"What's wrong? Did His Majesty summon someone else to serve him in bed?"
Seeing Yunyan's strange expression, Juechan's heart skipped a beat as she asked the question. "No way? She's only been in the Qianqing Palace for a short time. Didn't the Emperor say yesterday that he liked her serving him the most? How come he summoned someone else to serve him today?"
Juechan was always confident in her appearance; otherwise, she wouldn't have had the confidence to cooperate with Consort Hui. She believed that her looks were second to none in the harem, and that it was only right that the Emperor favored her.
Juechan's idea was good, but unfortunately, Kangxi not only liked beautiful women, but also women with interesting manners that suited his taste.
Juechan had beauty but no ability to keep men, so how could she make Kangxi abandon all the beauties in the harem?
"Miss, with so many concubines in the harem, all need the Emperor's comfort. I imagine that after today, the Emperor will still summon you."
Yunyan was afraid that her mistress would have a mental breakdown, so she quickly tried to comfort her.
After all, ever since she was brought to the Qianqing Palace, the Emperor had been particularly fond of Juechan, completely ignoring the other palace maids who served him in the inner palace. Just when Juechan was so pampered that she thought it was her due, the Emperor turned around and summoned his original favorite concubine, Jingpin.
Well, such a gap in perception can actually be unbearable, especially since Juechan had already enjoyed exclusive favor before.
"Your Majesty, will Your Majesty really summon me again?"
Juechan muttered a few words to himself, then turned and looked at Yunyan with excitement.
She found it hard to believe that someone as beautiful as her would be favored by the Emperor. She wondered if, as time went on, she would end up like the other unfavored concubines in the harem, forgotten by the Emperor and forced to endure each day in misery.
Being young and impatient, Juechan unconsciously voiced his concerns.
Yunyan: ...
What could Yunyan do? She could only try her best to persuade Juechan not to think too much about it, saying that she was so beautiful, how could she be like that?
Juechan fell into self-pity and became extremely depressed. "Why not? There are too many concubines in the harem, but there is only one emperor." Since there are those who are favored, there must be those who are not.
That's what she said, but Yunyan couldn't really tell the harsh truth.
"If you don't want the emperor to forget you, you should try your best to give birth to an imperial heir."
Look, young lady, the emperor always visits the palaces of the concubines who have imperial offspring, whether they are princesses or princes.
"Your Majesty is already blessed with good fortune; once you give the Emperor a son, there will be no need to worry about these things."
Of course, for a palace maid to give birth to an imperial heir, she first needed to be able to get the emperor to send her into the harem.
Because palace maids who did not have a formal title were not qualified to bear the emperor's offspring.
Yunyan's words were essentially a pie in the sky for Juechan. Although it couldn't be realized now, with Juechan's looks, entering the harem was only a matter of time. As long as she could please the emperor, she had no worries about her future.
Unfortunately, Yunyan's good intentions were misunderstood by Juechan and led him to have wicked thoughts.
Juechan suddenly realized that his current unstable state was due to the lack of an imperial heir as a bond.
If I get pregnant smoothly, wouldn't that perfectly solve the current problem?
Ignoring Yunyan's words of comfort, Juechan fell into a vortex of wanting to get pregnant.
Now, after serving the Emperor, she is given a contraceptive soup by the palace servants, but the effects of the contraceptive soup can be limited, as long as she can vomit it out in time...
Juechan cracked his knuckles and interrupted Yunyan's incessant chatter, using the excuse that he was tired and needed to rest to dismiss Yunyan.
Meanwhile, Xiuning waited for Kangxi to arrive. The two spent some time together, enjoying each other's company, before the atmosphere became a little inappropriate.
With her alluring eyes, Xiu Ning sat on Kangxi's lap, holding a piece of fruit in her hand, intending to feed it to him.
The scent of dragon's breath emanated from Kangxi, while at the same time, Xiuning could also smell a faint, sweet fragrance on him.
Hmm, it seems that Emperor Kangxi really did hide a woman in the Qianqing Palace.
Having already anticipated this, Xiu Ning immediately became more relaxed.
"Your Majesty~"
The lilting tone of her voice added to Xiu Ning's charm, while also arousing Kangxi's heartbeat and exciting him.
"Your Majesty has not visited Qixiang Palace these days. I thought Your Majesty had grown tired of me."
Her words carried a hint of grievance, tinged with the scent of tea. Xiu Ning pouted slightly, her eyes like hooks, drawing Kangxi unconsciously to follow her lead.
"How could I possibly tire of my beloved consort? It's just that I've been busy with court affairs lately. Once I'm done with this, I'll definitely visit Qixiang Palace more often to keep her company."
While telling a lie about not wanting it, Kangxi touched Xiuning's beautiful face.
Xiu Ning thought to herself that this person was shameless enough to use being busy with court affairs as an excuse.
She knew perfectly well that there weren't so many things going on at court lately that Emperor Kangxi wouldn't come to the inner palace. So why didn't he come? Well, everyone's an adult, so they just kept quiet about it.
She could easily utter some flirtatious words, and Xiu Ning didn't care who the concubine hidden in the Qianqing Palace was.
In short, Xiuning can't abandon her mission after coming here. She should cultivate relationships as needed and collect treasures as required.
The next morning, when Xiu Ning was carried back to Qixiang Palace in a sedan chair with her eyes half-closed, the long list of rewards following behind her was particularly eye-catching.
...
"Hmph! Consort Jing of Qixiang Palace is nothing but a vixen!"
Tong Jiarong was furious. She secretly tried to take action against Qixiang Palace several times, but to no avail.
Now that another vixen has appeared in the Qianqing Palace, it's truly adding insult to injury.
"Your Majesty, although Consort Jing is not good, she is at least a proper concubine who entered the palace through the imperial selection process. But that one in the Qing Palace..."
Qianli felt that Consort Jing was a person of high standing in the harem no matter what, so even if the emperor favored her a little more, it wouldn't matter.
But there's something wrong with that palace maid who was supposed to be with the emperor in the Qianqing Palace. After coming out of the Xin Zhe Ku (a place for palace maids to eat and drink), she was taken to the Qianqing Palace by the emperor and received his exclusive favor for more than ten days. This even affected the emperor so much that he rarely visited the inner palace anymore.
After much deliberation, Qianli felt compelled to remind her mistress to pay close attention to this man.
Upon hearing Qianli mention Juechan, Tong Jiarongyue slammed the teacup off the table and knocked it to the ground.
"Is the Qianqing Palace a place you can discuss? What can you say if the Emperor likes me?"
What's the point of bringing it up with her? Is she going to run to the Qianqing Palace and throw a tantrum at the Emperor?
Qianli was so frightened by Tong Jiarongyue's roar that she knelt down and said, "This servant knows her mistake and begs Your Majesty for punishment."
Tong Jiarong remained silent for a long time until Qianli's legs trembled, at which point she gently raised her hand and said, "If there is a next time, don't blame me for being merciless."
Qianli was sweating profusely, her mind blank with panic, and could only nod in agreement.
A dark glint flashed in her eyes as Tong Jia Rongyue got up and walked towards the bed. "It's been a long time since I've paid my respects at Cining Palace. Help me tidy up, and we'll go to Cining Palace now."
With a taut face and no smile, Tong Jia Rongyue, after being dressed by Qianli, sat in a sedan chair and headed straight for Cining Palace.
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