Chapter 6 Chapter 6 - The Battlefield of the Living Room
Li Siyan had just finished court and changed into a brand new scarlet brocade robe. He was leaning on the couch reading a book. When he heard my footsteps coming in, he didn't even raise his head, but just snorted.
Compared to five days ago, he seemed to be in better spirits. His originally thin cheeks had gained some flesh and some color, and he didn't look as sinister and vicious as before.
I looked at him carefully and always felt that his posture was pretentious.
This is not a comfortable posture for reading. It is more like the way I posed in a coquettish manner as a child to attract the attention of Anyifangfangcao.
Look at this dog emperor, he has been busy posing for almost a cup of tea and hasn't even turned a page of the book.
After a hasty greeting, I stood there quietly without saying a word, staring at the vase on the table in a daze.
After a long time, Li Siyan finally looked up at me.
He put down the book, pursed his lips into a slit, and stared at me absentmindedly with his dark eyes, as if to make sure whether I was as sad as he imagined during the days I was away.
I stood there calmly and let him look at me. I glanced at the name of the book in his hand. Oh, it was the history of previous dynasties that my father had participated in compiling.
It seems that he held a grudge against me for calling him unlearned a few days ago, and secretly found some history books to read.
"Why did your majesty call me back?"
Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, I took the initiative to ask.
The sound was particularly clear in the empty study.
I have been thinking about this question for a long time. He threw me into the palace so angrily that day, but only five days later, he hurriedly called me back. I don’t know what this dog emperor is up to.
The Dog Emperor frowned and asked in surprise, "What did you call me?"
I repeated, "Your Majesty."
The dog emperor frowned even deeper: "You all know to call me Your Majesty. It seems that you have reflected on your mistakes in the palace."
He was acting very strangely today. If I didn't call him by his name, he would seem to be feeling uncomfortable.
I looked away, lowered my brows and said, "Yes, I figured it out."
His voice drifted over: "I originally planned to let you reflect in the palace for a month, but I summoned you back early because the new attendant is useless and needs your guidance."
I thought to myself, hey, you little rascal, you were criticizing my work level just a few days ago, how come you asked me to give business training to new employees the next day?
He noticed my speechless gaze, turned his head away a little, picked up the book again awkwardly, and flipped through it randomly.
"Your Majesty, you hold the book upside down." I reminded him seriously.
He returned to the familiar mad dog look I had always known, his sinister eyes darting over, and he asked, "Want to go to the palace again?"
I just thought he was crazy, so I stood there without saying a word, waiting for his madness to pass.
Li Siyan seemed to be waiting for me to curse back, but I didn't say anything. He looked at me more and more coldly, kneading the pitiful history of previous generations with his fingers, as if he was going to rush over and strangle me in the next second.
...Looking at this situation, maybe I will have to go to the Yunting for lunch again. I wonder what side dishes Xia Fugui has prepared today.
My headache started to build again. I thought I should just let him cool down. If it were Su Xing, what would she do? Well... she would probably kneel down and kowtow, then yell at His Majesty to calm down.
My knees moved slightly, but I didn't want to kneel before this bastard emperor, so I awkwardly said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. I've been pouring out night incense in the palace for five days. I already understand my mistake. From now on..."
Hearing the word "Ye Ting" (Ye Ting), Li Siyan became even angrier. He grabbed the crumpled history book from the previous dynasty and threw it at my head, saying coldly, "You know you're wrong? You know you're wrong, but you're still pretending to be half-dead to disgust me?"
I didn't dodge, and the history book of the previous generation hit me on the forehead, tearing the wound on my forehead that had just healed.
I groaned in pain and raised my hand to touch the wound. A little blood seeped through the linen cloth, but it was not serious.
But I still maintained good facial expression control, just narrowed my eyes slightly, without anger or grievance, as if the person who was hit was not me.
He was stunned, and the hand that threw the book raised slightly, blurting out: "Why don't you hide?"
I squatted down, holding my forehead, picked up the book that had fallen to the ground, and said calmly, "Your Majesty, have you calmed down?"
Li Siyan turned his head to the side in annoyance, and kept stretching and bending his fingers on the table, as if he felt uncomfortable in this posture, and changed to an even more awkward standing posture.
I paused, then continued, "Your Majesty asked me to instruct the new attendant, so I'll do as he says. He's waiting in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, right? Then I'll go find him now."
Before I could finish my words, he suddenly turned to me and said in a cold voice, "Chen Ying, don't act so nonchalant. You look so annoying. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? I allowed you to come back early not because of anything else, but because the attendant is useless. Don't be too proud."
After saying this, he himself felt a little guilty, perhaps trying to make amends. He opened his thin lips slightly, about to add a few sarcastic remarks, but before he could say anything, I interrupted him. I said, "Since that's the case, how about this? I'll go and teach the new attendant for two days. After I've taught him, I'll go... over there and wait a full month before returning. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
But my proposal was beyond Li Siyan's expectations. His harsh words seemed to be stuck in his throat, neither up nor down. The veins on his forehead were throbbing, and he looked quite scary.
I don't know what he's angry about. This suggestion is so thoughtful and reasonable. It not only trains the newcomers, but also does not delay my punishment. It's the best of both worlds and everyone is happy.
"Get out." After holding it in for a long time, he squeezed out these three words from between his teeth.
"I'll take my leave."
I felt as if I had been pardoned and rolled away happily.
──When I left, I considerately closed the door for him. Bang, the moment I closed the door, a teacup flew in and hit the door, and broken pieces of porcelain fell to the ground with a tinkling sound.
After taking two steps, there was another loud clang, and I felt sad for a moment about the expensive stone-washed inkstone.
I turned around and gave Su Xing, who looked constipated, a sincere smile. "I'm so sorry, Auntie, please go in and clean up later. I still have to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to teach the new attendant. So, excuse me for now."
Su Xing said with difficulty: "Chen Ying, how dare you offend your superiors again and again."
I shook my head and said, "Aunt Su Xing has wronged me. I really haven't said a single word that offends His Majesty today. His Majesty might be angry because he doesn't like me."
Realizing that Li Siyan was annoyed by me, I tactfully ran away and went to Menxia Province to find my new colleague.
However, I was stopped at the Zichen Gate with empty hands. The guard told me that Li Siyan had specially instructed me that I must bring the imperial edict with me before I could go to the Menxia Province.
I was silent. Damn it, there is always a loophole.
He helplessly accepted this fact and could only return to the Purple Palace in shame.
Half an hour had passed, and the Dog Emperor was still furious, pacing back and forth in his study in agitation. Su Xing and his companions tried to sneak in to pick up the broken porcelain pieces, but the Dog Emperor glared them out coldly: "...Get out of here!"
It seems that he was really angry and even forgot to call himself "I".
Xiao Jinlian, who had been bathing me earlier, whispered, "The emperor has been in a bad mood these past few days. He threw things like this the day Shen Qijulang went to the palace. He got angry again today and even scolded Aunt Suxing twice... Alas, I really don't know what to do."
What to do? Let him vent his anger.
I sighed deeply and thought, "If I don't go to hell, who will?" I asked Xiao Jinlian for the fever-reducing tea brewed by Su Xing herself. Under the sympathetic gaze of the palace people, I carefully pushed open the door of the study.
The dog emperor's ears were as sharp as a hound's. He keenly caught the creak of the door opening and turned around to curse, "Who dares to come in? Where are the guards? Drag them away and give them a beating!"
I slipped in through the crack of the door, carrying the tray, and kicked it shut with my toes. Walking around the broken porcelain shards on the floor, I whispered, "Your Majesty, calm down. Have some tea to cool down your temper."
When Li Siyan saw that it was me, his anger subsided a little. He stopped in his tracks and asked in surprise, "Chen Ying?"
He stared at me as if he were looking at a stranger.
The problem might be the tray in my hand. This was the first time I served him tea in a humble manner, and he was not used to it.
I repeated stiffly, "It was my fault for angering Your Majesty. Your Majesty, please have some tea. Aunt Su Xing made it herself."
He sneered, "You dare to come back? What? Do you want another hit on the head?"
"No," I said calmly, "I'm here to apologize to Your Majesty. Of course, if Your Majesty wants to hit me a few more times, that's fine. I can handle it."
I added, "Your Majesty, if you are satisfied, could you please grant me an imperial edict? I would like to go to the Ministry of Personnel to find a new attendant."
"Oh, so that's why you came here." Li Siyan nodded slightly, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes: "No wonder."
He strode up to me, grabbed the teacup, drank it all in one gulp, then smashed the empty cup to the ground and sneered, "Chen Ying, you're really disgusting today. If I couldn't even tell if you were truly submitting or just pretending, I wouldn't be emperor. I tell you, any washerwoman from the palace could act better than you. You clearly hate me, but you insist on pretending to be calm. Don't think I'll let you go just because you're pretending to be calm. You're dreaming."
He attacked suddenly and I was caught off guard. Broken porcelain pieces were scattered all over the floor, and some of them even scratched my soft palace shoes.
Hiss, it hurts.
I subconsciously wanted to swing the tray and smash his head off, but I took three deep breaths to suppress my rage.
"Your Majesty, I am a historian, not an actor from the Imperial Academy. I cannot play cat and mouse with you."
I looked at him, my eyes filled with unconcealable disgust. "It's one thing to capture me and use me as a servant, but you also want to tease me and make me wrestle and fight for fun? I'm sorry, but I can't obey your orders."
He suddenly interrupted me without a word and said dryly, "I have specially permitted your father and brother to be buried with the rites of a fourth-rank court official, and have also issued a generous pension."
This time, the strings in my head finally snapped. I was so angry that I swung the tray and slammed it to the ground. "Wow, what a favor! You want me to praise you? Or kneel down and thank you? I never thought there would be such a shameless person in the world! You don't deserve to mention my father and brother, you don't deserve it!"
When a person dies, it is like a light going out. Even if there are thousands of mourning and honors, they are just performed for the living.
The light in Li Siyan's eyes dimmed, and he said with an ambiguous meaning, "Yes, I have always been a shameless person. You finally can't pretend anymore. This is very good. I killed your father and brother, so you deserve to hate me so much. Chen Ying, do you know that when you pretend to be submissive, you are full of flaws. Only this kind of strong and painful attitude is like you."
At the end of his words, excitement and aggression flickered in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, like an agile and cruel raccoon who had caught a fat mouse and was thinking about how to play with it.
I slowly calmed down and said coldly, "You don't like my sternness, and you don't like my calmness and forbearance either. What exactly do you want from me to satisfy you? I've done my best to be humble, and you still think it's not enough?"
My lips were pursed into a stubborn slit, and I saw the anger in the dog emperor's eyes slowly fading away.
His face was stiff, his eyes fell on my cracked lips, his face tilted slightly downwards, and his whole body exuded a strange temperament.
"Not enough, of course not enough." He said softly, and suddenly raised his hand without warning and reached for my hair.
My nerves were on edge, and I thought he was going to attack my scarred forehead again, so I quickly took a step back.
But I forgot that the dog emperor had just dropped a lot of broken porcelain on the ground, a lot of extremely sharp tribute porcelain.
"ah!"
──My foot stepped on broken porcelain and I slipped suddenly.
I couldn't help but scream, my balance was unstable, and I fell backwards into the broken porcelain on the ground.
Li Siyan was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately. He grabbed my collar with lightning speed and pulled it back with all his strength.
He used too much force and I hit his chest with a thud. My feet and nose hurt and I couldn't help but cry.
When I came to my senses, I was lying on Li Siyan like a dog. My touch was warm and I could faintly feel the taut muscles under his brocade robe.
The latter frowned, his eyes filled with anger.
I blinked and suddenly screamed.
"You..." I was filled with shame and indignation, my words were incoherent, and I jumped back with my hands and feet like a furious little girl. "Are you crazy? Huh? If you want to punish me, then do it. Don't humiliate me like this!"
I'm about to collapse. I touched the dog emperor's chest and my hands have been dirty since then!
Li Siyan grabbed me as I was twisting and turning, and roared, "Shut up! If you dare say another word, I'll kill your brother!"
I was so angry that my heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys ached, but I didn't dare to open my mouth again.
I heard some strange noises inside, and I wondered which brave warrior opened the study door to rescue the emperor... I turned around in despair and saw more than a dozen palace maids standing outside the study, including Su Xing, Xiao Jinlian, and the old eunuch who summoned me to Xuan Zheng Hall that day... An indescribable shock appeared on more than a dozen faces.
I've never been so embarrassed in my fifteen years of life.
...Let me put it this way, if there was a cliff in front of me, I would jump down without hesitation.
"Your Majesty... Why is Your Majesty bleeding?"
A sharp-eyed little palace maid suddenly exclaimed.
I stopped struggling, froze for a moment, and looked down.
I saw that the dog emperor's clothes around his waist had a dark spot, and the vermilion color was dyed into deep red, but he did not cry out in pain, and still stared at me coldly.
"Do you want to call the imperial physician?" I said dryly, "Aren't you in pain?"
"Go away." He said calmly.
As he spoke, his blood had already seeped through his clothes, leaving a long red mark on the blue brick floor.
The old eunuch slapped Xiao Jinlian on the back and said, "Did you hear that? His Majesty told you to go get the imperial physician!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Purple Palace, which was originally so quiet that even footsteps could not be heard, suddenly became as bustling as the East Market. Some people took tweezers, some swept up broken porcelain, and Xiao Jinlian, who was going to call the imperial physician, rushed out of the door like a fly... Of course, I was the one who suffered the most. I didn't know what the dog emperor was doing. He reached out and grabbed my neck and threw me onto the cushion next to him. I cried out and was thrown out by him like a torn sack. The sound of coughing echoed throughout the imperial study.
After throwing me aside, he gritted his teeth and slowly stood up with a scary expression.
──There was a sharp piece of white porcelain fragment stuck on the waist and back.
"This is the second time," he said condescendingly, "First you bit my hand, then you made me fall and hurt my waist. Tell me, should I pull out your teeth or cut off your claws?"
I don't know what went wrong in my brain, but I suddenly said, "But didn't you also hit my forehead?"
He actually laughed sinisterly, pulled out the broken porcelain shard embedded in his waist, and pressed it against my forehead: "Want to be fair? Then I'll make your wound deeper."
I think he is probably really crazy. He dares to pull out the porcelain splinter without using any hemostatic herbs. Isn't he afraid of dying from excessive blood loss?
Li Siyan was not stingy and applied more and more force to my forehead, his expression teasing and cruel.
I clenched my teeth and breathed rapidly.
If I stick my head out, I'll get a knife. If I hide my head, I'll get a knife. I showed a look of fearlessness and turned my head away.
"Make way for the imperial physician!"
At the critical moment, it was the old eunuch who saved me.
There was a commotion at the door, and a fat, middle-aged imperial physician arrived. He kept wiping his sweat, bowed deeply to Li Siyan, and cautiously rubbed his way to my side and asked, "Is this young lady here again? Did she hurt her head?"
Good one again.
Su Xing was silent for a moment: "It's not her, it's... Your Majesty."
"Your Majesty?" He couldn't even hold the imperial medicine box steadily.
Li Siyan put down the bloody porcelain shard, grabbed my neck again, threw me to Su Xing, and said coldly, "Lock her in the cellar and let her reflect on herself."
Of course Su Xing wouldn't catch me. She took a step back without leaving any trace, and I fell in front of her in an extremely indecent posture.
No one cared about my situation. The imperial doctors and palace maids behind him surrounded Li Siyan, some bringing water, some bringing medicine. It was as lively there as it was deserted here.
I touched my forehead and found small dried blood clots on my fingertips. It hurt, but not unbearable.
Su Xing took me to the long-abandoned cellar of the Zichen Palace.
This cellar probably once stored grains. It smelled of fermentation. As I smelled it, the fear in my heart gradually rose: if there were grains, wouldn't that mean... there were rats?
I was still in a daze when Su Xing closed the cellar door with a bang. The light from the sky disappeared and only darkness remained in front of me.
I stood there, stunned, not daring to think about how many small creatures might be lurking in the dark, rats? Snakes? Centipedes? Poisonous scorpions?
Thinking of this, I got goosebumps all over my body. I groped for the cellar door and tried to open it, but it was too heavy and I couldn't lift it at all by myself.
I could hear a rustling sound in my ears, and I was so scared that I climbed up the wooden ladder placed at the cellar door and tried to stay as far away from the ground as possible, thinking that this way I could avoid those nasty little things.
But this is just my self-consolation.
I don't know how much time passed outside, maybe just a few hours, or maybe several days. I felt sleepy and half-closed my eyes, only to be awakened by a rustling sound. I was exhausted and hungry, but I didn't dare sleep, fearing that a mouse would bite off my ear and leave me paralyzed.
I had no choice but to hug my knees and recite the Analects of Confucius, hoping to keep myself awake longer.
"The Master said: 'An unkind person cannot remain in a contract for long, nor can he enjoy happiness for long. A benevolent person finds peace in his benevolence, and a wise person benefits from his benevolence.'"
The Master said, "If I hear the truth in the morning, I can die in the evening..."
"The Master said..."
What did Confucius say?
I forgot the next sentence. I racked my brains but couldn't remember it.
At this moment, a small multi-legged insect suddenly ran across the shoe surface.
"Ah!" I screamed.
In an instant, I got goose bumps all over my body. I slapped my hands like crazy and swung my right leg violently. I swung it so hard that I accidentally twisted the tendon.
I felt a faint pain in my legs, and I felt like the most miserable historian in the world.
Suddenly, the cellar door opened.
I thought someone had come to bring me food, and I stubbornly didn't want anyone to notice my disheveled appearance, so I buried my face in my knees, bit my lips, and said nothing.
The person who opened the door didn't move for a long time. I looked up and saw Li Siyan standing high up with his arms folded, with layers of clouds and the dazzling sunset floating behind him.
My eyes hurt when I suddenly saw so much light.
He stared at me for a long while, then suddenly laughed and said, "As expected of a daughter raised in a noble family, you can't stand being locked up for just an hour?"
I lowered my eyes and faced him with a thin back.
He said lazily, "If you beg me, I will let you go."
I didn't move.
──It is disgusting to live in the same room with rats, but I would rather endure it for a few more days than bow to Li Siyan.
"Not happy?" He said calmly, "Then continue to stay."
He pretended to close the cellar door. I closed my eyes listlessly and continued to recite the Analects of Confucius.
"Oh right," he said maliciously, as if remembering something, "there's everything here: scorpions, centipedes, snakes, insects, rats, ants... Look what's on your left?"
I opened my eyelids and met the eyes of a fat gray shadow.
mouse!
mouse!
Fear exploded in my head, I screamed, my feet slipped, and I fell heavily to the ground.
Li Siyan asked in surprise, "A mouse scared you like this?"
I wanted to stand up, but my ankle hurt so much that I couldn't move at all, so I had to sit down on a pile of dirty dust.
The mouse wasn't afraid of me at all. It slipped past my skirt, its long, thin tail brushing against my calf...
I collapsed immediately, my eyes were red, and I cried like a hurt hedgehog.
The arrogant Li Siyan was suddenly stunned.
"Chen Ying?" He called my name.
I didn't want to cry, but I couldn't hold it back. My shoulders twitched and I reached out to press my aching ankle.
With a large shadow behind him, Li Siyan gently jumped down from a high place, grabbed my hair, and pulled it back, revealing my tear-stained face.
"Are you crying?" he asked in surprise.
He seemed uncomfortable, as if he hadn't often seen people cry in front of him. But when I looked closely, I could vaguely sense a sense of satisfaction in his expression. What was satisfying him? Did my tears make him happy?
Thinking of this, I wiped away my tears and tried my best to look cooler.
Li Siyan let go of my hair, stared at me from behind for a long time, and suddenly burst out laughing.
abnormal!
My neck hurt, and he grabbed the back of my collar, lifted me up, and dragged me up the ladder. A cheerful voice floated from above: "Forget it, I'm in a good mood and forgive your sins. Go back to your room."
I said hoarsely, "My leg is broken."
The hand that was pulling my collar paused, Li Siyan turned around, the happy smile on his face disappeared, and a faint feeling of displeasure emerged, like a child who found that his favorite toy was broken.
"Let me see it." he said.
After saying that, he tried to lift up my skirt. Without thinking, I slapped his hand away and pulled my legs back.
Li Siyan was slapped by me, and his temper instantly showed on his face, with a deep gloomy look between his brows.
"Put your legs out," he said, "or go back to the cellar and spend the night."
Thinking of the fat rat, I had to grit my teeth and stretch out my injured leg a little. He pinched my ankle a few times skillfully like an experienced orthopedic doctor. It hurt so much that I closed my eyes and groaned.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw Li Siyan squinting at me, his thin lips raised as he said in a gloomy tone, "Alright, stop crying. This is the first time I've seen someone treat a sprained foot as a broken leg, crying like it was real."
Didn’t I break my leg? I sniffed doubtfully.
But it really hurts.
He laughed sarcastically and said, "You have such a fierce temper, but you have such a delicate body. You can't even endure the pain of the flesh, and you still want to argue with me about your bullshit character?"
"Then just let me go back to the cellar to spend the night. It's up to you." I said in a muffled voice.
As a result, Li Siyan did not let me go back to the cellar to spend the night, nor did he send me to the palace to do the night incense again. Instead, he called Su Xing and sent me back to the room where I had stayed briefly a few days ago, and asked me to face the wall and reflect on my mistakes.
Although the title was "facing the wall and reflecting on one's mistakes", it seemed that no one came to supervise me. Li Siyan even called an imperial physician for me and gave me a full set of acupuncture treatment for my sprained ankle.
For several days afterwards, the Dog Emperor didn't bother me. I didn't know if it was because he was recuperating from his injuries or because he felt a rare sense of guilt.
But he didn't let me sit idle either. He issued an imperial decree, calling the newly appointed attendant into the Purple Palace, and asked me to take advantage of the confinement period to carry out business training for new colleagues.
The next day, the new colleague received the order and came in full swing.
This man had a square face, dark complexion, and looked like a farmer's honest man. When he spoke, his voice was still quite youthful. He introduced himself: "I have long heard of Mr. Shen Qiju's great name. My surname is Wei, and my name is Xizi. I hope you will take care of me in the future."
Wei Xizi, I read this name again, and it sounds like a eunuch...
However, after a few pleasantries, I discovered that this person was actually a genuine Jinshi who had passed the imperial examination twice. He was now 23 years old, and his ancestral home was Takiu. He was dull and not good at socializing. He passed the imperial examination at the last place and had been prepared to work as a clerk in the Secretariat for the rest of his life. Unexpectedly, a wisp of green smoke suddenly emerged from his ancestral grave. He was actually chosen by the new emperor to be a attendant because of his youth and honesty!
The Emperor's closest minister, the Emperor's closest ministers! Such a promising future! Such a glorious position! All the officials in the court fought tooth and nail for this position, but who would have thought that such a good opportunity would fall upon him?
Ever since the big pie hit his head, he has been laughing wildly in his little bed for several days. Every day, he is woken up by the feeling of happiness and cheers in front of the bronze mirror with his fist:
Good morning, Zichen Palace!
I'm different. The first thing I say when I wake up every day is: Did the dog emperor die today?
Wei Xizi smiled shyly at me and said, "I didn't expect Miss Shen to look so kind. She's nothing like what people say."
"What do people outside say about me?"
Wei Xizi said honestly, "They say you're a witch from the Yaksha Kingdom, with three heads and six arms, capable of seventy-two transformations, and incredibly ferocious. Only a True Dragon Emperor like Your Majesty can subdue you."
I almost fainted when I heard this. I didn’t expect that my folk image would be so magical.
Seeing my constipated face, he comforted me clumsily: "They are all talking nonsense. You will know it after meeting Madam Shen. Madam Shen has beautiful eyebrows and eyes, like a fairy under the Queen Mother's throne. The Yaksha story is nonsense."
I touched my face sadly. I used to be quite pretty, but now after being rubbed so many times, even a pearl has turned into a fish eye.
I asked him a few questions and found that Wei Xizi had a solid foundation in writing and could be put into practice after a little training in historical literacy. Wei Xizi was very sincere in wanting to establish a master-disciple relationship with me, but I sternly refused.
That's funny. I don't want to accept an apprentice who is a generation older than me.
In addition, I also told him that there was a blood feud between me and the emperor, and every time we met, it ended in either a quarrel or a fight, so he didn't mind.
Wei Xizi expressed his understanding and gave a fair assessment of the emperor's injustice in killing the historian, which moved me deeply: "This brother is fair and upright, a perfect historian! I didn't teach the wrong person!"
But he also added that he was a citizen of the imperial court after all, and since Li Siyan had ascended the throne, he would be the emperor to whom he would be loyal, and he would never do anything to rebel even if he was beheaded.
I could only sigh, "Brother Wei will surely be appreciated by His Majesty. He likes ministers like you the most..."
Wei Xizi's face flushed with excitement as he spoke in a rhythmic voice, "Your Majesty appreciates me. I will definitely make some achievements in my position as a palace attendant and record your great achievements and valuable advice!"
Under my death stare, he added weakly, "Of course, I must also remember His Majesty's less reasonable words and write them down truthfully..."
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