I've Decided To Be This Tyrant's Dark Moonlight - Chapter 5

Yujingxuan, several show girls were standing by a shimmering lake.

“I must get them out of here!” Gong Peinu said through clenched teeth.

The show girls here were all noble ladies from Shengjing, who knew each other from their boudoirs. Gong Peinu was the highest in status.

The others naturally echoed her, “Exactly, what is their status? How can they be on an equal footing with us?”

A show girl surnamed Zhang covered her face with a round fan and said, “But Peinu, you’re not really fond of that show girl, are you? What you said yesterday…” She covered her smile with the fan, trying hard to hold back her laughter. “You praised her so much that her face turned red.”

Gong Peinu’s eyes widened. She said angrily, “Who likes her? I… I don’t know why, she must be using sorcery!”

The show girl surnamed Zhang added, “But the day before yesterday, you also touched her face while you were arguing. Fortunately, you’re not a man, or you would definitely have to marry her.”

Gong Peinu was so angry that she couldn’t think straight. “Even if I were a man, I wouldn’t marry her!”

The show girl surnamed Zhang chuckled twice and, afraid of the young mistress getting angry, said no more.

“Didn’t you say you’d already talked to that eunuch?” The person who spoke was named Tang Zhi, the illegitimate daughter of a Ministry of Rites official. “How come they’re still here?”

At this, Gong Peinu became even angrier.

When she went to the head eunuch, he spoke with great conviction, saying that she had praised the two show girls to the heavens and that anyone who looked down on them was blind. He was afraid that if he really eliminated them, the young mistress would be unhappy, so he had to keep the two of them.

Gong Peinu blushed and said, “I was… I was… under a spell from a demoness. Did he also have his eyes covered with lard? He couldn’t even understand human language.”

The noble ladies looked at each other, all confused.

They couldn’t figure out what this young mistress was thinking.

Tang Zhi said, “If you really hate them, there’s a way. The next round of the draft is a one-on-one inspection of our bodies by old palace maids. We can’t have body odor, armpit odor, our skin must be fair, and there must be no scars on our bodies. Most importantly, we must be virgins.”

With that, she smiled. “We just need to have the palace maid who’s doing the inspection say that they don’t have the cinnabar mark on their bodies.”

The show girl surnamed Zhang frowned.

This method was useful, but it was too malicious.

A non-virgin pretending to be a virgin to enter the palace for the draft, once discovered, would not only ruin the show girl’s reputation but also implicate her family.

Moreover, if their scheme was exposed, they wouldn’t have a good outcome either.

Gong Peinu, however, clapped her hands excitedly. “You’re right!”

The show girl surnamed Zhang gave a disapproving glance. This little ancestor, of course, didn’t care what would happen if things went wrong, but they had to think for themselves. She was about to say something when she heard Gong Peinu say, “But that’s still too easy for them. I want to ruin their reputations!”

The show girl surnamed Zhang was shocked.

Tang Zhi was also a little curious. “How are you going to do that?”

Gong Peinu said, “I’ll have the palace maid say that Xiao Qianxue has body odor, and Duan Weiying has a fist-sized black mole on her back!”

Weiying knew that getting involved with Gong Peinu would cause a little trouble in the draft.

But she didn’t expect the trouble to be so ridiculous.

Xiao Qianxue asked nervously, “Yingying, do I really smell bad?”

She smelled her sleeve, and there was only a faint fragrance.

Xiao Qianxue’s expression collapsed. “Do I really have body odor and just never knew it? Yingying, get closer and smell me again!”

As she leaned in, Weiying quickly backed away.

Xiao Qianxue looked hurt. “Do I really have…”

Sob, sob, sob. She took a bath every day, so why would this happen?

Weiying gathered her sleeves and chuckled softly, then looked up at Gong Peinu.

The young girl stood there with a smug look on her face, covering her nose as she walked toward them.

Weiying: Good villain, worthy of you.

The stage wasn’t even set yet, and you’re already so into the drama.

Gong Peinu covered her nose, her little face scrunched up. “It stinks, where is this smell coming from?”

Xiao Qianxue thought she had body odor, so she wasn’t as bold as she had been in the past few days. She blushed and hid behind Weiying. After hiding for a few moments, she was afraid of stinking up the little sickly beauty, so she moved to a secluded, empty corner.

Gong Peinu was relentless and followed her, sizing up Xiao Qianxue and saying sarcastically, “Oh, it’s you? Did you fall into a cesspool? Why do you smell so bad?”

Xiao Qianxue couldn’t help but retort, “You have a pretty good dog nose.”

Gong Peinu: “!!!?? How dare you! You… you called me a dog!”

Seeing the two of them start to argue again, Weiying skillfully moved to the side to eat melon seeds. The show girls started to watch.

The female lead and the female supporting character’s bond starts with arguing as soon as they meet. The show girls watched, a look of gossip in their eyes.

The day before yesterday, they argued and ended up touching each other. Yesterday, they argued and started giving each other extravagant praise. What kind of show would it be today?

The show girls became excited. “Young Miss Gong really cares about this show girl!”

“Smell? What smell? I don’t smell anything.”

Another person, who seemed to know what was going on, said, “Of course, it’s a smell that only Young Miss Gong can detect. So what’s that saying? Love makes a person feel warm even drinking water and makes them smell the fragrance of their loved one’s body. Look at this, it’s a sign that they’re fond of each other.”

The other show girls suddenly understood.

Gong Peinu couldn’t stand it and turned back to scold them, “What nonsense are you talking about? If you keep talking nonsense, you’ll have to get lost too.”

The show girls, afraid of Gong Peinu’s status, scattered in a hurry.

Only Weiying leaned against a sweet olive tree, originally cracking melon seeds, but after hearing the show girls’ comments, she laughed so hard her stomach hurt.

When she laughed, she couldn’t help but cough, covering her mouth and coughing for a long time.

“Are you all right?” a person asked softly.

It was a pleasant voice, ethereal and androgynous.

Weiying was thirsty from eating melon seeds and had been coughing for a long time. Her mouth was very dry, so she asked, “Do you have any water?”

“No, but I’ll get someone to get you some.”

“Thank you.” After saying that, she suddenly noticed that Gong Peinu and Xiao Qianxue were no longer arguing, and the show girls who were gossiping were trembling and kneeling on the ground.

Weiying: Oh my god, I was careless and didn’t pay attention.

She stiffly turned her head. Behind the flower tree, the emperor’s feminine and delicate eyebrows were watching her with a sinister expression in the fragmented light of the flowers.

In her mind, the Palace Fighting system issued a mission, as usual, not to let the emperor take the female lead into the palace. The reward was one chance to draw.

The head eunuch of the palace, Fu Shou, lowered his head and presented a bowl of sweet osmanthus wine.

Just as Weiying was about to kneel, the emperor said softly, “Get up. Drink the water first.”

Fu Shou said, “Miss, if you’re not feeling well, you should be careful.”

One moment she was taking a walk in the cold night, and the next she was laughing until she coughed up blood. He hoped she wouldn’t die in the palace.

Weiying’s scalp tingled. She took the blue and white porcelain bowl and asked in her mind, “System, is there no poison in this?”

The Palace Fighting system said reluctantly, “There shouldn’t be… probably.”

Weiying: What use are you!

She was ready to die and drank the sweet osmanthus wine in one gulp. The warm, sweet, and fragrant sweet osmanthus wine had a hint of alcohol and tasted surprisingly good.

“Is there any more?” she asked, licking the corners of her mouth and looking up. Since she was going to die anyway, she might as well have another bowl.

The emperor was silent for a long time.

Everyone thought he was going to punish this show girl who didn’t know her place, but he just chuckled softly. “I’ll bring you some next time.”

The show girls were stunned and looked down, each with their own guesses.

Fu Shou said, “What’s wrong? You’re so noisy all the time. His Majesty just got off the court and was disturbed by you. Tell me, what happened?”

Gong Peinu, who had been so arrogant just now, didn’t dare to say anything and trembled like a quail.

Xiao Qianxue glanced at her and couldn’t help but say loudly, “I suspect someone is rigging the draft!”

The emperor’s gaze fell on Xiao Qianxue’s face. He clenched his sleeve, remaining silent. When he heard her talk about the reasons why she and Weiying were being eliminated, he gave Fu Shou a look.

Fu Shou immediately understood and dragged the pale, speechless palace maid. He had Weiying and Xiao Qianxue go into a closed room in the Imperial View Pavilion.

The Son of Heaven lay quietly on the couch, propping his tiny chin with his hand.

A faint fragrance came from the incense burner beside him.

He didn’t say a word, but the palace maid was already kneeling on the ground, kowtowing non-stop until her head was broken and bleeding.

Xiao Qianxue couldn’t bear to watch and pulled Weiying to the side to hide.

It was so terrifying…

Even though it was so terrifying, the emperor smiled slightly and said, “Go and smell her. Does she still have body odor now?”

The old palace maid cried, “No, no, it was this old servant who smelled it wrong.”

“Smelled it wrong?” The emperor picked up a teacup and blew on it a couple of times. Suddenly, he thought of something, looked up at Weiying, and asked gently, “Are you still thirsty?”

Weiying shook her head in silence.

The emperor nonchalantly lifted the teacup lid and lowered his head. “If you can smell something wrong like this, there’s no point in having a nose. Cut it off.”

The old palace maid, with blood all over her head, sobbed and begged for mercy.

The emperor said, “Oh, and you also said she had a mole the size of a fist on her back?”

The palace maid continued to kowtow, almost knocking her head off.

The emperor ignored her and looked at Weiying. He said concisely, “Take it off.”

Weiying covered the front of her clothes, her heart jumped, and she cursed: You dog emperor, dog emperor, dog emperor.

Palace Fighting System: …

Weiying continued to curse: Dog emperor, dog emperor, dog emperor.

Palace Fighting System: Host, the dog emperor is standing in front of you.

Weiying was caught off guard and met a pair of deep, ink-black eyes. She couldn’t help but take a step back.

The emperor’s eyes were very dark, as if they were suppressing many emotions, making it impossible to know what he was thinking.

He noticed the half-step the girl took back and frowned slightly. “Are you so afraid of me?”

Xiao Qianxue stood in front of Weiying. Even though her voice was trembling with tension, she didn’t give in. “Your Majesty, Yingying is timid.”

Timid?

Yun Shao thought to himself, she didn’t seem timid when she was alone in the deep palace at night, calling out to the female ghost. But seeing Xiao Qianxue’s face, the emperor was always very tolerant. He held back his temper and patiently explained, “If you say there’s something fishy about the draft, you have to show evidence. Take off your clothes and let me see.”

So Xiao Qianxue thought about it and felt that what he said made a lot of sense. She turned her head and started persuading Weiying, “Yingying, just take off your clothes, just for a look.”

Weiying: ???

You with the thick eyebrows and big eyes, you betrayed me? Whose sister are you anyway!

Xiao Qianxue said, “Anyway, we’ve already entered the palace…”

After entering the palace, they were the emperor’s women. There were no men here except for the emperor, so there was nothing to be shy about. After all, this matter concerned her reputation as a young woman, so it was better to clarify it.

Weiying’s hands trembled slightly. She tried to untie the front of her clothes but failed and continued to cover her chest.

The emperor said, “Shy? Okay.”

Weiying’s heart eased up, thinking he would leave. She didn’t expect the dog emperor to say, “You all go out. I’ll take a look myself.”

Xiao Qianxue was unwilling to be dragged away by Fu Shou. She looked back at Weiying with worry several times.

Weiying: Don’t go!

You, the female lead, just abandoned me like this?

You have no heart!

The Palace Fighting system gloated: Host, you finally got what you deserved.

Yun Shao saw the girl’s body tense up, expressing resistance all over. He raised his eyebrows slightly.

He caressed the gold thread embroidered on his sleeve and thought, since the girl is so afraid, why not…

“Hurry up and take it off.” The emperor’s eyes narrowed, and his voice was cold. “Are you trying to defy me?”

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