The Cold-blooded Emperor's Vengeful Concubine

Royal study room.

On the long rosewood table was a military deployment map of the Xuanhuang Dynasty that was as big as the table. Baili Haoxuan frowned and examined the military deployment map seriously.

"Xuanhuang Dynasty is mainly plains, with very few hills and highlands, which is disadvantageous to the Tibetan army, and the manpower is insufficient." Baili Haoxuan rubbed his frowning brows and said coldly.

"I thought the emperor was so absorbed in playing chess that he forgot about serious matters. It turns out that the emperor still cares about it." Yan Zinuo teased Baili Haoxuan without any hesitation.

Yesterday he turned almost the entire palace upside down, but after his master came back, he just said lazily: "We have met a worthy opponent and forgot about time. Let's adjourn the court." He said it so nonchalantly, as if nothing had happened.

He had followed Baili Haoxuan for more than ten years. He had always put national affairs first and worked hard to govern the country. Since he ascended the throne, he had attended court early every day and had never delayed submitting memorials. However, on the second day after the empress came, he actually played chess with the empress from dusk to dawn, and even stopped attending court after returning. He could not understand this behavior.

Baili Haoxuan turned his eyes away from Bu Juntu, raised his head and glanced at Yan Zinuo, with an indifferent smile on his lips. He shook his sleeves, strode to the chessboard, sat down, picked up a transparent and crystal black piece, and started playing chess by himself.

"Baili..." Yan Zinuo shouted with gritted teeth. It was already this late and they were still playing chess. Yan Zinuo swore that he had never hated the game of Go so much. He now wanted to strangle the person who invented Go to death.

The scholar was elegant, the scholar was elegant, but when he met this man, he completely abandoned it...

"Oh, didn't you call me the emperor? Why are you so disrespectful again?" Baili Haoxuan picked up the white piece and decisively put it down to block the black piece's path, with an evil smile on his lips.

"Baili, can you be serious?" Yan Zinuo was speechless. He knew that Baili Haoxuan was teasing him. They had grown up together, and now, he was Baili Haoxuan's counselor. He would only address him as the emperor when there were people around. In private, he only called him Baili. They were close friends, brothers who could go through life and death together. The relationship between the emperor and the minister was just for show.

He would only call Baili Haoxuan "Emperor" when he was angry, like he had just done.

When Baili Haoxuan heard him call him the emperor, he teased him in return. Everyone said that Yan Zinuo was as shrewd as a fox, but compared with Baili Haoxuan, he was just a little fox at best. The real old fox was Baili Haoxuan.

"Oh, can you tell me how I wasn't serious?" Baili Haoxuan was still thinking about last night's chess game. He placed the pieces one by one based on his imagination and recreated the game.

"After you ascended the throne, have you ever tried to stop court?" Yan Zinuo questioned Baili Haoxuan. Since he was Baili Haoxuan's adviser, he should supervise him at all times and assist Baili Haoxuan to become a sage monarch and unify the world.

"Never."

"Yes, I haven't. But why did you cancel the court session yesterday?" Yan Zinuo continued to question. They all knew that they couldn't touch that woman, nor could they have feelings for her.

"Zinuo, I know very well what I am doing. Besides, it's just playing chess. Just playing chess with chess pieces. There's no need to think too much." Baili Haoxuan said in a slightly formal voice.

"I just want to remind you that these things can't happen a second time. She will be sad if she knows. Both publicly and privately, Sang Yu Hanyan is a woman who cannot be touched easily. Let alone let her go." Yan Zinuo stared at Baili Haoxuan, his hands clenched into fists under his sleeves.

He couldn't let Baili Haoxuan down, the woman who had been waiting for him and loved him deeply in the palace. He also had an obligation to remind Baili Haoxuan again and again, both publicly and privately.

"I know very well what I am doing. How can such a small woman fight against the world." Holding the white piece tightly in his hand, his blue eyes stared directly at Yan Zinuo. In his heart, there was only the world and that hatred. He made a chess move in one go, just to send that man to hell.

He also did not forget that there was a woman in the deep palace who was waiting for him without any regrets, and he knew he would not let her down.

The flawless white jade chess piece was shattered into ash in Baili Haoxuan's hand. A breeze blew, and the ash escaped from Baili Haoxuan's hand and floated in the air...

Yan Zinuo looked at the chess piece that was crushed into ashes, and felt a little relieved. He knew that Baili Haoxuan's hatred had been whipping him. Maybe he was making a big deal out of nothing. How could such a strong hatred be resolved by that little girl? He should have always believed in Baili Haoxuan.

"It's my petty mind. Zinuo voluntarily pleads guilty." Yan Zinuo lifted up his skirt, knelt down on his knees, and put his hands into fists in front of his forehead. He, Yan Zinuo, was a man of gentleness and brightness, and would not kneel to anyone easily. He was the pride of a scholar, but in his entire life, he had only admired Baili Haoxuan, and would only kneel to Baili Haoxuan.

He could clearly see the arrogance of the emperor who ruled the world in Baili Haoxuan, and he was convinced that Baili Haoxuan was a wise and enlightened ruler who could unify the world, so he would submit to him and follow him all his life.

This is the unique personal charm of Baili Haoxuan, which makes you surrender to him and serve him for no reason.

"If you want to make the game more fun, then I want the heart of the chess piece too." Baili Haoxuan looked down on the world, spoke in a domineering manner, and his eyes strengthened his belief.

"Baili." Yan Zinuo raised his eyes and saw the devilish charm. His body trembled slightly. The messenger from hell invited him to gather in purgatory on earth.

"You don't need to worry about what's going on between me and Sang Yuhanyan. Just do your job well." With a look of certainty of victory...

Suddenly, he remembered that he had gathered her hair before leaving yesterday. The silky soft black hair made him reminisce. He read intoxication in her eyes...

Her heart, the heart of the chess piece, he wanted to play with it...