The emperor walked into the gate of Changkun Palace, looking at Lin Dai sitting cross-legged on a couch, intently drawing in a book. He signaled to the palace staff who were about to kneel down to pay their respects, and quietly walked behind her.

  Then he saw that she was drawing a picture of a Longgong Palace library.

  He looked at her as she ticked a small box on the line "Wada Tamaki's little Buddha" and asked aloud, "What are you doing?"

  Lin Ke was startled, turned around to see the Emperor, and then smiled happily: "Your Majesty?" As she got out of bed to put on her shoes, she coquettishly said: "Why didn't Your Majesty summon someone, but instead scared me half to death."

  The emperor pressed her back onto the couch, indicating that she didn't need to get up anymore. He then picked up the account book from the small table and sat down on the other side, comfortably reclining against the headrest, asking her: "Are you planning to reward someone? Who is it?"

  Lin Xiang smiled and said: "Your Majesty has forgotten that tomorrow, my family members will be entering the palace."

  The Emperor suddenly remembered and patted his forehead, saying: "Look at my memory."

  Newlywed woman leaves the house for three days, with three mornings returning to the door. However, the royal family is not like an ordinary household, and it's impossible to accommodate the subject's reason. But the royal family also has some human feelings, on the third day after the emperor takes a concubine or a wife, the empress or concubine can still summon her relatives for a visit, let alone return home.

  The emperor asked again: "Is there anyone from your mother's family coming into the palace tomorrow?"

  Lin Yi nodded and counted on her fingers: "My mother will definitely come, my second aunt should also come, my grandmother will probably come too. My eldest aunt has been a widow for many years and doesn't like to go out, so she probably won't be willing to enter the palace. As for my second and third sisters-in-law, they probably don't want to trouble me, so they shouldn't come."

  The emperor nodded, and silently memorized these people. He looked at her again, and warmly smiled: "The palace is also your home, what's troublesome or not, if you want to see them, just summon all of them."

  She gave him a sidelong glance, revealing a faintly enigmatic smile, and said, "The emperor's concubines are not to be trifled with."

  The emperor put down the book in his hand, stretched out his hand and gently pinched her cheek, with a smile in his eyes: "I heard that you almost blew off the roof of the Chao Yang Palace today, yet you still dare to be the first to lodge a complaint."

  Lin Yan pouted, pretending to be wronged: "That's also because your beloved concubine almost peeled off the face of this empress, it wasn't me who did something bad first."

  Then, she hinted to the palace staff beside her to move the small table on the couch away, moved a few steps closer to the emperor, held his arm, and looked at him with bright and cunning eyes, saying in a soft voice: "Is Uncle angry?" Looking like a naughty little dog who had done something wrong but was afraid of being punished, so it leaned against him and begged for leniency.

  He stroked the fluffy head of "Little Dog" and said, "You are the queen, I entrust the harem to you, I am at ease, as long as you don't go too far, I won't ask."

  "What is the baseline of 'crossing the line' that the Emperor refers to? What if I were a bit harsher on the Noble Consort or other imperial consorts?"

  The emperor looked down at her and said with a smile: "You want to ask me for the Shangfang treasure sword, don't you?"

  Lin Xiao had no intention of flattering him, smiling and looking up at him, saying: "Your Majesty is wise."

  The emperor sighed, took her hand in his, and gently squeezed it. His eyes were slightly distracted as he said, "The imperial concubine has indeed been restless for the past two years, which is also due to her nature. When your aunt was still around, she could still be restrained a bit, but after your aunt left, she became the only one in power in the harem and made it even more chaotic."

  In fact, Guifei didn't have a deep mind, it was Wu's family that had complex thoughts.

  People with simple personalities just make a small fuss on the surface, and no matter how hard they try, they can't do anything too bad. People like this look unruly but are actually the easiest to control. Back in the days at the Wang Fu, the Wu family wanted to send another girl into the palace, but he refused and chose the Imperial Concubine instead.

  The Emperor looked down at Lin Xiang, continuing: "After all, the Imperial Concubine has been following me since the beginning of my reign and gave birth to Jing Er. Whether it's the Imperial Concubine or Xian Fei, Zhaorong, etc., I hope they can live a peaceful life in the palace until old age, Yuan Yuan, do you understand?"

  Lin Xiao looked up at him, his eyes carrying a stern and solemn expression, which made her understand where the emperor's bottom line was.

  Lin Xiao lightly shook her arm, half coquettishly and half discontentedly saying: "Look at what the Emperor said, I'm a tiger, can't I eat them?"

  The emperor also softened his tone, speaking in a gentle voice: "You've been an intelligent and kind child since you were young, I'm not worried that you'll mistreat them, but there are things that need to be made clear to you ahead of time. And as my empress, if someone else does something excessive to you, I won't just sit back and do nothing."

  Lin Xiao leaned on his arm, no longer speaking, carefully thinking about what she could do for these palace concubines.

  The emperor's words were at least good in one way, except that he could not harm the lives of the noble concubines and others. He gave her great power in the harem, enough for her to exert herself, and then quickly stood firm on her feet.

  And she doesn't like getting her hands bloody unless absolutely necessary. She prefers it when everyone is fine, and everything is peaceful.

  On the second day, Lin's family entered the palace.

  Lin Ying, Qi and Li came, but Lin Xiang was slightly disappointed that Zhuang didn't come in. This made Lin Xiang worry if something had happened to her mother, otherwise Zhuang wouldn't miss such a day.

  Lin Ying was a male attendant and could not stay in the palace for too long. After bumping heads with Lin Xiang, he then went to the Diligent Governance Hall to see the Emperor.

  Qī had long understood that Lín Xiǎo would worry about Zhuāng, so after kowtowing and sitting down, he smiled at Lín Xiǎo and said: "Today I have a joyful matter to report to the empress."

  Lin Yan was still worried about her mother and replied somewhat absent-mindedly: "Oh, what's up?"

  "Ah, it's Her Majesty's mother, she has good news!"

  "What?" Lin Xiao almost lost her composure, standing up from the phoenix chair, then became excited again, with a smile in her eyebrows and eyes, asking: "When did you know about it?" She had only entered the palace three days ago, how come she hadn't heard anything.

  "Right on the day of your sister's grand wedding, Third Brother and Sister saw you off to your new home, they were so overjoyed that they cried until they fainted. After calling in a physician for an examination, it was discovered that she had already been pregnant for two months."

  "Madam Li also smiled and said in a gentle voice, 'On that day, your mother was overjoyed and saddened at the same time, which affected her fetal energy. Moreover, she is already quite old, so the imperial physician suggested that it would be best for her not to get out of bed for these few days. Therefore, I took charge and did not let her come see Your Majesty today. We will wait until her pregnancy stabilizes before letting her come see you again.'"

  "It's only right," Lin Dai said happily. "Mother's health is important."