Su Wanti woke up after sleeping for two hours. She opened her eyes and saw the bright moon and sparse stars outside the window.
At this moment, everything was silent, and the sounds of chanting and twirling Buddhist beads in the house were particularly obvious.
She turned around silently and saw Emperor Xiao Ping sitting upright facing the wall, reciting scriptures and chanting Buddhist scriptures.
Su Wanti felt the changes in her body when he applied medicine to her during the day. She secretly felt lucky that Emperor Xiao Ping was not impotent, so she didn't have to spend points to buy the Golden Gun Pills.
[Host, the target person has developed a crush on you. Now that you and your partner are alone in the same room, why not seize this opportunity to capture him?] The system said.
Su Wanti sneered and said, "How do we take him down? With our body?"
"He just developed a little affection for me, and I couldn't wait to offer my body to him. This won't make him fall deeply in love with me, it will only make him look down on me. If he takes advantage of me and forgets about me as soon as he returns to the palace, what should I do then? Run into the palace and ask him for a legitimate status?"
"Okay, I made a mistake in my judgment and offered an inappropriate suggestion. So what are you going to do next?"
Su Wanti thought for a moment and said, "My current status is awkward. I'm the daughter-in-law of a marquis, the wife of a top scholar. Not only am I married, but I'm also the wife of one of his ministers. If his feelings for me weren't deep, he wouldn't want me so much. If he didn't want me so much, he wouldn't have such a strong desire to possess me. If he didn't have such a strong desire to possess me, he wouldn't have tried so hard to help me get a divorce and summon me to the palace."
"What I'm going to do next is not to seduce her, but to conquer her heart."
Su Wanti recalled the day when she was lying in the man's arms and he said, "I will protect you this time and won't let anyone take your life."
"92, see what appears in the target's mind at that time?"
After a moment, the system voice sounded.
[When the host lies wounded in the target's arms, a kitten appears in the target's mind for ten seconds.]
Su Wanti frowned, "I want to know what happened between the target person and this cat."
【Immediately retrieve the target person's memory for you.】
[Related memories have been found and are now playing for you.]
The big screen in my mind slowly unfolded, and a white light in the middle of the screen quickly illuminated the entire screen, and a young boy appeared on the screen.
This boy is the young Emperor Xiao Ping.
He was only five years old at that time, a little thin, but fair and cute, with a pair of smart eyes.
In this harem, the emperor's favor is king, and the son's status is determined by the mother's. The princesses and princes born to the queen and the concubine live a life of luxury and are the center of attention. But he, a prince born to a little noble, does not live a happy life because his mother has long been forgotten by the emperor.
Being in the same palace and being princes, some of them lived like fairies in heaven, while others, with only the status of princes, lived worse than the children of wealthy families outside the palace.
After all, he is a prince and has no worries about food and clothing, but life is not simply about eating and dressing.
His mother was timid and fearful of things. Ever since he could remember, she had repeatedly told him that once he left Lanxin Pavilion where they lived, he must be careful and cautious, not talk too much, not do too much, and not be the first to do anything.
However, at that time, he was too young and inexperienced. His mother's words went in one ear and out the other, and he could not understand or comprehend them at all.
There were also several unfavored princes in the palace who played with him, but his best friend was not these princes, but a kitten.
It was a tortoiseshell cat that Emperor Xiao Ping found in the weeds at the base of the palace wall.
When it was found, it was very thin and dying. It was probably abandoned by its mother cat because of its poor health and difficulty in survival.
The young Emperor Xiao Ping loved it very much. He brought it back to Lanxin Pavilion and fed it carefully. He also named it Da Mi, hoping that it could grow up safely into a big cat as its name suggests.
Half a year later, the once weak cat grew into a beautiful, agile and energetic big cat.
Emperor Xiao Ping poured his purest and most innocent heart into Da Mi, and Da Mi also gave all his trust and love to this gentle little boy.
One person and one cat accompany each other, watching flowers in spring, listening to the rain in summer, and hugging each other in the quilt to keep warm in autumn.
Until that summer——
The princes all started their education at the age of four and went to the upper study.
Emperor Xiao Ping was weak, so he delayed for a year and only went to the study at the age of five.
Although he was young, he was very smart, had a good memory, and was diligent and studious. Therefore, whether it was memorizing or writing poems, he did it well and quickly, even better than several princes older than him.
His outstanding performance won the favor of the teacher. When the late emperor occasionally came to the study to inquire about the prince's homework, the teacher would praise him generously.
Only then did the late emperor begin to pay attention to him.
Emperor Xiao Ping was very happy. He was still young and didn't know how treacherous people were. He also didn't know that his excellence had attracted the jealousy of others, and that the jealousy of the strong would bring disaster to the weak.
That day, after class, he was surrounded by several favored princes on his way back to Lanxin Pavilion.
Among them were the Sixth Prince, the son of the then Crown Prince and Empress; the Seventh Prince, the son of the Imperial Concubine; the Tenth and Fourteenth Princes, the sons of the Virtuous Concubine; and the Ninth Prince, the son of the Shu Concubine.
They were only a few years older than Emperor Xiao Ping, and the eldest prince was only ten years old.
These princes have been favored since they were born. Their mothers have prominent family backgrounds and are favored by their father. They can walk around the palace with impunity and are the objects of everyone's flattery and the focus of attention wherever they go.
Emperor Xiao Ping's talent and intelligence attracted the attention of the teacher in the Shangshufang. Now the teacher always looked at him with admiration, which made them experience the feeling of being ignored for the first time.
"You're quite the pushover!"
"Your mother is just a minor noble lady, and my mother is a noble concubine. Your mother kowtows in front of my mother, so you should also kowtow and flatter me carefully!"
"You better be careful next time. If you show off again, I'll teach you a lesson."
"From now on, you will behave yourself and never answer the master's questions again, or I will have my mother kill you and your son!"
"Your mother used to be a palace maid, and your family is just commoners. Killing you and your son is easier than crushing an ant!"
His blood brothers were jealous of him because of his extraordinary talent. Several young princes surrounded him, treated him arrogantly, spoke viciously, and pushed him hard.
He was only five years old and was no match for those princes. He was like a rag doll, being pushed around and stumbling around.
For the first time, Emperor Xiao Ping felt helpless and afraid.
"Ha——" Just when he fell to the ground and couldn't get up, Da Mi's voice rang in his ears.
He raised his head with difficulty and saw Da Mi standing bravely in front of him with his fur standing up, his ears tucked back, and his teeth bared, warning the princes.
“Ha—hiss—”
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