Chapter 179: Your Majesty also has a mark?
Yueli of course refused to help him clean it up. Looking at the small piece of black fabric that was particularly dark in color and even a little sticky, she wanted to cut it into pieces with scissors.
Yue Li curled up in the quilt and no matter how He Yanchen screamed, she couldn't make a sound.
"Aren't you afraid of suffocating yourself?" The man wanted to pull off her blanket with amusement and whispered in her ear, "Then... shall I help you clean up?"
Yueli's eyes widened. Before she could think about the meaning of the man's words, she felt the quilt on her body being lifted up. She was originally like she was wearing nothing, and now she was suddenly exposed to the air, shivering with cold.
......
After the tiring lovemaking, Yueli lay on the man's chest, panting.
She didn't understand why He Yanchen was so energetic. Except for the few days when she had her period, the two of them spent almost every day together until late at night.
She lowered her eyes and looked at her arms. The old marks on them had not yet disappeared, and were covered by new marks.
Yue Li pouted and was about to act coquettishly when she caught a glimpse of a faint mark on the arm that He Yanchen was holding her wrist with.
She opened her eyes wide and looked over, then looked at her own arm, and was surprised to find that the two marks looked almost the same, both like small crescent moons, only one was bigger and the other was smaller.
Yueli stood up, leaned over and grabbed his hand: "Your Majesty, have you also grown a mark?"
He Yanchen was lazily resting with his eyes closed. When he heard the sound, he opened his eyes and looked over. He saw Yue Li comparing the two marks with a curious look on her face.
His voice still carried the laziness of satisfaction, low and sexy: "You just realized it?"
Yue Li blinked. The mark was quite small and not obvious. Normally, she was tortured to death by him on the bed, so how could she have the time to notice these things?
"Your Majesty, have you known this for a long time?" Yue Li sat up, the silk quilt slipping from her shoulders. She asked coquettishly, "Does this mean that Your Majesty and I are destined to be together? We actually have the same mark."
With a smile on her face, she leaned forward and kissed him: "It seems that Your Majesty and I are destined to be together."
He Yanchen chuckled and pinched the tip of her nose: "You are not ashamed."
Yueli's ears blushed red from what he said. She buried her head in his arms and muttered, "I am telling the truth."
To this day, Yue Li sometimes still feels like she is dreaming when she thinks about the short period of just over a month she has spent in the capital.
He Yanchen was so good to her that she couldn't believe it was real.
When she was redeemed by Xiao Mingcheng, countless people in Chunfeng Pavilion envied her. If they knew that she had become the imperial concubine, they would definitely envy her even more.
Yueli couldn't help but hug the man beside her tightly again.
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In a blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
A family dinner will be held in the palace today. Unlike the banquet for ministers on New Year's Eve, today it will only be a gathering of people in the harem and some royal relatives with titles.
Yue Li has never left the Linde Palace since she was canonized, nor has she seen other people in the harem.
However, they did meet from a distance on New Year's Eve, but her identity was awkward at the time and no one wanted to talk to her.
Today was a day off, so He Yanchen went to the imperial study early in the morning. When Yue Li came, he had just met with several ministers.
Yueli waited in the side hall for a while before she was allowed to go in.
"Your Majesty!" Yueli trotted over to his side and grabbed his sleeve. "Your Majesty left so early today that when I woke up, my body was completely cold."
Her tone was tinged with resentment: "Didn't Your Majesty say that you would accompany me today?"
He Yanchen held the person in his arms and sat down: "I broke my promise, but I have some urgent matters to deal with today."
"Then I will grind ink for Your Majesty?"
Yue Li glanced at the pile of memorials on the imperial desk and felt embarrassed to disturb him, so she stood aside obediently, rolled up her sleeves and ground ink for him.
The study was quiet, with only the rustling sound of the pen tip scratching across the memorials. Yue Li couldn't help but secretly look at He Yanchen as she was writing.
The sunlight shining through the window shone on his body, making the profile of the man's face more distinct. At this moment, he was different from when he usually played with her. He looked more serious and less careless.
Yue Li was a little lost in thought until He Yanchen knocked her on the head with a pen.
"Oh!" Yue Li came back to her senses, covering her forehead and glaring at him angrily.
He Yanchen raised his finger and tapped the table: "Look for yourself, the ink is overflowing."
Yue Li quickly lowered her head. As expected, she was distracted just now and some ink splashed onto the table.
She clenched the ink stick awkwardly and looked at him pitifully.
He Yanchen found it funny. Whenever she made a mistake, she didn't defend herself but just looked at him with that look, hoping that he would be soft-hearted.
He Yanchen took the ink stick from her hand and put it aside, then wiped her hands with a handkerchief: "Forget it, you should go and play by yourself."
Yue Li pouted and said, "It was because Your Majesty's face while reviewing the memorials was so beautiful that I couldn't help but stare a few more times and ended up getting distracted."
He Yanchen had never thought that this was the reason, and he was speechless for a moment.
Yueli covered her eyes and shouted, "Male beauty is so tempting. I will close my eyes and not look at you anymore. I promise not to spill ink again!"
He Yanchen laughed and knocked her head: "Slippery tongue."
Just then, Ji Ming cautiously pushed the door open and came in. "Your Majesty, the Empress wishes to see you. She wants to discuss tonight's palace banquet with you."
Yue Li was hugging He Yanchen's neck and acting coquettishly. When she heard this, she looked at him, a little at a loss.
Should she go out or not?
He Yanchen's voice softened: "Let her in."
"Then your humble servant..."
Before Yueli could finish her words, she was interrupted by the man. He put his arm around her waist and said, "You are right here."
She is already his concubine, she can't hide away from people all her life.
The queen walked in gracefully and elegantly, wearing a lake blue palace dress and a head of dazzling gold beads.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
"Get up."
After the queen stood up, she raised her eyes slightly and found that there was another person in the hall.
Her eyes suddenly became sharp; this woman seemed familiar.
She couldn't remember where she had seen her before, but she knew her identity from the way she was dressed. She was most likely the newly appointed Concubine Yu by His Majesty.
This Concubine Yu is really arrogant. According to the rules, all the concubines who have been canonized have to come to her to pay their respects. But so many days have passed, not to mention paying their respects, she hasn't even shown up to pay her respects.
Yueli felt the Queen's scrutiny and bowed awkwardly, "Greetings, Her Majesty."
The corner of the Queen's mouth twitched: "This is Concubine Yu's sister, right?"
"You have been in the palace for many days, and I have never seen you before. I didn't expect to see you here."
Yue Li didn't know what the queen's personality was like, nor did she know how to talk to her, so she could only look at He Yanchen in dependence.
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