Travel To The World Of Ca Li
Burn or Jump?
Flocks of seagulls flapped their wings on the horizon of the blue sky. The dazzling scent of summer flowers is blown by the breeze and is felt in the sense of smell.
The red pillar of the palace corridor glimpsed. Beside the blooming flowers, a figure of a young lady wearing a red brocade robe that was sewn by careful precision stood up. A phoenix child enthroned with gold nestled in her tightly rolled black hair. In this formal appearance, she looked graceful by pulling a thoughtful knot on her pretty face.
"You're coming..." Hearing the roar of one's steps, he immediately turned his head and smiled gently watching the pink figure move closer to him.
"Xuan'er saluted Her Highness the Crown Princess. Sorry for my delay." Attracting a bow-like posture, this pink girl gave a solemn salute in front of him.
"This is truly a futile honor, please stand up!" The Crown Princess quickly approached and pulled the elbow of her arm to help her straighten up.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xiu Qixuan stood up straight, displaying a serious dark facial expression. He's been in a bad mood since morning.
Seeing her expression like that, the smile on the Crown Princess's face shrank slightly murky, she spoke to comfort him. "It rained so hard last night. I fell asleep, and I'm lucky you didn't come. That's okay now. I called you here for something else." The Crown Princess' gaze narrowed slightly, she turned her face away and exhaled slowly. "Currently the Emperor and the Empress summoned several highly ranked ministers to the court hall to discuss updates in the competition schedule. And, I heard that the ministers will participate in watching the assessment of the prince's empress later that afternoon." Evidently.
The Crown Princess turned her head back, she tilted her face and continued saying in a wry tone: "You are a smart girl, surely you understand what I mean, right?"
Hearing all that, Xiu Qixuan's pupils became slightly cold, an extremely cold air as it radiated from her eyes.
Lifting a little strand of her skirt, Xiu Qixuan immediately bowed and her silenced lips slowly said: "Your Majesty is very wise, thank you for paying attention to Xuan'er."
"No need to be confused. You are my benefactor. It's the only thing I can give you right now, and it's not worth the gift you gave me." the Crown Princess's eyes hid endless tenderness and gratitude as her red lips pulled a shady curve on the figure of the little girl in front of her.
Indeed the way a person stands can disguise his identity. But, the Crown Princess has eyes and a heart. He could see and feel the immense power that this girl was actually hiding.
"Great Miss Xiu!" Call her by looking fixedly at Xiu Qixuan.
"Yes, Your Majesty?" Xiu Qixuan stood tall, this time she looked up with a slightly softened face at the Crown Princess.
"Because the situation outside the expectations will continue to emerge as it is now. I hope you're more careful." He sincerely reminded with his raw tone of voice but harbored a lot of worries.
Under the blue summer sky, the figure of this pink girl sparkled like a fresh flower. The thick red buds on his face drew a slight curve full of confident radiance, he stared straight ahead without hesitation to say: "You can calm down. I live only to do something that gives a lot of profit not a loss."
Hearing that series of sentences, the Crown Princess could not help but admire the sharpness of Xiu Qixuan who had always been so wary. The girl's words were like asking her not to worry if she would make a bad impact. Though the Crown Princess was indeed sincerely worried about him.
At this moment, the sound of a speeding bell rang out all over the palace. Perhaps Emperor Shen Zhenning had lowered the notice of the final information on the prince's empress's election being renewed by him.
"Your Majesty..," Xiu Qixuan's lips moved to call out. "I understand that threatening people also requires ability. However, immediately use the gift I gave you properly. Don't be afraid, my people will take care of your lives and the little prince." He said with a slightly cold echo. Making the Crown Princess momentarily stunned, when she heard her son mentioned.
The Crown Princess nodded back. "Yes, I understand." His word.
"Then I say it first. Please forgive this ludicrance." Bowing like a bow and taking a step back, Xiu Qixuan immediately turned around leaving the future Phoenix.
In this detail, Xiu Qixuan's nonchalant facial expression hid the displeasure of thought in his mind.
Last night he should have met the Crown Princess to discuss some matters. However, he instead ended up stuck in the Cold Palace for too long due to the heavy rain.
And if only the Emperor had not been involved in this idiot election, Xiu Qixuan should have been able to break free from the entanglement of the henchmen in the palace harem who wanted that power.
One thing was certain, Xiu Qixuan deliberately pulled the Crown Princess close to her side to maintain and solidify the woman's standing in the palace harem. He will use everything he can use.
The gift he gave Crown Princess Rui was a testament to the illegal transactions made by the Gao Family, the nuclear family that supports the power of the Empress and the Crown Prince until now. He intended to suppress a little of the authority of the Empress and the Crown Prince under the feet of a Rui Minglan.
All of this did not seem to be too futile to make the Crown Princess his person. Seen from their conversation earlier when the woman gave detailed information about what the Emperor and the Empress did.
In the afternoon today, the Imperial Garden and the Back Lake are made as lively as possible for the final assessment. And, some highly ranked ministers were deliberately invited. That means that the candidates have to display something better than usual because otherwise, it would embarrass their family faces and good names in the upper class.
Somehow this was like the Emperor and the Empress purposely doing it to make Xiu Qixuan inevitably have to do her best in judgment for the sake of guarding the Xiu Family.
Four days ago, the assessment was conducted in a more closed manner. And, news about candidates is always divided into various kinds of opinions that are deliberately made up. And, the news about Xiu Qixuan was always good, it was because of the praise that the Empress, Wei Guifei and Shang Shufei had always given.
If now he shows poor quality, it means indirectly he can drop the value of the third highest woman in the palace harem. But it was clearly followed by the magnitude of the sacrifice he had to make because it could cause the Xiu Family to crumble into insults rather than pride from his father's contribution to guarding the border again.
And if he shows good quality, of course he will be directly elected and married to one of the princes, right.
It's like they told Xiu Qixuan to choose themselves to burn themselves in the turbulent embers of the fire or jump into a sea full of sharks.
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A/N: My house msh rame sama sodara, hard if you want to write if not calm. jdi sing patiently waiting for me, guys. It's crazy up, huh!
In the future will be more greget anyway, author smpe greget himself sbnrnya.