Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

"From today on, Huarong will be your personal maid." Tianning announced the latest news to Ji Anni.

"Why?" After two seconds of silence, Ji Anni finally realized that she should ask the question.

Princess Tianning said, "Because there are only two days left, today and tomorrow, the etiquette training for the new concubines will be over. That is to say, starting from the day after tomorrow, each concubine will have a maid to serve her personally. Although Die'er is well-behaved, she is not very experienced and too young. The Queen Mother thinks that she can't serve a troublesome lady like you, so she specially arranged for Huarong to take her place."

So it was the Empress Dowager's decree to exchange Huarong for Dier.

Ji Anni carefully thought about the mystery, but with her current mind and experience, she could only intuitively feel that something was wrong, but she could not figure out the Queen Mother's real motive for replacing her maid.

"Your Highness." Huarong bowed slightly, and after performing a dignified salute, she said, "May I help you wash and dress?"

After hearing what Hua Rong said, Ji Anni suddenly remembered that she had just gotten up from the bed and hadn't even wiped her face, so she must have looked extremely sloppy. So she immediately turned around, fetched a basin of water, wrung out a handkerchief, and wiped her face two or three times. Probably because she didn't want to keep the princess and the others waiting any longer, she wiped her face incredibly quickly, and water droplets splashed everywhere, and soon the ground under her feet was wet.

How could this be the posture of a concubine washing her face? It was clearly not even as good as that of a crude country bumpkin.

Princess Tianning frowned and was about to step forward to teach her a lesson, but Huarong was one step faster than the princess and rushed to Ji Anni's side. She helped Ji Anni, who was still wiping her face, and said, "My lady, slow down. Let me serve you."

As she spoke, she took another towel from the shelf nearby, soaked it in water, wrung it out, and carefully wiped the water droplets off Ji Anni's face. Hua Rong's movements were slow and graceful, neither hurried nor slow. Even Ji Anni was affected by her rhythm, and her originally anxious heart calmed down. She stood there in a daze, letting Hua Rong wipe the water marks off her face.

Hua Rong wiped the towel while saying, "Your Highness, you are the mother of Prince Ming. Your words and deeds will affect everyone's evaluation of Prince Ming inside and outside the palace. If Your Highness is virtuous and elegant, everyone will naturally have a high evaluation of Prince Ming; if Your Highness is always confused and reckless, everyone will secretly discuss that Prince Ming has no discipline."

Ji Anni didn't say anything. She felt that Hua Rong deliberately mentioned Prince Ming to provoke her.

Although Ji Anni didn't dislike Hua Rong, she didn't like to hear her talk about seizing the throne and fighting for the imperial power. Hua Rong mentioned Prince Ming at this time, probably to hint that Ji Anni should think about Prince Ming and act like a mother.

"Consort Zhao." Princess Tianning came over and said, "Listen to Huarong more. She is very smart and can definitely help you. If it weren't for the Queen Mother's personal decree, I would not be willing to give Huarong to you."

"Princess Zhaoji thanks you for giving up your love." Ji Anni replied with a fake smile.

In fact, Ji Anni is not afraid of Hua Rong being stupid, but afraid that Hua Rong is too smart. And Hua Rong's cleverness seems to hide a lot of schemes that Ji Anni cannot see through. She doesn't know Hua Rong's true thoughts. Although Hua Rong has confessed her life experience in front of Ji Anni, Ji Anni still feels that this Hua Rong is not simple at all.

She kept saying that she wanted to put herself on the throne, but where did she get the confidence from as a mere palace maid?

If, as she said, her entire family was killed, then who else could be her backer? Princess Tianning? No, although Princess Tianning was willful and reckless, she had no direct relationship with the fight for the throne. So, apart from Princess Tianning, is there any other power behind Huarong? Is it because of the support of that power that Huarong, a little palace maid, is neither humble nor arrogant?

Hua Rong said that Ji Anni was not simple, but in fact, in Ji Anni's eyes, Hua Rong was even more complicated.

At this time, Huarong had already wiped Ji Anni's face and was putting the handkerchief back on the shelf.

"Oh, right." Princess Tianning suddenly remembered something important and said, "Tomorrow is the last day of palace training. Tomorrow night, the emperor will personally prepare a banquet on the flat ground in the middle of the Xuantian Palace. At that time, the four imperial concubines, the eight imperial concubines, and the thirty new concubines in the harem must attend. At the banquet, each concubine must hand over her own sign to the emperor, and she will officially become a concubine."

"Wait." Princess Tianning's words were like a bolt from the blue, shocking Ji Anni's eyes to black out. She hurriedly asked, "What does handing over the sign mean?"

In fact, she was not completely unaware. It was precisely because she knew that passing the card and selecting concubines were somewhat related that she was so nervous. How she hoped that her common sense would conflict with the common sense of the Holy Dynasty of Tianyou, and how she hoped that Princess Tianning would deny her idea, but to her disappointment, the answer revealed by Princess Tianning did not surprise her at all.

Tian Ning said, "Only if you hand in the name card can the emperor choose you to sleep with him."

As expected, I still can't escape this level? Ji Anni suddenly felt weak all over and wanted to fall into bed and rest for another three days and three nights.

After so many days in the palace, she only met the emperor once, and she didn't feel like a concubine at all. In addition, all the big and small things in the past few days were concentrated together. Ji Anni was busy and overwhelmed every day, and she almost forgot that she was a concubine. A concubine is the emperor's wife, and a wife should have the responsibilities of a wife.

That duty might be glorious and great for other concubines, but it was nothing short of a nightmare for Ji Anni.

No wonder I have lived in the Concubine Palace for so long and have never heard of the emperor favoring any of his concubines. Ji Anni originally thought that the emperor's private life was quite restrained, but today she suddenly realized that it was not the emperor who was restrained, but the concubines had not handed in their name tags and were not qualified to serve in the emperor's bedchamber. After tomorrow night, once the name tags were handed in, they would officially become one of the concubines, and the emperor could choose who to sleep with.

Oh my god... Ji Anni was backing off in her heart and wanted to sneak out of the palace. Even if she entered the palace to find a way to return to her original world, if she had to make such a big sacrifice, this business would be a big loss.

Seeing Ji Anni's face turn pale and blue, Princess Tianning asked, "What's wrong? Is there something that scares you like this?"

"Oh, you don't understand..." Ji Anni walked forward in a trance and sat on a chair in a daze. In fact, she was not in a daze, but thinking about how to get through this level, but because she was too absorbed in thinking, she looked like she was in a daze.