Zhu Rong's face instantly turned white, she quickly staggered her eyes from meeting Chu Hongzhen's and covered her face with her hands.

Only Cheng Xiaoxiao knew what Zhu Rong was doing, presumably he couldn't cry so he had to pretend.

It's hard to be a woman, and it's even harder to be the Emperor's woman.

Everything inside the house finally settled down, and Cheng Xiaoxiao climbed down from the roof in the dark.

She was so cold and stiff now that her whole body didn't feel like her own.

I don't know what time it is. Chu Hongyi wouldn't still be waiting for me, would he?

It's like I promised him I'd be home early and have cake with him.

Cheng Xiaoxiao rubbed her aching shoulders, and the more she thought in her heart, the more uneasy she became.

When she took off her disguise, she immediately scattered back.

Back to the Fairview Palace do not know what time it is, anyway, outside the temple is quiet, only the small eunuchs guarding the door dozing off.

Hearing the commotion of Cheng Xiaoxiao's return, the little eunuch was startled for a moment yawning and saluting Cheng Xiaoxiao,

"Auntie is finally back, His Highness has been waiting in front of Auntie's room for many hours, and even came to the door a few times to look at the door, and just now went to the door of Auntie's room again."

Cheng Xiaoxiao also knew that she was the one who was in the wrong this time, and she waved her hand at the little eunuch while she herself ran towards the room without touching her feet.

"Chu Hongyi!"

Seeing Chu Hongyi's figure from a distance, Cheng Xiaoxiao, who had not yet arrived, hurriedly shouted at Chu Hongyi first.

Chu Hongyi immediately turned to look over when he heard the voice, his eyes suddenly glowing in the dark night, not knowing if it was because of the lantern's light or because of something else.

"Dash what took you so long to come back, it's past the Zi Hour."

Chu Hongyi first Cheng Xiaoxiao step into the room, and carefully help her to light all the candles in the room, and only then assuredly greeted her to come in.

Cheng Xiaoxiao knew that she had lost her trust, so she apologized to Chu Hongyi, "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it. I don't know the hour, and there are some things over there ..."

Chu Hongyi impatiently waved his hand to interrupt Cheng Xiaoxiao's words, Cheng Xiaoxiao thought he was angry, so he could only snappily shut his mouth.

"It's not safe in the palace this late, and I'm not with you in case something ... bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah!"

Chu Hongyi didn't finish his sentence before he pooh-poohed the ground several times, and in turn explained to Cheng Xiaoxiao that he didn't mean that just now.

Jaw-dropping Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't know what to say, she thought Chu Hongyi was complaining that she came back too late to catch her birthday.

"You don't blame me?"

Cheng Xiaoxia swallowed her saliva and looked at Chu Hongyi and then at the cake in front of her.

Just now, Chu Hongyi had already taken out the cake and was now carefully arranging it.

Hearing Cheng Xiaoxiao's words, Chu Hongyi's movement to get the dishes froze for a moment, then he said somewhat shyly,

"I'm already satisfied that you can accompany me to spend my birthday alone. Father and Mother Consort and the others throw palace banquets every year, but they don't realize that what I want most is actually a family of three eating together."

His eyes dimmed for a moment as he said this, and his original signature smile looked a little more forceful.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was afraid that he would be even more unhappy if he said it again, so she had the extreme insight to laugh along and snorted to change the subject,

"Oops, hurry up and eat your cake now. I promise I won't miss your birthday next year."

Cheng Xiaoxiao said while looking for candles everywhere, and finally had no choice but to pull out the candle that was in Chu Hongyi's lantern just now and light it.

All the candles in the room had been blown out, leaving only the one on top of the cake burning slowly.

Chu Hongyi looked at the person across from him through the bean-sized candlelight.

The young girl under the orange glow in the light and shadow of the face is a little softer, suddenly bright and dark light reflected that pair of eyes flickered and flickered.

Under Cheng Xiaoxiao's proper guidance, Chu Hongyi blew out the thick and short white candle in one breath after making three wishes.

Curls of smoke rose in the darkness, and the cheers of young boys and girls resounded through the room.

"Xiao Xiao you this cake is so delicious, aiya how do you put it on my face, it's also too much of a waste of food."

"Eat yours! This Queen is so good with her hands, you need to eat more!"

"Dash you have hair on your face!"

"Ah! What about me? Where's the medicine? I knew the medicine couldn't be stopped!"

...

A few joys and a few sorrows.

Everywhere in the palace in the dead of night looked like something was hiding, those dangers came uninvited, not knowing when they would strike anyone.

Just wait until the light of day, when the dust is about to settle.

What's coming is coming after all.

The court drums sounded, and one after another, palace people entered and left the Hall of Bohol.

It was clearly the same palace, but it looked very different yesterday and today.

Because it was a family banquet, the screens in the hall were all removed, so the furnishings were quite similar to the last time the list was checked.

Only today's concubines didn't come a few, and the ones who could sit at the table were a few of the higher-ranked ones.

The rest of them are the positions of the princes, and there are also two positions for the eighth prince's eighth Fujin and side Fujin, who are the only ones with female family members at home.

As there were more and more people in the Bohol Hall, Cheng Xiaoxiao stomped her foot behind Chu Hongyi with some impatience.

Zhu Rong taught her the simplest method of disguise, and she then put on her own makeup, and today she had a brand new face.

Otherwise, she really wouldn't have dared to switch behind Chu Hongyi so brightly instead of following Zhu Rong's side.

Speaking of Zhu Rong, Cheng Xiaoxiao just saw Chu Hongzhen walk in with her, the two people were talking and laughing, completely unable to see anything unusual.

The red marks on Zhu Rong's face were also gone, and it looked like he should have used an ointment.

Then came the three giants of the harem in Cheng Xiaoxiao's mind - the Empress, Noble Consort Zhao and Noble Consort Su.

Originally, the Empress is definitely going to sit on the main seat with Chu Hongzhen, who had thought that Chu Hongzhen purposely brought Zhu Rong over, and personally arranged for Zhu Rong to sit on his side.

In this way the Empress could only stand in the hall, how that vermilion figure looked a bit awkward and innocent.

Lol ... barefaced cannon fodder, that's not even a spare tire, that's a jack-in-the-box.

Cheng Xiaoxiao smacked her lips in her heart, somewhat curious as to what the Empress would do next.

The Empress seemed to always have that serene look, with a faint smile at the corner of her mouth.

She walked to the position that should have belonged to Zhu Rong without slowing down, from walking over to sitting down, the whole time she kept that lightness, as if this position was originally prepared for her, everything was so natural.

What a scumbag. It's like the scumbag of the world.

Cheng Xiaoxiao more and more see Chu Hongzhen this emperor slag to the bone to go, which on the surface looks like he is favor Zhu Rong, but invariably help Zhu Rong pulled a wave of hatred.

There is also the Empress, who has been acting like a transparent person, always being hit in the face by Chu Hongzhen in public.

If she, may have long been behind the back of the Chu Hongzhen scolded open, where will still be so good-tempered, what are against the grain.

Cheng Xiaoxiao thought so, but everyone else acted like they didn't see it.

It's not a matter of concern, and they don't care anyway, as long as they're not the ones making a fool of themselves.

As the seats in the Bohol Hall became fuller and fuller, Chu Jingxiao, the protagonist, also appeared.

Today was his birthday banquet, but I didn't see him bring his family.

Don't you love Fujin and your children?

You're so good at creating a persona, why don't you stop pretending today?

Cheng Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes without any good reason, and when she saw that Chu Jingxiao was frequently looking over at her, she only hurriedly collected her emotions and didn't make any more drastic expressions.

Chu Yunshen was the last to arrive according to the usual practice, Chu Jingxiao could not help but sneer at Chu Yunshen a few times.

His topics were endless, it was just a pity that Chu Yunshen had no intention of paying attention to them.

From the moment Chu Yunshen entered the hall, Cheng Xiaoxiao's attention was completely focused on Chu Yunshen.

She didn't know if it was Cheng Xiaoxiao's illusion or what, but she always thought that Chu Yunshen recognized her, and seemed to have looked back at her several times just now.

It's not surprising, Cheng Xiaoxiao's disguise technique is the one that Chu Yunshen and the others will use, so it's only a matter of time before they can see it.

The quietest person in here would be the Seventh Prince Chu Ye'lin.

While the Eighth Prince Chu Jingxiao, who was opposite Chu Yunshen, and the Tenth Prince Chu Hongyi, who was on Chu Yunshen's right hand side, were both chatting non-stop, Chu Ye Lin was like a quiet background wall.

However, during the process Xiaoxia always felt as if this backdrop was always looking in Zhu Rong's direction.

Although his eyes were very subtle, they couldn't resist the number of times he looked at them, and Cheng Xiaoxiao happened to be the only one in the room who was bored ah.

It was also unknown what exactly Chu Ye Lin's intentions were, it seemed that he had to find a chance to have Rong Rong beware of this person.

Cheng Xiaoxiao observed every single person in the hall, while silently drawing a check mark and putting a fork in each person in her mind.

I don't know if Chu Jingxiao wants to emphasize his position as the protagonist, but today he really loves to make a splash, "Fourth brother is so grand, and he didn't come until the family banquet was about to start."

Listening to him speak, Chu Yunshen nine out of ten sentences are pretending to be deaf and dumb, this will be perfunctory can not go on only slightly nodded.

Cheng Xiaoxiao estimated that Chu Yunshen hadn't even listened to what Chu Jingxiao had said, or else how could he have reacted this way.

Chu Jingxiao was still planning to continue looking for Chu Yunshen to fight a war of words when Chu Hongzhen on the temple finally waved his hand to signal the crowd to be quiet.

Meaningless opening lines, heartfelt thoughts between pushes.

Cheng Xiaoxia as a palace maid only needed to stand behind Chu Hongyi all the time, Chu Hongyi himself would pour the wine before her.

That was why she was able to get a good look at the expressions of everyone in the table except Chu Hongyi.

Occasionally a false toast is made, each with a different agenda.

The most notable person within this group should be Chu Hongzhen.

楚鸿祯除了给祝容夹夹菜，还要听苏贵妃和楚弘毅说话。

Cheng Xiaoxiao would also sidle up to Zhu Rong's ear to talk when she saw him, and it looked like the two were very close.

That as if no one else was there, it was like it really confirmed the rumors that Chu Jingxiao had sent people to spread out.

So Chu Hongzhen is also planning to take advantage of the trick?

Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't understand the layers of calculations here, she only hoped that no matter how things developed today, everyone she cared about would be safe and sound.

Hiding the worry on her face, she continued to play the role of the little courtesan who didn't know anything about anything.

After three rounds of wine, Chu Hongzhen looked at Chu Yunshen as usual.

Of course his questioning of Chu Yunshen was always simple and concise, as if it was to go through a regulatory process.

It is today even some exception, Chu Yunshen are planning to lift the robe to sit down again, sitting on the temple Chu Hongzhen suddenly beckoned to Yuanqing,

"Old Fourth has been working quite hard in recent times, turn around and go to my private treasury to pick a few treasures to send to his residence."

Listening to Chu Hongzhen's perfunctory attitude towards Chu Yunshen, Cheng Xiaoxiao couldn't help but want to roll her eyes.

Blank stares aside, the stuff is still excellent.