Ming Lan walked in from outside the palatial garden with a group of servants and eunuchs behind him. Once he stepped over the threshold with his exquisite and clean boots, they stood in the porch of Weiyan Chamber with their hands and eyebrows down, waiting quietly.

Ming Lan raised his eyes, just to see Gu Yunjin, who was grinning, walked to him quickly.

She wore her hair in a gorgeous and flamboyant bun, and her hairpin was ringed with pearls, all of which were matched appropriately.

She was wearing a pleated skirt of thin silk with light floral patterns on it, and the center of front with embroidered magnolia blossoms on it revealed her slender neck and delicate collarbone.

Her eyes were shining. Her clear and watery eyes which looked into Ming Lan's seemed to be suppressing some unexplained excitement.

Gu Yunjin raised her hand and held Ming Lan's right arm lightly. She led him forward, saying coquettishly.

"Godfather, how long has it been since you came to meet me last time? You are reluctant to come here even if I beg you?"

Her beautiful eyes looked around, and then she saw that Ming Lan's left hand was covered by the deerskin glove with golden silk patterns.

The gloves were designed to cover the two ugly severed fingers.

Having a glance at it, she was badly frightened on the spot, and a chill of coldness condensed on her back.

Don't you feel sultry to wear leather gloves in the daytime?

But she only dared to ask this question in her heart.

The senior eunuchs in the Palace of Da Yi, who were impaired though, knew how to satisfy the desire for intimacy better than ordinary people.

They often taught their young and junior masters how to seek pleasure or the maids who were humble and had no backstage to rely on in the Palace so that they could find another way to obtain pleasure since their desire couldn't be satisfied.

Ming Lan was such a eunuch leader.

As the Commander-in-chief in the Western Depot, namely the second-rank official in the court, he held great power and was in charge of the Garden. There were so many young and beautiful damsels who tried to fawn on him.

When Gu Yunjin approached him before, he settled on her at a glance.

She was conceited and arrogant with a beautiful and charming face, and she was bent on taking a shortcut to climb into the emperor's bed.

It was conceivable that Ming Lan would not help Gu Yunjin realize her long-cherished wish in vain. The premise of his pointing out the shortcut to her was that he had to take advantage of her first.

After being trained several times by Ming Lan, Gu Yunjin finally got her wish and then became one of the concubines in the imperial harem.

Since she had been trained by Ming Lan before, their relationship became somewhat subtle.

Ming Lan did not prostrate himself before Gu Yunjin after seeing her. He didn't act like a subordinate at all. She guided him all the way to the Nanmu couch in the east, and he regarded her special care as granted.

The couch was equipped with a fragrant silver red soft brocade cushion.

Ming Lan took off the outside honey-colored silk cloak, revealing the white embroidered robe of the Commander-in-chief and his long and enchanting body.

He turned back to take a seat, and the soft cushion would not make his injured tailbone painful again.

"Why you want to see me in such a hurry?"

Ming Lan raised his eyelids to look at Gu Yunjin, who looked obedient, with a look of apathy, and asked casually.

Gu Yunjin's hands were held together. Her green fingers were tightly intertwined, and her beautiful and seductive face looked so fragile.

She opened her lips lightly, twisted her waist and said with bitterness.

"In fact, there's nothing serious. But you haven't entered the Palace for a long time, and I miss you so much. I'll always be upset if I don't see you."

"And ... The emperor hasn't stepped into Weiyan Chamber for more than two months, and the last time he asked me to come to him was a month ago."

"Now in the imperial harem, everyone knows that Concubine Xu and Zhaoyi Yu are enjoying the elegance. Godfather, I hope that you can give me some advice. "

Only then did Ming Lan understand what Gu Yunjin wanted from him. She called him into the Palace in a hurry just for the fight for the emperor's favor!

Ming Lan looked directly at Gu Yunjin's beautiful but affected face. Then his face changed suddenly and his eyes sharpened.

"Since you wanted to enter the Palace, I tried my best to send you into the Palace. Since you wanted to climb into the emperor's bed, I arranged everything for you to get your wish."

"Now you want to fight for favor with those women. You can use your initiative since you have your own brain! Or you want to me to teach you how to use your brain? "

Ming Lan said with anger, scolding her coldly.

"It's never easy to be the woman of the emperor. If you have a good appearance but no talent, you won't serve the emperor for a long time!"

With his cold and gloomy gaze covering her whole body, Gu Yunjin's face turned pale in an instant, and she felt a bit remorseful and angry.

She lowered her head lightly, and a cold and displeased expression was concealed under her tight face.

After a pause, Gu Yunjin submitted to humiliation and continued.

"But you recognized me as your goddaughter. I am helpless in the complex Palace. If you don't help me, who can help me then?"

"Since I recognized you as my goddaughter, then I have to take care of everything for you? Don't you know the situation now? I even can't save myself!"

Ming Lan rolled his eyes impatiently, and a trace of anger flashed through his eyes.

It was just as he caught wild geese every year, but this year he was caught by the wild goose!

He only blamed himself for his dim eyes. How could he settle on Gu Yunjin, an idiot with just a good look before?

This woman was very beautiful and charming, but she had an extremely willful temperament, and she did everything casually.

When she was in the Garden, she should have studied for a few years. But how could she never get to the point every time she talked to the emperor?

It was no wonder that the emperor forgot her after spending several nights with her.

Every concubine in the imperial harem was shrewd. The Western Depot was in danger at this time, so no matter how stupid Ming Lan was, he wouldn't stand out to stick up for her at this moment.

Seeing Ming Lan was hesitating and seemed reluctant to do something, Gu Yunjin's delicate face showed strong dissatisfaction. She then pursed her lips, stomped and twisted her waist, calling him like a spoiled child.

"Godfather!"

Then she leaned forward with her delicate body and plunged into Ming Lan's arms.

A living person sat on his laps unexpectedly, who was dozens of kilograms in weight.

Suddenly, Ming Lan's tailbone which just healed ached again.

He hissed with his facial features shifting in shock, and then he pushed Gu Yunjin away.

"Godfather?"

Gu Yunjin staggered before she stood firm. She raised her long eyelashes in surprise with blushing face, biting her lip so aggrievedly. Her heart was occupied with unspeakable shame.

To be honest, when she was forced to accept Ming Lan's unique training for the first time in the Western Depot, she felt that it was a great humiliation to her.

Fortunately, he stopped at the most critical moment, so she did not lose her most precious thing.

At that time, if it hadn't been for her wish of being a concubine of the emperor, Gu Yunjin would have thought of committing suicide.

Then she got the favor of Emperor Jingxiao as she wished, and turned from a fifteen-year-old maiden into a woman overnight.

But then she gradually realized that the pleasure an emperor who was almost forty years old could bring her in bed was far less than that a eunuch could give her.

It was just as after eating various food in grand feasts, and you would feel tasteless and boring to eat porridge then.

That was why, intentionally or unintentionally, Gu Yunjin actually developed an irresistible attachment and dependence on what Ming Lan had done to her in bed before.

Especially after she was left out by the emperor, she began to feel that it was great to use Ming Lan, who was handsome and charming, to fill the void in her body and mind.

But at this time, this eunuch, who had lost the power, refused her condescension!

It was incredible!

She was a fifth-rank Cairen in the imperial harem!

Ming Lan and Gu Yunjin, who had a shocked face, looked at each other. Then he constricted the irritability in his chest, unfolding his narrow eyebrows, and his sharp eyes turned calm then.

"You are now the emperor's woman. I can't get close to you!"

His charming voice sounded sharp and blunt, with a hint of warning.

After finishing his words indifferently, Ming Lan turned his eyes to the side and stopped looking at Gu Yunjin.

Just because he had watched her for a long time, he then thought of a certain girl overwhelmingly.

Right. That cute little wild cat.

Gu Yunxi. Where was she on earth? Who took her away?

At first, Ming Lan believed that the attack on the carriage that day was the work of the Eastern Depot. Later, when he knew that Leng Qingtang sent people to look for Gu Yunxi, Ming Lan realized that the attacker should be someone else.

Did he aim at the Eastern and Western Depot to rob Gu Yunxi away? But after so many days, the mysterious person had not appeared yet.

At this moment, Ming Lan's heart was dominated by tangled and inexplicable emotions. For a while, he didn't know whether he just hated the lost kitten or he had some other feelings for her.

Because of her disobedience and resistance, he always hated her so much.

It was also because of her that he lost his two fingers on his hand which he cherished so much and spent a lot of money on maintenance on.

When he remembered that the person who tortured him that night had something to do with her, he held so deep grudges against her.

However, sometimes a scene would even evoke his thoughts of her whose whereabouts were still unknown.

Then, in his heart which was filled with endlessly hatred, there would be another complex emotion that was completely different from hatred.

What exactly was the lingering discomfort ...？

"Godfather. Godfather!"

After hearing Gu Yunjin's inquisitive voice in a daze, Ming Lan took his wandering thoughts back and blinked his dry eyes.

"Godfather, so will you help me ..."

Gu Yunjin was still unwilling to give up. She walked forward with her little soft hand holding Ming Lan's right wrist. She looked at him with moisty and crystalline eyes, blinking.

Ming Lan frowned helplessly, got up from the couch, and said in a deep voice.

"I'll let someone start from the Jingshi Office ... "

His index finger of the left hand wrapped in the deerskin glove fell on Gu Yunjin's eyebrow and poked it hard. Then he scolded her in a deep voice again.

"You! You should study more! And think carefully what other concubines do while what you do all day long!"

Gu Yunjin could naturally feel the irony in his voice.

Although she was unhappy about that, her goal was achieved anyway, so she couldn't help smiling.

She walked to the table and filled a cup of fragrant tea for Ming Lan. When she was about to toast him, a little eunuch ran inside in panic, making a noise.

"Master! Master! Something is wrong!"

Ming Lan was slightly startled with his eyes widening, and then he said sharply.

"What are you yelling for? Behave in a proper way in front of the Cairen!"

The little eunuch's lips turned pale on the spot, and his knees fell on the ground with fright.

But he was so anxious that he had forgotten the rules. He looked directly up at Ming Lan with his thin face full of horror, and then he stammered.

"Something is wrong! Master, please go to take a look! The Imperial Ceremony Office suddenly carried out an inspection of the Palace and took away a lot of our men, and Eunuch Duan had also been taken away by them!"

The sudden change made Ming Lan a little dazed, and he felt that he could not distinguish between reality and illusion.

After thinking for a while, Ming Lan asked perplexedly.

"What inspection? What's going on?"

The little comely eunuch said with a blushing face.

"I ... It's not a short story. Please go and have a look. They are in the Violent Room of the Imperial Ceremony Office. I am afraid you can't see them then if you go a little later!"