Dongsheng Kingdom, inside Fengqi Palace.
The bedroom of the current queen should have been decorated with gold carvings and jade, but this palace lacks many of the pretentious gold and silver items. It is decorated with jade bi and surrounded by magnolias, creating a leisurely atmosphere in this extravagant palace.
Gu Yanyue was wearing a plain white formal dress, her black hair was scattered messily at her sides, her face was pale, her eyes were dull, and she was actually a little dazed.
She seemed to have traveled through time.
As a Michelin three-star chef, Gu Yanyue believed that she had never done anything harmful to the world, nor had she made any strange oaths. Why was she making pastries and found herself here when she opened her eyes?
God have mercy on me!
She swore that she would never read palace fighting novels while working again!
The clothes she wore and the palace she was in were all reminders of the absurd fact that she had traveled through time.
What followed was the original owner's memory.
The original owner was also called Gu Yanyue, the second daughter of Prime Minister Gu.
Three years ago, Prime Minister Gu and the general joined forces and commanded 30,000 elite soldiers to capture the palace. In the name of "clearing the court", they wanted to turn the old emperor into a puppet emperor. Unexpectedly, the old emperor resisted in anger, but was pierced by thousands of arrows and died tragically in the Qiankun Hall.
In desperation, the two men had to support Jin'an King Yuwen Ran, who had no foundation at the time, to ascend the throne and become emperor, using the emperor to control the princes.
The original owner, Gu Yanyue, had been in love with Yuwen Ran for many years and volunteered to monitor Yuwen Ran for her father. Prime Minister Gu was determined to suppress the general in the court, so he sent the original owner to the palace. The general's daughter, Su, was the imperial concubine in the palace, and the prime minister's daughter must be the queen.
Unfortunately, the original owner was a fool. Three days after she was crowned queen, she was poisoned to death in Fengqi Palace by Concubine Su from the General's Mansion.
Gu Yanyue: “…”
If you want to travel through time, then travel through time. Can you not travel through time to become a stupid fool?
How could such a clichéd plot happen to her?
Gu Yanyue was simply too tired to complain.
The most important thing right now is to survive, let’s worry about other things later!
She turned over and got out of bed. Just when she was about to complain about how weak her body was, she suddenly heard footsteps. When she looked up, she saw a woman in palace clothes walking slowly in with a group of palace maids.
The woman was wearing a violet gauze dress, a plain color, but it looked flamboyant on her. The necklaces and pendants around her waist were so luxurious that she looked arrogant and domineering at first glance.
This face soon overlapped with the face in Gu Yanyue's memory.
Concubine Su.
Su Xue'e.
It was this person who poisoned the original owner, causing her to die suddenly in her bedroom.
Gu Yanyue took a deep breath, and sure enough, she heard Su Xue'e's shrill voice in her ears: "How did Queen Sister get up? When the imperial physician said that you were dying, you were terrified. Fortunately, God has been kind and allowed you to come back to life."
This sounds awkward.
Gu Yanyue suppressed the urge to vomit and watched as Su Xue'e's eyes fell on the half-eaten cake on the table. She was clearly wondering how she could still be alive and well after eating the poisonous cake.
This was clearly Sima Zhao's intention, and it was hard for her not to notice it.
Gu Yanyue raised her eyes slightly, and her gaze fell on the food box that Su Xue'e was carrying. Her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, which was intimidating. "Thank you for your concern, sister, but you didn't come here just to visit the patient, right?"
Su Xue'e lowered her eyes, leaned forward, and smiled apologetically, "Sister Queen, your vision is sharp. I thought you had just recovered from a serious illness and must be hungry, so I brought a box of osmanthus cake today, and specially came to treat you to a taste."
Her eyes and brows were like blooming peonies, and she had a bold temperament. Even when she lowered her eyes and spoke in a low voice, Gu Yanyue could feel the intimidation of this person. She was not afraid of her, the queen, at all.
Moreover, the way she called "sister" and "sister" sounded so teasing, it made Gu Yanyue feel it was artificial and disgusting.
Gu Yanyue put on a cold smile, glanced at the osmanthus cake in her hand, and said slowly, "When making osmanthus cake, flour and glutinous rice are steamed into blocks. Therefore, the best osmanthus cake has always been one with a smooth surface. The cake in my sister's hand is covered with powder. Is it because the imperial chef in the palace made a sloppy job, or was the powder added after the cake was made?"
These words could be said to have stirred up a thousand waves. A trace of panic flashed across Su Xue'e's eyes. "What do you mean, sister?"
She raised her eyes to look at Gu Yanyue, only to see that Gu Yanyue was staring at her coldly, with a hint of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth and his eyes were icy, as if he wanted to make her feel cold to the bone before he would stop.
Gu Yanyue snorted coldly, walked to her, stretched out her slender hand, and condescendingly opened the lid of the food box. She picked out the cake with the most flour, and looked at Su Xue'e with a smile, "Sister, this cake is so crude, why don't you taste it for me first?"
Su Xue'e was completely panicked and backed away repeatedly, but unexpectedly, she bumped into a man. She hurriedly tried to pull away, but when she looked up, she saw the dragon pattern with gold lines on a black background on the man's chest. She immediately knelt in front of him and said, "Your Majesty, I greet you."
His Majesty?
Gu Yanyue raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard this. Is this man the Emperor Yuwen Ran?
She had always been curious about how handsome Yuwen Ran was to make the original owner love him so deeply that she was willing to give up her own status and face to become his queen.
Thinking of this, Gu Yanyue took a step forward.
But Yu Wenran was seen standing outside the door with his hands behind his back, his eyebrows like ink painting, his temples as if cut by a knife, his face a little pale, but it made it look as if powdered, his high nose bridge embellished with delicate facial features, his whole face looked like a perfect ink painting that the most skilled craftsman had spent his entire life to carefully carve out, it was just the right amount of workmanship.
Such a face will indeed make women in seclusion unforgettable at first sight.
Gu Yanyue swallowed her saliva. The last time she saw such a handsome guy was when she was chasing stars on her phone. Now when she saw Yu Wenran, she suddenly felt that the star idols in her phone were not so attractive anymore!
"Queen, have you still not learned the etiquette of the palace?"
Yu Wenran spoke indifferently, her red lips moved slightly, and the corners of her eyes raised, showing both majesty and a hint of helplessness.
Gu Yanyue finally came to her senses from her infatuated state and bowed slightly, imitating the way women in ancient costume dramas saluted. "Your Majesty..."
Yuwen Ran saw that she was holding an osmanthus cake in her hand, and it was a palace ritual that was neither fish nor fowl. He suddenly felt a headache, "Empress, Imperial Concubine, what are you doing? As the empress, how can you be so rude as to make a mess of an osmanthus cake with your bare hands?"
Gu Yanyue curled her lips and quickly threw the "culprit" in her hand back onto the table.
Yuwen Ran looked at Su Xue'e again, "What is the Imperial Concubine doing here again?"
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