The Imperial Household Department was brightly lit by candlelight, and memorial after memorial flowed into Zhao Ji's hands, who read them quickly.

Zhao Ji threw some useless letters of greeting into a huge basket, while the others that required the emperor's review and decision were placed on the table next to him.

Sometimes Zhao Ji felt that he was the emperor, busy with all kinds of affairs every day.

When Yueying came in, she happened to see Zhao Ji quickly reading through the memorial. This was a memorial of greeting and had no meaning. Zhao Ji reluctantly read through it all before throwing this long-winded memorial into the basket.

"Why are you here, Chief Yue? What wind can bring you here?" Zhao Ji poured a cup of tea for Yueying.

Yueying didn't drink. She looked Zhao Ji up and down carefully and asked a confusing question: "Are you really the seal of the Imperial Household Department?"

Zhao Ji raised his eyebrows, folded his arms, leaned back and leaned back in his chair, feeling as comfortable as if he were in his own bedroom.

"What do you mean, Chief Yue?"

"If I were not the head of the Imperial Household Department, how could I sit here and sort out and classify memorials and help the emperor solve his problems?"

Yueying pursed her lips and looked at Zhao Ji carefully, her eyes unconsciously looking towards Zhao Ji's waist.

Zhao Ji felt a little frightened by this gaze, mainly because of Yueying. She didn't look at him openly, but just glanced at him occasionally. Although it was unintentional, it happened so often.

Zhao Ji couldn't help but change his posture, raised his knees, stepped on the pedals, and arched his body into an arc.

Yueying then realized that her gaze might be a little obvious, and she coughed awkwardly: "Don't blame me for being abrupt, there are really some unpleasant rumors in the market, I'm not sure about this, so I came here to verify it."

Zhao Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and asked nonchalantly, "What kind of rumor could have made Chief Yue come to the Imperial Household Department so late at night?"

Yueying looked into Zhao Ji's eyes and asked, "Did you go to a brothel the day before yesterday?"

Zhao Ji choked before he could swallow a mouthful of water, and started coughing. Fortunately, the water in the teapot was cold, so he drank half of it straight from the spout of the teapot, and only then did he suppress the cough.

"How did the news get out so quickly? What's wrong with me visiting a brothel? Isn't this against the law?"

Zhao Ji retorted subconsciously.

Yueying wanted to say something but stopped herself. Finally, she couldn't help but said, "But aren't you a eunuch? Why would a eunuch like you visit a brothel?"

Zhao Ji's face froze and he felt a little embarrassed. He had been living too comfortably these days and he almost forgot about his identity.

Zhao Ji quickly adjusted himself, coughed twice and said, "I'm a eunuch, what's wrong with that? Can't eunuchs see a woman?"

"Is there anything wrong with dealing with eunuchs in the palace every day and going out to see some new people?"

Zhao Ji is really thick-skinned. Yueying is no match for Zhao Ji. Plus, he asks such a private question, her face turns slightly red.

"Anyway, be careful. Recently, there are rumors in the room that you like to visit brothels, and you have occupied three top girls at once, and you are so glorious..."

Zhao Ji nodded casually and didn't take it to heart. When he first stepped into the brothel, he knew that the other party would definitely use this to do something.

It's nothing more than ruining his own reputation, but Zhao Ji himself is a eunuch, so there is nothing to ruin.

At most, he will be labeled as a lustful person.

The other party liked to spend a lot of money to do small things, and Zhao Ji had no intention of stopping him.

Unexpectedly, the rumor became more and more outrageous. During the morning court session that day, Zhao Ji discovered that several of his colleagues were always looking at his lower body, and there was even some contempt and gloating in their eyes.

Fortunately, Zhao Ji was thick-skinned. When others looked at him, he looked back, clicking his tongue as if to say, "You can't do it! You can't do it!"

After a few interactions, other officials who were not as thick-skinned as him simply stopped looking at him.

Zhao Ji originally thought that this morning's court session would be another boring day, but when the court session was almost over, the second to last person in the prime minister's row suddenly jumped out, knelt on the ground and said, "I have something to report!"

"Please speak, my dear minister!" The emperor said perfunctorily, suppressing his sleepiness.

Unexpectedly, this minister revealed such earth-shattering news.

"I want to report that the eunuch Zhao Ji, who holds the seal of the Imperial Household Department, has an unknown identity and ulterior motives. He deliberately sneaked into the palace with evil intentions and disguised himself as a eunuch, but in fact he is a normal man!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the emperor stopped yawning and asked with a blank look in his eyes, "What did you say? Why don't you repeat it again?"

The minister was not afraid and simply repeated what he had just said. This time the emperor really heard it clearly.

It turns out that this minister was reporting Zhao Ji, who was not a eunuch at all, but a fake eunuch. Zhao Ji had everything a man should have.

The emperor was a little bit incredulous: "My dear minister, please be careful with your words. Do you have any basis for this matter? Do you have any evidence? If you don't have any, I will just think that you slept in the hall today and are talking nonsense here!"

The emperor has already given the minister a way out, mainly because the emperor really doesn't believe that Zhao Ji is not a eunuch.

When Zhao Ji heard this, he suddenly realized.

So you're waiting here!

The minister was extremely stubborn and said in a firm tone: "Since I dare to report it, I must have evidence..."

"I'm sure the emperor has also heard about the rumor that Lord Zhao visited a brothel some time ago..."

The emperor did know about this, but he felt that Zhao Ji was just a eunuch, and this kind of thing might just be a curiosity.

I didn't expect someone to talk about this in the court. It always feels weird, as if it is inappropriate.

"I originally thought it was nonsense, but I also wanted to clear the name of the Master Seal. After all, everyone knows the Master Seal's background. It is impossible for him to have such ability..."

Zhao Ji yawned with a sneer, patted his forehead with his hand, and said nothing, just waiting for the minister to continue.

As expected, the minister continued, "So I went to the brothel that day and found these three top girls. I hope they can speak out and help our Lord to clear his name!"

"I didn't expect that before I revealed the true identity of the Master Seal, I learned from the three top performers that during that night, the Master Seal was no different from a normal man!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the court was in chaos. To put it bluntly, this minister was accusing Zhao Ji of hiding his identity.

But Zhao Ji was not panicked at all, mainly because the original identity proof was made by the prime minister. If anything happened, the prime minister would definitely be in trouble.

In addition, the emperor still trusts Zhao Ji, so Zhao Ji has a plan for the current situation.