Harem Fighting Strategy 8
In the evening, Tao Yuan took a comfortable bath, and then went to bed early to prepare for sleep. He hugged the quilt and suddenly smiled.
To be on the safe side, he gave Xiao Junye some medicine so that he would only feel desire when he smelled his fragrance. At any other time, he would not feel desire and could not do it.
However, the reason why he couldn't help laughing was not because he had no desire, but because this medicine had some other effects.
Sometimes Tao Yuan thought about it and felt that Xiao Junye was quite pitiful in some ways. He was drugged with chronic poison when he was a child. Now, in addition to being drugged by himself, he was also drugged by Ye Rong when he went to him.
Xiao Junye is a very powerful person in every aspect, but in the game, due to the development of the plot, his fate is set very badly. He can defeat everyone but not the sky. He is also cuckolded and has to pave the way for someone else's son.
However, since Tao Yuan has come to this world, he will naturally flap his wings. Even if he cannot change all developments, he will change some processes and the final outcome.
Tao Yuan didn't know at the moment that Xiao Junye had also prepared some medicine for Ye Rong.
After dressing up very carefully, Ye Rong waited for Xiao Junye's arrival. Even if he couldn't have sex with Xiao Junye for the time being, he must succeed in making Xiao Junye fall in love with him. He felt that tonight was the best opportunity to take advantage of the protagonist's halo.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
"Welcome, Your Majesty." Ye Rong was standing inside the door. When Xiao Junye appeared, he immediately knelt on one knee to salute.
"Stand up." Xiao Junye walked straight past him.
Ye Rong could only stand up by herself, then turn around and follow Xiao Junye inside.
"Your Majesty, the moonlight is just right tonight. How about I accompany Your Majesty for a few drinks?" Ye Rong said in a gentle and pleasant voice.
"That's exactly what I was thinking." Xiao Junye walked to the window and sat down on the wide bed.
When Ye Rong heard this, he immediately asked someone to bring in some wine.
Xiao Junye smelled the fragrance in the room and immediately frowned and asked, "What kind of fragrance is that in your room?"
"It's Youyuexiang, it's made of..."
Before Ye Rong could finish, Xiao Junye interrupted her and said, "Put out the incense, and then open all the doors and windows to let the incense out. I don't like the smell of incense. From now on, when I come, no incense will be allowed in the house."
"Yes." Ye Rong turned around and ordered the palace maid to take away the incense burner, and then temporarily open all the doors and windows. Although according to the information he knew, Xiao Junye should not hate incense, but since he said so, he could only do it.
Xiao Junye didn't really dislike incense before, but after getting used to the scent of Tao Yuan, he found other incense particularly unpleasant. Although the smell of incense didn't give him a headache, he still didn't want to smell a scent he didn't like.
After giving instructions to the palace maid, Ye Rong walked to the bedside and poured wine for Xiao Junye.
Because he was very close, Xiao Junye smelled the scent on him and couldn't help feeling nauseous. His head also began to ache. Although he didn't know why he had this feeling, he didn't want to endure it.
"Your Majesty..." Ye Rong had just raised his glass when he was interrupted by Xiao Junye again.
"Go change your clothes. Come back in clothes that don't smell of any incense." Xiao Junye suppressed the nausea and kept a calm face.
"Yes." Ye Rong could only put down the wine glass and turn around to get dressed.
After he left, Xiao Junye quickly sprinkled the powder between his fingers into one of the wine glasses.
He didn't need to do this, but he didn't know why. Whenever he thought about visiting Ye Rong, he felt an unbearable disgust in his heart. After thinking about it, he felt that this must be because the Ye family threatened him. Although Ye Rong had a good appearance, he just couldn't like him. The feeling of disgust in his heart made him irritable, and whenever he was in a bad mood, he would get a headache. In order to prevent his headache from being discovered, he could only give Ye Rong some medicine and let him sleep for the night.
Ye Rong changed his clothes and came over, but as soon as he got close, Xiao Junye could still smell the disgusting odor on him. He was too lazy to ask him to change, so he thought of giving him some wine to make him fall asleep quickly.
Xiao Junye felt disgusted by the smell of Ye Rong, not because of the drug Tao Yuan gave him. The drug Tao Yuan gave him had no such effect. He felt this way entirely because of his own psychological effects, but he himself was unaware of it.
The moonlight outside the window was just right. The two finished a pot of wine. Xiao Junye suddenly felt drunk, and Ye Rong helped him to bed to rest.
After lying down on the bed, Xiao Junye immediately lost consciousness.
Ye Rong looked at Xiao Junye's handsome face and felt a little moved. It was a pity that such a handsome man had a short life. However, if he hadn't died young, she wouldn't have been able to become the queen mother who ruled the country from behind the curtain. Although this man's appearance and momentum were really attractive, she still couldn't bear to let him complete other strategies for him.
Ye Rong was about to lie down next to Xiao Junye when he suddenly saw his personal attendant Lin Qing walk in.
Walking to Ye Rong's side, Lin Qing glanced at the unconscious Xiao Junye, then said to Ye Rong in a low voice, "Your Majesty, someone wants to see you."
"Someone wants to see me?" Ye Rong was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was so late, who would want to see him? But when he saw Lin Qing cautiously and mysteriously walking to the side window, Ye Rong immediately thought of who wanted to see him.
Ye Rong lowered the curtains hanging beside the bed and walked towards the window.
After Lin Qing opened the window, he walked out quickly. A man in eunuch clothes came in from the window. After quickly closing the window, he strode to Ye Rong and hugged him tightly. "Arong!"
"Your Highness, why are you here?" Ye Rong didn't expect him to come to him at this time. He asked in a low and nervous voice, "Didn't we agree to meet only at the Empress Dowager's place? The Emperor's men are outside too. If they find you, we're all finished!"
"Don't worry, I climbed over the wall and came in. I have people in the palace to protect me, so they can't find me."
Ye Rong pushed him away and pulled him behind the dressing screen. He frowned at him and said, "Your Highness, don't do this again. It's too dangerous. The Emperor's men are outside. What if they are discovered?"
"I knew he would come to you today. I was very worried about you..." Xiao Yuyang had not left the palace since his wedding yesterday. He had been staying in the palace of the Empress Dowager. Every time he entered the palace to meet Ye Rong privately, he would stay in the palace under the pretext of paying his respects to the Empress Dowager.
Ye Rong looked at him and said, "Didn't I tell you that I would stay pure for you? Don't you believe me?"
"It's not that I don't trust you, but I'm worried that you won't be able to handle him and will be forced by him." Xiao Yuyang said, "Xiao Junye has been the crown prince for so many years. Father has always tried to depose him but failed. He is a very difficult person to deal with."
After Xiao Yuyang finished speaking, he signaled Ye Rong to be silent, took out the knife hidden in his sleeve, and then walked carefully to the bedside without making any sound, suddenly lifted the curtain, and stabbed Xiao Junye in the forehead with the knife.
"Your Highness!" Ye Rong exclaimed in a low voice, then ran over to stop him.
The knife in Xiao Yuyang's hand stopped only one millimeter away from Xiao Junye.
"Your Highness, what are you going to do? You can't kill him now!" Ye Rong pulled him back behind the screen. "If he dies now, the other princes will definitely unite to fight for the throne and fight against you, Your Highness. Then there will probably be chaos in the world."
"I know. I'm just testing him to see if he's really asleep." Xiao Yuyang put away the knife. "If he's pretending, then I can only give him a stronger drug. It won't kill him, but it will make it harder for him to speak. This way, it will be easier for me to control the government."
"I put a strong drug in the wine, and he drank almost half of the whole pot. How could he be pretending to sleep?" Ye Rong held his face and said anxiously, "Your Highness, I beg you, from now on, let's only meet at the Empress Dowager's place, or when the Emperor is not around. If you come to see me like you did tonight, I will worry about you even more. Didn't you say that he can only hold out for a few more years because of the poison the Empress Dowager gave him? We just need to endure these few years."
"...Okay, I promise you, I will only come to see you when he is not around." Xiao Yuyang looked at him and said, "But tonight, I don't want to leave. Tonight is the day you spend your wedding night with him. At least tonight, I must replace him."
"Then, you should leave quickly..." Ye Rong thought, instead of wasting time with him like this, it would be better to obey him and let him leave early.
Xiao Yuyang kissed Ye Rong's lips and began to take off his clothes.
At this moment, Xiao Junye was lying on the bed, his eyes open and motionless, his eyes very clear.
When Ye Rong pulled Xiao Yuyang behind the screen for the first time, he had already woken up and heard all their conversations clearly.
The medicine Tao Yuan gave him, in addition to preventing him from having desires for other people, also had another effect, which was to quickly eliminate the effects of the hallucinogen.
Tao Yuan thought that if Xiao Junye suddenly woke up after taking the hallucinogen, rather than waking up from his sleep the next day, he would definitely be able to discover that it was Ye Rong who drugged him. However, what Tao Yuan did not expect was that Prince Yu Xiao Yuyang would have the courage to come to Ye Rong to have an affair tonight.
Although Xiao Junye also drugged Ye Rong, Ye Rong had taken the antidote in advance, so all the drugs had no effect on him.
Although Xiao Junye was puzzled as to why he suddenly sobered up after drinking the wine that Ye Rong had drugged him, at this moment, listening to the sounds of Ye Rong and Xiao Yuyang making love, he had no extra thoughts to think about anything else except anger.
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The next night, as soon as Xiao Junye arrived at Fenghua Palace, he asked everyone to leave, and then sat down on the bed with a gloomy face.
Tao Yuan knew that he was not angry with him, so he personally made a cup of tea for him, brought it to him and said, "Your Majesty, please have some tea."
Xiao Junye sat motionless, lost in thought, without any reaction. From the morning court session to the time he reviewed memorials afterward, he had been burying the events of the previous night in his heart, not letting on a single emotion.
Originally, he hadn't planned to come to the harem tonight. He just wanted to stay in his own bedroom and think about how to arrange a new plan. But he wanted to smell Tao Yuan's fragrance so much that he couldn't help but come to Fenghua Palace. Once there, he felt much more relaxed, and his emotions showed on his face.
When Xiao Junye thought about what happened last night, his heart erupted like a volcano, raging magma flowing out. He knew Xiao Yuyang had planted many people in the palace, and that he had done so while his father was still alive. He also knew that every time he visited the palace to see the Grand Empress Dowager, he must have had ulterior motives and was secretly planning something in the palace. But he never imagined that every time he entered the palace, he was actually having an affair with Ye Rong.
He thought that the Ye family was loyal to him, so Ye Rong should be loyal to him as well. He didn't expect that Ye Rong had already been in an affair with Xiao Yuyang. He didn't know whether the Ye family knew about it. If the Ye family knew that Ye Rong was in an affair with Prince Yu, but still sent Ye Rong to the palace, it meant that the Ye family was not loyal to him either.
Regardless of whether the Ye family knew about it or not, it was certain that Ye Rong and Prince Yu were in collusion, plotting to kill him and usurp the throne. Ye Rong had even drugged him, and then, while he was unconscious, had an affair with him. These two people simply didn't take him seriously at all!
Xiao Junye grew angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He slammed the table so hard that the teacups on it vibrated. His emotions were so intense that he had a headache and felt like his brain was about to explode.
"Uh..." Xiao Junye held his head and endured the severe pain that made his vision go black.
"Your Majesty!" Tao Yuan, who had been standing quietly on the side, hurried over to support him.
Xiao Junye smelled the fragrance on Tao Yuan's body, hugged him tightly, then put his nose against his skin and breathed in deeply.
After a long time, Xiao Junye's pain gradually subsided. He rested his head on Tao Yuan's shoulder and asked, "Axi, who can I trust in this palace, in this world? Who is truly loyal to me?"
Tao Yuan hugged his shoulders and was silent for a moment before saying, "Your Majesty can only trust yourself, because Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. Your Majesty's position can only accommodate one person, but it is also coveted by many. Your Majesty, if you want to stand firmly on the throne, you must step hard on those who want to pull Your Majesty down. You must step hard on them, making them feel pain and fear, so that they dare not have any other thoughts and can only be loyal to Your Majesty."
"Even you, I can't trust you?" Xiao Junye thought that he would say something that would make him believe him.
"Your Majesty may not trust me, but I will definitely be loyal to Your Majesty, because Your Majesty is my husband and the person I love." Tao Yuan said.
"Do you admire me?"
"Yes, I adore Your Majesty."
Xiao Junye sat up straight, held Tao Yuan in his arms, and lowered his head to inhale the fragrance of his skin. Even the emperor sometimes wished there was someone who could relax him and relieve his fatigue when he was extremely tired.
Everyone in the world believed that the emperor had three palaces and six courtyards, and that his harem was filled with stunning beauties, a blessing that no one else could ever enjoy. But who could understand that the emperor's visits to his harem were also fraught with danger, because the person lying next to him might not only be having an affair with someone else, but might also want his life.
Xiao Junye understood what Tao Yuan meant. If he wanted to be a good emperor and secure his throne, he had to force even those who were disloyal to be loyal to him, and he had to have the ability and majesty to intimidate them.
He wasn't afraid to fight anyone, whether it was the Grand Empress Dowager or Prince Yu, or anyone who wanted to eliminate him. He had a way to defeat them all. But how much longer he could live, even he himself didn't know. Even if he could defeat everyone, he still couldn't defeat fate. He always felt that everything was predetermined by fate, and he simply couldn't live too long. Thinking of this, Xiao Junye felt even more melancholy.
"I have a question for your Majesty to answer."
"What is it?"
"Your Majesty has a headache. Is it because of the poison?"
“…” Xiao Junye let go of Tao Yuan and looked at him expressionlessly.
"If Your Majesty is poisoned, I have a way to detoxify you." Tao Yuan said, looking into his eyes.
"Do you have a way to detoxify?" Xiao Junye asked doubtfully, "Do you know what poison I was poisoned with?"
"I don't know what poison your majesty has been poisoned with."
"Then how are you going to help me detoxify?"
"I have a secret I want to tell Your Highness. I hope Your Majesty can help me keep it secret."
"Go ahead."
"Your Majesty always suffers from headaches and vomits blood. Your headaches are only relieved when you smell my fragrance. Therefore, I suspect Your Majesty has been poisoned. Although I do not know what poison your Majesty has been poisoned with, my blood can cure all poisons."
"Your blood can detoxify all poisons?" Xiao Junye looked at him in disbelief. He had never heard of someone's blood being able to detoxify.
Tao Yuan stood up, took a small bottle, and poured a glass of water onto the table.
"This is the powder of the Joyful Heart Grass. It's extremely poisonous. Just a little bit can kill a person." Tao Yuan poured the powder into the cup, and the water in the quilt immediately turned black. "But there's one thing, this powder turns black as soon as it comes into contact with water."
Tao Yuan took out another silver needle, pricked his finger, and squeezed a drop of blood into it.
Xiao Junye watched the black water slowly turn into clear water, and his eyes widened. There really was human blood that could detoxify.
"I have prepared poison with me, Your Majesty, and I beg you to forgive me." Tao Yuan looked at him and said, "But I did not prepare these poisons to harm anyone."
At this moment, Xiao Junye didn't care why he had the poison. He had not yet recovered from his shock, because he finally understood why his headache would be relieved as soon as he smelled the fragrance on Tao Yuan's body, so his blood could really detoxify him.
Xiao Junye held Tao Yuan's hand and watched the blood beads appear on his fingers again. He was very excited. For so many years, he had tried every possible way to detoxify, but he could never find a way. Could he finally detoxify it now?
"Your Majesty, although my blood can detoxify, you cannot drink it directly, otherwise it will burn your internal organs." Tao Yuan withdrew his hand, took another cup, poured a cup of water, dripped two drops of blood into it, shook the cup a few times, and handed it to him, "Your Majesty."
Xiao Junye took the teacup and slowly drank the water. He put it down and savored it carefully. After a while, he felt much better. The uncomfortable feeling gradually disappeared. This cup of water was more effective than the fragrance on his body.
"Your Majesty, are you feeling better?" Tao Yuan asked.
Xiao Junye nodded.
"This glass of water alone cannot completely detoxify Your Majesty. The longer Your Majesty has been poisoned, the longer it will take to detoxify. Although my blood can help Your Majesty detoxify, you cannot take too much at once, otherwise it will burn your internal organs. Therefore, Your Majesty, please be patient and detoxify."
"I have been poisoned for more than ten years. How long will it take to completely detoxify me?" Xiao Junye looked at him and asked.
"I'm not sure how long it will take, but I guarantee that I can help Your Majesty completely detoxify." Tao Yuan said.
"Why did you tell me this? If you don't tell me, I can't live without the fragrance of your body, and I can't live without you. After I detoxify, I won't rely on the fragrance of your body, and I may ignore you." Xiao Junye thought, if someone was so dependent on him, he would definitely try his best to make him dependent on him, so why did he tell him the secret that his blood could cure all poisons?
"Your Majesty is my husband. I love you from the bottom of my heart, so I feel sorry for you and don't want you to suffer from headaches again." Tao Yuan said seriously, "I just said that your Majesty can not trust me, but I will definitely be loyal to you."
Xiao Junye looked at Tao Yuan, his emotions too complicated to react. Just a moment ago, he had thought he wouldn't live long, that even if he defeated everyone, he couldn't defeat fate. But then he learned that he could detoxify and live forever. The ups and downs in his heart were so great that he couldn't even react.
Tao Yuan knew that he needed time to accept it, so he didn't make any noise to disturb him. He just sat beside him silently, waiting for him to accept the facts he knew.
Xiao Junye reached out and hugged Tao Yuan. He didn't know why, but when he held him in his arms, he felt particularly safe. He closed his eyes and thought, thinking that he should start his plan again.
Tao Yuan rested her head on his shoulder, and the two of them snuggled together quietly. Without any words, they could feel each other's trust and dependence, as well as a very beautiful and tacit feeling.
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