Mu Tiantian sat down against the wall, covered herself with the blanket, and rubbed her temples.
System: [Why didn't you tell him about your health condition?]
Mu Tiantian said calmly, "If I tell him, will he pity me?"
System: [It's okay to show weakness to others occasionally.]
Mu Tiantian smiled: 【I'm used to it.】
System: [Then why are you willing to show weakness in front of Feng Qianyan?]
No matter which world she was in, she only wanted to show weakness in front of him.
Mu Tiantian: [Because... if you can be a lazy bum, why not show your weakness?]
System: 【...Just keep being stubborn.】
Mu Tiantian chuckled softly and said nothing more.
Because... she also wants to be cherished and pampered by her lover.
...
After sunrise.
Qian Yan slowly woke up in the palace.
He sat up, recalling the voice he had vaguely heard, "Yan Yan... let go..."
And that blurry face, was it a dream?
He lowered his head, but his gaze inadvertently fell upon a brown stain on his sleeve. His brow furrowed, and he shouted, "Someone come here!"
Upon hearing the sound, Wang Xi hurriedly entered and bowed, "Your Majesty."
"Wang Xi, what's with all this dirt on my clothes?"
"Your Majesty, this is what you gave me last night..." Wang Xi hesitated, then stopped.
"What did I do last night?" Qian Yan's eyes darkened.
“You insisted on going to the Imperial Kitchen yesterday, and I really couldn’t stop you,” Wang Xi said, picking and choosing. “So I got my clothes stained, and you wouldn’t let me take them off. I was really powerless to do anything about it. Please punish me, Your Majesty.”
"I need to take a bath," Qian Yan ordered Wang Xi after getting up. "Tonight, I am not allowed to leave this palace."
"Yes, sir." Wang Xi wiped his sweat.
I wonder when His Majesty's illness will be cured.
Imperial Physician Quan forbade him from telling the Emperor about the woman from last night, so what he just said should be fine.
Qianyan went to bathe and change clothes.
Wang Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
Morning.
Qian Yan, dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, sat on the dragon throne with a cold expression, exuding majesty. "Do any of my beloved ministers have anything else to report?"
Below the court, one of the officials standing at the head of the table stepped forward and said, "Your subject has something to report."
"Fang Aiqing, please speak."
"Your Majesty's harem is empty, I believe..." Fang Hong began, but before he could finish, he felt a chilling gaze emanating from the dragon throne, making his scalp tingle. Nevertheless, he forced himself to continue, "I believe Your Majesty should replenish the harem, so as to..."
"Minister Fang," Qian Yan interrupted calmly, "have you perhaps forgotten my decree?"
"Your Majesty... I remember." Fang Hong lowered his head.
"Since that's the case, I shall deal with him according to the law," Qian Yan said loudly. "Fang Hong disobeyed my decree by bringing up the matter of taking a concubine. He shall go home and reflect on his actions for three days. Do you have any objections?"
No one dared to speak in the court.
"Dismiss the court."
After the court session, Fang Hong's face turned completely red with anger.
If he hadn't heard that the Emperor had actually sought out a woman last night, why would he have taken such a risk to bring it up?
He thought he could finally send his daughter to the palace, but it all came to nothing, and he ended up having to go home and reflect on his actions.
He took a deep breath, put on a smile, and walked towards General Ren, exchanging a few polite words, "General Ren, how have you been lately?"
Ren Shangbo stroked his beard. "You're doing well."
"General Ren," Fang Hong approached him and lowered his voice, "you are the Emperor's maternal uncle, aren't you worried about the Emperor's marriage?"
“His Majesty is still young, there is no need to rush. If Prime Minister Fang has nothing else to say, I will take my leave first.” With that, Ren Shangbo turned and left without giving Fang Hong a chance to speak.
Fang Hong could only smile and send him off, thinking to himself, "This Feng Qianyan is already twenty-two. When emperors were his age, their sons were already old enough to run errands."
I don't know what Ren Shangbo was thinking.
Fang Hong angrily turned and left.
After court, Qian Yan changed into casual clothes and invited Quan Wufeng to the Imperial Garden for tea and chess, while Tang Xiu waited outside the pavilion.
Quan Wufeng placed a piece on the chessboard and said, "Your Majesty, please ask whatever you wish to ask."
“Brother Quan is exceptionally intelligent; I can see through nothing from you.” Qian Yan smiled faintly, took a sip of tea, and appeared refined and gentle, completely different from the fiery man he was at night.
Quan Wufeng smiled but didn't say anything.
"I want to know, how did I get back to the palace last night?"
“Last night, I found Your Majesty at an alleyway near the palace. Your Majesty was already asleep at that time. I brought Your Majesty back to the palace. After that, Yan Yan started making a fuss about going to the Imperial Kitchen.”
"In a coma? Is there no one else around me?" Qian Yan asked.
He clearly remembered that he had walked up to the woman before sunset.
Logically speaking, since he saved her, she shouldn't have left him unconscious on the road.
As Quan Wufeng was about to place the chess piece, he paused in mid-air for a moment, as if thinking, and said, "No."
After saying that, he placed the chess piece down. "Your Majesty, you have lost."
Qian Yan wasn't annoyed and laughed, "Again."
"Has Your Majesty met with someone who has kept you from returning to the palace?" Quan Wufeng asked.
"It was a woman I rescued on the way." Qian Yan told him what had happened in the woods.
After hearing this, Quan Wufeng asked, "Isn't Your Majesty afraid that she might be an assassin sent by someone else?"
"I have the discernment to tell whether she intends to kill me," Qian Yan asked. "Brother Quan, have you really never seen her before?"
Quan Wufeng pictured Mu Tiantian's pale face in his mind, and calmly replied, "No."
Qian Yan raised an eyebrow slightly, then placed a piece on the chessboard and said, "Brother Quan, you've lost."
"I concede defeat." Quan Wufeng said absentmindedly.
"Brother Quan, would you be willing to help me find that woman?" Qian Yan looked directly at him, his phoenix eyes revealing shrewdness.
Upon hearing this, Quan Wufeng regained his composure and, unafraid of the emperor's gaze, replied, "How could I disobey the emperor's order?"
"Then, I'll have to trouble you, Brother Quan."
...
Inside the imperial prison.
Mu Tiantian heard the sound of the cell door opening and saw the jailer coming to bring her food.
Just as the jailer was about to leave, Mu Tiantian called out to him, "Big brother."
The jailer stopped and looked at Mu Tiantian with suspicion. "You called me?"
Holding the remaining two bags of glutinous rice balls, Mu Tiantian tried to get closer to him, "Big brother, you know I was summoned by the Emperor last night, right?"
The jailer's eyes darted around, and he immediately put on a smiling face. "Is there anything you need, young lady?"
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