What is it like to wake up from sleep early in the morning and see Sima Jiao sitting beside the bed with an unhappy face? It is the experience of going from a beautiful dream to a nightmare.
Liao Tingyan blinked, still a little confused, looking at the dim sky outside the window, she thought to herself, isn't Sima Jiao a tyrant? Shouldn't a tyrant sleep until the sun is high in the sky instead of attending court early in the morning? Why did he come so early in the morning to disturb people's sweet dreams? Does he still remember his tyrant persona
Because the other person was Sima Jiao who could fall ill at any time, Liao Tingyan could only suppress his temper when he woke up, sat up with the quilt wrapped around him, showed a standard work smile, and called out, "Your Majesty."
We all work as office workers and have to deal with one or two difficult bosses.
Her chin felt cold, Sima Jiao gently pinched her chin and looked at her face carefully. Liao Tingyan's heart was beating fast, wondering if this person was going crazy so early in the morning
"Are you unhappy? Because I disturbed your rest?" Sima Jiao said.
Liao Tingyan once again pondered whether she was too obvious or Sima Jiao was too sharp. How come she always hit the mark? She struggled to continue her performance, "How could it be? I have rested well."
Sima Jiao snorted, flicked his sleeves and strode out. Liao Tingyan looked at the door that creaked when he kicked it, hesitated for a moment, and then lay down again. It was impossible to get enough rest. Since Sima Jiao was gone, she would just continue to sleep. After traveling for so long, it was not easy to recover her vitality.
As a result, when she woke up from a nap, she found Sima Jiao by the bed again.
“… Your Majesty.”
Liao Tingyan didn't understand what he was trying to do. He suddenly appeared several times. Could it be that he wanted to torture her with this special method
"Have you slept enough this time?" Sima Jiao asked with a serious face.
Did Liao Tingyan dare to shake her head? No. So after she nodded, Sima Jiao pulled her out of bed and dragged her out. Liao Tingyan was still wearing a white nightgown, her hair was loose and uncombed, she reluctantly put on the shoes beside the bed, and followed Sima Jiao staggering out.
The eunuchs and maids who met on the road all stepped back and knelt down, and no one dared to look at the disheveled Liao Tingyan. Sima Jiao walked too fast, and Liao Tingyan could only trot to keep up. The hand holding her wrist was cold and strong, and she couldn't break free and didn't dare to break free. She followed Sima Jiao in silence, walking more and more remote.
Seeing the fence in front of her and hearing the faint roar of a tiger, Liao Tingyan broke out in a cold sweat. No way, they waited for her to have a good sleep and then threw her here to feed the tiger? !
The tiger's roar was getting closer and closer. Even Liao Tingyan felt weak at this time, and her legs began to tremble. Noticing Liao Tingyan's slight trembling, Sima Jiao turned his head to look at her. He asked, "Why aren't you wearing a coat?"
Liao Tingyan: “…” Your mother! Did you give me time to put on my coat? You still have the nerve to ask
Sima Jiao: "You are afraid of both heat and cold. You are such a nuisance."
Liao Tingyan: “…” You’re too kind. You’re in much more trouble than me.
Sima Jiao let her go, took off his outer robe and put it on Liao Tingyan.
Liao Tingyan remained silent and put on the coat that had no warmth but gave off some unknown fragrance. She felt that Sima Jiao might not be bringing her here to die.
She followed Sima Jiao, getting farther and farther away from the sound of tiger roars, and finally came to a garden. Liao Tingyan saw several peacocks walking leisurely on the grass, dragging their tails.
It seems that this is the zoo in the palace. It is said to be divided into many areas, raising different animals. This area should be where peacocks are raised.
"This morning, the keeper reported that the white peacock in the garden has spread its tail feathers." Sima Jiao said, "That white peacock, all the other peacocks spread their tail feathers in the spring, but it was the only one that didn't. Now it finally spreads its tail feathers... Didn't you say you wanted to see it?"
When they were chatting in the carriage earlier, Liao Tingyan thought he was just a passerby and spoke casually. At that time, Sima Jiao mentioned peacocks, and she did say that she wanted to see a white peacock spread its tail. Unexpectedly, he really remembered it and took her to see it. Liao Tingyan felt a little complicated for a while.
Sima Jiao could not see the white peacock, and he impatiently called the eunuch who was raising it, "Where is the white peacock?"
The eunuch who was raising the peacock was sweating and hurried to look for it. He finally found the white peacock, but the peacock had already folded its tail and did not spread its tail. Sima Jiao looked at Liao Tingyan with a dark face, "You insisted on sleeping when it spread its tail, and now you can't see it."
Liao Tingyan thought to himself, so you sat by my bed so early in the morning so that you could take me to see the white peacock spread its feathers, but you didn't tell me earlier, and you sat there with a fierce look on your face, so who would know what you were going to do? If someone didn't know, they would think you were going to kill someone.
"It's my fault. I'll come and see it next time when the white peacock spreads its feathers." Liao Tingyan said softly, showing her work ethic of serving her boss and revising the manuscript eight times a day.
But her current boss Sima Jiao is much more difficult to deal with than her previous boss. He said coldly, "No." He turned around and gestured to the eunuch who raised the peacock, "Go, let this peacock spread its tail now."
The eunuch who raised the peacock was so scared that he would cry. His predecessor was like this, and was thrown into the Tiger Mountain, and his body was not found. If the emperor was unhappy, not only would he die, but the white peacock might also be plucked and sent to the imperial kitchen to be a dish and served on the emperor's table. For the sake of their lives, he had to give it a try.
Perhaps the white peacock was in a good mood today and opened its screen again just to give Sima Jiao face. Sima Jiao was very happy and rewarded the eunuch with a box of gold.
Liao Tingyan, who was originally watching the white peacock spreading its feathers, took a second look at the box of gold. It smelled of the golden money. The emperor was worthy of being an emperor. He was generous in killing people and rewarding people.
She just took a sneak peek and was discovered by Sima Jiao.
"You want it too?"
That shouldn't be the case. How could the heroine like gold? Liao Tingyan replied implicitly, "I prefer jade." The best jade is much more valuable than gold, and it sounds more classy.
Sima Jiao: "What's so good about that thing? I have so many in my private library."
As he said this, he took Liao Tingyan to his private storehouse to see the jade. Liao Tingyan was very excited, much happier than when she saw the white peacock. Although the white peacock's feathers were indeed beautiful, she had actually seen the white peacock's feathers spread in her original world, and compared to that, it was more interesting to see the treasure.
At this time, Liao Tingyan didn't care at all that her hair was not combed or her clothes were not properly worn. After all, she was Sima Jiao's concubine now, and no man or woman dared to look at her for more than a second, and Sima Jiao was just looking at her.
Liao Tingyan once again reasonably suspected that Sima Jiao might not be able to do it.
"Here, if you like these jades, you can have them sent to your palace." Sima Jiao pointed at the beautiful and lustrous jades without much concern.
Liao Tingyan: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward." Hahaha, really? This sugar-coated bullet is unbearable! I have even begun to be blinded by these beautiful jades and think that Sima Jiao is actually a good person!
Sima Jiao weighed a jade ring and said, "I used to smash this kind of thing to make sounds when I was bored, but it's useless."
Liao Tingyan couldn't stand it anymore. This wasteful thing actually used such a fine jade to play with? She felt so hurt by the waste that she wanted to just press his head to the ground and smash it for fun.
"Haha, Your Majesty, it would be a shame to smash such a beautiful jade for fun."
"Oh?" Sima Jiao played with the jade ring in his hand, walked to the pond outside, and threw it at the red carp in the pond. With a gulp, the fine jade ring fell into the water, splashing water.
Liao Tingyan: “…” Fuck.
Sima Jiao saw Liao Tingyan's expression, turned around and gave a happy smile when she wasn't looking, and felt much better - every time Liao Tingyan spoke, her eyes expressed completely opposite meanings, and her stupidity was somewhat inconsistent with her appearance, which was particularly interesting.
After being tormented by Sima Jiao for a whole morning, Liao Tingyan was finally able to return to her palace to wash, dress and eat something at noon. Apart from other things, the food, clothing and daily necessities in the palace were all top-notch, and even the maids were clever and skillful, and they were as pleasing to her as the worms in her stomach, especially Gui Ye. Before she spoke, she could tell from her eyes whether she was hungry and wanted to eat or thirsty and wanted to drink water.
How was she trained? Was she scared by Sima Jiao? Liao Tingyan, who was served comfortably, felt that she might become a useless person in the near future. It turned out that having everything provided for her, without having to say a word or walk, was such a pleasant thing. Compared with the current treatment, although she had people serving her in Hexia, she basically did a lot of things by herself at that time, and the servants were more casual, without the strict rules in the palace. Here, Gui Ye led dozens of palace servants to serve her alone. The royal top-grade service was indeed considerate and comfortable.
Liao Tingyan didn't understand. If Sima Jiao lived such a god-like life every day, how could he grow up to be like a devil
"My Lady Concubine, several concubines and beauties are here to pay their respects to you." Gui Ye came to report.
Liao Tingyan, who was eating melons, paused, wiped his hands and sat up, "Then let the beauties come in."
Here it comes! The first highlight of the palace fight! How can there be no fighting in the palace? Even if it is harmonious on the surface, there must be undercurrents in private. On the way here, she didn't know how many times she imagined the difficulties and dangers of the palace fight. Every time she imagined herself being bullied by the high-ranking concubines when she first entered the palace, and being betrayed by the beauties who sympathized with her. It was so heartbreaking that her head was almost bald from imagining so many things.
—As a result, after entering the palace for half a day, she became the highest-ranking imperial concubine. All the previous imagination and various plot simulations were useless, and she could only act according to circumstances.
A dozen beauties of the highest status knelt on the ground in a huge crowd. The other beauties were too low in status to have the qualifications to pay respect to her. This group of beauties paid respect to her with their heads bowed the whole time, and each of them was very well behaved. After paying respect, they left one by one.
Before Liao Tingyan had the chance to demonstrate his skills, he saw them all go down.
Wait, does it really just mean a greeting and then leave? The situation where everyone sits in a circle and then pokes each other and flatters each other doesn't exist
Liao Tingyan didn't react. Seeing her staring at the direction where the beauties left without saying a word, Gui Ye thought she was unhappy that so many people came to make a fuss, so she carefully explained, "The beauties can only come to see you when you first enter the palace. From now on, they will only kowtow and pay their respects outside the palace every day. You don't need to meet them in person. You like quietness, so they dare not disturb you rashly."
This means she doesn't need to hold tea parties and chat with a bunch of beauties every day.
After thinking for a while, Liao Tingyan suddenly realized. She understood that it was not that there were no beauties who wanted to fight in the palace, but that all the beauties in the palace who had dreams and wanted to reach the pinnacle of life through palace fighting had been killed by Sima Jiao.
The emperor was not doing his job and was always thinking about killing his concubine, which resulted in her, the imperial concubine, being completely useless.