Chapter 1040 Fu Ming (1)
"I've heard that Prince Rui and his wife are very close," Ye Ke said. "I also heard a few days ago that they were traveling together in Longye City. It's clear that Prince Rui loves Shen Miao to the core. Speaking of which, Shen Miao's appearance is not as good as yours. I don't know how he was so captivated by her that he was completely devoted to her." Ye Ke looked at Ye Mei: "Sister, do you still want to move into Prince Rui's mansion now?"
Ye Mei was a bit distraught. She couldn't fully exploit her strengths in front of Xie Yuan. Back in Qinzhou, if she wanted to exploit any man, she would have been unstoppable. But with Xie Yuan, she always felt like she had no idea where to start. Xie Yuan paid no attention to her at all. Ye Mei could sense that the way he looked at her was no different from how he looked at Lu Wan'er, or any other young lady from a noble family in Mingqi. She felt that she had no chance of conquering Xie Yuan because he didn't even consider her a woman.
Thinking of this, Ye Mei evasively said, "Let's talk about it later. Ye Maocai hasn't mentioned this yet, so there's no need to dwell on it. The most urgent thing is to find out what went wrong with the Ye family. If the Ye family ever gets into trouble, we can't let you and me get dragged down with it. Let's make plans now."
"Actually..." Ye Ke stammered, "Ye Maocai came to me once before, and he wanted you to enter the palace."
Enter the palace? Ye Mei's eyebrows jumped, and she suddenly smiled. Her smile was charming, but there was a sense of deep meaning in it: "Ye Maocai saw that Xie Yuan was difficult to seduce, so he let me climb into the royal family?"
Entering the palace, of course, wasn't just any other way, but to become the emperor's woman. Ye Mei sneered, "There's not even a single heir in the palace right now. Something must be fishy going on. If I enter the palace, childless, I'll be left alone a hundred years from now. If the emperor dies, will I be buried alive with him? Ye Maocai only wants to befriend the royal family. No matter if I live or die, I won't return to the palace. Let him give up on that thought." A sinister tone reached the end of her words.
It's not that Ye Mei hadn't considered entering the palace, but she was always good at analyzing the pros and cons. Now that the emperor had no son of his own, it was probably his own fault. How long could a woman without a son survive in the harem? Forget the harem, even in the backyards of a wealthy family, the fate of a woman without a son was either death or a life of humiliation and obedience, neither of which Ye Mei wanted. She wanted to climb the ladder, constantly climb, and enjoy power. These were more important than becoming the emperor's woman in the palace.
Ye Ke was a little embarrassed and said, "I guessed you thought so, so I immediately told Ye Maocai that it was impossible."
"Oh?" Ye Mei glanced at him sideways and said lightly, "Did you really tell him that?"
Ye Ke avoided Ye Mei's gaze and said, "Sister, don't you still believe me?"
Ye Mei smiled, not knowing what that smile meant. She said, "In short, you and I need to understand our identities clearly. The Ye family is not our real home, and the Ye family members are not family. Besides, even family members have their own selfish desires. I will find a way to find out what has happened to the Ye family and what they are planning. If the Ye family ever gets into trouble, you and I must not be dragged into it. The best strategy is to escape unscathed."
"Sister, it's not that serious." Ye Ke disagreed: "If it were really that serious, the Ye family would have already started looking for a way out for themselves."
Ye Mei sneered, "The most frightening thing is that the Ye family themselves don't even know the disaster is about to happen."
As she was speaking, she heard someone calling from outside the door: "Big sister, second brother."
Ye Ke went forward and opened the door, only to find Ye Hongguang standing outside, being wheeled by a servant. Although Ye Maocai was shrewd, he treated his lame son well, having a chair made for him that could be moved around the Ye residence on weekdays, pushed by a servant. However, Madam Ye disliked the son born to a concubine and raised under his name.
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