Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Royal palace, royal garden.

The peonies are in full bloom this season, but flower lovers have no interest in appreciating them.

"Your Majesty." The young eunuch, noticing his master's absent-mindedness, stepped forward and asked, "Is Your Majesty tired today?"

"I'm not tired, but I'm afraid the emperor is worried." A graceful and elegant woman came forward and asked with a profound smile, "Does the emperor miss Zhao Ji of Qi?"

The man in the dragon robe whispered, "I dare not."

The third generation of the Tianyou Dynasty, Prince Xi "Long Mohan". He was held hostage in the Qi Palace when he was young, and stayed there for fifteen years. When Prince Hui died at the beginning of the year, he was welcomed back to the capital to inherit the throne. He was only 22 years old, and he had been on the throne for only three months. The Queen Mother had no children, so he worshipped her as his adoptive mother, which slightly consolidated his throne. Because of this relationship, he naturally could not afford to offend the Queen Mother.

"As a king of a country, why shouldn't you miss your wife and children?" The Queen Mother looked at the peony garden and said, "The garden is so beautiful, but the people who appreciate the flowers have no interest in appreciating them, so they are just decorations. Your son has a full harem, but he is reluctant to appoint a queen. He must be missing Zhao Ji and her son. Well, I am not someone who doesn't understand love, why don't you welcome Zhao Ji and her son back to the palace?"

"Mother..." Long Mohan was so surprised that he was speechless.

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "But my son, you must agree with me that we must appoint a queen this autumn. If Zhao Ji is both talented and virtuous, I have no objection to you appointing her as queen. But Your Majesty, I heard from the Taoist priest of Taijue Temple that he saw an evil spirit hovering above the palace in a dream, vaguely in the form of a fox demon. I am afraid that a fox demon will soon disturb the palace."

"Fox demon?" This was the first time Long Mohan had heard of it.

The Queen Mother's hand gently stroked a beautiful peony, but suddenly, she pinched it with her fingertips and the blooming peony immediately fell to the ground.

Long Mohan was startled and his expression restrained slightly.

At this time, the Queen Mother's voice came again in a low voice: "My son, remember, if there is any monster in the palace, I will kill it without mercy."

After leaving these words, the Queen Mother walked forward again.

Long Mohan looked at the fallen peony for a long time without saying a word.

This autumn, the Empress will...

I wonder how many peonies in this palace will wither because of this.

***

modern.

It's another day with fresh air.

Ji Annie opened the window, took a deep breath, stretched, and enjoyed the warm morning sunshine.

The chirping of birds lingers in my ears, and everywhere I look is lush green.

A path meandered away from under the window and led to a archery range a mile away.

Ji Anni is sixteen years old and in her first year of high school. It was summer vacation, and the terrible high temperature in the city forced her to stay at her grandfather's house in the countryside to escape the heat. Although it was good to escape the scorching sun, the lonely life in the countryside also made Ji Anni feel bored. There were only a few channels on TV, and there were no stores or supermarkets nearby for her to spend money and kill time. The only activity she could do to kill time was to go to the archery field to practice archery.

The city's youth archery club was training there for the competition in two months. Although Ji Anni was not a member, she was at least an archery enthusiast. It was no exaggeration to say that if she really got serious, even the club director would be afraid of her.

Ji Anni's grandfather was a champion in the regional archery competition when he was young, but unfortunately he had a son who couldn't even draw a bow, so he had to pick up a pen and become a writer. Fortunately, his son worked hard and finally married a woman with super-strong motor nerves. This neutralized the genetic genes and strengthened Ji Anni's motor nerves, making her a treasure in her grandfather's eyes.

It is said that when Ji Anni was one year old, she drew lots. She didn't grab a toy or a snack, but actually grabbed a pencil sharpener.

This feat shocked everyone. They all stared at little Anne with wide eyes, saying that this girl had a bad fate and was fond of violence.

But only grandpa said to everyone happily: We have finally found the true successor for the Ji family.

Grandpa even dreamed of having someone who loved martial arts inherit his martial arts hall, so Ji Anni spent almost all of her childhood in the martial arts hall. But later, as the martial arts hall fell into disrepair, the teachers and disciples left one after another. Grandpa was too old to guide his disciples, so he had to announce the closure of the martial arts hall. Grandpa stayed in the hall to live out his life.

Ji Anni learned a lot of fighting skills from her grandfather, which made her never bullied by anyone since she was a child. On the contrary, she still remembered that when she was in junior high school, she caught a thief with just three punches and two kicks, which made her a little famous in the city.

From then on, Ji Anni seemed to have become a heroine in everyone's eyes.

Anyone who was wronged would cry to her, and she would go out to uphold justice for them. Because of her powerful boxing skills, even high school students would give her three points of courtesy. But because of her great skills, Ji Anni, who is already 16 years old, has never had a relationship.

Although she also noticed that some boys secretly looked at her, as if they had a crush on her, every time Ji Anni gave them a friendly and gentle smile, they would be scared and run away, leaving Ji Anni alone and embarrassed.

"Humph, I'm not going to eat you. If you like me, just confess to me."

Ji Anni believes that she is a relatively easy girl to pursue. As long as the other person has good character and looks, she will try to develop feelings with him. But there are always rumors that she punched a boy who confessed to her. There are also rumors that once a boy looked at her a few more times, she punched him so hard that his eyes turned black and it took a week for him to recover his vision.

"Hmph, I am just a dominatrix anyway..."

Having heard so many rumors like this, Ji Anni naturally became numb. She really wanted to go to a place where no one knew her, put aside all those amazing feats in the past, put aside the glorious titles of female knight, yaksha, and rakshasa, and be an ordinary girl again.

Whenever she thought of this, Ji Anni sighed softly, tapped her forehead, and told herself to quickly give up those unrealistic ideas. Her past could not be erased, she could not escape from the past, and she had to face the future well.

Yes, thinking of this, Ji Anni couldn't help but clench her fists tightly.

"Okay, let's go practice in the Kyudo Club." Ji Annie trotted along the winding path and ran away into the distance.

The cool morning breeze blew on her face, and Ji Anni took a deep breath while jogging.

It turns out that it’s the best feeling to be close to nature, haha.

But suddenly, Ji Anni felt a cold wind blowing. She subconsciously stopped and found that the light around her was dimming. What happened? It was still broad daylight.

Ji Anni looked up at the sun, but she saw two suns.

Hey, why are there two suns? Am I seeing things?

Ji Anni rubbed her eyes and looked again, and found that the light around her had dimmed even more.

One sun gradually dimmed, while the other sun gradually brightened.

This time Ji Anni looked carefully and found that the sun that was gradually getting brighter was not the sun, but the moon.

It is a round moon, strange moonlight, and a red moon.

The moonlight was as red as diluted wine, very light red, but very eerie.

What kind of astronomical phenomenon is this? Why haven't I heard about it in the news?

Ji Anni scratched her head and then she remembered that the signal was not good at her grandfather's place and the TV could not receive several channels. She hadn't watched TV for a long time, so it was no wonder that she didn't even know about such a rare astronomical phenomenon.

Well, I might as well give it a name myself, let’s call it - Red Moon Covering the Sun.