I've Decided To Be This Tyrant's Dark Moonlight - Chapter 27.2

Wei Ying frowned, noting that Fu Shou called her “my master.” Although Fu Shou was just a eunuch, he was a favorite who followed the emperor and was the only Grand Eunuch in the entire palace with great power, able to stand against court officials.

Even the Empress and the Noble Consorts had to treat him with respect.

She didn’t dare to truly treat Fu Shou as a servant and shook her head, indicating it wasn’t necessary.

Fu Shou nodded, his expression sorrowful. “The ginger soup isn’t bitter. This old servant added more sugar.”

Wei Ying: …How did everyone know she didn’t like bitter things?

Xiao Qianxue took the ginger soup from Fu Shou. “I’ll feed Yingying. Yingying, just sit still. Be a good girl and just open your mouth.”

With one hand held by the emperor, Wei Ying couldn’t move and had no choice but to watch the ginger soup come closer. She then steeled herself and swallowed it.

Hey, Fu Shou really didn’t lie; he added a lot of sugar!

One bowl of ginger soup later, the chill around her dissipated.

Wei Ying said, “Okay, Qianxue, you should go back and rest.”

Xiao Qianxue looked at the emperor’s pale, exhausted face on the bed with a pensive expression, wondering why the emperor and Yingying went out together, and only one of them came back lying down.

At this moment, the Empress and the imperial physician finished their conversation outside and came in, saying the emperor only had a cold and that they should all go back.

Xiao Qianxue didn’t want to leave, but she had to.

Wei Ying really wanted to leave, but she had to stay. She watched Xiao Qianxue’s retreating figure, her face filled with envy.

Yue Qinghui lowered her eyes to glance at their tightly clasped hands, then quickly looked away, saying softly, “All of you, leave. His Majesty needs to rest. Noble Lady Ying and I will be here.”

The palace maids filed out, leaving only Grand Eunuch Fu Shou still by the bed, looking anxious.

Yue Qinghui and Fu Shou exchanged a glance. She gestured for a few more braziers to be added to the room, then said gently to Wei Ying, “Yingying, I’m going outside to look at the memorials. Call me if you need anything.”

Wei Ying nodded, thinking the Empress was a truly dedicated worker. The capitalist was down, but she was still working diligently. What kind of spirit was this!

Yue Qinghui sighed softly, saying vaguely, “You stay here and take care of His Majesty… He has had a difficult life these years. Don’t, don’t…”

Wei Ying blinked, looking confused.

Yue Qinghui pressed her hand on her shoulder, not letting go for a long time.

Wei Ying looked at the Empress in confusion, unable to see her expression clearly, only feeling the light but unignorable weight on her shoulder.

Yue Qinghui said in a low voice, “Don’t take advantage of him while he’s sleeping and secretly draw turtles on his face.”

Wei Ying: !!!

She lowered her head and couldn’t help but giggle internally. Secretly drawing a turtle on his face sounded so fun!

Empress Sister was a genius.

Palace Intrigue System: …She told you not to draw a turtle.

Wei Ying suddenly remembered something and her body froze. Why would the Empress say that? Had she been found out for her past misdeeds?

She quickly asked: “Little Chick, Little Chick, no one will ever know about the system, right?”

Palace Intrigue System: “According to the rules, no, unless the mission-taker actively reveals it to an NPC.”

Wei Ying was relieved to hear this.

She lowered her head and said softly, “Your Majesty, you’re exaggerating. How could Yingying be so bad?”

The Empress smiled and said nothing more, turning to go to the main hall.

Now, only Wei Ying and the emperor were left.

She fumbled to get to the emperor’s hand, trying to pry it open and escape from the dog emperor’s grasp.

She pried for a long time, but it only backfired. The emperor’s grip became tighter, holding her firmly.

Wei Ying: “Your Majesty? Your Majesty?”

The emperor was still in a coma, her eyes tightly closed, her cheeks flushed with high fever. In her delirium, she only remembered to hold the hand in hers and never let go.

Wei Ying lowered her head and continued to pry the emperor’s hand. She refused to believe she was weaker than a sick person.

She pried, she pried, she pried with all her might!

After a while, Wei Ying gave up, slumped on the head of the bed, and sullenly poked the back of the dog emperor’s hand with her index finger.

The dog emperor’s hand was quite nice to poke, soft and smooth like a piece of tofu. After poking for a while, she also dozed off, leaning on the head of the bed.

When she woke up, it was already daytime.

The person on the bed was gone, leaving only a half-torn sleeve pressed under her face. The emperor must have gotten up for the morning court, her sleeve was caught under her, so she cut it off with a knife.

Wei Ying thought of the famous “cut sleeve” story and felt that things were a bit dicey. She yawned and stretched, ready to go back to Jade Dew Palace. Sleeping hunched over all night had exhausted her.

As she stretched, the outer robe on her body fell off.

Wei Ying picked it up and saw it was embroidered with black phoenixes on a red background, and it had a faint, ethereal orchid scent. The Empress must have come in at some point and put it on her.

She stood for a moment, looking at the emperor’s cut sleeve in her left hand, then glanced at the Empress’s outer robe in her right. She thought for a bit, then placed them both on the bed, one on each side, and silently wished the Emperor and Empress a happy and harmonious life.

Back at Jade Dew Palace, Wei Ying was so tired she didn’t say a word. She burrowed into her warm quilt to catch up on sleep. After sleeping for most of the day, she was still huddled in the quilt, reluctant to get out.

So she opened her backend again, looking at the bright red -39 with a satisfied smile. Maybe it was because she had added ten points to her physique and compatibility, but now, the dog emperor got a cold after going out in the rain, while she was perfectly fine.

Or maybe it was because the dog emperor had tilted the umbrella completely over her.

She guiltily touched the corner of her mouth, wriggling around in the quilt like a little piglet.

When Xiao Qianxue came in and saw her like this, she laughed, took off her shoes and socks, and also squeezed into the quilt, wiggling along with her.

Hongzhu and Lüla, seeing the two little piglets in the quilt, exchanged helpless smiles. They knew their masters had just finished their night’s service and were the most important people in the world, so the little maids had to leave and let them have their private chat.

Xiao Qianxue: “Yingying, what did you and His Majesty do last night? Is His Majesty okay?”

Wei Ying: “She’s fine. She even went to court this morning.”

It was so unfair for those big mosquitoes to call the emperor a lecherous tyrant. She couldn’t stand it. She had never seen such a desperate and hardworking capitalist who exploited herself while exploiting others.

What a professional, truly professional.

Wei Ying admired her inwardly and briefly told Xiao Qianxue about what happened last night.

Xiao Qianxue’s eyes widened, then she said, “Pah! Those dog officials!”

Wei Ying: “…”

Learning by example, a true female lead.

Xiao Qianxue patted her chest. “I was so scared last night. His Majesty looked so pitiful.”

Her face was ashen and her eyes were tightly closed, with a kind of frail and miserable beauty.

Wei Ying: “I slept hunched over the head of the bed. I was pitiful, too.”

Xiao Qianxue laughed. “Hurry and get up to eat. Aren’t you hungry after not eating for a whole day?”

Wei Ying slowly got up and put on her clothes. After the palace maids helped her wash up, she sat down at the table and glanced at the Venerable Consort’s food box beside her, her heart skipping a beat.

Last night, they brought the food box to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and left it in the emperor’s bedchamber. So it was Xiao Qianxue who brought it out later. Didn’t that mean the dog emperor also didn’t eat for a whole day?

What a miserable emperor, what a miserable capitalist.

She was pulled down to sit by Xiao Qianxue, who stuffed a piece of osmanthus cake into her mouth.

Xiao Qianxue kept serving her food. “Grand Eunuch Fu Shou told us not to spread the news that His Majesty was sick. Everyone outside thinks His Majesty doted on you all night.”

According to palace rules, even after a consort was summoned for the night, she would be sent back afterward. It was rare for someone like Wei Ying to stay overnight in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, which showed great imperial favor.

Wei Ying didn’t think much of it, not knowing what the rumors outside Jade Dew Palace had become.

A few days later, while she was getting dressed, she saw Lüla open a box of rose-scented powder. She frowned. “I don’t remember having this kind of scented powder in the palace?”

Lüla smiled. “Auntie Dong’e chose it from the Department of Internal Affairs. We are all using it. It’s very fragrant. Would you like to try it, my master?”

Wei Ying pursed her lips for a moment and then said, “Don’t use it.”

Using this scented powder for a short time wouldn’t cause any problems, but prolonged use would ruin the face. This was a gift from Consort Shu’s sisters, arranged by Dong’e.

In the original book, the female lead was also targeted this way, and her face became a mess later on… In short, it was pretty miserable.

Wei Ying glanced at the little palace maid.

This girl was even younger than her, with a round face and apricot eyes, and her hair was tied in two buns. She tilted her head and looked at her. “My master?”

She grabbed Lüla’s hand. “Let’s go see Noble Lady Xiao.”

Lüla’s eyes lit up. “Yay!”

The three women in Jade Dew Palace got along well. For Lüla, Wei Ying was her own master, Xiao Qianxue was her little master, and the Venerable Consort was the great master.

She loved going to the little master’s place with her own master, because then she could see her good friend Hongzhu.

When Wei Ying went to the side hall, she indeed saw Xiao Qianxue using scented powder.

Her heart tightened. She went over to check and was relieved to find that it was not the rose-scented powder.

Xiao Qianxue blinked at Wei Ying in the bronze mirror. “Oh, Hongzhu did bring a box of scented powder, but I haven’t finished the jasmine powder you gave me last time, so I’m not going to use any other kind.”

Wei Ying affectionately patted her head, pondering a solution.

The system was right; keeping Dong’e here was a problem. However, she was a person sent by the Empress Dowager, so she couldn’t be dealt with rashly. Besides…

The Palace Intrigue System spoke bluntly: “You want her points.”

Wei Ying: “Yes, I want her points!”

Dong’e was much harder to deal with than Consort Li, so she must be worth more points. Maybe she could exchange for a golden legend card!

Thinking of the golden legend card, she picked up the scented powder on the table, her lips curving into a smile.

Xiao Qianxue frowned. “Yingying, you…”

Wei Ying: “What’s wrong?”

Xiao Qianxue: “Your smile just now…”

It was still pleasing to the eye, but it made her feel very, very dangerous.

Xiao Qianxue blinked.

Wei Ying also blinked.

Xiao Qianxue, faced with the beauty’s intentional cuteness, couldn’t help but take a deep breath and comfort herself:

It must be a misconception, it must be. How could Yingying show such a bad smile?

Her Yingying was so good, so pitiful, so pure and kind. She was a breath of fresh air in the deep palace. She must have seen it wrong!

At this moment, Dong’e came in to announce that Consort Shu and Consort Gong had come to Jade Dew Palace to see them.

Xiao Qianxue pursed her lips, thinking that since Yingying was recently favored, they must have come to bully her. She grabbed Wei Ying’s hand, about to say something, but turned her head and saw that familiar smile on Wei Ying’s face again.

Xiao Qianxue comforted herself: It’s a misconception, it must be!

She took a deep breath and said, “Yingying, let’s not see them.”

Wei Ying, delighted that an opportunity had come, listened to her and asked in confusion, “Huh? Why not?”

Xiao Qianxue: “…Just don’t go.”

These two were difficult to deal with, and since the Venerable Consort was at Changchun Palace today, she was afraid Consort Shu and the others would use some strange reason to punish Yingying.

Wei Ying took Xiao Qianxue’s hand and whined, “Qianxue, just let me go, okay? She smiled sweetly. “Don’t worry.”

She winked at the girl. “Right, Yingying won’t do anything bad~ What bad intentions could Yingying have?”

“O-Okay.”

Xiao Qianxue was dizzy from the beautiful face and agreed. Halfway there, she suddenly realized something was wrong—

What bad intentions could Yingying have?

But she was worried that Yingying would be bullied!

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