"It doesn't matter whether you ask for advice or not, Princess Yu Gui will come in and sit down anyway." Chu Lianruo withdrew her footsteps, turned around and returned to the palace. Shi Yuyin followed behind her, walking in with a gentle pace.

  Si Wei went up to the tea water and stood beside Chu Lian Ruo, while the person attending to Shi Yu Yin was left outside by her.

  Chu Lian gently lifted the hot tea and slowly waved off the steam, "What does Yu Guifei want to talk about by coming here?"

  Shi Yu Yin didn't say a word, but instead stared at Si Wei beside her for a while. Chu Lian seemed to be unaware of Shi Yu Yin's hint, as if she hadn't seen it.

  "There is a maid present, some things are not suitable to say." Shi Yuyin naturally didn't believe that Chu Lian wouldn't understand her meaning, but she remained silent. She was still anxious in her heart and couldn't calm down.

  Chu Lianruo finally reacted, putting down the teacup in her hand, "Si Wei, you go down first." After Si Wei's figure left the room, Chu Lianruo slowly said, "Yu Guifei, it's quiet now."

  Shi Yu Yin nodded, "Do you know that the Emperor did not attend the morning court today?"

  "Huh?" Chu Lian pretended to be unaware, "The Emperor actually forgot to attend the morning court, this has never happened before, what's going on?"

  "Chu Lian Ruo, stop pretending to be so naive and ignorant." Shi Yu Yin slammed the cup in her hand heavily on the table, stood up, and looked down at Chu Lian Ruo with a superior attitude.

  However, Chu Lian seemed to be carefree and didn't take Yu Guifei's sarcasm to heart. "Yu Guifei, what do you mean by 'pretending'? I don't understand the meaning behind your words."

  "Don't you understand? Then I'll tell you." Shi Yuyin almost choked on her own saliva under her pure and innocent gaze.

  "Can't find it." Chu Lian replied quickly and smoothly, with a natural tone, her eyes wide open with curiosity looking at Shi Yu Yin.

  Shi Yu Yin was taken aback, her hand raised high as if she couldn't help but want to hit her. However, Chu Lian Ruo knew that no matter how much she provoked Shi Yu Yin, the latter would never actually hit her. After all, if she were to show up in front of Xu Rong with a handprint on her face, Shi Yu Yin's reputation as an elder would take another hit.

  Her hand passed through the hair in front of her body, a step, and she sat back again. "In that Shu Fei Palace, Shu Fei didn't know what means were used, but someone who hadn't been thought of by the Emperor for two years actually made the Emperor not even go to court."

  "You've said it all, two years without seeing each other, the Emperor's fondness for her is indeed normal." Chu Lianruo lowered his head, not looking at Shi Yuyin, and thus hid the disdain in his eyes.

  "Hmph, he was never one... to reminisce about old feelings." Shi Yuyin originally had a strong momentum, but as she spoke, she couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation.

  Chu Lian raised her eyes, looking at the suddenly decadent Shi Yu Yin who had become so arrogant, and felt happy in her heart. On her face, she also sighed, "Yu Gui Fei, the emperor's favor is not for us to manage, abandoning the court without care, there are officials and the empress dowager to preside over the situation, we are just small women in the palace after all."

  Shi Yu Yin listened to Chu Lian Ruo's words, which seemed like a monologue, and her heart moved. She didn't have any ministers, but the Empress Dowager... Speaking of which, the Empress Dowager had another trick up her sleeve that she had planned to use against Chu Lian Ruo - the green Luo, which could now be used against Shu Fei instead.

  "Yu Fei's gaze was indeed transparent." Shi Yu Yin looked at her with a hint of a smile, trying to guess what she was thinking.

  Chu Lian let her gaze sweep over her, "This isn't about being transparent or not, it's just what I think in my heart. As long as we serve the Emperor wholeheartedly when he arrives, matters of the imperial court aren't really our place to discuss."

  "Is this really what you have in mind?" Shi Yu Yin gazed at Chu Lian Ruo.

  "Otherwise? Should I rush to the Shufei Palace and ask the Emperor why he didn't attend the morning court?" This remark left Shi Yu stunned, unable to respond.

  She immediately changed the subject, "I saw Empress Yu just wanting to go out, I don't know where she was planning to go?"

  Chu Lian knew as soon as she asked that he wanted her to go with him to Shoukang Palace.

  "Before the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, I was often asked to accompany her. Now that so many days have passed, I haven't gone even once." Chu Lianruo showed a guilty expression.

  "Oh? Since that's the case, let's go together, sister. The Empress Dowager only has Green Luo by her side as a trustworthy person and doesn't interact with other consorts." Shi Yu Yin immediately suggested.

  Chu Lian's faint smile, is it a bit too hasty? Afraid that the Empress Dowager doesn't know this news? At this hour, even on normal days, it's just after the morning court session. Shi Yuyin, aren't you eager to let the Empress Dowager know that you've set up many informants in the palace?

  "There's Yu Guifei and I going together, the Empress Dowager will surely be delighted." Chu Lianruo stood up with a smile, Shi Yuyin followed closely behind her, they walked out of the house together, Si Wei and Shi Yuyin's maidervant came over at the same time.

  Following the two masters, Chu Lianruo and Shi Yuyin chatted intermittently. The two originally didn't have many intimate conversations to share. In Chu Lianruo's heart, Shi Yuyin was someone she couldn't let go of, while in Shi Yuyin's heart, she resented Chu Lianruo. She always felt that if it weren't for Chu Lianruo's appearance, the pool of water wouldn't have been stirred up, and her Sanlang wouldn't have abandoned her.

  Along the way, the two of them naturally had their own thoughts.

  Shoukang Palace, the Empress Dowager had just received the news.

  The empress dowager was enraged, and everyone in Shoukang Palace was terrified, not daring to utter another word.

  "It's really absurd. Go and send a message to the Emperor, asking him to come to our place for a while." The Empress Dowager called out to a eunuch, telling him to immediately go to the Shu Consort's palace.

  The news came, and it was said that the emperor had been in the Shu Fei Palace all along, and still hadn't gotten out of bed. Originally, he didn't like the Miao girl from Shu Fei, thinking that two years would be enough for the emperor to forget her.

  But unexpectedly, another appearance directly hooked away the emperor's heart.

  Chu Lian and Shi Yu Yin exchanged a knowing glance as they entered Shou Kang Palace, taking in the shattered flower vases on the floor and the unusually cautious palace maids. They both understood that the Empress Dowager must have known about the Emperor's scandalous affair.

  Chu Lian had expected to see her succeed, but the Empress Dowager did not like Consort Shu. This was something that had been known for a long time. In fact, she was also quite curious. Basically relying on her set of enchanting skills, there shouldn't be anyone in the palace who would have too many opinions about her. These were a woman's instincts, according to Shi Yu Yin.

  Why did Empress Dowager feel so strongly against it?

  She had no way of knowing this.

  "I have seen the Empress Dowager."

  Chu Lian and Shi Yu Yin both fell to the ground at the same time, and the Empress Dowager's expression slightly improved. "Get up, both of you." The servants cleaned up the broken pieces in the room and served tea and refreshments again. "What brings you two here today to visit an old woman like me?"

  "I still remember what the Empress Dowager said at her birthday banquet, are you starting to get tired of me now?" Chu Lian said with a smile, half-joking and half-teasing.

  The empress dowager saw Chu Lian's mischievous appearance, and her anger slightly subsided. Just as she was about to say something, Shi Yuyin said somewhat anxiously, "Empress Dowager, isn't today's matter of the emperor a bit too absurd?"

  "Yu Guifei, mind your words. The Emperor's affairs are not for you to judge. And what do you mean by 'today's matter'?" The Empress Dowager's face, which had originally softened, suddenly turned solemn.

  After all, as the last person to survive in the palace, such a look frightened Shi Yu Yin's heart and she immediately knelt down, "Your Majesty, I just...I just heard some rumors on the road, this judgment of the Emperor, even if I had the courage of a minister's wife, I wouldn't dare."

  The empress dowager immediately gave Shi Yu Yin a loud slap, "Hmph, idle chatter, Consort Ye, did you hear that?" She was already furious and had no sense of propriety, yet her own daughter-in-law dared to speak ill of her son in front of her. This Yu Gui Fei was not young and had many tricks up her sleeve.

  She gazed coldly at Shi Yuyin who was kneeling on the ground and asked Chu Lianrong seriously.

  Chu Lian seemed to be startled by the Empress Dowager's move, and after a pause, she spoke carefully, "Empress Dowager, Yu Guifei said... not wrong, it was indeed... idle gossip."

  As soon as she heard this, she knew something was amiss. Chu Lian seemed like someone who wouldn't tell lies and had such a pure gaze, how could she be like those filthy palace women?

  "The Empress Dowager, what Yu Guifei said is true. She's also worried about the Emperor, that's why she spoke such words. Don't blame her for it." The more Chu Lian tried to reason with the Empress Dowager, the more dissatisfied she became with Yu Guifei. People are most afraid of comparisons.

  "And you, why didn't you worry about the Emperor? Why haven't I heard you say something like that before? You also dare to believe in rumors and hearsay. If someone were to spread a rumor in the palace today saying that the dynasty is going to change, would you, Imperial Concubine Yu, also believe it?" The Empress Dowager's voice was cold, and Shi Yuyin also understood that the main reason for the Empress Dowager's anger this time was that she had received the news before the Empress Dowager, or at least at the same time.

  In this case, how could the Empress Dowager not be angry? After all, she was the one who had committed a great taboo by cultivating her own power in the palace. Although every generation of concubines would do so, they all did it discreetly and didn't expose themselves like she did. Now, because of that small Shu Fei, she lost her composure.

  The Empress Dowager did not entangle herself too much, but from then on, those eyes that could see must be hidden for a period of time and could no longer be used, otherwise they would inevitably be secretly eliminated by the Empress Dowager. "Get up, don't listen to these idle rumors in the future."

  When Shi Yu Yin got up, her whole body was still trembling, apparently she had just been scared by the Empress Dowager, but Chu Lian Ruo thought that she was completely infuriated.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, her gaze was fixed on him when she handed it over.

  "The Emperor has arrived." Just as Shi Yuyin had stood up and moved to the Empress Dowager's side, a report came from outside.

  Chu Lian was slightly stunned, she hadn't expected the Empress Dowager to act so quickly. If the Empress Dowager had humiliated Xi Rong in front of them, then with Xi Rong's temperament, their days with Shi Yu Yin would also be difficult.

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