Finally, Shengwu finished her meal and dismissed the rest of the palace maids except Suyi.

Shengwu sat in front of the dressing table and handed the comb to Suyi beside her.

"Suyi, please help me dress up." The charming voice slowed down, becoming less arrogant and more sad.

The extremely beautiful face was silent and sad, without any of the arrogance, domineering, viciousness and cruelty that she had during the day.

It was late at night and there were no outsiders around. Sheng Wu, the young empress dowager envied by everyone, seemed to have returned to being the noble and innocent young lady of the general's mansion.

In the original storyline, Suyi remained loyal to Shengwu. The two grew up together, and even after Shengwu entered the palace, Suyi remained with her. However, Suyi was also sent by the General's Mansion to monitor Shengwu, placing her in the middle. She sided with the General's Mansion on the surface, but secretly supported Shengwu.

But in the original plot, Sheng Wu was suspicious and never trusted anyone. He always felt that Su Yi was a traitor sent by her father to monitor his every move, so he either beat or scolded Su Yi.

But who would have thought that it would not be the declining general's mansion that would collect Sheng Wu's body.

Instead, it was this maid who used a bamboo mat to drag her out of the mass grave step by step and buried her in the wilderness.

Suyi's pretty face paused slightly. It was late at night and time to rest. Where was the master going to get dressed?

However, Suyi also knew that she was not liked by Shengwu, so she didn't dare to say much. She just bowed and walked over.

"Your Majesty, what kind of headdress would you like?"

Sheng Wu didn't expect to be able to speak her true feelings all at once and improve Su Yi's favorability. She just had a sad face, lowered her beautiful eyes, and her gentle voice was filled with all kinds of emotions.

"Comb it up. I first saw Xiao Luochen's headdress when I was at the General's Mansion. The makeup style should be the same."

When Su Yi heard this, she quickly guessed who she wanted to see and was so scared that she immediately knelt on the ground.

"Master, I dare not. Your Majesty, please listen to my advice. You are now the Empress Dowager, an extremely noble position. If you provoke the Emperor again and cause gossip, I am afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the ministers of the previous dynasty!"

Sheng Wu smiled sadly, and the beautiful face in the mirror was charming but also revealed a sense of alienation as if she was tired of everything.

"Suyi, you know I have no choice. My mother and brother are still in my father's hands, and she refuses to leave. The glory of my mother's family all rests on me. If I don't obey, I will have no choice but to be abandoned."

"Just like when I first entered the palace, even though I resisted in every possible way, in the end, I still ended up in the palace."

Oh, she was just making it up.

In the original plot, the reason why Sheng Wu was controlled by her father and took the aphrodisiac was, firstly, that she also wanted to try her best to win the heart of the male protagonist Xiao Luochen, and secondly, her mother had been bedridden for many years since giving birth to her younger brother, and had been using precious medicine to prolong her life.

Moreover, her mother loved her father very much. Even though she knew that her daughter was being threatened and that her father had taken one concubine after another, she was unwilling to leave the cannibalistic mansion of the general.

Typical love-brained person.

"Can……"

Hearing this, Su Yi fell to the ground with nothing to say.

After all, the lives of her family are still in the hands of the General's Mansion.

Sheng Wu faced the open window outside, gazing at a corner of the bright moon with the corners of her narrow and beautiful eyes.

She shed a tear with a sad look on her face, and the cinnabar teardrop mole at the corner of her eye made it even more obvious that the beauty was broken and desolate, which made people feel heartbroken when they saw her.

"Okay, hurry up and help me dress up. Also, choose an outfit that is most similar to the one Xiao Luochen wore when we first met."

Sheng Wu forced a smile and raised her hand to wipe away her tears. From the upward angle, she looked like a proud beauty, resolute and tenacious.

Seeing this, Su Yi's eyes trembled and she looked at her with heartache, but she had nothing to say. She could only stand up and dress Sheng Wu carefully.

"Yes, my lady."

Sheng Wu closed her eyes, tears still welling up in her eyes, and she looked so beautiful that she was at the mercy of others.

In fact.

[Heituanzi, have those two spies left?]

[Yeah, the spies sent by Xiao Luochen and Pei Yuqing have already gone back to deliver the message. Master, your performance just now was so realistic! Even I almost cried!]

Sheng Wu scoffed. "Tsk, it's worth it that I aimed at the window at the perfect angle, and cried at the perfect moment. Anyone who sees this will be more than a little partial. When I report it later, even if I tell the truth, I'm bound to feel a little more sympathetic and partial. People are visual creatures."

Black Tuanzi [Host, how did you know someone would be watching you? ]

[Stupid boy, even if I'm still portraying a vicious persona today, there are some deviations. Xiao Luochen and Pei Yuqing are both shrewd people, so how could they not suspect something? They'll naturally increase their surveillance of me. Even if they don't, I'll find a way to let them know my difficulties.]

Heituanzi's eyes widened in surprise, "So, you deliberately pushed the heroine into the water today to attract the hero's attention, seduce and provoke Pei Yuqing, just for this?"

Sheng Wu raised an eyebrow. "Oh, I'll take advantage of you. I'm a beauty, so naturally, I like beautiful women. As for the heroine, I don't really like people wrongly accusing me, so I'll just vent my anger."

So, her way of venting her anger is to kill people?!

The black ball was trembling. This was not right. Didn’t the adults say that the host was very gentle? How could it be so scary?

Why does it feel like it's missing something very important?

[By the way, do you have any way to temporarily erase the memory of Xiao Luochen's spy?]

The black ball shuddered [No!]

[Tsk, forget it, let's just scrap this mission.]

Hei Tuanzi said, "Yes, yes, yes! But I can only keep this up for a while. After all, this is cheating. If the Spacetime Administration detects me, I'll be struck by lightning (? _ ?)"

[It's okay, just hold on until I find Xiao Luochen.]

Anyway, it wasn't her who was struck by lightning.

【……good! 】

Heituanzi gritted his teeth and agreed to the humiliating task for the sake of his first mission.

[Then, host, are you really going to give the male protagonist an aphrodisiac?]

In the original plot, Sheng Wu acted twice. This time, the male protagonist was almost killed by his sword, but was rescued by Sheng Wu's half-brother who came running. The second time, she tried to plot against the female protagonist but failed, so she drugged the male protagonist and ended up sending him to the military camp.

Sheng Wu curled her lips. "Why not? You're useless. You can't help me understand the hero's feelings for Sheng Wu, so I can only do it myself."

Heituanzi was heartbroken and automatically turned off the microphone.

After dressing up, Su Yi supported the exquisite and beautiful Sheng Wu, sat in the curtained sedan chair, and went to the imperial study.