The palace night banquet will be attended by the emperor, empress, concubines, and many princes and wives.

Everyone will gather together to enhance their relationships through drinking and chatting, and there will also be singing and dancing performances for everyone to watch.

The emperor entrusted the palace night banquet to Concubine Hua, and all the concubines in the palace only needed to attend in their best attire.

Jian Qiu: "Your Majesty, the maidservant over there sent a message saying that Zhen Ying has reached an agreement with the dancers for the Hehuan Night Banquet. When the night banquet begins, they will perform the Jinghong Dance. Your Majesty, would you like us to tamper with Zhen Ying's dance costume?"

Zhen Da Ying was, after all, the daughter of a fourth-rank official. As the emperor's concubine, although she made a mistake and was demoted to a Da Ying by the emperor, she was still the emperor's concubine after all. Even if it was to attract the emperor's attention, there was no need for her to condescend to dance instead of the dancer in front of so many clan relatives to attract the emperor.

Yixiu: "Don't worry about it. There will be people who don't like her and will take action."

The Queen and Concubine Hua both care very much about the Emperor's favor, so they would never be willing to share that favor with another concubine.

Furthermore, the Zhen family has great ambitions, and Zhen Huan's reputation is known to everyone in the palace. Zhen Huan's every move must be under the surveillance of Concubine Hua and the Queen, and they will not give Zhen Huan a chance to shine.

In her previous life, Zhen Huan considered herself noble and was favored by the emperor. She was unwilling to condescend and danced the "Jinghong Dance" instead of the dancers to please the emperor.

Unlike this life, the Queen changed her ways and did it. Without her original body, she showed kindness to show that the Queen was virtuous and generous, and provided assistance in private.

Before Zhen Huan even entered the emperor's bedchamber, she was targeted and suppressed by Concubine Hua and the Queen (Rou Ze), and the Emperor demoted her.

She had been avoiding favor since entering the palace, and before she could stand out, she lost her head maid, Aunt Jinxi, who had intended to join her as soon as she entered the palace.

During the period of avoiding the favor of the emperor, she was helped by Shen Meizhuang, and was able to emerge. During the period of avoiding the favor of the emperor, Xiao Yunzi, a loyal person she had gathered, was killed, and Shen Meizhuang was framed and fell ill.

Now that Shen Meiyu is no longer there to help her, the winter is hard to endure, especially since Concubine Hua holds the power in the palace and is at odds with Zhen Huan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs can't even pay Zhen Huan her monthly salary, which shows how difficult Zhen Huan's days under house arrest are. I heard that she has lost a lot of weight.

If you don't work hard to win favor, you will inevitably freeze to death this winter.

Yixiu was a little looking forward to it. She wondered how ugly the Queen would look when she saw Zhen Huan, who looked 70% similar to her, dancing the Stunning Dance in front of so many royal relatives and princes at the palace banquet.

Yikun Palace

Hua Fei: "Do you have any good ideas to get rid of Zhen?"

Lipin: "Your Highness is in charge of the six western palaces. Find a reason to punish Zhen and make her copy the palace rules. That way she can't come out and stir up trouble and seduce the emperor."

The emperor's favor was already limited every month, and the newcomer to the palace took away more of the favor that belonged to her. The emperor rarely came to see her for a month, and he absolutely could not allow another scheming Zhen to compete for his favor.

Lipin was a beautiful girl with an empty head. Hua Fei did not expect her to come up with any good ideas. She ignored Lipin and cast her gaze at Cao Qinmo below her.

"Mrs. Cao, do you have any ideas?"

Concubine Cao: "My Lady, since Zhen agrees to dance, then give her a chance and let her..."

Before Concubine Cao could finish her words, Concubine Hua interrupted her sharply. "What a bad idea you came up with. I want to crush Zhen Shi once and for all, not give her a chance to shine."

She had already asked her brother to investigate the Zhen Mansion, and what they found was that the Zhen family had hired the nanny who taught the Queen since she was a child to teach Zhen the Jinghong Dance. Letting Zhen dance the Jinghong Dance in front of the Emperor was more like sending Zhen directly to the Emperor's dragon bed.

Concubine Cao knelt down hurriedly, "Your Majesty, you have misunderstood me. I meant to have the spy planted in Suiyuxuan secretly ruin Zhen's dance clothes, so that when Zhen goes out to dance at the banquet, she will make a fool of herself in front of the clan members."

A little concubine whose dancing clothes suddenly jumped open in front of a royal prince, revealing her private parts, would not be favored by the emperor again, even if she looked like the queen.

Concubine Hua showed joy in her eyes. Cao Qinmo's method really worked. If this succeeded, it would not only eliminate Zhen's hope of winning favor in the future.

Since Zhen Huan has a face similar to that of the Queen, she is humiliating the Queen, which can be said to be killing two birds with one stone.

As long as she could make the person she hated look bad, Nian Shilan didn't care whether the emperor would be unhappy when seeing this...

It was almost noon when Concubine Hua asked the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send the tampered dance costumes to Sui Yuxuan.

Huanbi: "My lady, I have brought back the dance clothes."

Zhen Huan: "No one noticed, right?"

Huanbi: "Don't worry, my lady, no one will notice."

There are spies everywhere in the palace. After confining herself to her own home, Zhen Huan has become more cautious.

Zhen Huan reached out and touched the dance costume sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She struggled for a long time in her heart before deciding to dance.

Huanbi: "My lady, are you really planning to dance at the palace banquet?"

Even Huanbi knew this, so how could Zhen Huan not know it? Even if the emperor favored her in the future after this dance, he would only treat her as a toy for his entertainment.

Zhen Huan: "This is the only chance I have fought for."

Dancing in public was such a humiliation, of course she was unwilling to do it.

But what could she do? Just as she was about to show up, Xiao Yunzi, who was loyal to her, was hurt because he built a swing in the imperial garden. Then Wen Shichu, who was devoted to working for her, was demoted to a concubine. During the days of house arrest, the salaries that Huanbi and Liuzhu received were all deducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not to mention the meals delivered every day.

How could she survive this cold winter? The only way out she could think of was to gain the emperor's favor.

Zhen Huan took the dance costume and examined it carefully, but did not find any problems. Things had been going badly lately, so it was better to be cautious.

Then he said to Liu Zhu Huan Bi: "Liu Zhu Huan Bi, please help me take a good look at this dance costume to see if there has been any tampering."

Liuzhu and Huanbi took the dance costume and examined it carefully. Liuzhu found a loose thread on the waistline and pulled it gently, creating a slit in the waist of the costume. Her face changed immediately.

Liu Zhu: "My lady, someone has tampered with the waistline."

If the young lady wore this tampered dance costume to perform a dance, her waistline would break halfway through the dance, exposing her private parts in front of all the clan members, and the emperor would surely be furious.

Huanbi's face was extremely ugly: "This person has such a vicious heart."

Zhen Huan's face turned pale. If she really wore this tampered dance costume to perform and behaved in public, how would the emperor punish her? She felt terrified just thinking about it.

"Fortunately, we have checked it and there is still time to rectify it."

Concubine Hua didn't know that Zhen Huan had already found out that the dance costumes had been tampered with and had already made corrections.

Palace Night Banquet

The Queen Mother was ill and did not attend the banquet.

Although Yixiu kept a low profile, there were still many clan relatives and wives who showed their goodwill to her. The emperor had not arrived yet, but the emperor's people were everywhere. Yixiu did not want to get close to the clan relatives and wives, for fear of causing the emperor to misunderstand that she was trying to win over the clan relatives and wives. It would be bad if the suspicious emperor suspected her. Yixiu only responded with a few words and then coughed lightly while covering her handkerchief.

Seeing the sickly pale face of the Imperial Concubine, who looked as if she was about to faint at any moment, no one dared to step forward to disturb her.

The Emperor and the Empress arrived.

When everyone was about to bow and greet, Yongzheng waved his hand and exempted everyone from the formalities: "Today is a family dinner, no need to be restrained, everyone take a seat."

Everyone thanked him and took their seats, and Prince Guo Yunli came on stage.

After the plot, the empress, concubines, princes, and clan princes toasted the emperor and said some auspicious blessings.

Under the table, the emperor held Yixiu's hand, raised his other hand and gently touched her delicate face, and asked with concern: "Why do you look so bad? Your hands are cold too?"

He turned to Su Peisheng who was standing there and said, "Go get a cloak."

Su Peisheng: “Yes!”

Yongzheng knew Yixiu's health. Ever since she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, her health had been worse than before, and no matter how many tonics she took, she couldn't get back in shape.

He felt a little guilty. The reason why she was so thin was because she had given him too many children, which caused her body to be seriously depleted.

Yixiu's smile became warmer, and she shook Yongzheng's generous hand in return, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I'm fine. Maybe it's because I got cold on the road, and I'll be fine after warming up."

I thought to myself, I have six sons and one daughter. If my hands weren’t cold, how could I reassure you, a person with a paranoid habit?

Rouze took in the whole scene, her long nails digging into her palms, trying to appear calm. The emperor did not care about her as the queen, but was very caring towards Yixiu.

Concubine Hua's eyes fell on the emperor holding Yixiu's hand tightly, and her heart felt sour.

Singers and dancers entered the stage, the sound of a piano began, and Zhen Huan, wearing a dancing costume, walked gracefully over.

Everyone's eyes fell on the woman dancing to the music of the piano.

It is obvious that Zhen Huan has made sufficient preparations this time. It can be seen that the adaptation has been carefully done and is very innovative.

Prince Dun drank a few more glasses and said without hesitation, "The dancer looks a bit like the queen. If I hadn't seen the queen at the top, I would have thought it was the queen herself..."

Before Prince Dun finished speaking, he was pinched by his wife. The pinch from his wife sobered Prince Dun up a little.

"Your Highness was drunk and spoke out of turn. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me."

However, when Prince Dun's wife saw the dancers dancing, she noticed that the Queen's face was not looking good.

Everyone knew that the dancer was similar to the queen, so no one said anything, except the prince, who had drunk a few extra glasses and spoke without restraint.

At today's family dinner, there was good news from the northwest: Nian Gengyao had put down the rebellion of Lobsang Danjin. Yongzheng was in a good mood today, so he drank a few more glasses and waved his hand, not blaming Prince Dun.

Yongzheng's attention was all on the woman dancing the stunning dance. He seemed to see the scene of his first meeting with Rouze. He was attracted by Rouze's stunning dance at the time. For Rouze, he even went so far as to take the wife of his minister and break his promise to Yixiu to welcome Rouze as his legitimate wife.

If the emperor had not taken his minister's wife and promoted Yixiu to be the legitimate wife, the six illegitimate sons would have become six legitimate sons. With the relationship with Yixiu, he would have one more general under his command, and it would not be that only Nian Gengyao could be used. Since he ascended the throne, he has been controlled by the Nian family.

"Is this the Jinghong Dance?" Yixiu pretended to be surprised.

Yongzheng: "Although the dance is good, it is not as good as your sister's."

Yixiu smiled slightly: "Of course, my sister is the most talented woman in the capital. My sister spent a lot of time and effort to adapt the Jinghong Dance herself. But she danced very well. The emperor must reward her well."

Yongzheng: "Of course I will reward you."

The Queen's face was not in a good mood. Anyone who saw a woman who looked somewhat like herself dancing her special dance in front of her husband and arousing the Emperor's interest would probably feel embarrassed.

What's more, it was because of his stunning dance that he was able to snatch away Concubine Yixiu.

If she had not known Nian Shilan's plan, she would have wanted to see Zhen misbehave in the palace and be disliked by the emperor and banished to the cold palace.

She certainly wouldn't tolerate Zhen Huan dancing the stunning dance in the hall with a face somewhat similar to hers, which annoyed her.

Until the dance was over, there was nothing wrong with Zhen Huan's dance costume, and the Queen's face became even uglier.

The look in Concubine Hua's eyes when she looked at Zhen Huan was almost spitting sparks.

There was nothing wrong with the clothes!

Cao Qinmo and Nian Shilan, one a noble lady and the other a concubine, were naturally far away from each other and could not convey any information for a while. Cao Qinmo noticed that Concubine Hua looked angry.

After a while, Cao Qinmo received a letter sent by Concubine Hua.

"Cao, what happened to Zhen's dance costume? Did you do anything wrong?"

The fact that Zhen Huan was able to finish the Jinghong Dance with her costume still intact must have been because Zhen Huan discovered that something had been done to her clothes and had them repaired.

After years of ravages, the queen is no longer beautiful, and the emperor prefers younger ones.

After Zhen Huan finished her stunning dance, the Emperor stood up and personally helped up the dancer who had astonished him with her dance.

"What's your name?"

Zhen Huan: "I am Zhen Da Ying from Sui Yu Xuan."

Yongzheng remembered that the woman in front of him was the daughter of Zhen Yuandao, who had been demoted to a concubine by him, and his eyes instantly turned cold.

He now recalled how he had demoted the other party without even meeting her, and how Zhen teamed up with the imperial physician to pretend to be sick to avoid her favor.

At the night banquet in the whole palace, Zhen performed a stunning dance. At the moment when the emperor personally helped Zhen up, all the concubines in the palace thought that the emperor would summon Zhen to sleep with him.

It has been half a month since the palace banquet ended, but the emperor still has not summoned Zhen to sleep with him.

Yixiu more or less guessed Yongzheng's little thoughts. Yongzheng was narrow-minded and fond of holding grudges. He probably thought that since Zhen Huan was avoiding favor and didn't want to sleep with him, he should leave her alone for a while to wear down her arrogance.

With the help of the imperial physician, Shen Meizhuang finally recovered and was allowed to sleep with the emperor for several days after she was given a green card.

The emperor still lets Shen Meizhuang be in charge of palace affairs. It seems that the emperor has not given up on Shen Meizhuang and still plans to use Shen Meizhuang to check and balance Concubine Hua.

Now Concubine Shen has more palace affairs to manage. Not only has she taken over the Empress' affairs, but she has also taken over the affairs of the six western palaces which were jointly managed by the Empress and Concubine Hua.

Zhen Huan was anxious because she had not been able to sleep with him for a long time, so she often went to Cunju Hall in Xianfu Palace.

The sisterly love drama was staged for a while, which helped to repair the rift in her relationship with Shen Meizhuang.

Zhen Huan is smart and has the reputation of being the female Zhuge Liang. She is sweet-mouthed and good at talking. Shen Meizhuang is no match for Zhen Huan.

She is no match for Concubine Hua and cannot withstand her attacks.

When going to the Old Summer Palace, Shen Meizhuang specifically mentioned Zhen Huan in front of the Emperor.

The emperor agreed to go to the Old Summer Palace with Zhen Huan.

Yixiu asked the nanny to pack her and the children's luggage early in the morning.

Yixiu lived in the natural landscape of Yuanmingyuan.

The Queen lived in Taohuawu, Concubine Hua lived in Bitong Academy, Concubine Qi lived in Xinghuachun Pavilion...

He would probably have to stay in the Old Summer Palace for several months before returning to the palace.

Shen Meizhuang used some unknown method to get a secret recipe for conceiving a child from the imperial physician Jiang Cheng. After drinking it for a few days, she began to experience morning sickness. Although she was not pregnant and her period was delayed, Shen Meizhuang thought she was pregnant.

Since she was pregnant, she couldn't sleep with him, so she deliberately pushed Zhen Huan out to sleep with him.

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