TV Series: When the Villain Chooses to Stand by

As luck would have it, Gao Xiyue never dared to have any thoughts of harming anyone again, but Bai Ruiji's remarks still spread.

As she expected, Bai Ruiji was remembered by everyone.

She didn't understand her position in the harem and offended others rashly, so her days would not be easy.

The emperor was worried about the queen's illness and was in no mood to summon Bai Ruiji.

He investigated everything that happened on the day of the visit in detail.

Being able to say those words in the Imperial Garden, he must be a frivolous person. Although he was still somewhat interested in Bai Ruiji, he also wanted to give her the cold shoulder.

There are many beautiful palace maids. As long as he wants, countless of them will agree to marry him.

Bai Ruiji, a low-ranking concubine with no background and no favor, who offended all the high-ranking concubines in the palace, soon learned her lesson.

"What is this? Is this what the imperial kitchen prepares? How dare they do this! Who are they trying to humiliate?"

Bai Ruiji looked at the cold and greasy food on the table and became furious.

Yellowed and broken vegetable leaves, clear chicken soup with the bottom visible, and a thick layer of solidified oil on the meat dishes.

The goods are the same, but the quality is very different.

She waved her hand and knocked everything to the ground, with broken porcelain pieces and greasy vegetable juice splattered everywhere.

What made her even angrier was that the palace servants serving around her actually dodged away.

No one took her seriously.

"Master, Master, please calm down. These are indeed the promised rations. The Imperial Kitchen has nothing more to give us."

"Master, I have asked, but they said that these are just right for you since you are young. For other masters, we need to prepare digestible food. It's all for your own good."

"I really had no choice but to bring it back."

The palace maid Su Yun, who served her personally, wiped away her tears and suppressed her fear, going up to her and trying to persuade her with a few words.

She is a personal maid, and she cannot be away unless there is a special situation. She can only hope that this master will be favored in the future.

"What did you say?"

Bai Ruiji stared at the palace maid in front of her as if she wanted to eat her alive.

She had suffered so much in the first half of her life, and now she had finally become the master. Was she going to live a worse life than before?

"I am young..."

Bai Ruiji's body shook, but she finally came. Only then did she understand why. Not only did those words anger the imperial concubine, but they were also known to everyone in the harem.

"I want to see the emperor."

Seeing his master stand up and want to go out, Suyun hurriedly crawled forward on his knees and hugged the other's calf.

"Master, no."

When Bai Ruiji lowered her head, she saw Suyun shaking his head in panic. She looked around and waved everyone away.

"Why not? What do you know?"

Seeing that Bai Ruiji listened to his advice, Su Yun immediately told her the news he had heard.

"Master, I heard that the Emperor was furious because of the Empress' illness. Concubine Jia and Concubine Xian sent people to deliver tonic soup, but they were turned away."

"I'm afraid it wouldn't be appropriate for you to go there now."

After hearing this, Bai Ruiji calmed down, took two steps back and sat down on the chair.

Yes, Concubine Xian, the Concubine Xian who offended the Queen has now become a noble lady.

It is so difficult to ascend to this position, but it only takes a word from the superior to lower it.

She had long heard that Concubine Hui and the Queen were very close when they were in the Qiandi Palace, and even their children were more favored than those of other princes and princesses.

What was wrong with me that day? How could I dare to confront the imperial concubine directly?

There is no need to argue with Concubine Jia. She has no children and is just a rootless duckweed like herself.

The imperial concubine is favored, has a family and a daughter, how dare she do that?

"Su Yun, bring me my pipa."

Bai Ruiji numbly played the pipa, which she did not like. Just like every time she was punished, the pain could make her sober.

Every day that followed, she silently endured all the malice around her, listened to the ridicule of those people, ate cold and hard food, and lived in a cold house.

The Empress Dowager of Cining Palace naturally knew Bai Ruiji's situation.

"Let's ignore it for now and let her clear her mind. Even with my support, she can't be so presumptuous. She's simply asking for her own death."

“If you don’t learn to be smart, even if you keep someone like this, they won’t be able to survive in the harem.”

After receiving the order, Fujia quietly retreated. What the Queen Mother meant was that Bai Ruiji still had to be protected, but she had to suffer some hardship.

She has to go and get ready. Mei promised that she would not be unable to handle such cold weather.

People can only grow rapidly in desperate situations. With the help of Suyun, Bai Ruiji quickly sorted out the mistakes she had made, wrote them down carefully, and used them to remind herself in the future.

In the past, Bai Ruiji lived with everyone in the Nan Mansion. Even if she had been secretly trained, the other party would not spend too much energy teaching her these rules.

After all, she is just a chess piece. Big shots never care about the future of chess pieces. They just replace one with the next one when one is discarded.

She was unwilling to remain in despair, as the emperor was indeed very interested in her that day.

Even if she is just a chess piece, she wants to be the most useful one.

Su Yun didn't know much, but she had been tempered among the palace maids, and she knew some taboos better than Bai Ruiji.

On the other side, Ruyi obviously did not have such good luck.

Since being demoted to a noble lady, Ruyi has been reluctant to go out for a long time. She doesn't want to see the avoidance and inquiry in those people's eyes.

The Queen claimed to be ill and exempted herself from all the greetings, which was exactly what she wished for. She only sent A Ruo to deliver some gifts and supplements.

Such behavior was obviously very rude, but Ruyi didn't care about that. She was almost driven crazy.

"Aruo, Aruo!"

Ruyi woke up from her dream again. She sat up in sweat, with fear still in her eyes.

Ah Ruo heard the sound and hurriedly brought in tea. "Master, you have had a nightmare again. How about I call the imperial physician to come and see you? What should I do if you wake up in the middle of the night every day?"

Ruyi let A Ruo wipe the sweat from her forehead. Seeing the sincere worry in her eyes, the fear in her heart faded a little.

"No problem, don't make things difficult for the Emperor. It would be a bit deliberate for me to summon the imperial physician right after the Empress fell ill."

"Yes, Master. I will stay here while you sleep for a while."

"Go and get the wish-fulfilling knot the emperor gave me."

After a moment, Ruyi lay down again, looking at the Ruyi knot hanging above her. She kept comforting herself that everything that had just happened was just a dream, just a dream.

However, the dream was too real, so real that it scared her.

In the past few days, she kept dreaming about the emperor interacting with other women.

The queen is gentle and generous, the imperial concubine is charming and lovely, the noble lady Jia is charming and bright, and there are many concubines whose faces cannot be seen clearly.

The emperor was very happy when he was with each of them, and the friendship in his eyes was what he had been pursuing for half his life.

The dream was chaotic and disorganized, but each fragment still deeply hurt Ruyi's heart.

Why was Hongli so gentle to others? Wasn't she the one he loved the most? She should be the special one.

She was overthinking it, but was it really because of their family background that the emperor had favored the queen and others over the years?