Chapter 48 Bathing Yan Shu didn't know what was wrong with her, she was still...

When Yan Shu heard this, she was stunned, her watery eyes widened in disbelief.

What on earth had she heard?

Xiao Yu actually said he wanted to take a bath with her?

Yan Shu almost suspected that she had heard it wrong. After all, how could Xiao Yu say such vulgar words so openly?

Although she was caught when she escaped from the palace before, she had deliberately drunk his water in order to beg Xiao Yu to spare Qingtao's life, and the two of them had stayed in the same bathtub.

But that situation was the most Yan Shu could accept in the clear world. If they were to bathe together now, wouldn't they have to watch each other slowly give up their attachments, and finally be naked together? That would be a bit too much.

Yan Shu couldn't help but think of that scene in her mind, and her face flushed, her heart pounding wildly. The summer heat that had just dissipated began to slowly emerge from her bones.

If it were in the bathtub, the petals and water would still cover it a little, but today she did not ask the palace servants to prepare the bath water in advance.

Yan Shu could only take a shower using the bamboo tube on the wall that connected to the hot spring water from the back mountain.

Because the Xiao Palace was built near a mountain and water, there were several natural hot springs in the back hills. To ensure that the nobles could enjoy these hot springs at all times, the craftsmen used their ingenuity when constructing the restrooms. Bamboo pipes were laid underneath, connecting the hot spring water to the walls of each palace's restroom. A small valve was then installed on the bamboo pipes, and when in use, the water flowed out by simply pulling the valve.

But on weekdays, Yan Shu prefers to take a bath in the bathtub, so she rarely stands to use the hot spring water.

Since it was not convenient to ask Qingtao to prepare it today, Yan Shu decided to use the hot spring water.

But if he wanted to bathe with Xiao Yu at this moment, then he would have to stand under the bamboo tube with Chi Shen.

Yan Shu didn't want to trim her teeth like this.

But before she could open her mouth to refuse his proposal, the young king opposite her had already begun to remove Shen Shang's outer robes one by one... In the end, only Shen Shangxia's outer robes were left.

In an instant, the strong and lean figure of Shang Banshen with rippled muscles caught Yan Shu's eyes.

The dry mouth feeling I had just now under the grape trellis suddenly came back.

Yan Shu immediately wanted to avert her eyes and stop looking, but there was an inexplicable force in her body that drove her to explore. In fact, she and Xiao Yu had had so many affairs, but this was the first time that Shen Ti had looked directly at Xiao Yu.

Although Yan Shu had complicated feelings towards Xiao Yu, she had to admit that Xiao Yu's substitute was indeed a little bit good-looking.

Moreover, although Yan Shu had only had an affair with Xiao Yu in these two lives, she must have seen more than one man's replacement.

In addition to Xiao Yu, she had also seen the former King Xiao Wei.

But he was just so fat and greasy that even when he got on the bed, his fat was all over his body, which looked really disgusting.

When Yan Shu thinks back on it now, she can't bear to look at it. She really feels a little sympathy for those women who were favored by King Xiao Wei in the past.

But Xiao Yu's application for replacement was completely different from his.

When she was dressed, she looked broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, tall and straight. But now that she had withdrawn her gaze, she could see that her bones were sharp and her muscles were strong. She dared not look directly at her, but she could not take her eyes away.

Xiao Yu saw the girl's furtive look, wanting to see but being too embarrassed to do so. He narrowed his narrow eyes and walked over step by step.

By the time Yan Shu came to her senses, Shen Shang had already withdrawn half of his outer skirt. Seeing that Xiaoyi was almost the only one left in Shen Shangxia, the girl's face suddenly turned pale and she reached out in panic to grab her skirt.

"We just got caught in the rain. Shushu should have taken away these Shi Yishang clothes earlier. What if you accidentally catch a cold?" Xiao Yu smiled frankly with his eyes curved, as if he was really just worried that the girl would get sick if she wore Shi Yishang clothes.

Yan Shu didn't know what was wrong with her and she naively believed him.

It was not until she was kicked out of the group, and was lying there like a little white fish pressed against the smooth white marble wall in the bathroom, that she cried with a mixture of joy and grievance.

A trickle of warm water poured out from the bamboo tube on the wall, creating clouds of mist in the bathroom.

The two people who were entangled with each other were enveloped in it.

Yan Shu leaned forward on the smooth white marble wall, her back covered by his protection. She opened her clothes and stood there openly, letting him attack her at will.

Mi Tao was filled with gusts of sex energy. Li Mian seemed to be touched by his lapis lazuli, and the girl let out a sweet cry.

In an instant, the strong wind and the warm spring water mixed together, making Yan Shu unable to hold on to the wall anymore.

Just as Yan Shu gradually lost the strength to support herself and was about to fall down, her body suddenly tightened and she was picked up by Xiao Yu.

What happened next is self-evident.

The weak girl was beaten up by the strong man in Shen Shang, and she had nowhere to escape even if she wanted to.

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On the Qixi Festival, lovers are filled with springtime joy, but at the Suining Palace, it is not so harmonious and peaceful.

The atmosphere in the hall was oppressive and solemn. Yan Qingwan stood quietly by and looked at the nineteen dancers kneeling on the ground. Not only was her face pale, but she also felt a little uneasy in her heart.

Empress Dowager Zhao Jing leaned against the small couch, her graceful face filled with anger. Her narrow, long phoenix eyes swept over the dancers kneeling on the ground, and she suddenly shouted angrily.

"Every one of them is trash!"

"I've spent so much time training you all, and yet none of you are any good!"

Upon hearing this, the dancers all knelt down and bowed their heads, too frightened to even breathe.

When Empress Dowager Zhao Jing thought about what happened at the banquet today, she became furious. She felt that Xiao Yu's attitude not only caused her to lose her wife and her army, but also blocked her way to add another concubine to his harem in the future.

She knew that Xiao Yu doted on Miss Yan, but she never imagined that he doted on her to such an extent that he didn't care about any other beauties.

Now even the substitute she had cultivated with great difficulty could not shake Yan Shu's position in the slightest. This greatly increased the sense of crisis in Empress Dowager Zhao Jing's heart.

She became more and more angry, thinking of the fake who was driven out of the palace. She immediately raised her eyebrows and looked at Yan Qingwan who was standing beside her, with a hint of pressure in her eyes.

"Wanji, it's time for you to give me an explanation."

Queen Dowager Zhao Jing then looked at her and sneered, continuing, "You told me earlier that the king only coveted Miss Yan's appearance, and that as long as he could find a beautiful woman to replace her, he would definitely abandon her. I did as you said, but I completely lost face at the banquet today! How are you going to apologize now?"

Hearing Empress Dowager Zhao Jing's angry rebuke, Yan Qingwan was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground, her face slightly pale.

"Please forgive me, Queen Dowager! I didn't expect that the king would value Yan Shu so much. I thought that the king was only interested in her for a while, but I never thought... I never thought that the king would value her so much..." Yan Qingwan replied tremblingly. She really didn't expect that King Xiao doted on Yan Shu so much that he even ignored Queen Dowager Zhao Jing for Yan Shu.

Thinking back to the banquet, the king didn't even look at Rong Yun'er, and ordered someone to be executed just because of a name, without caring at all that Rong Yun'er was the Queen Mother's person.

He was so cruel and merciless just for Yan Shu.

Yan Qingwan really couldn't understand. Apart from her beautiful appearance, what else was there about Yan Shu that made King Xiao love her so much?

How could King Xiao favor her so much?

After hearing Yan Qingwan's reply, Empress Dowager Zhao Jing sneered.

"What do you think? What's the use of what you think!" Empress Dowager Zhao Jing sat up from the couch, her phoenix eyes looking coldly at the woman kneeling in front of her.

"Wan Ji, you promised me that you could get rid of Yan Shu, and only then would I take you out of the ancestral temple. Now if you can only use these useless words to fool me, I will see you go back to where you came from."

Empress Dowager Zhao Jing's tone was calm, but it was like a thunderclap exploding in Yan Qingwan's mind.

"Please forgive me, Queen Dowager! Please forgive me, Queen Dowager! I have a way! I must have a way!" Yan Qingwan replied in a hoarse voice.

She doesn't want to go back to the ancestral temple, she absolutely doesn't want to go back to the ancestral temple!

If she was driven back to the ancestral temple by Empress Dowager Zhao Jing again, she would never have the chance to come out again.

She absolutely did not want to stay in that desolate place for the rest of her life. She did not want to be a palace maid in the ancestral temple and die alone.

Why can Yan Shu be favored by King Xiao and live an extremely honorable life, while Yan Qingwan can only be a slave without any power?

Obviously, she was also a noble lady of the Yan clan in the past, wasn't she?

She had come to the Kingdom of Xiao as Yan Shu's concubine. She could obviously serve King Xiao, but why could she only be a slave now?

Yan Qingwan was unwilling to accept this, she would never accept this.

Now that she has walked out of the ancestral temple with her own ability, there is no way she can go back.

She didn't believe it. She didn't believe that Yan Shu could really remain in favor for so long.

Yan Qingwan gritted her teeth, her hatred for Yan Shu growing stronger. Thinking back to her childhood days in the royal family, she felt more and more that her past efforts should not have been in vain.

She racked her brains to think of a solution for Empress Dowager Zhao Jing, when suddenly she remembered a royal rumor from when she was ten years old. Her heart skipped a beat and she remembered something.

"Empress Dowager, I have thought of a way!" Yan Qingwan looked up, her eyes seemed to be burning with flames of hope, and her tone was a little excited.

Empress Dowager Zhao Jing had originally thought of sending Yan Qingwan back to the ancestral temple, but after hearing her solemn words, her eyes narrowed slightly and she became interested.

She sat back on the couch, her gaze returned to Yan Qingwan, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, and the smile on her face was a little contemptuous.

"Oh? What else does Wanji have to do?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Qingwan immediately replied anxiously, "I just remembered that a secret of the Yan royal family six years ago seemed to be closely related to Yan Shu!"

Empress Dowager Zhao Jing frowned slightly when she heard this: "Secret, what secret is it?"

Seeing that Empress Dowager Zhao Jing finally showed some interest, Yan Qingwan immediately explained, "Do you remember, Empress Dowager? Six years ago, the Xiao Kingdom sent a hostage to the Yan Kingdom. But before he had even spent a year in the Yan Palace, he suddenly died. Although Prince Yan claimed that the Xiao Kingdom hostage had died of illness, I've heard rumors that Yan Shu had murdered the hostage..."

When Yan Qingwan said this, Empress Dowager Zhao Jing's eyes widened slightly.

Yan Qingwan thought that Empress Dowager Zhao Jing was surprised by Yan Shu's cruelty, but she didn't know that what Empress Dowager Zhao Jing was thinking about at this moment was that Xiao Yu had been involved with Yan Shu in Yan Palace six years ago.

When King Yanwen told King Xiao Wei that Xiao Xun had died of illness, no one in the Xiao Palace actually cared.

After all, Xiao Yu had been used as a poison vessel by King Xiao Wei since he was young, and his body must have been damaged for a long time. It would not be surprising that he died one day.

So after learning the news of Xiao Xun's death, no one in the Xiao Palace royal family was surprised.

Apart from the servants who used to serve Xiao Xun, no one else felt sad.

At that time, Empress Dowager Zhao Jing was so concerned about her own son Xiao Jin that she had no time to care about the life and death of a concubine's son.

Later, her own son unfortunately fell into the water and died. Xiao Xun came back to life and returned to the country, which made Empress Dowager Zhao Jing want to recognize her son.

However, Xiao Xun kept silent about his past experiences in Yan State. He only said that he was injured by a wild beast when he went out of the city to hunt, and the people in the Yan State palace thought he was dead.

Even Wei Ziqi, who brought him back, only said that he saw Xiao Xun covered in blood on his way to Yan State for business, and knew nothing about other things that Xiao Yu had done in the Yan Palace in the past.

Unexpectedly, after hearing Yan Qingwan's words, Empress Dowager Zhao Jing realized that there was a lot of story behind Xiao Yu's "death" in the past.

If it is really related to Yan Shu, then this matter will be interesting.

So Empress Dowager Zhao Jing ordered the eunuchs beside her to immediately dismiss the dancers. When she and Yan Qingwan were the only ones left in the palace, she looked at Yan Qingwan, raised her eyebrows, and asked slowly:

"You said that the proton was killed by Yan Shu? Then how did she kill him?"

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The author has something to say: Xiao [dog head] now knows that Shushu is a little greedy for his body and he keeps seducing her [yellow heart]

The Queen Mother is now desperately trying to get rid of Shushu, thinking that without Shushu in the harem, everything will be harmonious. She has no idea that Xiao [狗头] is actually crazy, and Shushu is his poison. Once Shushu is taken away, none of them will live.