The imperial concubine is charming and charming, and only seeks power and wealth

What was his reaction at that time?

Jiang Lingyue remembers it very clearly.

He looked calm, as if he didn't realize that this was a deliberate challenge.

But he ignored the virtuous concubine's bowing and greeting with a bulging belly, and walked straight to her side. He first took a look at her painting, then reached out to help her up, and praised with a smile, "It's a good painting."

In fact, the painting had just been started and even the outline had not been drawn.

But he seemed to be inspired by her rough sketch and was also thinking of painting.

He didn't paint the scenery or the objects. He even ignored the pregnant Concubine Xian, who was eagerly looking for a painting of her. He just stared at her for a few breaths, pointed to the place where Concubine Xian had sat, and said, "Sit over there."

For more than an hour, the virtuous concubine stood while she sat, and he even braved the wind and snow to draw a small portrait of her.

"Qi Hengzhi..." Jiang Lingyue pinched a ball of snow and stuffed it into his hand, asking him, "Do you remember?"

"...Yeah," Qi Junyi threw the snowball aside and went to hold her hand, "I remember now."

"Now that you remember, and you said you've had feelings for me since the beginning," Jiang Lingyue's eyebrows curved, and she gave him a dull smile: "Then can you tell me what you thought when you saw me being harassed by Concubine Xian?"

What do you think?

Qi Junyi lowered his eyes and said, "I've thought a lot."

He seemed to be considering how to respond. He was silent for a few breaths before continuing, "You probably don't know, but I rarely get angry."

Of course, few people dared to make him angry.

"When have you ever been angry?" Jiang Lingyue raised her eyebrows slightly and curled her lips, "I didn't notice it at all."

Qi Junyi looked helpless.

Being a king requires keeping a low profile, and he has been calm since childhood. As long as he doesn't want to, no one can see into his emotions.

And that day, when he saw this frail girl, whom he himself couldn't bear to bully, painting in the wind and snow, he was frightened by the anger that rose up in an instant.

He went to Yixiang Palace specifically for her, and it had nothing to do with Concubine Xian.

But the virtuous concubine was pregnant at the time, so he had to go to the main hall just for show.

Who knew I would just happen to see that scene.

Qi Junyi took a deep breath, rubbed her little head through the hat, and said, "Think about it, after that day, until the birth of the eldest prince, Concubine Xian never left the palace gate?"

More than that.

Since it concerned herself, Jiang Lingyue remembered it very clearly. After that day, the virtuous concubine not only never left the palace gate, but also never called her over to "relieve her boredom" again.

Even after giving birth to the eldest prince, she didn't even remember that there was someone like her living in the side hall.

Stop making things difficult for her and ignore her.

Previously, she had thought that Concubine Xian was a new mother, content with having a son, and had surrounded the main hall of Yixiang Palace like an iron barrel, fearing that someone would harm the eldest prince. She was extremely cautious and had no energy to embarrass her...

So, isn't that the case...

Jiang Lingyue asked, "What did you say to her?"

"Hmm..." Qi Junyi squeezed her palm, then pulled her into his arms, his voice a little hoarse, "I warned her a few words."

When she first entered the palace, he did not check on her situation at home.

The reason why she was allowed to live in Yixiang Palace was because she was related to Concubine Xian and could be taken care of in some way, so she had no idea about the various hidden secrets.

It was not until I saw her with my own eyes that I realized that in the place where I couldn't see her, she was a poor little thing with low status and little influence, who was bullied by others.

The virtuous concubine actually made things so difficult for her!

He placed Concubine Xian under house arrest.

Another sorry, maybe because of her different mood, this time, Jiang Lingyue did not feel annoyed or ridiculous.

Instead, she concentrated and remained silent for a while, pondering for a few breaths. In the end, she couldn't help but ask him, "Since you get angry when you see me being given a hard time, why don't you think that besides Consort Xian, Consort Shu and Consort Hui might also deliberately give me a hard time?"

She didn't know at the time that these deliberate difficulties came from his different treatment of her.

But now she knew that he was the source of the disaster. As the source of the disaster himself, could he really not have expected this at all?

He had never visited any concubines before and treated her differently.

Putting aside other people's opinions, as someone who knew the truth about the "bedroom affair", could Concubine Hui see the clues and not be able to resist taking action against her?

"You'll only protect me if you see it with your own eyes. As for other things you can't see, you don't want to think about them at all, right?"

As he put it, he was competing with himself at that time.

He didn't want to admit that he was attracted to a little concubine, so how could he go against his reason and spend so much time thinking about her?

The girl in my arms spoke with sharp words, and she was truly smart.

Qi Junyi was speechless for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "I'm sorry for not protecting you openly and honestly the first time."

"..." Jiang Lingyue was silent for a moment, then whispered, "I'm quite useless. I only protected you because you saw me. I'm very touched."

Before taking the Blood Ginseng, she was very afraid of the cold.

That day, in the ice and snow, her hands and feet were frozen stiff, but she still had the experience of painting seriously.

It was too cold, so cold that it made her feel desperate and made her feel that her life in the harem had no end in sight.

She'd probably die in there.

Maybe when he dies, he will still be a little Baolin.

He came when despair was just beginning.

He didn't say outright that he wanted to vent his anger, but his words and actions certainly did that.

He let her sit in the position of the virtuous concubine and painted a picture for her himself.

The virtuous concubine who had just been bossing her around and maliciously making things difficult for her was now standing in the wind and snow.

For Jiang Lingyue, the feeling at that moment was no less than the dawn of hope in the midst of despair.

She could never forget that moment.

"Aren't you curious about when I fell in love with you?"

The arms around her suddenly stiffened, but Jiang Lingyue seemed unaware. "It should be this day."

That day, he finished the painting, and she accepted it and left first.

Not long after she returned to the side hall, his oral instructions arrived.

He promoted her from the lowest rank of the eighth-rank Baolin to the fifth-rank Cairen. At least she no longer had to kneel down during daily greetings.

That night he was so gentle, perhaps even without knowing it, that he kissed her hand several times while their fingers were intertwined.

Be careful and cherish it.

It’s different from now. Now he has kissed her feet, but in Jiang Lingyue’s eyes at that time, he was still a majestic king.

Such a heartbreaking act is even more rare in the case of a majestic king.

It's easy to knock on the door of any girl's heart.

With the added bonus of physical intimacy night after night, no matter how calm and rational Jiang Lingyue was, she was no exception.