Chapter 1 Deer Xiaoyao’s Role

Deer Xiaoyao’s character used to be a young master from a prominent family. Compared to Bai Xiao’s character, at least Deer Xiaoyao knew that her character genuinely regarded the other as her first love, her white moonlight.

They were indeed betrothed at one point, but later the Lu family suffered misfortune.

Soon after, the engagement was called off. One entered the palace as a noble consort, the other as a eunuch.

Logically speaking, Bai Xiao and she were good friends in private. With the added boost of character information in the game, there was absolutely no question that she and Bai Xiao should be on the same side.

Unfortunately, Emperor Jing’an exposed Lu Changfu’s original intentions right from the start. Deer Xiaoyao originally felt it was somewhat disloyal to have her character, Lu Changfu, defect and follow Emperor Jing’an.

In order to survive and continue playing, she immediately surrendered, feeling apologetic to the character she was playing for this decision.

After all, the white moonlight that he had always longed for was sold off and discarded by Deer Xiaoyao without hesitation.

But now, good heavens!

Deer Xiaoyao wanted to curse the two people in front of her on behalf of the original character.

She was truly a fool!

Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang looked at Deer Xiaoyao’s indignant expression and felt a momentary twinge of guilt.

But then Bai Xiao looked at Mu Chen and Ming Mei standing behind him. In the current situation, she and Yuan Fang might lose everything.

If they could survive, in terms of closeness, Bai Xiao realized that it would never be her turn. Now, all she could do was try to save one of them.

So, she steeled her heart and directly confronted the high and mighty Emperor Jing’an, mocking, “Otherwise? Am I supposed to remain a widow? Your Majesty, you know about keeping a mistress. Is there a problem with me seducing a man to relieve my loneliness?”

Mu Chen raised an eyebrow, his gaze fixed on Bai Xiao with a sense of oppression, and scoffed, “So you chose Prince Qing?”

As he spoke, Mu Chen turned his gaze to Prince Qing and asked, “Consort Su says she seduced you. What about you? Do you have anything to say?”

“It was I who fell in love with Consort Su first.”

Yuan Fang gave an answer that no one present had expected.

“You…” Are you crazy?

Bai Xiao was dumbfounded. She glared at Yuan Fang. She had already said things in such a way to give Yuan Fang a way out, but he said such a thing?

How could he survive after saying that?

Yuan Fang was never one to act so impulsively!

Was he really throwing his life away?

Bai Xiao had to admit that for a brief moment, besides being surprised, she was also moved.

Because when she wanted to take on everything, he wanted to bear it with her, even if he knew that such an approach might be foolish. But that didn’t stop her from being touched.

Even Ming Mei, standing on the sidelines, had a slight change in her expression.

However, Bai Xiao quickly regained her composure. She felt that this was just a game. Yuan Fang’s actions, besides ending their game sooner, didn’t help in any other way.

But soon Ming Mei saw Yuan Fang answer with a firm look in his eyes and subconsciously glanced in her direction. She felt that Yuan Fang might have more to say.

Sure enough, the next second Yuan Fang suddenly said, “I am like Father Emperor, when I fall in love, I will do everything possible to be together!”

Mu Chen didn’t expect Yuan Fang to think of breaking through from this point in such a short time. He had to admit that Yuan Fang’s approach would indeed be pleasing to Emperor Jing’an, given his personality.

Although he wasn’t his biological son, who wouldn’t want the person they raised to be like them?

Although the similarity was a bit off—they were both somewhat mentally unstable in their emotions.

Thinking this way, Mu Chen actually laughed, but the laugh made people feel a chill down their spines.

Mu Chen casually said, “What if she dies? Would you still do everything possible to be together?”

Yuan Fang: …

“Prince Qing, there is one thing you must understand.”

Just as Yuan Fang was thinking about how to answer next, he heard a sentence from above, “From beginning to end, I have only had Ming’er. And you, you still have your princess consort and an unborn child. When you made vows of eternal love and swore you would only marry her, did you ever think of them?”

[Holy crap! For a moment there, I was shipping the stepmother CP, but Emperor Jing’an’s words brought me back to reality. The First Prince’s character has a wife and children!]

[Yeah, if you want to pursue true love, get a divorce first. What is this with a wife and children at home?!]

[Wuwuwu, you guys are still arguing about this? Isn’t the focus on Emperor Jing’an only having one person from beginning to end?!]

[Damn! Emperor Jing’an, upholding male virtue, very good!]

[But if you don’t like someone, why send them to the palace as a decoration? Isn’t that also harming innocent women?]

[The pot calling the kettle black!]

[Hey, that’s still better than someone who can’t control their own cucumber!]

…

The audience in the comments had already started arguing about the merits of Emperor Jing’an and the First Prince, and now Mu Chen added another sentence, “Su Yaohua, as a daughter of the Su family, do you know how much trouble you have caused your father and brothers over the years?”

After finishing with Yuan Fang, Mu Chen spoke very professionally to Bai Xiao, who was playing Consort Su. Bai Xiao almost opened her mouth to speak, but at the last moment, the words were swallowed back down.

The character of Su Yaohua had a lot of information. She had picked out many memories about the struggle for the throne and the forces she could use, filtering out all the delicate and messy information from outside the palace.

But after Mu Chen said this, those memories that she had automatically ignored appeared before her once again.

Powerful families.

Scholars.

Bai Xiao suddenly realized, was Emperor Jing’an really happy about the marriage between the original body and the Lu family of powerful families back then?

Bai Xiao looked in Deer Xiaoyao’s direction. Once upon a time, Su Yaohua had truly hidden in her heart such a graceful young master from a prominent family.

Not the current Deer Xiaoyao, not Lu Changfu, but Lu Qinglang, who was famous throughout the capital.

The Su family was a newly established force that Emperor Jing’an had personally supported, a knife for Emperor Jing’an to use against the powerful families. When Su Yaohua and Lu Qinglang were betrothed, many people speculated whether Emperor Jing’an’s intentions had changed again.

But in the end, the Lu family was executed, and the only direct son was sent to the palace to be castrated and become a eunuch. Only then did everyone understand that Emperor Jing’an’s thoughts towards the powerful families had never changed.

The more fiercely you resist, the more miserable your death will be. If you pretend not to know and cooperate with the other party’s actions, maybe there is still a chance of survival.

After the Lu family’s incident, the Su family sent the beloved Su Yaohua to the palace as an apology. They knew how much suffering a woman who entered the palace without His Majesty’s favor would endure.

Unfortunately, Emperor Jing’an, contrary to expectations, made her a noble consort and provided her with good food and drink until now.

Su Yaohua knew that her existence was to restrain the Su family outside the palace, but this still didn’t stop her from continuing to act recklessly after entering the palace.

She secretly associated with Lu Changfu, hooked up with Prince Qing, who was of the same generation as her son, and helped Prince Qing build up his power, tying their entire Su family to Prince Qing’s boat. Mu Chen almost died laughing when he learned this information as Emperor Jing’an.

It was really like someone offering a pillow when you’re sleepy; someone reminding you that you’ve been cut when the knife isn’t handy!