After a long while, Helian Chacha could obviously feel that the breathing of Ye Shengxuan was gradually getting even. So she looked at Ye Shengxuan carefully and found that he seemed to have fallen asleep already.
“Your Majesty?” She waved her hand gently in front of Ye Shengxuan’s face, “Your Majesty, are you asleep?”
No reaction. Perfect!
She crept down from the imperial bed and tiptoed to the censer to open it up carefully. Then she searched in her sleeve and finally found a small bottle. Looking back at the direction of the imperial bed, she was sure that Ye Shengxuan was still asleep.
Helian Chacha opened the bottle very quickly and shook some of the poison in the bottle into the censer. But she suddenly recalled that the man in black once had told her that this poison would only work when it was eaten, and if it was diffused in the air and inhaled by the poisoned, it might not work well as expected.
Whatever. Just put more into it. Ye Shengxuan might not eat it if she put it in the food, so she better just let him inhale the poison and that might actually be more effective.
Ye Shengxuan, this would be your last day!
“Lin Dagou!”
Helian Chacha was scared to tremble by this voice and the whole bottle was dropped into the censer. The bottle was covered by the ashes in it immediately, and Helian Chacha could only close her eyes in despair.
Damn!
However, what was more frustrating was that she found Ye Shengxuan had come right behind her when she turned around.
Her legs couldn’t support herself as she was so scared, and she could barely stand up without the help of the table.
“Your…Your Majesty…” She lowered her head and tried to hide the panic in her eyes, “When did you get up?”
Ye Shengxuan didn’t answer her and he threw a slight glimpse at the censer behind her instead, “What are you doing?”
Helian Chacha stood there and started to sweat as she was thinking about a proper explanation. If she hid the censer behind her right now, it could be more possible to drag the attention of Ye Shengxuan. So she decided to just be cool and pretended nothing had ever happened.
She took a deep breath and put on a gentle smile again, “Your Majesty, it seems that this censer is broken and the ashes are spread out. I noticed that you were sleeping and I had nothing else to do, so I came here to clean it.”
As she was saying, she leaned slightly to show him the censer on the table behind her.
Since Helian Chacha had just dropped the bottle into the censer accidentally, there was quite a lot of ashes splashed out. Ye Shengxuan glanced at the table and said, “Go and get Bohe here.”
Helian Chacha was afraid that Ye Shengxuan might find out the bottle in the censer, but she dared not to disobey his order. So she clenched her teeth and stepped out of the gate.
After a short while, she brought Bohe into the hall. Ye Shengxuan was sitting on the chair leisurely as if he didn’t care about that little disturbance.
“What can I do for you, Your Majesty?” Bohe stepped up and bowed.
“The censer is broken. Get a new one.” It seemed that it reminded him something else as he said again, “Wipe the ashes off the table.”
“Yes.”
Bohe replied slightly and left with the censer.
When she approached the gate, she looked carefully at the censor and murmured, “Weird. This censer is obviously alright. Why did His Majesty say it was broken?”
Inside the Yangxin Hall, Helian Chacha stood next to Ye Shengxuan, looking calm on the face but actually feeling super panicked inside. She was wondering if the emperor had caught her putting the poison into the censer. If he had seen her, then why hadn’t he reacted to it? If not, then why had he got rid of that censer?
Did he really think the censer was broken?
“Lin Dagou!” Ye Shengxuan suddenly called her name.
She looked up immediately and bumped into the pair of dark and sharp eyes of Ye Shengxuan. She was about to look away from his eyes but she suddenly realized that it could trigger his suspicion more easily.
So she looked directly into the pair of eyes as bright as obsidian.
He didn’t expect that Lin Dagou could look at him so bravely after he had poisoned him, so though Ye Shengxuan was a bit annoyed, he almost burst into laughter.
He waved at Helian Chacha exhaustedly and said, “I need to be alone for a moment. You can leave now.”
“Then I am leaving, Your Majesty.”
Helian Chacha wanted to meet Bohe immediately when she got out of the Yangxin Hall as her bottle was still in the censer.
But who would have thought that she bumped into Bohe right after she turned around?
Bohe was also quite surprised to see her, “Eunuch Lin, how come you are out here?”
“His Majesty said he needed to be alone for a while.” She looked at the hands of Bohe and found that she had nothing with her, “Oh, where is the censer?”
Hearing that, Bohe’s face suddenly changed and stuttered, “You… how come you want to know about that?”
Looking at her panicked face, Helian Chacha knew that Bohe must have done something that couldn’t be known. So she stared at Bohe with a tiny smile on her lips.
“Alright, I admit it. I hid it.”
Helian Chacha gasped as she had never expected this innocent-looking little girl would dare to hide an imperial property. If she was found out then she would be either kicked out of the palace or even beheaded.
Seeing that she still couldn’t believe her, Bohe lowered her voice, “It is a authentic censer with no scratches or cracks, and I can use it for decades! Don’t know what’s wrong with His Majesty that he wanted to throw it away. I just want to keep it to myself because I never had such a nice censer in my whole life.”
Then, she glanced at Helian Chacha with suspicion, “Lin Dagou, you are not going to tell His Majesty, aren’t you?”
Helian Chacha immediately denied, “Of course I won’t. I… I owe you a lot for what I’ve got today, right?” After comforting Bohe, she now started to ask her about the thing she really concerned, “Sister Bohe, have you ever seen anything in the censer?”
“Hah? What thing?” Bohe looked at her suspiciously, “You lost something in the censer?”
Helian Chacha pinched her shin and then cried out immediately, “I lost the earrings my mom gave me and I’m not sure if they are in the censer or not. You know me well, Sister Bohe. I lost my dad when I was 3 years old, and then my mom passed away when I was 5. My grandparents died when I was 7 and now this is my only hope. How am I supposed to live without it…”
This situation really scared Bohe a lot, so she held Helian Chacha into her arms despite Lin Dagou was in the body of a eunuch at the moment. Bohe comforted Lin Dagou, “Oh, don’t cry, don’t cry. Shall I look it up for you when I’m back?”
“Sister Bohe…” Now Helian Chacha finally stopped crying and stared at Bohe with tears in her eyes, “You are really a nice girl…”
Bohe patted her back gently and said, “There, there. I have something else to do, so I need to leave now. I will look it up for you tonight and I’ll tell you if I find anything. Don’t be too sad, okay?”
“Okay!” She pretended to pull herself together and wiped off her tears, “Just go ahead, Sister. I’m all good now.”
Although Bohe felt quite sympathetic towards her, she couldn’t be late to serve the emperor, so she left right away.
However, Helian Chacha didn’t know that someone from Ruichen Palace had witnessed the scene of her and Bohe holding together with each other. That palace maid was so surprised that she covered her mouth and ran away to Ruichen Palace.
After a short while, a sharp questioning voice was coming out of Ruichen Palace, “What? He is also having an affair with His Majesty’s closest palace maid?!”
“Your Highness, I witnessed myself! It was in public and right in front of the bedroom hall of His Majesty… how could they hug with each other like that? Shameless!” As she was speaking, the palace maid stamped her feet on the floor as if the scene had polluted her eyes.
Although Xu Ruyun was happy that she had caught on Helian Chacha, she soon realized something was wrong, “Was there anyone else other than you?”
The palace maid thought about it carefully and shook her head, “No. It was the time that His Majesty was napping. And His Majesty forbids all noises when he is napping, so all the other people were asked to leave. I just passed by and I never expected to see that kind of unspeakable scene.”
Xu Ruyun had already expected it to be like this. She believed that Lin Dagou wouldn’t let himself get caught so easily, or he couldn’t have got his position as the most popular one in front of His Majesty.
She flicked her fingernails and said, “Since no one else saw them, he could possibly blame it on us and say we frame him with that. Well, just pretend that you never saw that, and now you can leave.”
“Yes.”
Lian’er stepped up and asked right after the palace maid had left, “Your Highness, are we going to let him go so easily?”
“He will finally give himself away. Send someone to keep an eye on him. I am so curious about how long he can be favored by His Majesty.” Xu Ruyun grinned and her slim eyes were filled with ferocity.
After she had left the Yangxin Hall, Helian Chacha didn’t go back to her bedroom and went to Wang Jinghu’s place instead.
A few days ago, Eunuch Fu vented his resentment on Wang Jinghu and bullied him. And Helian Chacha had been busy dealing with Ye Shengxuan, so she didn’t have the time to care about him and that made her feel quite sorry for him. Now she had nothing to do, so she could visit him and gave him the Wound Cure that handsome dude had given her a few days ago.
It was probably the time of those eunuchs doing their shifts, so few people were in the side courtyard. She went directly into the room of Wang Jinghu.
As soon as she got to the door, she heard some tiny groans from within.
After a long while, Helian Chacha could obviously feel that the breathing of Ye Shengxuan was gradually getting even. So she looked at Ye Shengxuan carefully and found that he seemed to have fallen asleep already.
“Your Majesty?” She waved her hand gently in front of Ye Shengxuan’s face, “Your Majesty, are you asleep?”
No reaction. Perfect!
She crept down from the imperial bed and tiptoed to the censer to open it up carefully. Then she searched in her sleeve and finally found a small bottle. Looking back at the direction of the imperial bed, she was sure that Ye Shengxuan was still asleep.
Helian Chacha opened the bottle very quickly and shook some of the poison in the bottle into the censer. But she suddenly recalled that the man in black once had told her that this poison would only work when it was eaten, and if it was diffused in the air and inhaled by the poisoned, it might not work well as expected.
Whatever. Just put more into it. Ye Shengxuan might not eat it if she put it in the food, so she better just let him inhale the poison and that might actually be more effective.
Ye Shengxuan, this would be your last day!
“Lin Dagou!”
Helian Chacha was scared to tremble by this voice and the whole bottle was dropped into the censer. The bottle was covered by the ashes in it immediately, and Helian Chacha could only close her eyes in despair.
Damn!
However, what was more frustrating was that she found Ye Shengxuan had come right behind her when she turned around.
Her legs couldn’t support herself as she was so scared, and she could barely stand up without the help of the table.
“Your…Your Majesty…” She lowered her head and tried to hide the panic in her eyes, “When did you get up?”
Ye Shengxuan didn’t answer her and he threw a slight glimpse at the censer behind her instead, “What are you doing?”
Helian Chacha stood there and started to sweat as she was thinking about a proper explanation. If she hid the censer behind her right now, it could be more possible to drag the attention of Ye Shengxuan. So she decided to just be cool and pretended nothing had ever happened.
She took a deep breath and put on a gentle smile again, “Your Majesty, it seems that this censer is broken and the ashes are spread out. I noticed that you were sleeping and I had nothing else to do, so I came here to clean it.”
As she was saying, she leaned slightly to show him the censer on the table behind her.
Since Helian Chacha had just dropped the bottle into the censer accidentally, there was quite a lot of ashes splashed out. Ye Shengxuan glanced at the table and said, “Go and get Bohe here.”
Helian Chacha was afraid that Ye Shengxuan might find out the bottle in the censer, but she dared not to disobey his order. So she clenched her teeth and stepped out of the gate.
After a short while, she brought Bohe into the hall. Ye Shengxuan was sitting on the chair leisurely as if he didn’t care about that little disturbance.
“What can I do for you, Your Majesty?” Bohe stepped up and bowed.
“The censer is broken. Get a new one.” It seemed that it reminded him something else as he said again, “Wipe the ashes off the table.”
“Yes.”
Bohe replied slightly and left with the censer.
When she approached the gate, she looked carefully at the censor and murmured, “Weird. This censer is obviously alright. Why did His Majesty say it was broken?”
Inside the Yangxin Hall, Helian Chacha stood next to Ye Shengxuan, looking calm on the face but actually feeling super panicked inside. She was wondering if the emperor had caught her putting the poison into the censer. If he had seen her, then why hadn’t he reacted to it? If not, then why had he got rid of that censer?
Did he really think the censer was broken?
“Lin Dagou!” Ye Shengxuan suddenly called her name.
She looked up immediately and bumped into the pair of dark and sharp eyes of Ye Shengxuan. She was about to look away from his eyes but she suddenly realized that it could trigger his suspicion more easily.
So she looked directly into the pair of eyes as bright as obsidian.
He didn’t expect that Lin Dagou could look at him so bravely after he had poisoned him, so though Ye Shengxuan was a bit annoyed, he almost burst into laughter.
He waved at Helian Chacha exhaustedly and said, “I need to be alone for a moment. You can leave now.”
“Then I am leaving, Your Majesty.”
Helian Chacha wanted to meet Bohe immediately when she got out of the Yangxin Hall as her bottle was still in the censer.
But who would have thought that she bumped into Bohe right after she turned around?
Bohe was also quite surprised to see her, “Eunuch Lin, how come you are out here?”
“His Majesty said he needed to be alone for a while.” She looked at the hands of Bohe and found that she had nothing with her, “Oh, where is the censer?”
Hearing that, Bohe’s face suddenly changed and stuttered, “You… how come you want to know about that?”
Looking at her panicked face, Helian Chacha knew that Bohe must have done something that couldn’t be known. So she stared at Bohe with a tiny smile on her lips.
“Alright, I admit it. I hid it.”
Helian Chacha gasped as she had never expected this innocent-looking little girl would dare to hide an imperial property. If she was found out then she would be either kicked out of the palace or even beheaded.
Seeing that she still couldn’t believe her, Bohe lowered her voice, “It is a authentic censer with no scratches or cracks, and I can use it for decades! Don’t know what’s wrong with His Majesty that he wanted to throw it away. I just want to keep it to myself because I never had such a nice censer in my whole life.”
Then, she glanced at Helian Chacha with suspicion, “Lin Dagou, you are not going to tell His Majesty, aren’t you?”
Helian Chacha immediately denied, “Of course I won’t. I… I owe you a lot for what I’ve got today, right?” After comforting Bohe, she now started to ask her about the thing she really concerned, “Sister Bohe, have you ever seen anything in the censer?”
“Hah? What thing?” Bohe looked at her suspiciously, “You lost something in the censer?”
Helian Chacha pinched her shin and then cried out immediately, “I lost the earrings my mom gave me and I’m not sure if they are in the censer or not. You know me well, Sister Bohe. I lost my dad when I was 3 years old, and then my mom passed away when I was 5. My grandparents died when I was 7 and now this is my only hope. How am I supposed to live without it…”
This situation really scared Bohe a lot, so she held Helian Chacha into her arms despite Lin Dagou was in the body of a eunuch at the moment. Bohe comforted Lin Dagou, “Oh, don’t cry, don’t cry. Shall I look it up for you when I’m back?”
“Sister Bohe…” Now Helian Chacha finally stopped crying and stared at Bohe with tears in her eyes, “You are really a nice girl…”
Bohe patted her back gently and said, “There, there. I have something else to do, so I need to leave now. I will look it up for you tonight and I’ll tell you if I find anything. Don’t be too sad, okay?”
“Okay!” She pretended to pull herself together and wiped off her tears, “Just go ahead, Sister. I’m all good now.”
Although Bohe felt quite sympathetic towards her, she couldn’t be late to serve the emperor, so she left right away.
However, Helian Chacha didn’t know that someone from Ruichen Palace had witnessed the scene of her and Bohe holding together with each other. That palace maid was so surprised that she covered her mouth and ran away to Ruichen Palace.
After a short while, a sharp questioning voice was coming out of Ruichen Palace, “What? He is also having an affair with His Majesty’s closest palace maid?!”
“Your Highness, I witnessed myself! It was in public and right in front of the bedroom hall of His Majesty… how could they hug with each other like that? Shameless!” As she was speaking, the palace maid stamped her feet on the floor as if the scene had polluted her eyes.
Although Xu Ruyun was happy that she had caught on Helian Chacha, she soon realized something was wrong, “Was there anyone else other than you?”
The palace maid thought about it carefully and shook her head, “No. It was the time that His Majesty was napping. And His Majesty forbids all noises when he is napping, so all the other people were asked to leave. I just passed by and I never expected to see that kind of unspeakable scene.”
Xu Ruyun had already expected it to be like this. She believed that Lin Dagou wouldn’t let himself get caught so easily, or he couldn’t have got his position as the most popular one in front of His Majesty.
She flicked her fingernails and said, “Since no one else saw them, he could possibly blame it on us and say we frame him with that. Well, just pretend that you never saw that, and now you can leave.”
“Yes.”
Lian’er stepped up and asked right after the palace maid had left, “Your Highness, are we going to let him go so easily?”
“He will finally give himself away. Send someone to keep an eye on him. I am so curious about how long he can be favored by His Majesty.” Xu Ruyun grinned and her slim eyes were filled with ferocity.
After she had left the Yangxin Hall, Helian Chacha didn’t go back to her bedroom and went to Wang Jinghu’s place instead.
A few days ago, Eunuch Fu vented his resentment on Wang Jinghu and bullied him. And Helian Chacha had been busy dealing with Ye Shengxuan, so she didn’t have the time to care about him and that made her feel quite sorry for him. Now she had nothing to do, so she could visit him and gave him the Wound Cure that handsome dude had given her a few days ago.
It was probably the time of those eunuchs doing their shifts, so few people were in the side courtyard. She went directly into the room of Wang Jinghu.
As soon as she got to the door, she heard some tiny groans from within.
