Chapter 100 Palace Fighting Drama
Ye Ma noticed that Xiaowen hadn't left yet, so she walked over and asked, "What are you doing wiping this late at night?"
"I noticed a stain here that wasn't cleaned up properly. I was worried my husband and wife would find it tomorrow, so I wanted to clean it up quickly. I didn't know my husband would come downstairs again."
Mother Ye saw that there was indeed a stain on the steps. She didn't know when it appeared because the husband and wife rarely walked up the stairs.
The husband only came back for a day or two on his wife's birthday and didn't go home until today.
If it was the wife who made the mess, she would definitely have someone clean it up and would not leave it there and do nothing.
So it must have been someone else who did this.
Mother Ye looked at the location of the surveillance camera and planned to check again tomorrow.
The surveillance cameras are installed discreetly, so anyone who isn't careful won't notice them. For privacy reasons, they haven't installed them in places like the living room, kitchen, and dining room. They're only installed on the paths leading to these places, to confirm who's been there.
Mother Ye urged Xiaowen to wipe the steps dry and told her to leave quickly and not stay there.
In the living room, Yu Yin saw Zhao Shunian sitting next to her. She glanced at the time and it was almost nine o'clock. "Are you tired of being so busy all the time?" She felt that the burden on him was very heavy.
"It's okay, I'm used to it. How's your studio doing lately?" Zhao Shunian thought that her sudden concern was due to something.
"Before the studio was doing well, I looked forward to its business increasing every day. Now that my wish has come true, I feel too busy to handle it all."
Yu Yin recalled her previous experience as a salaried worker. She was also busy, but her concept of busyness was different from that of being a boss, and her worries seemed to be increasing.
Zhao Shunian: "You can try to let go and let the right people do it. You don't have to do everything yourself. Otherwise, why would you hire employees?"
Yu Yin frowned slightly and said distressedly, "I tried letting people take charge, thinking I could just set up the framework and grasp the general direction. But in practice, it wasn't as simple as I thought. I was always worried and started to interfere more and more. My old habits were affecting me."
Zhao Shunian raised his hand and gently stroked Yu Yin's brow, as if to wipe away her worries. "Letting go doesn't mean completely handing over responsibility to others. You have to keep your own people there. In short, it means placing spies. Having an extra pair of eyes to monitor them will allow you to have a comprehensive overview of the situation and grasp the direction. The most important thing for choosing a spy is loyalty to you. The second most important thing is that they understand your words and expressions and work well with you."
Yu Yin fell into deep thought, and she listened to what Zhao Shunian said.
It was not until she heard a cry from the TV that she stopped thinking and focused her attention on the TV series again. She thought in her heart that the heroine must have been bullied by someone again and was so wronged that she cried.
Yu Yin didn't pay attention to the previous plot, so she moved the progress bar back and watched it again.
This is a time-travel palace drama set in the Qing Dynasty. The heroine is a concubine and the hero is the emperor.
The heroine is the hero's true love. When they were in the mansion, they communicated with each other and confided in each other.
But after the male protagonist ascended the throne, the female protagonist, as an old woman living in the palace, was only given the title of Changzai.
Because the hero's foundation is unstable, the heroine is of humble origin, and the situation in the harem is complicated, the hero feels that the time is not right and that her being out of favor is the best protection.
Yu Yin felt that the heroine had a very frustrating life. As she was the heroine, she had to have a lot of scenes, so she was frequently involved in various palace fights and conspiracies. However, she had a low rank and was seemingly unfavored, so she was always bullied by the favored concubines.
The heroine can only silently repeat in her heart that she is the hero's true love, and that the hero uses other concubines and is interested in the family power behind them, in order to comfort herself.
Yu Yin was able to follow this palace drama mainly to see how those arrogant and domineering concubines lived their lives and the various intrigues. She believed that the heroine was just a tool to serve as a camera and push the plot forward, and was not as vivid as those concubines.
Yu Yin watched the play and remembered something. "I heard from your cousin that a few generations ago, a girl entered the palace. She was a concubine who gave birth to a prince. Your cousin also said that in the past, your family was a bannerman, the Han Army Banner. She was very proud of this and showed it off in front of me."
Zhao Shunian said, "I haven't heard of this at all. Maybe my cousin has nothing to show off her superiority in front of you, so she's spreading this old story whose authenticity is unknown. Don't bother with her anymore. It's a waste of time."
"I'm curious what your head will look like after you shave it."
"You can only remain curious, and I can't satisfy your curiosity."
If Zhao Jinian had not said the wrong thing in front of Zhao Shunian, making him not want to mention anything about Zhao Jinian to Yu Yin, he would have said that he could go see Zhao Jinian and use his rich imagination to roughly imagine what he would look like with a shaved head.
Because Zhao Jinian and Zhao Shunian look a bit similar, he still has a shaved head. All his hair has been shaved off and has not yet fully grown back.
After a while, Yu Yin saw that the male protagonist had sent troops to fight in order to stabilize the court, and that he had recently been frequently visiting a concubine who was the daughter of a general.
Yu Yin moved closer to Zhao Shunian, his eyes fixed on his face. "If you were the emperor, would you neglect the woman you love, visit her in secret, and then use all sorts of excuses to prevaricate your true love while blindly favoring others?"
Zhao Shunian and Yu Yin had just watched TV for a while when they heard a line in the drama saying that the emperor was turning over the green cards of certain concubines one after another.
So even though he didn't know the story behind the drama, he still followed Yu Yin's ideas.
Zhao Shunian did not answer Yu Yin's question immediately, but asked first: "I want to know who my beloved is?"
Yu Yin said without hesitation: "It's Concubine Gu."
Zhao Shunian thought to himself that the concubine who was slapped and knelt for a long time was the heroine. "I don't know her, so I can't put myself in your shoes."
Yu Yin thought for a moment and said, "What if she was me?"
Yu Yin felt that she was a little arrogant and believed that she was Zhao Shunian's true love.
Zhao Shunian's palm touched Yu Yin's cheek. After stroking for a while, he lowered his voice and said, "I won't let you suffer grievances and just swallow them. I want to make you shine brightly."
Zhao Shunian believed that the emperor was hesitant and timid, and would not use imperial means to protect true love. If he really loved her, he would not bear to see her suffer injustice and sadness. He responded to everything, but never fulfilled anything, leaving only a vague promise.
Although Zhao Shunian said this under hypothetical circumstances, Yu Yin's heart beat faster when he touched her face and spoke to her like this.
But she soon calmed down and put herself in the shoes of a situation the emperor had once described to the heroine: "If I were the most favored concubine in the harem, but I had no connections, would I become a sitting duck?"
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