"Hehe, you're here!" Dongfang Yi said, shaking the arm of the man in front of her non - stop.
Helian Qi really wanted to tell her, "Yes, I'm here. I've been here for quite a while. Just look at what you've been doing."
But if he really said so, it would make him seem overly petty. So he turned his head away, looking like he didn't want to talk.
Dongfang Yi immediately knew that he was sulking. So she sat on his lap, laid her head on his shoulder, and said in a somewhat coquettish tone, "Oh, I was wrong. Don't be angry, okay?"
Helian Qi's expression softened a bit. Then he asked, "Have you eaten?"
She hadn't felt hungry before, but as soon as he asked, her stomach couldn't help growling. She gave an embarrassed smile and then said, "Hehe, I'm a bit hungry."
She hadn't eaten for a whole day. Without someone to accompany her, she even lost interest in eating. Helian Qi had heard that she hadn't eaten for a day, so he took time out to come here. But he didn't expect that she would just ignore him and play cards on her own.
Thinking of this, he sighed, then waved his hand to signal the palace servants outside. Soon they walked in carrying dishes one by one.
Dongfang Yi felt her appetite whetted just by smelling the food. She immediately rushed to the dining table and began to eat heartily.
"Have you eaten?" she asked the man in front of her while eating.
Helian Qi shook his head and said he wasn't hungry. But she frowned, scooped up a bowl of soup and handed it to him, saying, "You've been working so hard every day. How can you not eat? Otherwise, let me feed you?"
After saying that, she picked up a spoon and was about to bring it to his mouth, but her hand kept shaking uncontrollably. Before it reached his mouth, the soup spilled all over his clothes.
Helian Qi looked at what was happening in front of him with a look of helplessness. But the woman in front of him just gave an awkward smile. Then she said with a wronged look, "Ouch, my arm hurts so much!"
After saying that, she ran back to the bed in the inner palace and let out a long sigh. She thought to herself how stupid she was. She couldn't even feed someone without spilling soup all over them. Fortunately, she ran fast.
Just then, Helian Qi walked in slowly. Seeing Dongfang Yi looking like someone who had done something wrong and didn't dare to admit it, he couldn't help but let out a soft laugh. Then he bent down, put his face close to hers and said, "Are you giving me a hint?"
After saying that, he glanced at the bed.
Dongfang Yi's ears turned red when she heard this. She thought to herself why she had to run to the bed.
Then she felt the shadow on her head getting heavier. Helian Qi was almost lying on top of her.
The next moment, she was pushed onto the bed, and the man on top of her had a charming smile on his lips.
"You're full, but I'm still hungry," he said.
Dongfang Yi still pretended not to understand anything. She closed her eyes, turned her head and said, "If you're hungry, go and eat. There's still plenty of food on the table!"
"But I want to eat you," Helian Qi continued.
"Eating me won't fill you up. You'd better..."
Before she could finish her sentence, her mouth was blocked by something soft. Then she could only let out a series of muffled moans...
After that, the situation was no longer under her control. A simple meal had turned into a "carnivorous" encounter...
After it was all over, Dongfang Yi's eyes were still hazy. She was breathing heavily. Then she glared at the man next to her and said, "You're so bad!"
"It's you who's bad," Helian Qi replied. Then he put on his clothes and got out of bed. This made the woman opposite him can't help asking, "Where are you going so late?"
"I still have official documents to deal with," he answered. Then he bent down, kissed her forehead and was about to leave. But the next second, he found his sleeve was grabbed by a pair of slender hands.
"You've been working too hard..." Dongfang Yi said. Her whole mouth was buried in the quilt, so her voice was a bit muffled.
Helian Qi patted her hand and said, "Be good, Xiaodong. You go to sleep first. I'll move the official documents to the Queen's palace tomorrow. Then I can accompany you at night."
After seeing the woman in front of him nod, he left the bedroom.
On the other side, in the Cining Palace.
The Empress Dowager, who had already fallen asleep, was woken up by a cold wind in her dream. Then she found that the window of the bedroom had been blown open somehow.
She frowned and called for Nanny Li. But no one came in after a quarter of an hour.
Although she was a bit confused, she still got up by herself to close the window.
But just as she walked to the window, a shadow ran past in front of her. She was so shocked that cold sweat broke out on her forehead. But she still pretended to be calm and asked, "Who on earth is here?! Are you a human or a ghost?!"
The Empress Dowager was quite superstitious. It was already very strange that the window of her bedroom was blown open in the middle of the night. Now there was an inexplicable shadow, and even stranger, no one came in for a long time.
After she finished asking, there was a moment of silence. Then the shadow appeared in the air, and a faint voice came.
"Empress Dowager, don't you remember me? I'm Nanny Dong!"
The voice sounded a bit old and was extremely eerie against the backdrop of the cold wind.
"Nanny Dong... Aren't you already dead?!" The Empress Dowager widened her eyes and turned around. Finally, she saw a shadow at the door. It was just a shadow but could make a sound, which meant it was definitely not a human being.
"Yes, Empress Dowager. I died so unjustly!" The old voice rang out again.
The Empress Dowager couldn't help frowning when she heard this. She had heard from the common people that if someone died unjustly, they couldn't be reincarnated, and their ghost would go to the person they trusted most in life to clear their name.
Thinking of this, she was a bit less scared. Then she asked, "Tell me your grievances truthfully. I will surely help you!"
The shadow quickly moved to the window. Then it said in its somewhat eerie voice, "Empress Dowager, it was the Queen who killed this old servant! She resented that you sent me to whip her back then, so she killed me. All the things that have happened in the palace recently were also done by her!"
She spoke methodically, which just confirmed the Empress Dowager's previous suspicions. And this was what a ghost had said. How could it be false? Thinking of this, her eyebrows furrowed even deeper. Then she gritted her teeth and snorted, "Sure enough, it's that audacious woman! I will surely not let her go!"
After saying that, she looked at the shadow again and said, "You'd better leave quickly. I will deal with the affairs in the harem."