The mother and son had argued before.
After not seeing her son for several months, the Empress felt that he had grown up and she was filled with emotion.
However, she didn't forget to remind him of the important matter: "There are too many spies in the Eastern Palace. It can't go on like this forever. If you have time, you should clean it up. Also, your palace maid, if the Emperor gets the news, he might really kill her. If you like her, you should make thorough plans and it would be best to send someone to protect her."
"Your subject is aware of everything."
After having a meal with the Empress, Murong Lie returned to the East Palace in the evening.
After he sat down, he thought for a moment and then had someone bring Jiang Tian over.
In just a few days, Jiang Tian's complexion had improved.
He was harassed by rumors for no reason and had to clean up the mess, while Jiang Tian, as another person involved, was completely unaffected and even got better and better. Anyone would feel resentful.
What have you been doing these days?
Murong Lie asked her.
Jiang Tian replied respectfully, "Your Highness, I live as usual. Every day, besides cleaning the courtyard, I eat and sleep."
Murong Lie sneered; her life was indeed quite simple.
A simple-minded person would kill him a year later. If he were to release this news, the rumors that the Crown Prince had gone mad would surely spread throughout the land.
"Do you know that your acquiescence has made the Empress believe that I have favored you?"
Jiang Tian's tone remained unchanged: "This servant does not know."
She knew nothing, and Murong Lie's smile grew even colder.
He couldn't be bothered to waste any more words on this woman.
Having discerned Jiang Tian's personality, he knew that no matter what he said to her, she wouldn't react.
This woman is such a blockhead.
"Starting tomorrow, you will go to the study and become my personal maid."
As Murong Lie spoke, he kept his eyes fixed on Jiang Tian.
Jiang Tian's expression remained unchanged. She curtsied and respectfully replied, "Yes."
"Then you may leave."
Murong Lie had already had people thoroughly investigate Jiang Tian's background, and so far, there was nothing suspicious about her actions.
It seems the person behind it hasn't been able to contact her yet.
Murong Lie could not guarantee whether she would poison him in the future.
But he was really looking forward to it.
In this life, Jiang Tian became his personal maid ahead of time. Who knows who will jump out and become his victim?
After Jiang Tian arrived at the study, she continued to do the most ordinary work every day.
Murong Lie doesn't usually spend much time in his study.
He possessed both literary and military talents, yet had nowhere to put them to use. In his study, seeing the classics he had read so many times since childhood, now utterly useless, Murong Lie's heart only grew more and more depressed.
Since he couldn't touch the imperial power, his political maneuvering was useless.
After Jiang Tian arrived, Murong Lie went to the study more often.
He just wanted to observe Jiang Tian up close to see if there was anything unusual about her.
However, his observations were destined to be fruitless.
Jiang Tian seemed to have been stripped of her emotions and desires, leaving only an empty shell. She did this and that every day with a long face, and it was impossible to tell whether she liked or disliked anything.
Everyone seemed the same to her.
But in other people's eyes, she is completely different.
Jiang Tian wasn't the only palace maid working in the study. Most of the other maids had a few good companions, but Jiang Tian always kept to herself, going to sleep right after washing up and not giving anyone room to befriend her.
She was an honest eccentric, many palace maids said so in secret.
Murong Lie noticed that she was acting strangely, but he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to it.
This person is right under his nose. If she dares to cause trouble, Murong Lie will definitely deal with her immediately.
That night, Murong Lie spent a little longer in his study.
He had just picked up his pen and written a few words when he frowned: "Grind the ink for me."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone walked silently to his side and began to grind ink for him.
After a while, Murong Lie gradually realized something was wrong. He glanced at the person and asked, "Can you grind ink?"
Jiang Tian shook her head and respectfully replied, "Your Highness, this servant does not know."
"Don't get angry," Murong Lie told himself.
"If you don't know something, you don't know how to learn, you don't know how to ask questions, and you just keep grinding away when I tell you to?"
Murong Lie's voice was filled with anger.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Tian answered him again: "I want to learn, but I don't know who to learn from. I've never bought ink before."
Murong Lie was somewhat surprised: "Aren't you literate?"
Palace maids who could enter the study naturally needed to be literate.
If they were completely illiterate and destroyed important books, they wouldn't be able to compensate for it even with their lives.
"Your Highness, I learned to read by writing and drawing with twigs in the courtyard; I have never bought ink."
Murong Lie remained silent for a while, then realized he had nothing to say.
"Are you so short of money that you can't even bear to buy ink?"
Jiang Tian finally raised her head slightly this time and said to him, "This servant didn't have much money before, and the monthly allowance was too little."
Okay then.
Murong Lie didn't want to ask any more questions.
He asked Jiang Tian to step aside, ground some ink for a while, and then continued writing.
Jiang Tian stood by like a ghost, not saying a word.
Murong Lie realized that he really hated her.
There shouldn't be a reason for one person to dislike another.
This woman must have killed him in his past life, so it's even more normal for him to hate her.
But he hated her, and there was nothing he could do about it.
Jiang Tian was just bait; he was hoping she could catch a big fish, so he couldn't let the bait go to waste.
If watching it is annoying, then it's better not to watch it at all.
Murong Lie soon stopped going to the study, and Jiang Tian was also forgotten by him.
Anyway, he had people watching her, and his servants would inform him of any slightest disturbance.
He thought that Jiang Tian had finally made it to the study and become his personal maid, so she would need some time to adjust. He never expected that this woman would cause him trouble so soon.
Murong Lie's Eastern Palace is a place many people want to live in.
They themselves couldn't get in, but they sent out wave after wave of undercover agents.
Murong Lie had long known which force was behind the spies in the Eastern Palace. He watched them study the Eastern Palace every day as if it were some kind of treasure, and he was filled with disdain.
Of course, many people also visited Murong Lie at the Eastern Palace.
How many people can resist the title of Crown Prince and heir to the throne?
The problem this time stemmed from those visitors.
Murong Lie himself doesn't go to the study, but some of his trusted friends and relatives will borrow a few books from it.
Murong Lie certainly wouldn't place those crucial documents where they were out of sight.
Everyone knows his study is full of books, so how could Murong Lie be foolish enough to keep all his things there?
Because there was nothing of importance in the study, when his cousin said he wanted to borrow a few books from the study, Murong Lie had someone take him there.
But an accident happened not long afterward.
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