The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"I want to see His Majesty."

Xie Yuzhen followed the sound and entered the room, only to hear the embarrassed woman sitting opposite him saying these words. Her arrogance was the same as before, but with a hint of decadence, as if she was giving orders to others as usual, but also as if there was some hidden pleading in her words.

"Your Majesty is really good at making things difficult for others." In fact, Xie Yuzhen and Liu Shuyi had never had any serious conflicts from the beginning. In fact, it was Xie Yuzhen who took the initiative to stir up trouble and provoke Empress Shuyi, which caused a little friction between the two.

But later, Xie Ruizhen chose Concubine Xu, and the hatred between Concubine Xu and Liu was deep and difficult to resolve. Xie Ruizhen wanted her to work for him, so naturally he had to stand on the same side with her.

Not to mention, later on, there was the story of Liu Shuyi's half soul going to the main god's world of cultivation for "further study" and coming back.

She was originally the soul of this world, but now her soul carries with it magic and rare treasures that far exceed those of this world... After enduring the attack of the Lord God, this world not only did not decline, but instead assimilated and devoured the tentacles of the Lord God one by one in order to achieve its own goal of upgrading and advancement.

The soul of Liu Shuyi.

Needs to be recycled.

She must die.

This is related to the magic that Xie Wei has always dreamed of. No matter what, she will not let Liu Shuyi live beyond this month.

"Don't you think about what you have done? How could His Majesty still be willing to see you?" Xie Yuzhen's basic moral character had already taken a big nosedive after experiencing the troubles caused by her ex-husband's family. After she was horrified to discover that the emperor might have been playing tricks on her, her moral bottom line plummeted, in the hope of catching up with the emperor as soon as possible.

She didn't want to become the second Duke of Yingguo or Concubine Deng. In the future, she had to be the first to turn against the emperor before he did.

"I am the princess' biological mother. Since His Majesty loves his children, how could he not listen to the only words I want to leave behind before I die?" Liu Shuyi felt a little ironic when she said this. "I already know my mistakes, and I also want to... ask His Majesty to give me a chance to confess to him in person because I don't have much time left."

She looked into Xie Ruizhen's eyes and saw the beautiful woman. Her cat-like eyes were full of cunning, and slowly, a kind of interest emerged that Liu Shuyi could not understand at all.

Xie Yuzhen walked slowly and approached Liu Shuyi.

She was dressed exquisitely, with gorgeous clothes and jewelry. Her long shawl and skirt embroidered with golden lotus flowers almost fell to the ground. Her jade rings and pendants jingled, and the gem earrings on her earlobes on either side of her slender neck swayed as she leaned over.

With her chin lifted by the index finger, Liu Shuyi's hair was loose, and her plain clothes were full of wrinkles. She looked uncontrollably at the face in front of her that was so close to her and had not lost any color in the reflection of the pearl light. She was distracted for a moment, and then she heard Xie Yuzhen's voice with a hint of coldness.

He asked her, "Madam Shuyi seems to be worried. Could you tell me something?"

Liu Shuyi came to her senses and slapped Xie Yuzhen's unruly palm away. She felt goose bumps all over her body. "I have nothing to say to you. Just tell me whether you are willing to pass on this message for me or not."

"Mrs. Shuyi is so fierce even when asking for help~" Xie Yuzhen said in a delicate and charming tone. She had just seen something interesting in Liu Shuyi's eyes. Perhaps Liu Shuyi herself could not notice it, but...

This man is about to die, so it would be better for him to die in a more useful way.

Xie Yuzhen laughed: "What if I say I don't want to?"

"Then please turn around and leave Yanzhang Palace now, Concubine Zhao!" Liu Shuyi was a little frightened by her ambiguous smile, and could not help but shrink in her chair, as if the person standing in front of her was not a glorious and beautiful woman, but some dark abyss.

"Hey~" Xie Yuzhen changed his tone again, still with a sweet and sticky tone, but compared with the previous sentence, it was much more frivolous, "I was just joking with Sister Shuyi, sister, you are really something, at this time, you still want to hurt my feelings with cold words..."

Liu Shuyi trembled again and tried to shrink back a little, but the chair under her moved, and the legs of the chair scratched the brick floor, making a harsh sound.

"Of course I will help you, sister. Don't worry. I will go and invite His Majesty in person. Or you can follow me to the Lizheng Hall now..." She became more and more affectionate as she spoke, as if she truly regarded Liu Shuyi as her closest sister.

But this made the people who had watched how Xie Yuzhen had treated Liu Shuyi before feel a chill and a bit absurd in their hearts.

Feeling oppressed by Xie Yuzhen's aura, Liu Shuyi gritted her teeth and tried to regain some face: "Your Majesty has personally ordered me to be confined to this palace. Can you take me out?"

"Of course, His Majesty likes me very much. If you don't believe me, just follow me." After saying that, Xie Yuzhen went straight up to drag Liu Shuyi up.

Liu Shuyi wanted to struggle - she had experienced the tempering of spiritual energy and was much stronger than the average woman - but she found that Xie Yuzhen's strength was almost the same as hers, and this woman actually knew how to restrain others. For a moment, a former cultivator was actually held down by an ordinary strong woman.

Xie Yuzhen made Liu Shuyi, whose hair stood on end, stand in a standing position, then personally gathered her messy long hair, took out a few hairpins from his own head, and skillfully, quickly, and very gently tied her hair into a bun.

At last.

She also put the plum blossom hairpin that the emperor had given her on Liu Shuyi's head. While arranging it for her, she boasted about the origin of the hairpin. At the end, she said, "I was born in a poor family and I love golden things. Although this wooden hairpin is good, it is hard to tell that it is valuable, so I had someone wrap a layer of gold on the tip of the hairpin. But the workers in the workshop said that gold was too soft and would be easily bent, so I had them make a point with harder metal and embed it in, and then plate a layer of gold on the outside..."

Xie Yuzhen took Liu Shuyi's hands and patted them gently: "Come on, I will take you to the Lizheng Hall to meet His Majesty. In the future... I will remember to miss you. During the holidays, I will burn more incense coins for you..."

Liu Shuyi, who was almost blinded by Xie Yuzhen's series of gentle actions, suddenly fell into disarray when she heard this.

Xie Yuzhen was smiling foolishly, his eyes seemed to have seen through everything.