the only one left here. If someone sees you, it will be hard to explain, right?"

"Weren't you quite bold when you were in the palace? How come you have become a different person after just entering the palace?"

"How can it be the same? When I was in the palace, I was the one giving orders, but now in this palace anyone can step on me and suppress me!" I rolled my eyes at him unhappily and raised my voice a little, but I was still worried about being seen by others, so I kept checking my surroundings like a mongoose.

"Who dares to step on you? Remember this first, I'll step on you back later!" He smiled and rubbed my cheek, "I'm still not used to you like this, but today it finally became a big deal."

I knew he was talking about Princess Yanyun, so I couldn't help but ask, "What will happen to the princess?"

"The worst case scenario is that you will be stripped of your title and demoted to a commoner. After all, you are of royal blood, so there won't be any real punishment." He suddenly changed the subject, "Why did your foster father let you take duty on the first day? You don't know how to do anything, so why don't you just take a leave?"

"What else can I say? I was supposed to clean up the hall, but you dragged me out like this. When the people who came with me see that I'm gone, they will definitely make a scene! No, I have to go back!"

"Hey, why are you in such a hurry? Someone will help you finish it. I left in such a hurry yesterday that I didn't have time to give it to you." As he said this, he stuffed a heavy purse into my hand.

I unzipped the purse's string, and inside was a glittering display of gold and silver, with what seemed to be stacks of silver bills at the very bottom.

"so much?"

"If you keep it by your side, you will always need it. It's not a big deal if you have too much, but it's a big deal if you don't have enough when you need it. I can't come to the palace every day, and I don't know if today's incident will affect the schedule to Luqing... Alas, I really regret agreeing to send you to my adoptive father. I just wanted to ask for a status, but I have to endure the pain of missing you." His fingers stroked my jaw, "I'm really not used to your face. I can't even bring myself to kiss you."

I pushed him hard and distanced myself from him. "You bastard! You are just attracted to me, but you can't accept my changed appearance?"

"I'm not! Xiao Xia Zi and I are fellow brothers, and I'm too familiar with him. You... Anyway, that's not what I meant. No matter what you become, you're the same in my heart." As he said that, he came over and wanted to kiss me as if to prove it.

I was so scared that I quickly bent down and covered my head to avoid him. "Don't do this! I believe you, but you still have to be careful in the palace. What if someone sees us and spreads that a great general and a little eunuch... How can that be a disgrace? Will He Zhao's reputation still be preserved?"

"Reputation is nothing. Don't hide from me. If you let me hold you for a while longer, I will leave the palace." He grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

I felt his arms holding me tightly in his arms, and his warm palms constantly stroking my back back and forth. This intimate hug made me feel very relaxed.

"You should take sick leave for the next few days and stay by your adoptive father's side. Don't move around. Besides your adoptive father, there is also an eunuch named Jiang and an eunuch named Li. If you take care of them a little, they won't make things difficult for you. You are so smart. As long as you handle it carefully, there will be no problem."

"Okay, I get it. You should be careful too." I patted him on the back twice in response.

Seeing that he was really planning to leave, I wanted to ask about the Shen family, but I held back. I thought, since the outside world has determined that Shen Xingye is dead, I am free. Those people and those things have nothing to do with me anymore. Don't worry about them. They will live well.

After walking around for a long time, I almost forgot how to get there, but I finally returned to Fang Yian's yard.

As soon as I arrived, an imperial physician came and said he was there to treat me. To my surprise, he handed me a prescription that had been prepared long ago and told me to go to the pharmacy of the imperial physician's office to get the medicine myself and remember to take it on time.

After watching the other person leave, I realized that this was just a formality so that I could take a sick leave.

After a while, Fang Yian came back. He glanced at the prescription in my hand and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

"Uh... yeah." I quickly told her that I wanted to take sick leave.

He took my prescription, read it carefully, and stuffed it back into my hand. "Okay, I'll remove you from the duty list starting tomorrow, but you have to go to Hibiscus Palace tonight."

When I heard this arrangement, my brain twitched for a moment and I asked, "Why do you want me to go to Hibiscus Palace?"

Fang Yian took two steps forward, and the distance between us shortened. I subconsciously wanted to step back, but he grabbed the back of my neck. There was no excessive expression on his face, but it made me feel like a knife or an axe was at my neck. I couldn't help but shrink and stare at him cautiously.

"I won't say it a second time. I don't like people asking me why." He said slowly, with a threatening tone.

I should be afraid at this time, but I am less afraid of him than before outside the palace. Outside the palace, he could really kill me if he was unhappy, but now I am in the palace. On the surface, I am bearing Xiao Xia Zi's face, and I can't just kill such a big living person. And secretly, I am the fiancée of his subordinate. Even for He Zhao's face, he will not take my life.

Unless he is an erratic madman who doesn't care about any consequences, but as the chief eunuch and the commander of the Dragon Guards, he can't be a madman, so I am safe now.

"Then can I not go?" I raised a very firm objection in a very timid tone.