"What's going on?"

The maidservant beside Yan Yan knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Shu missed her sister, so she invited Miss Yan into the palace. The Empress has approved this."

Generally speaking, the Queen would approve such requests to meet with female relatives as long as they were not too frequent.

Liu Jiang said sternly: "Hasn't this road been cleared? How did you get in?"

In order to avoid being disturbed, Tu Yufan would usually clear the way in advance to prevent women who had bad intentions towards him from deliberately blocking his way to seduce him.

"It wasn't me - it was Miss Yan who wanted to see the butterflies. I couldn't stop her. I beg for forgiveness, Steward Liu." The palace maid was so frightened that her face changed drastically and she kept kneeling down to beg for mercy.

Yan Yan also realized it later and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this is all my fault. Please don't blame Miss Xiaoling."

Yan Yan's face was calm, without any trace of guilt, and she even showed a resolute look. If it were the original owner, she might feel a little interested, but Tu Yufan felt that she was selfish and self-centered, and she did not repent even after causing trouble for others.

A trace of resentment flashed in the eyes of the palace maid Xiaoling. The rules in the palace are strict, and if you are not careful, it is easy to bring about fatal disasters. This Miss Yan is a daughter of an official family after all, but she is so ignorant of the rules that when she saw the beautiful butterfly, she wanted to chase it in. Xiaoling was unable to stop her and happened to bump into the emperor's sedan chair.

The current emperor attaches great importance to rules. She thought that this would attract the emperor's attention. What a foolish woman.

"You don't know the rules. Since you are not Concubine Shu's sister, remind Concubine Shu to discipline her family and learn good etiquette. Liu Jiang, pull them apart and don't waste time."

Tu Yufan yawned and just wanted to go back to sleep early. He had been working non-stop for several months.

"yes."

Seeing Tu Yufan's indifferent expression, Liu Jiang simply sent people to chase them away. However, the two of them were really embarrassed, especially Yan Yan, whose face turned red. She thought Tu Yufan was such a bad person.

Although she is not a concubine, she holds the system and looks down on the emperor. She thinks that the emperor is nothing but a lecherous pervert. She thinks that her own elder sister does not want to be the mistress of the house but must become a concubine, which is just self-degradation.

Tu Yufan didn't know that the heroine was quite advanced in her thinking, but it was a pity that she was born in the wrong era.

....

As soon as Yan Yan saw Concubine Shu, she was slapped hard by her.

Yan Yan's face swelled up instantly, and a look of humiliation flashed in her eyes.

"You are a worthless thing. You have already displeased the Emperor as soon as you came in. What do you want from him?" Concubine Shu's eyes were cold and she was extremely angry.

Yan Yan's first child was a baby boy, and Concubine Shu allowed her to enter the palace to have a surrogate mother because of her good looks.

"Sister, Yan Yan doesn't want to enter the palace. I hope you'll let me go for the sake of our common bloodline." Yan Yan didn't want to be trapped in the palace her whole life, and she looked down on the women trapped in the palace.

Concubine Shu stared at her deeply for a while, and said meaningfully: "Oh - is that so? Since you don't want to, I am your sister after all, so I won't force you."

"Thank you, elder sister. Yan Yan will never forget your kindness."

A hint of surprise flashed in Yan Yan's eyes. She thanked Concubine Shu and left soon after.

Concubine Shu looked at Yan Yan's back and smiled cruelly. A concubine's daughter was unwilling to worry about her family. The fate of people who had no value would be a hundred times more miserable than this. At that time, she would know what kind of choice was the most correct.

Yan Yan returned home happily. A few days later, her aunt suddenly developed a high fever, but no doctor came to visit her. She knelt in the courtyard of the aunt's house, but received no response.