Qin Fei's words instantly made Liu Qiuchan's eyes narrow slightly. She didn't understand what she meant.

Interestingly, Concubine Qin only said half of the story. She didn't say the other half and quickly changed the subject, leaving Liu Qiuchan a little confused.

Even on the next day, news came out that made everyone in the harem uneasy.

It turned out that last night, a palace maid was passing by Hanfang Pavilion when she suddenly heard a very strange laugh, but there was no one around her.

The laughter came and went, and the maid was so frightened that she wanted to leave in a hurry, but the lantern in her hand was suddenly knocked over.

At this moment, a figure suddenly flashed in front of the palace maid at an extremely fast speed and soon disappeared.

The palace maid was so frightened that her face turned pale and her heart beat like thunder. By the next day, the news of the haunted palace spread. Lin Zan in Hanfang Pavilion, where the incident mainly took place, burst into laughter when he heard it.

"My Hanfang Pavilion is not a gloomy cold palace, how could it be haunted?" Lin Zan shook his hands indifferently.

Bixia, who was standing next to him, was very concerned about this matter. "Miss, you are really generous. Now everyone in the palace says that Hanfang Pavilion is haunted and unlucky, and Miss and the others also think it is unlucky."

"If the emperor is influenced by these rumors and stops favoring Miss, how will Miss survive in the palace?"

At the beginning, Lin Zan did not think so far into the matter, but after Bixia's reminder, his face suddenly changed and he felt a chill in his heart, knowing that what Bixia said was not wrong.

The reason why Lin Zhan is living a smooth life in the palace now is, firstly, she has the emperor's favor, and secondly, the empress is on her side.

But the most important thing is the emperor's favor. If you lose such an important backer like the emperor because of the haunted incident, it would be a loss.

After realizing this, Lin Zhan clenched his fists and said through gritted teeth, "Someone is trying to use the rumors in the palace to make me lose the favor of the emperor's brother-in-law."

"Yes, Miss, now that the rumor has spread, what should we do?" Bixia also stood there anxiously.

Lin Zan decided to take the initiative and walked to the outside of the imperial study with her short legs. While waiting for the emperor to summon her, she was very nervous.

What if the emperor heard the rumors in the harem and thought she was an unlucky person and didn't want to see her again?

Fortunately, the emperor seemed to be unaware of what happened in the harem, which made Lin Zhan breathe a sigh of relief. With a beautiful smile, she entered the imperial study, trotted over and hugged the emperor's thighs.

Looking at the pendant hugging his thigh, the emperor couldn't help but smile. "What's wrong with Xiaozhan? You miss me so much after just a few days of not seeing me?"

"Your Majesty, brother-in-law, I'm so scared." Lin Zan showed her big, cute eyes filled with tears as soon as she came up. This look was the result of her hard work and was the expression that could best win the emperor's sympathy.

As expected, when the emperor saw Lin Zhan's expression, he immediately hugged her in his arms and asked what had happened.

"Your Majesty's brother-in-law, I don't know why, but some people say that my Hanfang Pavilion is haunted. I'm so scared, and I don't know what the ghost is. Could it be that my deceased sister has been protecting me?" Lin Zan sobbed, clutching the emperor's sleeve tightly, looking pitiful as if begging for protection.

When the emperor heard her words, he recalled his old relationship with Queen Lin and couldn't help but sigh. "Xiaozhan'er, you don't have to take the gossip in the harem seriously. After your sister passed away, she still protected my daughter. If it weren't for your sister's dream, Silin wouldn't have been born so smoothly."

Hearing his words, Lin Zhan couldn't help but feel relieved in her heart. Fortunately, she mentioned to the emperor from time to time that the deceased Queen Lin often appeared in her dreams.

This made the Emperor miss Queen Lin more and more, and at the same time, out of their old friendship, he took better care of Lin Zan.

"Since my sister can protect the emperor, my brother-in-law and me, she must have become a deity, not a ghost." Lin Zan said firmly, with a serious look on her little face.

This appearance made the emperor laugh again, and he nodded and said, "That's right, Queen Lin was kind and gentle when she was alive, and she must have turned into a female fairy after her death, so she can't be a ghost."

After receiving the emperor's assurance, Lin Zhan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and she even deliberately spread the emperor's words.

In an instant, her Hanfang Pavilion turned into a blessed place protected by fairies, and it was not a spooky or haunted place at all.

The emperor's favor for Lin Zhan made all the concubines in the harem jealous.

However, the strange things in the harem did not end there. Liu Qiuchan, as the mistress of the harem, was so busy with these things that she was exhausted, but she didn't know the source of these things.

Until one day, a palace maid was sneaking around in a corner, gossiping with another palace maid, and Liu Qiuchan heard what was going on.

"Today, when I passed by Hanfang Pavilion, I saw Miss Lin cutting a paper figure in her hand and mumbling something. I don't know what she was saying."

"What paper figurine? Is Miss Lin trying to curse someone? This is a taboo in the harem. If someone finds out, you will lose your head."

"That's not the case. And there's one more thing you probably didn't expect. I saw the Queen's name on that paper figure."

The sneaky palace maid said this seriously, and the other palace maid covered her mouth in fear when she heard this.

When Liu Qiuchan heard these words, her face instantly turned angry and she walked over. The two palace maids saw that the Queen was so frightened that she was silent, and they knelt down quickly.

"You deserve to die for talking about your master behind his back. Drag him away and give him twenty lashes of the cane." Liu Qiuchan said bluntly.

No matter how the two palace maids begged, Liu Qiuchan refused to give in.

Back at Kangfu Palace, Dongxiang, the maid who was standing beside her, said as she massaged Liu Qiuchan's calves, "My queen, could what those two maids said be true?"

"What's true or false? I don't believe that Zhan'er would use paper figures to curse and harm me." Liu Qiuchan showed a sarcastic smile.

Such tricks are common in the harem, and Liu Qiuchan is not a brainless person, so she naturally would not believe this.

Seeing that her master didn't believe her, Dong Xiang didn't say anything more.

But somehow, the news that Lin Zhan secretly used paper dolls to curse the Queen spread quietly in the harem and soon attracted Lin Zhan's attention.