A silver moon was up in the sky, and the breeze was cool in the night.
Helian Chacha stooped her body like a cat as she walked to the study room next to the hall to look for the token.
However, after looking for an hour, she couldn’t find a thing that even looked like a token.
Therefore, she returned to the main hall but found nothing there as well.
Since she couldn’t find the token, Helian Chacha was so anxious that she started to talk to herself, “Where on earth did Ye Shengxuan put that thing? I’ve searched everywhere. Don’t tell me that he hid it in the bed…”
Wait!
“The bed?” She turned around all of a sudden and looked at Ye Shengxuan who was sleeping soundly.
She sneaked back carefully and stopped in front of the imperial bed. Slowing down her breath, she tried to pull up the pillow under Ye Shengxuan’s head gradually, and she covered her mouth immediately when she pulled half of it up.
There was the token!
The moment she wanted to take it, her wrist was caught by a big hand, “What are you doing?”
She found Ye Shengxuan staring at herself curiously, so she made a clap in the air immediately, “Keeping the mosquitos away. There were some really giant mosquitos flying around here, and I don’t want them to disturb you in your sleep, Your Majesty. That’s why I came here to keep them off from you.”
Ye Shengxuan stared at her for a while, “Just go to sleep. You don’t need to care for me.”
Then he took her to the bed and rested his hand randomly on her body as he fell into sleep quietly.
But Helian Chacha couldn’t sleep at all because she was thinking about the token.
When Ye Shengxuan fell totally asleep again and she tried to steal the token for the second time, she found that she couldn’t move a bit.
The arm of Ye Shengxuan was so heavy that no matter how hard she tried to push it or pull it, it just wouldn’t move as if it was attached to her body naturally.
She struggled in bed for more than 2 hours, and it was really exhausting, so she fell asleep as well.
On the second day when she got up, Ye Shengxuan had already left the bed. She moved that pillow away excitedly only to find that the token was gone.
She scratched her hair in frustration, “So close!”
“Your Highness, what’s so close?”
She looked up and found a smiling Bohe walking in from the outside with a basin of hot water in her hands.
“Nothing.” She replied immediately. Then she asked her, “Where is His Majesty?”
“His Majesty has left for the morning assembly, but I think he will come back soon.”
Bohe put the hot water on the table and walked to Helian Chacha quickly. Bohe helped her put on the shoes and get dressed, and then she walked Helian Chacha to the table so that she could serve her to clean her mouth and face.
When she just finished dressing up herself, Ye Shengxuan came back from the outside.
Looking at her, the coldness in his eyes totally disappeared and was replaced by a touch of tenderness.
“Have you had breakfast?” Ye Shengxuan walked to the clothes hanger and Bohe helped him take off his coat immediately.
Helian Chacha shook her head, “Not yet.”
“Then come and have it with me.” He sat by the dining table and asked, “Bohe, tell the maids to prepare another set of dishes.”
Bohe answered with a “Yes” and left the room right away.
A short while later, the palace maids who were assigned to deliver the meal finally prepared all the dishes. Helian Chacha sat next to Ye Shengxuan and she was really eager to try them.
It was not like that she had never seen so many dishes, but it was really the first time for her to have breakfast in front of so many dishes. However, she didn’t dare to make a move before Ye Shengxuan started.
Since she didn’t touch anything, Ye Shengxuan picked up something for her, “Just feel at home when having a meal with me. We will eat together very often in the future.”
She thanked him and started to enjoy the meal.
After the breakfast, Ye Shengxuan invited her for a walk in the outside. And it was already lunchtime when they got back from the walk. So they had lunch together and went out for a short walk again. They spent the entire afternoon in the imperial garden playing chess.
Soon, the sky was suffused with orange clouds as it was already the dusk when they finally realized the time.
“It’s already so late?” Helian Chacha stood up and said to Ye Shengxuan, “Your Majesty, let’s go back. It’s about to go dark.”
“Let’s go.” Ye Shengxuan took a deep breath and stood up, “I’ll walk you back.”
Along the way back, the two of them were quite silent, and Ye Shengxuan didn’t speak up until they came to the gate of Yonghe Palace, “Just go inside. Tuck in the quilt at night and don’t catch a cold.”
“He really didn’t ask me to stay?” Helian Chacha wondered in mind.
Helian Chacha was a bit surprised, but she tried to fake a smile, “Thanks for your caring, Your Majesty. Then I’m going inside.”
Ye Shengxuan waved at her with a smile and watched her walking into the Yonghe Palace all the way.
But what Helian Chacha didn’t know was that the moment she turned around, Ye Shengxuan’s eyes darkened and a chilling look appeared on his face.
When she returned to the bedroom, Helian Chacha started to toss and turn on the bed as she couldn’t sleep at all.
That was really weird. Why did Ye Shengxuan ask to walk her back all of a sudden? Maybe he already knew that she tried to steal the token last night?
No. If he knew it already, he would not do all the things he had done with her today. But that didn’t explain why he didn’t ask her to stay over tonight.
Somehow she kept wondering about it for the whole night.
When the sun was about to go up, she finally felt a bit sleepy. After sleeping for a short while, she heard a noise of hurry steps coming from the door.
Right after that, she heard the anxious calling from Bohe, “Your Highness, please get up. You will miss the time to greet Her Highness the Empress Dowager if you are still in the bed.”
Helian Chacha was still in her dream so she didn’t really hear what Bohe was saying.
She turned to the other side, covered her ear with a pillow, and continued her sleep.
Bohe was really worried that she started stomping. Without caring about the courtesy any more, she dragged her pillow away directly, “Your Highness! The Empress Dowager will find fault with you again if you still don’t get up!”
Helian Chacha took the pillow back, “Who dares! Go away and let me sleep. I am so sleepy!”
Bohe clenched her teeth and yelled, “The Empress Dowager dares!”
“Who the hell is the Empress Dowager? I am now the…” She finally realized something, “The Empress Dowager?”
She jumped up from the bed immediately, “What time is it now?”
“6 o’clock in the morning, Your Highness. You will be late if we don’t go now.”
Helian Chacha was so scared that she jumped out of the bed and started to put on her clothes and shoes while murmuring, “Hurry up. Hurry up.”
Bohe also didn’t want Helian Chacha to be scolded by the Empress Dowager, so she made her hair at the fastest speed and then ran with her all the way to Cining Palace.
When they arrived at the main hall of Cining Palace, it was already fully seated with those concubines. On the main seat, it was the Empress Dowager who was sitting there straight with a dignified face.
Those people were all surprised when they saw Helian Chacha, and then they looked like they were about to enjoy a show.
It was well known that the Empress Dowager valued the courtesy most in this harem. So any concubine who was coming to greet her had to arrive earlier than her, otherwise, they would be punished. Therefore, for so many years, none of them dared to be late.
However, this Concubine Xian it was late.
Helian Chacha looked around at those people and stared at the Empress Dowager in the end. She bowed slightly to her in a neutral way, “Good day, Your Highness.”
The Empress Dowager glanced at her slightly and said with a hint of irony in her eyes, “Who is this? Ah, the ultra noble Concubine Xian. How come you are here to greet me? I thought you are the most favored woman of His Majesty. I’m afraid His Majesty would not be happy to see you trying so hard to get up early just to greet me.”
“My apology, Your Highness. I am a concubine in the harem, so I should come and pay respect to you. I don’t need to try hard to do that.”
“Really?” The Empress Dowager smiled slightly, “You really think so?”
“Yes.”
That was exactly what the Empress Dowager had wanted to hear from her, so she stared at Helian Chacha and said, “Then do you have anything else to say if I decide to punish you for being late?”
A silver moon was up in the sky, and the breeze was cool in the night.
Helian Chacha stooped her body like a cat as she walked to the study room next to the hall to look for the token.
However, after looking for an hour, she couldn’t find a thing that even looked like a token.
Therefore, she returned to the main hall but found nothing there as well.
Since she couldn’t find the token, Helian Chacha was so anxious that she started to talk to herself, “Where on earth did Ye Shengxuan put that thing? I’ve searched everywhere. Don’t tell me that he hid it in the bed…”
Wait!
“The bed?” She turned around all of a sudden and looked at Ye Shengxuan who was sleeping soundly.
She sneaked back carefully and stopped in front of the imperial bed. Slowing down her breath, she tried to pull up the pillow under Ye Shengxuan’s head gradually, and she covered her mouth immediately when she pulled half of it up.
There was the token!
The moment she wanted to take it, her wrist was caught by a big hand, “What are you doing?”
She found Ye Shengxuan staring at herself curiously, so she made a clap in the air immediately, “Keeping the mosquitos away. There were some really giant mosquitos flying around here, and I don’t want them to disturb you in your sleep, Your Majesty. That’s why I came here to keep them off from you.”
Ye Shengxuan stared at her for a while, “Just go to sleep. You don’t need to care for me.”
Then he took her to the bed and rested his hand randomly on her body as he fell into sleep quietly.
But Helian Chacha couldn’t sleep at all because she was thinking about the token.
When Ye Shengxuan fell totally asleep again and she tried to steal the token for the second time, she found that she couldn’t move a bit.
The arm of Ye Shengxuan was so heavy that no matter how hard she tried to push it or pull it, it just wouldn’t move as if it was attached to her body naturally.
She struggled in bed for more than 2 hours, and it was really exhausting, so she fell asleep as well.
On the second day when she got up, Ye Shengxuan had already left the bed. She moved that pillow away excitedly only to find that the token was gone.
She scratched her hair in frustration, “So close!”
“Your Highness, what’s so close?”
She looked up and found a smiling Bohe walking in from the outside with a basin of hot water in her hands.
“Nothing.” She replied immediately. Then she asked her, “Where is His Majesty?”
“His Majesty has left for the morning assembly, but I think he will come back soon.”
Bohe put the hot water on the table and walked to Helian Chacha quickly. Bohe helped her put on the shoes and get dressed, and then she walked Helian Chacha to the table so that she could serve her to clean her mouth and face.
When she just finished dressing up herself, Ye Shengxuan came back from the outside.
Looking at her, the coldness in his eyes totally disappeared and was replaced by a touch of tenderness.
“Have you had breakfast?” Ye Shengxuan walked to the clothes hanger and Bohe helped him take off his coat immediately.
Helian Chacha shook her head, “Not yet.”
“Then come and have it with me.” He sat by the dining table and asked, “Bohe, tell the maids to prepare another set of dishes.”
Bohe answered with a “Yes” and left the room right away.
A short while later, the palace maids who were assigned to deliver the meal finally prepared all the dishes. Helian Chacha sat next to Ye Shengxuan and she was really eager to try them.
It was not like that she had never seen so many dishes, but it was really the first time for her to have breakfast in front of so many dishes. However, she didn’t dare to make a move before Ye Shengxuan started.
Since she didn’t touch anything, Ye Shengxuan picked up something for her, “Just feel at home when having a meal with me. We will eat together very often in the future.”
She thanked him and started to enjoy the meal.
After the breakfast, Ye Shengxuan invited her for a walk in the outside. And it was already lunchtime when they got back from the walk. So they had lunch together and went out for a short walk again. They spent the entire afternoon in the imperial garden playing chess.
Soon, the sky was suffused with orange clouds as it was already the dusk when they finally realized the time.
“It’s already so late?” Helian Chacha stood up and said to Ye Shengxuan, “Your Majesty, let’s go back. It’s about to go dark.”
“Let’s go.” Ye Shengxuan took a deep breath and stood up, “I’ll walk you back.”
Along the way back, the two of them were quite silent, and Ye Shengxuan didn’t speak up until they came to the gate of Yonghe Palace, “Just go inside. Tuck in the quilt at night and don’t catch a cold.”
“He really didn’t ask me to stay?” Helian Chacha wondered in mind.
Helian Chacha was a bit surprised, but she tried to fake a smile, “Thanks for your caring, Your Majesty. Then I’m going inside.”
Ye Shengxuan waved at her with a smile and watched her walking into the Yonghe Palace all the way.
But what Helian Chacha didn’t know was that the moment she turned around, Ye Shengxuan’s eyes darkened and a chilling look appeared on his face.
When she returned to the bedroom, Helian Chacha started to toss and turn on the bed as she couldn’t sleep at all.
That was really weird. Why did Ye Shengxuan ask to walk her back all of a sudden? Maybe he already knew that she tried to steal the token last night?
No. If he knew it already, he would not do all the things he had done with her today. But that didn’t explain why he didn’t ask her to stay over tonight.
Somehow she kept wondering about it for the whole night.
When the sun was about to go up, she finally felt a bit sleepy. After sleeping for a short while, she heard a noise of hurry steps coming from the door.
Right after that, she heard the anxious calling from Bohe, “Your Highness, please get up. You will miss the time to greet Her Highness the Empress Dowager if you are still in the bed.”
Helian Chacha was still in her dream so she didn’t really hear what Bohe was saying.
She turned to the other side, covered her ear with a pillow, and continued her sleep.
Bohe was really worried that she started stomping. Without caring about the courtesy any more, she dragged her pillow away directly, “Your Highness! The Empress Dowager will find fault with you again if you still don’t get up!”
Helian Chacha took the pillow back, “Who dares! Go away and let me sleep. I am so sleepy!”
Bohe clenched her teeth and yelled, “The Empress Dowager dares!”
“Who the hell is the Empress Dowager? I am now the…” She finally realized something, “The Empress Dowager?”
She jumped up from the bed immediately, “What time is it now?”
“6 o’clock in the morning, Your Highness. You will be late if we don’t go now.”
Helian Chacha was so scared that she jumped out of the bed and started to put on her clothes and shoes while murmuring, “Hurry up. Hurry up.”
Bohe also didn’t want Helian Chacha to be scolded by the Empress Dowager, so she made her hair at the fastest speed and then ran with her all the way to Cining Palace.
When they arrived at the main hall of Cining Palace, it was already fully seated with those concubines. On the main seat, it was the Empress Dowager who was sitting there straight with a dignified face.
Those people were all surprised when they saw Helian Chacha, and then they looked like they were about to enjoy a show.
It was well known that the Empress Dowager valued the courtesy most in this harem. So any concubine who was coming to greet her had to arrive earlier than her, otherwise, they would be punished. Therefore, for so many years, none of them dared to be late.
However, this Concubine Xian it was late.
Helian Chacha looked around at those people and stared at the Empress Dowager in the end. She bowed slightly to her in a neutral way, “Good day, Your Highness.”
The Empress Dowager glanced at her slightly and said with a hint of irony in her eyes, “Who is this? Ah, the ultra noble Concubine Xian. How come you are here to greet me? I thought you are the most favored woman of His Majesty. I’m afraid His Majesty would not be happy to see you trying so hard to get up early just to greet me.”
“My apology, Your Highness. I am a concubine in the harem, so I should come and pay respect to you. I don’t need to try hard to do that.”
“Really?” The Empress Dowager smiled slightly, “You really think so?”
“Yes.”
That was exactly what the Empress Dowager had wanted to hear from her, so she stared at Helian Chacha and said, “Then do you have anything else to say if I decide to punish you for being late?”
