As the night deepened, in the blink of an eye, Mu Beichen was left all alone in the entire pavilion.
By this time, he was no longer in the mood for drinking. He simply sat quietly under the moon, resting his chin on his hand and gazing at the starry sky, reminiscing about his relationship with Yu Qianqian from the past to the present. He unconsciously fell into deep thought.
He couldn't help but ask himself again and again why their initial acquaintance and friendship had turned into this irreparable situation. Should he just let everything continue to deteriorate?
When he thought about all this, he assumed that Yu Qianqian would come to him in a few days, full of anger, to settle scores. However, he waited for several days in a row but did not get the result he wanted.
Later, he simply forced himself to stop thinking about it. Every day, besides being busy with government affairs in court, he would go straight to the Imperial Study after court to work hard, not giving himself a single chance to have wild thoughts.
Until this day, shocking news came from the palace: it was said that since the Empress had no children, and several officials took the lead, all the ministers in the court unanimously petitioned the Emperor to take more concubines so that the royal family could have more children.
What was even more unexpected was that Mu Beichen, who had initially opposed the matter outright, didn't even hesitate to agree, and simply went along with it.
—Liuyun Palace, a newly built palace, is luxurious and grand in appearance, extremely magnificent.
The location of Liuyun Palace is right opposite Fengyi Palace, meaning it's right under the noses of both Mu Beichen and Yu Qianqian. They can see it anytime they want.
As the night drew to a close, a woman sat in a bathtub behind a screen, staring blankly at him. Her arms were draped over the edge of the tub, her chin resting gently on the back of her hands. Her fair skin was glistening with water droplets, which shone with a snowy white light in the dim light, as translucent as lotus roots.
Since the palace selection ended, Ye Xiyan was inexplicably summoned to the palace the day afterward. At first, she thought it was all the Empress's doing, so even after entering the palace for several days, she did not have much hope for Mu Beichen.
Although she had to admit that she had liked Mu Beichen from the very first moment she saw him, after all, he was such an outstanding man that he was a rare find in ordinary times.
However, she was also well aware that she was not within Mu Beichen's area of interest. Long before she entered the palace, she had heard that the current emperor doted on the empress, to the point that he had set up six palaces for her alone. Therefore, Ye Xiyan had to force herself to give up the idea.
However, early this morning, a eunuch from Luochen Palace came to deliver an imperial edict, ordering her to serve the emperor that night, which made her extremely excited at the thought of Mu Beichen.
Such a perfect man, even if I only fulfill one beautiful dream with him in this life, I will have lived a worthwhile life.
Her personal maidservant smiled as well, scattering flower petals into the bathtub while carefully wiping her body.
When the time came, Ye Xiyan leisurely stepped out of the bath, changed into a classic red palace dress, sat in front of the bronze mirror, tied her hair with a gold hairpin, and then followed the eunuch out of the palace gate, heading straight for Luochen Palace.
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