The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The Mid-Autumn Festival came in a blink of an eye.

Colorful lanterns and cassia branches were hung throughout the palace, and on that day all officials above the fifth rank, members of the royal family, and nobles in Beijing entered the palace for the banquet.

Xie Ruizhen's father failed to get an official position, so he was not among the invited guests. Her mother received an imperial edict from the emperor, and took this opportunity to enter the palace to express her gratitude... After Xie Ruizhen woke up this morning, she was extremely cautious and ordered Chunfen to personally take people to the southwest gate where the ladies from outside the palace entered to pick up Xie's mother.

"After picking up the person, go directly to Shouning Palace. Don't pay too much attention to anything you encounter on the way." Xie Yuzhen instructed. A banquet was being held in the palace and palace people from all over the place were moving. If someone wanted to do something at this time, it would be very difficult to verify.

She had her hair tied up in a high bun and pinned a phoenix on top of it with a pearl in its mouth and bright red rubies inlaid on its tail feathers.

The clothing standards for women of high rank and high rank in this dynasty were very relaxed. Apart from some specific dragon and phoenix patterns that were exclusively used by the emperor and empress, there were only strict regulations on the flower ornaments and phoenix hairpins that women of high rank wore on their heads.

Xie Yuzhen was a fourth-rank talent, so he could already use the Huasheng with a gold background and red jewels, but the number could not exceed four. If he wore a phoenix hairpin, he could only use a partial phoenix, and the number of tail feathers could not exceed seven.

Golden phoenixes, gemstones, pearls, and velvet flowers that looked like fresh life... Xie Yuzhen carefully selected the most precious and exquisite pieces of jewelry from her makeup box and put them on her body: "Even if I meet concubines with higher status than me, except for the four concubines and the queen, I don't need to pay too much attention to them. If they only meet palace servants and don't see me, there is no need to pay attention to them."

Chunfen responded one by one: "Please rest assured, my lady, I will definitely escort you back safely."

"I am confident in your ability to handle the matter, but you don't need to be too nervous. On such an important day, most people with brains will not openly target my mother." Xie Yuzhen looked at Chunfen's tense little face and couldn't help but say a few words of comfort.

It is true that no one with brains in the palace would target him on such a big day, but unfortunately... After looking around, Xie Yuzhen seemed to find that there were more brainless beauties in the emperor's harem.

But it's not the emperor's fault. If it were Xie Yuzhen herself, she would also think that dumber beauties are easier to fool. After all, no matter how dumb a beauty is, she won't stretch her claws towards the emperor... Unfortunately, Xie Yuzhen is not the emperor, but the beauties' rival in love, so she can only try to be prepared in advance.

After Chunfen left, Xiaoxi tiptoed in and whispered something in Xiazhi's ear. Xie Yuzhen was busy putting on makeup and only paid a little attention to them.

Then Xia Zhi stepped forward quickly and said, "Madam, Huizhu has gone out again."

Looking at her gorgeous and charming self in the silver mirror, Xie Yuzhen picked up the small makeup pen and dipped it in the rouge box, concentrating on drawing a seductive lotus between her eyebrows: "Keep staring, and you will know that Qian is restless."

She had dreamed about Qian Shunyi for three consecutive days. Every time, Qian Shunyi brought a boy dressed in prince's clothes. The mother and son looked very happy and played games in a slightly unfamiliar palace, as if they were specially for Xie Yuzhen to see.

Xie Yuzhen just felt it was unlucky, as he had no shortage of sons, not to mention that he was pregnant with a baby girl. No matter how he thought about it, he wouldn't dream about Qian Shunyi taking care of a child, right?

Even if Qian Shunyi wants a son so badly, what does it have to do with me?

When Xie Yuzhen dreamed of Qian Shunyi and the little prince again the next night, she insisted on her own opinion when she woke up the previous morning - it is said that dreams are the opposite of reality, and Qian Shunyi is afraid that he will have an empty knee in this life.

But when she had the same dream on the third day, with the scene even clearer, Xie Yu really felt that something was wrong.

Could it be a warning from God that Qian Shunyi really gave birth to a son, and that son was the biggest obstacle on the road to the throne for his precious daughter! Qian Shunyi was the emperor's little unknown true love? !

Thinking about it carefully, Qian Shunyi had the natural appearance of a charming concubine, charming and elegant, the type that the emperor would like; it was a pity that she was a little older and too rigid and conservative, which made her look several years older than her actual age. She was uneducated and had no talent for poetry or books, and whenever she opened her mouth she kept saying that women should behave themselves, and even the emperor, who was not picky about women, found her boring and annoying.

Xie Yuzhen thought about it again, and felt that Qian Shunyi was a bit transparent, but his background was not transparent. Many members of the Qian family had passed the imperial examinations and served as officials. Although the highest position they held was only around the fifth or sixth rank, there were many of them!

Moreover, the Qian family is also a noble and powerful family that has survived from the previous dynasty to the present day. They have always been very understanding and know which side to lean towards. Therefore, when the founding emperor of the Great Sheng Dynasty purged the noble and powerful families, although they were also reduced in size, they still have some foundation left. In the "noble family circle", they can be regarded as the highest level.

These dreams were so inexplicable that Xie Yuzhen thought about them again and again, pondered them over and over again, and finally began to suspect whether Qian Shunyi had also been infected with the system.

Perhaps, this time it is a system that can cause people to have strange dreams?

Xie Wei, who has seen several systems, couldn't help but say "useless".

Liu Xiaoyi's system seems to allow her to influence people's emotions. Shen Xiaoyi is even more amazing. She can make people unlucky out of nowhere. Qian Shunyi... makes people dream that she has a prince?

And what’s the point of letting yourself dream?

Xie Yu really wanted to pry open the woman's head to see if it was filled with water. If she had obtained this system, she would definitely use it on the emperor first. She would make the emperor unable to stop wanting her in dreams and in reality, and make him lower the bottom line of indulging her again and again.

Instead of inexplicably making a concubine who was competing for his favor dream of himself raising a child.

Xie Ruzhen didn't know that Qian Shunyi had actually set her sights on the emperor from the beginning, but the system didn't have enough energy, and she was unwilling to give in to Zhao Cairen, so the only one left was Xie Ruzhen, who was pregnant and made Qian Shunyi jealous.

Originally, if this system was used on Zhao Cairen, who was closer to her, it would be possible to add dialogues to the dream. Unfortunately, the tool was no match for the person who used it, and Qian Shunyi's rigid brain chose to go its own way, which led to Xie Yuzhen's three nights of boring dreams with incomprehensible meaning.

After drawing the lotus between her eyebrows, Xie Yuzhen looked at herself in the mirror with satisfaction. Because she was pregnant, she did not put on any powder today. She only used some odorless rouge that she made herself. But even with such a simple makeup, the woman in the mirror was still radiant and gorgeous, and there was no sign of fatigue from bearing a child.

Xie Yuzhen was very satisfied with her condition. She had an excellent physique to begin with, and she was only slightly sleepy and picky about her taste after becoming pregnant. She dressed so formally today, of course, not to stand out at the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, but to let her mother know.

After entering the palace, I lived a good life.