Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Back in the room, Ji Anni saw the table full of homemade simple playing cards and couldn't help but sigh. Thinking of how Princess Tianning was trying to pull out Yizhen's hairpin today, and Yizhen's pitiful expression, she regretted making such a deck of cards. Dragging her tired body, she simply tidied the room. She was too tired today. Ji Anni didn't want to do anything. After washing up, she let her long hair down and climbed into bed to sleep.

At first, I lay in bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. All I could think about was Hua Rong's story. As I thought about it, my consciousness gradually faded, and I slowly fell asleep. I don't know how long I had this dream, nor do I remember what I saw in it. Later, I vaguely felt that the sound in the dream suddenly became noisy, and Ji Anni's eyelids trembled twice, and she slowly woke up from the dream.

I opened my eyes and it was still pitch black all around me, the night wasn't over yet.

However, there were faint but chaotic voices and footsteps coming from outside the door. It must be that the dinner was over and the concubines had returned.

It was already late, and this little chaos didn't last long. After about four or five minutes, the outside of the door returned to silence. The concubines were probably tired and went back to their rooms to rest.

At this time, the lanterns on the front porch also lit up, and the light shone into Ji Annie's room through the window, filling the room with a faint warm red light.

Ji Anni rubbed her eyes and sat up from the bed. She wanted to overcome her sleepiness to say good night to Yizhen and explain to Yizhen why she skipped the dinner party today. However, as soon as she got out of bed, she heard a knock on the door.

Could it be Yizhen is here?

"Wait a minute." Ji Anni used her fingers to tidy up her messy hair and ran to open the door without even putting on her clothes.

But when she opened the door, she was surprised to find that the person who appeared at the door was not Yizhen, but an old eunuch in his forties or fifties. The old eunuch was fat and looked like a chef rather than a eunuch. He must be a eunuch in charge of some status in the palace, otherwise he would not have grown so much flesh.

As soon as the old eunuch saw Ji Anni's sleepy eyes and thin clothes, he knew that she had already gone to bed. However, he was neither anxious nor angry. He smiled and asked Ji Anni, "Your servant greets the Majesty. Majesty, why did you go to bed so early?"

Ji Anni had just woken up and her mind was still unclear. She saw a eunuch standing at the door. She had no idea what he was doing there. She answered whatever he asked, "Of course I have to sleep when it's dark. Why can't I sleep?"

The old eunuch's thick smile grew even thicker as he replied, "Your Majesty, the phoenix carriage is waiting for you outside the palace. Please hurry up and follow me. Don't keep the emperor waiting too long."

"What?!" Ji Anni seemed to be struck by lightning. All her sleepiness disappeared in an instant and she became completely awake.

She wasn't quite sure what the Phoenix Carriage was, but just by hearing the old eunuch say "Don't keep the Emperor waiting too long", Ji Anni could guess that this old eunuch must have come to take her to see the Emperor.

It was the dead of night, and Ji Anni knew what was going to happen next without her having to explain it to others.

"Eunuch..." Ji Anni subconsciously took a half step back and tried to make a final struggle, "Are you here to take me to the emperor's bedroom?"

The eunuch laughed when he heard this and replied, "Madam, what else do you not understand?"

"I...I...I understand." But it was because I understood too well that I felt scared. Why? I clearly didn't attend the banquet, and I clearly didn't pass my name tag to the emperor, so why couldn't I escape the most difficult stage of sleeping with the emperor?

"Your Majesty, please put on some clothes and follow me quickly. It's getting late." The old eunuch urged gently.

"This..." Ji Anni shook her head subconsciously, her face turned pale with fear, and she stammered, "Eunuch, is there something wrong? The emperor shouldn't have my brand yet, right?"

The old eunuch said, "Madam, you don't know that the emperor didn't turn over the cards tonight, but directly asked the servant to take you over. Madam, the emperor didn't see you at the dinner and was worried."

"What..." Ji Anni was both scared and anxious. She thought she was safe without handing over the card, but who knew the emperor would directly name her. This not only hit Ji Anni on the head with a big stick, but it was also probably a variable that Concubine An and the others had not expected.

"Your Majesty, I would like to congratulate you in advance. There are still four vacancies for imperial concubines in the eight courtyards. After tonight, your Majesty will be promoted to imperial concubine." The old eunuch bowed to congratulate.

However, being promoted to imperial concubine was not a good thing for Ji Anni at all, it was actually bad news.

"Eunuch, please don't congratulate me yet." Ji Anni supported the eunuch and said, "Go back and tell the emperor that I can't go tonight."

The old lady was stunned after listening to the news, her eyes full of confusion. Not handing in a name card to let the emperor personally call her name was a great honor, a great opportunity that other concubines could not even think of, why did she refuse it when it fell to Zhao Ji?

Without waiting for the old eunuch to ask, Ji Anni took the initiative to explain: "Eunuch, the palace has its own rules. Concubines who don't hand in their name tags cannot sleep with the emperor. Zhao Ji is of low status, and it is not worth it for the emperor to break the rules for me and be blamed by the queen mother."

"This..." Ji Anni's words were not unreasonable. The old eunuch was embarrassed, but he soon came up with a way to have the best of both worlds. "Your Majesty, why don't you follow me into the carriage and go to the palace to explain to the emperor in person? Otherwise, even if I have ten thousand courage, I dare not talk to the emperor about the rules."

Seeing that the old eunuch looked pitiful, Ji Anni felt sorry for him because he was an elderly man and couldn't bear to embarrass him.

But if I don't make things difficult for him, do I really have to get on that phoenix chariot to sleep with him?

Although Zhao Ji and the emperor were husband and wife, Ji Anni was a complete outsider. It would be better to give her a knife and let her commit suicide here than to let her spend the night with a man she had never spoken to.

"Your Highness, it will be too late if you hesitate any longer..." The old eunuch didn't understand what Ji Anni was worried about, so he just kept urging her, "Your Highness, if you have anything to say, go and tell the emperor in person. I am old and cannot withstand the blow of the emperor's wrath. Your Highness, please have pity on me. Your Highness, please..."

"Okay, okay, don't say anything for now." Seeing that the old eunuch had already raised his sleeves to wipe his eyes, Ji Anni was really afraid that he would cry. In a hurry, she agreed without thinking clearly: "Don't cry for now, can't I go with you?"