Chapter 182 Becoming a Virtuous Concubine
The five beauties collapsed on the ground, all of them pale with fear and sobbing softly.
The deputy steward couldn't stand it any longer and pulled Yun Shu, who was guarding the door, out of the palace. "My dear girl, please try to persuade the Empress Defei."
Yun Shu said in embarrassment: "Master, the Queen has been in a bad mood recently, and I dare not."
The deputy steward was terrified. "What should we do? These girls are innocent. If they were forced to get their faces scratched or even lose their lives, there would be rumors that would damage the Empress's reputation!"
Moreover, if Concubine De really succeeded in forcing him, it was not certain whether the Emperor would punish her, but he would definitely lose his life!
He feels really miserable.
Yun Shu looked at him and stammered, "I dare not persuade him alone. How about the steward and I try together?"
The deputy general manager gritted his teeth and said, "At this point, this is the only way."
Rather than losing his head, he would rather endure the wrath of Concubine De. At most he would just be beaten.
The two looked at each other, reached a consensus, and entered the hall together.
After saying a lot of words of advice, he finally managed to persuade the man by saying things like "The emperor will be angry" and "We'll make the decision after the emperor comes."
Pei Tingyue was angry and broke a few more teacups. She said coldly, "Then wait for the emperor to come back. He will listen to me anyway! All of you, just stand in the hall and wait for the emperor to come back and make your decision!"
After saying that, she walked into the bedroom with an angry look on her face.
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When the setting sun melts gold.
Xie Chen is back.
Just as he was about to raise his voice and order people to change into casual clothes, he saw the girls in the hall crying.
He frowned and looked at the deputy steward beside him, "What's going on? Why is he in Chaoyang Palace?"
The deputy steward explained, "The Empress Defei is here, and these girls were summoned by the Empress Defei."
"She's here?" Xie Chen raised his lips slightly, but when he saw the girls crying in front of him, he lowered his lips again, "Where is she?"
The deputy steward said, "The queen is tired and is resting inside."
Xie Chen didn't ask any more questions, turned around and went behind the screen to change into his casual clothes.
After changing, he didn't rush into the bedroom, but sat beside the couch and said in a calm tone: "What's going on?"
The deputy steward recounted what had happened that morning.
At first, Xie Chen thought she was just jealous and was messing with others. But the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong, until the word "scratching the face" made him frown again.
He got up and went to the bedroom.
The woman was sleeping on the couch.
But he was not at ease, and there was a look of impatience on his face.
Xie Chen sat on the edge of the couch and raised his hand to stroke her beautiful face inch by inch.
Pei Tingyue felt itchy and fiddled with it unconsciously.
But this feeling soon came back, she opened her eyes irritably, and said impatiently: "Who is disturbing me..."
When she saw that handsome and noble face, all the hostility in her body disappeared and was replaced by a sweet smile.
Pei Tingyue lifted the quilt, immediately stepped forward, hooked her arms around the man's neck, and said softly, "The Emperor is back."
Xie Chen looked at her steadily: "Yeah."
Pei Tingyue rubbed him hard and said aggrievedly, "I haven't seen the emperor for a long time. I miss him so much."
Xie Chen didn't say anything, but just held her slender waist tightly.
Pei Tingyue's voice was soft and tender: "Kiss me, my concubine."
Xie Chen's eyes darkened, and he lowered his head and kissed her for a while.
Then he held the person in his arms and rocked her: "Why did you call them here?"
They refer to the girls who were presented in the side hall.
The redness in Pei Tingyue's eyes slowly faded away, and she snorted coldly, "They seduced the Emperor! I will punish them!"
Xie Chen patiently explained: "I didn't seduce me."
"The Emperor kept them in Chaoyang Palace. Doesn't this just prove that their seduction was successful?"
Xie Chen sighed helplessly: "I asked them to stay here so that I could find out their origins and send them out of the palace."
Pei Tingyue still refused to give in after hearing this: "The emperor has no feelings for them, but they may not. Who knows how they might seduce the emperor!"
Xie Chen moved his fingers and asked someone to call a few girls over and asked each of them if any of them were willing to stay.
These girls were either forced or had no choice. Moreover, they had seen the horror of the palace today, so naturally they did not want to stay and asked to go home.
Xie Chen sent them out again.
He gently rocked the woman in his arms: "Are you relieved?"
"I'm not at ease!" Pei Tingyue blurted out, then realized that she was a little too emotional and lowered her voice, but she still had the same thought, "I'm not at ease."
Xie Chen still asked gently: "Then how can Tingyue feel at ease?"
Pei Tingyue's clear eyes flashed with annoyance: "I will scratch their faces. Only when their faces are ruined will I feel at ease!"
Hearing this, Xie Chen's tone turned cold: "Are you still going to scratch their faces?"
"Yes." Pei Tingyue looked at him expectantly, "Your Majesty will agree to my request, right?"
Xie Chen looked at her steadily: "No."
Pei Tingyue couldn't believe it and was stunned for a moment before asking, "Why?"
After she asked this question, she left with a wronged look.
"Why don't you obey me? Doesn't the emperor love me the most?"
Xie Chen still looked at her, but his eyes were no longer as gentle as before, but cold.
Pei Tingyue exploded all of a sudden.
She struggled out of Xie Chen's arms, standing barefoot on the coldly shining tiles, pointing outside the palace and panting, "Is it because the emperor has taken a fancy to someone and wants to take her as a concubine, so he is trying to stop me?"
Xie Chen didn't reply.
Pei Tingyue's eyes filled with tears as she gritted her teeth and said, "One of them has indeed seduced the Emperor! Since the Emperor won't respond, I will do it myself!"
She suddenly pulled out the golden hairpin from her bun, turned around and was about to walk out.
Xie Chen grabbed her arm, his tone piercingly cold, "Are you going to use this hairpin to scratch their faces?"
Pei Tingyue was stunned.
When she looked down, she found in her hand the golden hibiscus hairpin he had given her on her birthday last year.
She was flustered for a moment: "No... No, I didn't... didn't notice."
She carefully put it back into her black hair and pulled out another one.
She made a move to go out, but was picked up and thrown back onto the dragon bed.
Xie Chen said in a deep voice: "Pei Tingyue, you are really disobedient."
Pei Tingyue's face turned pale instantly, thinking that he was still angry about this, and explained, "I really didn't..."
Xie Chen interrupted her: "What I meant is that you have been disobedient all night."
Pei Tingyue sat there, first shedding tears in anger.
Then she pulled off all the pearl and jade hairpins and rings on her head and threw them on the ground. Seeing that Xie Chen was unmoved, she threw all the soft pillows and quilts on the couch to the ground.
Xie Chen remained silent about this.
Pei Tingyue had no choice but to curl up on the couch, hugging her knees helplessly, and crying louder and louder.
Hearing the crying, Xie Chen felt a pang of pain in his heart.
Finally, he sighed helplessly.
He curled his fingers, walked to the couch and asked, "Are you done with the fight? Are you relieved?"
Pei Tingyue looked at him with tears in her eyes.
Xie Chen sighed and explained seriously, "No one seduced me, and it's even more impossible for me to like them."
Pei Tingyue complained aggrievedly: "The Emperor won't let me scratch their faces!"
Xie Chen held her little face in his hands and wiped her tears with a clean handkerchief. "I won't let you do that because scratching their faces would be bad for Tingyue's reputation."
Pei Tingyue said arrogantly: "So what?"
Xie Chen lowered his head and kissed her on the lips: "But I want Tingyue to be a virtuous concubine, a virtuous concubine as famous as me."
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