Ning Rongrong curled up on the carriage carpet, rolling her eyes. "I was wrong. Please give me some medicine, sister."
Caiyue's eyes turned red with anxiety:
"The Fifth Miss is truly ruthless. This morning, the young lady was still concerned about the kinship between siblings and was trying to cover up the Fifth Miss' scandal. But within half a day, the Fifth Miss poisoned the young lady.
Saving the fifth girl is worse than saving a dog, girl, don't save her."
Feeling death approaching, Ning Rongrong struggled to grab Danruo's skirt, pleading: "From now on, I am your dog, big sister, save me, save me..."
When Ning Rongrong was about to close her eyes, Dan Ruo threw a pill into her mouth.
After a while, Ning Rongrong recovered and wiped the blood from her facial features. She was terrified, but fortunately she took the antidote and was fine.
Before she could feel relieved, she heard Dan Ruo say that the antidote would only work for one month and she would give her the antidote every month, otherwise she would die the same way as before.
Ning Rongrong gave up: "What does Big Sister want me to do?"
“I’m about to enter the palace, but my status is awkward. There are many concubines in the harem who already have children, and this is also the new emperor’s first selection, so the competition is fierce.
I want you to openly express your love for the Emperor and help me shield myself from the gazes you all are casting on me."
Ning Rongrong had no choice but to agree. Wasn't this her original plan? She had been developing behind Ning Danruo, and now it was her turn to be used as a shield by Ning Danruo, drawing fire from the front.
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The carriage arrived at the gate of the imperial palace and was changed into a sedan chair to go to the Cining Palace.
Ning Rongrong was secretly jealous. In the past, the Empress Dowager had never given her a sedan chair and she always had to walk to the Cining Palace. She was really biased.
Arriving at the gate of the Cining Palace, Aunt Su, who was beside the Empress Dowager, was already waiting. She was a little hesitant to recognize Danruo, but vaguely saw her shadow from before, and was filled with joy:
"My dear, the Queen Mother has been talking about this for three years. Now that she has seen you, she can finally be happy."
The Queen Mother had no children, so she loved the original owner very much.
After Dan Ruo entered the palace, before she even had time to pay her respects, the Queen Mother embraced her. Seeing Dan Ruo's current appearance, she was moved to tears. "Aunt was worried that you wouldn't be able to endure these three years. I didn't expect Ruo'er to be so determined."
Ning Rongrong, who was being ignored, was struggling over whether to show respect or not.
When she was summoned by the Queen Mother, she saw her embarrassment and said, "Fifth Miss, go home first."
Seeing this, Danruo tried to stop her: "Aunt, Danruo just came out of the temple and is unfamiliar with many things. It would be better if Fifth Sister stayed with me to help."
The Queen Mother looked at Dan Ruo meaningfully and said, "I just called the Emperor to come for dinner."
Dan Ruo pretended not to understand and insisted on not changing his words.
The empress dowager did not refuse her wish, but Danruo was so beautiful that the emperor would not give up the pearl to see a fake one.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
Dan Ruo and Ning Rongrong stood up and saluted together. The emperor was attracted by the strange girl sitting next to Ning Rongrong from a distance.
Now he couldn't wait to let the two of them exempt themselves from the formalities.
Ning Rongrong indeed saw the surprise in the emperor's eyes.
The emperor is the eldest prince of the previous emperor. He was born to a maid in the empress's palace. The maid was plain-looking and was only given the title of beauty after she gave birth to a prince. Now, because the emperor has named her the dowager concubine, she always serves the empress dowager carefully.
It was also because the mother and son were obedient that they were chosen by the Queen Mother for support.
It just so happens that the emperor is the most fertile of all the princes. He is now 25 years old and already has six sons and three daughters.
The emperor's appearance is plain, and there is a huge gap between him and the handsome and elegant regent Ji Chenglin. They don't look like brothers at all.
The emperor put on a kind smile and tried to build closer ties: "Ms. Ning is the niece of the Queen Mother, and my cousin. From now on, you can just call me cousin."
Dan Ruo glanced at Ning Rongrong, who immediately, despite the pressure from the Queen Mother, called out in a delicate voice, "Your Majesty, cousin."
Dan Ruo smiled without showing her teeth, and said politely: "I don't deserve it."
The emperor glanced at Ning Rongrong, who was acting out of character, and signaled her not to step forward. Ning Rongrong looked back with a look of grievance in her eyes.
The Queen Mother saw all of this.
The meal ended quickly as everyone had their own thoughts.
The Emperor said, "I see that my mother is also a little tired. Why don't I take my two cousins for a stroll in the Imperial Garden?"
Along the way, the emperor brought up topics from time to time. Danruo responded simply, while Ning Rongrong talked a lot. In the end, in the eyes of the people in the palace, it seemed that the emperor and the lovely Ning Rongrong were having a great conversation, and Ning Danruo was a wooden beauty.
Shufei and Defei were the first to lose their patience.
Shufei is the woman with the highest birth status in the harem and has given birth to an eight-year-old prince.
Concubine De is the emperor's real cousin and has twins, a boy and a girl, the third prince and the eldest princess.
When the late emperor was alive, he loved the twins very much. He let the emperor succeed to the throne because the emperor had many children. So she thought that the late emperor passed the throne to the emperor because he loved his twins, and the late emperor actually preferred his own son.
So I am very concerned about this draft.
Hearing that two girls from the Empress Dowager's family were entering the palace today and that the Emperor was taking them to visit the garden, Defei and Shufei discussed it and decided to come to the Imperial Garden to take their children for a walk, pretending to meet by chance and find out what was going on in advance.
When Ning Rongrong was dancing with plum blossoms in her hands in the red plum forest, the emperor was also enjoying it very much.
The five-year-old third prince, the son of Concubine De, threw a snowball at Ning Rongrong on the head, breaking the beautiful atmosphere. Then the third prince made a face and ran away quickly.
Ning Rongrong's hair was disheveled and she was crying so pitifully that the emperor's eyes showed heartache and he was about to hug her. He stretched out his arm, saw the people around him, turned around, pointed at the guards and angrily ordered them to go and bring back the third prince.
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