"Why are you standing at the door waiting for me? Are you hungry?" Chu Xiao walked over and, as if no one else was around, took Yun Chaoxi's hand to check if it was cold. Seeing that she wasn't cold, he held her hand tightly.
Yun Chaoxi shook her head. "Your Majesty's arrival is just in time. Several new palace maids have been transferred to the palace. I have just recognized their faces, and it is time for us to have a meal."
Chu Xiao hummed in agreement. "I was worried you might not have enough manpower here, so I instructed Liu Quan to have the Imperial Household Department send a few people in. Come in, I'll have someone prepare the meal."
Turning around, Yun Chaoxi glanced at the dazed Lin Zhirou and asked, "What are you still standing here for?"
Lin Zhirou then came to her senses. She never expected that the emperor was not the half-buried, old and frail man she had imagined. On the contrary, he looked to be no more than thirty years old, tall, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and handsome!
Yun Chaoxi eats so well? How is that possible?!
Lin Zhirou snapped out of her daze, but remained standing still. Yun Chaoxi ignored her and walked straight into the hall with Chu Xiao, keeping some of her attention on Lin Zhirou outside the hall.
Lin Zhirou's unwavering resolve not to choose the emperor wavered. "System, if I become the emperor's woman, can I steal Yun Chaoxi's fortune, or even the emperor's fortune?"
"That's true, but your chances of winning are very low. First, you're no longer a virgin, and second, the emperor only favors Yun Chaoxi, so it will be very difficult for you to get close to him," the system replied coldly.
Lin Zhirou didn't care how difficult it was; she couldn't wait to proceed with the plan. Once she became the new favored concubine, she would definitely repay Yun Chaoxi for everything that had humiliated her!
"I remember you had an item that could enter dreams?"
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