Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Ji Anni didn’t know how long she cried that night, she only vaguely remembered that she fainted from crying.

When I woke up, it was already the next morning. Yun Zhen had already left and Ji Anni was lying on the bed.

It was so quiet, so quiet that I couldn't hear even a human voice.

Oops, am I late again?

Ji Anni opened her eyes and sat up from the bed. After being stunned for two seconds, she rushed to the dressing table to comb her hair. But she was startled again when she saw herself in the mirror. It took her two seconds to realize that the person in the mirror was herself.

"Sigh..." Ji Anni stroked her forehead and sighed. If she continued like this, she would suffer from nervous breakdown sooner or later.

Every morning when I wake up and look in the mirror, I am startled by my face. I don’t know when I can get used to Zhao Ji’s face. Zhao Ji is beautiful, but after all, it is not Ji Anni’s own face. I haven’t seen my own face for a long time. Ji Anni misses her old face very much. I don’t know when Yun Zhen can catch the monster, and I don’t know when I can go back. I always feel that the road ahead is bleak, and I am like catkins floating in the wind, and I don’t know where I will float to.

Ji Anni was too lazy to sigh. She washed her face with a basin of water and sat in front of the bronze mirror in a daze.

Looking at my full head of black hair, I really don’t know what to do. I can’t tie it into a ponytail again and go out, right?

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Judging from the volume and frequency of the knocks, Ji Anni knew it was Yizhen as soon as she heard it, and rushed over to open the door and said, "Wait, wait."

When I opened the door, Yizhen was standing outside with a smile on her face.

Seeing Yizhen appear outside the door, Ji Anni felt relieved, knowing that she finally didn't oversleep today and didn't have to be late and be scolded by the two aunts. She pulled Yizhen into the house and asked, "Yizhen, why did you come to see me so early? What happened? Or did Shui Furong come to bother you again?"

"Neither." Yizhen smiled mysteriously, took out a comb from her back and said, "I was afraid that you would go to Renhe Hall with your hair disheveled again today, Xiaozhao, and make your aunt angry, so I came here to help you comb your hair."

Upon hearing this, Ji Anni was so moved that she wanted to cry. She rushed over to give Yizhen a big hug and kept saying, "Yizhen, you are so kind, so kind! I would be willing to live ten years shorter if I have a good sister like you."

"Stop saying these unlucky words." Yizhen was almost unable to stand up because of Ji Anni's hug. She quickly held on to the wall and said, "Xiao Zhao, please go sit in front of the dressing table. Time is running out. We have to hurry."

"Okay." Ji Annie was as obedient as a kindergarten baby. When she saw the teacher, she quickly ran to the dressing mirror and sat down.

Yizhen came up behind her, looked her over carefully and said, "Xiao Zhao, this outfit of yours is not good. You've been wearing it for three days, right? Why don't you change it?"

Ji Anni then realized that her clothes smelled of both alcohol and sweat. The good clothes that Concubine Baogui gave her were ruined by her. She couldn't help but blush and lowered her head and said, "Yizhen, you know... I'm from Qi. The clothes in Qi are slightly different from those here. The palace clothes are too troublesome to wear. I don't really know how to wear them."

Although she didn't know what the difference was between the clothing of Qi and the Holy Dynasty of Tianyou, Ji Anni made up a story, hoping to get away with it. Fortunately, after she finished speaking, Yizhen didn't show any doubt, but smiled, opened Ji Anni's closet, and took out a piece of clothing.

"It's all your fault, Xiao Zhao, for entering the palace late. In fact, a few days ago, the aunts came to teach us how to wear the palace dress. Let me teach you, and you must learn well. Otherwise, if a concubine doesn't know how to dress, it would be ridiculous if others don't laugh at you."

Upon hearing this, Ji Anni finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that I'm not the only one who doesn't know how to dress. All the concubines who have just entered the palace have to learn how to dress.

"Okay Yizhen, thank you." Ji Anni jumped over and held Yizhen's hand, liking Yizhen more and more.

Although Yizhen is not a stunning beauty, she is very cute when she smiles. Her smile is very friendly, and people can't help but want to talk to her and get close to her. This is probably a rare advantage, right?

"You don't have to be polite with me." Yizhen and Ji Anni have become familiar with each other. They no longer have the awkwardness of calling each other "Concubine Concubine" as before. They have become like sisters, calling each other by their names.

At this time, Yizhen was holding a dark red pleated long skirt. Although the style was simpler than the one that Concubine Baogui gave to Ji Anni, there were still a lot of strings and straps hanging on the skirt, which looked difficult to wear. Fortunately, Yizhen taught her carefully, and it took about ten minutes to finally change the clothes. Ji Anni also memorized the method of putting on clothes.

While Yizhen was fixing Ji Anni's collar, she praised him, "Xiao Zhao, you are so beautiful. It's really unfair for you to be a concubine."

"Of course." Ji Anni realized she had said the wrong thing as soon as she opened her mouth. Her original intention was that being a concubine had wronged Zhao Ji, but she forgot that Zhao Ji was herself, so she said the wrong thing as soon as she opened her mouth. She quickly changed her words and said, "Oh, Yizhen, stop saying that. If I hadn't been a concubine, I wouldn't have known you. I like you much more than I like that ghost emperor. Now I am so happy to be a concubine that I don't even want to leave."

"Xiao Zhao." Yizhen's face suddenly darkened, and she said seriously, "I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your mouth will cause disaster sooner or later. How can you be disrespectful to the emperor?"

Only then did Ji Anni realize that she had just inadvertently said "Ghost Emperor".

"Xiao Zhao..." Yizhen pulled Ji Anni to sit in front of the dressing mirror and said while combing her hair, "Before I entered the palace, my mother told me that there are spies everywhere in the palace, and I must be careful. If you think you can talk nonsense when no one is around, you are wrong. In fact, there may be ears on the other side of the wall, and your words have been eavesdropped by someone. Now we have just entered the palace, and there are not many people who will send spies to monitor us, but in the future... Xiao Zhao, you are not like me. You are the biological mother of the eldest son of the emperor, and you are a strong candidate for the throne. There must be someone who wants to defeat you secretly."

Is it really that scary? Ji Anni's sense of crisis has always been weak. After listening to Yizhen's advice, she didn't react much. She just sighed and said, "Alas... Why do you say such terrible things, Yizhen?"

Yizhen said, "My mother said that the harem... is a battlefield where 'there is no smoke but there are casualties'. If you lose, not only will you lose your life, but your family will also be implicated. Xiaozhao, you are alone and have no one to rely on. You can say that this is a kind of luck. Unlike me, I have to worry... I am afraid that I will offend someone and implicate my father and mother."

As she spoke, Yizhen's eyes couldn't help but dim.

Ji Anni finally understood that Yizhen looked so weak and easy to bully, but it was actually for the sake of her family. She didn't dare to provoke Shui Furong, not because she was afraid of how Shui Furong would retaliate against her, but probably because she was afraid that Shui Furong's father, the governor of Qingzhou, would embarrass her father, who was just a small county magistrate?

"Yizhen, don't be afraid." Ji Anni patted Yizhen's hand and comforted her, "From now on, we are sisters with one heart, why should we be afraid of Shui Furong?"

"Xiao Zhao, I really envy your fearless personality."

Ji Anni laughed and said, "Actually, Yizhen, I envy your gentleness and thoughtfulness more."

People are complementary. Ji Anni has advantages that Yizhen doesn't have, and Yizhen also has advantages that Ji Anni doesn't have. But one's own advantages are often easily overlooked by oneself, because one is always only concerned with envying the half of others that one doesn't have.

Perhaps Ji Anni and Yizhen are in this state of mind right now.