A sleepless night.

When I got up to serve Xu Cairen the next morning, she saw my red eyes and haggard look, and immediately asked: "Qingying, what's wrong with you? Why are you so haggard?"

"Me? I'm fine."

I said perfunctorily, and then helped her dress and freshen up. Xu Cairen held my hand and said, "Don't worry, you asked me to help you, and I will definitely fulfill my promise."

I looked up at her seriously and smiled at me.

I don’t know why, but I suddenly understood why, among the three thousand beauties in the harem, Pei Yuanhao only had a trace of tenderness for her, and she was also so lucky to be the first woman to be pregnant with a dragon.

She is like a faint little flower under the colorful flowers in the imperial garden. She looks so delicate that people want to hold it in their hands and care for her. And she is so simple and clean that even I want to protect her well.

She protects the child in her belly.

Forget it, don’t think about it anymore.

If the famous brand is really taken away by someone who is intentional, then it is a blessing, not a curse, and it is a curse that cannot be avoided. I am waiting for the fate of the arrangement.

Now, we should still protect the innocent woman in front of us and the child in her belly.

So, I smiled and said, "Everything still depends on the child in Cai Ren's womb." I lowered my head, looked at her slightly bulging belly, and said with a smile, "I really hope Cai Ren can get a boy in one fell swoop, so that the Emperor can

I will love you even more."

"Boy? I don't want a boy."

Don’t want a boy? I looked at her in surprise. How could a concubine not want to give birth to a prince when the harem was competing for favor? I heard her smile faintly and say: "You also know that my family background is not as good as other sisters in the palace.

If a prince is really born, it will delay his future. Look, before the child is born, someone is trying to harm him. If he is really a prince, how difficult will his future be?"

"Talented person..."

I didn't expect that she would have such a character, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy. I held her hand gently, and she smiled again and said: "Forget it, it's still too early to think about this now. Look.

It’s God’s arrangement.”

Looking at her peaceful smile, I made a vague decision in my heart.

No matter what happens now or in the future, I want to protect the child in her belly. I have already killed a life, so use this little life to save me.

Xu Cairen was more than three months pregnant and was in a serious condition. She couldn't eat anything, and the weather was hot and she also vomited violently. I went to the small kitchen in the afternoon and cooked a small pot of orange cheese for her.

Before dinner, bring it to her.

Xu Cairen smelled the sweet and sour taste, took a bite, and immediately smiled and said: "Well, it tastes really good."

"As long as the talented person likes it."

"Qingying, you are so capable and can make such delicious food."

I smiled and said nothing, and she ate less than half of the bowl. Seeing Yuwen next to her staring at the bowl with a greedy look on her face, she smiled and said, "You must be greedy too, girl. Come on, come and have some too."

Bowl."

Yuwen had been with her since she was a child, so she didn't have so many worries. She immediately said with a smile: "Thank you, talented person."

Xu Cairen smiled again and said: "Qingying, come and have some yourself."

She treated people so sincerely, and I didn’t want to get too acquainted with her, so I walked over and scooped out a small bowl. Before I picked up the spoon and put it in my mouth, I heard a smiling voice at the door——

"Well, it smells so good."

As soon as I heard this sound, my spoon fell back into the bowl. Yuwen took a big mouthful of orange cheese, swallowed it hard, stood up in a hurry, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty - Your Majesty..."

Xu Cairen also quickly stood up and walked over to kneel down: "I, my concubine, pay my respects to the emperor."

"Get up."

Pei Yuanhao walked in slowly from the door, with a little smile on his face, and said: "I'm busy today, so I just came here to see you. Unexpectedly, I bumped into you eating private dishes."

"The emperor is making fun of my concubine." Xu Cairen said as he walked with him to the table and sat down. Pei Yuanhao glanced at me who was kneeling next to me with my head bowed and saying nothing. He didn't say anything and turned around again.

He said to Xu Cairen: "What happened that day didn't hurt you, did it?"

When Xu Cairen mentioned what happened that day, his expression changed slightly, and he forced a smile and said, "No."

"I was negligent."

"Your Majesty, don't say that."

Xu Cairen lowered his head timidly. If it were any other concubine, she would have acted coquettishly at this time, but I saw that she was just sitting there shyly, her cheeks slightly red. Pei Yuanhao looked at her, accustomed to

But tenderness seemed to rise on Yu Lengjun's face.

I stood up slowly and stepped aside.

Pei Yuanhao glanced at her bowl and asked, "What are you eating? Does it taste so special?"

Xu Cairen said: "Oh, Qing Ying saw that I had a bad appetite, so he specially cooked a pot of orange cheese for me. It tastes very good. Would you like to try it, Your Majesty?"

As she said this, she got up to put it in, but found that there was no more food in the pot, and said, "Oh, I've finished eating it all."

"It's okay, I'll just take a bite."

Pei Yuanhao said, suddenly reached out his hand and took away the bowl in my hand.

I was surprised and looked up at him, only to see that his expression was as usual. He scooped up some with a spoon and ate it, and immediately smiled and said: "Well, it tastes really good."

I looked at him with wide eyes, and everyone was dumbfounded. Xu Cai and Yuwen also looked at this scene, and they were both speechless for a moment. Pei Yuanhao said he wanted to taste it, but he filled the bowl with it in just a few gulps.

After finishing all the food, he still said with unfinished content: "That's right, the imperial kitchen can't cook such a thing."

Xu Cairen looked at him, then at me, then walked to him and said softly: "If the emperor likes it, I will ask Qingying to burn some more and send them to the emperor's study room in the evening."

"Okay, it would be nice to try these."

Before I could say a word, they both said everything. Pei Yuanhao sat there for a while, told her a few words, then turned and left.

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As soon as Pei Yuanhao left, I looked down at the empty bowl on the table, and Xu Cairen walked up to me: "Qingying."

I looked up at her.

"It's rare that the emperor has a good impression of you, so you have to take advantage of it."

"..." I suddenly understood what she meant, and I couldn't believe my ears: "Taishen, you——"

But she still smiled, patted the back of my hand gently, and said: "You are so young and so beautiful, wouldn't it be a missed opportunity to just be a palace maid? If you can be favored by the emperor and canonized, then we can

We are just sisters, so we can support each other in the palace, don't you think?"

"Talent, I -" I didn't expect that she would have such an idea. Did she think that this was what I said I wanted to ask her for?

To get his favor? I've had enough of his "favour", it's a nightmare I haven't woken up from yet!

However, before I had time to explain, she said to Yuwen: "My back is sore, please help me go in and lie down."

"Yes."

Yuwen hurriedly came up and helped her to the inner room. When she passed by me, she glanced at me, her eyes looking a little unhappy.

I stood alone at the table, looking at the empty bowl that the person on the table had used, and suddenly felt empty in my heart.

Even though I was extremely reluctant, Xu Cairen had already told him, and I couldn't refuse. I could only wait in the small kitchen and cook another pot of orange cheese. By the time it was cooked, it was already past midnight and it was already dark.

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I just hope he won’t be in the study room tonight.

However, when I walked outside the royal study with the food box, I saw the lights inside. Eunuch Yu was guarding the outside with two young eunuchs. As soon as he saw me, he immediately came to greet me: "Come in quickly."
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"Father-in-law, please help me take it in."

"Where does all this nonsense come from!" Eunuch Yu frowned and hit me with the whisk in his hand.

"But..."

Just when I was still hesitating, Eunuch Yu pushed me and said in a low voice: "Stop being so nagging, the emperor is in a good mood tonight and won't - anything like that."

While he was talking, I was already pushed into the door by him.

In the room, the candlelight flickered, illuminating the quietness of the room. There were still piles of memorials on the desk. He sat there with his head down and writing quickly, his eyelashes drooped, and the candlelight cast a long shadow on him.

The shadows are like the wings of a bird.

I bit my lower lip and walked over: "Your Majesty."

He said nothing.

"This slave is here to deliver supper to the emperor. I left it here."

I carefully placed it on the table next to me, but before I could take my hand away, I heard him say without raising his head: "Bring a bowl here."

……

When I heard this sentence, my fingertips were trembling.

I could only scoop out a bowl for him, walked to him with it, and said softly: "Your Majesty, please use it."

But he didn't reach out to pick it up immediately. Instead, he finished approving the fold in his hand, picked it up and looked at it twice, then closed it and put it aside, and then turned to look at me.
To be continued...