All the concubines in the harem are time travelers

She would never forget how the Queen Mother forced her to drink poisoned wine in the main hall of the Cining Palace that day.

The feeling of having the bitter poison brought to her lips was not good. It was heavy, sticky, and chaotic. Scenes from the first half of her life flashed before her eyes like a kaleidoscope.

In this lonely palace, she had never been so afraid of anyone. Although Cui Lihua was bad, she was quick and decisive, and she was not undefendable. Only the Queen Mother could "stab" someone without anyone knowing, so it was undefendable.

She was too determined to kill someone.

The late emperor's harem was much more difficult than Li Ji's. The empress dowager was the winner of the previous term, and she looked at these young concubines as if they were ants.

Bu Ji tried to grab Li Ji's sleeve, but missed. She looked at Li Ji with an extremely sad and pleading look.

What should she say to get him to help her?

This time, the tears in her eyes were hot and flowed down her cheeks without warning.

Prince Yu suddenly stood up and looked at the emperor, both of them seemed to have expected this.

When Bu Ji saw Prince Yu walking towards the Queen Mother, he realized that Prince Yu should be a kind-hearted person. He was able to jump into the pool to save people in the middle of the night, and he definitely didn't want to see anyone die tragically.

She raised her hand to wipe away the tears from her eyes, and forced herself to stand up straight, her lips trembling slightly.

Li Ji stared at the tear stains on her fingertips. The cold look on his face was long gone, and the sharpness hidden in the corners of his eyes was quietly revealed.

Prince Yu's smile is completely different from Li Ji's, even though they have the same face.

His smile was so gentle and elegant, as if he had always been a carefree and unrestrained person without any constraints or burdens.

"Mother, why are you here?"

"This is such a huge palace, I can go everywhere. I heard it was bustling here, so I passed by the side hall and came to take a look."

"It's nothing exciting. I was just chatting with my brother and sister-in-law."

"Royal sister-in-law?"

The Queen Mother glanced at Bu Ji with sharp eyes and repeated Prince Yu's words with a long tail.

Bu Ji walked around Li Ji and went before the Queen Mother to kneel and pay homage.

She gently lifted the hem of her skirt, knelt on her knees, held a handkerchief in one hand, brushed it through her hair, and bowed again and again.

"Happy Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother sat on the chair, narrowed her eyes, and without asking her to stand up, she spoke to Prince Yu.

"This is Concubine Bu from the palace. How could you mistake her for Yuxiu?"

Prince Yu smiled awkwardly, but he helped Bu Ji up first.

If he didn't step forward to help the noble sister-in-law up, his royal brother would kill him with his eyes.

"I have been away from home for a long time and have forgotten the rules of the palace. I hope your Majesty will forgive me."

"People in the folks all call her that. Both wives and concubines are called sister-in-law."

The Queen Mother sighed and looked better.

After all, it was a pity that Prince Yu had suffered so much for so many years outside, so people stopped making a fuss about the title of "Emperor's sister-in-law".

He turned to look at Li Ji who was standing beside him and asked with a serious face.

"Why does the emperor look so bad? Do you think I have disturbed the relationship between you and Bu?"

Li Ji bowed and said humbly.

"Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. I am just about to let Bu Shi leave."

As he said that, he reached out and grabbed Bu Ji's arm, pulling her out of the hall.

The empress dowager did not expect him to be so resolute. She stood up and looked at the emperor's hurried back, without saying a word for a long time.

She just mentioned Bu Ji casually, but the emperor took her away in such a hurry, as if he was afraid that someone would cause trouble for her.

She was the empress dowager and the emperor's biological mother. No matter what, she would never kill his concubines in front of him.

Prince Yu saw that the Queen Mother was sad and comforted her.

"Mother, my brother has always been like this, you know that."

The estrangement between the emperor's brother and the queen mother has not happened overnight.

At that time, the late emperor doted on Concubine Li alone. Considering that Concubine Li had no children, he claimed that the Queen had already lost her energy and blood after giving birth to twins and could no longer take the trouble to raise two princes. So he adopted the eldest prince, who was not even a month old, to Concubine Li.

It was not until eighteen years later, when Concubine Li died, that Crown Prince Li Ji returned to the Queen's name. The next month, he left Beijing and received the imperial edict to lead the army to Dingxi in person.

The resentment in the empress dowager's eyes was not only directed at the emperor, but also at the late emperor. Among these children, Ji'er was the one whose temperament was most like that of the late emperor, and he was also the most likely to do the same thing as the late emperor.

She had to protect the country and the emperor from women like Concubine Li who would wreak havoc in the harem again.

Bu Ji is very likely to be the next Concubine Li.

It was not until the Queen Mother looked at Prince Yu and let out a breath that the sorrow in her eyes dissipated and she felt better.

Among the three children, only Yuer is like her. She is kind-hearted, but accidentally saved someone she shouldn't have saved.

"Come here, I want to ask you, were you the one who saved her last night?"

Prince Yu suddenly became serious, wrapped his robe around him and said.

"Don't ask me about this, mother. I am very angry now. If I knew that this was someone you disliked, I would have let her drown in the water."

The Queen Mother smiled, took his hand, patted it and said.

"I know your heart is with the Queen Mother, so forget about saving people. The Queen Mother won't blame you."

There was a sharpness in her eyes like that of Li Ji. No one knows a son better than his mother. Even if she had never raised the emperor, she and the emperor were close relatives, connected by blood.

I'm afraid this matter was a conspiracy between the emperor and Yu'er, deliberately deceiving her.

Prince Yu's heart finally settled down. Fortunately, he acted very convincingly, otherwise if his mother saw through it, both he and his brother would be in trouble.

Bu Ji was led out of the Qianqing Palace by Li Ji. After walking several meters away, he finally caught his breath. He held the palace wall with one hand and pressed his chest with the other, breathing deeply.

"Are you afraid of the Queen Mother?"

The voice above her head was so cold and piercing that she didn't even need to look up to know what kind of bad expression Li Ji was making.

There is no man in this world who doesn't mind the open and secret struggles between his woman and his mother.

They have their own unique way of thinking, and they call whoever feeds them their mother.

Now Li Ji must think that her reaction just now was too exaggerated, and she was suspected of deliberately making an enemy of the Queen Mother.

Bu Ji looked up, but was stunned.

He did not sneer or stand by and watch with his arms folded. Instead, he lowered his head slightly, his pupils were highly concentrated black, and his invasive gaze studied every subtle expression on her face.

It felt extremely sincere, as if he really wanted to know if she was afraid of the Queen Mother.

It seemed that as long as she nodded, Li Ji could wave his hand and make all the people and things she was afraid of disappear.

However, Bu Ji was not so naive.

She raised her bright smile, two shallow dimples appeared on her soft white cheeks, and spoke softly.

"No."

"The Queen Mother is a role model for all the concubines to learn from. She is the mother of the country and gave birth to the emperor's heir."

"Since ancient times, only evil and tyrannical people have been feared. The Queen Mother is not one of them, so I am naturally not afraid. What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Li Ji felt as if something had stabbed his heart for no apparent reason. He wanted to hear her speak, but he didn't want to hear these words.

"That's not what you really mean."

"Bu Ji, tell me, what are you afraid of?"