"How about I become your maid, young master?"
Mo Chenyuan thought he had misheard and subconsciously repeated, "What?"
Jiang Tian said softly, "I'll be your maid, not your concubine, how about that?"
Mo Chenyuan finally understood. His face turned ashen. "Better to be a maid than a concubine. This woman is really something else!"
"Why?" He said these three words through gritted teeth.
Knowing he was angry, Jiang Tian buried her head in his chest and spoke softly, "If I become your concubine, unless you abandon me, I will never leave your mansion for the rest of my life. I know your temperament very well. If you really dislike me in the future, you will definitely keep me tied down and refuse to let me go. I am eleven years older than you. Your momentary passion for me cannot make me willingly spend half my life in that house."
Mo Chenyuan had long recognized this woman's heartlessness.
Today is just another chance to get to know each other again.
He laughed angrily: "So what if you become a maid? Is being a maid really that good? If you become a maid, anyone can step on you. You might even lose your life."
"At least as a maid, I have something to look forward to. Once you marry a proper wife and have a mistress of the house, I will beg her to grant me a favor. If she wants to do me a good deed, she can let me go."
Jiang Tian's tone was full of longing, as if she was thinking about the carefree life she would lead after leaving the mansion after serving as a maid for several years.
Mo Chenyuan was so angry that he didn't want to say anything.
After a long period of calming his emotions, Mo Chenyuan finally spoke again, this time in a much calmer tone: "If I don't agree, will you not come back with me?"
“Of course you will agree, I know you love me.” Jiang Tian stroked his hair, trying to please him with every word.
“Answer my question.”
Jiang Tian didn't hide anything from him: "Of course, at least I've stayed in this little courtyard for a long time and I'm familiar with it. It's better to stay here than to become a concubine in another mansion."
Mo Chenyuan couldn't quite describe how he felt.
His anger surged in his chest, but he couldn't vent it on Jiang Tian.
Overwhelmed by a multitude of emotions, he angrily bit Jiang Tian's cheek.
Jiang Tian cried out in pain, covering her face, her voice aggrieved: "You can't bite me even if you don't agree!"
Mo Chenyuan thought to himself that he might as well let this woman drive him to his death.
He didn't bite very hard just now, but she insisted on teasing him.
When she cried out, he couldn't help but worry again. He carried her to the window and, by the moonlight, carefully examined her face.
The teeth marks weren't very obvious, but the scar on her forehead was extremely noticeable, red and swollen, and looked rather gruesome.
"Who hurt you?" Mo Chenyuan's tone suddenly turned gloomy.
"It's not the old lady yet, but it's nothing serious, she'll be fine in a few days."
She cries out at minor injuries, but remains silent at major ones.
Mo Chenyuan, suppressing his anger, carried her to the bed, went out and gave an order. Soon after, he returned with a bottle of medicine.
"It's really not a big deal, young master. Please think it over. I've been a maid for several years, so serving people is no problem for me."
"Sit still."
Mo Chenyuan didn't want to say a word to her at that moment.
Jiang Tian could only sit there and let him apply the medicine.
After carefully applying the medicine, Jiang Tian was also feeling drowsy. After a long day, everyone was exhausted.
"Young master... I'll be your maid..." Jiang Tian murmured even as she drifted off to sleep.
Mo Chenyuan can no longer bear to hear the word "maid".
But he knew very well that if he didn't go along with Jiang Tian, she would be depressed even if she went to the palace.
This person is not interested in the wealth and honor bestowed upon her by others; forcing her will only have the opposite effect.
As he pondered, Mo Chenyuan realized that he had no other choice but to agree to her request.
He glared at her fiercely, thinking that if he didn't take her away tonight, the old lady might come up with some other way to torture her tomorrow.
He let out a heavy sigh, still intending to go along with her wishes.
If she's going to be a maid, then so be it. He'd like to see how long she can stay in this position.
Mo Chenyuan picked up Jiang Tian and they had just stepped out the door when she woke up with a start. She instinctively gripped Mo Chenyuan's clothes tightly and asked, "Where are we going?"
"Go to a place where you can be a maid."
Jiang Tian was both surprised and incredulous: "Young Master, you agree?"
"What can I do if I disagree? Am I supposed to just let you sit here and wait to die?"
Mo Chenyuan's tone was cool.
Jiang Tian smiled, and instinctively raised her head and kissed his chin: "Young master, rest assured, I will not fail you before the mistress enters the house."
"You can say that when we get there."
Mo Chenyuan pulled the cloak covering her tighter, then carried her out in his arms.
Jiang Tian was extremely tired along the way and slept soundly and peacefully in Mo Chenyuan's arms.
When she was awakened by Mo Chenyuan, she opened her eyes to a magnificent and opulent scene.
She was startled and turned her head to see Mo Chenyuan beside her.
Mo Chenyuan, dressed in a dragon robe.
Jiang Tian's face suddenly turned pale: "You...you are the emperor?"
He noticed that her eyes had suddenly lost their intimacy towards him, replaced only by defensiveness, distance, and fear.
Mo Chenyuan's already tense mood instantly worsened.
"So what if I'm the emperor?"
Jiang Tian froze, and in the blink of an eye, her tears fell like a broken string of pearls, unstoppable.
He had originally intended to scare her a little to see if there was any room for negotiation, but seeing her like this, Mo Chenyuan's heart ached.
He disregarded everything else and quickly pressed down on her shoulders, his voice full of helplessness: "Why are you crying?"
"Why didn't you tell me you were the emperor that night? If I had known you were the emperor, I would never have messed with you, even if it meant death!"
Her voice was filled with intense sobbing.
Mo Chenyuan realized that this woman was getting better and better at making him angry.
He took a deep breath. Having spent so much time together, he had gotten a good feel for Jiang Tian's temperament.
"Don't worry, I won't use my imperial power to oppress you. If I say you'll be a maid, then you'll be a maid. Starting tomorrow, you will be a palace maid serving the flowers and plants in the Qianqing Palace."
Hearing his words, Jiang Tian slowly stopped crying and looked up at him with tearful eyes: "Don't lie to me."
When all his last tricks failed, Mo Chenyuan carefully wiped away her tears, his voice tinged with a hint of exasperation at her torment: "I'm not lying to you."
Jiang Tian's expression finally relaxed.
In the latter half of the night, she kept pestering Mo Chenyuan to ask about the workings of a palace maid who tended the flowers and plants, where she lived, where she ate, what the palace was like, and other trivial matters.
It's as if they're planning to set up camp here.
However, after being questioned by her, Mo Chenyuan's mood improved considerably.
I used to only see her a few times a month, and I was always worried that someone might harm her. Now that she's under my watchful eye, it's much more reassuring than before.
"You'll find out what to do tomorrow; for now, all you need to do is sleep."
Suddenly realizing something, Jiang Tian looked at the large bed beneath her, her voice tinged with fear: "Could this be the dragon bed?"
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