Quick Transmigration: Leisure

Day two.

Her head felt heavy. She had forgotten when she returned to the palace and what she said at the end.

Will he get drunk and act crazy, or talk nonsense?

Xia Youmi cast a pleading look at Shi Yi, who was holding the hangover soup. Shi Yi trembled slightly. She still didn't answer her question first, but gestured for her to drink the soup first.

He gulped it down and gagged.

Xia Youmi leaned back against the bed, rinsed her mouth, and waited for Shi Yi to answer her questions.

"Miss, sigh..."

Shi Rong dismissed some of the palace servants around her, closed the door, and then prepared to settle accounts.

Xia Youmi looked at the two maids who seemed to be facing a formidable enemy and thought to herself, "This is bad. Could it be that she's being indecent?"

"Miss!" Shi Rong had clearly been holding back for a long time, her face flushed with an inscrutable blush.

"What did I do? Could it be... flirting?" Xia Youmi, who knew her own nature very well and had no other guilty conscience, was a little flustered at this moment.

"You still know that!"

"Huh? Really? Tsk, I'm at a disadvantage! If I wasn't awake, I wouldn't have sensed anything!"

"You!" Shi Rong was speechless.

“You can do it privately! It’s not safe to do it outside!” Shiyi added.

"Ugh!" Xia Youmi covered her face, belatedly realizing that she shouldn't have drunk so much.

After a while, he realized what was happening and quickly asked:

"Who saw it?"

Shi Yi and Shi Rong exchanged a glance.

"At that time, Her Majesty the Empress had already been sent to rest, leaving you and Chief Qi in the room. Only the two of us were waiting, along with a palace maid from Fengyi Palace who was pouring wine."

"The others are standing guard outside; I don't know if they heard anything."

That means the Empress knows too!

"I... um, specifically, how did I do it? Did he... resist?"

Shi Rong sighed with some regret:

"You didn't succeed at all!"

"what?"

Xia Youmi has made a huge blunder.

The reason I was a little curious about Qi Zhuo was because he had a broad back and a narrow waist, and an amazing physique.

In movies and TV dramas, the protagonists who play generals often don't have that kind of physique and imposing presence. Even that person in his past life was a scholar, possessing martial prowess but with a more rugged and spirited physique.

She could sense the undisguised passion in Qi Zhuo's gaze.

He then acted on impulse and made flirtatious remarks.

Perhaps her environment in her previous life was too relaxed and carefree. She saw herself as a cynical rogue and adapted quite well to it.

And no one in her heart puts any constraints on her.

So I've always wanted to touch his abs to see what they look like.

Hey!

I never imagined I did this while I was not fully conscious! And I failed! I didn't even touch it!

Poetry should be written with a sense of wanting to say something but holding back.

How could she possibly address Chief Qi? Her face flushed crimson, and she didn't know how to react while holding her master's hand. She even muttered some incoherent words of comfort, suggesting it wasn't the right time.

Furthermore, Qi Zhuo strictly ordered the palace servants to keep quiet.

Finally, they followed the imperial carriage all the way until they returned safely to Jinzhugong Palace.

In Shi Yi and Shi Rong's minds, their mistress was bound to leave the palace sooner or later. So this Chief Qi had already gained the upper hand.

No one else knew about this.

The male protagonist obviously had spies in the Empress's palace, so he knew that Xia Youmi went to celebrate and sent a painting that made the Empress lose her composure.

However, precisely because the spy was a personal maidservant who was accompanying the Empress to her bedtime, the maidservant left behind to pour wine was actually a confidante of the Qi family.

That's why I didn't suddenly feel a green.

I do have a slight curiosity about Xia Youmi's paintings.

......

On the fifteenth of September, Consort Ye gave birth to a son safely.

The emperor was overjoyed. Facing the healthy prince, Lian Shaoyuan waved his hand and bestowed upon Ye Ruilan the title "Zhao". After the third prince's full moon celebration, he was also given the name Lian Congzhan, a name with extraordinary significance.

For a while.

It was as if some kind of fertility-granting mechanism had been activated in the imperial harem, as news of three concubines becoming pregnant spread one after another.

Consort Lu, a kind and gentle woman from one of the Imperial Concubine's factions, was more than two months pregnant.

Consort Fang, a former servant of the Prince's residence, was a low-key woman among the most prestigious members of the Jiangnan literati families. She was more than a month pregnant.

The newly arrived beauty, Xue Xi'er, was also presented to the palace from Jiangnan. She was known for her fertility and, as expected, became pregnant after a full month.

Now, Lian Shaoyuan was completely relaxed.

She even secretly visited Tsushin no Miyako, wanting to see just how good his highly praised painting skills were. Was she deliberately acting foolish to provoke his dislike and avoid his favor?

Although you guessed correctly.

Unfortunately, what he secretly saw was a contingency plan that Xia Youmi had prepared specifically for him—eating beggar's chicken in the courtyard.

It not only makes the food delicious, but also keeps away idlers.

Lian Shaoyuan ran very fast. He couldn't bear to look at such rude behavior, even though he had behaved normally when he dealt with Consort Shu last time.

It wasn't that Xia Youmi was incredibly powerful, or that she had cultivated informants right up to the Emperor's side. In reality, she hadn't placed any people outside her own palace; she was simply wasting resources.

Later on, when the female lead gained power and could remove anyone's spies, it was really unnecessary.

She could foresee that the male lead would lose patience.

The main reason was that after Consort Zhao gave birth, he already had two sons and a daughter. In addition, with three concubines who were pregnant, he felt he had fulfilled his duty of producing offspring, and the court was stable while the harem was peaceful.

Then they began to patiently search for true love to fill the void in their hearts.

This is also the opportunity for the main storyline to intersect with that of the female lead.

Although the original text wasn't written so explicitly, and it had a somewhat predestined feel to it, that's how Xia Youmi saw it. If he weren't so idle, where would he find the time to observe the women in the harem, and where would he find the cause and effect of their love affairs?

October.

Ye Linghua had been in the palace for five months, and although her appearance had aroused some suspicion, most of the concubines were cautious and observed the situation until they had secured their own positions. This was especially true with Consort Shu stepping forward.

The female protagonist thus remained hidden within the palace, developing her career peacefully. She was wary of all the concubines, especially her elder sister, Ye Ruilan. Ever since the Prime Minister's residence learned that the Imperial Concubine was pregnant again, she had been largely ignored by Prime Minister Ye and his wife.

He was repeatedly instructed to properly assist his elder sister!

Knowing that no one can be relied upon, she focused on developing her own power. Apart from Consort Xue, who shared the same palace with her, the female protagonist had no close relationships with anyone else.

In particular, the arrogant and favored Consort Shu, and the strong-willed but unfavored Consort Xian, kept their distance from them.

Currently, the female lead and the male lead have not had any formal intimate contact.

On the day the female lead was to serve the emperor, after being carried to the emperor's bed, he made her wait for an hour before finally arriving late. He calmly explained to her that he was tied up with political affairs and that they were currently in a tense situation.

He couldn't treat the female lead's night carelessly, but if he didn't summon her, she would also feel uncomfortable.

So the two spent half the night separated by the bed curtains, the male protagonist reviewing memorials while the female protagonist quietly kept him company.

As dawn broke, he ordered his men to carry the female protagonist back, as recorded in the official history.

At that time, it was the period of power transition in the harem, and no one paid any attention, so there was no way that the matter of the emperor's bed could be spread so widely.

And the female lead is the only one who was treated this way.

It can only be said that the meeting between the male and female protagonists was anything but ordinary.

December.

It's the season when heavy snow is falling.

Lian Shaoyuan, along with several of his favored concubines, prepared to stay at the newly built hot spring resort for a few days. Originally, it wasn't the heroine's turn; Xue Xi'er, a noblewoman who lived in the same palace, was five months pregnant, so to be on the safe side, she didn't go.

She even suggested to His Majesty that she replace her good friend Ye Linghua with another companion.

It just so happens that the female lead is also interested.

Thus, during this trip, the male and female protagonists unexpectedly fell in love.

Xia Youmi knew the plot beforehand.

I didn't go to join the fun.