Cui Lihua lowered her eyes, her color dimmed slightly, but she quickly raised her head, smiled at him, and whispered.

"Nothing! Your Majesty, are you worried? I called you a few times just now, but you didn't hear me..."

"It's getting late. Let me take care of you and let you rest."

Hearing this, Li Ji's face darkened slightly, and the gentle expression he had just had disappeared with this sentence.

Cui Lihua's heart tightened, and a feeling of panic that she could not suppress surged up in her heart. She asked softly.

"If Your Majesty can't sleep, how about I dance for you again? You are not in a hurry to rest."

She was afraid that Li Ji would drive her away, so she had boasted in front of Bu Ji that she would stay in the Qianqing Palace tonight. If she returned to her palace in the middle of the night, she would be laughed at.

She is a noble concubine, how could she not care about her dignity?

Li Ji narrowed his dark eyes slightly, staring at her without blinking, with an obvious warning in his eyes. He opened his thin lips slightly and said in a deep voice.

"You keep repeating the same few actions over and over again. I'm tired of you even if you're not tired of me."

"Go back to your own palace."

Cui Lihua was about to say something but stopped herself. It was obvious that the dance she performed for the emperor was different every time.

Today's dance was learned from a dancer from the Western Regions. Every move was something the emperor had never seen before. Why is he annoyed?

Even though I am depressed, I appear calm on the surface.

She took a step forward, got in front of Li Ji, tugged at his sleeve and spoke softly.

"Your Majesty, I am not a dancer. I am your beloved concubine."

When Li Ji heard the word "beloved concubine", the face of another woman suddenly appeared in front of him. She was cunning, flattering and eccentric.

He pried Cui Lihua's hands apart, patted his sleeves and stood up.

"Someone, please ask the concubine to return to the palace."

Cui Lihua refused to give in and tried to put her arm around him, but he dodged her and she missed.

"It's raining heavily outside, please don't worry and let me go back."

"Your Majesty, it has been a long time since you let me serve you."

"How about tonight, I will serve you for the first half of the night, and the other maids will guard the second half, so that Your Majesty can enjoy it."

When she said this, Li Ji remembered that he seemed to have favored Cui Lihua only once, when she had just entered the palace.

He was not satisfied that night, so in the second half of the night he dragged the palace maids who were on guard and gave them a hard time, but they still couldn't get it out.

After that, he no longer had any desire for women, and rarely had any feelings. Even if he did, he would take care of it himself.

Until that smartass woman bumped into him in the Cining Palace...

Qin Yin walked in upon hearing the sound, walked around the screen, went to her queen's side, and spoke in a low voice.

"My lady, I have an umbrella with me, so I won't get wet."

The emperor has already chased you away, and he will be angry if you don’t leave.

Li Ji remained silent, and seemed to be in deep thought again.

"Chen and concubine retire."

Cui Lihua turned around and walked out quickly. She was very angry, but she couldn't get angry at Li Ji, so she glared at Qin Yin fiercely.

When they reached the outside of the hall and one foot stepped out of the threshold, she reached out and pinched Qinyin's arm, twisting it hard.

Qinyin was in great pain, but she dared not cry out, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.

Cui Lihua scolded her as she walked.

"Are you the emperor's man or mine? You don't even know which side to side with."

"You didn't bring an umbrella because it was raining hard outside? You are so stupid. Why did I bring you into the palace in the first place?"

Qinyin held the umbrella for her, covered her arm with her other hand, and spoke softly.

"My lady, I am your only personal maid in the mansion, and other maids are not qualified to accompany you into the palace."

Cui Lihua was speechless, her cheeks puffed up, and she quickened her pace.

How could she know what it was like in the mansion? When she traveled through time, it was the day of the selection. Before she could react, she received the imperial decree and entered the palace.

Fortunately, she reacted quickly and turned her grief and anger into motivation, which won the Queen Mother's favor and allowed her to frequently appear before the Emperor, which led to her current status.

She had worked hard for two and a half years, but it was all going to be ruined just because of Bu Ji, a hypocritical woman who was pretending to be a pig but was actually a tiger. How could she be willing to accept this?

Fortunately, the empress dowager still listened to her. She said a lot of bad things about Bu Ji in front of the empress dowager, and the empress dowager hated Bu Ji from the bottom of her heart. She felt that Bu Ji was just like the late emperor's concubine Li, a seductive woman who could seduce the emperor.

Cui Lihua didn’t know whether she was a fox or not, but what she knew was that this woman blocked her light in the palace.

That's why she had to die.

Becoming a queen, and then a queen mother, now that she is here, she must be the center of attention. Otherwise, how can she make up for the regret that she practiced hard in modern times, but was teased by fate before she made her debut and became famous.

As soon as I walked out of the Qianqing Palace, I saw a strange palace maid walking towards this direction.

Cui Lihua was wondering why a palace servant would be strolling outside so late when it was raining so heavily outside.

It can’t be a ghost!

She was startled and almost fell down, but fortunately Qinyin was quick to catch her and said.

"My lady, it seems to be Li Er who is beside Noble Bu."

"Could it be true, as Her Majesty expected, that something happened to Noble Bu tonight?"

Qin Yin still felt a little guilty and scared, but Cui Lihua, on the other hand, was not surprised at all. Instead, she straightened her back with a mean and cunning look on her face.

"Of course something will happen to her. It's raining so hard and the Queen Mother made her kneel for six hours. If she didn't get sick, she would have to be an iron man."

"Li Er must have gone to the Imperial Hospital and found no one there, so she decided to come look for the Emperor."

Qinyin screamed and quickly pulled Cui Lihua to stand aside.

Human life is at stake. Don’t delay the Emperor from rescuing Concubine Bu.

Cui Lihua stood motionless and said angrily.

"Why are you pulling me here? Come with me and chase her away."

"She's seen the emperor, and all my efforts have been in vain."

Qinyin hesitated and had to stand in the middle of the palace road with her queen.

"My lady, didn't you get the kingfisher hairpin you wanted?"

"you shut up!"

Cui Lihua shouted and glared at her.

The reason she couldn't kill Bu Ji was because of this group of stupid palace servants who were holding her back.

Zuozhong and Qinyin are both useless. It would be better for her to do it herself.

Wasn't it she who killed the Yuguan girl herself?

"This servant greets the Imperial Concubine. May the Imperial Concubine be blessed with good health."

Li'er walked up to her and saw who she was. A chill ran down her spine. This was the person she least wanted to meet.

Cui Lihua glared at her, not looking at her as a human being at all, but with contempt as if she were looking at a cat or a dog.

"You were still wandering around the palace road during curfew. What crime should you be charged with?"

Li'er knew that Concubine Jia was going to say something like this, so she quickly replied.

"In reply to your Majesty, on the day I entered the palace, the teaching nanny said that if the master is sick or in an emergency, the serving palace servants can ignore the palace curfew."

"Everything should be based on the safety of the master."

She was talking about the palace rules, word for word.

Cui Lihua just didn't want her to enter the Qianqing Palace, and after racking her brains she finally came up with an idea to accuse her of a crime.

"I am the Imperial Concubine. How dare you, a mere maid, speak frankly about the palace rules in front of me?"

"This is called insubordination."

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