I've Decided To Be This Tyrant's Dark Moonlight - Chapter 25.2

She pushed the window open. Dark clouds piled up in the sky, and a fine drizzle began to fall. She reached out a hand, and the autumn rain on her skin was bone-chilling. It was already dusk. If the attendance was tonight, she didn’t have much time left.

Wei Ying recalled the original plot and clenched her fists in anger. Damn it, she was careless. In the original book, this part should have been about Xiao Qianxue going to the Treasure Cloud Palace every day, trying to get on good terms with the Imperial Consort. Unfortunately, ever since the dress incident, the Imperial Consort hadn’t liked her much. Coupled with Consort Shu and others’ scheming, the Imperial Consort’s impression of her grew worse and worse. Being made to stand in punishment was a common occurrence.

After Swift Wind went missing, the Imperial Consort’s mood soured even more, and she was cross all day. The weather was muggy today, and the Imperial Consort was already irritable. Xiao Qianxue unluckily caught her at a bad time and was punished to kneel outside the palace.

Not long after, a cold rain began to fall. The female lead knelt pitifully in the bleak rain, while the Imperial Consort had probably long forgotten that there was someone outside the palace. When the female lead was at her most pitiful, the Emperor appeared. The struggling Xiao Qianxue finally met someone in the desolate rain.

That person held an umbrella, and moved the umbrella’s surface to shelter her.

The noble and peerless face lowered slightly, and he said, “I’ll take you home.”

Wei Ying: “Gag.”

She chaotically tugged at her hair. So today was the day the female lead would first attend the Emperor. She had been living so comfortably that she hadn’t connected the body-torturing plot of kneeling in the rain with today at all!

It seemed that being too well-off wasn’t always a good thing; it made her too complacent.

“Today, Qianxue didn’t get soaked in the rain. Why was the attendance plot still triggered?”

The Palace Intrigue System’s words were vague: “Because it’s raining.”

“What’s wrong with rain?! Does the dog Emperor do nothing all day but think about attending to concubines?” Wei Ying began to think about how to avoid this attendance.

Before she could think it through, the Emperor’s edict arrived at the Jade Dew Palace, summoning both Noble Lady Ying and Noble Lady Xiao to the Hall of Mental Cultivation tonight.

Wei Ying’s eyes widened instantly: The dog Emperor wants to have a threesome with her and Qianxue?

That’s just too much.

Consort Xian had just gotten back to her palace in a good mood after hearing some anecdotes about Wei Ying from the Imperial Consort. Her lips were curled up, and her steps were light. But as soon as she returned, she heard the Emperor’s edict, summoning both Noble Ladies for attendance at the same time.

A bolt of lightning struck the sky.

Consort Xian was shocked by the cold wind and rain that hit her face. Her elevated mood instantly turned to dejection. She opened the door to the side hall and saw the two lovely sisters hugging each other.

Xiao Qianxue’s face was pale with fear. She gripped Wei Ying’s hand tightly: “Yingying, I’m so scared. Thank goodness you’re with me.”

Wei Ying: “…Don’t be scared.”

At worst, she would make the Emperor attend to a brazier and cripple him!

The Palace Intrigue System was about to mock her, but was startled by the murderous glint in Wei Ying’s eyes. It shrank into a ball and didn’t dare to speak.

Consort Xian: “Don’t be afraid, sisters. You’re just going to accompany His Majesty in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. It’s not scary at all.”

Xiao Qianxue: “Consort Xian, I’m so nervous, I don’t want to go.”

Consort Xian sighed: “Once you go, you’ll see… it’s quite comfortable there, and His Majesty is very gentle, just a little tiring.”

Old Nanny Zhang nodded, thinking to herself, yes, every time Consort Xian attends to the Emperor, she has to lie in bed all day the next day and doesn’t have the energy to read storybooks.

Consort Xian sat on a pear wood lounge nearby, “If there’s one more person, it won’t be so tiring. Back then, Empress Sister and I served His Majesty together. That was the most relaxed day I ever had. It’s good that you’re going together to look after each other. But you have no experience… If only His Majesty would summon me too.”

Wei Ying: !!!

What kind of shocking words are those!

You want three people to go at once? Can the dog Emperor handle it? No, wait, are ancient people this wild, are their minds this open?

It’s terrifying!

No, she looked at the points in her background and decided to use them in advance. She was going to cripple the dog Emperor tonight!

The Palace Intrigue System said weakly: “Host, the power of the plot has a restorative effect, so…”

She couldn’t cause any substantial physical harm to the Emperor.

Wei Ying: “Then I’ll cause mental harm!”

Consort Xian: “I’ve prepared two red bean cakes and some other pastries. You can secretly eat them when you get hungry.”

Xiao Qianxue’s face was a wrinkled mess: “Your Highness, we’ll get hungry?”

Consort Xian nodded: “Of course you’ll get hungry. This kind of thing… His Majesty will also get hungry. He just pretends to be strong all the time. I’ve also prepared a tray of pastries for you. You can give them to His Majesty when you get there. If you’re really tired, just ask him for a rest, and he’ll let you rest.”

Xiao Qianxue nodded repeatedly.

Wei Ying cursed him as a beast in her mind.

In the evening, Fu Shou came personally to escort the two Noble Ladies to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The eunuch in red robes stood in front and smiled politely at them, not looking down on them for their low status.

Consort Xian: “Eunuch Fu, they are still young and inexperienced. I’m afraid they won’t be able to serve His Majesty well.”

Wei Ying kept nodding in her heart. If Consort Xian could stop this attendance for them, that would be for the best!

Eunuch Fu smiled: “This kind of thing always has to have a first time, doesn’t it? With a first time, there will be a second time. Your Highness, didn’t you also start with your first time?”

Consort Xian was convinced by his words and nodded: “You’re right.”

Wei Ying clenched her sleeves, her face flushed, completely unable to understand why they could discuss such a topic so brazenly! Even if this world was an un-researched novel, did they have to be so shockingly candid?

Consort Xian met Wei Ying’s gaze. The young girl was looking at her pitifully. Her heart softened, and she frowned slightly, stopping Fu Shou: “Eunuch Fu, I’m afraid they won’t serve him well. Why don’t you let me go with them?”

Fu Shou smiled kindly: “Your Highness, there’s no need to worry. The Empress is already in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.”

Wei Ying’s eyes widened. The Empress was there too!

What is the dog Emperor trying to do? Is he having a group activity?!

Is this the consequence of her slandering the Emperor during the day and talking bad about him? If so, she repents.

Xiao Qianxue’s face was pale. She was so nervous she kept clinging to her: “Yingying, why, why is the Empress there too? What are we supposed to do? I, I’m so scared.”

Consort Xian turned her head and smiled: “Don’t be afraid. Empress Sister will teach you. Once you learn the first time, you’ll get the hang of it.”

Wei Ying: What kind of shocking words are these!

She was wrong, she was really wrong. What kind of palace intrigue novel is this? Isn’t it just an erotic story? Why, why can these people say such things without any mental block?

Wei Ying’s face was so red it could drip blood, but thankfully the twilight was so dim that it was hard to see.

The sedan chair was slowly lifted and started swaying on its way to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Xiao Qianxue held her hand tightly and asked the eunuch outside: “Eunuch Fu, why did His Majesty summon both Yingying and me at the same time?”

Eunuch Fu walked in front of the sedan chair with a smile: “This is so you can look after each other. Don’t be afraid. The Empress is there anyway. You just need to…” He paused and smiled like a fox: “You just need to serve His Majesty well.”

Wei Ying was completely numb.

What kind of shocking words are these!

The sedan chair stopped at the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Fu Shou led the way, taking them through winding corridors until they reached two heavy palace doors, which he pushed open.

The dim light revealed a slender, dignified figure behind a screen.

It was already night, and Wei Ying had become night-blind again. Fortunately, the Hall of Mental Cultivation was lit up like day. She blinked her eyes and could just barely make out the scene inside… which was a little different from what she had imagined.

The Empress was sitting beside a desk, on which was a mountain of memorials.

She put down her vermilion brush and nodded at the two children who had entered: “His Majesty is in the inner room. You two, help me grind some ink.”

Grind ink?

Wei Ying blinked. She was sure she hadn’t misheard. So, what they called “attendance” was the dog Emperor dragging his concubines to look at memorials with him? This, this is just too much!

Could he be any more of a scumbag?!

But thinking about it, these concubines had extraordinary backgrounds. For example, the Empress was the daughter of the leader of the South Sea faction and a great scholar of her time, Yue Shan. In terms of strategy and reasoning, probably few people in the world could surpass her. It was a pity that as a woman, she couldn’t hold an official position.

Or Consort Xian, who grew up by the side of the old prime minister. Before she was married, her Ode to Shengjing was famous throughout the capital and the world. Back then, some people said that if women could enter officialdom, there wouldn’t have been a man for that year’s top scholar.

These women might have been full of talent, but unfortunately, the times and society didn’t allow it…

Wei Ying originally thought the dog Emperor brought them into the harem to check the power of the Gong family and other relatives, and to balance the forces in the court. Now it seems he’s even making them come to work, helping him go through memorials late at night!

Squeezing out every drop of labor. What’s this called?

A cold-blooded capitalist!

He hadn’t even reached the beginning of capitalism and he had already invented the idea that 996 was a blessing.

The dog Emperor was too much of a scumbag; she was ashamed of herself.

The Empress looked at their dazed expressions, a faint smile in her eyes: “Noble Lady Xiao, you go and accompany His Majesty. Yingying, come and help me grind ink.”

Wei Ying answered and came to the desk, distractedly grinding the ink.

The Empress looked down at the memorials. The warm yellow light softened her cold features. She picked up the vermilion brush and wrote a few characters, then suddenly asked: “What are you thinking about?”

Wei Ying: “…I’m thinking about reading a quiet book.”

To get rid of all the erotic thoughts in her head.

Although… this was indeed a group activity.

Yue Qinghui’s eyebrows curved. She was about to say something when Xiao Qianxue’s little head poked out from the doorway: “Yingying, His Majesty wants you to go in.”

Wei Ying’s mouth opened: “Huh?”

What does the dog Emperor want now? She didn’t want to go in.

Yue Qinghui asked: “What does His Majesty need?”

Xiao Qianxue frowned, her gaze falling on Wei Ying’s hand: “His Majesty, His Majesty also wants Yingying to help him grind ink.”

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