Jun Mochen's lips twitched as he looked at Su Chen's weak and helpless appearance. If he hadn't seen her practicing boxing in the backyard of the Cold Palace a few days ago, he would have believed her.
"From now on, you will live in the Jade Feather Palace. Don't you want to compete for my favor? It's the closest to my bedchamber, so I'll give you that chance." After saying that, he ordered someone to take the two of them out.
"What's going on? When did I say I wanted to compete for favor?" Su Chen was completely bewildered.
The system guessed: "[Ahem, your elder brother and Jun Mochen have a good relationship. He probably said something that made Jun Mochen think you asked him to say it.]"
"Um... since he has a good relationship with my brother, why would he target my family?" Su Chen couldn't understand his thinking.
"You wouldn't know this, but in the eyes of an emperor, personal feelings and state affairs are two separate things. When the two clash, naturally state affairs take precedence." The system shrugged. "What do you think an emperor's love is? An emperor's love is that he has no love, not even a heart."
Su Chen sighed. Everyone says not to marry into an imperial family, because you'll die young and become a machine for handling state affairs.
Thinking about it, Jun Mochen does seem a bit pitiful. He had to fight with a cunning old man during the day and deal with the dirty affairs of the harem at night, all at the age of twenty.
"What about the Empress?" Su Chen wondered. Since it was so hard, why not make her Empress?
[The specific reason is unknown, but he stopped all the ministers' suggestions. Strange... In the original novel, the investiture of the empress and the Fengshan ceremony were held together...] Ning Wu flipped through the original novel.
Su Chen: "How about I advise His Majesty to appoint an Empress?"
Ningwu shook his head. "That's not necessary. It's like how people listen to your advice."
Hearing her say that, Su Chen stopped doing anything troublesome.
It is said that the Jade Feather Palace truly lives up to its name; this palace is not a sleeping quarters, but a pigeon coop.
Su Chen saw the pigeons circling and their feathers fluttering all over the courtyard, and three black lines appeared on her forehead.
"Your Highness, please come with me," the eunuch who brought her gestured to her.
Su Chen had no choice but to continue following, and finally saw a bedroom that was about forty square meters in size, with a soft couch near the door.
Su Chen observed that although the room was old, the facilities were very elegant, indicating that it had been a place where important people had stayed.
But which noble lady in the palace would live in a pigeon coop?
The eunuch turned his head and said, "In a little while, this servant will send someone to clean up. Please wait a moment, Your Highness."
Su Chen wrote it and had Mu Mu deliver it.
Golden lion-shaped incense burner, purple gauze curtains, bamboo ornaments, white jade vase...
All the furnishings were exquisitely crafted. Su Chen touched and looked at everything as if she were in a museum, except that she no longer had to imagine the texture of the objects through glass; everything was readily available to her.
When Mumu returned, she saw her master looking like a money-grubber.
“Master, a distinguished person did indeed stay in this room,” Mumu said excitedly.
Su Chen gently put down the incense burner, raised her eyes, and said, "Oh?"
Mumu said, "It is the residence of the late Emperor's Consort Hui."
Su Chen took a breath. "Could it be His Majesty's birth mother?"
Mumu shook her head.
Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief. It's good that it's not true.
Mumu added, "She is His Majesty's foster mother."
Su Chen's heart, which had just settled down, jumped again.
Mumu explained, "Because Consort Hui was unable to bear children, the late Emperor allowed His Majesty to adopt her as his son."
"So... Consort Hui was very favored back then?" After all, this palace is very close to His Majesty's bedroom.
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