The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The moon had risen fully.

The palace guards who patrolled the night walked in groups of two or three, holding lanterns in their hands.

Shen Xiaoyi didn't know where to go, so she plunged into an empty small garden. The garden used pebbles of different colors to create auspicious and beautiful patterns. Illuminated by the cold moonlight, the pattern became more charming - but this had nothing to do with Shen Xiaoyi. She didn't know how to appreciate the elegant beauty that the upper class loved most. She only knew that the stones hurt the soles of her feet.

She simply found a tree and sat down.

He looked up at the moon, lifted one leg in a very inelegant manner, patted away the small stones that had sunk into his skin with his hand, and blew hard a few times with his pursed lips.

After doing this, Shen Xiaoyi suddenly came to her senses and put her foot down.

She was originally a commoner maid, and her behavior was not presentable. It was only after she became the adopted daughter of a marquis that she was severely disciplined and changed her indecent habits.

After realizing that she had made another wrong move, Shen Xiaoyi seemed to suddenly hear the endless laughter and blame again.

She immediately adjusted her posture, hoping to be more like Wen Baolin.

Yes.

Wasn't it because she looked somewhat like Wen Baolin that she was bought from her parents by the eldest master of the Yuyang Marquis's Mansion, and from a little girl without even a proper name, she became a member of the Shen family, and then became the adopted daughter of the Marquis's Mansion?

In a trance, Shen Xiaoyi seemed to see Wen Baolin standing in front of her again. Every time she saw Wen Baolin, she became more aware of her identity as a fake, and the master who "kindly adopted" her just treated her as a disgusting rat in a jade bottle.

The jade bottle should be placed on a high treasure pavilion, padded with delicate silk and fumigated with expensive spices... But what is a mouse? It is a dirty thing that will be chased and beaten by everyone as soon as it shows up, not to mention that it is a mouse pretending to be a jade bottle.

Master Shen used her face that looked similar to Wen Baolin to deliberately disgust Marquis Yuyang, but in private he did not really treat Shen Xiaoyi as his daughter; Marquis Yuyang knew clearly that everything was done by Master Shen, but he was too proud to call for the death of his half-brother, so the only one who was caught between the two sides was Shen Xiaoyi.

She laughed foolishly and pointed at the empty gravel ground in front of her: "You are disgusting, your uncle is disgusting, your father is disgusting, and all of you in the Yuyang Marquis Mansion are disgusting!"

"Sister, I'm timid, shy, quiet, introverted, not smart enough..." Shen Xiaoyi chuckled, "Do you like me?"

She is not shy.

But fear.

Fear makes you timid, shyness only makes your cheeks blush, but it can also be sweet.

Shen Xiaoyi had already forgotten what that sweetness felt like. She just became more and more afraid. The more afraid she was, the more she wanted to let the nobles of the Yuyang Marquis' Mansion taste what it felt like to walk on ice that could crack at any time.

"I'm so jealous of you..." Shen Xiaoyi suddenly sobbed again. She sobbed and laughed while crying for a long time before she let out a beast-like roar from her throat, "No, no, from now on, you will be the one who is jealous of me!"

"Your Majesty loves me!"

"I am your Majesty's true love!"

"You are just relying on the power of Yuyang Marquis Mansion!"

Shen Xiaoyi kept scratching the tree trunk nearby, grinding her nails until they bled: "I also have something that can make you envy and jealous of me, and that is the love of your majesty! Hahahaha!!!"

Strangely, the sounds of her crying, laughing and shouting did not attract the palace guards who were patrolling at night. The long-abandoned small garden was silent. Not far away was a short, old cottage with a chain on the door. When the night wind blew, the chain moved slightly.

[Ding——Host, are you awake? 】

Shen Xiaoyi did not answer.

As if she could no longer feel the pain, she jumped onto the gravel ground, propped up the dignified posture that she had gained through countless hard work and bullying, and walked out of the small garden with her eyes wide open, murmuring: "...I will hold on...I will not regret it in this life...It's not a joke..."

"Hehe, bad luck, you are all going to be unlucky, hehe..."

The moon was rustling, the stars were silent, and the woman walking in the light was deeply mad.

The chain fell to the ground in the silent and deserted garden.

"My Lady, are you going back to the palace?"

"Xiao'er didn't come back, so I guess the plan didn't work out. Go back and remember to ask someone to clean up the mess."

"That...that one?"

"She is just a crazy woman who has gone crazy thinking about the emperor. She is vulgar and despicable. It won't be long before someone will take care of her... Sigh, how come His Majesty still has the heart to accompany Xie back to the palace when Concubine Wang has a miscarriage and Concubine Deng has fallen from grace? Could it be that he is really obsessed with this unclean whore?"

"I think Mrs. Xie is indeed a foxy woman. I have lived for more than forty years and have never seen her so unruly and bold..."

"Oh, the harem of our Majesty is much more exciting than that. Well, I didn't succeed in my first attempt, so I shouldn't linger on. I'll just have to wait for the right opportunity."

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Shouning Palace.

Xie Yuzhen had just taken her pulse and confirmed that both she and the fetus in her belly were alive and well and in perfect health.

The one who took her pulse was not the Emperor's favorite old imperial physician, Bai, but Imperial Physician Lin, whom he had met once before at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet and recognized the datura pollen.

Imperial Physician Lin looked to be in his twenties and was very handsome. He was of the same official rank as the old imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital who were mostly bald. The emperor loved his medical talent, so whenever it was inconvenient for Imperial Physician Bai to see patients - he was old, and the emperor would not ask him to go out after dark unless it was necessary - he would always call Imperial Physician Lin.

Looking at the back of Imperial Physician Lin as he left, Xie Yuzhen poked the emperor: "Your Majesty, I wonder if Lord Lin is married?"

"Why, does Mr. Xie have a sister of the right age?" The emperor looked at his beloved concubine with amusement, wondering what she was up to again.

Xie Yuzhen patted him lightly and said something shocking: "I don't have a sister of the right age in my family, but I have a brother of the right age."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor, who was tasting pastries, choked in fear. Xie Yuzhen hurriedly brought water and patted his back: "Hey, Your Majesty, didn't you know that my brother was engaged to a man and has no intention of looking for a new wife until now?"

"So you just assume that your uncle likes men?!" The emperor also knew the reasons why Xie Jingrong saw through the world.

While wiping the emperor's mouth, Xie Yuzhen touched his face, and it felt just as good as she remembered. "I just saw that my brother is so old and not in a hurry to get married and have children to pass on the family line, so I became suspicious."

She deliberately emphasized the word "doubt".

The emperor suddenly realized what was going on. Although he did not show it, this woman was smart enough to see that he had once doubted her because of Wang Xuanshi's miscarriage and had deliberately come to take revenge on her.

Somehow, the emperor was not angry at Xie Yuzhen's act of rebellion. Instead, he felt as if a huge stone had been lifted from his heart. He felt that it was absolutely right for his beloved concubine to be angry with him.

She didn't keep it in her heart, but teased me! So cute! Love it!