Since she didn’t speak for quite a long time, Ye Shengxuan went to hold her hand, “So, you are not happy?”
Helian Chacha took a deep breath and tried to put on a smiley face, “I am happy. I am overjoyed.”
But God knew how hopeless she was at the moment as she had just escaped from the trap of the Empress Dowager and now she was pushed into the hell-like harem by Ye Shengxuan.
Looking back at that time when Lady Fucha tried to set her up, she couldn’t help feeling the chills.
However, it seemed that Ye Shengxuan didn’t really understand her real feeling that he nodded with satisfaction, “That’s nice. You don’t need to be a eunuch anymore because you’re a concubine now.”
“Con…con…” She still couldn’t say that word, so she said instead, “Your Majesty, I think I still can’t get used to this since I just woke up. Can you give me some time to adjust myself?”
“No big deal. Just take it slowly.” Ye Shengxuan behaved very generously this time.
Hearing that, Helian Chacha’s lip corner twitched a bit as she thought maybe Ye Shengxuan said that on purpose. Couldn’t he tell that she didn’t want to become his concubine at all?
She looked down and started to bite her fingernails as she was weighing the advantages and disadvantages of being a concubine.
In terms of finishing her task, it was absolutely a good thing to be the concubine of Ye Shengxuan, because it was easier for someone close to Ye Shengxuan to poison him than the others. But this time, Ye Shengxuan had a fight with the Empress Dowager in order to save her, so it was hard to convince herself to poison him again.
According to Ye Shengxuan’s clumsy greetings and embarrassed moves, he probably had fallen in love with her.
However, the Prince Charming she was expecting was not the man standing in front of her.
Helian Chacha had thought that Ye Shengxuan would go for some other businesses after sitting next to her for a few minutes, but he didn’t seem to leave after a long while.
“Well, Your Majesty, you don’t need to stay here with me all the time. Just go and I’m all good by myself.” She reminded him gently.
Ye Shengxuan touched her forehead softly, “It’s alright. Just sleep and don’t worry about me.”
“…”
“How am I supposed to sleep when you are sitting right next to me?!” Helian Chacha yelled secretly in mind.
Although she was thinking so, she fell asleep at last.
Ye Shengxuan sat by the bed and stared at her. He looked a bit serious when thinking of that jade pendant, but soon he looked very determined again.
A few moments later, someone reported from the outside, “Your Majesty, General Shiao is waiting to see you.”
He carefully moved his hand away from Helian Chacha and walked towards the outer hall quickly.
“Your Majesty.” Seeing that Ye Shengxuan walked out, Shiao Qi went up to him and started to report, “It was exactly as you expected that Eunuch Fu was killed by the Her Highness’s men.”
This result was the same as he had expected. He turned around and walked to the chaise to sit down slowly, “Did you figure out why Mother picked up on Lin…Shiao Qinyuan?”
Shiao Qi shook his head, “I still haven’t found it out. But I’ve heard the rumors in the palace saying Lady Shiao stole something that Her Highness cherished a lot, and that’s why she became the target of Her Highness.”
Hearing that, Ye Shengxuan shook his head, “Mother would never take such a huge risk for some random thing. There must be some hidden information, so you just go to investigate it further. I have the feeling that Yuan’er must have done something that threatened the position of Mother, and that’s why she was targeted by her.”
Hearing that “Yuan’er”, Shiao Qi was quite shocked.
He had been growing up with Ye Shengxuan all the time, and it was the first time that he heard Ye Shengxuan calling a girl so intimately.
Shiao Qi thought of something when he was about to leave, so he turned around and told Ye Shengxuan, “Your Majesty, I saw the Prime Minister going to Ruichen Palace when I was on my way coming to you. I think you’d better be prepared.”
“Sooner or later.” Ye Shengxuan massaged his numbing temple and said, “I got it. You can leave now.”
Shiao Qi bowed to him and left Yangxin Hall.
Just as expected, a few minutes after Shiao Qi had left, there was a eunuch reporting from the outside, “Your Majesty, the Prime Minister is waiting to see you.”
The Prime Minister went into the Yangxin Hall and the first thing he did was to check the entire hall. He finally stared at the imperial bed and opened his tiny eyes bigger, but they soon shrank back.
“Good day, Your Majesty.” The Prime Minister bowed to Ye Shengxuan.
“You might get up.”
After the Prime Minister had seated, Ye Shengxuan asked him directly, “What is it, Prime Minister? I’m sure you have some emergency that you need to discuss with me.”
The Prime Minister was shocked a bit as he didn’t expect Ye Shengxuan could be so straightforward, but he soon went straight to the point, “I come here because of my poor daughter!”
Definitely!
Ye Shengxuan’s face suddenly went cold and his obsidian-like eyes were filled with warning intentions, “I believe you know it clearly as you’ve been working at the court for so many years that an official shall never interfere with the business in the harem.”
“I understand. But I still think that because of a eunuch…wait, no, I should call her Concubine Xian now. I know you favor her a lot and I understand that men always favor something new. But my daughter has been grounded for a year just because she offended her verbally. That punishment is way too much!”
At last, the Prime Minister was so mad that his mustache was trembling.
Ye Shengxuan squinted his eyes, “Then tell me, what is the proper way you think I should handle this matter, Prime Minister?”
The Prime Minister waved his sleeves and said, “Just cut off three months of her salary and lift the grounding ban.”
“For your sake, Prime Minister, I can lift the grounding ban. But as for the salary, three years’ deduction.” Ye Shengxuan said it slightly.
“Your Majesty!” The Prime Minister couldn’t believe that the emperor would take such a tiny advantage of them at this time.
Ye Shengxuan looked up and stared at his father-in-law with his cold eyes, “Prime Minister, I already made a compromise. Don’t ask for too much.”
Hearing that, the Prime Minister knew that Ye Shengxuan wouldn’t budge further, so he could only thank him despite his dissatisfaction, “Thank you for your generosity, Your Majesty.”
Actually, Helian Chacha had already woken up the moment that Prime Minister came in. Hearing the conversation between the two big figures, she felt very uncertain.
And the moment when she heard that Ye Shengxuan lifted the grounding ban of Xu Ruyun, she knew that troubles were on their way to her.
The awfulness of the harem didn’t lie in the entire community but only one single figure, Xu Ruyun, as Helian Chacha didn’t know how to cope with her.
She didn’t dare to move a bit until the Prime Minister left Yangxin Hall, because it was already difficult enough for her to handle Xu Ruyun, so she didn’t want to get in trouble with the Prime Minister.
As she was thinking, she heard someone calling from above, “Get up if you are awake.”
She pulled the quilt away all of a sudden and found Ye Shengxuan sitting by the bed and staring at her with his arm crossed.
She felt so embarrassed that she wished she could dig a hole to hide herself inside.
Before she could speak, Ye Shengxuan touched her forehead again, “Do you feel better now?”
“Yes. See this!” She sat up immediately and tried to get off the bed, but she pulled her wound accidentally.
It was so painful that she took a deep breath.
Seeing that, Ye Shengxuan helped her go back to bed immediately.
“Be careful.” He tucked in the quilt for her and reminded her, “You better not move around these days, and I will send Bohe here to take care of you. Just don’t go anywhere. I will take you out again when you get better.”
Helian Chacha felt so hopeless, “Thank you, Your Majesty.”
Soon, Ye Shengxuan summoned Bohe here as promised. After he gave her some instructions, a eunuch reported from the outside as some officials were waiting to meet him.
Ye Shengxuan left Yangxin Hall after saying something to Bohe.
Right now, only Helian Chacha and Bohe were left in Yangxin Hall.
Bohe was busy doing her business such as cleaning the table, arranging the cups, etc. She did anything but talking to Helian Chacha who was still on the bed.
Helian Chacha could stand it no more that she called her slightly, “Sister Bohe.”
Bohe’s busy hands stopped for a second and she replied coldly afterward, “Don’t call me like that, Your Highness. You are a noble concubine now, and you’re killing me if you call me that way.”
Since she didn’t speak for quite a long time, Ye Shengxuan went to hold her hand, “So, you are not happy?”
Helian Chacha took a deep breath and tried to put on a smiley face, “I am happy. I am overjoyed.”
But God knew how hopeless she was at the moment as she had just escaped from the trap of the Empress Dowager and now she was pushed into the hell-like harem by Ye Shengxuan.
Looking back at that time when Lady Fucha tried to set her up, she couldn’t help feeling the chills.
However, it seemed that Ye Shengxuan didn’t really understand her real feeling that he nodded with satisfaction, “That’s nice. You don’t need to be a eunuch anymore because you’re a concubine now.”
“Con…con…” She still couldn’t say that word, so she said instead, “Your Majesty, I think I still can’t get used to this since I just woke up. Can you give me some time to adjust myself?”
“No big deal. Just take it slowly.” Ye Shengxuan behaved very generously this time.
Hearing that, Helian Chacha’s lip corner twitched a bit as she thought maybe Ye Shengxuan said that on purpose. Couldn’t he tell that she didn’t want to become his concubine at all?
She looked down and started to bite her fingernails as she was weighing the advantages and disadvantages of being a concubine.
In terms of finishing her task, it was absolutely a good thing to be the concubine of Ye Shengxuan, because it was easier for someone close to Ye Shengxuan to poison him than the others. But this time, Ye Shengxuan had a fight with the Empress Dowager in order to save her, so it was hard to convince herself to poison him again.
According to Ye Shengxuan’s clumsy greetings and embarrassed moves, he probably had fallen in love with her.
However, the Prince Charming she was expecting was not the man standing in front of her.
Helian Chacha had thought that Ye Shengxuan would go for some other businesses after sitting next to her for a few minutes, but he didn’t seem to leave after a long while.
“Well, Your Majesty, you don’t need to stay here with me all the time. Just go and I’m all good by myself.” She reminded him gently.
Ye Shengxuan touched her forehead softly, “It’s alright. Just sleep and don’t worry about me.”
“…”
“How am I supposed to sleep when you are sitting right next to me?!” Helian Chacha yelled secretly in mind.
Although she was thinking so, she fell asleep at last.
Ye Shengxuan sat by the bed and stared at her. He looked a bit serious when thinking of that jade pendant, but soon he looked very determined again.
A few moments later, someone reported from the outside, “Your Majesty, General Shiao is waiting to see you.”
He carefully moved his hand away from Helian Chacha and walked towards the outer hall quickly.
“Your Majesty.” Seeing that Ye Shengxuan walked out, Shiao Qi went up to him and started to report, “It was exactly as you expected that Eunuch Fu was killed by the Her Highness’s men.”
This result was the same as he had expected. He turned around and walked to the chaise to sit down slowly, “Did you figure out why Mother picked up on Lin…Shiao Qinyuan?”
Shiao Qi shook his head, “I still haven’t found it out. But I’ve heard the rumors in the palace saying Lady Shiao stole something that Her Highness cherished a lot, and that’s why she became the target of Her Highness.”
Hearing that, Ye Shengxuan shook his head, “Mother would never take such a huge risk for some random thing. There must be some hidden information, so you just go to investigate it further. I have the feeling that Yuan’er must have done something that threatened the position of Mother, and that’s why she was targeted by her.”
Hearing that “Yuan’er”, Shiao Qi was quite shocked.
He had been growing up with Ye Shengxuan all the time, and it was the first time that he heard Ye Shengxuan calling a girl so intimately.
Shiao Qi thought of something when he was about to leave, so he turned around and told Ye Shengxuan, “Your Majesty, I saw the Prime Minister going to Ruichen Palace when I was on my way coming to you. I think you’d better be prepared.”
“Sooner or later.” Ye Shengxuan massaged his numbing temple and said, “I got it. You can leave now.”
Shiao Qi bowed to him and left Yangxin Hall.
Just as expected, a few minutes after Shiao Qi had left, there was a eunuch reporting from the outside, “Your Majesty, the Prime Minister is waiting to see you.”
The Prime Minister went into the Yangxin Hall and the first thing he did was to check the entire hall. He finally stared at the imperial bed and opened his tiny eyes bigger, but they soon shrank back.
“Good day, Your Majesty.” The Prime Minister bowed to Ye Shengxuan.
“You might get up.”
After the Prime Minister had seated, Ye Shengxuan asked him directly, “What is it, Prime Minister? I’m sure you have some emergency that you need to discuss with me.”
The Prime Minister was shocked a bit as he didn’t expect Ye Shengxuan could be so straightforward, but he soon went straight to the point, “I come here because of my poor daughter!”
Definitely!
Ye Shengxuan’s face suddenly went cold and his obsidian-like eyes were filled with warning intentions, “I believe you know it clearly as you’ve been working at the court for so many years that an official shall never interfere with the business in the harem.”
“I understand. But I still think that because of a eunuch…wait, no, I should call her Concubine Xian now. I know you favor her a lot and I understand that men always favor something new. But my daughter has been grounded for a year just because she offended her verbally. That punishment is way too much!”
At last, the Prime Minister was so mad that his mustache was trembling.
Ye Shengxuan squinted his eyes, “Then tell me, what is the proper way you think I should handle this matter, Prime Minister?”
The Prime Minister waved his sleeves and said, “Just cut off three months of her salary and lift the grounding ban.”
“For your sake, Prime Minister, I can lift the grounding ban. But as for the salary, three years’ deduction.” Ye Shengxuan said it slightly.
“Your Majesty!” The Prime Minister couldn’t believe that the emperor would take such a tiny advantage of them at this time.
Ye Shengxuan looked up and stared at his father-in-law with his cold eyes, “Prime Minister, I already made a compromise. Don’t ask for too much.”
Hearing that, the Prime Minister knew that Ye Shengxuan wouldn’t budge further, so he could only thank him despite his dissatisfaction, “Thank you for your generosity, Your Majesty.”
Actually, Helian Chacha had already woken up the moment that Prime Minister came in. Hearing the conversation between the two big figures, she felt very uncertain.
And the moment when she heard that Ye Shengxuan lifted the grounding ban of Xu Ruyun, she knew that troubles were on their way to her.
The awfulness of the harem didn’t lie in the entire community but only one single figure, Xu Ruyun, as Helian Chacha didn’t know how to cope with her.
She didn’t dare to move a bit until the Prime Minister left Yangxin Hall, because it was already difficult enough for her to handle Xu Ruyun, so she didn’t want to get in trouble with the Prime Minister.
As she was thinking, she heard someone calling from above, “Get up if you are awake.”
She pulled the quilt away all of a sudden and found Ye Shengxuan sitting by the bed and staring at her with his arm crossed.
She felt so embarrassed that she wished she could dig a hole to hide herself inside.
Before she could speak, Ye Shengxuan touched her forehead again, “Do you feel better now?”
“Yes. See this!” She sat up immediately and tried to get off the bed, but she pulled her wound accidentally.
It was so painful that she took a deep breath.
Seeing that, Ye Shengxuan helped her go back to bed immediately.
“Be careful.” He tucked in the quilt for her and reminded her, “You better not move around these days, and I will send Bohe here to take care of you. Just don’t go anywhere. I will take you out again when you get better.”
Helian Chacha felt so hopeless, “Thank you, Your Majesty.”
Soon, Ye Shengxuan summoned Bohe here as promised. After he gave her some instructions, a eunuch reported from the outside as some officials were waiting to meet him.
Ye Shengxuan left Yangxin Hall after saying something to Bohe.
Right now, only Helian Chacha and Bohe were left in Yangxin Hall.
Bohe was busy doing her business such as cleaning the table, arranging the cups, etc. She did anything but talking to Helian Chacha who was still on the bed.
Helian Chacha could stand it no more that she called her slightly, “Sister Bohe.”
Bohe’s busy hands stopped for a second and she replied coldly afterward, “Don’t call me like that, Your Highness. You are a noble concubine now, and you’re killing me if you call me that way.”
