In order to serve the emperor in bed, Wu Qing put on the most beautiful makeup since she came into this world.
The original owner looked exactly like her, and was her age when she was in high school, with clear features and fair skin.
After graduating, Wu Qing only worked for a short year, and the dark circles and bags under her eyes were difficult to cover up even with thick concealer.
The maids in charge of serving her in the bedroom brought precious powder and gently applied it on her cheeks, then carefully wiped her body with rose water.
But when it comes to drawing eyebrows, Wu Qing doesn’t like the curved eyebrows that are popular nowadays.
In this dynasty, women often needed to draw their eyebrows low and pleasing to the eye in order to cater to men's aesthetic tastes.
Therefore, most concubines in the palace considered high eyebrows and drooping eyebrow ends to be beautiful.
Wu Qing secretly wiped off the beginning and end of his eyebrows, and drew straight eyebrows when the maids were not paying attention.
When the maids found out, they all stepped forward to dissuade her: "Young Master, what are you doing?"
Wu Qing grabbed the eyebrow pencil and eyebrow ink and said with a smile, "It's still early, maids, let me draw on myself first."
The speed of Ji Guiren's promotion had already caused an uproar in the palace.
Although the maids in charge of the concubines' sleeping arrangements had a high status, they did not dare to offend her easily. They could only watch her lightly draw on her pretty face with an eyebrow pencil.
However, the longer they watched, the more the maids couldn't help but marvel inwardly that this noble lady Ji was indeed worthy of her reputation.
Wu Qing glanced at the bronze mirror and accurately located the position of the brow peak.
Her technique was quick and skillful, and she only needed a few strokes to outline the end of the eyebrow.
She gently turned the tip of the pen, like an embroiderer embroidering, and carefully drew the eyebrows one by one, making the eyebrows look natural and vivid, with full of hair flow.
In just a dozen seconds, she finished drawing her eyebrows for work. The eyebrows are smooth, thick and thin, perfectly setting off the delicacy and agility between her eyebrows and eyes.
The maids witnessed all this and were filled with surprise and admiration.
"My lady, your eyebrows are very well drawn!"
"Yes, the eyebrows seem to be heavily drawn, but they don't appear frivolous. They just look like the young lady herself." The maids praised.
Wu Qing pinched his chin, feeling that something was missing.
It’s really weird without eye makeup!
She suddenly had an idea, asked the person next to her for lip balm, and tried applying it on the back of her hand.
Seeing that the lip balm had a good color retention effect, Wu Qing had an idea in his mind.
So the next second, Wu Qing dipped her finger in some light black lip balm and applied it on her eyes.
"My lord, you can't——"
"My lord, that's lip balm..."
The maids all widened their eyes.
"It's okay. I know what I'm doing." Wu Qing said.
Wu Qing calmly applied a primer on her eyelids, and then she divided her eyes into light and dark areas.
The dark areas are where she focuses on applying, such as the corners and ends of the eyes. Wu Qing applies it multiple times to make the color more full and natural.
It wasn't long before she was skillfully applying eyeshadow using lip balm.
After applying eye shadow, Wu Qing still felt it was not enough, so she used an eyebrow pencil to draw eyeliner on herself.
When everything was ready, Wu Qing stared at himself in the mirror, his eyes full of satisfaction and pride.
She looked in the mirror with bright eyes and white teeth, and her smile was charming and beautiful. With the help of makeup, her appearance, which was only 50% or 60% originally, was improved to 80%.
When Wu Qing was in college, she had too little living expenses to afford makeup, so she only needed an eyebrow pencil and a lipstick to complete her full makeup.
[The technology has not regressed! ]
The maids clapped their hands and praised, sincerely congratulating: "Young lady, this dress will surely satisfy the emperor!"
"If you don't mind, I would like to learn it too."
Wu Qing immediately agreed: "Okay, okay, I'll teach you now, there's still plenty of time."
But in just one afternoon, the maids were convinced by Wu Qing.
After all, Wu Qing traveled through time from the modern era, and had been exposed to all kinds of beauty styles, which opened the eyes of the maids who could only live in the deep palace and amazed them.
When leaving Linhua Palace, the maids kept praising Concubine Ji.
Some servants who were eavesdropping learned about this and could not wait to pass the news to their masters.
But the spread of news is delayed and exaggerated.
When the news spread outside the palace, people only knew that the noble lady Ji in the palace was extremely beautiful, even more beautiful than the fairies in heaven.
When Wu's father heard about this during the court session, he fell into deep silence: "..."
Are you sure that the Concubine Ji you are talking about and his daughter Wu Qing are the same person?
That night, when the emperor officially met Wu Qing, he was also a little surprised.
The last time the emperor saw Wu Qing, he only saw her back from a distance outside the window.
After learning from her inner voice that Concubine Ru was a spy from Western Xia, the Emperor's mind was completely occupied by this matter and he hurriedly left Linhua Palace.
Today, the emperor seemed a little puzzled as to why he had not favored her for a year.
He leaned over to help her up from the ground, and said with a smile: "No need to be polite, Lady Ji."
In fact, if you look closely at Wu Qing's appearance, you can still find that her foundation is not as good as that of the imperial concubine and the concubine, but she is still pretty.
But her makeup is completely different from that of other concubines in the palace, appearing lively and clear.
The makeup of the concubines in the palace is often light.
The empress was dignified, while the imperial concubine was attractive, but her style was elegant and pure without being coquettish.
So much so that everyone in the palace thought that the emperor only liked this kind of light style, and they followed suit.
Wu Qing, who was helped up by the emperor, finally had the opportunity to see the emperor's face.
[Is this the emperor? ]
[No, family, although he is a handsome uncle, he is old enough to be my father! ]
[Unbelievable, the heroine in the original book is only seventeen years old... No wonder I can't find a CP between the emperor and the heroine, what's the difference between this and a love affair between people of different ages? ]
Wu Qing subconsciously began to complain about the emperor's age.
The emperor was silent: "..."
The emotions that had just sprouted in my heart were like being poured with a bucket of cold water.
His memories suddenly came flooding back.
I remember that when the selection was held, Ji Guiren had just reached the age of marriage. She shyly hid in the corner and was almost not seen by him.
The Queen Mother kept her because she thought she had a gentle character and good manners.
The emperor couldn't help but twitch his lips.
Even the usually wise Queen Mother was deceived by Concubine Ji's well-behaved appearance.
[Look at the emperor's beard, it's too long, it must be very prickly when kissing. The imperial concubine has such delicate skin, she must have been scratched many times. ]
The emperor sneered.
How could Concubine Ji question the relationship between him and the imperial concubine that had lasted for many years?
Besides, kissing on the cheek is disrespectful to women, so he naturally wouldn't do it.
[Not necessarily. The emperor may not have such deep feelings for the imperial concubine. Maybe he won't kiss her at all, which is also a good thing.]
[Tsk, I knew it, all men in ancient times were the same, especially the emperor, who only cared about continuing the family line, and certainly didn't care about the concubines' thoughts.]
The emperor's face turned black.
He touched his beard and for the first time thought of shaving it.