Dressed as a beauty to be selected, the game starts in hell mode!

The news of Cheng Zhaorong's downfall and Ling Jieyu's promotion to Ling Zhaorong spread quickly throughout the palace like a gust of wind, and everyone had a new understanding of Hua Wu's favor.

When she first entered the palace, she was a fifth-rank concubine, but in just two months, she was promoted to a fourth-rank concubine. This speed of promotion was simply shocking.

The sound of porcelain breaking in various palaces was heard one after another. During this period, the Office of Material Affairs was very busy. Finally, it was the Empress Dowager who issued an edict that if anything was broken again, the money would be deducted from their monthly salary. Only then did this trend stop.

However, rumors about Hua Wu being a female silk star began to spread again in the palace, but this time they were much more restrained and did not make it known to everyone in the palace. The rumor was passed on by word of mouth. The evidence was that Hua Wu's promotion speed was many times faster than that of the original Concubine Yi, and since Hua Wu entered the palace, the emperor had never set foot in the Hehuan Palace again.

"Your Majesty, have you been doting on Hua Wu too much recently?! She has no distinguished family background and cannot have children in the future, yet she has been promoted to the fourth rank Zhaorong in just two months. Aren't you going to cause chaos in the harem by doing this?!"

"By then, everyone will know that as long as they can win the emperor's favor, they can get a high position. Will they not resort to any means to achieve their goals?!"

"Without rules, there will be no order!"

In the Cining Palace, the empress dowager spoke with dissatisfaction to Emperor Xiao Lin who came to pay his respects.

Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin turned the black jade ring on his thumb indifferently. Upon hearing this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at the Queen Mother with a smile, "Your Majesty, you are wrong!"

"The fighting in the harem cannot be restrained by rules."

"Besides, how can the harem of the Great Yan Dynasty ever have rules?!"

The emperors of the Great Yan Dynasty were love-sick people from generation to generation. They only loved one person in their whole life, ignored all the beauties in the palace, and only put their heart in front of one person, wishing to give her the best things in the world.

That’s how the late emperor treated Yelu Nanxian back then!

Back then, that woman forced all the women in the palace to have no chance to survive.

The Queen Mother has suffered a lot.

Yelu Nanxian was always a thorn in the empress dowager's heart. She felt pain when she was touched. Seeing that the emperor was referring to her, the empress dowager became even more displeased. She said angrily: "But didn't the emperor swear when he was young that he would never make the same mistakes as the previous emperor, not be tempted by women, and never forget his duties as a king?!"

"Has the Emperor forgotten now?!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin's dark eyes flashed with a hint of sarcasm, "The Queen Mother wants to teach me how to be a king?!"

If the Queen Mother wasn't stupid, why had he only been resting at Concubine Yi's place for the past three years? !

Such a confused person, but you are here to teach him the rules today? !

If he really followed the rules, it would be impossible for the Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, and Imperial Noble Consort to all come from the Feng family of Duke Dingguo's Mansion!

She doesn’t follow the rules when she should;

She asked him to follow the rules when he shouldn't;

So the word "rules" were set for him? !

But he is the emperor!

The head nanny beside the empress dowager was so anxious that she was running around in circles. Why did the mother and son quarrel again? ! She said that the empress dowager should just stay in the Cining Palace to enjoy her remaining years. After all, the emperor was his biological son. As long as the empress dowager did not cause trouble, the emperor would definitely honor her and make her live a life of honor.

But the Empress Dowager has disliked the Emperor since childhood, and even likes the Ninth Prince born to the Grand Noble Consort Cao Quan more than the Emperor.

But how could the emperor be blamed for the difficult birth? !

Not to mention that because her health was damaged after giving birth to the emperor, she could not get pregnant again. After she finally recovered, Yelu Nanxian entered the palace. The empress dowager fell out of favor from then on, and there was no possibility of her getting pregnant again.

This has become a source of worry for the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager always felt that if the Emperor had not been unlucky and had not ruined her health, she would have had another son. If she had two princes by her side, perhaps the Emperor would not have abandoned her and fallen in love with Yelu Nanxian.

Obsession becomes a demon!

During those years, the Empress Dowager vented all her dissatisfaction and resentment on the Emperor, who was still a child, and completely destroyed the relationship between mother and son.

The atmosphere in the palace was extremely cold, and all the servants were frightened into silence. At this moment, a message suddenly came from outside the door, "Empress Dowager, the Ninth Prince has come to the palace to pay his respects to you..." This sentence instantly broke the cold and depressing atmosphere in the palace. The Empress Dowager's face, which was full of anger just now, instantly melted after hearing that the Ninth Prince was coming, and a loving smile suddenly appeared on her face, and there was a bit of eagerness in that smile.

"Old Nine is here?! Let him in!"

Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin, who witnessed all this, looked at the empress dowager's joyful eyes, and a trace of helplessness and ridicule flashed across them.

Such a stupid woman turned out to be her biological mother. What sin had he committed in his previous life? !

"Greetings to the Queen Mother!"

"Hey! Sixth brother is here too?! Greetings to Sixth brother!"

The Ninth Prince Xiao Jing was very good-looking, handsome, with a pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes, and thin lips that always had a sly smile on them. His every move was graceful, lazy and calm, and he had a good appearance. Every time he came to the Cining Palace, the palace maids would blush with shame.

After Xiao Jing paid his respects to the Queen Mother, he paid his respects to Xiao Lin in a frivolous manner, as if he had just seen Xiao Lin.

"Get up!"

"Why did you enter the palace?"

Xiao Lin raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes were as dark as ink, and he asked with a smile.

"I missed the Empress Dowager a little, so I asked my mother to pass on a message. With the Empress Dowager's permission, I came to pay my respects to her today..." said the Ninth Prince Xiao Jing casually as he sat on a chair.

The Queen Mother felt even sweeter when she heard Xiao Jing say with her own ears that he missed her.

He repeatedly asked the people below to prepare Xiao Jing's favorite food, "Yuehen, go and brew Jinshan Timely Rain, Jing'er likes to drink that... Also, go get some almond peanut crisps, buttered abalone snails, plum blossom soup cakes, and osmanthus cakes... These are Jing'er's favorites..."

The Queen Mother said with a smile.

The servants in the palace were immediately arranged in circles. The Queen Mother kept talking to the Ninth Prince Xiao Jing. The two of them asked and answered each other, and they were more harmonious and intimate than a real mother and son. Soon, laughter could be heard...

Only the head nanny in the Empress Dowager's palace was anxious and looked at Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin with worried eyes from time to time.

In the past, the Queen Mother and the Ninth Prince would also be so excited about chatting that they would ignore the Emperor. Many times, she saw the Emperor looking at the Queen Mother and the Ninth Prince with eyes that showed grievance, confusion, and anger... However, as the Emperor grew older, such looks became less and less frequent. The Emperor became more and more adept at controlling his expressions, and his emotions were no longer revealed. Only occasionally would she see a flash of suppressed anger in the Emperor's eyes.

But today... the emperor is in a bad mood.

He is very calm!

Seems like a sense of relief...

"I have something to do in the previous court. Old Nine, you stay here with the Empress Dowager. It will be considered as showing filial piety to me!" After saying this, he bowed, turned around and left the Cining Palace without any reluctance, leaving the Empress Dowager and Old Nine stunned on the spot.

"I am increasingly reluctant to talk about this emperor..."

The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, then angrily criticized Xiao Lin.

Although the Ninth Prince Xiao Jing was still responding to the Queen Mother on the surface, his eyes were looking at the back of Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin, and the ink in his eyes was as obscure as a whirlpool.

The head nanny of the Cining Palace felt empty in her heart, as if something was out of the Empress Dowager's control. The scary thing was that the Empress Dowager was still completely unaware of it.

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